Not evangelizing Ruby, but the start of the keynote made a lot of sense.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Hey, at least the bug is reproducible!

> Chipotle Tests Robot That Can Prepare Avocados To Make Guacamole Faster

Do we need faster Guacamole? Most Guacamole (under it's own volition) doesn't tend to exceed 0mph.

I wasn't particularly worried that Guacamole could escape from me in most situations, but this raises a worrying though...

The plugin is definitely at fault; code - especially privileged code - should never use unvalidated external input to determine paths. A proportion of blame however has to lie with the systemd-networkd interface: the vulnerability derives from accepting string-valued updates off of D-Bus representing a set of enumerated values, but where the values and their string representation are completely undocumented.

The only way to validate these values is to copy/paste table data found in the bowels of the systemd source tree. Some parts of systemd are very well documented; others are woefully not, and present an interface that is irredeemably fragile.

" ... many felt were inappropriate for a children's toy."

There are some that thought it was appropriate?

Are you sure? I mean, if there is going to be any good reason at all, this might be it. But we should all, in every country, be very wary about granting the power to unilaterally remove citizenship after it is granted.

What if the attribution of fraud or error is itself a fraud or error? If the state finds it expedient to remove citizenship from someone, should we always trust that an accusation of fraud is sound?

Countries, generally, already have legal systems in place that applies to both residents and citizens. Adding an extra-judicial, governmental power to deprive someone of their citizenship, and with it, potentially their job, any freedom of movement within the country, access to their family or assets, etc. is simply dangerous.

Static typing might make me want to be a Python developer.

I'm looking forward to their latest AI research paper:

"Comparison of classification models on the effects of closing the barn door after the horses have bolted."

There's nothing fair about elite sports.

That elite sportspeople train hard and make sacrifices, there is no doubt. But they also require: opportunity, training, good genes, good nutrition, and a measure of good luck. We're already selecting for people with wider shoulders, or larger lungs, etc. etc.

Using steroids may not be fair, but is it fair to have genetics that naturally promote muscle growth? Is it fair that Joe had the time and financial support to support his high school athletics development, but Bruce had to help in the restaurant every night, and barely had time to do his homework?

What, exactly, do you want to measure or reward in elite sport?

asafoetida.

As I'm sure you know, the modern CPU and memory architecture is far removed from the constant-cost memory read assumption that underlies a lot of algorithmic analysis. Sure, it applies asymptotically, but many applications do not live in an asymptotic world, and the coefficients matter.

Binary search on a sorted sequence that fits in cache can be way faster than tree traversal over a structure that doesn't.

It's not clear from the description in the README: is the interpolated binary search distinct from a regula falsi root finiding variant?

Well, no, it isn't my fucking job. Start with Wikipedia.

You'll see in the article mention of climate-driven migrations already underway in Central America and the Middle East. It's not the major focus, so it might have been easy to miss.

Hundreds of millions of people will not just sit and wait to die of famine or heat stroke. There will be an accommodation, or there will be war. Is this what we want?

If we're not going to fix the climate, the only other option to avoid catastrophe is to invest hugely in infrastructure: energy production, high density agriculture, whole new cities. This is not going to be simply waved away by a magical invisible hand.