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I've been playing tourist in Switzerland and northern Italy recently and had a few thoughts related to this article.

- Knowing the tourist stereotype and not wanting to be that makes me self-conscious. I've intentionally avoided some popular attractions because I didn't want to be part of the tourist scene. Worse, I've felt pressure to modify my normal behavior so as not to appear touristy. For example, at home I go into the city with my camera fairly often to photograph the streets and trash cans and shit like that, but I hesitated to do that in Zurich because I didn't want to be that tourist walking around with their camera. That's really stupid.

- The most fun I've had has been taking the wrong bus or a random train and then just going wherever looks the most interesting. The same with restaurants or bars or events: just head out without a destination and pop in wherever looks cool. If you do use Trip Advisor or other popular guides, wander around the destinations and discover what else is nearby. (Atlas Obscura and Google Earth have also taken me some fun places.)

- With your phone, you never really have to leave home or truly get to know a place. I can always reach my friends and family if I am just board; I can always use Translate; I can always look up transit directions. One effect of this is that meeting people—including other tourists—can be very hard because not only are you in your own little phone bubble world, they are also in their own little bubbles (not that this is any difference from home actually). I can't imagine what it would be like to travel while uploading images or commentary for the world.

- Tourists are only doing what systems have optimized for. We tourists go to Florence because the tools and infrastructure make it easy, and because the guides tell us that it is somewhere that we must visit. Then we take selfies to prove we were there because our culture values and rewards experience consumption. I'd like to think that we can build tools and culture that has a broader view of what travel can be and what you get from it. Because not only is travel an essential way to learn about and see the world, it also helps you better understand yourself and the place you come from.
Still being in college, so many people I know just assume debt is no issue. It's not a concept that hits close to home, and most people seem to be fine with repaying them forever, like buying a new phone every 2 years or a new car every 3. I've never known anyone who couldn't get a loan, no matter how bad their grades or weak their employment after college looks. I don't really understand how that works and who would loan them money in the first place, but I feel bad that so many just assume they debt they take on will be automatically paid for.

Many I know use their loans for not just school, but life. They spend money like they're rich and already have jobs when they're broke college students living off loans, and it just seems to me either the government, the banks loaning the money, or the schools, are using this monetary ignorance to their advantage. It'll fold some day I assume, considering student debt is 50% of the assets of the Federal Government [0], if those default rates rise to high that could wreck havoc in the trust of the financial well being of the US government (Disclaimer: I'm a student, I don't really understand most of what's happening here)

[0] https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/gs-live/uploads%2F1521231...
I learned Dvorak in high school and was proficient in it after a couple weeks. In addition to actual practice, I found it helpful to just practice mentally during downtime.

I used Dvorak exclusively and lost the ability to type on qwerty keyboards. This became pretty inconvenient, so I re-learned qwerty, but then I couldn’t type in dvorak any more.

A while later I practiced dvorak again and have been able to switch back and forth without issue ever since (even though I don’t use dvorak very often now).

I found that dvorak wasn’t actually that good for programming due to the positioning of punctuation, math, and auxiliary keys. It’s also annoying for gaming or using hotkeys in general (especially copy + paste).
It's a damn shame we've let this crisis reach this scale. Along with healthcare, climate change, the debt, our inauguration, and so on, we've been essentially frozen for most of my life as politicians concern themselves more so with existential power struggle. The right wants to bring us back to the gilded age, the left makes headlines but is barely relevant, and the center is trying to squeeze bandaid solutions while just trying to fend off populism on both sides.

It shouldn't be controversial that we need an educated population and we need young people who aren't in debt up to their eyeballs. It's time for some hard choices, because the wheels are falling off.
Here is the DoE press release

https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/southern-company-and-terr...

This is a new sodium liquid fuel design.

It is NOT the travelling wave reactor, which has been championed by TerraPower for the past 10 years.

These are 2 very very different designs which is confusing to me.
There really needs to be some “free market” ideology injected into the way loans are dispersed. First of all students need a way to declare bankruptcy. Second, we must take into consideration future earnings potential when deciding how much and at what rate.
It really depends on how you do it. I went several times on a holiday where I didn't knew the destination a day before. you just need free time, a car and a smartphone. Oh and avoid tourist trap places, it's just a huge crowd and overpriced stuff anyway.
The most worrying thing is the concluding paragraph. We somehow need to give schools more money to fix the problem?
It still auto aims at him, but it attempts to aim at the same angle necessary for a full size character so your bullets go over his head.
I am typing fluently this using the Colemak layout and I can switch easily to Qwerty. Colemak is the easiest/fastest layout for me.
It is like driving stick vs automatic, I can change whenever I want without thinking about it.
I also tried Dvorak. However, shortcuts like CTRL+C were not possible with one hand anymore. This was a no go.

The hardest part of learning a keyboard layout is the first week. During this week you cannot type on the autopilot at all (even my qwerty skills were fucked up).

I recommend starting learning a new layout during a holiday because it will break your productivity. For training, you can use http://klavaro.sourceforge.net/en/index.html, which has support for Colemak.

After 4 weeks of typing more than one hour per day, I managed to hit the 50 WPM at Colemak. It is also important to type 30 minutes per day using qwerty during this 4 weeks so that you will not lose your qwerty skills.
It is interesting that the message locking the post seems to portray engaging with people with opposing views about design decisions as taking time away from working on Elm, instead of being itself a form of working on Elm!

Maybe Elm needs some sort of "Please do not use this language in production" sign, and no "Community" link at the top of the home page. There's nothing wrong with a group of folks making a language for themselves / their employers, perhaps putting it on GitHub because why not, but not having a home page at all and making it clear that this isn't a stable language for others to use and they will put much more emphasis on the feedback from their own experiences than from others'. There's definitely nothing wrong with them doing that until they get to a 1.0 they're happy with, and then releasing it to the community.
And if you just want a one-person instance, there are managed solutions like masto.host.
FAANG is a tiny fraction of the job market.
The effort it takes to sort it out from the rest of your trash once it's mixed in with your diapers and whatever else probably isn't equivalent to the effort of you sorting it in the first place, though
I agreed for most of my career. As a Senior Eng in SF it seems that contiguous experience and prior credentials are king, to the point where my side projects haven’t come up in interviews in years.
Well, we’ve just had another “coup” here in Australia... our 6th Prime Minister in 10 years, so yeah there’s definitely a steady hand on the tiller of Australian climate policy...
The problem of universities selling overpriced degrees that have little to no market value, while using students as a cash cow to gouge with the costs of books, classes that are not needed, parking fees, and everything else is far worse than anyone can imagine.
The biggest companies may be influencing things like inflation and wage growth
I consider myself very lucky to of had the ability to live at home for my 3 years of college. Then after my first year, I was able to get a job as a web developer at the college through a special program they do. Thanks to that job, I was able to pay for year 2 and 3 myself and had very little debt to pay off.
With PAYE and IBR, it seems like one could permanently take a couple of classes, receive all of the loan money for "living expenses," and then run up an unlimited amount of student loans... and they never have to pay back more than just a percentage of your income...
Permitting bankruptcy would instantly add more risk to the lender and thus instantly boost the interest rate on the loan, potentially pricing it out of the range of the student.
This so much. The only reason I'm going for a Master's degree is so I have an easier time getting my foot in a great company. And where I live we don't have any student debt (no, none at all). Life as a student is pretty bliss so why wouldn't I study? It's the best time of your life and you also get a degree out of it without getting in debt. Sign me... oh wait I'm already signed up.
Alternative keyboard layouts are not only about speed. It is also more comfortable. Your fingers are traveling only half the distance compared to traditional layouts.
There's a difference between dropping out and not going at all. There are plenty of "elite" dropouts at FAANG.
I'm interested in what reasons there are to switch besides speed, which I assume is not a problem unless you are a stenographer i.e. I cannot think of code faster than I can write for longer than a fraction of a minute.
In a fit of irony I managed to graduate college because I was too poor to pay for college. FAFSA covered everything I needed, although I had to make large medical sacrifices along the way.

Needless to say student debt in America is out of control. We told kids endlessly that they should chase their dream and become who they want while pulling the rug out from under them and using predatory loaning practices.

It's another ticking timebomb that when it goes off it's going to cripple a large amount of Americans. We need to be funneling more money into our school system and actually make college free.
> it actually starts the engine to engage engine braking.

The engine isn't firing is it? Engine braking doesn't require the cylinders to fire.
"$150k+/yr TC" ... is that considered an average/expected comp coming right out of college these days?
The title has a mistake. The actual version is “macOS 10.13.6 High Sierra”. I'd be very impressed if a modern browser ran on an operating system from 2009–2011.
You used to be able to apprentice for just about any profession at all, often earning money while doing so. Perhaps social norms need to adjust and bring back apprenticeship. Perhaps we are on that course now having reached the tipping point of student loan debt and with the death of the 4 year degree.

Education is free (MIT has free courses, and there are lots of opportunities nowadays for self-study); it's a degree that's expensive.
No, generic collections are pretty much useful all of the time. Other generic things are useful when done well.
i don't know. check sibling thread. In abstract the term "signaling" is well understood, and "virtue" is what is being signaled, instead of e.g. wealth. However in English-speaking word it is being used as a pejorative term for socially-concerned left-leaning people it seems.
Repetition of the core concepts from multiple different angles is a great way to reiterate the lessons over and over.

I also don’t like when they beat around the bush, but repetition increases retention.
I was referring to cultures experienced and perspective gained more than terrain covered. Most people today cannot afford to travel as slowly as he had the great fortune of doing.

I agree that a carbon offset doesn't absolve you of responsibility, but like everything in life, it's tradeoffs.
While maybe unimpressive to some, that means they have a lot of faith in the truck not having issues on the road needing support vehicles to handle.
> Would you consider postgres "open core" as well?

Its not entirely bizarre to say that, though it's farther from undisputable open core than Redis is, as there isn't a single proprietary vendor with as significant a relationship to the open source project as is the case with RedisLabs.

> Citus makes proprietary modules for it, and likely employs some postgres devs.

And EntrepriseDB. And a number of other proprietary downstream vendors that sponsor significant Postgres development. If PG is open core, it's radically decentralized open core.
Energy is a BIG, HUGE industry (about 5-10% of world GDP). It will always be a mix of technologies.

Cost wise, however, i agree nuclear is late to the party.

In 2018, we had large contracts for solar(+storage!) at 3cent/kw (in the US, Mexico and Saudi Arabia).

European new nuclear came in at 15c/kw.
The inventor and lead mantainer giving up on his role a few months ago might have had a detrimental effect.
It is an amazing experience when you can type a word without moving your fingers at all (this happens when all the letters that you need are on the home row).
Is the counter-swing of low-fluff incomprehensible density?

I think if you want to avoid fluff, read something that was written more than 20 years ago. Time has a means of eroding away the pop-sci books (Will anyone read Gladwell in 20 years?). I personally like reading the pivotal pieces of a field / founding texts. Jung and Nietzsche come to mind.

Maybe another question you could ask (a fluff test if you will): Could you see a college course using the text as a primary source?
And permiting indenture is better? College is a signalling racket status good. Cut the loans and watch as tuition magically decreases to maintain equilibrium.
Keyboards like Diverge and Ergodox are fully programmable so nothing's stopping you from doing that today!

Also, I found that putting a small touchpad^ in a thumb-accessible area (near where a laptop touchpad would be) is a good enough replacement for a mouse.

^ http://www.ergonomictouchpad.com/
If you want low fluff non fiction, go for business books. They're often short and to the point because they're written for busy people and aim to convey real information.

A lot of for-the-masses nonfiction books suffer from the incentives problem. They're not selling information, they're selling the feeling of being smart, intellectual, and well informed. They don't aim to teach you anything, they aim to give you ammunition to impress your friends with at a dinner party.

As such they have to be large and voluminous so you can feel good about yourself just by buying them. Then they have to convey the core point in the first 30 pages because you're not going to read more than that probably. The rest is there to give you cool anecdotes and supporting arguments so you can impress your friends further should they probe (and you actually read that far).
It's worth noting that programming requires a kind of extreme reading comprehension so the premise of this article probably doesn't apply to programmers (or scientists, writers, lawyers, etc).
I often wonder how many problems would be fixed by adding a 2 term limit to the House and Senate.
No, I don't believe I said that. I think I mentioned it would be bad in the first note. It just is if something could do that in general conditions it is an absorbing or end-state.
the actors who are eager to see Tesla and SpaceX fail are more powerful and motivated than is typical

Why would they be?
I must say, as someone who made quite a few sacrifices to pay off my school debt, I'll be pretty miffed if less responsible people from my same generation get a break on their loans.
If we accept that the risk of student loan is covered by the state in any rate and not by the bank then we can just cut out the middle man and have the state give out the loan in the first place under what ever condition that satisfy the public who is paying for it.

Sweden has that system. Can't say it is that terrible.
I think my favorite non "data science" use case is web scraping. Ad-hoc nature of the task lends itself to using a notebook. A lot of times I don't want the full suite and boilerplate Scrapy gives you so I write it out in a notebook with Parsel & Requests. Once done export and clean up.
Relevant animals: greenland sharks. ~20 ft sharks slowly, slowly drifting at approximately 0.5 mph around the North Atlantic and killing time until they bump into some edible decomposing thing. They reach sexual maturity at about 150 and kick off around 400 [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_shark
I don't think we're facing any critical electricity shortage, at least in the continental US. This is just one of many new power generation systems being pursued. It is neither too little, because any amount helps, nor too late, because the need for more electricity is going to continue forever. I'm not sure how this is a negative thing.
If you're already typing 130 wpm on QWERTY, wow, and don't bother with other layouts. You might eek out a bit more speed, but it's a lot of pain for not much gain. I've never exceeded my QWERTY speeds and I've been typing DVORAK for over ten years now. I'm sticking with DVORAK because I find it more comfortable and, as an added bonus, it keeps the kids off my computer.
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"Extremely quickly" -- if you can always take all sides of every branch in control flow. And you'll find only the same errors -- if you restrict the types you define to those supported by the dynamic language. If you don't restrict yourself, however, you can start catching classes of error at compile-time that in a dynamic language you could only look for by writing your own runtime checks.

And runtime checks aren't free - they cost CPU, they can have their own bugs, and they can be tedious to write. "In general", rather than even try to be as careful in a dynamic language as you could be with an advanced type system, you'll just settle for not being careful.
Having worked in a large codebase to fix type errors in an evolving language, this is not true. There are plenty of errors.

What is true is that the errors you catch are most often benign and not obvious, user-visible bugs, for one reason or another. (If they were obvious, they would have been fixed sooner.) The code might be abandoned or rarely executed, or it's never called with that argument. Something like that.

Occasionally you do find a serious error, though.
> apparently the truck had to take up several charging stations at "non-Super" chargers.

No, these were multiple connections to Tesla Superchargers - not ‘regular’ chargers. This is necessary because the Tesla Hyperchargers that are being developed to quickly charge the Semis are not deployed anywhere yet.
I think the only similarity is that both groups get to where they are suddenly, without proving any financial acumen, which distinguishes them from the multimillionaires who become such from decades of working, frugality, and investing.

However, that's where the similarities end. Athletes become successful from years of hard work and sacrificing present enjoyment for future rewards. Lottery winners are chosen randomly from people who literally demonstrate how poorly they handle money buy buying lottery tickets.
> First of all students need a way to declare bankruptcy.

While I'm not for or against such a policy, I find it intriguing you think bankruptcy is free market ideology adjacent.
> Popper is immensely influential in science, well worth a closer study

Yep, pretty much invented the falsification principle. Imagine a time when scientists often tried to prove things true. That was science before Popper. This makes him the greatest contributor to science that I know of since Francis Bacon.
No long-term experiences in the same language but I'm typing in CJK & English. I think it's quite a similar situation. When I typing CJK in desktop & mobile, it's also a slightly different way to choose the word but my brain able to handle it well.
That's a very large, but very very specific, demographic. A lot of people just plain aren't reached by live sports broadcasts at all.
Wrong title. Should be "Pretending to Recycle while shipping garbage to China wont work any longer"
It’s alright, I can assure everyone here that the government will cover all outstanding student loans the same day I’m finished paying mine off.
Would just shift even more power to the parties, since you'd need to toe the line even more than present to get re-elected.
What Cyber-War Will Look Like
> After all, a carbon offset for a round-trip cross-country commercial flight is about $10 which can at least mitigate that impact.

That uses an offset price of $7/ton, which seems rather low. Otherwise, offsetting the world's emissions would be only about $200b a year (.2% of world economy)
I've heard of a few people discontent with Elm for the reasons mentioned in the article make a very successful jump to ClojureScript and being much happier about it.

It offers an MVU framework: re-frame. There are others too. Its community is very friendly and helpful, it loves to discuss the language itself. No one seems to think of themselves as more knowing. It has never ever broken backward compatibility. It's a core tenet of the language to never break anyone ever. Finally, it has very good interop with JavaScript. And its getting better and better every release.

It's also ran by a BDFL, actually more like two. Rich Hickey as the BDFL of the standard language design, and David Nolen as current implementer and main maintainer of ClojureScript. But they're loved and admired. And if you disagree with their direction, you're free to add your own features as a macro, that's why they made the language a Lisp.

The language design prioritizes pragmatism. All discussion starts with: What exact problem are you facing for which there are no simple way to solve. And working backwards from real problems, solutions are added and new constructs are built.

The only thing is, it comes from a different school of thought opposite to strong static types. But it shares a lot in common, emphasis on pure functional code, immutability of variable and values. No OOP, everything is a function with support for higher order functions, closures and partial application. And the same focus on interactive live development.

If you don't mind losing the strong static types, I highly recommend giving it a try. You'll only miss the nice Elm error messages.
We did this in Michigan. It doesn’t work. It’s an attractive platform item, but what ends up happening is lots of turnover means it’s easier for lobbyists to sway candidates. You also just lose institutional knowledge. And guess what? We have term limits and an entirely new governor still poisoned an entire town full of kids.

Term limits don’t work.
This is the perfect response. I assume you're being sarcastic, but I can't tell for certain.

No, it is simply a good response. I'm British (and have special skills) and can inform you that satherx is either rather obviously sarcastic or a lemon.
The best is the enemy of the good.

You'll find that in most peace deals, bad people get excused of crimes, but it's necessary for the greater good.

There's certainly a moral hazard, but that's part of the deal - if we do things right, the bad situation won't be repeated.
that's called being a spiteful jerk
I'm from Michigan. I think they've worked well.