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So this wouldn't work with blues, but for browns, blacks, and reds you can always get O-rings to put under the keys. In college I played lots of video games late at night while my roommate was sleeping and once I installed O-rings on my MX reds he never had issues again.
"and a severe lack of toilet cleaners."

not a problem because we probably would have selfcleaning toilets by then by default.
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When you say you're not sure, are you saying you're not sure children could be confused like that? I've witnessed it before. Especially for very young children, it can take several repetitions of mapping a word to different depictions of an object before they realize what you're talking about.
> * The idea of having a simple standardized output would be just too onerous is absolute nonsense*

This complicated thing is already so complicated, it couldn’t possibly hurt to add even more complexity!
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Depends on age whether normal. For 5 years old, yes. For 8 years old, absolutely no. Normal 8 years old should be able to wait two minutes without being disruptive when teacher is focused on somebody else.

The kids who can't should absolutely get special help and assistance. However, if the healthy kid can't, then the solution is not to excuse it, but rather teach them patience and less egoism.
I wonder if this is regional. The Mormons I know refuse to drink Cola, but are fine with Rooibos tea and other herbal teas.
Lame. Requires liking their Facebook account or tweeting to download. Was curious if anything would work with LibreOffice.
It might be just what motorsport needs these days.

No meatbag in the car removes a lot of limitations introduced for safety reasons, so more exciting race types can be introduced, both old (group B rally, anyone?) and new. Benefits for consumer self driving tech are just gravy.
You can find apartments any time of the year, it's just that the majority are up for rent for July 1st. Moving at another time of year is a mixed bag. There's less selection, but so much less competition.
I didn't quickly find a definitive answer about the time the first neuron forms, but some brief searching around seems to indicate the neurons are already assembling into complex structures before 5 weeks.

So it seems like development of the first neuron would be well before that, and not a very practically-useful line.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_of_the_human_bra...
So his methods worked, but it damaged his relationships with his kids. Seems too high a price to pay.
I mean a society that is made to accept the abuses of tyranny in a narcotized state.

Quoting Huxley, in his letters to Orwell discussing the difference between 1984 and Brave New World:

“Within the next generation I believe that the world's rulers will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience.”
That's certainly part of it. I worked at a company a few years ago in which, come Christmas, the MD (British company) told everyone that it had been a good year and that he'd rather see the profits go to the workers than the shareholders, so here's a nice bonus (over a month's pay as a bonus). I genuinely believe some would see that as heresy, and some will think that is (or should be) illegal. I'm sure there was a time when a principal point of a company was for the people in it to band together and earn money.
Where's that useful? Options pricing? I have no idea.
I agree that the X220 keyboard is a great one, definitely up there with the best keyboards around. And I also love the last-gen mbp keyboards. But a carefully tuned mech can offer a great experience imo. I see it as one of those things where the costs outweigh the benefits until you tune the thing perfectly. As you said, nearly all mechs are stupid loud - and for no reason because key dampeners (the little rubber o-rings) exist - it's just that nobody uses them. Same with the material used for a backplate. These are choices that a lot of mech buyers discount or aren't even aware of, but they make a big difference especially to the people that have to listen to you type 8 hrs a day. If you get blues in an open office you are an asshole.

And for the record my coworker's Model M drives me insane.
No idea why they never caught on. I haven't seen a desktop keyboard with one for ages. Lenovo used to do one but now all they do is the actual laptop keyboard in a desk case and that's it.

I got an IBM one years ago when I bought a T22. No idea of model, it wasn't mechanical, but it was the best keyboard I have ever used. Mostly because of that trackpoint, the buttons were exactly where you'd rest thumbs under the space bar anyway. Tackpads and mice always feel second best to me.

Even the key feel was great (and I have a UK made Model M and tried a selection of mechanical gaming keyboards that have all been disappointing apart from the M).
Personally I think there are more people than you think who would be perfectly happy to clean toilets as their contribution, so long as they were compensated fairly for it.
The salary of cleaners would rise until enough people are willing to do the job or it is more profitable to install self-cleaning toilets.
lol, downvote once an irrefutable comment pops up. salty much you crypto zombie?
> "If you do better on the task, it would end sooner," Esterman says. "And you can get out of the lab sooner."

My boss never tells me this :(
IDK... The economist has a lot of great reporting on diplomacy, politics, threats to "free society.." I can't remember the last time I read a good economist article on economics.

When Thomas Pickety won the nobel, and got so much coverage, the economist ran some article structured pretty much like this one. All jargonized, cliched & euphamised language.

I'm not upset at the economist's positions, political orientation or such. I'm upset with the "Quantum Healing" style of pseudo-argument that is now dominant in their economic writing. They are using economic terms. They are saying sentences that are true, just not meaningful in the context. Then they flavour this with vaguer, more abstract sentences which sound more meaningful while being less meaningful.
A 5% yield is only reasonable for low-risk blue-chip equities. No one will settle for 5% with that much risk to their capital.
It seems rather foolhardy to presume that a teacher who wants order in their classroom is "incompetent".
I absolutely agree with you. This is a perfect example of superficial reporting. Surprised to see this from The Economist.
Seems too snap a judgment to make.
Toilets built by the underemployed pilots and actors? :)
But what's the range? Maturity isn't a hard line
This article really demonstrates how meaningless most economics reporting is, it's nearly as bad as markets/finance reporting.

The problem is not with the reporting, it’s with the field. Economics is pseudoscience. It has all the trappings but none of the explanatory or predictive abilities. So you get articles like these that use a lot of jargon pretending like they’re making a strong case, but there’s no strong consensus position reached here beyond the bare observables.

Economics can’t be a science yet. It is a branch of sociology, modelling the economic behavior of people, and we lack the sociological insight to do that currently.
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At the time, I thought it was relatively simple myself. I guess what I am trying to say is that the bar for "simple" was lower back then. Setting DIP's, using needle nose pliers to move jumpers and sorting out IRQ's was as normal as using a timing light to adjust a Buick's points. That there was a market for those Quantum disks (which I had long since forgot until now) existed because of that complexity.

On the other hand, back then building a PC was probably easier because there were far fewer choices...thanks to a combinatorial explosion of CPU sockets, RAM specifications, MB form factors and such today. And anyone building a PC probably knew someone who had built one, if only the computer store owner.

The analogy I'd use is that it was simple back then to the degree Linux is simple today: reasonably logical and well documented. But Arch ain't iOS.
This is pretty much how I was raised in a small midwestern farming community. I was in charge of the laundry by the time I was 6, and the lawn when I was 8 or 9, and summers were pretty much filled with activities that my friends and I could organize.

Moving to the burbs where play was organized sports and kids had everything done for them was a really big shock.

It was hard to believe how inept at life most of my peers were when I went off to University. They only things they knew were what was on tv or from school.
Man, that sounds like a business idea waiting to happen
im in, where can i buy this? where can i invest?

ah thats right...nowhere.

the problem is not the industry. the problem is the people who write this and complain about it have not taken any steps to bring these more sustainable cements to market.
We already have some for public loos.

They're somewhat terrifying cubicles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Fw9hxMCBdU
The median salary for software developers nationally is $103k per BLS. According to Glassdoor it is $104k in SF. Do you really think ordinary developers in the Bay Area are getting paid national median salaries to live in an exceptionally high cost of living area? I think even the least among us are smarter than that.
As a subscriber, I’d say this is very standard for the Economist.
> Humans can explain themselves. Many ML systems are not designed to provide any explanation, even poor ones.

In my opinion, the vast majority of self-reported reasons given by humans to explain their behavior are extremely poor, inconsistent and low-fidelity.
Allow me:

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I have an 8 year old son, and I think I do a pretty good job of being stern / enforcing rules while also ensuring him that he is liked and loved.. There is definitely a balance in there, "not being his friend" I think is too far to one side... I just don't let being his friend prevent me from holding him to a certain expectation.
Why would you use floating point math for finance?
It most certainly does not. I'd hazard that 80% of the population doesn't even know the difference between bacteria and fungus. They are both single-celled organisms and for most people, biology class was a long time ago.

It's equivalent to a terminology simplification that doesn't take away from the central point of the article.
There are two main points in the article: 1) incredulity that the company is attracting investment, 2) incredulity that anyone thinks it's a good idea.

I don't know anything about the former, but I would think the right way to analyze it would be to do napkin math on what revenue yield might be.

I do know something about the latter. Bird positions itself as a last mile type opportunity; you take a bird two miles to get the train or bus you were always going to get; you take Bird if you're a college student and you need to get around campus. This dismissal of Bird is a little bit like "I own a car and I'm not a big drinker and I don't travel, why would I ever call an Uber?" No one gives half a shit if you'd call an Uber. The question is whether you have the imagination to suppose there is someone else who might call one. Then it ends with the laughable idea that "Scooters are cheap so if there actually is any use for them, which there isn't, people should just buy some". The whole point with Bird is that you don't need to worry about the scooter being stolen or parked. Most of the controversy around Bird is cities complaining that what's convenient for Bird users is inconvenient for anyone else -- it's hard to observe that while simultaneously complaining that Bird offers no convenience.

Disclaimer: I've only ridden a Bird once and I crashed it badly and got cuts up and down my leg and arm and ripped my pants. Apparently I don't have very good balance. Either way, Bird isn't for me. But I'm not an idiot watching dozens of people go by me on Birds and yelling at clouds about how they're making the wrong decision.
> So as long as other sms gateways/delivery services are available, his dependency isn't "Twilio", it's "an sms gateway/delivery service".

That depends of the depth of Twilio-specific integration and the ease of abstraction of course. Author mentions converting custom statuses and the like.
> And the view of children as mini adults who could be useful, if properly trained, has been the default parenting style for thousands of years.

I remember reading a theory, long ago, that the absence of this is the entire source of teenage rebellion. Like the children from Guatemala in this article, it also said that this phenomenon pretty much only exists in "westernized" countries.

Basically, the theory is that puberty is when our bodies start telling us we're adults and need to take more responsibility/control, but society doesn't let us. So to find ways to take control, teenagers start doing things they're typically not allowed to do.

I'm in your camp: I never really understood why others did what they did, but fitting the theory, my parents did steadily treat my and my brothers more like adults as we grew up, instead of like kids most of the time.

One suggestion from their parenting style, that's apparently rare based on what my friends said:

Never give your kids an allowance. Once we were old enough, they started paying us for more chores/responsibilities; I got $5 for vacuuming the house once a week, my brothers each got $5 for mowing the lawn (usually split between inside and outside the backyard). Additional $1 for loading/unloading the dishwasher. Stuff like that. It doubled as giving us an inherent understanding of money long before we needed to work, rather than just giving us more responsibilities as suggested in the article.
I don’t think you understand how memory bus width is calcuslated or what it means. You are an order of magnitude off on the layer in question.
Unicomp makes model M type keyboards, and they don't use capacitive buckling springs, so it's not quite the same thing.
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Is this really so hard to figure out? Very few people would do things which are useful to keep civilization running if they have a choice. Look at what people do with their leisure time - watch commercial TV, play video games, look at nonsense on Facebook. It wouldn't be pretty.
I felt the same woes. My research found Pivotal Tracker and Clubhouse. I'd say the complexity continuum goes Trello -> PT -> CH -> Jira. We chose clubhouse and it has been working well.
64 bits already gives you 16 digits, that is enough for a trillion dollar to one one-hundredth of a cent. So maybe there is someone who needs 128 bits, which is part of IEEE 754 since 2008, but that then is probably enough to calculate the total of all financial transaction ever done.
I once watched the software architect at a company I worked for get called out on why he was choosing a certain design decision that was going to impact a critical component of the product, and he justified himself by saying he had a good feeling about it. When pressed further he could only vaguely and emphatically respond “I don’t know, I just think this is the best way”.

So this important decision was based on this dude (excuse me, software architect) shrugging and saying it feels good.
Okay, what does the bill actually do?

1. Switches the US back from first-to-file (which is the norm in literally the entire rest of the world) to first-to-invent. This is something that sounds like a good idea, but in practice ends up being more bureaucratic hassle than any sort of actual improvement.

2. Repeals inter-partes review, i.e., a means to assert "this is a bad patent." Note that SCOTUS decided in April that inter partes review is in fact constitutional, so I assume this is basically a change of tactics of litigators from "try to get SCOTUS to rule it unconstitutional" to "try to repeal the law."

3. Eliminates fee diversion. I don't know the law well enough to understand what exactly it's trying to do here.

4. Overturn most of the recent SCOTUS §101 decisions of the past decade (e.g., Bilski, Alice). It's debatable if this is actually possible, though--these decisions didn't rest on "well, they're not actually authorized by law" as much as "it's been well-agreed by common sense that these things can't be patented."

5. Explicitly declares patents as "private property rights." This calls into mind the argument in Oil States, that the government can't revoke these kinds of rights without means of a court (which, if they had been private rights, would have made inter partes review unconstitutional). But I again wonder if it's actually within Congressional power to make this kind of declaration.

6. Stops patent applications from being published automatically. Because publishing patent applications creates prior art, and that would retard innovation. No, seriously, that's the literal argument in the text of the bill itself.

7. In legal cases, the defendant would now have to argue that the patent is invalid, that each individual claim is invalid (even if the claim depends on an invalid claim), and that a permanent injunction is not appropriate, even if the patent owner doesn't make its own patent.

In other words, this bill attempts to undo every aspect of patent reform in the past decade, both from SCOTUS and from Congress. I can't think of anyone who'd be happy about any of this, save for patent trolls.
> Why choose SMS today

Ubiquity.
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This comment is spot on.

A scooter sharing startup? Yeah, I'm pretty sceptical. But I too have seen projects at least as ridiculous funded by various companies I've worked for - honestly, I think it happens all the time. There's one in particular that I really want to name but sadly I just can't.

The difference, as you've said is that these things are not shown in the full light of day, and the amounts involved (particularly with respect to revenue and worth of companies) are often hard to determine at best for outsiders even for projects that are known about[1].

[1]There are, of course, exceptions. This, recently posted by LGR, is a particularly bizarre example in many ways: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv6UaHZxUys.*
The downvoting here intrigues me. This is a completely rational statement.
There's a difference between a one-time cost and a variable cost. "Spending" carbon (via concrete) in order to reduce society's "spending" of carbon (via infrastructure improvements) should usually come out to a net gain.

It's an investment.

While I agree we need to include all costs in the accounting and improve the concrete industry as well, we shouldn't let the fact that carbon is emitted by concrete creation stop us from making these investments.
You probably lost a great bartender and taco server. Honestly, I’m sorry to hear that. But her victory is very refreshing. What do you think?

Why not discuss it with her?
This reminds me a lot of my dad growing up.
He was very stern, the disciplinarian, he divorced my mom when I was 11..
We have the best relationship we've ever had now, but as a child I was thankful he moved away.
I know you're sarcastic, but this was common practice at my previous shop.
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No, this is entirely typical of The Economist. Everything I ever read there is amateurish and superficial.
This article talks as though Portland cement is the only cement. It isn’t.

I’ve spent the past few years working in my free time on the restoration of several old buildings, under the guidance of my wife, who is a conservation mason, much of which has comprised removing cement and gypsum plaster and replacing them with lime mortar, lime plaster, and other lime products as appropriate.

While it’s true that most lime products aren’t as strong as cement, and are permeable to water vapour, their CO2 impact is much, much smaller - and many applications which currently see the use of Portland could as easily use appropriate lime-based products. Breathability is a good thing in most structures - most damp that you see in buildings arises from impermeable materials and condensation.

As to strength, lime-Portland blends exist which can create impermeable and strong concrete with less environmental footprint, and I’ve been experimenting with mixing lime with various different aggregates and plasticising agents - resulting in some interesting materials - ground pumice and slate in varying proportions produce very strong (high tensile and compressive properties) and impermeable materials - I was inspired by Roman concrete.

Here’s a tiny bit of further info on CO2 footprints, from a company I’ve bought several tonnes of NHL from:

http://ecolime.co.uk/c02-quick-facts/
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F-35 isn't for blowing things up, it's for deterring war. Fat good
your particle accelerators do if thet constant get blown up in war.

Deterring war is the greatest way to unlock human prosperity.

And killing with precision means saving lives, the greatest good in the world.
You mean, the things parents allow their kids to do in lieu of being able to actually go outside and do things on their own, without having to ask a parent to taxi them around or something?
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I never got much into Nietzsche, but well, between being trans, and having seasonal depression, and having been stuck in rural Alaska for twenty years, we can say that I've seen some depressive episodes.

It does get better.

One thing that helped was leaving the negative environment. Also, some of my angst sprang from the disempowerment of youth; having more power ($$, or in Spanish, effectivo) to control the world around you makes most life problems easier to deal with. Philosophically, I became something of a Stoic: this may be the worst of all possible worlds, but there's not really much value in being depressed about it. You are not in control of the world, but you are in control of your reaction to it, and as long as the world is absurd one may as well laugh. However, the ultimate key to my depression was simply self-acceptance. Try to make peace with your demons; they're just another aspect of you.

I doubt if your life and mine have many true parallels, but that was my path out of darkness. I hope that you may find peace, and the warmth of good feeling.
Don't forget the demons drinking from sports bottles that gurgle.
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Old keyboards aren't flat intentionally. It's because the profile of the keys is designed to make them easier to type on (so your fingers have to move less distance to reach all the keys). If flat was better, keyboards would have just been flat from the beginning. It would make manufacturing easier, after all.
Yep this entire thread is a series of arguments over the definition of "engineering." The underlying point seems to be "engineering is serious business and software is not," and the "definition" of engineering is used as a bludgeon to make that point.