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Historically in natural systems when there are large changes in the environment, such as deforestation, salination of waterways or introduction of more a more successful niche occupant you see massive die off of the apex species.

In this case there are 8 billion members of the apex species. Humans will survive, but it's not going to be much fun until the new normal emerges.

Technology will help, but it will only cushion the fall, not prevent it, and only if we react quickly enough to reduce the impact. When enough people start starving they will start looking for food and water wherever they can find it, and they won't be very charitable towards those who they believe caused the problem.
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I have always been amused by the "C" locale. It always seemed like some standards writer punting on a hard problem.

As for the article I agree 100%. The way Unix Locales work always seemed like a horrible hack that did nothing but break programs to me. Granted, as an English speaker I was never the target audience, but even for the people they were supposed to help it seemed to make more problems than solutions.
If you wanna go that route, the value created or destroyed by a change in laws never belonged to the owner in the first place, and any increase in value created due to zoning should have been recuperated via a land tax.
I agree. The user behavior has already been developed. And Uber doesn't have any special user loyalty. There is no reason for users to not try another app.

If the tech is indeed safer vs human, it would also have an added benefit of not having safety risks similar to Uber where some Uber drivers have assaulted their riders.
Georgia 400 is a limited access highway with a 65 mph speed limit that retains that speed limit after turning into a traffic light controlled motorway.
There is no future for Uber without automated cars. Think of it this way: as soon as someone else has an automated fleet, Uber is finished unless it has its own. This is an existential requirement.
Awesome, thanks. I find those quite entertaining.
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> Since Pandas probably doesn’t do this out of the box

It does, use df[column_name].str.split(expand=True), where df is your DataFrame.
There is a saying "If a problem can be fixed by throwing money at it, it is not a problem, it is expenses". Currently Tesla is burning money at an industrial scale and still struggling, which does not suggest their problems being merely expenses. Hiccups in production chain tend to propagate

Yes, Tesla not revealing the semi would be PR equivalent of acknowledging deep problems. But revealing does not prove they will be shipping relevant numbers in relevant timeframe either.
Or don't RSVP at all, then still show up. In my experience, far more people don't bother RSVPing than do. RSVPing seems to be a dying skill.
I had pipe symbols in URLs. Will it split only on the first pipe symbol?

Edit: nevermind, it does do that (https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/generated/panda...)
This and I would go one step further: visual programming tools are like GUIs and they are the main reason that people can't code nowadays.

When I switched back to a shell after 20 years I realized how much a GUI hurts, how much I unlearned to work with computers. After decades of Windows and OSX, I got Arch with i3 (so no desktop environment). I am mainly using text-based software like the shell, bash, tmux and vim every single day. Then, it's a very small step to program or to get a programmer because you are already programming in little steps here and there and every day (bash scripts, vim macros, etc.) and you deal all the time with text.

Visual tools don't teach you to code, they introduce an unnecessary layer and create an even bigger insecurity when dealing with real code. Real coding with text is quite easy—and this should be the actual message. A very good example for an educative text-based coding environment which is even functional is Logo. But again, the best way to get into coding is to get an OS on your personal computer which focuses on the shell.
Goto in JavaScript?! it's like Ebola++
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You're also avoiding the inherent manipulation of advertising itself.

But yes, the dynamics are a tad bent.
I'm surprised they didn't do this already.
Very unfortunate but true. Here’s to hoping atleast this time would be different.
We need to look past the “If it’s India it has to be ridiculously cheap” factor. Everytime the Indian Space Agency reports an achievement, I always look for the “done for the first time, learnt about X” than the “look, I have done the common Space thing at 1/10th of the cost”. I wonder what all the talented ISRO would achieve if they had resources in the scale of NASA...
Got a link to read more about boulder?
Musk loses credibility each time he stokes the 'I want it now' fires with unrealistic promises that he is unable to fulfill. We are impatient but he shares a large amount of the blame for creating these expectations.
So don't buy an apple phone.
But Bubble doesn't seem like an Excel but more powerful.
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Thank you (and @marcoperaza) for unpacking things a bit. I was mostly unaware of the sideband technologies that go along with the basic tag and attribute structure, and your comments about the community and "guilt by association" got me thinking about library support and other practicalities which I hadn't been considering. Thanks :)

This also got me reading up on various structured-data formats: XML, YAML, JSON, TOML, HCL, etc. I'd really like some big table comparing various features but can't seem to find anything of the sort.

I found a link [0] that has comparisons between JSON, TOML and YAML representations for various types of data. It's neat to see how each becomes more or less verbose depending on the kind of data getting encoded.

[0]: https://gohugohq.com/howto/toml-json-yaml-comparison/

edit: I found a table:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_data_serializati...
> For example, theorems such as the Kochen-Specter theorem [23] (essentially, a generalization of EPR with three particles) imply that during its quantum evolution no ”classical” variables can fully describe the probabilities of a quantum system

[...] while preserving these other properties we assume must hold, but don't really know for certain do actually hold.
I know a guy (with BA in physics) who almost aced the LSAT going in cold (i.e. had never seen a practice test), on a dare, without any intention of becoming a lawyer. At some point a decade ago I was vaguely curious to try the same, but not curious enough to overcome laziness and actually sign up for the test (and nobody dared me).

My impression is that people who spend a lot of time thinking critically about text, have a solid understanding of grammar, and have done lots of logic puzzles (say, work through Smullyan’s books for fun) and other mathematics problems tend to do pretty well without any specific training.

One reason many Americans have trouble with tests like the LSAT is that we spend very little time or effort up through high school on solving real math problems (as compared to trivial mechanical exercises), with the result that students’ technical reading comprehension and critical thinking also tends to be pretty poor. See e.g. http://www.de.ufpe.br/~toom/travel/sweden05/WP-SWEDEN-NEW.pd...
My wife and I have seven children. So 9+ around the dinner table is apparently not the preserve of only the rich or the elderly.
Yea I thought this was an ad tbh.
> stay completely in the browser [focusing on] ...their initial goal

I believe this is worthwhile long range target that we can build up to on solid foundation, such as component oriented software. As the pieces come together, the harder fought wins that use and prove its foundation early on will pay off greater, later.
>>both individual interviewers and companies as a whole are often afraid of hiring candidates who know more or are more skilled than themselves.

Reminds of me of an experience a few years back, where I aced one round, in the next there is this guy who comes along, asks questions. He got very angry everytime I gave a correct answer to his questions.

Its almost like he was looking for an excuse to fail me, and wasn't getting one.
Wait, wrong thread?
When you fly into HKG - they pretty forcefully make you take off any confusing items that obscure your face (specifically hats) when walking away from your gate.

Pretty obvious what they're doing.
It can work if you can rely on the team members. How can we contact you?
As a Bay area home owner, I will stop being NIMBY when I see housing advocates accept that schools, parks, roads and retail must see consistent investment also.

So far I see a lot of advocacy for housing density but no concerns for quality of life.

More units will just mean more new residents...developers have no obligation to build to serve existing residents.

If we build 100k new units now, that is just another 100k new residents who will suffer abysmal traffic.
> It is not our knowledge about the "true state" of things, because of course there is no single true state

That's a biased statement. There is more than one interpretation of QM in which your statement is completely incorrect. The math isn't telling you there is no state, that's a property you've assigned to the math given an interpretation. The paper's analogy to the Monty Hall problem would make perfect sense given another interpretation.
"Antivirus is the ultimate back door," Blake Darche, a former N.S.A. operator and co-founder of Area 1 Security. "It provides consistent, reliable and remote access that can be used for any purpose, from launching a destructive attack to conducting espionage on thousands or even millions of users."

Humble opinion: s/Antivirus/Automatic updates/

Perhaps antivirus were in fact an early experiment to test the feasbility of automatic software updates.

I recall many years ago, pre-smartphone, users being advised to leave their computers online 24/7 "so antivirus could download updates". Yikes.
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Just like that time when you bought property thinking you could control all of your adjacent surroundings through zoning policy, only to find out that you didn’t get that in the deed. Super foolish.
> The landscape is full of thick trees that have set down roots for decades. Bats, deers, and monkeys, seemingly comfortable with the few thousand bicycle-riding students, academics, and staff on campus, are easy to spot. The air, thanks to a recent bout of rains in Chennai, is as good as a hill station

In addition to the above description, a picture should have been inserted above or below the paragraph.
I am not a copyright lawyer so when I say I don't fully understand the implications of a particular license that's all I mean. I would say exactly the same of thing of other licenses I've used such as the 3-Clause BSD License, the Apache License and the MIT License. I understand what they're for and broadly how they may be applied, but I don't understand all the intricacies and interactions they have with copyright law because it's not something I have deeply studied. Hope that makes sense!
Also slower and insecure. JSON is the defacto interop standard over the line.
The farebox recovery ratio for roadways is similarly terrible, gas tax is piss in the wind when it comes to building and maintaining road infrastructure.

Up front though, our federal government will happily eat 90+% of the cost for new roadway projects, resulting in said projects seeing ample funding, and older localities ending up with massive infrastructure they can't afford to maintain, let alone replace at the end of its design life (eg: when its starting to approach failure).
I agree. And I think Anvil is an even better "modern VB" than Bubble: https://anvil.works/
The free shipping isn't from the profit they make from their products, it's from the extra cost added to all their products that are listed online

What's the difference between the profit they make from the products, and money they make from extra cost added to the products? Isn't that just another way to define profit?
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2k USD is somewhere between a man-week and a man-month. Hiring a developer to just reimplement existing solution is prohibitively expensive.
We could build these things, but part of the "advertising host" optimisation metrics is "time to ad display" so the algorithms in use are frequently "deliberately dumb" for reasons of optimising the time involved in deciding what advertising should be displayed.
> And by that you mean the people who worked and saved to invest in something wisely to have that take out from under them?

If you purchased real estate on the understanding that no new buildings would ever be built near your land, you did not invest wisely, and it's no one's responsibility to protect you from the consequences of your lack of foresight.
Couple of great comments in the thread. Thanks.
The parts of the article you linked that are about how Card is sooooo right-wing, and so pro-facist, are pretty... insubstantial?

I'm attempting to write obliquely to limit spoiler effect.

But yeah, of course #2/#3 is the reason Ender's Game is so massively popular. But also notice that's not what the author thought he'd written (ha ha, so much for genius).

I mean, notice that Card thinks that SftD and Xenocide are the natural sequels to the important themes of Ender's Game, but 99% of his commercial audience (including me at the age when I first read SftD) thought they were unrelated and unrelatable, and preferred the Shadow sequence. But Card took over a decade to go for it and write the first Shadow book, Ender's Shadow (1999, 13 years after SftD, which only took a year after Ender's Game).

Ender's Game is pro-facist the way Robocop is pro-police-state. (And yeah, when I saw Robocop in my teens, I thought it was pro-police-state. sigh.)
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> Stuff like this isn't useful to people who are incapable of programming and is just a highly coupled mess that can't be easily automated and version controlled.

You might be right, but they're still making over $1mm/year in revenue.
Please take your uninformed cynicism somewhere else. Uber's self-driving division is one of the 3-5 groups leading the pack right now (with Waymo obviously in front). It is anything but a scam, and even a basic attempt to Google Uber's self-driving program will show you videos of their very real results.

Your premise that self-driving cars are just a publicity stunt for Uber doesn't even make sense given that the company has spent close to a billion dollars on the project. If Uber's self-driving program was really "just a story to get money and make the brand bigger than its product" they could have faked it for far less than that.
I'm glad you quoted the second point, as it combined with this part is what I think the EFF finds concerning:

> These agencies aren’t just collecting biometrics for their own use; they are also sharing them with other agencies like the FBI and with “private partners” to be used in ways that should concern travelers.

This is be big crux of it for me - that the data gets shared outside of the Government, and I'm honestly a bit iffy on it even within Government agencies. Already the false positive rate for many of the identifying methods used in such investigations is too high; a lot of research is being done as to the validity of most forensic analysis regarding fingerprinting (as well as other traditional forensic evidence) and how the justice system is not doing due diligence in their case research, is not being honest with their findings when presenting to court, and public belief in such myths created by TV dramas has dramatically altered jurors' understanding of such evidence.

Basically, such data getting shared out that makes it that much easier for law enforcement to concoct a case is disconcerting, to say the least, and I'm not even part of the population that would be most heavily affected by it.

If this was just being used in one agency or area of focus (Border Control/TSA), it would be a little less disconcerting. It's not great still, but I suppose it's better than the current passport system for figuring out who you are. (As an expat, my biggest fear is losing my passport and proving who I am in a completely foreign country, much less returning to my own country). To be able to shift my means of identification to something I cannot lose or have stolen from me would be very reassuring, as long as it required multiple live samples to verify.

But the fact that this information leaks out by design into a very dangerous world of Law Enforcement that doesn't care to make sure they've got the right guy is frightening. I've dealt with this indirectly as a certain State in the union decided that I was overdue for multiple vehicle violations, even though I had been out of the country for the last 3 years when the incidents took place; it just so happens I share the same name as someone else who is not a very good driver. It took a lot of talking on the phone and finding a way to fax flight information and passport stamps to convince them to stop bothering my parents with letters and phone calls, since their address is my mailing address. I was lucky enough to be able to tell them to "go fuck themselves" with indisputable proof that I was not in the country; others would not nearly be as lucky, that that's pretty frightening.
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There are an endless supply of rebuttals to the idea that a place could be more dense than it really is. They’re almost entirely provably false, but that’s not the point: they come from people who don’t like the implication, and they’ll grasp at any straw they can find.
Except that it does benefit everyone, which is why the Yimby movement is gaining traction at the rate it is. It just wasn't as clear-cut and financially painful to the average person until a few years ago which is why it took so long to correct.
Really? Free and open source software—in this case, an unencumbered ISA—seems like an easy parallel to communally managed means of production.

Of course an implementation would be far more useful, as it would be the likely target for lawsuits.
Coding with text is easy, but then why we there is a gap between getting a prototype/design done and the actual implementation? Text based coding is certainly more efficient in representing logic in a concise way, but the current set of frameworks and tooling on text based environments requires an exhorbitant amount of learning to produce a working application(e.g React), that's where the rapid application development tools like bubble comes in. In my opinion a combination of text and GUI should work together to provide the best possible efficiency for developers and other members of a team..
Resisting mass immigration to leach from your welfare state is not xenophobic.
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Ah yea thanks, didn’t know population for either of top of my head.
Mine are confusing. I saw references to a few things that could've been harvested from comments, some connected to companies that friends and family have used, and a lot of things that I think are celebrity gossip and such. Even the classifications that might make sense on their own were mixed in with enough noise that they almost seem like accidentally there.
Interesting. So, I understand that the grad students are not interested in the research. Are they writing papers on these "projects?" What good is a Chinese Ph. D. then?

Some European (Belgian?) students told me that, in their country, it was common to have an "industry-funded" Ph. D. (hence all the people I've met doing DSLs for insurance companies). I wonder to what extent their system is similar.
It seems like a lot of the problem is that, if you tell developers that they can build any housing they want, they'll mostly build high-end apartments because they can make more money off those. If you want affordable housing to exist in sufficient quantity, you have to incentivize it in some way.
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Ecological collapse will affect humans far earlier than 'too hot' temperatures.

The TL;DR versions of nuanced articles too frequently consider only humans to be significant. We're part of a big ecosystem, and the collapse of that system will inevitably take us down with it.
As a 6'4" individual, I've already stopped flying the major airlines due to seat shrinking. Been flying JetBlue whenever it's available since their standard seat pitch is 36". Nearly got kicked off a Delta flight once because "I refused to stop pushing my knees into the passenger in front of me." I'm sorry, but with the middle seat populated and not being allowed to put my leg in the aisle, my legs go forward - and there is not enough room to not have contact with the seat in front of me.
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If I invested a bunch of money in some company, and the company tanked, I'd be pissed off too. That doesn't mean I'm entitled to compensation for taking a risk that didn't pay off.

I'm not saying I don't sympathize with people who lose their nice view. That sucks, and I'd be sad if it happened to me. The disconnect comes at the point where you think your right to a nice view trumps hundreds of other people's right to affordable housing.
Stackoverflow Insights might help answer your question:

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I'd go a step further again and say that GUI's are why people have no idea how to use computers anymore. A file is a concept the average user is becoming less familiar with, directories of files have almost disappeared entirely for them. The idea that you could manipulate an image in a paint program and have it updated in your word document is black magic, so tools like word and excel have to do everything they need.

A story I've told before is my mum and the software that comes with her digital camera. This software is everything to her, if she want to back up the pictures she uses this software, if she want to print them she uses this software, she has no idea that the individual photos are just files on a disk. So what happens when she get's a new camera from a different manufacturer? Her knowledge is back to square one and she has to relearn all over again, this is what infantalising users has lead to.
> So far I see a lot of advocacy for housing density but no concerns for quality of life.

I see density as correlated with quality of life. I want to be able to live near work (so no car needed), with easy access to restaurants, bars, music venues, easy access to cultural opportunities, farmers markets, grocery stores, etc. Neighborhoods with these things are an absolute joy to live in.
Singapore's newest terminal runs fully on automatic immigration with facial recognition.

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Because of information and attention dynamics, I seriously doubt any stable altenative regime that doesn't look muchlike the present one will appear.

Zipf's Law, network effects, advertising concentration, ec., etc.
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I wrote one of these in 2014 after my boss called goto a mistake.

Goto is a beautiful structured programming construct, the fundamental structure it represents is a skyscraper made of wet spaghetti.