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What career should I choose?
Hi. I found your thread while looking for more information on (the lack of) Python 3 on Mojave.

As a developer I’m annoyed with having to install third party packages to get access to Python 3. The software Apple ships is also code-signed, which is important to some organizations which relies on binary whitelisting (e.g. github.com/google/santa). Software from Homebrew or Anaconda are typically not code-signed.

I was hoping that perhaps bringing the old Python 2 interpreter up here could lead to more radars for the inclusions of a recent Python 3.x release in the base system.
Not that many (from experience on parliamentary based bodies) it probably takes a couple of years or one full election cycle to know how the system works so you will continually have a poorly trained set of senators/congressmen.

Having a max age limit make more sense or remove the seniority rules used to appoint key committee chairs.

They key thing would be strict maximum $ limits for elections and give candidates free time on the tv networks.
Probably not many -- Congress benefits immensely from the massive institutional knowledge of its older members, and corruption probably doesn't correlate all that closely with age anyways (my recollection is that the congresspeople caught in recent scandals have all been relatively young).

In setting a fixed term limit, we would risk weakening the check that the legislative represents against the executive.
It took me about three weeks to learn Colemak. I practiced with keybr.com but Klavaro is also good.
It was not easy to switch back and forth to qwerty, I forgot how to touch type with qwerty.

If you are going to need to switch to qwerty often and you already type at 130 WPM I would not recommend learning another layout.
I was experimenting with Elm around .14 or .15 if I remember correctly. At the moment the language allowed you to use prime(‘) to name variables, and that was the suggested way if I had to guess by the tutorials and examples.

During next release they decided that primes as part of a name were not their cup of tea and removed it. Just like that. When I asked why was prime no longer allowed, since I couldn’t see any good reason behind it, I got the usual: “it’s pre-1 release you should expect things to change, etc.”

What left a bitter taste in my mouth was that this change had nothing to do with the language itself. It seemed as if they decided that using prime is not good style, so they forbid it.

I haven’t touched Elm since.
Interesting article, but man is there a ton of bloat on that page. I could feel my phone heating up in my hand.
Somebody getting a break doesn’t bring you down, it just brings them up. I’m sorry you had to pay off your loans. I’m paying about $100,000 myself. But even if I didn’t get amnesty, I’d rather not have one more graduate who, like me, has sincerely considered whether simply being dead would be easier to deal with. And there are a lot of people like that. I’d rather be in debt forever if it means that subsequent multitudes can be free of the burden I carry. At least someone gets some relief.
I suspect that very few would be solved - new congresspeople would likely depend more on senior staff to understand complex issues. It’s possible we’d end up with a series of unelected experts who direct policy for relatively inexperienced congress members.
No idea where this guy is coming from. Most companies absolutely require a degree, and most companies absolutely won't bother look at your side projects.

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On the original topic, I went to an extremely cheap school and could not figure out where the money was going. It seemed like they must have been paying the professors $800/hour or something, with all the money involved. Of course they weren't. They were just pissing it away. With what college costs, a student should be able to have a private set of teachers in the manner of royalty--but then you wouldn't have those lovely dormitories they tear down and rebuild every few years.
Precisely. Then we'd get true price discovery.
I'm not sure any problems would be fixed. The way things are now, politicians in the house/senate have to always worry about re-election, and at least create visibility of catering to their electoral base in the run-up to that. If their second term did not have the possibility of re-election, they'd just do what the lobbyists want them to 100% of the time (as opposed to 90%) in exchange for a job after their second term ends.
When the Mac mini goes pro, will the pros get Mac minis?
I never went to college at all and I’m making 150k a year at a large bank. It’s very possible to do with experience. But it takes a lot of experience.
Totally right even more so if you have some one coming outside who doesn't have a clue how the systems work.
Are you more comfortable with a different set of foundations? Intuitionistic? Finitistic or non-completable infinities?
I'm reminded of my old boss, a native Italian who had spent 7 years getting American citizenship. He was vehemently anti-immigrant and thought anything that helped "illegal immigrants" was a bad thing.

Your opinion and his are, to me, examples of one of the worst forms of greed: greed with a reasonable excuse. It is rational and I cannot really fault you for feeling that way, but this form of greed makes fixing the problem much harder to solve.
How productive would you be at your current job if you were told you'll be forced out in 6 months, no matter how happy your stakeholders are with your work?
None; absolutely none. Term limits are a terrible idea because to gain experience with politics and credibility within the establishment requires years. Institute term limits lobbyists gain all the power as they are the only ones who have the clout to get legislation passed. You'd need to institute campaign finance reform and ban lobbyists before you could start terms limits.

But these are just both band aids on America's problems. We are infested with a religion that denies science and education, and we have a political party controlled by 3 families that feel entitled to as much as they can have at the expense of the entire nation. We would need to limit the power of money in politics and reform public education to raise a generation that can see the right for what it is.
I'll take PHP spaghetti over JS any day
The electorate will do what it wants. If people keep electing terrible reps, term limits don’t stop that, it just stops that one particular bad rep and replaces them with another. Similarly, we have some awesome Michigan House members who would be fantastic again, but they’re term-limited and have to run for something else to continue to serve. It’s sad.
I think this mentality is misguided. Many walk into student loans without a full understanding of the debt they are taking on. The mantra of “you must go to college, price be damned” leads many to bite more than they can chew.

Should we blame those that fall prey to predatory loan practices? Especially at 18, most are not fully equipped to evaluate the debt they are signing up for and its implications.

It seems a better approach would be to look at the root of the problem, which is that easy credit for education has incentivized bad apples to exploit vulnerable people. Just because you were smart enough to not be exploited does not mean others should suffer.
I would just be happy with /usr/bin/python3. That’s how it works on the popular Linux distros per https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/
The attitude of 'I suffered so others should have to' is really damaging. I get why that's the instinctive response, but it's also going to lead to a worse society.

By all means argue for a solution that also helps people who made sacrifice in the past, but people who didn't or couldn't being left to suffer is not a solution.

To be clear - I get you are not saying you don't want to solve this because of that, but unfortunately that sentiment often results in policy actually being set like that.

We should always be asking 'how can we pull everyone up' not 'are they going through what I did'. Even if it ends up not benefiting you directly, we all benefit from a better society.

If we could get past the initial point and start implementing stuff like that, it'd give people more faith that it doesn't just invalidate their effort.
So, emotionally you may be angry, but realistically, how would that negatively impact your life?
> Somebody getting a break doesn’t bring you down, it just brings them up.

Well, the assumption here is that the money to "bring them up" can just be materialized out of thin air and doesn't have to be taken from other people, in turn.
What if we just like... paid for school with taxes like literally every other country? (Trust me, it shouldn’t cost as much as it does to get a degree. I promise it can be and, in fact, used to be affordable.)
"...averaging $22,000 in debt by graduation"

That is not very much money. That's a modest new car or a down payment on a small home in a cheap zip code. At low enough interest rates, that monthly bill will be less than most people's cell phone or cable bill.

I think that's a reasonable price for something as unique and transformative as a college experience.

There is obviously a serious problem here, but not necessarily for those students who end up with less than 30k in student debt and do not default. That appears to be the majority of students. I'd like to know how many students are earning a bachelor's degree with more than $30k in debt, and how many of those students attended public universities.
Student loans are a huge drag on the economy, as it postpones other key events in one’s life, such as buying a home.

But something else is going on as well. Lots of these articles talk about student loans as an average, however, the median defaulter looks very different — The median defaulter does so with a loan of Just under 10k [1] and not the average of 22k as shown in this article.

It is worth discussing why the median defaulter is unable to pay roughly $100 per month (assuming a 10y payment plan), and how to address that issue. When viewed from this perspective, the problem does not seem insurmountable.

I was lucky enough to not need to borrow more than the average amount and pay it off quickly.

[1] https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/education-postsecond...
> some players start to spam the mailing list/newsgroup/discussion board for their own benefit, this destroys the commons as more spammers join in. Eventually you need moderators and centralisation,

Mail and news clients have sophisticated filtering abilities that could deal with that issue. I've always wondered why people in general are more than willing to rely in a central party to vet the content they get to see rather than handling it for themselves.
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> Maybe Elm needs some sort of "Please do not use this language in production" sign

That's the point of 0.X.Y supposedly.
This is exactly how I was using it too. Then I tried to move to the build version and all sorts of stuff broke. This was more than two years ago, but that turned off to it. Nowadays I use svelte.
Perspective (anecdote) from a high school student: There is a real push for college. It's an unstated assumption that you're going to go, and the topic of debt seems to be passively avoided ("Don't worry, it'll all work out!"). We receive a grade for the college application process, so you can't not apply. College is still probably a good deal the majority of the time I think, but I wish there was some acknowledgement that it is less important in some fields than others. As for me, I think I'll take a pass on it, for now anyway. There's always time to change my mind later on.
What's it worth to you?
I'll gladly separate out my aluminum if you send me a check each month. How much are you willing to pay?

You see, this isn't about virtue, or saving the planet, or any warm-fuzzy feelings.

It's amount metal.

It's my aluminum.

I bought it. I have already paid my portion of the "enormous energy expenditures". If you want MY aluminum sent to some reprocessing facility, cut me a check each month and I'll sell you MY aluminum.

All this talk of carbon and the environment... did you not read the article?! This is a multi-billion dollar business! This stuff is getting shipped all over the world. Until you -- or someone -- offers me hard cold cash for my aluminum, I'll do with it what I want.
Taxation has been around forever. Society gets to vote and decide how to divide up shared resources. I’m perfectly fine with tax dollars going to education (coupled with drastically-reduced tuition, like it used to be a short couple decades ago). I’m curious why everyone thinks it’s so impossible to have affordable education, when not even a generation ago we actually had it in the US.
I don't think making college free would solve the issue. We have this narrative that you need college to get ahead when there are many quality trade schools, on the job training, and (perhaps a bit controversial) the military. I think we need to give seniors the full picture of options.
My only personal thought is to use as many resources as you can to plan. A lot of places have Tripadvisor forums as well as other old school forums or other pages on the Internet where you can get deeper options than many guidebooks can provide, as well as other opinions of many other people. The biggest issue with Rick Steve is that a single opinionated guide is misinterpreted as a bible. I don't think one single guidebook suffices that well these days.

I have not traveled in Europe for a while, but in most places I have found it fairly easy to escape the crowds. Most of the crowds focus on the top spots; usually it seems like the crowds fade considerably even by walking a short distance a way.

It helps some to have some activity in mind other than "see stuff take pictures", something that fits your interest. Sure, some of these activities can also be crowded, but there is a better chance of much of the crowd being locals.
That has its downsides, but if the people maintaining the language are too lacking in strong opinions about the language, you'll have other kinds of problems: bad features get into the language and now everyone must be prepared to deal with errant use of those features in the wild; there are too many too similar ways to do the same thing, so the language becomes hard to learn and teach; there are features you never normally use, so you're terribly confused when you accidentally invoke them (suppose you have `val` and `var` as two ways to bind variables, but everyone only uses `val` because `var` has some weird extra semantics.)
I think rust went through a huge amount of simmilar changes pre-1.0. I think everyone was better for it. I appreciate they're taking their time to get it right pre-1.0. 1.0 is a fairly solemn promise and I respect them for not taking it lightly.
It all depends on perspective. If you’re friends with a bunch of defense contractors, war could spell good times for you. Hanging out around DC gives me the impression there are quite a few defense contractors.
The converse of this being the assumption that having a huge number of people stuck with hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt is not itself a drag on society that eventually comes out of other people's pockets one way or another anyways.

"I survived a bad system" is not justification for the perpetuation of that system.
> I suffered so others should have to

I didn't "suffer", I just fulfilled the obligations I signed up for when I signed up to my loans.
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Browser code often hangs forever and then the user has to reload the page. There might not be an error message, but this is still a bad user experience.

Personally, I'd rather have the error message.
I do agree. But my point is, concrete problems are much easier to tackle than hypothetical problems.
For a Silicon Valley startup, sure. Most companies outside SV won't look at your resume with some form of CS or SE degree.
I switched in about a month. I never changed the keycaps, so Dvorak was touch-typing only from day one (try all the keys until you find the one you want, looking doesn't help). Now when I use QWERTY I need to look down.

My speed is about the same as it was, but I wasn't looking for more speed.
Perhaps one day daylight "bent" by a sufficiently strong black hole and turned back toward the Earth can be collected and analyzed revealing pre-historic and possibly even ancient conditions of the world. Of course, this would be birds-eye, but who can fathom the ability of light to be analyzed by sensors developed several millennia hence. Man may one day obtain images of the Permian–Triassic extinction event, flocks of pterosaurs migrating, or something as detailed as Socrates being led off to prison for his execution.
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> "as politicians concern themselves more so with existential power struggle"

I've been watching The Vietnam War documentary. Nothing angers me more than hearing Presidentsspeak about "re-election" in the same sentences as they speak about mass casualty campaigns as if it's one of the primary strategic considerations of a war that kills hundreds of thousands.

Politicians who have insulated themselves from the effects of the economy, the same way they insulate themselves from the effects of war, will be forever out of touch and therefore incapable of properly representing their people.

Was it the Abrams Doctrine, I think, that described the purpose of Total War being that decision makers think twice because its their children, their constituencies, their local, State, and Federal economies that pay the price of war? Maybe the same concept needs to exist for education, healthcare, and climate change. Not that Total War exists anymore...
And what if one political party loses by 4 points when voters have a college degree and loses by 21 points when voters have a postgraduate degree? [0]

The controversy is that one political party wants education to be difficult to obtain.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_ele...
In the end I think it's a good thing to be strict in language design and openly reject many ideas and suggestions. I guess it's a case of "too many cooks spoil the broth".

Most languages have too many features anyway so removing them can be a positive thing.
I think the difference with Go is the Google backing. Go ignores community feedback, but not the feedback it gets from within Google. So at least it can justify itself by saying, this works for Google, and that's proof enough its pretty damn good.

Elm's BDFL cannot make such claim, since he doesn't use it to build products closely similar in nature to most users of Elm. I think this is both good and bad. Its good in that Elm is more ideological in nature, since the creator is not motivated to break his ideologies by real world constraints. Its bad, because people who have those constraints must find ways to shoehorn the beautiful ideology, into the dirty real world. That's where a lot of the user pain comes from.
By Energy Department, they mean the Department of Energy (DoE), right?
With PAYE and IBR, why does anyone default?
If someone majored in a degree that didn’t have great career prospects, should they suffer for that?

Is college only for job training, or is it for something a little different?

I’m not criticizing your viewpoint; as another commenter said, I understand some of the reasons you may hold this view. However, I do not feel that people who majored in, say, English - against their own likely knowledge that it would be difficult to find a job applying the skills they learned directly in search of a job - should suffer because of the debt they incurred. But I also think they should continue to get training in an area that is needed, or work at something for which they are already qualified.
Not really apprenticeship's tended to be only for skilled trades and technicians and where designed for the working class kids who left school at 14-16

Not sure degrading the status of the "professional" jobs we do is going to help even more so now that Walmart and co are taking the piss by abusing apprenticeship's to get cheap shelfstackers.

In some countries used to be all but impossible for those on the apprentice track to go to university at all (Germany and Austria for example)
That’s exactly the kind of answers I got instead of giving me one good engineering reason on why primes were made forbidden just like this. Thanks for the demonstration.
Can someone say at what point does delinquency turn into default?

Also I was under the impression that student loan debt could not be charged off, even in bankruptcy.
Yeah for peoples reference the new guy showed up to parliament with a lump of coal and yelled “don’t be afraid of coal!”.

Looks like Australia will have a 45% renewable target in the next 6 months.
Perhaps I'm missing something, but it seems a big leap to base such exaggerated projections from only 2 years worth of data. All the graphs have 0 (zero) as their first year data point (2012) and indicate that tracking ceased in 2014.
Evan probably talks about you in the first minute of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGlzRt-FYto
There is a high school class dedicated to applying to college, with the “final project” being that you applied somewhere? Wow... this is surprising to me!

Can you apply to any school, including trade schools for, say, welding?
I understand mostly because it has been regulated to death
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well, the relative distance is usually more important than the absolute value

your are rich, compared to other, not in the absolute, if you have 1 million dollars, and everyone else have one million dollars, you are not rich

one way not to punish those who acted responsibility, is by bumping up their credit score, this way, they can get deals on mortgages etc ..., and those who were bailed out, should get their credit score neither penalized or bumped
Are you sure back when I left school (uk) maybe in 2018 not so much.

Also many other countries have much more stratified systems and degrees are mandatory
Forget the article, I skim read your comment.

I think much is to do with the format - reading on a small screen I feel I skim more than on a desktop monitor.
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>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.

Historical philosophers are not even remotely comparable to present-day popular authors, a more fair comparison would be to present-day philosophers. Present-day popular authors are best compared to old popular authors, like the ones who wrote books on manners for 1800s Americans who wanted to use their affluence to become more like old-world elites, or the 1950s authors that wrote manuals on how to "be a man."
Haven't the speed of CPU and memory flipped since then?
Most consumer debt is not in the form of a hard money loan (actual dollars) but rather by the money creation mechanisms (money multiplier) of our fractional reserve system. The money created by the loan was effectively "materialized out of thin air" although the debtor does enjoy enrichment from the receipt of the money.

Banks, on the other hand, won't be suffering if reforms are made; they will simply not be able to realize as much interest from the loans they issued.
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Type checkers can be of great help when refactoring, though.