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Many towns in New Hampshire with spread out population do not want to pay for garbage pickup. Everyone brings everything to the dump themselves. These people "self-uber for garbage" as they say.

Some rich folks pay companies like Waste Management to do it for them.

What's wrong with that model?
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In theory perhaps, but every explanation I've heard for how such a society would work has so many holes that they only work for a small subset of real-life cases, and wouldn't scale at all.

I'm sure it would work great for a small community of up to a couple of hundred carefully selected individuals, but I think anyone who thinks it would work for general society is a bit blinded by their ideology.

In the end, the only forms of Government that have worked at scale have centralised governance, and democratic Governments seem to be the least-worst workable systems.
Looks fantastic! Are there other bottlenecks, such as JPEG encoding and decoding that can be ported to SIMD code in Pillow?
> (USB is slowly replacing the lighter plug, but most cars still have them.)

And yet, that's just trading for different path dependence annoyances. 5V, 500mA limit (or proprietary higher-voltage hackland), and that feeling of connecting your valuable phone to a low-bid switcher? Airports, cars, home outlets - I'll choose the appropriate third party device every time! I just wish that car power socket wasn't so dildonic so that more outlets would come already built in.
> All other explanations say something confusing and obfuscating like "there are no photons". Many-worlds keeps it simple and says "there are photons

OK so far...

> and the reason they behave like that is because they're interacting with parallel universes.

No longer OK. You consider that the simple explanation? You don't think that's obfuscating at least as much as "there are no photons" does?
Easy solution: multiple IP addresses (one per user), and setuid wrapper to open listening socket on port 80 of the user's IP address and pass it to the web server after dropping privileges. No containers, VMs, or redesign of Unix needed.

Or put them all on different ports and front it with a proxy. Run only one MySQL instance.

Of course, containers and VMs aren't meant to solve this problem anyway. Containers are about deployment, and VMs are about virtualization/migration. Your customers would do well to use the former (for ease of deployment), and you the latter (for ease of maintenance).

Privileged ports really have nothing to do with this problem.
Gas is actually a loss leader at many/most gas stations. My parents owned a gas station about 10 years ago and one of the reasons they sold it and got out of that business was because competition was so fierce that they had to sell gas at or below the bulk price they paid for it. In other words, they effectively lost a few pennies every time someone bought gas. All profit came from in-store sales of other items.
Just did, check my comment above
I have zero pickups apart from household trash, so broken tv's, those bushes I cut down, or huge boxes etc I have to drive to the recycling place (15 min drive).

I'd happily pay for a service to take it there but there is a catch 22: as an individual I already paid (through taxes) to leave stuff. Companies have not - so if I pay a company to take my things there, I'd also pay twice to leave the stuff there as they can't leave my stuff "for me". If I could somehow give a transport company the right to use my free (tax paid) recycling/dumping right then this would work here. Without that, can't work for individuals. Would work perfectly for businesses though.
Last I checked, if you store an int in a generic it get's converted to an object which takes more memory to store.

So, the syntax is similar, but the actual behavior is not because int's can't be null, but Integers can for example.
This costs 8 ish bytes of memory.
Sure, so what's good about this is if we limit reproduction to those with the means to provide, then will be able to reduce the population. You mentioned "won't make a significant difference" and like, yeah that's exactly the point. If they are having only a few children and then nobody else is having kids, we'll shrink the population.
I'm not entirely convinced that MongoDB is better suited or a natural mapping to DDD concepts in practice, it's just more convenient for developers who want to build things fast.

My thoughts on this pattern are to still use a robust, reliable db (Postgres) behind a message queue for the event store. Postgres does almost all of the things I need with the reliability that I need while letting me sleep at night.

An event store absolutely must be the most reliable part of the infrastructure, IMO.
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You're the one equating support for environmental regulations with support for authoritarianism (which is ridiculous), so I'm not really moved by your complaint that I'm misrepresenting your views.
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> Just two or three users and the Pi will "choke".

Do you really know this? What's the limiting factor?

I've never played with a Pi and I don't really know, but I don't see offhand why it would be so bad. Interrupt-handling and context-switching times should be much better. There's plenty of main memory. The file system should be faster, running on flash. I don't see where the bottleneck would be.
Not really, no. These things work at scale, and it would be incredibly difficult to find a price that works for everyone without it also taking into account their income, or similar. So... a tax.
The sooner we get started, the sooner we'll be able to actually take advantage of it.

It's true that you have to wait a long time, but that's no reason to avoid it. SNI wasn't widely supported initially, for example, but these days you can safely require it unless you have weird requirements.

There probably isn't enough need for it to get the major vendors to start adopting it, though.
I understand that and I am an autodidact, but it's just unbearable the amount of information we need to learn to master a certain technology/language.

I have many projects at the same time and of different kinds, I am doing web projects, react-native mobile projects and I give support to older desktop applications. I am kind a jack-of-all-trades master of none, you know?

It's very difficult to improve like this because when I get home I am always tired and also I wanna have some life that is not coding...
There are companies doing exactly that already
Agreed, that pipes+json is much higher overhead, just noting that this proposed approach still isn't free.

> Let's get comfortable with what is good, rather than make what we are comfortable with?

I agree in the abstract! I just emphatically disagree with characterizing a C ABI as "what is good."
Using C libraries from C# or the JVM is very convenient, even today. There’s even automated systems to generate the entire bindings for the JVM, I’ve written bindings myself for a few libraries. You can just generate the interface file for Java from the .h with JNAerator, import it, and you’re done.
Schema migrations during rapid growth are usually of the ADD COLUMN type which is cheap & easy. Data migrations are about the same amount of effort either way. If anything, requiring explicit schema migrations forces you to think more carefully about your schema design decisions and saves headache down the road, as the article mentions Etsy (and many others) encountered.
But I already do have large item pick-up funded by the city or whatever. I basically never use that service and have no idea when it is. My standard operating procedure is to just put this large eyesore out in my front yard and eventually the government will come pick it up. Either that, or often times private citizens will recycle whatever it is for money.

So if this service rolls out in my area, I can either leave this large piece of garbage in my yard for a week or so waiting for the government to come pick it up, or I can open an app on my phone and have someone pick it up today.
Thank you for laying this out. Most Americans don't know this chunk of history, but it is essential for understanding today's world.
> stretch the definition of "unlimited"

You can't stretch the definition of unlimited. There is literaly no amount that would stretch it. If you advertise unlimited storage, you are bending the truth, since there is no such thing as unlimited disk space. I don't see how anyone can blame the data hoarders here. Where I live, if you advertise for something that you cannot deliver, it's called fraud and you can get sued for it. I just don't see why they feel the need to lie to customers like that.
Kudos to the company for taking onboarding seriously. Most places are abysmal at it. But then again, I've recently been working at places that leverage a lot of contractors/consultants to get work done. The attitude seems to be, "why bother giving them context? They are just here to labor and then be gone."
It won't even load at all on the Ice Cream Sandwich system browser.
Okay grandpa.
Sure you can, this is the entire point of service discovery. We've built so much crap to deal with the fact that web browsers don't resolve SRV records (and at least for HTTP/1.1 prohibited by RFC from doing so).
No, that’s handled by libjpeg which can be replaced by libjpeg-turbo but nothing else at the moment.
I'm running into this issue right now. I'm moving, but I'm kind of stuck with leaving the couch inside instead of being able to put it out on the curb because it's illegal to leave large items on the curb, but large item pickup also doesn't happen until next Tuesday.
No, the things that would have obviated the author's specific example were (a finer-grained version of) ip_unprivileged_port_start and SRV records back in the 90s, when the customs actually developed.
a follow-up note http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?159552-HYDROGEN-...

The Holographic Display.

It is incredible. It is multi-view (4-view) as compared to stereo 3D (2-view). Watching shocked faces light up when people see it is really motivating. There is no good way to describe it until you see it. Hopefully we will get some skeptics eyes on it soon… then they can tell you.

Our display is technology you haven’t seen before. It is not lenticular, which is inferior tech in every way, has been tried many times before and failed for good reason. (see Amazon 3D Fire, LG Optimus, etc). Lenticular display dramatically lowers resolution, cannot be turned off for standard 2D content, only works in one direction (usually landscape), has color crosstalk… to name just a few issues. My bet is that other “big” companies will try to re-package lenticular 3D displays with eye-tracking in response to our program. Don’t fall for it.

and the original forum post and thread: http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?159541-HYDROGEN
> version 2.0 could be upgraded to support things like ASTs.

That’s called "you can create an entirely new API that’s entirely different, but might use the same name".

That’s the issue here, LSP is so fundamentally flawed you’d have to scrap it entirely to support what is needed for a real IDE.
Idea is great, dying to try it out. The cost of getting 3d content has been growing more and more cost prohibitive every year. Does it export ot a fbx or obj format?

Interesting that it is a mesh building tool with a voxel representation.

Can you do any type of scripting or animation with it? So many things needed. I want displacement maps, and collision hulls, and ...
No, an example of a mental sick day would be someone who has been diagnosed with an anxiety disorder having a severe anxiety attack that prevents them from doing their job so they take the day off to try to recover.

Mental illness is a real thing, it is not just "I don't feel like going to work"
I find this topic pretty thought-provoking.

On the one hand, I think there's a lack of understanding from people like the author that there are people who want sex. I wouldn't call it a need (although if 'respect' and 'goal-realization' are needs, then sex is without a doubt: it's literally on a lower and more basic level on Maslow's pyramid).

And there's certainly a point in saying that an investor (investing their own money, not the fund they're managing) is within their right to refuse to fund a business if they don't like the founder's personality or whatever other subjective characteristic.

On the other hand, I see the point the author is making that it sucks to have so many people focused on this one thing irrespective of anything to do with the business.

It seems to me that the conflict is one of opposing values/needs. If (some) men want to flirt and have sex with every woman and this conflicts with the latter's wants for respect and self-actualization, what's the "right" solution?

On the one hand, we could just ask the men to sacrifice their want. On the other hand, we could also ask the women to not take CEO roles. When one thinks about the negative aspects of each possibility, the choice is not as easy as portrayed by any given side, I think.
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I found out first hand that getting my city to dispose of large objects (in my case a box spring) isn't a fun process. I didn't have the means to get it to the dump myself so I had to print off a request for a special collection, mail it in with a check for the fee for said collection, and call at a later time to confirm that they had received my request. More than a week after I decided I wanted to get rid of it they came and picked it up.
90% of Americans don’t know there’s scientific consensus on climate change
> - Learning to learn is not taught in school

that can't be taught, pretty much by definition. It can be encouraged though and that is done (by you right there if not in general).
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I'm not sure that flow and deliberate practice are mutually exclusive. The biggest example for me that comes to mind is working out. For me, deliberate practice during that activity comes in the form of focusing on getting the muscle group I'm using to contract as hard as possible. When the set starts to get really difficult and my muscles are full of blood and maximally contracted my mind is solely focused on that contraction. I deliberately practice getting a pump and when I start to achieve it, I enter a state of flow. When I go to the gym and have a good workout there is at least a portion of my workout devoted to getting a pump and forcing blood into my muscles. Empirically, my muscles have gotten larger and I've gotten stronger. Does having flow while this is happening mean I'm not doing deep work?
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You're thinking of it the wrong way. The goal is not to transplant existing Earth manufacturing processes to orbit. That's currently impossible without a launch vehicle powered by nuclear bombs.

There is no 20 Mg steel smelter in orbit. The use cases are very different. First off, you're not starting with coke and iron ores and ending with flat carbon steel. Whatever you make is staying in orbit, to replace something that would otherwise have to be launched. You probably need to make 17-4 PH stainless steel, with synthetic thin-film silica surface coatings to prevent vacuum welding. And where is the raw material--iron, nickel, tantalum, chromium, etc.--coming from?

You can't just replace an existing industry with vertical conveyor belts 5 miles high and expect it to work.

Firstly, the raw materials: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mond_process , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbonyl_metallurgy , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_vapor_deposition .

You would likely be reacting powdered asteroid dust with CO + H2 (syngas), distilling the carbonyl vapors, and depositing nearly pure metals at higher temperature. The purified metals do not subsequently react with oxygen, because that is all kept bottled up for other purposes. Now you don't need the Bessemer process or oxygen converter process, because the iron is already pure, and also you don't have enough oxygen to waste on it. Since you're already using CVD in high vacuum to build up your ingot, you might as well just add the alloying elements and silica coating right there, on the asteroid, before you fling it to whatever orbit you want it to be in.

Metal carbonyl chemistry works at relatively low temperatures, below 250 degC. You don't have to worry about toxicity if you don't even have humans on site at the facility.
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This is a nice correction for traditionalists who think modern world is a vast decline from the past.
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Why should they? If there are dangerous items to be disposed that 99.99% of the people on a given garbage day don't throw out, should the other people subsidize the disposal? Most residents are not throwing out things that need special care. By making the price more transparent, you can incentivize people to use fewer items that are toxic or bad for the environment.
Because it's utter shit. Why are calls DEFAULTED TO SPEAKER?

Also, it's not like it was good before..
how is garbage pickup fit with the on-demand model? How many people's garbage generation rate vary so much from cycle to cycle to make an on demand model worth while?
> This leads to the conclusion that "cuck" in its shortened form was popularised on 4chan or a similar imageboard, corroborating the argument made in the Mel Magazine article.

Yeah, this is true. I remember it being used as a generic insult (almost replacing the classic *-fag from old 4chan yore) maybe in 2011-2012? For a while I thought it was just a random word someone started using and it caught on - no idea it would get this "big".
Yeah, automatic doors are generally infra-red or ultrasonic though some of them can spew out a bunch of nasty EMF.

Cable tracing probes are not only good at picking up signals from the trace transmitter, they also amplify other types of EMF. You can hear a ton of noise from a keyboard as it goes through the scan loops. LCDs squeal at their refresh frequency. Automatic door detectors make a ton of noise too.

I'm not sure how close you'd have to be to the detector you'd have to be, but if the resonant frequency matched and you're tall enough to nearly make contact maybe it's a factor here.
I've played Pokémon Go quite a bit since it released, and I turned off AR mode within the first few weeks of playing. It's just a gimmick, and it gets old pretty fast, kinda like the '3D movies' fad.
It's not a bad idea if the quality of the gas is verifiable.
Not exactly tech, but Alb ( which I have) is back up in direction to 112.

AMD will reach 15,5 again, Intel has no answer till the end of the year.
I used this tool to create a 3D model of a rack deployment. It was quite intuitive and I finished my model in an hour or so, which was way less than using traditional tools like sketchup (I tried before and gave up frustrated).

3D modeling really is an area where VR is just way more pleasant to use than any other option, at least for beginners :)
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This annoyed me too. The author does not seem to be aware that case is highly important when dealing with SI/binary prefixes as well as unit abbreviations. If you don't even know (or care) that "b" is a bit and "B" is a byte, and you use them incorrectly, how am I supposed to trust your technical knowledge about the rest of the stuff you're talking about?
Just import the CSV into Google Sheets. Done.
> You seem to think that I'm arguing that collisions might be a problem.

To be fair, your short original post left readers free to guess at which unnecessarily pedantic point you were trying to make.
I'm a little confused as to what you propose instead.

Suppose I have vim, and the Rust compiler. I want to add RLS level of support to vim. I download some vimscript plugin, and what? Do you distribute the rust language server as a compiled plugin that you add to the address space of the editor at runtime? And if there's a bug, and it segfaults, then it takes down my entire VIM process?

It seems like there's some complexity in directly calling the code with an API too. It's actually not to bad to just open a pipe and communicate.

Maybe I'm missing something, but wrangling compiled plugins seems like it'd be a bad time.
Sad to hear - I have been on SoundCloud since their very early days, and concur that they seem to have lost their way somewhat.

When I first joined, it was a great place to share my music creations, and I enjoyed discovering other new artists who created the same sort of music I did too. There was always a lot of interaction and positive comments and I actually made some SC 'friend' in that time that I kept in contact with.

However, of late, I feel like I am throwing my music into a deep, dark hole in the ground. There are still the odd comments and interactions, but nowhere on the level that it was about 4 or 5 years ago.

You can actually see this from the stats on my channel [0], when you look at stuff I uploaded 3 or 4 years ago as compared to what I have uploaded in the past few months.

It will be sad to see SoundCloud go. For me, my channel still is a kind of roadmap of how my amateur music career has progressed in the past 10 years or so and I will never be able to recreate that on another platform...

[0] - https://soundcloud.com/cyberferret
On a planet with a surface ~3/4 covered in water, I've always just assumed since I was young that hotter weather would just mean more intense water cycles. Anywhere not landlocked on the wrong side of a watershed could stand to benefit from the extra humidity. Hopefully California can actually make use of this. There was recent rainfall the past couple years, but they have a long way to come in terms of infrastructure and also dealing with their eco laws at arms with building more reservoirs and other means of avoiding the fluctuating seasons of dry and wet.

It reminded me constantly of John Steinbeck on the drought cycle in the Salinas Valley, “During the dry years, the people forgot about the rich years, and when the wet years returned, they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.”

For anyone who hasn't, I highly recommend checking out the drone footage of the Oroville dam. The scale of destruction was massive, and rumor has it even sparked a tiny gold rush after so much bedrock and sediment was churned up.

http://imgur.com/gallery/mpUge
Couldn't find out from the article or the linked blog post - what were the responsibilities of the 173 laid-off employees? How many employees does SoundCloud have, and what roles do they have? Clearly they're not all devs - do they work in artist relations? customer support? content creation? marketing? etc.
That's a cute (albeit tired) quote. But it's not 50 anecdotes. It's an informal survey of 50 people.
Your workplace should be a refuge, where you charge your batteries and build sanity.

That's a refreshing perspective, I haven't thought about it like this. Indeed, when you're solving tough problems, you'd better concentrate at the private office (which is nowhere to be found, so work from home it is), and the workplace is the place where you go to discuss your difficulties with colleagues to broaden your perspective, and ask senior ones for practical advice. Makes perfect sense.