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Would be good to have prebuilt rules for eg material design guidelines.

Would it be even possible to test the material design rules across and entire page without having to define what individual components across the entire website look like?
How is it cleaner and simpler? It reads about the same to me.
> And many scientists have long dreamed of building bases inside natural moon caves, where lunar explorers might sleep safely in inflatable homes, protected from the storms above.

What "storms" are the authors talking about here?
By all media accounts, most of the migrants are from some of the most productive demographics (by age). So migration might be slashing poor countries productive workforces.
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ou get little to no benefits (that's the case for psycopg2 currently[1])

Yeah, this bit me on the backside using psycopg2 as an underlying driver for Pandas DataFrame.to_sql(). My hack? Dump the dataframe to a StringIO as CSV and load that instead...
Solar flares?
I read 2 books, watched a training video, and watched a Rich h. Video if I needed inspiration, but it didn’t completely click until I just wrote a small app in it. Just build a script in it to learn. Break your code up into defs and tiny functions to understand what you are trying to do and then put it all together into a function. The only parallel I have professionally is when I try to write very complex sql
Why do people do websites like this?

I don’t need to scroll through a half dozen “cards”, one for each page, just to read two paragraphs worth of material.
The article will be more accurate if evolution was not treated as a volitional choice.
Maybe solar storms? The Sun sends out quite a lot of radiation from time to time. Earth is protected by its magnetic field and atmosphere, the Moon and Mars not so much.
Solar storms, where the danger is solar radiation...same thing we're concerned might cause health risks en route to Mars.
Has there been a single person ever who has determined how to grow anything on mars?

We have freaking rovers there for decades. Not a single seed planted, not a single tiny green house or terrarium delivered to the surface.

We have spent billions putting robots on mars and we have literally nothing to show for it. And by "something to show for it" that would mean an experiment to literally show that we can sustain life on mars.

Have we even had a single person with the qualifications to state so, commented on this?

Until then, mars is simply an expensive cemetery.
You only provide the shipping address once you've been given a price quote.
most questions about titles can be answered with "for the click bait"
Thanks ;)

yes sure, it can be many things - and a repeatability of 2 in 3 is not very much... just some.

It can also be that as the original article mentions there are many causes for a bad cold, that my system worked only with a part of them.

I just get a bit upset with (some other) people saying my personal experience isn't a properly conducted study - it sure isn't.

At the same time, these studies fail every day, in the end they are all just statistics, which can be forged, lead to wrong assumptions, or just be flawed in a failure criterion not being thought of until now - like, oh, 30,000 cancer studies... http://www.sciencealert.com/more-than-30-000-scientific-stud...

But I'm not even talking about cancer - and I sure would defintely rather try fighting cancer with a "western medicine" approach that has some reasonable success rate and never recommend anyone diagnosed with such trying to treat that thing with a spoon of Vitamin C everyday...
Huh, yeah. Totally agreed. I picked it up for about $35 for the hardback.

I've got a category of semi-rare books that I'd put this in if I didn't already have it. The price bots on Amazon, etc. don't really know how to handle them, so the prices fluctuate quite a bit. I've literally seen a book drop from $330 to under $10 in a day.
> The "logic" of the system is NOT transparent nor generally known to native speakers.

Totally true, you often find people wondering what exactly the pattern is. A good language teacher will tell you though.

> A Scandinavist language reform movement tried to get the 20-based forms replaced by 10-based like Norwegian and Swedish have. With absolutely no success.

If this is a real movement, they need better PR. I've never heard anyone make this case. What's the point anyway?

Interestingly if you look at French, there's a similar thing with the numbers between French French and Swiss French. Soixante-dix vs septante, and similar for 80 and 90.
Why and when would someone use executemany() instead?

What kills you in this use case is roundtrips - send one row, wait for an acknowledgement (even if you are not committing it yet) then sent one more, and so on and so on. There is a lot of dead time spent in protocol overheads or just idle. A well implemented executemany() sends as many rows at a time as will fit in a network packet and keeps streaming them as fast as it can.
That is until you realize that Titan is basically at the triple point of methane which means you'd have to lug around a bunch of thermal-regulating equipment.
I'd be more inclined to believe your queries were just handled by different servers that had cached different sets of data. Seems more likely if you had different DNS settings than your friend, too.
Personally, I don't think that will really help. People care most about what directly affects them, and unless we're hoping Mars will have such a large colony that majority of people on earth are going back and forth between the two planets, then it won't affect most people.

As anecdotal evidence, there are plenty of places on earth where you can see the lack of trees and greenery which makes you clearly aware of how precious they are on all other places of earth -- but most people do not visit or live near those locations, and as such most people seem uninvolved.
It is a handicap but anyone paying attention can see that reactive ui and concurrency are becoming mainstream . Functional / immutable languages seems like the only sane way to tackle these issues. I started writing some Reactive JS code and wanted to barf when I saw what the code looks like .
The article is meh, but the video is brilliant. But maybe just because it reminded me of Oceans's 11 and the like.
and religion. We need to face the fact that religion, often religion exported by the west, is killing people in these countries. Almost all missionary religions forbid birth control.
One of my biggest concerns for habitation on other worlds is not what the author mentions, but rather interplanetary communication.

The mean distance between Earth and Mars is about 1338 light-seconds, or about 22 minutes. You wouldn't be able to have a meaningful phone call with your friends or relatives at Earth -- you'd be stuck with writing long e-mails or voice messages. That would suck.

Building a CDN between Earth and Mars would also be a technical nightmare. Especially for whatever data-hungry VR and other content we'll have at that time.

Everything else about making Mars habitable -- climate control, resources, food, water, medical, cultural, job opportunities, transportation, recreation, entertainment -- seems approachable to me in the next few thousand years of technological development.

The speed of light will suck. Unless Einstein is wrong in some way we don't yet understand.
If the moon had ancient volcanic activity and thus, why is it, after observable impact from various bodies - shown in the craters all over the surface, and the sumizing of the fact that water was deposited to earth from extra-orbital impacts... does the moon have zero water or atmosphere?

Where did water originate?

(I didn't know how to format that question any better, so please forgive the fumbly format)
I think anything that's part of the sales chain can't be dismissed as insignificant. Just because Amazon uses other technologies, that doesn't diminish its importance.
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> no earthquakes
No but how about moon-quakes? Ok, not geologically active you say. But moon's been bombarded by asteroids it's surface is full of craters. Creating a crater wouldn't that be an equivalent of a moon-quake?
Way to downplay the significant success of one of the most prominent magnates in modern history.

This blogpost certainly doesn't make you come off as a tremendous moron.
One thing I was hoping to see; building sqlite3 for Python with json1 extension support. I've tried a few times and gave up, confused. How hard is it?
Don't knock it, beans and rice is pretty tasty. I don't think many people in NYC eat quality food. If you actually look at the ingredients list for many of the expensive prepared foods, you'll find that they may well be worse and have cheaper ingredients than beans and rice.
There's some real niche to Clojurescript + React Native; one might even outperform a plain React Native app
I love go and write a fair amount of it but damn I’m getting tired of writing tons of scaffolding code I don’t really need.
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Then you get a death threat from an account someone set a few months ago to save for the moment they wanted to send a death threat.
What's to stop a decently trained net (think like Image net level) from spamming the hell out of this?
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It's fascinating how the GUI's haven't changed much since. I run a UI design agency (we work mostly with startups) but would love to collaborate with someone who's working on a (niche?) OS and see if we can redesign the UI. Open Source is fine. If you're working on something, hit me up. Details in my bio :)
Hehe Norwegians going to Denmark reads like a setup for a classic joke, to a Swede anyway
I'm not saying there's any malice here!

The interviewer and interviewee have the same core understanding: describe stuff about the person relevant to the human-interest angle about the interviewee.

What happens is as an interviewee is that you sit down with an interviewer and talk to them like you would meeting anyone, tell them about yourself and how you came to be involved in whatever the interesting thing that led to the interview. Then, you read the article in surprise about how they put some weird spin on a random little side-note or anecdote or made a connection between two things you said that aren't really connected. And it becomes obvious that they did those things because they actually don't know you at all and are grasping at telling an in-depth story about someone they just met and knew nothing about really.

Go ask anyone who's been interviewed this way. You'll find it common that the published article presented things in ways the interviewee thinks are weird, inaccurate, just confused or out of proportion.

The only real point is: don't assume the interviewee has any responsibility or desire for promoting themselves in the style of the article. That's not likely the case, even if it happens sometimes.
The article mentions the use of inflatable housing inside. Seems like a wise move given we have so little experience with their stability.

If they've survived this long, then presumably they are very unlikely to collapse on their own. That is, settlers would only need to worry about collapse cause by their own movements.

The odds of them being 'on the verge of collapse' are relatively low in my thinking. Unless there is some process that takes them to the edge and then stops that we don't understand. Otherwise, they are likely to have either already collapsed or be somewhat stable.
It is currently "illegal" to bring life to Mars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_protection
There is a good reading about greenhouses on Mars here by NASA[1], also this seems to (obviously) be an active area of research for them. There is talk of them trying to put a small greenhouse on Mars by 2021[2]

[1] https://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/livingthings/25feb_greenho...

[2] https://www.space.com/25767-nasa-mars-greenhouse-rover-plant...
It's closer to 22.5% in total. [1] But it also depends on specifics like race, location, type of bet [2]. Looks like a conventional win, place, or show bet has the least taken out of it

[1] http://www.calfairs.net/files/publications/14.pdf -- check slide 5

[2] https://www.scribd.com/document/84887435/CA-Authority-of-Rac... -- An Example for Northern CA breeds on page 10
Solar storms.
Looks like you didn't read the first sentence.

"Elon Musk is an amazing entrepreneur but as a World Savior he is probably the World’s most OverRated."
It's different when you're learning on your own and when somebody is teaching you. If you're a company hiring new developers, then you already have people familiar with the language to ramp them up. When we hire new people, we do some pairing, and we do code review on pull requests for features.

I also agree that it's sometimes easier for novices to pick up the language. I've seen students become productive faster than people with a lot of background in imperative style.
> It is said that driving is one of the most dangerous activities we do

In the USA cars kill a small city every single year: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d1/Motor_ve... This is roughly on par with gun deaths (which are ~2/3 suicides). Cars, not designed to kill people, kill roughly as many people per year in the USA as things designed to kill people.

And if you want that feeling of freedom, ride a bicycle. Not as "powerful", but it surpasses the "extension of body" feeling in every way possible.

That said, granted, the very layout of how people live in the usa is much different than in other countries. You guys have, compared to most of europe, vastly inflated distances between everything outside of city cores, making cars an evil necessity for society to keep functioning.
Another poised-to-dominate unicorn is Flexport (YC W14).
I'd say watching the full 4:17 is worth your time
https://youtu.be/xpj2x5s7DkM

Note, this is a parody aired by Norwegian TV, hilarious to anyone who tried learning Danish at least;)

Edit: on the same theme, how to pronounce any Danish word
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The race described here sounds pretty similar to a type of cache consistency race: Client X reads a complex value from a database, does some calculation, and writes the result in a cache. Client Y updates something that should invalidate the calculation. When Client Y tries to invalidate the cache, they don't yet see Client X's entry, which will then appear slightly later. Now a stale value persists in the cache.

The assumption is that after the invalidate done by Y, the cache cannot contain a value that missed Y's update is incorrect.
You are absolutely correct.
Speaking as a beginner, I find the pure lisp example easier to read than the one with the clojure literal syntax. I actually don’t like the []. I’m sure I’ll get used to it tho
When you hate a company, it's easy to make up reasons to hate their products, especially if you aren't worried about using an internally consistent decision algorithm.
Are people dieing en masse there or is more than half the food being provided as aid? I don't see how the title is possible without one of those as humans usually eat 3 times a day so they are earning <1/3rd of whats needed on average to just eat. You could eat less and still survive but that much of difference doesn't seem like someone could live through for very long
You can redesign the UI using Canvas, no need to do it at the OS level. It is hard to get past the standard WIMP GUI though, naturalistic UIs (NUIs) were tried a decade ago, but they were found to not actually be more usable.
As someone else pointed out, the <title> element for the post is "Saturn's Moon Titan Is More Compelling Than Mars As A Long-Term Human Destination"
It's got nothing to do with traffic delays. There are plenty of buses at each leg in my route. My specific problem is that I have to ride for 20 minutes in the opposite direction to get to a transit station where I then transfer to an express bus out to UW Bothell. But the bus from UW to my office isn't synchronized with the express bus so I either wait 15 minutes or walk a mile and a half across I-405.

On the other hand it's very efficient for getting in to the city, as I can hop on a single bus and be in Green Lake or the U district in about 15 minutes, and it's another 10 to cross the canal.
I love Home Assistant. I do wish that the auto-discovery feature was working in Windows 10.
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It's typical of Seattle culture to blame some incoming tech movement for ruining culture. What people seem to constantly miss is that before Amazon, this was a Microsoft/Cisco town. Long before that, it was a Boeing town. Seattle culture in the 20th/21st centuries has been massively influenced by technology culture. Anti-Amazon rants miss the larger picture.

A similar phenomenon is in San Francisco, where people argue that SF is some kind of hippie paradise being ruined by tech, although in the larger context SF is defined by a long history of capitalist conquest, and the summer of love was a small blip on the timeline.

The better mindset is to try to grasp your city from a larger perspective, and stop comparing how you found it vs. how it is now.
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Decentralized decision making processes are difficult, and this (through a 'human example story') shows the assumptions of state that can make in person processes seem easier than they actually are.

The solution of recording relativistic epochs for each voting member (name and 'year' (version)) seems like part of the full solution. An enumeration of current members (and their version) as well as a careful protocol for members to be modified (including add, remove, and increment version) seems to be required.
Ah that's the rub though isn't it. I'm up $500. Do I try to build it to $1000 and then walk away? Do I walk away now? No gambler knows exactly the right time to quit while ahead and the casinos count on that.
Take a look at Cortext https://github.com/thinktopic/cortex

There's a recent presentation that makes a good case for using Clojure over Python for ML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m6wz2vClQI
You know your article was worth writing when my idol, Sir Alan Curtis Kay, Smalltalk inventor, takes the time to comment on it!
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> What the fuck is up with this site Custom PC Guide and their "tradition" in "every article about Samsung SSD"?

my impression was that they were commenting on samsung's 'bizarrely sexist' (to use your expression) use of 'attractive women' to sell things like printers.

the so-called 'booth babe' phenomenon is (was?) a recognized trend of using attractive women for marketing. generally these women were contracted through modeling, marketing or similar agencies, and typically didn't have any understanding of the products they were representing. this is frustrating both from both a 'feminist', 'consumer/purchaser', and probably a variety of other perspectives.
You assume people who want to move to Mars in the first place would want to have meaningful contacts with friends or relatives in Earth.

I believe a selection effect (the desire to go to Mars in the first place) may prove your assumption wrong.
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As also seen on page 2 of "Ignition" with page 3 showing some other interesting rocket effects. http://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pdf
Right. I think my experience is actually hurting me in this case. Laziness is blowing my mind a little bit too. I’m writing run! A lot in the repl
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I have an original 2011MBP MagSafe charger and a 2015MBP MagSafe 2 charger. The cable on the newer is stiffer has yellowed at the neck and feels gummier. It has been replaced by Apple twice.

My old MagSafe charger is still the original. The cable feels very flexible, and the only discoloration it has is from being dragged around and stepped on.

Whatever formulation Apple has changed in manufacturing the new MagSafe has shortened its lifespan.
Externalities usually become obvious after the fact. The problems we aim to solve through our inventions are multi-dimensional topologies. Like tree, at any given point we can only see portions of it, leaving other perspectives unaccounted. Trimming leaves or branches would reveal deeper previously unseen parts.

The human brain and our tools thus far are more adapted to solving linear problems, so the higher the dimensionality and non-linear the relationships, the less we're able to produce determinist results.

I personally believe problems of this kind we cannot arrive at perfect solutions, only optimal ones. By optimal, I mean making trade-offs on certain variables so as to minimize total cost. The weights are also variables depending on trends of the epoch (environmental factors not such a big deal a decade ago, big deal now --> need to update our equation)

The other factor comes as a form of bureaucracy. It takes time to push the change through the chain of politics, re-aligning incentives, carving new markets and distribution channels, changing market sentiments, etc.
The moon’s gravity isn’t strong enough to hold water vapor or any other atmospheric gas. It would either get siphoned off by the earth or just fly off into the solar system.

The same is true of earth and helium.
I also feel this pain. The reward is high though (salary, remote, colleagues) so I remain motivated.

One also can help creating job market by

- starting up

- introducing Clojure at work

- evangelizing it at local meetups (e.g. hijack a JS meetup, explaining cljs goodness)

I've been thinking about the latter, as a consultant creating a 'need' for your services would be quite an accomplishment.
I recommend taking a look at parinfer as well https://shaunlebron.github.io/parinfer/
Keep in mind every (four?) years it gets close enough to earth to Snapchat.
Are there any figures on the minimum $/gram of minerals that would justify a mining mission (presumably unmanned)? Just can't imagine that gold, platinum or any stable metal would be worth it. Maybe high grade diamonds that don't need to be extracted from other rock. The surveys would have likely identified the presence of such a high density substance and we haven't seen any mention of it.

I know you probably meant in terms rights to the "best" cave on the moon, but I'm just wondering what happens if the cave turns out to filled with frozen water, for example, that would be worth its weight in antimatter (not quite) on the moon.
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Methane can be synthesized from CO2 and hydrogen. More complex hydrocarbons are way more difficult to produce. So pure methane based engine is a better method for using on other planets.
Dude you're just growing up that's all. You'll find the sandbox is also not as fun as it used to be.
> Hey, we spent a good fortune to make this site run on all devices, responsive and usable. Lets slow it down to mine *coin, we'll be able to make dozens, DOZENS !!
Who cares if it's not economical on commodity hardware, be it a smartphone or not. If I have a website that is visited by enough people to mine me a (part of a) bitcoin, while at the same time the cost of hosting the site is less than what is earned, what does it matter if the mining power is not efficient? If I care more about money than about environment, it's a good business model. But you probably need a lot of visitors for that, and I have no idea if it works out.