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I mean, I feel like you are treating something I consider "amateur hour development" as "the only reasonable way to do things"; but, even so: you seem to be missing that on macOS it is nigh into impossible to opt out of sitting on a Mac using sad software that comes with Xcode, whereas even C++/WinRT (which you mention, but which I would still mostly consider "low level") is something I can easily use with an alternative IDE from a different operating system. The only place where I feel like you will be sad with Windows development sitting on a drastically different stack is dealing with the more cutting edge .NET functionality. On macOS, it is like pulling teeth to get even a hello world app working without Xcode. Alternative stack tooling like Flutter from giant companies like Google still is forced through Xcode workflows.
This brought back a memory of a point in time where my family had a cellphone for everyone to share. If you were going to go out then it was your responsibility to take the family cellphone with you.
Well you're right that it doesn't scale down to single pots.

When I grew tomatoes in containers, I went for the 5-gal buckets from Lowes ($4), and bought soil in larger bags. Also your cage is more expensive than I recall paying.

On the plus side, most of those are one-time startup costs.

Our tomatoes are self-seeding at this point. We literally do nothing except pick them, and put away several dozen jars of sauce every year, from a couple neglected garden beds. It sounds like we have less trouble with pests here than you do though.
> Not sure what applications the lawmakers have in mind.

Accounting and budgeting services are the most common examples.
> Even more infuriating (for me) is basketball

The fact that a foul stops the clock isn't really the problem. The problem is the cost/benefit in that scenario favors stopping play with the intentional foul. Remember that the only reason stopping the clock even helps is because the foul (essentially) ends the opponent's possession. With a slightly different penalty (like a free throw but they keep the ball) that strategy is no longer viable.
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its not like there are no security vulnerabilities in FOSS apps either
Another potential explanation is China is preparing for a possible cyberwar and after seeing the USA population manipulated by social networking during elections has decided they want their population to be less vulnerable to outside manipulation.
I've been building a website monitoring service for a while: https://onlineornot.com/

I've also been keeping a twitter thread of updates as I build it: https://twitter.com/RozenMD/status/1364881512500404224?s=20
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I think Erlang and Elixir are incredible, and this particular feature of libraries starting BEAM processes seems cool in the abstract. However, this PARTICULAR task, Erlang/Elixir might be the worst possible language you could choose:

> The Elixir approach to shared mutable state is wrapping it in a process. In this case, I needed a counter and the easiest way to implement it is to use an Agent which is a kind of process designed to handle simple state. In this case, the get_and_update function allows me to return the counter and increment it as an atomic operation.

This is literally just an atomic counter. It’s a single CPU instruction that is guaranteed to be safe. I don’t care how lightweight a BEAM process is, it’s not faster than updating an atomic counter. Doing it this way is also absurdly more complicated than using, say, a std::atomic in C++ (or the equivalent type in other languages).

Again, I think Elixir is cool, but if you want to show off how cool it is, maybe don’t use an example that is incredibly much slower and more complicated than it should be. It’s not a great look for Elixir.
Don't feel bad. It's entirely possible that they filled that position somewhere along the way and some departments didn't communicate to figure that out in time.

Or the position was cancelled during the interviews.

Not every reason has to be personal.
I don't know why you decided someone saying the US has plenty of junk land must be talking about your home. I was referring to dry salt flats, abandoned strip mines, and the like. The vast amounts of space under major cities would also make good landfill volume.
Thanks!

Indeed, still working solo.
>> Only in America things like this can happen.

> Semi-Conductor doubling every 18 months

IIRC, the recent doublings have been happening in Taiwan. That's why people make such a big deal about TMSC. America (i.e. Intel) actually has some catching up to do.
I think is not unlike asking how one could keep knowledge of nuclear physics out of the hands of terrorists, or countries that don't already have nuclear arms.

Ultimately, one cannot. Censorship and secrecy would slow down a recreation, of course. So would intentionally misleading tidbits. I recall, but cannot source now, reading about the Americans doing that back in the day, fudging numbers on isotope mass or something like that which they published. Though, I imagine it must have been hard to come up with both plausible numbers, that usefully misled, without derailing nuclear physics itself a bit as a science.

Maybe an odd thought, and I could be wrong -- but I don't believe the Cold War would have turned out any different, even if the USA had published complete plans of everything they built as they went. In the end, the danger is not the knowledge. Even a full set of plans with the manuals and whatever, would not let you do anything without least some personnel, and the resources, to build a weapon like that. That is where the problem is, the domain of people and politics and infrastructure.

You are not the first to ask this question, not by far. Sometimes the discussion is deep and thoughtful. But I have not run into a good answer yet for something practical one could do, to keep freely-available tools out of the hands of the misguided and malevolent.
Your free to live in a Facebook world if you choose in which case good luck! As you point out you will need it.

My view of Facebook is just as dim as yours.
The California computer ban isn't what it appears to be
This is the same argument about local newspapers - sure it is probably good to have local reporters covering local events, but replacing $5/line classified ads with Facebook Marketplace probably had a more positive impact on people vs. biased and poorly-read write-ups of a city counsel meetings ever did.
if i start one up and want to link a friend late to the party, would this make it so they cant join? how does this work
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They are referencing Moore's law. Some of them are made in the US, some are not (not today, at least).
The Hukou system is not designed to punish rural people.

It exists fundamentally to reduce rent-seeking, which is why it exists in some form or another in every economy where there is strong government control of housing. If you remove the Hukou system, everyone will flood to the cities, and you will have overpopulation. You can also liberalize housing, in which case people will pay around 30% of their income in rent which the CCP think is not economically productive. This happened in Beijing and Xi has been floating the idea of literally building another city and moving industries there to reduce rental pressures.

Or you limit migration into the cities to the speed of new constructions, which enables you to set a low rent and, according to the CCP, have better economic outcomes. You limit migration by disincentivizing people who move to the cities without following the quota, hence the Hukou system.

As far as incentivizing Han migration, I can't speak to recent efforts, but for a long time Han migration was incentivized because, well, there weren't much people in Xinjiang and there were a lot of resources and a border with the now-hostile USSR that needed to be exploited. So the CCP under Mao did everything they could to get as many people into Xinjiang. That included allowing Uyghurs to have 3 times as many children as the Han. But otherwise if you need more people into Xinjiang they're not going to be Uyghurs because, well, they're already in Xinjiang.
everyone is a potential terrorist under imaginary laws
Leasing is still terrible unless you're a business replacing your vehicle on a schedule. If you buy a car new and keep it for a decade, you'll be ahead even including maintenance. Many dealerships offer free maintenance during the warranty period, then continue to offer free oil changes for as long as you own it.

You have to carry insurance on a leased car at your own expense as well.
The good news for them is that it’s easier than ever for them to change their status
We just replaced some old GPS time-servers that have a similar bug.
Agree.

For a specific example the Spanish Flu hit harder later on.
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The clawing back just means the developers inside and outside the company compete to increase its bottom line even more. Your own revenues don’t go down, if everyone succeeds. They increase. Why would you sabotage others?

Furthermore! They can claw back the percentage by releasing code in a completely unrelated part of the system. Or perhaps improving the sales process or other things.
I don't mean to imply that the word makes any sense in this context. However, if one chooses to complain about Israeli abuses of Palestinians, it is a fact that one will be called "antisemitic".
You don’t think Apple does any surveillance and sell to companies? They don’t reject apps that spy, just the ones that do without a benefit to them.
If I had the room for it it might make more sense, but alas I live in an apartment and can't store 12 paper towel rolls.
I recently came across a project with no external build system at all. Just a perl script which mimicked enough of the functionality of a build tool to get the job done. Basically "which files need rebuilding, just rebuild those". It's actually rather trivial when you look into it. Plus Makefile syntax is so bad it actually makes perl look like a hot new language.
> but you’ve lost the benefits of a simple date

I see what you mean - thanks!

> you could further choose to turn it off or to substitute your own types / schema without making changes to the system / code

This is still unclear to me. How can you make changes (turning off gradual typing/substituting your own schema) without making changes to code?
It's not an intermediary or other scam. It's literally just buying an Oculus and getting access to FB support that way.

> "I ultimately broke down and bought a $300 Oculus Quest 2," he said. Oculus is a virtual reality company owned by Facebook but with its own customer support system.
This is great to hear. Most people don't know how bad concrete is terms of Co2. If you tell people that it's several times worse than aviation in terms of carbon, few people will believe you until they look it up.

We tend to focus on obvious sources of carbon: fuel and electricity, probably because it's something we all have some familiarity with. Agriculture and industry are hidden from our day-to-day lives, so few people are aware of their massive impacts on climate.
That's a niche use case. You might not be able to choose what app they require to communicate over, but you can choose what device to install it onto, like a burner, couldn't you? Some apps you might not mind on your personal phone, others you probably do.
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The 500M who live on $1k/month is a point of pride for the CCP; it's one of the legitimizers (probably the primary one) for its rule. China from 1980 onwards has produced the largest and most rapid wealth generation process in history.

Now, you can come up with counterfactuals about why it would have happened anyway, and that's a pretty reasonable position to take. But acting like the $1k/month figure is somehow damning of the CCP totally misunderstands the domestic situation in China.
When you say "unsubstantiated", what do you mean? The post contained links with references from fairly reputable sources.
Of course you're right, but I think anyone who is capable of getting their head around Elixir is capable of understanding that this is a trivial example meant to showcase a powerful language feature. What you choose to use it for is up to you, not the article's author.
Shouldn’t we see this reflected in hospital admissions?
Why? Do I get to pick the people on the opposing team in the local basketball competition? I didn't specify a local club for a reason. Just because it's some competition organisers rather than a matchmaking algorithm doesn't change my perspective.
On the contrary the The NonEmpty type is fundamental to the approach in that example since it contains in the type the property being checked dynamically (that the list is non-empty). The nonEmpty function is a simple example of the 'parse don't validate' approach since it goes from a broader to a more restricted type, along with the possibility of failure if the constraint was not satisfied. The restriction on the NonEmpty type is what allows NonEmpty.head to return an a instead of a (Maybe a) and thus avoid the redundant check in the second example. The nonEmpty in your alternative implementation is only validating not parsing since after checking the input list is non-empty, it immediately discards the information in the return type. This forces the user to deal with a Nothing result from head that can never happen. Attempting to clean the code up by propagating Nothing values using bind is just hiding the problem that the validating approach avoids entirely.
> No one calls the U.S a settler colonialist country

What? The US is the ur-example of settler colonialism. We are the end stage, the model for the ultimate fate of the original inhabitants under colonialism: decimated and pushed back into whatever worthless land none of the settlers wanted.

> or that the Indians get the right to their lands back

People do demand that, yes.

Personally, I would love to see Native American tribes given better land than the shitty deserts they've been stuck in, but two wrongs don't make a right; no one has a right to force people off of land they've been living on for decades or centuries just because their ancestors used to live there.

That means the British had no right to unilaterally carve Israel out of Palestine in the first place, and also that Palestine shouldn't get to force Israelis off of land they've been living on for nearly a century, however wrong their ancestors were to take it; nor does Israel have the right to keep taking more Palestinian land to build new Israeli settlements.

There will always be Arabs who won't be satisfied with anything short of total hegemony. They would have a lot less support, resources, and manpower if Israel would treat Palestinians as equals and stop air-striking innocent men, women, and children because they happen to be within the blast radius of a suspected terrorist. Killing innocents to achieve political goals is no better when Israel does it than when Hamas does.
BTW, there's a small small-world coincidence, between a desire for an Emacs-based super IDE, and the original article...

The desire for an Emacs-based out-of-box power-user IDE was how we got Lucid Emacs, aka XEmacs (which was one of the two big forks of GNU Emacs with GUI innovations that GNU took a while to catch up with)...

...from JWZ, et al.'s work on the Lucid Energize IDE for C++...

...and JWZ worked for Norvig early on...

...and Norvig was at Harlequin...

...and Harlequin acquired at least some of Lucid's IP.
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It’s likely that some of them are constructed through “stacking”. The technique is easy to pull off, with software built for that specific purpose.

You take your N long exposures, and then have the program map the movement of stars around you during those (if you do 20 30s exposures, you’ve spent ~10 minutes on it, so the stars will have shifted). Then the program corrects that motion and sums the images. It’s a cheaper and easier way to “simulate” a longer exposure, that would require a tracking system otherwise.
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Don't know where you live, but a year ago they did respond. Now they don't. That's a change, and it seems clearly to be in the 'not as social as before' category.

I take that remark as part of the regression itself - "I'm not as social as before and that's ok because reasons!" It's sad.
The commodification of foods has led to a race to the bottom: quality is reduced to make it seem like you're getting a better deal when you really aren't.

- Fruits and vegetables are getting less nutritional as we've optimized for shelf-life, size and appearance.

- Ingredients in processed foods are tweaked to appeal to the lizard-brain and maximize profit at the expense of nutritional value. ex. adding large amounts of high fructose corn syrup to make otherwise unpalatable low-quality ingredients more appealing

- Farm subsidies have led to overproduction of low-nutritional-quality grains and encouraged the creation of processed foods which can capitalize on this market distortion

Many cheap foods that are available today are not healthy because market forces push them into cutting so they are able to compete on price. I'd rather prices or portion sizes get worse than continuing this race to the bottom.
> My gut feel is that everyone has stopped doing lateral flow tests and reporting those tests: noone wants to be isolating

Okay that's easy to check: data should show a reduction in positive tests roughly on par with the reduction in number of tests.

Recent peak value of tests per day was 16.42 per 1000 citizens on Jul 17th. At that time there were 630.57 positive test results per million citizens.

On July 28th (latest data) tests declined to 13.46 and positive cases to 443.45. That's 18% fewer tests and 30% fewer positive cases, ballpark twice as much.

I don't think your gut is telling you the full story.

All values are 7-day rolling averages to avoid weekday spikes or anything. Source: https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor... (use the selector to switch between tests, positive cases, or other metrics)
Neither did IBM, GE, Oracle.
> I think the best way to save the planet is to move heavy industry into space. Move our power generation into space and beam it down.

Wasn't one of the disasters in Simcity 2000 having your power-beaming space laser miss your power station instead light your city on fire? It seems like such a thing would cause massive hazards.

> Move people into real orbital habitats.

> Make Earth proper a gigantic park / nature reserve.

Or force people to live deep underground. Then when they save up enough money to buy a ticket, they can be transported there much more economically.

As for me, I like living on the surface.
Ban all religions except for lambda calculus. The first goal must be to make every human being a rational actor all the time. We start by watching Star Trek.
And if we don't see a rise in hospitalizations that is any worse than a typical flu season, then it really doesn't matter that no one is testing.
I'd encourage everyone to check out California Rare Fruit Growers generally, and specifically this list of apples from a tasting a couple years ago:

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There actually is. The evolutionary selection pressure on most coronaviruses exists throughout its infectious stage. So in order to be more infectious for longer the coronavirus would become less symptomatic and so less serious.

But with C19 we are aggressively isolating people with symptoms. This focuses evolutionary selection pressure on the initial infectious stage. In order to be more infectious the virus increases viral load and shedding, causing more serious symptoms; which would be an evolutionary disadvantage, except isolation renders this disadvantage moot.

Also natural immunity general focuses on the nucleus of the virus, vaccine immunity is to the spike. So this forces mutations in different proteins, which has different results.
> the claim is that the virus can mutate, therefore, any particular outcome is equally likely?

No.

Did you actually read the study I linked?

Outcomes that enhance transmissibility are always being selected for. Things like higher viral load in the vaccinated.

That which spreads, spreads.

All things being equal, pathogenicity is neutral and gets down-selected when the pathogenicity conflicts with the ability to spread. But with two different populations, the feedback loop that of down-selective pressure against spread limitations due to pathogenicity may be broken.
If it spreads in one population which requires characteristics that make it lethal in the other population.
Cases don't matter, hospital admissions also show sign of wave going down. And that doesn't depend on people's mood.