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The countries that are most capitalistic actually have a situation where the woods are coming back. Massive forests are growing all over Europe and North America because we don't need to cut them down and farm them like we did in the middle ages.

Deforestation is mostly a problem in poor society, with bad institutions, governments not caring or understanding the problems faced by the people who deforests and are thus unable to find a reasonable way to manage forest resources.

> In a capitalist economy, why would anyone maintain a forest?

Go back in history and you will see how false that is. Forest have been maintained for profit for 1000s of years. Some for forestry, others for hunting, some for human enjoyment, some for tourism.

In fact forests today or usually less managed then historically, forest all over Europe were not eradicated completely precisely because they could be exploited for wood over time, and thus were maintained.
well the capsule itself worked fine!
Hey, so... Orthodox priests bless literally everything. It's so common for them to bless things like rifles, tanks, parachutes, liquor, et cetera, that it's kind of an in-joke in Orthodox cultures and regions. But you go look online and you'll see them blessing I mean literally everything.
"Socially liberal folk"

Bit of a can of worms with that one - what does socially liberal mean? The Australian Liberals are reasonably socially liberal, they just think the current status quo is pretty good and there is no need to change that. Anyway...

There are big trans-national political umbrellas, the Australian Liberals are aligned with the IDU like the US Republicans (https://www.idu.org) and the Australian Labor Party are aligned with he Progressive Alliance like the US Democrats (http://progressive-alliance.info/en/).
It's abnormal in my experience too. But I heard it, and I watched the congregation during it. Don't dismiss it.

I think a lot of us are learning that peoples' positions can be easily swayed. That's frightening.
Just because a folder is currently empty doesnt mean its not used and assumed to exist by some program. Delete shouldnt have been called, period.
It’s also demonstratively untrue.

100,000 words is, by itself almost certainly under a megabyte.

(Avg word length (let’s say 6) * number of words = number of bytes)

If you count -everything- then you’re basically insinuating that people on data caps are either consuming less (and because it’s an average, everyone else consumes much more) or outright claiming that you can quantify data that is consumed outside of a computational device.
I'm a big fan of cacti. I've not managed to kill one (yet). Also anecdotally I found I was killing plants because I overwatered them. Turns out they don't need love as often as I (and I think a lot of people) thought. Apparently a good generic test is checking if the soil is damp - don't water if it is.

Anyway, just asked this question to the founder of a start-up I'm working with. She replied "Sansevierras thrive on neglect and low light calatheas are good" - if that helps? As an aside / plug if you're in the UK: https://bloomboxclub.com - she's set up HN10 which will give you 10% off all plants / plant subscriptions for the next few days and want some (more?!) greenery :-)
Jaron Lanier is interesting in the same way the RMS is interesting. You don't have to subscribe to all of their views to get something useful out of reading their output. RMS is the better prophet.
> I don't agree that energy efficiencies is what have lead to larger displays

That wasn’t my point, and was why I originally said that you and Sharlin seemed to be talking past each other.

LCDs took off because of their physical advantages (weight/thickness/heat, although the heat it produces has to be correlated with energy input) despite their shortcomings (fixed resolution, limited brightness and contrast ratio, response time) and plasma screens were an attempt to deal with those shortcomings but are now mostly dead. As you say, improved efficiency was correlative but not entirely causative.

A naive view would have been that as LCDs took off, their efficiency would lead to a drop in power consumption over CRTs. The Jevins paradox shows that not necessarily to be the case - bourne out by the proliferation of displays where previously there were none and in displays getting larger.
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Rome of that age was very self aware of the histories of the many city states that had risen and fallen before them, as I think the very story describes. The personal choices made by leaders of those many prior city-empires were the very reasons for each to fail on the global stage. The Aeneid was the zeitgeist of Roman manifest destiny under the imperial banner.
Every once in a while an MS support thread actually has a useful answer in it... given by some random internet commenter about 15 posts after MS support has determined only a reinstall will fix the problem.
Does it also imply that a non-blocking event loop in the userspace application is energy-inefficient?

Likewise, given that some OSes APIs (syscalls) provide both non-blocking and blocking modes, should we prefer the blocking ones concerning energy efficiency?
Pothos technically doesn’t even have to be planted. You can leave the cuttings in a vase of water for years and they’ll be perfectly happy. And I’ve seen a planted one bounce back after a month without water (though they thrive best being watered at least weekly).

The only thing it doesn’t like is light. Of course, as a plant, it needs some light to grow. But its threshold is ridiculously low. Even plenty of indirect light will cause it to grow small, sparse leaves instead of dense, broad ones. I recommend putting it in the darkest corner that exists in a room that has a window.
Examples:

Orthodox Priests Blessing Things https://twitter.com/blagoslovie
Thanks for bringing some poetry to tech land :)
I was actually surprised at the lackluster performance on the cloud products as well and recently spun up a dedicated box for a workload that actually required consistent performance. I never expected the performance to match a bare metal option of course, but coming from any of the other cloud providers I expected it to be more equivalent than it turned out to be.
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To answer your question correctly, we'd need to know what's your climate like. But, if you didn't give us that information, I'd of course recommend you a cactus like everyone else.

But if you live in an island like me, Devil's ivy aka Money Plant is my choice. Scientific name: Epipremnum aureum.

https://www.amazon.com/Golden-Devils-Ivy-Pothos-Epipremnum/d...

It's an excellent plant that you'll quickly fall in love with, while requiring very little maintenance. In asian culture, this plant is considered to bring good luck, prosperity and money. Hence the name.

I recommend it not for those reasons, but from a purely plant owner experience point of view. You can control its direction as it can creep. Mine goes around my 27" monitor so it's really a beautiful sight to see.
Many years ago I was involved in a product called DiskFax which was similar. Used a fax modem which gave 9600bps even over crappy links like satellite.

I believe there is one in the NSA museum as we did a version where the serial link between the modem and UART was broken out to the back so an encryption unit could be plugged in (I seem to recall it was used to send details of PoWs during the Bosnian conflicts)

One odd major use area was for sending disks with patterns for knitting machines around the world.

Oh and for those with a Sinclair fetish the case was designed by the Sinclair designer Rick Dickinson.
It is important, because it is very important to have production traffic.

If you live in a centralised internet then what those big parties do is important.

I don't care what version of SSH any of those big parties are running.

Many services have a decentralised version. And when you really care about security, it is worth setting up local servers instead of hoping that those big parties really give you the service you need.
that's not true at all. the entire point of .net core is to address this very issue with the .net framework.
yes it does indeed. I'm not saying it's perfect, but it is a very convenient way of generating a static site with more complex content than simple markdown :)
The good news here is we're all going to find out very soon just how hard it might be.
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Agree. Also, even watching videos for 24 hours it seems unlikely that you'd go through 34GB worth. Maybe the size of video files has gone way up since I was a movie downloader, but 12 2 hour movies is probably < 34GB..
Remember his name ?

I always thought that the limit of cyber/ai if eco-friendly survival, self-repair to an extent and reproduction was factored in would be homosapiens.exe
A little more footage from moments before the failure of the booster which happens sometime between 3m39 and 4m39s in the video, listen to the Russian comms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0l5QBmqQoI&t=3m38s
This is what I used to help cure my black thumb:

Cricket chirp when your plant needs water.

https://www.adafruit.com/product/1965?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI2LuJ...
The precise number doesn't really matter. The strongman interpretation is that we just read and skim too much each day.
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You know, when I go shopping for tools what I do is I find people who know nothing about tools and ask them what they use.
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You should click and read the article then, because the new material uses chloroplasts (a plant cell organelle).
Yeah, that's silly. 34 gb is 34 billion bytes, so if each byte is a character and the average word about 5 characters, 34 gb should be more like 6.8 billion words.

Also, most of that 34 gb is probably video anyway, in which case we may as well say the ancients consumed many gb of information per day in the form of looking at the world around them.
The Cavendish banana is facing extinction
Fiddle Leaf Fig plants are a great choice.

https://www.google.com/search?q=fiddle+leaf+fig&tbm=isch
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Cherry tomatoes (because they're smaller and lighter they don't require much support), chili peppers, maybe strawberries (mine ended up getting aphids though).

I've written a bit about this back when I played with indoor gardening: https://sdfjkl.org/blog/starting-hydroponics/

For obvious reasons I was only interested in food plants :)
8g was probably from the parachutes deploying, although you do experience very slightly more than 1g acceleration while in freefall, as you encounter increasing air resistance (and significantly more in reentry).
God complex as the ignorance / greed spectrum.

It only works if you can sell your [bad re]creation to an audience.
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Wherever you want to maintain “growth” you’ll eventually hit the limit of the finiteness of the resources. “Growth” is simply not sustainable. Like you write in another comment it’s basic math.
The issue is that zeroing pages in the background is a pessimization, that should not ever be done. The user-mode program that allocates some memory is typically not going to be able to use only writes that allocate new cache lines without reading memory. So to compare the two systems:

Your system: memory is released, kernel clears it in the background, wasting write bandwidth (which might not matter for anything except power if the system was idle at the time), and when the user-mode program starts using it, it will start writing and every new line they write to will trigger a spurious read.

Modern Linux: memory is released, kernel lets it lie, not using any power or bandwidth to do anything to it, until an user-mode program allocates it and touches the page. Then the kernel picks up the page, writes the entire page with 0:es using whatever idiom on that CPU allows it to just allocate the page in cache without reading it from the RAM. This is really fast, faster than a single memory fetch. The user-mode program can then directly use it without having to fetch anything from DRAM.
besides the things already mentioned (comments throttling after 5 comments, elitist downvoting only for likeminded who gain karma and fading downvoted comments, site almost useless on touch devices) comments not collapsed by default irritates me a lot, sometimes i am not interested in lengthy discussion under parent but curious about completely different comment
The thing I keep thinking is that I want to have social software built on a co-operative model (like a food co-op): you all pay some nominal membership fee (could you fund servers and developers on $5/year/user?), and the software would then be developed to fit the agreed-upon needs of the community, without dark patterns or behavior modification projects, openly, and with some kind of community governance (which need not be exclusive of technical leadership).

Obviously this would probably never get the global reach of a no-fee Facebook, but I would use something like this in a second, many of my friends would too, and I sometimes daydream about what I would need to do to get it off the ground.
Oculus could have shipped CV1 a couple years sooner, it is essentially identical to DK2. There was a lot of good will (and developer energy) squandered during those two years. To give just one example of where the major players have misstepped.
Long ago I watched this video that describes Soyuz reentry. I thought it was cool at the time, and I think it really gives context to the occasion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l7MM9yoxII
Oh that's neat, I wish it were in the US as well as the UK. I'd subscribe!
I saw an absolutely epic debate between Jaron and a Singulatarian. He totally called them out on being religious in that they were just trying to make a geek version of the Christian rapture. I agree that the guy is like RMS in that he is an original thinker who works from first principles and that tends to give him an understanding that is unique and worth listening to.

BTW, Speaking of RMS and Jaron, is there some requirement that you have to have an iconic hair style to be a revered tech commentator?
By many accounts, Hololens is better in most respects, and it's a few years old!
With trees and porous materials, this is known as "wicking". With humans and biology, it's the clotting factor that prevents bleeding out. There are downsides to this as well, blood clots in veins and arteries can cause heart attacks, strokes.

I read about this recently and found it fascinating - specifically related to tree height, but alludes to other implications.

https://livescience.com/14667-tall-trees-grow.html
Note that this seems to be about not waking up the CPU (by timer ticks) more frequently, to allow it to go into a deeper sleep --- AFAIK the actual "idle loop" just executes the HLT instruction, which puts the CPU in a "wait for interrupt" state, and for newer CPUs they go into successively lower power states the longer they're halted.

This reminds me that earlier operating systems like DOS and Win9x kept the CPU in a busy polling loop when idle --- which was great for responsiveness, but not power consumption nor heat; applications like http://www.benchtest.com/rain.html soon appeared, which replaced the idle loop with an actual HLT loop and actually had a noticeable effect. The DOS version is at https://maribu.home.xs4all.nl/zeurkous/download/mirror/dosid...
You're totally right in that coding tests can and probably should be done "blind".

When it gets to the "let's meet" stage, it could be possible that the bias just comes back. Yes this woman made a perfect score on the coding but she's a woman and I'm not going to hire her for reason X that just bubbled up out of my biased brain. I can totally see that happening, unfortunately.
My thought about the article is that basically the author has gotten too negative. He is so distracted with attacking the ad-supported social software we have that he gave up thinking about the software we need.
If Germany cares about their car industry they'll force ten percent per year drops in ICE sales to force them to compete in electrics.
I'm growing a Pineapple, and my SO is growing a Japanese Black Pine ! :)
The best solution to this problem I heard was to along these lines:

* have a separation between accounts and users. Account is the entity that pays for the service. Usually account has users associated.

* collect payment/credit card information on account creation

This way, you don't really care about user+1, because you have their payment info already, and can assume at least some intention to pay after their free tier is up.

There are many legitimate reasons why somebody while doing evaluation would create several users, i.e. I do name@a.com as well as name+testing@a.com in few services.

If you find out that too many of your customers are not willing to pay, look at it more as a business problem, trying to reach better customers that you can charge more, rather than to better enforce some account de-duplication.

I think I heard this approach from patio11, Amy Hoy or some interview on Mixergy?
Yes - some people are very, very social. There are a good number of people that have drinks towards the end of the day - like any other office-y environment, you just need to take the leap to talk to people. Of course I've seen people here who never speak to anyone, but the larger percentage people do talk.

Personally - I'll come in, say my good mornings to the people I know, sit down and put headphones on and power through. Occasionally I'll go make a drink, where I may have ten minutes of screen break / water cooler chat. There's proper 'social' drinks once a week, and probably 1 or 2 other 'events'. At the drinks especially it's easy to just say "hey" and get talking. It's easier if you're a hotdesker and you see that face every day. Otherwise you'll bump into people throughout the day. You just need to chit chat - "Hey, that smells good, what is it?" / "Sorry, can I just grab the milk from behind you? ... I don't think we've met before..." etc.

I gotta say it was invaluable to me - I had maybe 5 years at home beforehand and I'd be bouncing off the walls by 6pm. Social interaction, even lightly, is very beneficial.

Hope that answers your question!
transfer file with Skype? are you kidding? You had plenty of free stream service... Skype is just a bloatware/malware.
I was actually surprised that this isn't how redirection is implemented. Seems like an easy enough fix that would catch everything.
In my experience this is not totally the case. I have a patio that gets bright light for a few hours a day (it's surrounded by buildings and I'm rarely home during the day). The pothos I've put outside grow better (leaves are wider/longer and branches grow faster) than the ones I've kept in solely indirect light.
Not really, AMULET was an asynchronous (i.e. un-clocked) ARM implementation intended to explore a new cpu design.

The aim was low-power-usage, but they came at it from a different direction. This is referring to the OS control over power-states on a traditional (clocked) processor.

AMULET gained its low-power capabilities from not clocking any unused functional blocks during normal usage, same aim, different strategy.
It really is just a few people in a room that decide how to do this. This Bloomberg article has more details: https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/graphics/2016-nuclear-wea...

The verification step is just that they have to acknowledge that the person ordering the launch is indeed the president. They get no say in whether it happens.

> There’s also no obligation for the
> military to obey an illegal order.

The entire system is designed as to minimize the discretion of commanders on the ground.

Once the launch order goes submarine crews or crews in various missile silos aren't going to be given the chance to check what Trump has been saying on Twitter, and they have no independent way to verify that North Korean / Russian / Chinese ICBMs aren't already in-flight heading towards every major city in the US.
It sounds like you are right.
Here is the list of house/indoor plants which promote cognitive function in order of ease of maintenance:

Areca Plam (Chrysalidocarpus lutescens AKA Dypsis lutescens) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dypsis_lutescens

Mother-in-law's Tongue/Snake Plant (Sansevieria trifasciata) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sansevieria_trifasciata

Money Plant (Epipremnum aureum) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epipremnum_aureum

Boston Fern (Nephrolepis Exaltata) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephrolepis_exaltata

Peace Lilly (Spathiphyllum) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spathiphyllum

Gerbera Daisy (Gerbera jamesonii) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerbera_jamesonii

Spider plant (Chlorophytum comosum) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorophytum_comosum

English Ivy (Hedera helix) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedera_helix

Take the list of plants to your local plant nursery to see how many of them they have in stock.
Buying them already established is much cheaper/easier than growing them from seed/cuttings.

According to Allen et Al 2015 (see link below), having pure/fresh air in your working environment significantly improves cognitive function. i.e. having indoor plants makes you smarter!

> Associations of Cognitive Function Scores with Carbon Dioxide, Ventilation, and Volatile Organic Compound Exposures in Office Workers: A Controlled Exposure Study of Green and Conventional Office Environments ~ https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/27662232/4892924...

> Conclusion: Office workers had significantly improved cognitive function scores when working in Green and Green+ environments compared with scores obtained when working in a Conventional environment.

> We’ve been researching this for: “home” https://github.com/dwyl/home/issues/8

Relevant YouTube videos on this topic:

https://youtu.be/gmn7tjSNyAA

https://youtu.be/lPNYdSZRSdg

https://youtu.be/9dG9K8IQo7s
Easier to read overview: Lifehacker
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NASA PDF - Interior landscape plants for Indoor air pollution abatement:
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/199300...
This is not VCS friendly. Resize any column and you have to rewrite 99% of the file, tracking changes becomes hell on earth.
It only matters if energy consumption is large compared to cost of the device or otherwise total cost of ownership. If PCs use only half the wattage that they used to consume, then it doesn't meaningfully change how many computers (or how powerful single computer) I can afford, because paying for the computers themselves dwarfs the payment for running them.
The original point was the Jevin paradox, which says that increased efficiency leads to more efficient consumption. We’re now going round in circles about the causes of the decline of CRTs relative to flat panels, which is definitely a divergence.

I suspect if you re-ran the study you’d get a number bigger than 2, which (qualitatively) is the point I was getting at!
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On one hand, it's indeed odd to hear that shit's on fire whilst the screen shows an all happy scenario; On the other hand, it's the cheaper way of doing things - instead of having to live-render the spacecraft and all telemetry that you need to get from a probably isolated system, just play a video. Trajectory and events are predetermined, so unless something goes wrong, the video is fully sufficient.

I'm reminded a bit of the moment when I learned that the action movie heroes are just actors.