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This is hilarious. That someone in the government was paid to watch Barrens Chat full of Chuck Norris jokes, debates about if STR or AGI was better for Enhancements Shaman, and links to in-game items that would make funny dildos really amuses me.

/1 Anal [Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker]!
I was just wondering if building bridges is more feasible idea than digging tunnels. Bridges will be easier to maintain, costs relatively cheaper, relatively easier to setup and we already have more experience in building bridges.
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As do polytheistic religions.

A placebo programme that offers several pills of varying shapes, sizes and colors is not less or more real than a placebo programme that offers just one pill of a standard shape, size and color.
>Here's how that situation is handled on the legal side in the US. Anyone is permitted to practice law for themselves, but to practice law on someone's behalf, you need to be admitted to the bar.

Important caveat: companies must be represented by a licensed attorney. A non-attorney startup founder cannot represent his/her own company in court. This is technically legally compliant with "someone else" since the corporation is a distinct legal entity, but it means that if you can't afford a lawyer (and which of us working slobs can these days?) and someone sues your company you are SOL.

Courts are seeing a massive rise in pro se litigants over the last 15 years, entirely because legal services are stretching to costs that put them outside the reach of non-millionaires.

Law is a great example of the nightmare that software can become if we go overboard on regulation. There was once a time where becoming a self-taught lawyer was not all that different than becoming a self-taught programmer. You could learn just by "reading the law" and shadowing professionals, much like you can learn just by reading (and writing) code today. It was at least partially merit based and some of the best legal minds of the last generation came up this way.

Now, you have to sacrifice 6 years of your life and easily half a million dollars to be allowed to even try to sell legal services, and the market is so flooded with low-end graduates who are stuck in this desperate situation that many of them can't even sell their services anyway, due to the extreme competition in the lower rungs (driven by student desperation to find work to pay down that massive debt and the artificially constrained supply by the ABA's excessive licensing requirements).
a public transit system... that requires a car
> Now I wish I could use similar combo for mobile and desktop development.

Check out "re-natal". That at least gets you mobile, and perhaps desktop once react native has a good desktop story.
> Your comment is unpopular because it doesn't bring anything of value to the conversation. I'm not really sure what you want to say, or why you think that a thread about the death of Nick Sand is the right place to say it.

Did you miss all the other comments celebrating LSD, and Nick Sand for providing it to the masses? This is absolutely right place to say it. You just don't like it, for completely different reason.

> You should work less on trying to sound clever and more on actually saying clever things. [my wonderful prose], seriously?

I was sloppily recording my honest thoughts at two in the morning, and I did a pretty good job.

Let's contrast with some words quoted in this thread, probably more carefully spoken at the time:

What I found to be the genius of LSD is that it really gets you high, higher than the programs, higher than the walls that mask and blind one to the energy destroying presence of many contradictory but hidden programs.

What do you think is more clever? What is being celebrated in the highest rated post of this thread, and what is being mocked near the bottom? That doesn't seem strange to you?
If you think this is zero latency you're out of your mind. People can't merge or parallel park without causing traffic on normal streets and you think they'll be able to do it on elevators?
You could also unenroll all vendor supplied signing keys and load it up with one that you keep in a HSM.

Yes, you are technically correct that any opportunistic encryption scheme can be bypassed but it adds cost to the attack and (more importantly) it is a step towards a more secure system.
In some cases these are the goals, but dharma1 said the goal was to identify plant disease. If you can improve your results by taking better pictures then it becomes a tradeoff between training someone to take pictures and training someone to identify plant disease.

I think we have a tendency to treat AI as a silver bullet when we should be treating it as a tool we can use to help augment what we're already doing.
I suppose you could call it thought provoking, but the primary takeaway from that thread for me was to reaffirm why I don't follow many people on Twitter, and why I've grown very reluctant to patiently listen to privileged white people talk to me about the historical and contemporary oppression that people of my ancestry face in this country.

The whole thing comes off so self aggrandizing and baselessly accusatory.

In particular, I enjoyed this person's tweet[0] when challenged for some evidence of Musk's racism. Apparently, the rock solid evidence doesn't even have to do with tunnel boring, infrastructure, or urban planning, but instead with Musk not following any/enough women on Twitter. Truly revelatory stuff right here.

[0]https://twitter.com/EmilyGorcenski/status/858048505327366144
You're just not believing hard enough.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Dorsey "a co-founder and CEO of Twitter, and as the founder and CEO of Square, a mobile payments company."
To be honest this is just speculation of what investors believe future value to be.

Basically whoever gets a self driving fleet in production will win it big. This could be a startup that may not even be born yet.

But it's bizzare how people are throwing a lot of money at some companies. It feels like Uber has a fuck ton of money and because of that there is a ton of politics and pressure. So much that their engineers resort to suicide.

I imagine a shit storm in didi too. Too much funding is a curse.
> We need metals to live and prosper.

Prosper maybe, but not live. You seem to simultaneously admit to knowing nothing about El Salvador or the "full story" yet regardless you have formed very strong opinions about how the citizens of El Salvador should be extracting resources for you and the rest of the world.
Oh, what a scholar! What self-determined elitism, being fired from a lecturing position at Harvard for not showing up to work! How skillfully he turns abject failure into victory!
So does having train stations every few corners. The reason we don't have that now is cost, which is the same reason we won't have car-train tunnels.

Obviously having a network of underground express tunnels for cars would be amazing. It's just economic nonsense when municipal governments are racking up huge debts in normal, above ground road maintenance. If it's not publically subsidized, drivers will be exposed to the true cost, which will be enormous. That high cost cannot be supported will prevent mass adoption.
God bless, brother. I'm glad you were able to enjoy my work.
Curiously, a fair amount of genetic research is done this way: the genetic info is PHI, but the covered entity holds the data and the computer capacity. The researcher just pushes an algorithm to the cluster and gets aggregate results back.
Regarding the boring expense, an NTBM[1] or subterrene[2], is said to be cheaper and faster.

[1] http://www.sheepletv.com/nuclear-tunnel-boring-machines-swit...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subterrene

My impression is the boring feasibility and costs will not be the limiter of a very cool tech like this happening, but a more boring practical cost, probably the "zoning" cost required to get compliance and permission for all that state and federal land needed to build the underground link network.
The least pleasant part of the NYC subway is how over-congested, chronically delayed, and unreliable it is. But yes, the ads are annoying too.
That's a separate issue from this thread.

Adding enough sex to a movie will teeter it into pornography, but that doesn't mean it's unenjoyable.

And I'm not convinced most heat-lovers add it to the point where they cannot taste anything.

I live in Mexico where I suppose most people are part of the mediocre herd that Safety1stClyde so insists he's not, yet the people I know reaching for the hotter salsas have a tolerance to the milder ones. Suggesting that it's "to look cool" is petty.
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> boring through rock is the most expensive way to connect 2 places

While this is true, getting very good at boring underground could be helpful for building underground habitats on mars.
I get what you're saying, but sometimes a bad idea is a bad idea. You can't just positive think yourself out of it.
I think it can be much more interesting if these anagrams are not just limited to single words, but whole phrases or sentences. Makes the search a lot harder I think, but the results are much more fun. I especially like authors who incorporate those linguistic tricks in their works like "Vivian Darkbloom"/"Vladimir Nabokov" or "Tom Marvolo Riddle"/"I Am Lord Voldemort".
Get ready for all US wireless carriers to get worse
A lot of Canadian mining companies doing really dirty work in Central America. Makes me ashamed to be Canadian. Glad to see El Salvador assert their autonomy.
Genius marketing/PR - just look at this huge thread ;)
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Wait, so what can cinematographer megachiropteran be rearranged to be? is it "GIANT BAT! DEATH FROM ABOVE!!!"?
Really have to know what sort of engineering you're doing....I have four monitors now, so that's what I'd recommend. If you're an iOS developer, get a Mac. If you are doing a lot of video processing, get a few graphics cards and build a PC...
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The same happened in the US west, when ranchers killed all the wolves. In particular, Teddy Roosevelt gave federal protection to the Roosevelt elk, and hunters shot literally all the wolves in their habitat. No wolves meant no check on moose/deer populations, which resulted in overgrazing of certain important flora.

Everybody makes mistakes, and it's hard to tell when the lesser evil is the lesser evil.
an·a·gram
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noun
a word, phrase, or name formed by rearranging the letters of another, such as cinema, formed from iceman.

funny that the textbook definition of anagram is the word that is the basis of the winner here: cinematographer
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I recently had a discussion concerning animal sentience and was having trouble articulating my thoughts. You have managed to concisely convey "thought" in an eloquent fashion.
Automated intelligent transport for the masses. Subway trains you say?

Americans hate those.
Let's not forget that Musk literally said he wants to bore tunnels because it takes him too long to get to work... and this video is essentially showcasing a rapid transit system for people who own his cars.

Musk also claimed Tesla's solar roof would cost less than a "normal" roof... (PS Musk considers a "normal" roof to be made of slate)

The "affordable" (his words) Model 3 has a standard configuration of about $40k.

I think he's a super interesting guy doing amazing things... but I think he's vastly out of touch with what concepts like "affordable" or "normal" mean to the majority of this country. His "normal" doesn't extend very far outside of silicon valley.

He's more Tony Stark than Iron Man.
The issues talked about in the presentation aren't caught at compile time, testing, or canarying, by PostgreSQL. The database "failing" here, according to the presentation, meant outages for Uber.
While I generally agree with what you're saying about embracing bus rapid transit and the cost effectiveness of that option, it's not 100% just a matter of congestion. Surface rail often reduces the value of the land around it due to noise, poor streetscape, etc. whereas subways typically dramatically increase the value of the land around it and don't disrupt the neighborhood. Same goes for large surface roadways.

Also, buses don't have the same capacity as rail does—it's difficult to string together 10 buses and still accelerate quickly, navigate turns, and deal with grade crossings with street vehicles (although guided buses maybe can get partway there? [1]). You can feel the burn in the Bay Area if you try riding the lines on Geary or Mission during hot hours.

And the speeds at which buses run within dense metros often cannot compete with modern subway trains—BART, which is an old system already, hits 70 mph and can go faster, which would be kinda scary to do on city streets in a bus.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guided_bus
Proven what? His main claim of glory, Tesla, still hasn't achieved what he built the company for: making EVs mainstream. Rather than the ecological revolution he pretends it to be (his focus on climate change), it is still nothing but an expensive toy for the wealthy. Not exactly selling at the levels where we could talk about making a change for the planet.

Maybe you're referring to SpaceX in proving skeptics wrong? We have yet to see if that company ever becomes profitable. Reusing rockets is not what made people skeptical as much as pretending it'd make financial sense to do.

Most of his other popular pet projects are even more pie-in-the-sky. Neuralink? That's nothing but talk. Hyperloop? not a single prototype built in the real world, in a real location.
OpenAi sounds like what a conspiracy theorist would come up with.
I was going to say that, to my ears, the Black Speech of the inscription on the One Ring sounds a lot like Turkish, but I'm not a Turkish speaker [1]. So I looked for a few examples of (modern) Turkish and I have to say that- maybe not, after all?

Compare:

Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul,
Ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul. [2]

With:

Bütün insanlar hür, haysiyet ve haklar bakımından eşit doğarlar. Akıl ve vicdana sahiptirler ve birbirlerine karşı kardeşlik zihniyeti ile hareket etmelidirler.

Not even close.

But of course, there's all this stuff about all the southerners teaming up with Sauron and so on, so I always thought it was a fair assumption that there was a bit of north/south good/evil divide in old J.R.R's writings.

__________

[1] Except of course for the many Turkish loan words in my language, Greek, which interestingly are very often food-related: baklava, kataifi, halva, pastourma (pastirma), peinirli, yaourti, soropi, karpouzi etc etc.

[2] I even thought the "û" was supposed to sound like "ü".
I don't know why Snowden is so quick to tweet that this is a victory. To me, it's a multivariate equation, and all they've done is made one of the variables smaller. They can sustain collection at the same amounts, by making another variable proportionally larger. For instance, what's changed is that they no longer collect signals that mention a target, only signals to or from a target. So all you need to do to keep collecting the same amount, is to make a lot more targets.
I'm from Bogotá and I can tell you that the bus experience is ugly, it worked for about 10 years but now the buses can't cope with the amount of people Bogotá has.
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Great question. Luckily we have examples by which to judge, e.g.: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/mar/08/usa-mining-lib...
> ls $home

No network connection.

> sudo ifup eth0 && ls $home

AWS coreutils: unable to connect to target filesystem host. Please open port 22 and ensure that the aws-guest user has full access to the filesystem.

> find -name aws -exec rm -rf {} +

> sudo apt-get install coreutils -y
Chili peppers can be used to compensate for otherwise poor flavor, but that is certainly not the only use case. Fat sugar salt and other spices can be used like that too.

If British food is obnoxiously spicy to you, you're probably very unaccustomed to spicy food.

When someone is accustomed to piquant foods, they aren't distracted as easily by the heat. Different peppers have very different flavor and spice profiles that are easier to pick up when you don't have to immediately drown out with milk. They also don't come through in small quantities, so if you haven't been desensitized you wont be eating enough to taste the other flavors.
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14218874
and the increase in sea ice there is also likely to be an artifact of global warming.

Was there anyone predicting in the 1980s or 1990s that with global warming arctic ice would decline while antarctic ice would increase? Was anyone predicting this before the observation occurred? How do I know that the idea that global warming causes an increase in southern ice is not just an after the fact rationalization?
The guy knew the product inside and out. He knew network tech inside and out. Like... he'd say, "Go to the ABCD button..." And I'd be like, "Oh where's that?" And he'd be like, "You see the XYZ field at the top? Put your cursor there and it 9 tab button away from that." And I didn't hear him typing or doing anything on his side... it felt like he had it all memorized. Just 0 hesitation, total confidence in his suggestions. And they all worked perfectly.

At one point I was like, "Hey can you give me a minute so I can figure out how to set my router to use a static IP for the NAS?" And he was like, "Sure I walk you through it, what kind of router do you have?" Different brand... he handled it without skipping a beat. Actually I think that was the first time I heard about DD-WRT -- he was like, "We set this up now, but you setup DD-WRT later. It better."

He doesn't sell on Amazon any more -- at least not under the name I bought from. I hope he's in business somewhere else... even if all of his shit was custom built, I'd gladly buy it for the level of support I got.
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Hmm, so, great. That's interesting.

So, um, how would you say your skills deploying to NodeJS are. Would you rate them as strong? Tell you what, lets go ahead and break for lunch now and Sam is going to show you around the campus a bit and then we'll continue with a follow up and some coding challenges.
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They probably wouldn't worry if the new waves of immigration were coming from cultures similar to their ancestors. Doubt you'd hear a peep if a new wave of, say, Dutch, came over.

Though that's not a given in general. I live in Guatemala and of course everyone knows folks live in the US legally and illegally. The older ones that went illegally decades ago seem very negative on the current folks coming in.
> That being said, what is feasible to do?

On a personal scale, at least: live close to work, and save as much money as you can; the amount you spend is a tolerably good measure of your carbon footprint.

The ideal would be to live close to work, save money, and do a bit of backyard bio-sequestration (like growing dwarf hazelnut trees and burying the nuts' hulls); but it's not likely that you'll have a backyard if you're living close to work. Cities with compost collection are the next best thing on this score, then.
I dig your style. I'm not about solutions looking for a problem. One of my favorite back-and-forth "arguments" with a legit software developer is how much he embraces tech vs. my "luddite" insistence on paper and pen. The use cases end up being very telling.

As I learned from a Jeopardy answer the other day, the most patented design in the United States is for a mousetrap. Everybody tries to build a better mousetrap, apparently that cliche is true! Big picture stuff is kind of wonky like that from my studies, and I love it.
I haven't watched the 55-minute talk yet, but the 82 slides can be clicked through (ironically, the embed in the article didn't work for me on /any/ browser, but here's a direct link: [1]).

The slides channel an uplifting attitude; it's okay to try tools and solutions you end up not liking in the end; it's okay to experiment; we're all in this together, and the like. One thing that stood out is the inevitable reference to how JS is a multi-implementation environment and monoculture is bad, but sadly this is much less true now than it was five years ago.

Like it or not, this multi-implementation environment has coalesced (for various, sometimes bitingly valid reasons) around a very limited number of implementations, and that's just at the runtime layer; in the wider sense of environments that expose a JS engine and some APIs like Browsers or server-side runtimes, there's also not much choice left.

To play on the buffet metaphor, a bewilderingly diverse selection of frameworks, tooling, and quickly-spoiling userland shenanigans exist at the topmost layer, which is fantastic for user choice, but the Web APIs underneath are growing every year, surfacing previously nonexistent functionality in the browser that every website must then decide to ignore or implement. All the while, the language itself has exited the awkward 10-year stalemate, and is receiving yearly revisions with major features.

The meme that JS is an awful language needs to subside; the truth is JS is a now-mature language that is used in a rapidly evolving platform, whose APIs are hardly a bastion of stability. These days, that platform is largely driven by the whims of a single vendor, with dominant marketshare on the client, and a significant presence on the other end.

(edit: before it comes up, I'm aware JS is used in various, very different environments e.g. the GNOME desktop environment -- some of these criticisms don't apply to those, but then again, neither do most of the tooling and libraries. JS in terms of this talk does seem to mean 'The Browser', and not even Node)

[1] https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/key/ILjHOTLR...