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> It appears that Google search uses the following syntax for conversions between different units or currencies: target_unit! <expression> (Though I can't find any documentation for this).

I've always been baffled by why Google search — the flagship product by the world's largest tech company — has so many totally undocumented features.

I understand having some easter eggs (the question "did you mean 'recursion'?" when googling "recursion" ), but even the sort of basic features noted in TFA seem totally undocumented.
> “Rich white males can murder and rape here and nobody cares! It’s about time the Office for the Protection of the Constitution sorted this out,” the post adds.

Imagine the post said that.

Nobody would have been blocked, and no lawsuit would need to be filed.

You know I am right, since about every other post on Twitter is like that, without any ban of course.

The question is, if censoring certain political views (albeit expressed a bit harshly of course) is the way our society should go.
FWIW, I feel like the core problem is Hacker News' automated re-capitalization of submitted titles.
They say in the video that the report is based on 2008-2018 data. Do we know how the situation unfolded since covid started?
Is $7k really expensive even for non-programming jobs? Assuming a 5-year lifespan, that comes at around $120/month which should be affordable to most of the developed world.

I have another theory: The reason we didn't adopt such ergonomic setups is because they look "weird". We are quite used to sitting in chairs and it's not quite far from sitting on a rock.

A customized ergonomic setup will pay itself in quite a short time.
Parliamentary sovereignty as a principle was fundamentally weakened in the tussle over the Brexit leave date: the government lost the battle but won the war. This parliament has been very ineffective in providing oversight of government. I'm not seeing the advantage of the UK system of oversight over the US one right now.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_(Withdrawal)_...
>Also soft drink/water sales are not "close to zero". I don't know what you mean.

The comment was about the number of "lost soft dink sales due to reusing old/external cups".

The number of soft drink sales is high, but the number of "lost sales due to people refilling to often or trying to get drinks without buying them" is not.

At least not as far as I can tell in the McDonald places I know of.
$1.53T was born from nothing and the should go to somewhere
Actually there is NuclearJS a Flux (React) implementation in JS designed around immutability, FP and also reactive programming. As anything pure FP, it's ridiculously difficult/awkward to get started but it really shines in some areas. Namely complex UIs, state transitions and interrelated data "objects". The first 2 can be solved with proper OOP (it's obviously not nice but it solves the problem), but I've never seen a framework ironing out the nastiness of relational data so well. The idea is to combine multiple data objects using lambdas. It's incredibly elegant and so general concept is supposed to be the "Functional Lens".

Unfortunately it's discontinued, probably rightly because it's definitely not for teamwork. But really, it doesn't depend on anything OOP in the strict sense.
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Except when standards happen to be ChromeOS features in disguise.
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My comment was a response to the implication that Jacob Rees-Mogg's character is an act.

You don't have to tell me what you and previous commenters had stated, because it's still right there in the comments.

> I keep on pointing it out, because people for some reason miss it: The person you know as Jacob Rees-Mogg is a schtick

> I'm reliably informed by a contemporary at Westminster Grammar that he "wasn't that posh" until later.
I malign Netburst because I owned one (actually still own it) and it was slower than the previous generation of processors (under certain loads) despite costing more.
> and the size of our extension code to cover for slate bugs/omissions or to extend the behavior in general is now many thousands of lines long

yikes, but if it's working now then just tech debt for the future.

I initially investigated using slate.js, prosemirror, and draft.js for my project https://sqwok.im but ended up writing my own parser instead, learning quite a bit about such fun api's as browser Range(), and the many pitfalls of cross-browser compatibility. It was laborious but got it to a place I'm happy with.

Congrats on Saga! It looks like something I might use and I dig the UI.
Gentoo also has instructions. Linux/ia64 works fine for the most part, it's not an architecture that causes much drama for userspace applications.

Servers are cheap on ebay and the older Intel boards (also sold by Dell, Fujitsu,..) can be upgraded to newer CPUs that are either less power hungry or faster with more cores and sort-of HT. HP are generally not upgrade-able and SGI/ia64 is a special case with lots of other custom hardware as usual.

Annoyingly many Linux / gcc developers want to remove ia64 support from their source trees because the architecture is no longer commercially relevant.

As a necrocomputing enthusiast it's quite sad, but not much one can do about.

If only this old junk was as popular as the various homecomputers...
I just checked Stackoverflow terms, and it still says that all user contributions are licensed under Creative Commons CC BY-SA 4.0, which means that copying them to your own codebase is likely to be a copyright violation. Lots of people do it, but it's a well-known legal problem.
>I mean housing prices are up everywhere it seems, one could think there's an evil shadowy cabal of rich investors buying up properties.

Why would they have to be evil, shadowy or a cabal? All you need is wealth inequality.
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But us not knowing better still doesn't mean that their decision is backed by data.

In my experience quite a lot of business decisions are not backed by data, especially when it comes to people generally perceived as "less liked" like e.g. homeless people.
Which is a shame, TTS was what got me into 40k, I have no interest in TTing but brought some of the books with every intention to buy more after reading what I had (just reading though the expanse atm) and even had some mini’s on order because I was thought that might be fun to have around the office. That all happened because of TTS.

Yes they were using GW’s IP creating the series, however without that series they wouldn’t have another fan of the lore and in the end another customer.

I dunno how to feel, I can see GWs side, it used their IP, copyright and IP law allows them to restrict derivative works. But without those derivative works I wouldn’t have given a shit about GW

They say “don’t bite the hand that feeds you”. And GW can honestly feel like they are feeding these fan works with IP, however these fan works are also feeding GW with customers.
I suppose they do this because it makes it easier to change features. But that is silly because the undocumented features don't get used.
Let's look at who the author is: X is an assistant professor in the School of Computer Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.

Oh, that explains it.

Programming may not be hard until you have to:

- work on a sufficiently large project,

- with actual clients,

- with actual deadlines,

- with a lot of people that have low level of knowledge and/or little incentive to do their job well (basically, they just want a check),

- with management that tries to optimize you as much as possible (ie get the project done with as little cost as possible),

- with management that does not care if your programming is correct, but cares only to hit their financial KPIs.

So if you want to compare it to construction, imagine that construction companies are not penalized for buildings toppling and people dying but only for the lost revenue from (now) missing tenants.

Then the construction company management tells you to build as fast and cheap as possible to crank as many buildings and be faster than competition, because that's what is going to bring in new clients to replace the ones that have died in toppling buildings.
I suppose a lot do, but really more along party lines than because of a specific prime minister. You could be right in that the personality and politics of a particular leader might have a disproportionate effect on swing voters.

Personally I think the characteristics of the local MP you actually vote for is not taken into sufficient consideration by most voters. That's the person that actually represents you, and actually gets to help chose the actual prime minister. Who they are as a person and their values does actually matter very much, yet most people who actually vote can't even name their local MP.
It can also substantially reduce the need to burn fossil fuels in gas-fired "peaking" power plants.
This is actually beautiful, and really clean.. I will definitely be giving this a try. Nice job!
US drug overdose deaths were such a huge outlier before COVID, that people were talking of an opiate pandemic. As usual it's America that's the exception.

A statement about US drug deaths says nothing about what happened in Australia.
Those above the homeless in social status go out of their way to keep them out of sight. If your store becomes a de facto gathering place you will have few customers.
I got email from Amazon about the $70 off. I have 3rd Generation, bought directly from amazon.com back then.

But according to the Terms: "Offer only valid for invited Amazon customers located in the U.S. who have received this offer directly from Amazon through email."

I don't live in the US and amazon.com refuses to send it to my home address in Europe, but my regional Amazon doesn't accept the promotional code. Bummer.

"To thank you for being one of our earliest customers, we’d like to offer you a promotion code..." Yeah right, a middle finger to you as well.
https://www.blopeur.com/2020/04/08/Intel-x86-patent-never-en...

Tl;dr: many new patents have been created over the years, for instance SSE extensions, and those haven't expired.
Why yes let's just violate property rights to fix a social problem
Intel Unleashes Xeon W-3300 Ice Lake CPUs with Up to 38 Cores for Workstations
I suspect the real problem is lack of movement. If you spend long periods of time in the same position no matter how good your posture is it is going to cause a problem.
I'm afraid that even without the foreign investment one can't win this. Europe still sees a minor population growth. More importantly, there are large migration flows between countries, regions and to cities in general. This means that even in places with no/very low foreign ownership and virtually no vacancies, you still have runaway markets. Dublin is a good example of that. Same stands for almost every place where I lived. With the exception of the French Riviera, where the runaway market is indeed fuelled by vacancies, likely foreign-owned.
It is a sort of Nimbyism. Tail pipe emmisions are low for EVs since they have no tail pipe.

ICEs running on renewable fuel has localy observable emissions and are not sexy. The decommision of ICEs are way easier then EVs and the refeuling infrastructure simpler for liquids. It is a shame there is a look-in on EVs.
Did he try to convince you that you should too be a vegan?
Pretty sure Solar is a big part of energy generation in Space related stuff.

So I can obviously see the self dealing side… but there is also an equally “it just made sense” side. Do billionaires need to self enrich with crazy side deals?
A few years ago, I got a little put off by the wasps-fig thing, then, after some research, I found that wasps have nothing to do with the species of figs that are consumed by humans
Programming is unbounded, it spans the range from so easy, a child can do it untrained, to impossibly complex.

So "it's hard" is the natural outcome, given we always strive to optimize our efforts, therefore we keep pushing programming beyond "it's easy" right until "it's hard" but before "it's impossible".

Therefore programming is most typically "hard" for most people programming at any given moment.

So what does it say and about whom, seems like a wrong question. It only shows a property intrinsic to systems (including social, biological, artificial and so on) and how systems balance themselves.
The fossil fuel industry has an inherent fire risk. In the UK we had https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-34919... in 2005.
It's a different bottom line,

i.e. it's not about losing money due to free refiles but losing (or being afraid of losing) money due to people leaving due to the presence of homeless people.

A decision because of the first point (free refiles) is not moralistically questionable. A decision on the second point can be seen as moralically questionable due to discrimination against people which already are in a pretty bad situation.
Classroom Computer Brought Back to Life with Linux
If you want a gentle introduction you may like this book http://the-little-prover.github.io/
The first 11 “Secure The Government” VDPs are now live on Bugcrowd
Could somebody who used both this and Bulma give an overview?
Supply is increasing, but if that increased supply gets snatched up by investors then you haven't really increased supply for people who need a place to live.
This is fun. meow, argh, moo, chirp, ribbet.
Yes I'm looking to launch. Could you share your experience?
I agree with the targeting part. Just happens that most of the English-speaking audience for tech products are American, so it's just a generalization.
If I earn income in another country i pay the income tax in that country. My home country does not care or know about it, like it should be.
The bad part isn't just energy density, but that lithium fires are self oxidizing, so you can't smother them. Your only method of attack is to get temperature down.

Also, this type of smoke is awful. Anyone living in San Diego East of the 5 last year can probably remember how bad the Navy ship fire was compared to normal forest fire smoke.
Reminder that the German constitution also includes a ban on certain kinds of political views for obvious historical reasons.
> upper middle class behaviour, aspiring to be part of the aristocracy.

The "Bucket" behaviour is something I haven't observed for decades. Those "airs and graces" are indeed a middle-class phenomenon, not upper class. The real aristocracy eat beans-on-toast, swear like troopers, watch rubbish on TV, and are often quite uncouth. And they don't care what others think about their accent or manners.
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That's surprising. I understand the desire to keep Multics alive for the sake of preserving history, but why would you want to release new features for it?
I agree, but this is my mitigation against a misfiring mechanism.
This is the sort of thing that makes courts get pissy at you. (When courts get pissy at you, they can start leveraging fines on the level of "percent of gross income".)
> I suppose they do this because it makes it easier to change features.

Yeah, and for a scrappy startup trying to achieve feature parity despite having far fewer employees, that might make sense.

But it's not like Google is a nimble startup without the luxury of hiring dedicated technical writers.
I don't believe that it's actually secure to trade Bitcoin, I think you can get scammed
> His entire intern project was a small piece of the system being built to detect abuse of these SIMs and stop it.

I'd rather work for another evil corporation like Mac Donalds than work to remove features from devices people have already bought. When your company is selling surveillance tools to individuals masquerading as e-book readers and you have to struggle to just install a libre Operating System, it's not even close to fair that you get to use the SIM card Amazon planted in your device in whichever way you please.
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End-to-end product management system with templates and guides in Notion to help your team build winning products at scale
what a marvelous bit of UX.
So is your thesis going to be that attracting groups of homeless people in your restaurant is positive or neutral with regards to attracting customers, staff dealing with problems, additional maintenance and so on?

Surely if you had a restaurant, you'd want to invite your customers to the smell of pissed pants and drunk people begging for change?

Let's be real here.

Homelessness is an issue that shouldn't exist, but it's not McDonald's issue, that's not their role in the game, and they can't offer their services at a level, when they need to deal with homeless people on their premise. If your country sucks and can't take care of social issues, it's not suddenly the role of private businesses to play that role for those in need.
I was pleasantly surprised that in the UK the waiters proactively ask you if you want tap water with your meal. In Germany you have to explicitly ask for it and then often have to endure the waiter's annoyed reaction.

On the other hand I was unpleasantly surprised with the taste of tap water in the UK.
What are interest rates on mortgages, and what percent equity are homebuyers expected to have in order to qualify?

I believe foreign buyers is also a scapegoat in Canada. At first I believed it when home prices were only growing at obscene rates in the major cities but now it has spread to every tiny community in the country, literally from Newfoundland to the Yukon. This is a direct consequence of interest rates being too low for too long and capital having run out of good places to go (zero interest rates, equities at peaks, etc).
> Because sufficient evidence is now available in hard numerical statistics.

Can you show me the exact number of adverse events observed after, say pfizer covid vaccine, in real world use?

Can you show me the exact number of breakthrough infections observed after, say pfizer covid vaccine, in real world use?

Even if these numbers are available, then it is anyone take if they want to trust the entity that collected this data..

Basically, it always comes down to "trust", if you are not the once who is collecting the raw data and doing the analysis on it.

Also, you would be very wrong is "consensus" cannot be set on a single flawed metric, you would be very wrong as well.
Historically the price of the Average Home should be about 2x average household annual income.

We are way off that good median today, so either prices have to fall or incomes have to go up.

However the causes of this can not be simply explained away by "people buying dozens of apartments and houses just to rent them" the reality is far more complicated than that. even if you put a ban or cap on the number of rentals a person / company could have it would not solve the housing issue, and likely make it worse.
That's my third time getting rickroll'ed in the comment section of a rickroll thread.
History may have unrolled quite differently at that point, if the only choice was to shift architecture, then we may have seen a more diverse server CPU estate being maintained. At that point Sun were still relevant, POWER systems were still being bought and deployed in larger proportions etc.
Welcome to analog IC design. It's all "everything affects everything" kind of situation, especially so at high speed or deep submicron process.

I tried my best to explain to my programmer friend (who ironically works at Intel) why we use dummy transistors in the layout - to no avail.

If university and work taught me something, it's that you can't just handwave some details for later; sure planning everything ahead isn't possible, but if you have not even a hint of how to solve a problem however minor, you won't when it comes to solve it in the future.
I'm from Dublin and Dublin's problem is two fold. First of all, many of the politicians are landlords so have a massive conflict of interest. Second is zoning laws are outrageously bad. Urban sprawl is the name of the game.
Anaconda gives you a UI where you can click Jupyter-lab and it will just start. That said, I'm not claiming the learning curve is not there. It takes some investing. But learning to work with Excel's PMT function to understand your mortgage and making some plots also presents a learning curve.
Why in the world would you even reach for plain text when you can get JSON or YAML? Dude, you have machine-processable formats to work with and you figured you'll be clever.

I'd definitely scold him if he was my colleague.

And I seriously don't care about bash weirdness. It's an endless rabbit hole. Happily we have `shellcheck` nowadays but even with that I do my very best to avoid scripting beyond the most basic needs because I've been bitten by unexpected behaviours many times.

Will it all make sense if you work with it full time for 6 months? I am sure it will but most of us will never get such big stretches of uninterrupted bash practice so I just prefer to work around it as much as I can.

It's kind of like GIT: if you go all-in you'll emerge very enlightened. But most programmers just want to get in, do their rare-and-hard-to-remember-thing and get out. That's why most of us have to Google various GIT incantations every time we need them.
I think that there should be staded "and technical", because the whole system of Bitcoin is massive to understand.
You need to learn more about construction. Bridges are built for decades, hopefully centuries. What happens to rebars encased in concrete over that timespan is not obvious to anyone, otherwise inspectors would not have to purchase expensive equipment and condos in Florida would not be collapsing.
translating pico de gallo into various languages is fun. Most are untranslated other than a different accent. But a few are unique... Like french https://translate.google.com/?hl=en&sl=es&tl=fr&text=pico+de...
Yup. It was a classic mishandled transition; they messed up the emulation https://www.zdnet.com/article/intel-scraps-once-crucial-itan... , and getting the benefits of the transition required a big ecosystem shift. You more-or-less had to use Intel's compilers.

Meanwhile AMD offered "x86, but faster and wider", which (once you booted a 64-bit operating system) could run either type of binary at native speed. Sometimes people really do just want a faster horse.
Law is not symbolic logic. Language has semantics and is uttered in a societal context.

The position of white males and immigrants are not equal. When people make statements about whites or males, it is generally not about all males. And no one in society is advocating that we "send back all whites".

I imagine you are arguing sincerely, but I believe this type of situation is what is called 'whataboutism' or even false equivalency.

As an neighbor of the Germans, I hold them in high regard. They have a very robust democracy, and as a nation are more principled than most. It took three wars but they learned their lesson. Hate leads to suffering and all that.
Interesting. While reading the post, I did not have the feeling this is the main point. But yes, the point is probably equivalent to the measurement of 'concentration' for which you propose the Herfindahl–Hirschman Index and other formulas.

Is there good data out there to use as input for those formulas?

Often when I read about distribution of crypto, the numbers used seem very foggy. Like account balances on the chain. Those could mean anything. One individual might own 1000 accounts (in a wallet). One account might belong to 1000 individuals (on an exchange).

I would love to hear about some rough estimates for different crypto currencies. Like "How much ETH do the top 10 holders hold"?
I think it's probably Estuary English [1] now rather than RP. I'd agree there are lots of class signals that people pick on. Accent is probably high up the list.

Yes, it feels to me like it has more of an affect than many people realize. It's become more obvious to me after leaving the UK and seeing how other societies operate.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estuary_English