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i'm sad to see a decline of nuclear energy everywhere in the world.
While renewables are the end goal, nuclear was gonna be the perfect transition source for the next decades, providing emission-free and continuous energy to the grid.

I have the bad feeling that cancelling a nuclear power plant, means building coal/gas plants in its place.
This article actually mention the renewaleble goal of Vietnam which are really unimpressive. 3.3% solar inputs by 2030...WOW, in the mean time how are they gonna keep up with the energy requirements of a developing country? Probably coal.
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Based on the fact that you can also upload composer.json files, I assume it also supports PHP.
If you don’t eat any fiber, there’s really nothing happening in your bowels. I’ve been on a mainly liquid diet at times this year with tiny bowel movements about once a week, just because there is nothing being put in there. I haven’t experienced any apparent problems related to that.

Mental and cognitive states while slowly starving: not that good
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"European’s" - another thing to include in the new design is grammar issues.
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This seems to be because people in the US don't want to actually give their government control of anything. And thus anything that is government run seems to have clauses that allow private industries control things. The worst of both worlds!
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Thanks for pointing that out. As much as I pick up aspects of an English dialect here or there, I'm sure there are many more similar things I just don't know. If I heard a native speaker say the above, I would assume they were a bit uneducated, that it's a sociolect kind of thing.
I like the low overhead of this, but I'm a sysadmin - not a developer.
I've described the purpose of this system over here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17798756

I'm really hoping that there is some "off the shelf" open source package that I can install.
For me, the problem is that I need a mac for iOS development (and sketch).
I know I can rent an OSX machine in the cloud, but I foresee a lot of frustration going that route (plus high cost).

I currently own a maxed out 2017 15" model. The control and "H" buttons don't work. So I am using an external keyboard.

I could get them replaced, but service will take three weeks (due to high demand) and they have to have the actual laptop the entire time.
Can local certificates not be restricted to the few domains you want cached, so that the user can be sure their browser isn't using the local proxy's certificate for anything other than the sites approved on the certificate (like Wikipedia)? I would've thought this is possible, but if not, I feel like browsers should implement the ability to restrict local certificates to specific sites. It shouldn't be hard. They'd obviously have to still upgrade their browsers but then they wouldn't have to twiddle their thumbs waiting for every website to implement its own service workers (or not end up doing so).
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If you have Mac or Linux, you probably already have Ruby.
The difference is that the Americans, the Brits, and the Chinese can leave any time they want. I've talked to a few Indians and that tried to defend the mob that killed some guy for allegedly coming beef. More embarrassingly, they defended the police for taking a sample of the questionable meat for lab testing to check if it was beef.

I can forgive the mob. Maybe things get heated and people lose their minds. They should all go to prison for life but I can forgive them once the sentences are handed. I can never forgive the police for taking a sample of the meat to check if it was beef.

Democracy doesn't mean anything without rights of the minority. Not because you like Muslims. You can totally hate Muslims and still support basic decency of life for people of that faith.
I would throw in a long term view here. Karl Poppers work on scientific epistemology created a big chunk of the modern, working scientific method.

His big concern was unfalsifiable theories. The two big targets he was aiming at were Marx & Freud. Marxism (also other political theories) became more philosphically oriented and stopped calling their theories scientific.

Psychology/psychiatry adopted more scientific methods of enquiry. Still, we have serious quality issues in the field(s).
Ok but if we determined the bike lanes were 0.00001% utilized while the car lanes are 80% utilized that doesn't make it an illusion.

Probably not that bad in NY but in the places i have lived i could go months without seeing someone on a particular bike lane that hugged the road for a few KMs
You're absolutely correct, I didn't really think about that.
I ran Windows 95 on my 486.
> I've always used the BSD form, even though I came to Linux much much later, but I guess which form you use comes from where you learned basic *nix commands.

I too use the BSD form but came from the Linux world. Probably it is just a matter of taste (a common answer to everything!).

> I guess the lack of '-' with tar is more apparent because POSIX didn't create a different syntax, and so most people omit the '-' for terseness -- while with ps it would require learning a different syntax.

I argue the ps situation is worse than tar exactly because of that reason. There are three different classes of options in ps, often with slightly different meanings and sometimes with two different long-form options only distinguished by their cases...
Cheers. I must be missing something, but once the hole is dug, it’s dug, and i’d have thought it was pretty low maintenance and more structuraly sound than a crane. So over time, would the costs of maintenance provide a benefit?
How are they going to balance supply from solar (which peaks at midday, and goes away entirely at night) with demand (which usually peaks in the evening)?
> Intercepting http without the user knowing was a bad practice to begin with.

It baffles me that you assert this as an absolute truth. This is just your opinion, shaped by the environment you've lived in. It is perfectly possible that another person just as sane and knowledgeable as you would have different priorities than you do, especially when their experiences are different than yours.
I've explained the project in more detail here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17798756

But the main problem with this is that the users will be non-technical and I think chat would be a bit of a confusing medium for the kind of communication we're trying to achieve.
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Spoiler: they don't, yet they do, Theseus' ship-style. For all the centuries-old bridges still in use around here, there's only a few bits and pieces left from the original, the rest has been replaced multiple times over as a part of maintenance.

The difference here is probably maintainability: for a stone arch design, you can prop it up for safety, replace a few stones, and voila, like new. For a cable-stayed and/or concrete design...not really. In other words, the bridges that have "lasted for centuries" have hot-swappable parts ;)
How could the design industry innovate faster?
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As per my comment here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17798834

Chat would not really be an appropriate solution.
>Do you know the name of Mickey Mouse's dog?

I don't get your point, the name of Mickey Mouse's dog is the same in other languages.
Read this if you want the other side of the story:
http://blog.chiariglione.org/a-crisis-the-causes-and-a-solut...

> So don’t expect that in the future you will see the progress in video compression technology that we have seen in the past 30 years.

Google has bought a whole "camp" which is badmouthing MPEG for monetary reasons. Nothing has been over-hyped as much as AV1. Who is really evil? In the end it will all be about SSIM in non-geologic time scale.
> Caching Google makes no sense beyond some static resources.

Really? So you cannot make any sense of the idea of caching, say, news articles? Blog posts? Software documentation? StackOverflow Qs/As? The cached pages are 100% useless in your mind?
Even Han was kinda forced to shoot Greedo. Greedo said in no uncertain terms that he'd kill Han, and judging by the rest of the scene, it's fair to assume Greedo would have pulled the trigger on the spot, and walked away without anyone disturbing him. If Han didn't shot first, he'd be dead. That's close enough to self defence that Han can still have the sympathy of the public.

Actually bearing the responsibility of the murder would have Han kill Greedo for something Greedo did. It would at least mean Han initiating hostilities.
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Sendbird looks very "app" centered and Chatkit has the problems with chat that I outline here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17798834
The essay doesn't sit right with me to be honest. The author seems to attribute no small amount of intentional malice on Card's part, which their talk of manipulation of the readers, and whatnot. Malice which, at least I believe, isn't truly present (at least in this; OCS has some pretty outlandish believes).

To me, the core tenet of OCS' philosophy in the book is something along the lines of the following:

- the preservation of society comes before the preservation of the individual

- Sometimes, in order to preserve society, harm must be done to an individual

- The people causing this harm are not morally bad for causing it; since they do it in the pursuit of a more important goal

You can agree with it or not, but I feel it's in bad taste to compare this to someone abusing people because they were abused in the past.
Coal it is, the planned nuclear reactor could provide 4000 MW with 10 billions dollar construction cost. It was too pricy so the plan was shelved and replaced with... 3 coal powered power plants instead. The coal will be imported from other countries, hopefully they will be as clean as President Trump said /s.
Reasons for not using chat here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17798834
I use a Gollum wiki to do this exact thing. The nice part is it's backed by git so it's easy to sync and backup to a gitlab private repo.
Desktop too.
Except the point where the evil monopoly buys the patents and keeps refreshing the patent pool, thus locking things like H.264 away forever.
Are you sure? I think this essay asks whether Ender is responsible for the things he did, not whether the things he did are bad. The books agree that they're bad, but they carefully place the responsibility outside Ender.
Create a "Clean Up" bookmarklet:

javascript:(function()%7B(function%20()%20%7Bvar%20i%2C%20elements%20%3D%20document.querySelectorAll('body%20*')%3Bfor%20(i%20%3D%200%3B%20i%20%3C%20elements.length%3B%20i%2B%2B)%20%7Bif%20(getComputedStyle(elements%5Bi%5D).position%20%3D%3D%3D%20'fixed')%20%7Belements%5Bi%5D.parentNode.removeChild(elements%5Bi%5D)%3B%7D%7D%7D)()%7D)()
Agree with other comments that these are more coding issues, that aren't uncommon in pre-beta versions of software.

But if we're talking about design issues, there is one big one that everyone seems to be missing - and that is the Proof of Work incentive mechanism. The first issue with this is that it disproportionately rewards early adopters (both via difficulty increasing every 2 weeks and rewards halving every 4 years) and requires a constant addition of new adopters just to sustain the price (to counteract the deflationary nature of new coin generation), which makes it appear more like a traditional pyramid scheme than a new financial paradigm and may in the long term behave like one. The second issue is that this has led to the concentration of almost all of the wealth in a handful of anonymous and in many cases very shady characters in a completely unregulated market which has completely inverted the original goals of the project. The third issue is of course that Proof of Work is an environmental disaster.
Only some money doesn't smell. Depends how many grubby fingerprints are on it.
I've outlined more detail here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17798756
Correct, to my knowledge there isn't a way to avoid this cleanly.
It totally makes sense to reject a person who talks only about the salary/perks and in that way shows he's just looking for a cool job to satisfy himself.

Of course it doesn't mean that one should expect "Yes, I waited my whole life to join your company to change lives of your customers." attitude from everyone. There's a whole spectrum of people in between and each company has to find its own keyhole.

Aside from that. I never accept "start lower and re-evaluate each month, quarter, half a year" strategy. I'm pretty sure I'm going to bring 90% of my value during the first month and probably 100% the next one.

I'm glad to have one more interview, maybe a day with your team on site so you can be more sure if I'm a good fit. I also understand that there's a chance I might turn out to be a mis-hire for some reason and after a month or two it'll be clear that the initial expectations are not met on one or the other side. In that case I'm happy to re-evaluate which could also go both ways.

"I was hired as a software engineer but it turned out my experience with leading projects, working with product team on developing fresh ideas etc is extensively utilised on daily basis."

"You do have the skill but your work organisation and focus are a bit lacking which results in lower output compared to the other guys that are in your salary range. We need to work on that aspect or re-evaluate your compensation."

Both of those I'm fine with. I'm not fine with being under-compensated for half a year because you have too weak recruitment process.
This free recruitment tool works brilliantly, probably I'll go for it
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There was at least one truck on the collapsed section where the driver survived (albeit with some injuries). Quoted as "I was normally driving, when the road just disappeared and everything started falling."
Or politicians are starting to deliver on their stupid promises.
I wish someone would write even half of these.
Haven’t heard back either
Similar features are often found in encryption products, for example openssh which gives you a visually distinct ASCII randomart to easily spot the difference between the keys.
The code is obviously stored somewhere, but that's not a user-facing place. Thus, if you define a function in the Smalltalk REPL equivalent (a workspace), when you open that function in the code editor later, you'll see the definition from the REPL, which is the interesting point. There's no way to have one definition on foo in foo.lisp and a different definition actually running in your image because you did a `(defun foo() ...)` from the REPL.

> If I programmatically create a class in Smalltalk, is it recorded in the source?

There's no distinction between programmatically created and other elements. Using the UI to create a class is just a front-end to the metaprogramming facilities you'd use to do it yourself at runtime.
It already means manufacturers get less experience building nuclear plants, and it's much harder to de-king the building process of new designs. We've been feeling those effects for the last decade or, Gen IIIs are manufacturing disaster due to the combination of the ongoing popularity of Gen IIs and the dearth of new constructions in the 80s/90s.
There needs to be a ban and removal of the tipping requirement altogether. I know, easier said than done.
I'm just saying, many European countries do not have tips embedded in their culture, and that's a good thing.
If I go to a sit-down restaurant, I'm already being marked up for that - before tipping.
If I have some food delivered, I'm paying for the delivery service, or I am being marked up on the item's price - before tipping.
By doing that, we ensure that the salaries of employees are legally decent (rather than them counting on unpredictable extras to make ends meet).
This forces the employer not to direct all of the margin into his own pocket while squeezing the employee's salary.

I personally have never tipped anyone unless I was excessively well catered for, or someone went out of their way to enhance the experience I was already paying for in the first place.
That's what tipping must be, not forcing the customer to actually compensate for your employees being underpaid. I'm sorry for anyone who has a lower salary than normal because the boss expects that tips will bridge the gap.
If needed, I'm much happier to pay a higher price (relatively). Indeed, I propose that most of the time, the prices are already including all costs and the margin, and that the owners direct the whole margin to them while squeezing the employees out of it and having them rely on tips to make a decent living.
The solution to low salaries is not tipping and guilting people into paying extra cost for no reason whatsoever and for something that's already marked up to the appropriate level, it is better salaries framed by law or contract.
Sadly today this wouldn’t have worked out as well.
Dwarf wheat which was created by irradiating seeds would’ve been tarnished by the anti-GMO crowd just like what happened to golden rice.

It seems that uneducated people who can afford $19 avocados are the only ones who we listen to these days when it comes to feeding the planet.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_rice
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> Yes, you can (usually) opt out, but the screen is telling you in no uncertain terms that tipping is probably a social norm here—if you choose to opt out, you are making the extra effort to break the norm.

Yes, and that's ok when a tip is deserved, but apps that ask me to tip counter help are bullshit. Those people aren't paid less than kitchen workers because they're not expected to earn tips, and they don't do anything beyond the minimal expected work (fetching a donut, operating a cash-register).

As you suggest, the tip app is a way to get proprietors to invest in POS so they can substitute tips for wages.

No one makes out (again) except some silicon valley executive.
Likewise Safari's (mobile or not).
That is a very early, highly experimental minimal demo from what I found...
If you have the luxury of home office, get a fitness bank next to your computer and once an hour do some weight exercises, or once 4 hours do some 10-minute HIIT. It'd do wonders to you. Earning $ and getting ripped at the same time ;-)
People are terrified of high visibility catastrophic risk (ie nuclear meltdown) in a way that they cannot get concerned about fossil fuel pollution. It may cause millions of deaths, but they'll mostly go unattributed and certainly not sensationally reported
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You probably want to have both though. I don’t want to sit in a lecture taking notes. But OHPs were great for worked examples and answering questions that needed diagrams.
The assumption is "falling bridges are a black swan event, there's hundreds of more likely corner cases to cover before you get there."

Usually, the bridge is new-ish (second half of 20th century or newer) and the buildings are 19th century or older.
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I got developer mode enabled on my phone and it allows me to select an alternative for WebView, but there's no options available. Its terribly annoying because a browser is about customising the WWW to your tailor. Not possible with WebView. Adblocker for example doesn't work. Though microG doesn't implement Google Ads.
Yes, come to think of it, that’s possible either manually or with a PAC file. It seems like a decent compromise too to whitelist the proxied sites the weakened security of which you are willing to tolerate, at least in the case where the alternative is not being able to teach/learn in that area, as in Eric’s case.
Also it establishes Han as a thug (for, if nothing else, associating himself with such unsavoury characters as Greedo), so he can begin the Hero's Journey throughout the rest of the film.
I use Chrome on Android and all Google products extensively for the wide and free variety of programs and services they offer. As far as I know, no one knows anything about me that I didn't freely put online. I have not been oppressed, jailed or denied anything in life since.
Thanks for the detailed reply.
I've outlined the purpose of the system briefly here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17798756

I think attachments would be almost a requirement, given that users would need to pass manuscripts backwards and forwards (although I suppose encouraging people to use google drive instead is not out of the question).

I had a look at Discourse, but it seems heavily geared towards forums rather than 1 to 1 email.

Your other suggestions require a bit too much development for my skill levels (I'm a sysadmin, not a dev).
Ah I see, that makes sense. Unfortunately for me it's the opposite! These kind of animations helps me know where I am, if it jumps suddently without any notice I tend to not know the size/position I am in respectto the whole page.
Tony the Toilet Buddy could help, too!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83KLxQ1jjdg
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I read about a singer who still uses a childs cassette player to do their vocal warmups for the simple reason that it is bombproof: suitable for the mechanical demands of being on the road.

https://goo.gl/images/ZEoG6M
Interesting - I didn't read malice into it at all.
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Pretty much this. I believe that the main advantage smaller countries have (or maybe, had) in learning English is that the movies/games just weren't translated. If I wanted to watch Two Stupid Dogs or play Fallout, the only option was English.
I'm struck by the difference between India and Burma and Pakistan.
Am I summarising this right ?
There's an order given by your teacher, some kids break it and will continue breaking it from that point on, some faked cooperation, and the rest of the kids were just silent.

Is this really an organisation, in the sense that one "group" is trying to reach a goal ?
For instance the "fearless" kids don't seem to have anything to care about to me, and don't need to join forces for anything.

Same for the "sycophants" who could be alone or a number of people, it wouldn't change their behaviour.

Or the rest of the kids who could be sleeping, it wouldn't change much for them.

Perhaps to put it in a different way, what was your main takeaway from the situation ? it seems you had more insight that what is conveyed here.
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I wrote a version control system for academics in it for a course in college with no training in it and a 4 week deadline. Then I forgot about it for a year or so and when I'd picked up and played around with 10+ languages in college under similar circumstances, I remembered it was nice and switched all my hobby projects to it. I think a year later I got a paying job using it, and properly "learnt" it by working through getting awesome at something I'd screwed up or done imperfectly in a code review every week.
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