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> But if you need to choose a Founding Father of Computing Science for the general public, I'd say Alan Turing is the best candidate. Scholars will give due credit to Church, Zuse, von Neumann and all the others.

I agree with this. It's certainly the case that I wish more people knew of Alonso Church and Kurt Gödel, but you have to realize in a "PR" sense that it's simply not going to be feasible to teach the general public about their contributions.

And Turing's contributions were genuinely ground-breaking, there's a reason that computer science is lousy with concepts named after or by him (Turing machines, Turing-completeness, even the word "computing" was arguably coined in "On Computable Numbers"). He also thought deeply and hard about the philosophical implications to computing in a way that others didn't (the "Turing test" being the obvious example).

In addition: when a mathematically inclined person describes any kind of mathematical concept to laymen, the first question is always "Yeah, but what is that actually useful for?", asked with a certain amount of disdain. With Turing, the answer is powerful: "How about defeating the Nazis and laying the foundation for modern society?". That case is harder to make for Church or Gödel: they obviously didn't work for the GCSE, and "lambda calculus" as a concept is a much more abstract thing than Turing machines, which laymen can readily understand (i.e. it's "just" a computer).

Add to that the fact that Turing's story is not just about computing, or code-breaking, it's also the story of the suffering that society inflicted on gay men. The fact that he was shamed into suicide is just all the more reason to celebrate him now.

I agree with the basic point of the article, but I have no issue with giving Alan Turing this title. He earned it.
OK, but why? Is this a convention?
That's very cool - nice to hear his cancer is in remission.
What is also dangerous are zombie corporations stuffed with excess capital forced to reinvest it at subpar rates of return or go on wasteful m&a sprees because they can’t return capital to where it can be most efficiently redeployed into other investments. I’m not saying buybacks can’t be abused but if you want to see a corporate environment where capital can’t be recirculated look to Japan. I don’t think many people would say the last few decades of Japan are a great example of economic dynamism.

The common refrain among many critics is that “Wall Street” is short sighted and can’t make long term investments. Really? At this point you have 10b public valuations based on revenues which won’t appear for a decade at best (flying taxi companies anyone) while value stocks paying high free cash flow today languish at single digit earnings multiples. Any company which has a viable growth strategy for invested capital gets a ton of credit from the market, making capital return a last resort. So the idea that buybacks are somehow starving growth investment seems strained.
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Yeah, Hacker News defaults to the Geneva font. Those quotation marks are not pretty :(
Seems quite comparable to nationalism. See Europe in general.
Both my kids eat cucumber. I still wouldn't agree it tastes nice though, too watery for me. I like it diced in a tuna sarnie though.
As smart as he is, as rich as he is, his ego is his downfall
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$ apt update

Oh, wait, fix not available in the Debian/Ubuntu official repos, only M$ trusted ones.
I was expecting yet another minor convenience that doubled the ecological footprint of a thing. But it looks like reducing impact was actually a goal here. Pretty awesome.
At least twitter is public by default and everyone participating has that expectation, while everything else is not.

Big difference studying the language of published books by authors vs. their private conversations in their homes.
Do you know that joke about crazy people being regular people and eccentric people being rich?
Relevant and almost as horrifying as the address one: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
Nicotine and alcohol drugs are already legal everywhere :) . We are just hypocrites, classifying them separately.
This doesn't get around the problem, however, unless they pay seasonal workers their expenses for a year.
> I think part of this is because my school, like most, started students off with an imperative/procedural language (C++). If you have a clean slate (e.g. someone with zero programming knowledge) it’s probably just as easy

It's definitely not.

Source: I know a lot of people who had Caml classes before C classes, C was much easier. Also in my school we learned C and LISP at the same time, most people also found C easier.
I had no idea there were other types of cucumbers.

I think Rohl Dahl put me off cucumbers.
I work with several people who use it.
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Had a set of twins in my town whose parents were Greek and they had two middle names and I was so fascinated about it as a kid I'll never forget.
>And if Europe wants to be at all competitive with the US or China in tech (right now, it’s not), maybe you should be getting paid more than a mid-level accountant?

I have 10 weeks vacation and a <20 hour workweek. I'd really rather _not_ be competitive with the US or China.
> you'll still spend tons of time trying to package obscure C dependencies

but my question would be: is this exactly the same issue that all other package maintainers have e.g. rpm, deb etc?
The Turing machine is definitely not some machine that you could build in your garage. None of the mechanisms are specified or even specifiable. The important part, to Turing ateast, is that it perfectly matches what a human does while computing a number, and that there are no magical steps like 'thinking'. Read symbol, change internal state, write other symbol down, rinse and repeat.

All of the details of how a symbol is read, recognized, how it alters the internal state, how the next symbol is chosen, or even how many symbols you actually need are not mentioned and even considered irrelevant. Turing wasn't building one of these, he was proving that this model captures all known computation, and that even so it is undecidable whether this machine would ever stop for any arbitrary computation.
I think this is ignoring Roman and Chinese urban density which pushed them into this difference over generations. Much of the food necessary to feed a city was imported on a scale and timeline similar to global trade today. I don't know anyone who buys foreign fresh milk and butter but cheese is different.
'Multicomputation' is not exactly new, see nondeterministic finite automata (NFA) and nondeterministic polynomial time (NP).
How do they deal with rocks/mud/dirt/sand getting inside?
An anti-aging serum works if it reduces or removed specific (or even most/all?) effects that are related to aging.
I always heard that FreeBSD has unparalleled networking

Does it mean that it'd be worth picking FreeBSD over Linux for my C# crud app if it had to handle a lot of requests/sec? (let's ignore db for the moment)
Remember when a guy murdered 11 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue? When it was revealed the shooter had posted about it on Gab beforehand, every service powering the social network pulled the plug. Epik was who brought them back online.[0]

The hero of hate speech is not exactly a sterling reputation to have.

[0] https://www.wired.com/story/how-right-wing-social-media-site...
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> some web frameworks do content negotiation by appending a content type like .json to the end of the url

This has always disturbed me, considering that HTTP has had content negotiation for ... oh, basically its entire history [https://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/1.0/spec.html#Accept].
Even if these tires aren't good enough for the snobs who want everything to be silent and handle perfectly they'll be great for trailers, yard trucks and other rarely used vehicles that rack up few miles and run run old-ish tires (which tend to be more plagued by slow leaks and whatnot) but still need to go highway speed.
I think it's a Nordic thing. Tax records (including recorded income) are also public in Finland, and apparently Sweden has something similar. [1]

In case of Finland, the current legislation that makes tax information public was originally introduced in 1999 but I can't remember whether the records were also public (based on some other regulation) prior to that or not. In any case, it's not that recent. The Reuters article says Norway has had public tax information since 1863, but I don't personally know anything more about that.

AFAIK anybody's tax records are basically a phone call away. You can't just google for the information, though. I don't know how it works in Norway. (Edit: but apparently the sibling replies do.)

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-panama-tax-nordics-idUSKC...
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Note that some Actions run with lower permission and cannot access GitHub Secrets. For example, actions triggered by Dependabot PRs cannot access secrets. This would normally prevent untrusted updates from testing/deploying on your AWS Account. Maybe federation would bypass these protections that depend on the identity triggering the action.
Unwanted patterns in typography, or the problem of rivers
We also shouldn't underestimate the importance of truth. Dealing with the world as-it-is has better results than interacting with a story we'd like to be true but isn't.

People waste their lives in service of causes and ideas that just are not grounded in reality. Not just in the philosophical sense that we cannot know truth, but in the practical sense of "the outcome you want will not flow from the actions you are taking today". Narratives are inferior to truth when it comes to making decisions.
> WhatsApp popularized end-to-end encryption, a technique that allows various clients to communicate without the server being able to read the content of the communication.

Is this true? Did WhatsApp really popularise it? I think it was around, and many knew of it, well before WhatsApp implemented it (right? I'm not sure myself).
At the risk of being the No-True-Agileman...

The original idea of sprint planning was to choose only as many tasks as you feel comfortable doing in given time frame. The customer specifies priority, the developers estimate effort. Also, measuring individual productivity is strictly forbidden; the team is supposed to operate as a "black box" from the management perspective. In theory, that is.

In real life, in most companies there is pressure on the team to take more tasks than they feel comfortable doing. Sometimes there are external deadlines, like "all these tasks must be completed in the next two sprints, but hey guys, enjoy your AgileTM freedom to decide which ones get done in the first sprint, and which ones get done in the second sprint". Or you measure individual productivity by number of story points completed, and say "hey guys, feel free to set your own sustainable pace an enjoy your work-life ballance, but the 20% of you with least story points completed will get fired at the end of the year".

Agile was meant to be a replacement for management. Instead it became management's another weapon. Because management makes the ultimate decisions about how exactly agile gets implemented at your company.
JSON won because it's just one line to parse from within a web browser.
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> I'd like to perform the steps necessary for a $250MM acquisition;

OK, first, perform the steps for $10M.

The steps to get to 250 do not begin differently than the steps to get to 10. So first get to 10. While you are on the way, research getting from 10 to 100. While you are on that path, research getting from 100 to 250. The best growth patterns I've been a part of always had that approach - have a long-term vision, but execute one step at a time.
Very much this. I'm a bit surprised it took this long to see a backlash. Since /pol/, 4chan and Anonymous have spent far too much time as someone's personal army, despite that being always the disclaimer.

Scorpion and Pepe story… except strangely reversed. This would be the frog dumping the scorpion, after having been stung and used ruthlessly to serve the scorpion's selfish purposes for years. Very 4chan-like, to be able to survive a scorpion sting, but you can't poison poison, or meaningfully piss in an ocean of piss :)
Doing it on top of NetBeans would have been more portable but the documentation for XML handling in NetBeans isn't very good.
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I agree with you about Epik’s stance, although I believe they’re doing it for the wrong reasons.

Rob Monster for instance has expressed support for the KKK and claimed that the Christchurch shooting was a hoax.

I’ll defend with my life his right to say abhorrent things. But that also means I get to express myself and call him a bad dude.
I didn’t know these different styles were actual idioms, or that one is “American” and the other “British”.

I’ve just always been unsure.

Now I’ve learned through this discussion that there is no definitive way, I feel freer to play it by ear and write what feels right at the time.
Related books with more depth by Edgar Daylight:

- Turing Tales: https://dijkstrascry.com/turingtales

- The Dawn of Software Engineering: https://dijkstrascry.com/dawn
So your rebuttable is "we gave you a choice, and you choose wrong"

That is not really a choice. Does the mugger give me a "choice" when he holds a gun to my head and threatens me with violence if do not do as he desire.
>Consider the same what?

Doing reasonable measures to avoid that. Driving can result at death, but we allow people to drive under some speed limit, with a lot of rules on how to do it. You're not supposed to break them, and if you do, then you're at least fined.
Why don’t you write that script for us.
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Tools such as Zap and Burp Suite are great for web devs who want to learn how to build secure websites. I highly recommend them:

https://owasp.org/www-project-zap/

https://portswigger.net/burp
A microblog. But without strict length limits. Also without post titles. Without comments, responses and mentions. Without personal branding. Easy to discover together with many others. Easy to subscribe. Quick to read. Controversial thoughts allowed but guarded both against attacks by those who disagree/dislike and against abuse by bots/propaganda/marketing. Monetization/promotion not allowed.
There are 2 types of C programmers: those who have read Van der Linden, and those who have not.
Appears to be a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28536048
It's not a syntax error.
What about nowadays?
This dualism in CS still carries on to this day. Essentially, the lambda calculus is the forefather of the functional approach to computation, while the Turing machine epitomizes the imperative paradigm.
Ugh, I did. I was unaware of Epik’s “reputation”, I’d just heard the brand name before so I thought it must be alright. I would have gone with someone else, but most registrars don’t offer the TLD I wanted, and Epik seemed to have the best price amongst the registrars that did. Obviously regretting that decision now.
Not sure why this was down voted. These types of tax plans were laid out as part of the debates.
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>I did three variants (100% solar, 100% wind, an the current Wind/solar ration

The first two seem pointless and the third I dont really get (it'll be much higher for both).

>I kept the same energy import profile as of today.

Also a weird assumption. It should be much higher in the future. Grid interconnects are a whole lot cheaper than batteries.

Switzerland is likely to import more excess power when theres a lot of wind/sun, use less of its own hydropower and release that pent up hydropower back across the border later, for instance.

>demand shaping not at all, and it would definitely have an impact for short periods

This is probably where the biggest bang for the buck will come as the demand side reacts to electricity prices that vary a lot over the day with smarter consumption. It's already happening in the UK and Germany.
Ah, you're right, my translation of espace fine to En was incorrect, thanks for the correction.

An intriguing problem in typography is the patterns that spaces can form between words on different lines (called rivers); in traditional typography it is checked for but I don't know of any rendering engine that would do that automatically (in a browser, or on an e-reader for example).
> The only case of vaccine-associated "heart problems" that I've seen required an NSAID with no further treatment.

Do we want to see it? I've just found out about the this boy, who died in April:

https://twitter.com/rgvrunner01

How did I find out about it? It's trending on Twitter because the father was on Alex Jones.

I've looked at the VAERS reports of 16-year-old males that died in 2021. There are four cases (one suicide), none match this one. While it's likely that the boy died due to a pre-existing condition, his case should still show up on VAERS (even suicides are included).

The takeaway is that if you hear about something like this, it's not mainstream media. Nobody wants to "harm" the vaccination campaign. Unfortunately, suppressing such cases further erodes trust in media/authorities, which has the opposite of the intended effect. Also, VAERS data appears to be incomplete, rendering risk estimates unreliable.
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Apple blocked the FlickType Watch keyboard then announced a clone of it
I'm hoping that's a prototype that just shows the structure inside and not the final design. But I guess we'll find out, or they will in that trial.
Huh! Well, I'm going to try it anyway!
I still have respect for him for being able to run a business in scientific computing profitably.
It looks better and it saves space.
I suspect the production version will have a covering on the sidewall for that and to reduce aerodynamic drag. It won’t be structural like current tires but I think the “wall-free” design you see now is Just prototype marketing.
I'm working on a project that uses a SysML editor built on top of eclipse, other people have written plugins to do checking and evaluation of models for it.
Does anyone else smell something funny here? The collection of top-lede articles all suggest a PR play by Rivos or its VC backers, e.g., anti-ARM, anti-Apple.
Relative to other side effects. Remember we are in a post serum existing scenario so we would have the knowledge of those as part of the discussion on if it works.
So you're saying Anonymous IS someone's personal army, and that this contradicts the rules of that personal army's conduct?

Big if true.
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I would assume this is much the case as well. In the case of Chromebooks this lends legitimacy, high volumes, and starts building a brand/ecosystem familiarity. Maybe they would feel like Windows feels "off" like the first time I moved to OSX in college or the way I had to relearn interfaces and TUIs moving to GNU/Linux, stacking and tiling window managers. When I roll into a café and people see no task bar, terminal splits, etc. and raise eyebrows, maybe this is how kids will see Windows. I just hope they don't actually feel like walled-garden apps are the best solution for software ha.
> There's not really any way around legislating or directly subsidising alternatives if its going to make a difference.

I don't disagree. What I'm saying is that this narrative of no one's individual choices mattering in the grand scheme leads people to just stop doing anything, not only personally, but also on a political level.
While this is true, I myself love 4' displays more than anything. The best I could find a couple of years ago was SE (first generation). Now I can't find anything. Something is wrong with either me or this display things.
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> * Nested parentheses. (In theory, you could use any level needed (provided that they make sense), but in practice, they're scoffed at.) It is similar with quotes, for the same reasons: limited readability - although here you can at least juggle with single, double and French quotes, depending on the language and style guide used.

Any level of nested parenthesis is fine (is what I think at least (as someone who's written a bit of Lisp of Lisp (or Racket and Clojure specifically) (because you get kinda used to it (when in a way they just become invisible (or unnoticeable))))). But nested quotations is also an issue with backtick (`) when doing command substitution in the shell, and we have to resort to $() to fix it. There's not really a $()-like syntax for written English though.
I see what you mean, but the first appears to be a PHP bug (unless I am misreading?).

The second, appears to be a tool for parsing a json blob which has been escaped and encoded as a simple string inside another json blob. That's certainly an interesting problem, and one that is likely to come up in a sufficiently complicated world - however it's not an issue with parsing JSON. It's an issue with parsing /any/ data structure or language that may contain strings and as such seems unavoidable.
> the "individual action makes a difference" is fairy tale. for every 1 person who tries individual action, 999 will discard 3000 plastic containers that cost them ~$0 to acquire but made the container mfg $3,000 profit.

Unless of course all 1000 of them decided to do something. Can't you see how this narrative is self-fulfilling?
Looks like a complete pass through from one side to the other so washing them should remove most of that. Rocks might even fall out as the tyre rotates.
Perhaps it's just my cooler climate (UK), but (unclarified) butter lasts ages unrefrigerated. Far far longer than it takes me, alone, to consume it.

It's not the first time I'm hearing this at all, so I'm not saying you're wrong, I just don't understand.
But in the days of digital files, unlike the days of typewriters that put ink on paper, it's much easier to edit a draft into the final product.
I actually agree with the comment above: good speech doesn’t usually need defending…it’s almost always bad speech that does. But then again, I tend to side with free speech maximalists.

Rob Monster and crew are bad people because they actually believe this rhetoric, that’s why they defend it. They aren’t taking on a noble cause of defending free speech. They are defending speech with which they agree, and tends to be pretty shitty…that’s why they’re bad.

I don’t think they should be forced to stop, in fact I really hope the 1A is never diluted to that level. But the 1A cuts both ways: we get to sit back and talk about how awful Rob Monster is.
Probably also anon, but more /pol/ of recent years.