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My takeaway from this thread is that C programmers are completely insufferable.

I wish Musk/Bezos/Branson et al would spend their billions on colossal space telescopes rather than Mars vanity projects. Imagine being able to image the surface of an exoplanet...

Thems fightin words.

There's MyHDL. Turns Python into a hardware description and verification language:

https://github.com/myhdl/myhdl

https://text.npr.org/932068951

That depends on the Georgia runoffs in January. If the Dems win those two seats, then along with Harris's tie breaking vote they would have a senate majority.

Unpaywalled: http://archive.vn/wcuxy

I remember something like this in the movie Minority Report (2002).

Bottom line:

"With the new database-based science, there is often no moment when the complex becomes simple enough for us to understand it. The model does not reduce to an equation that lets us then throw away the model. You have to run the simulation to see what emerges. For example, a computer model of the movement of people within a confined space who are fleeing from a threat--they are in a panic--shows that putting a column about one meter in front of an exit door, slightly to either side, actually increases the flow of people out the door. Why? There may be a theory or it may simply be an emergent property. We can climb the ladder of complexity from party games to humans with the single intent of getting outside of a burning building, to phenomena with many more people with much more diverse and changing motivations, such as markets. We can model these and perhaps know how they work without understanding them. They are so complex that only our artificial brains can manage the amount of data and the number of interactions involved."

Was expecting more pictures of 60s tech rather than ladies in tight dresses.

As a neutral observer, I have to smile over Americans complaining about the Chinese influencing US culture.

Americans are used to others having to tiptoe around their sensibilities, and now they're finding out what adhering to a foreign culture's value system is like.

This is the fundamental problem with TOR, and by extension, any other anonymity client whose traffic patterns stand out from everybody else's.

Just using it makes you automatically interesting to state actors.

You wrote your comment on social media.

"On my way in and out of this office, just one of several Bytedance spaces all across the city, I gawked at hundreds of workers sitting side by side in row after row in the open floorplan. It resembled what I’d seen at tech giants like Facebook in the U.S., but even denser."

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As much as US devs whine about open offices, it could be worse.

"global"

Please write classes, people!

Data requests are not our friend.

Much better incident:

https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/g1ve18/i_am_charged_60...

This is why Python is eating the world.

Whatever it is you're trying to do, there's usually already a library or framework ready and waiting for you to immediately import and start using.

An article [0] that takes a critical stance on Paul Graham/Y Combinator, specifically Graham's advice that you should stop focussing on passing tests, despite Y Combinator being entirely built around passing tests.

[0] http://benjaminrosshoffman.com/approval-extraction-advertise...

Not sure why amznthrwaway is being voted down, but he has a good point.

Americans are used to others having to tiptoe around their sensibilities, and now they're finding out what adhering to a foreign culture's value system is like.

It seems really random that the Chinese are so into NBA. What next, Greeks being really into American gangsta rap music?

US needs to emulate more worker-friendly nations like South Korea and Japan.

I've always been fascinated by these misattributions of wise/witty sayings to famous figures. The words aren't allowed to stand on their own, they have to be vouched for by a suitably impressive and high status person.

My favorite is how, even in the realm of conspiracies that Shakespeare didn't write his plays, the posited true author is invariably another famous Elizabethan personality, e.g. Francis Bacon.

God forbid the Shakespeare plays were actually written by some random nobody.

...last summer.

I think you're talking to GPT-3.

Related:

What Python would look like in Japanese:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/comments/g9iu8...

Apple, Quibi, Amazon are trying to plan the perfect breakout show.

Apple is making a series out of Isaac Asimov's Foundation books. [0] :-D

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgbPSA94Rqg

Not sure if you're familiar with how these major investigative articles are written, but something this big can take months to put together.

Scott had his panicked meltdown the second this guy started asking questions, which was probably just the beginning of the investigation.

You think the outfit that took down Weinstein cares about some SV tantrums?

What are a bunch of angry nerds gonna do?

Not who you're replying to, but pretty much.