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> I think most people understand the benefits and greenness of nuclear compared to other forms of energy generation.

No they do not. Even in France the majoirty of people believe that nuclear causes more CO2. Another example is the impact of Uranium mining, there is a waste overestimation of the imact on uranium mining compared to the mining you would have to do for ANY other energy source.

There is a waste spread of misinformation about nuclear. Organisation like Greenpeace, Sierra Club have spent the last 50 years spreading misinformation with really very little pro-nuclear opposition.

> Yet it is also superficial to plainly say "nuclear is safe". That's obviously more complicated than that. Chernobyl, Fukushima (widely known, 2011), Marcoule (2011), Ibaraki (1999), WIPP (2014) etc.

Nothing is 100% safe. People say solar is safe all the time, yet it kills more people then nuclear by a factor of 10x. And that includes all the deaths from Chernobyl.

> Plus, when you think about the waste, it doesn't seem so green anymore. Maybe greener when you're throwing radioactive stuff into space.

Nuclear waste does not hurt nature or anybody at all. A lot of that waste will be fuel for nuclear reactors of the future. We need a small amount of long term storage, and the money for that has already been payed.

Its just a political dead lock that prevents a soluiton with practically zero impact on the envoirment threwout the whole supply chain.

> What I'm saying is, it's not a simple issue that "average people don't understand" Actually we see that average people pick most pragmatic options when economically pressed.

That is actually totally false. Avg peoples opinions are not right outside a 'wisdom of crowds' kind of knowlage. If you have bias then the avg people are wrong. The dangers of radiation and/or nuclear waste are a perfect example.

The relative fear of nuclear vs coal. Coal plants, if they were nuclear, culd not operate because they are to radioactive.

Regulation exist for a reason, but that does not mean that they are not harmful, self-contradicting or efficent.

Your blue-eyed view about government processes is contradicted by political sience.
> lots of militant atheists on this site I see, wielding that downvote button rather than engaging in substantive argument

If you want substantive argument you have to start off with a position that is ground in something that could be reasonable. Your position is starting out by extrapolating god from the fact that someone made a wild guess about the number of stars in the sky. That does not seem to invite substantive argument, it merely proves that you have a tendency to leap to - probably - wrong conclusions.
I think the idea is that we should cater to intuition, and give everyone the necessary tools to understand and tweak it, but it's not necessary to do good. To the average people, appreciating the bus brings much less utility than being able to take the bus. Should we not have the bus just because people can't appreciate the combustion engine?

But then, of course, intuition is more useful for some people. For those people, no one is stopping you from digging into the engine itself. This is really the price discrimination idea applied to utility: offering a cheaper, easier to use interface (taking the bus) means now the bus is useful not only to the engineers, but the passengers as well.

The situation about computing is not really that much different. If you want to learn the internal of computers, Gentoo exists, feel free to use it. But should everyone use Gentoo? Not really. I'm probably more proficient in Linux than the average developer, but I don't see the need of using Gentoo myself either.

That is not to say we can't do better either. The signature design for SQLAlchemy is leaking abstractions (but in a good way). The average dashboard for a car today is way more complicated than the dashboard of a car 70 years ago. Yet, that's not stopping car ownership to grow. Maybe there's a lesson for us somewhere there as well.
Can the US seize google.com at any moment?
Campus north?
OOP Is Dead Long Live OODD
Thanks for the link. Do you know if there is something similar for GNU APL?

Do you think it will be annoying to switch to GNU APL after going through this? I'd rather not spend time learning a proprietary interpreter if there's a viable free software alternative.

EDIT: Have started going through the tutorial using the GNU APL interpreter. I'll see how it goes I guess. 2+5 seems to work the same :)

EDIT 2: akt makes it possible to type the symbols without a special keyboard with GNU APL https://github.com/TieDyedDevil/akt
Do you honestly believe that self-hosting email is a valid solution for normal people?
even for sites smaller than Wikispaces, GDPR compliance can easily run into the 7 figures

Where on Earth are you getting this number from? It sounds entirely fictional to me.

GDPR compliance for small services is a relatively straightforward process.
I hope this doesn't become a regular occurrence. EU regs in this case may end up doing a lot of collateral damage, and possibly even (unlikely to me) more damage than good as a result.
When you're looking into the core of the milky way, it feels like seeing tens of thousands crammed in there.

As for the headline, if you travel all over the world and look at every visible star, you'll only ever see 9,096 total.
> anti-establishment, anti-consumerist

Can't help but feel there is something insincere in that statement, I mean somehow it seems like exactly the product of consumerist society to me (I mean the attendance cost, cost of setting up you "booth" (?) there), so I wonder if somebody feels the same/gave it more thought.
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A century of tremendous progress afforded by capitalism begs to differ. Anyway, I'm not saying free market capitalism is a panacea, but it's generated wealth and value for consumers in spades.
Was Al Gore for Darpa at the time? lol
Where on Earth are you getting this number from?

From the consultants I have spoken with and looking at the issue for my own company. Depending on what your service does, the process of GDPR compliance can be incredibly complex and involve rewriting a significant percentage of your code. Even then, you may not be in the clear because it is up for unique interpretations in the courts of 28 distinct countries. It is, quite simply, a mess. Maybe it's one that will work out to users' benefit in the end, but that doesn't help the companies trying to serve them that don't have millions of dollars to spend on compliance.
To be fair, it makes no sense for the company to allow any desktop on Linux. The desktop wouldn't have the centralized authentication, the system updates, office or the drivers for the printer that are well integrated only on their windows machines.
Does sprint even count as a provider? The size of the players must matter? If you have 4 players and 3 are there in name only, surely that can't still be true?
The burn just before impact is very short. It is designed to ensure there are no injuries, but not to make the landing feather soft. I don't know what the technical restrictions are that motivate this, but I'm sure the design choice is deliberate; the Soyuz landing is very similar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l7MM9yoxII&feature=youtu.be...
Also, http://scihub22266oqcxt.onion/ is down. And there's no mention of an onion link on the Sci-Hub website. I wonder what's up.
You just throw aphorisms around, with no elaboration whatsoever.

You answered neither to my nor your immediate parent's post.
That used to be one of archive.is IPs but not since feb. Definitely worth a pull request.

[edit] adding screenshot from passive dns lookup https://m.imgur.com/a/uW9eL2h
Which one? Every citizen can have one too.
Only one of the domain/wildcard pairs listed in Sci-Hub's certificate actually works for me right now. It's probable the certificate was revoked not because some publisher threatened legal action against Comodo, but because Sci-Hub no longer controls some of the domains listed in their certificate. If this is the case then they would be able to get a new certificate for free with those names removed.

I wouldn't go rushing to blame Comodo for kowtowing to publishers' demands until Alexandra tells us that's what actually happened...
A lot of software developers are asked to code solutions to difficult problems using nothing other than a whiteboard. Given that under normal circumstances we use a computer, IDE, and the internet, I can see why some might opt to use spaced repetition to ensure employment.
Looks like an off by one error. I'm seeing this error as well for some of the fonts.
Nah, its just performing dropout.
Currently on front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16952665
Recalling a memory strengthens it, and creates new associations to call it up, so probably not.
It was a paid-for service, run into the ground with technical debt to the point where it's an economic write-off? Is someone at TSL Education going to be sweating about the due diligence they should have done?
Do you have some source for the EU analysis would love to read this in depth? Googling doesn't turn up anything related.
My role was a minor one. The last thing I pushed was a Wang tile layout system that makes the Crypt more visually interesting.

> Are there any other similar games (proper roguelikes or not) you've found as enjoyable as DCSS?

Brogue is the finest Roguelike ever made. By happenstance, pender was my neighbor back when I lived in the valley.
Does it cost 7 figures if you don't hire consultants?
Sure but network is not always LTE even with current phones. The thing I always hated about Verizon and Sprint is dropping to 1x. We have modern phones for Christ sake! On T-Mobile or ATT you will drop to HSDPA if no LTE is available which is more than acceptable. 1x is equivalent to “don’t bother”
I've heard of it happening in other companies here in Ireland, and our security/infra team at a large multinational keep making appreciative noises towards companies and concepts about locking down end dev user machines and having dev needed stuff happen on VMs. Luckily they've not got their way yet.
Surely this is just political grandstanding and nothing more.

The statement makes so little sense that either it 1) makes clear the spy does not understand the Internet, America, or Russia as the entities that they are in the real world, or 2) he is merely trying to make Russia sound good.

The internet does not belong to the Americans. If anything, the way the Russians have used the internet to subvert democracy and wage a new kind of war, I would say that if the internet belonged to anyone at the moment it belongs to the Russians! (using similar terminology as 'owned boxes' from the old hacker/cracker/scripts cultures)

And second, there is not one blockchain. If he means the entire branch of computer science and mathematics that makes up the workings of a blockchain, he's obviously a madman anyway.

I'll go with assuming the statement is meaningless grandstanding meant to achieve nothing but make Russia sound good to people who don't know anything about the topics discussed.
I feel like antitrust should like the merger because it actually gives hope for a third real player in addition to Verizon and AT&T. Otherwise the market is effectively 2 players and some noise.
Perhaps first practicing entity come, first served then? First with a legitimate interest in the name?

I'll grant that domain squatting is bad and not something we should want to enable, but it's also bad to automatically let the most powerful company win. If your name is Nissan and you own a computer store, you shouldn't have nissan.com taken from you because the car company is bigger. If your name is Mike Rowe and you thought to register mikerowesoft.com for your software projects, you're clever, and should get to keep your domain.
If the VM is on the corporate network then it’s the same as connecting an unmanaged device - defeats the purpose of locking down machines. Developer VMs should be on their own VLAN.
This seems somewhat familiar to me...
https://domainnamewire.com/2009/11/30/paris-wins-parvi-org-i...

Hopefully it turns out well for Mr. Frydman as it did for me (even though Paris still hasn't paid up):
https://domainnamewire.com/2012/09/17/city-of-paris-ordered-...
I think the key distinction here is unprivileged builds outside a container. Kaniko was aimed at an actually-quite-large problem, which is performing unprivileged building inside a container in a shared cluster.

This matters a lot, because otherwise CI/CD is a serious weak point in your overall security model. Especially if you will run PRs that folks send you -- ie, run sight-unseen 3rd-party code in a privileged container.

In terms of the OpenShift vs local development experience, we heard something very similar about Cloud Foundry too, so now there's `cf local`[0].

Essentially, Stephen Levine extracted buildpack staging into standalone container images (which now use Kaniko) along with a little CLI tool to help you make the local development experience more like the `cf push` one.

As it happens there is a lot of cooperation happening in this space right now -- folks from Google, Pivotal and Red Hat have been comparing notes about container building in the past few months. It's something we share a common interest in improving.

At Pivotal we have also begun closer cooperation with Heroku on buildpacks, which is really exciting. The buildpacks model lends itself to some really cool optimisations around image rebasing[1].

Folks heading to Kubecon this week who are interested in container builds should make sure to see the joint presentations by Ben Parees (Red Hat), Steve Speicher (Red Hat) and Matt Moore (Google).

Disclosure: I work for Pivotal.

[0] https://github.com/cloudfoundry-incubator/cflocal

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsNY4OP3IrE
Yes, that is sad, but very common, unfortunately.

In the place I'm currently working at we have Windows behind Cisco VDI, we have to have Cntlm proxy running (all traffic goes through it).

Last week I got an email from Security team because I installed Decentraleyes addon for Firefox. Apparently, it's not allowed and is a security breach.
I'm building the API for my side project on StdLib, and the experience has been great so far, for many of the reasons you mention - so thank you!

For comparison, I'm also building part of the backend on Webtask [1], which provides similar functionality to StdLib (i.e., serverless Node.js functions). Webtask is also very nice to use, but I find StdLib more suited to shipping a public-facing service.

[1]: https://webtask.io/
Many banks use thin clients that just log you on to a VM running on a rack mounted box somewhere. There’s a very good chance this fella has never even seen the physical hardware their system is running on. There’s also a very good chance they’re sharing the hardware with other users as well.
I would say you `never never subclass` most of the time its just proves your design is turning into a taxonomy. You really don't need classes for a OOP language, its just simply a convention that developers use that is convenient.
Thanks for sharing. Looks like anywhere from 2-10% could be reasonable. Even if it's 2%, that's almost $50B a year. There isn't just one problem in healthcare; we'll need to solve multiple problems.

FTR, I think my original post did have several points that pertained to nonemergency care as well.
Did you mean Linux on a desktop?

Umm, you can do all of those things with Linux... I can't remember the last time I had any issues with printing on Linux at all.
I doubt this had much to do with GDPR given the advanced shutdown notice Wikispaces have given, which means their service will still be active long after GDPR comes into effect. If GDPR was an issue then they'd have released this notice last year instead.

> The timing is likely not a coincidence.

Online services shutdown all the time. I appreciate it's human nature to find patterns but this doesn't strike me as one of those occasions it's warranted.
...where do you work?
It wasn't on the list, but this is my favorite translation:

https://terebess.hu/english/tao/gia.html
>> lots of militant atheists on this site I see, wielding that downvote button rather than engaging in substantive argument

> If you want substantive argument you have to start off with a position that is ground in something that could be reasonable.

Thanks for saving me the trouble of having to explain this. :P
Getting that domain probably wasn't dirt cheap either. Kudos for the commitment.
Total grandstanding. The block chain is from everywhere. Nobody even knows where Satoshi, its inventor, is actually from though US, EU, or Japan seem most likely.
I've noticed that a lot of news and media pieces (including this one) refer to "the" blockchain, which could easily be interpreted as meaning there is only one.
Curious how fast/stable Ruby->wasm is on the frontend. I had a horrible experience with scaling a large rails app, but the usage patterns for server vs client are very different.

I haven't played with wasm yet and am waiting a bit for a "best language" consensus to emerge. If I was to bet on a winner, my money wouldn't be on Ruby, but I've been wrong many times.
I'm so unhappy that this isn't real. The amount of competitive trolling I could do with this...

Sigh
StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations
MfBe is lowkey easier than MiBe, at least when I was playing.

Looks like my last win was 5 years ago, wow!

http://crawl.akrasiac.org/scoring/players/danharaj.html
Too bad this website is a little broken on a large screen. https://screenshots.firefox.com/mBWI8eKC7tz6BSmL/www.daoisop...
Post isn’t really trying to make its case, it’s just trying to be funny.
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I like this advice. Much of the top-voted ones are quite ... somber (not to mention with familistic bias).
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This is something I've had to consider a lot in the design of EnvKey[1] (a config/secrets manager). I agree that refusing root access on your own machine seems like it's going too far in most cases, but where's the line?

For example, EnvKey makes it easy to only give a developer access to development/staging config so that if someone only needs to deal with code and not servers, they'll never see production-level config.

Could that get in the way sometimes? Sure. If for whatever reason someone who's normally a pure dev needs to step into ops for a bit, they'll have to ask for upgraded permissions to do so, which could certainly be seen as annoying, and could make someone feel less trusted than he or she would like to be. On the other hand, giving production secrets to every dev undeniably increases the surface area for all kinds of attacks, and I think that even small startups would be well-served by moving on from this as soon as they can.

I think the key distinction to make is between real security and security theater. As a developer, I'm willing to give up a little trust and a little efficiency if the argument for why I'm doing it seems valid, but if I'm being asked to jump through extra hoops without any clear benefit attached, I'll probably resent it. So for me, the most relevant question to ask the OP (or a company that wants to implement this) is what's the threat model? What exact attack scenarios is this protecting against? Are those realistic enough to justify the extra hoops?

1 - https://www.envkey.com
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Not just on compute farms in enterprises; in academia as well.
Yes, apparently all we need to do is wait 2000 years for people to understand PKI.
> GDPR compliance can easily cost 7 figures

That's just bullshit. GDPR compliance isn't a thing you can get accredited for in the first place and besides that any company that (1) respects their users and their data and (2) has proper security in place is most likely going to already be mostly compliant before they even start.

If you're into adtech and your hobby is to try to find exactly what is and isn't legal then yes, it will cost you but for a normal business that acts in good faith you are looking at much more modest figures than the one you quote.
Depends. If you happen to be both a lawyer that is well versed in the laws of all 28 EU countries, who can divine how each country will interpret and enforce the law, and also a coder with lots of time on your hands to implement in code what you hope is the correct interpretation of these laws, you may be able to do it for free. Most companies don't have a person like this though, and need to rely on outside experts for one or both of these.
> People in their 20s and 30s now will regret not stamping out ageism when they hit their 40s and 50s, as they inevitably will

The problem is, everyone in their 20s and 30s assumes they'll be gazillionaires by the time they're 40, because of course they're brilliant and hard work always pays off! Ageism is only a factor if you're not smart enough to make a billion by the time you're facing it.
What it means is that they have let their technical debt accrue to the point where they feel the only way forward is too costly to justify the work. It happens to 'cash cows' that are only milked but not fed. Eventually the cow dies of malnutrition.
Sorry to intrude! I’ll be more careful in the future.
>The cleanliness and "refactorability" of my code improved significantly when I drastically reduced the amount of subclassing I was doing.

>I wouldn't go so far to say "never subclass", but I'd say most of the time, you won't need to subclass.

Yeah, I would agree with that. A lot of OOP mechanisms like inheritance, or design patterns, get overused a lot. I'm not saying it's what you were doing, but I've seen it mostly in code written by newish programmers. It seems that once the concepts of OOP click in their mind, they get excited and eager to put them to work, so they use them where they're not really appropriate. I was definitely guilty of that, way back in the day. But once the novelty wore off, and I realized that I was just creating over-architected messes, I quit doing it.