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"Are you a cop? You have to tell me or else it's entrapment!!" ;)
Elm's management has left me with the impression of a really smart, well-intentioned hellscape.

Searching for almost any problem I encountered, I'd invariably find two or three Github issues that were exact matches. These were, with impressive consistency, closed about two hours later with a link to some "Meta-Issue for Improvements to our Float handling" or something like it.

That issue, in turn, would usually be closed by some check-in that had nothing to do with my original problem.

Other times, the link to the "Meta-Issue" would get you a 404 because the compiler repository was merged with the documentation repository, and both were subsequently moved to the Elm-Lang project, then renamed to "elmlang". Oh, and feature requests are now part of project elm-future....

Elm is seriously nice to use. But it'd be twice as good if they lost all accounts that have admin privileges for the Github tickets.
If drop shipping are among the most difficult ways to make money, I wonder what you find easier? I think it's pretty high volume and low reward, but I don't think it's very hard
I'm 30 and I have no regrets yet but the pressure is quite annoying...I guess that some people just want kinds, some don't and some want when it's too late. I hope I won't change my mind...
This pretty much describes me too.
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We had a health scare that led us to accelerate our timeline (we had always planned to have kids). My wife and I had our first kid at 30, second at 33. The trend these days is definitely to wait till much later, but I can say that I look forward to having the kids fully grown and on their own when I am in my early 50's as opposed to my 60's.

That said as my Dad always said, there is no convenient time to have kids, which couldn't be more true.

Having kids is an amazing journey, but not for everyone. I totally respect people who choose not to have kids. With kids, at different times you will think it is the best and worst decision you've ever made. Lots of highs and lows. But ultimately it is very gratifying and helps you to better see the world beyond yourself.
Going through this right now. Finding childless couples in our area (b/w Dallas and Fort Worth, TX) that are our age (early 30s) is TOUGH.
Data portability is no big deal; you can simply dump the unformatted output of your SAR process. So if you've built the SAR process you've built that as a byproduct.
It's an interesting topic. We use Elm at work, but I don't work with frontend development so I don't have a lot of hands-on experience with it.

From following a few of those Reddit thread (the linked one and also [1] about a week ago) it seems like there is some growing concern about the BDFL-type development model that Elm is using.

From a casual user's perspective and as someone with a background in Haskell development, Elm appears sort of unmaintained (PRs being ignored, no new releases/updates/anything in a long time) and unfinished (there are many "Haskell-features" that Elm has no equivalent to (yet), which leads to developers writing a lot of repeating code especially in areas such as JSON (de|en)coding).

None of our work Elm code bases are particularly large (yet), and the developer doing the bulk of our frontend work is also a Haskell person by heart. We'll be staking out PureScript as an alternative, though we'd probably like to keep the idea of the "Elm architecture" alive there, too.

It seems as if the Elm team is currently doing what SPJ once referred to as "avoid success at all costs" in order to ensure that they really nail the features they care about, but they're doing it after already having started a hype- and marketing wave several years prior, which is leaving people stranded in uncertain territory.

We'll see how it works out ...

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/elm/comments/7zk0dy/is_evan_killing...
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In case anyone (like myself two minutes ago) has no idea what DINK life is, it’s Double Income No Kids.
Simple answer: Because the world is full of stupidity and I wanted to do something about that.

Complex answer: I feel that its important to continue the progress of evolution, and my personal life has been very evolutionary: I've lived on multiple continents, learned a couple of languages, discarded any participation in my native culture, and discovered that ultimately all culture is a lie. Cultures are a lie that persist only in the telling.

I've done a lot of fulfilling things in my life, and I've done quite a few stupid things - I too am full of stupid. I'd quite like the world to be a better place in 10 years, in 20 years, and in 50 years .. and one of the only ways I can feel as if I've contributed to actually pushing things in a positive direction is to have children, teach them the lessons I've learned, and let them loose on the world. Some would consider this an egotistical, arrogant, narcissistic point of view, but I do believe my children will bring something to the world that wasn't there before. At least, that is the hope.

And amongst all the crazy chaos and stupidity, when I think about what really gives me tangible hope, its children. Whether my own, or other children, the experience of witnessing a child learning something I've come to take for granted, and instantly pushing my own understanding beyond the curve with a simple comment or two that I would never have considered, has been enough to motivate me.

Children are hope, manifest.

Without hope, all is lost.
These are great questions!

> What's the advantage of this is over running, say, at Penguin scalably on Infiniband nodes if you need the compute?

POD gives you the nodes and a secure shell and you take it from there. In contrast, we are building a SaaS, so the hardware and the configuration of the model (from compiling the MPI libraries to running the model) are abstracted away. The user provides input (files for now, parameters in the near future), and gets output as a result. We scale in parallel also, but don't use Penguin under the hood.

> I wonder how weather researchers work if they don't have access to HPC facilities

Many meteorologists only analyze existing model data, and not necessarily run the models.

> is there something about WRF that allows people without domain knowledge to get sensible results?

Yes, in the sense that the output data represents 3-dimensional future snapshots of the atmosphere. So you don't necessarily need to understand the internals of the model (and definitely not the labor intensive setup) to interpret the results. It really depends on what you're after. If you study atmospheric dynamics, you're likely already a meteorologist. However an energy trader knows how to interpret temperature, wind power, or insolation trends, but does not need to know about how cloud microphysics are implemented internally.
I met the right person at the right moment in my life. Before that I didn't want to procreate at all. It was not thought through, it suddenly just felt like the right thing to do. Have not regretted that decision for a single day of my life.
> The maximum semantic size of a function that's still easy to read is much larger.

This seems like a really weird thing to optimise for - would you mind saying more? I've never found myself thinking "man, I wish my function could _do more_".

> This syntax is very readable.

Objectively, by any measure, this isn't true.
Presumably the eBay balls were probably homers or hit into the stands, no?
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Great point. I'm stealing that insight. :)

If you haven't met Chris in person, by the way, you really should if you get the chance. He's as affable in person as he is online.
I’ve had a Haskell program fail in exactly the same way, though - removing a debug statement caused a program to start crashing - even though the lazy functions were completely pure.

We had a numeric counter that was enumerating the frame number of a simulation. When we removed the debug statement, we didn’t realize that no other code ever evaluated the counter - so instead of resolving each X+1 into an integer, Haskell kept it as a ever-growing nested series of unevaluated thunks: 1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+... , and our efficient little program started filling up all its available RAM and crashing.
I'm gay, so having biological children is out. Surrogacy is too legally complicated.

I considered adopting briefly, but the government is so unstable in the United States that I can easily imagine an adopted child of mine being taken away.
I am a lot like the author (dual national, lived in both US and UK). One of my children was born in the US, the other in the UK. I agree with the author 100%. I would emphasize more the peace of mind that in the UK my family's health care is in no way tied to my job (I earn plenty of money and have never had trouble finding employment).

There are also huge societal benefits to socialized healthcare. There are far fewer desperate homeless people in the UK, because many homeless people in the US are stuck in that situation in large part because of some health issue. There's just a fundamental feeling in the UK that we're all going through this life together.
When I first glanced at this, I was initially dismissive --
"it's just virtual tracing paper," I thought, fun as a toy but not for teaching how to draw in an active way.

But then I thought more about how a big part of drawing is building up the muscle memory and physical coordination to transition from imagined line to drawn line. The Drawabox [0] series of drawing tutorials has a good amount of emphasis on this. Art tracing projectors [1] are a useful part of various drawing/mural work too.

This AR app actually intersects with some research I've been involved with in an interesting way. I've been working on using AR for surgical telementoring [2], where a remote expert surgeon can give guidance to a less-experienced combat medic by drawing annotations directly overlaid onto the view of the patient's body. While my team and I are now looking at using HMDs like the HoloLens, earlier prototypes used a tablet held in a fixed position above the operating field. I think that this AR drawing app, in order to move beyond the toy/gimmick use case, would best be served by deployment on a tablet that is held fixed above the paper, for a user to look through without having to keep a handheld phone still.

[0] https://drawabox.com/

[1] https://www.engineersupply.com/art-tracing-projectors.aspx

[2] https://engineering.purdue.edu/starproj/
Passion is the biggest red flag from a company to me.
It often means we want to work you to exhaustion.
And another point in favor of the NHS all my letters arrive very quickly plus a reminder via phone for apointments.
All of the recommendations are just manifestations of, or proxies for, the really important things you need to be a great developer: enthusiasm, energy, curiosity, dedication and thoroughness. In general, for most programming jobs, the technical stuff is unimportant by comparison.

I would like to throw in a note of caution to what's being presented here as desirable traits. It's all just trumpet-blowing and self-promotion, AKA advertising. The results obtained generally never match the level of noise being generated. Most of the really impressive people I have worked with have been very or perhaps too quiet or self-starters. These are the types of people you need to seek out if you really want to doing something worthwhile.
That's an argument on speed, not age. My argument on the OSes is that Windows 7 has more desirable functionality for me than Windows 8, 8.1, or 10 do. Despite being older, it's a better system; it behaves more in the way that I want an OS to behave.
Elon Musk has six children. Bezos has four. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs both have kids (though Jobs was a pretty poor parent by all accounts). Most of the CEOs, executives, and other powerful, driven people I know have children.

I think your instincts are off and you are trying to explain to yourself why it is ok (and really, superior) that you don't want kids. In reality, you needn't explain it to anyone, you simply don't want to.
One clarification: You choose the signing keys you trust.

You can also partially trust keys, in which case a given key requires multiple signatures (from partially-trusted signers) to itself be considered trusted.

Note the distinction between trusting a key and its signers.

Among core problems with PGP/GPG is the lack of a notion of a negative trust signature. That is "I am signing this key to indicate that I know it is not what it claims to be and/or is otherwise not trustworthy". That would be generally useful (and, of course, also generally exploitable in various ways, a common story).
If I'm being totally honest - probably a combination of "biological imperative" and "cultural values".

I wouldn't change it for the world, but it's not like we sat down and did an exhaustive analysis of the impact that it would have on our lives before we made the decision. We both wanted kids, so we had them. QED.
I still use k2 in addition to k4. Being able to see which things change and which stay the same between versions helps in the slow, thorough type of learning process. (I am not a fast learner. I am a thorough learner.) I would love to get a copy of k5 or greater but I am not a programmer by trade and doubt I would pass the audition.

Although I stopped using Windows, X11 and Mac a long time ago, I have tried k2 on Windows and it is extremley fast, irrespective of whether the computer is old and "underpowered". I used it to instantaneously generate plots and charts from the command line, instead of driving Excel with some scripting language. This is software from the late 1990s early 2000s.

RosettaCode wiki needs to fix its k entries or turn off the silly Cloudflare email protection or whatever is causing the problem. The "@" symbol and subsequent characters are being replaced by "[email protected]".

https://rosettcode.org/wiki/Category:K

k4 can be integrated into daily use in UNIX-like OS for text processing.

Professional example: https://github.com/adavies42/qist/blob/master/lib/awq.k

Amateur example: (remove all duplicate lines)

AWK
#!/bin/sh
awk '!a[$0]++' < $1 > $1.tmp;
exec mv -v $1.tmp $1;

k4
#!/bin/sh
exec echo "k).Q.fs[l:0::\`:$1];l:?:l;\`:$1 0:l"|exec q >&2;

Experiment: keep increasing the size of the file passed as $1 until the AWK version fails.
Ah yeah nice idea. However, the expansion we see is stronger when things are farther away. Gravity gets weaker at a quadratic rate as distance increases, so I don't think opposite gravity signs could be contributing significantly to the observed expansion.
Doesn't this just make the argument that having kids is bad for them? That doesn't affect whether or not it has a positive impact on the lives of the couple.

Also, this assumes that you ascribe to the anti-natalism viewpoint, which to me seems like as much of a thought experiment as nihilism.
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I think it was about $18 back when they did it here but the state EPA ran the centers, but I just think it's annoying and waste of time. One of the concerns if Texas got rid of theres is less jobs...

Then the inspections done by private companies, many of them also do the repairs too. So I don't trust them.

In California, they even have random smog checkpoints. A police officer waves people over to a mobile checkpoint. There's videos of it on YouTube. Probably only stops California plated vehicles though. Good example video: https://youtu.be/IDKuDzUImh4

I wonder how car collectors deal with this stuff if not meeting any of the exemptions. Seems like a annoying hassle, especially if you don't drive it that much.

My ears are annoyed when people driving play loud bassey music, the government should require all cars have a volume limiter and inspect them every year for $10 extra. Similar logic I guess.
I'm willing to admit the possibility, but I'd like to point out that half your examples are commercial products. There's a big difference in my mind between "get paid to work for someone on a product" and "volunteer your time for someone on a free project".

In particular, most business people I've worked for have been, well, let's say 'ruthless', even with their own employees. If I'm going to work at a company, I don't feel I have a lot of choice here. Most open-source maintainers are nice and reasonable (perhaps out of necessity), so if I'm donating open-source patches, I do have a choice there.
I don't consider them interchangeable. But the thread is about people's reasoning for deciding to have children and so I asked a followup question about a specific reason where I thought for that particular reason, adoption might have been the "superior" option." I understand it's a complicated decision.

That being said, I can definitely see why adopting a "troubled teen" would be more difficult than having your own kid. But is adopting a baby really that much different than having your own?
A very approximate proxy might be pets.
Google prevents Amazon from implementing Chromecast. That is why they pulled Chromecast devices in the first place isn’t it?
Exactly. Glad to see that many people out there still have their cool heads and see through the ideological nonsense and lens of extreme double standards that the mainstream government/media want to force upon their populace.

After all it's just ideological propaganda. Singapore has been much more "authoritarian" than China in many aspects. Regimes in Central America supported by CIA brutally kill their citizens every day. Saudi backed by the US wrecks havoc in the region. The media doesn't give a damn, or at least has very restricted reportage. They only want to constantly attack China because China is regarded as a competitor/enemy, while Singapore and Saudi allies. As simple as that.

In fact China is just rapidly turning into another US in a lot of aspects of the society. Xi is compared with Reagan for his pro-market stance. (Though he does indeed implement a lot of surveillance etc. as well.)

The west just doesn't want to see their old order challenged. But little can be done to stop the rise of China now. Whether the reforms of Xi totally succeed is still unknown. There are of course a lot of uncertainties. But China as a world power is probably there to stay for a long time. The better thing to do for the western elites/governments is cope with this fact and think of strategies under this premise, instead of trying to deny/sabotage it with wishful thinking.

Personally I'm horrified that China is turning into another US but that apparently doesn't have anything to do with the ideological buzzwords that those media so like to use.
With respect to your original comment about drivers being forced to drive or else they will starve, where is the fraud?

If I put up a sign that says "Sit on my lawn and get 3$/hour", and people see that sign and choose to sit on my lawn, am I committing fraud for not paying them more? I still don't understand the argument.
> You would still be able to pass on your knowledge and
> attempt to create a better version of yourself

That depends on how much you believe children to be a blank slate which can be equally imprinted with knowledge. If you don't believe in a blank slate, and believe that children are genetically similar to their parents mentally as well as physically then this doesn't make much sense.

Psychologically, I see a lot similarities between myself and my parents, and so I expect that when I at some point have my own children, my own experiences will guide me in how I understand and help them.

When I have children I will do so because I love my partner and would like if there were more people like her and because I feel like I'm a decent and strong person that should focus my life on more than just my own desires. I also know that both of our parents would like to be part of a larger family -- the people that you love, and that love you, generally want to see you multiply. Finally, I think that having a family could be a total laugh: it's great to experience good times together and it makes bad times lighter, too.
> those that constantly critique cryptocurrency are often so wrong about their assumptions it's just pointless reading on

People often criticize 'crypto' on the basis of technology, but are wrong about the market because the market is driven by psychology, and often disregards the tech.

Like, people might say "oh, so-and-so is vaporware because it's literally just a whitepaper and an empty github repo", and then people go "pfft, whatever you don't understand their vision" - and the value goes up 50x over two weeks.
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It's not "adults who live with their parents" who are shamed, but specifically men. For women, it's completely acceptable and probably even "proves" that they're more responsible than men.

Must be male privilege.
I always hated middlemen but as I got older and saw the difference between creators and capitalists. You don't see the 50% being spent to maintain the relationships that bring buyers in and interested in supporting the artist. Arts subjective, you can play the free game and use the internet but if you want a network of people that support galleries it's because they gained something from that gallery at some point. Also that gallery isn't free, some are cheap and some don't earn their keep but you get free choice and no known test to differentiate the honest from the dishonest but experience.
Context: My wife and I are software devs (C# / Java, Groovy, Pyhton, R), we chosen to have a kid at the end of 2014 after living in some countries together for 5 years, in 2016 we welcomed our first child. The first reason was that we considered our relationship strong enough to give an opportunity to a human being to be raised in a love home. We are very different from each other but always we try to solve our differences with several conversations, so we thought that a child raised with the ideas of diversity, dialogue, fun and social compromise will be a good way to improve the world. We are also considering to adopt in the future. The last reason was personal and cultural, in my family I am the only brother that decided to have children and I love the idea of teach alongside with my parents some of the important lessons that I learned from them.
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A New York Times subscription is $80/year (for the first year, and all future years if you remember to cancel/resubscribe once a year).

If you're routinely triggering their metered paywall, maybe it's worth paying it. Not for everyone, obviously. But they do give basically all that money to writers, and they do quite often devote time and money to investigate serious issues, far more important than dishwasher physics.
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What makes you say that there's no agreement as to what it means?

It feels like I see this sort of view expressed quite frequently. My guess is that it's primarily because people want a reason not to look to comply in lots of cases, or to dismiss GDPR. "How can we comply if no one knows what it really means to comply".

In many cases, the GDPR simply reiterates/builds upon existing data protection law which has a wealth of interpretative decisions and guidance. In other areas, the Article 29 Working Party has been issuing guidance on specific aspects of GDPR.

Yes, the GDPR is a lengthy piece of legislation but there are straightforward steps people can take and they generally centre around respecting users' data.