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This sounds like a short-lived view to me and the exact kind of sentiment I hear in the climate-change skeptic circles. It is one thing to have a handful of humans survive in an underground bunker somewhere, and a whole different thing to have the species colonize the Galaxy. One is barely surviving and the other is thriving.

You cannot deny that our best bet for long-term survival is to get off this planet. Musk is perhaps a rich idiot, as you put it, but at least he has the right vision.
For what it’s worth, I’ve been absolutely smoked in 5k races by people who were 40+. Instead of offending those people by implying they don’t have the stamina to keep up, just say no. People respect “no.” No one respects disingenuous language.
Why? Can you give an example of someone that would be excluded?
I think that this one is a bit different, because part of experiment is that audience will intentionally skip non-verbal clues that you would otherwise use to judge how they react to your talk.
You can still get them. I'm sitting in one right now.
If he were a muslim and added some Sufi-inspired rules I don't think there would have been more complaints than the Rule of St. Benedict gave rise to. If he cited those parts of islamic scripture which call for conquest by the sword there would - hopefully - have been uproar as those espouse an exclusive and oppressive ideology, just like there would have been more of an uproar if the sqlite project cited the more vile parts of, say, Deuteronomium.

I see this 'code of conduct' as a literary form of pro-biotics [1], there to protect against invasion by harmful non-transcendental religions like intersectionality which have the capacity to sow discord and tear communities apart into warring factions. Even though I do not believe in transcendental gods I have no problems accepting the Rule as I see it for what it is, an abstraction of monastic life written to the benefit of medieval monks. I am under no vow of obedience or poverty and I am rarely in a situation where I have to bury the dead so I know I can skip those parts which are not applicable. In truth, I realise I can skip just about everything except the bit which tells me to treat others as I'd like to be treated myself.

[1] a mixture of safe bacteria which is supposed to colonise the gut to keep the bad ones out
> And I would encourage you not to say it in private contexts with friends either.

Not sure it's any of your business what he says to his friends in private, even if you have an autistic son.
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Doing nothing is not advertising. The only way for this to be used in advertisement was from Mr. Robot fans to Firefox.

> lack of consent

Pretend it was a copy of about:blank when you answer this question: What makes this different from the giant pile of patches merged into each release of firefox that you don't read?
I really wonder what's going to happen to Linux once Linus is gone. I think we've seen now that just a week after he took a break the community started falling apart rapidly.
One trick I use: start from the bottom of the wall of error messages. Often the root cause of the problem will indicated there.
So why is IQ increasing in the US while declining in Northern Europe?
Was it sqlite that had a special clause allowing redhat users to use it for evil purposes?
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My reading of that is that initial meetings are highest risk, but the severity can be the same with long term acquaintances.
So what's the material difference between the cold wallet and the hot wallet if funds from the cold wallet can be moved into the hot wallet freely?
Does replying to your comment also immortalise one's name to the great John Carmack's?
> The Moon is right next door.

Yes it is.

What benefit do we get from this?

It means we could go there more frequently. I don't see why that itself is reason enough for it, once you consider all the other pros and cons.

It does not mean it requires less fuel to get there. The fuel requirements are primarily for getting into orbit. Once there it doesn't really matter the distance you travel.

> It is obviously a much better ground to learn to live in a self-sustained way on another planet.

It is not obviously so. The wikipedia link I provided goes into this a bit, and Zubrin goes into much more detail in his book.

If it's so obviously better, why don't you outline the reasons why it's meant to be better.

> The point is that settling on the Moon is an obvious first step.

But you haven't argued this point, aside from saying it's closer to us and asserting that "It is obviously a much better ground to learn to live in a self-sustained way".
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It's kind of unclear whether $10,000 is Bronze or Silver.
Excellent point. I'm just going to get out in front of it and claim that nostalgia is the cause.
You have made the same misleading comments over and over again and it seems unreasonable.

The situation we have here is that something seems suspicious. From the perspective of this group, who have a fair bit of experience at this, either Ancestry stumped up what they consider an unreasonable sum, or they performed digitisation under what they consider unreasonable circumstances. Why is it unreasonable to require the state to explain what happened?
Thank you for your insightful comment!

I agree with you on most points but would like to add another aspect to it. While I agree that we have somewhat of a personal responsibility to be moral and do the right thing, the pressures in a market do make it very hard to follow through on our values. If you are refusing someone else is taking the job. Thus, it is also a collective problem and not only an individual. In a perfect world, we would have an effecatious rule system which could help us enforce generally shared values more effectively than what we have right now.

I think you allude to this point when you write about “software engineering and finance” as important fields. Ideally, we would be able to create incentives in these whole professions/markets that are aligned with societies interests, however, I think that requires a shift in perspective. Away from anonymous (unregulated) markets towards treating these fields more like coherent self-governed entities with desired values and goals which are incentivized by the rules that are set in place. For that to work we would need a very flexible and efficient regulatory system though that is more akin to science than the politics we have right now. People who come up with new ideas would need to be able to propose and self-regulate new fields that may be able to improve societies well-being. Let people set targets for themselves and demonstrate their value to society as part of doing business. That’s how science has worked so well for the last couple of centuries.

Hope those rough thoughts make sense to someone :)
Hopefully natural selection will bring us a profile similar to Linus that will take over the job.
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> If they are asking NY to do the work, then yes, that price sounds fair.

What exactly does the work entail? You appear to be speaking from a place of knowledge, even though you got the basic facts of the case incorrect as posted above.
What would be wrong with that?
I am now waiting for a post from Linus entitled: "Behaviour therapists are just bullshitters" ;)
I'm pretty sure it wan't intended at first place though.
But you do see the difference between believing in what you listed up and believing in what you replied to? There is a difference between "maybe the guy crossed the street over there" and "maybe aliens teleported the guy from the sidewalk". The two suggestions are not equally worth believing in.
Did it? People actually involved in the Linux community seemed fine. It was just internet people shouting "the sky is falling!"
RISC OS was the majority OS in British schools for part of the 1990s. It's not difficult to use, though it does have some different paradigms. Or rather, it went 100% for some UI decisions which other OSs only have as secondary features.

Middle click opens a menu (like a right click menu on Windows). Usually this is the main menu, the context will change depending where you click -- to get a save option, you need to click on an open document.

Everything is accessed through the file browsing windows. Opening document and applications, and saving documents (dragging them into an open window). Drag and drop is very common.

I think that's all :-)
I saw a Sherlock Holmes quote on here once, I liked it and I think it's relevant to your comment so I'll post it here.

"You see," he explained, "I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skilful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones."
Plot of my book for sure. Thank you very much !
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However, I am now dying to find out who she is, and why she was banned...
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When I looked into having some of these events at our Makerspace a few years ago, I found that the branding was very restrictive as well. My takaway was that they demanded that you put their logo on everything you do and every event you put on, even if it has nothing to do with them.

There's no way in hell I was going to agree to that.
Sure, but it's plausible that kind of memory is measured differently. It's been decades since I took an IQ test, but one component was "digit span", where they'd give you longer and longer strings of arbitrary digits and see where you couldn't keep up. As someone programming before copy/paste that was a skill I practiced all the time, so I was freakishly good at it.
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Kernel fragments into a dizzying array of forks, TrueLinux, RealKernel, Linux Core, LinuxPlus and DogeKernel fight for supremacy on obscure making lists and github issue trackers.

The public remains largely unaware.

Huge PR battles over which logo to use erupt, somebody sneaks backdoors into the majority of the kernels. Somebody else backdoors the backdoors. Pretty soon over half the code base consists of backdoors and embedded nVidia graphics drivers.

Buzzfeed publish a list of 15 linux kernels you won't believe exist. A week has now passed since Linus left the project, and we have hit Peak Kernel.

Linux fades from the cusp of becoming a mainstream desktop OS and eventually settles into a niche server role until the 2038 bug wipes out humanity due to some buggy memory management running on an ICBM launch computer.

Chrome OS sees a slight uptick in users.
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Terraforming is an interesting concept. Are there even ideas how to keep the thin atmosphere near the surface?
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Yes, the feature has been there since iOS 1.0. Siri on iOS 4.0 started making use of it to enable voice commands (e.g. “call Mom”)
There is a bunch of successful companies led by graduate from theses kind of school.
Check out vente privée CTO.
Another example could be the core team that developed docker that was from there as well.
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Halaula, the great messiah has returned after a few weeks reformed. Next up unconscious biases training at Google HQ.
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From TFA:

"As Flynn and Shayer note, Scandinavian IQ declines might well presage future trends in other countries. It may be that, once we’ve made our schools as good as theirs, we’ll see our Flynn effect max out, and then whatever channels feed their anti-Flynn effect will show up in our data, too."
And where are the weapons to enforce this?

- "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun"
Both my parents had a similar experience migrating from Microsoft Windows to Macos. It literally opened a new world for them.
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Most likely they are younger than 45, but didn't age well :) I work with guys who in their late 20's but look way over 45...
I've been using a Salli chair for 3-4 years. I can't say anything about actual effectiveness, but can give some anecdotes.

* It doesn't force you into a straight-back posture, but it makes it as easy as slouching. If you stop concentrating you don't fall into a poor posture.

* There's really only one way to sit on the chair, with your sit-bones taking most of the pressure. In a normal office chair I can switch between a set of different slouches to move the pressure between points, but not with this chair. I bought a height adjustable desk to compensate and switch between sitting and standing several times a day.

* It takes a fair amount of strength. I don't remember if it took me time to build muscle initially, and on a day to day basis I don't notice any tiredness or anything, but when I'm sick it is _really_ hard to sit on this chair - I feel like I'm going to pass out (maybe not to that extent, but it's quite noticable).

* I bought the first one for $800, but AFAICT they've come down to $300ish this year maybe due to competition. They're sturdy and really nicely built, but in the end it's just a stool with some curves.

* May or not be related, but I found my back getting really stiff because it is literally straight all day - sleeping, standing up, sitting on the Salli chair, etc, which worries me a bit.

* You sit at a much higher level than with normal chairs, so you'll need a higher desk to accommodate.
I’m sorry I haven’t made it obvious that I’m committed to working for this sinking ship rather than pitching quantum computers, consciousness transference in mice, or antimatter cubes, all of which i’m assuming most ppl who hack are aware of.
Imagine for a moment that tomorrow we create a technology capable of safely and completely filtering out all unwanted greenhouse gases from human carbon emitters tomorrow, and then expelling them into space - all for a price that was practically $0. And now consider what would happen following that. It's not like suddenly we'd be living in a world where everybody's happy and peaceful with no outstanding issues. Instead we'd just promote one of our countless other issues to the top of the zeitgeist. Maybe rising cancer rates, decreasing fertility rates, increasing mental/psychological disorder rates, increasing obesity rates, decreasing educational outcomes in certain nations, maybe it's just the whole slew of issues afflicting places like Africa, or whatever else. Whatever it is, it'd be something. And it'd be pretty grim.

Taking in mind that we'd simply come up with a new clear and present enemy #1 to focus on, would you then suddenly become supportive of interplanetary colonization just because humanity's contribution to climate change was curbed? We will always have issues, and indeed dire issues.
Docker is hard to use. There is still space for a simple solution to implement cross platform.
What I read about was Kernel contributors having some friction with the CoC. That got blown up by the press a bit, but it wasn't only the press.
> I think Rust need strong leaders to layout a clear and stable plan, so more things can be standardized across it's ecosystem (Somewhat like what Go did, for example, io.Reader && io.Writer is life changing for me). In that way I can keep my hate meter at a safe level.

Just to add my opinion, not to disagree: I followed the development of Rust for several years now (starting before 1.0). Rust's approach to language evolution is very much community-driven (like you said). But this also led to many really good ideas coming from people with different backgrounds. Today, Rust feels like a highly optimized breed of good ideas taken from many programming languages and I know of no other language that feels like that. Sure, every new language gets inspiration from older languages, but Rust appears to be more "extreme" than other languages (and I do not mean "extreme" in a negative sense). This was most visible in the pre-1.0 era. People had different ideas how the language should work and the Rust team tried different things and iterated on the things they learned. And I think this was totally worthwhile.

Let's talk about Python for a moment. I really like Python. It is a language with clear conventions and idioms. And most likely it achieved this state thanks to Guido van Rossum who had very clear ideas about what the language should be. And one of the core ideas is simplicity. Python (being inspired by ABC) was meant to be easy to learn (because of it's simplicity).

Now, let's go back to Rust. Rust also has clear ideas: "Rust is a systems language pursuing the trifecta: safety, concurrency, and speed" (Quoted from: This Week in Rust). And yes, "consistency" or "ease of learning" are not listed as the core ideas. However, when you look at the Rust roadmap for 2017 you will also see that the team has prioritized the following items:

* Rust should have a lower learning curve

* productivity (which includes easier usage of the language)

These issues are definitely on the radar of the Rust team. But I also think that these issues can only be tackled by an entire community which shares and discusses ideas. Rust tries to be much more than other languages and I think it is highly unlikely that a single leader will know how to direct the language in a specific direction. There are still a lot of things to be figured out. For example, let's see if the failure crate becomes the standard for error handling in Rust.
I'd need the startup to pay me 25% MORE than the comfortable job to even consider it. Startups can be pretty demanding and stressful.
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And ignoring how we have access to several orders of magnitude more knowledge, and not just 'we' as in 'we westerners' but all around the world, billions of people are getting connected to the internet and the vast array of knowledge (and cat pictures) that's available there.

I don't know about people getting dumber, I'd argue people are getting broader in terms of knowledge (and inane knowledge, and cat pictures). However, overall as humanity we're growing in knowledge at an enormous rate, with financial measures like GDP to follow (see e.g. China whose GDP multiplied several times over in the past 30 years).
Creating an illusion of security does not mean that something is actually secure.

Here's an example - AWS VPC connections only supports IKEv1. (https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=252723)
(https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/adminguide/Introducti...)

IKEv1 vs. IKEv2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Key_Exchange#Improvem...
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> Montreal's salaries are so low it's almost a disgrace.

> Yes the city is also cheaper, but it still doesn't compare.

I cannot highlight this enough.

I got offered $90k/year (base salary, no stock options, one bonus capped at 10%)

For a Senior Engineering position at a company with big infrastructure and capital.

If that's an offer for a Senior Engineer, I cannot imagine what a Junior is getting.
>Probability of finding a place to be left alone with a small group of like minded people. 0

Probability of doing the same on Mars, where even getting there means submitting to all kinds of established legal and social frameworks to be accepted on a mission, and where you'd need to stick close to other members (whatever minded they are) to survive and constantly report back home: below zero.

>A certain type of person is interested in living a life where they have a large amount of control over the political and social systems they live with.

Mars is the last place that type of person should be concerned with.

(On top of total establishment control of any "political and social systems" there for the next 100+ years, they'd also relinquish control over the environment to whatever capsules of livable space said establishment can build and give them in its own terms).

There's always Western Sahara and Antarctica, much more realistic (and already habitable) places, with internet and everything.
I had the opposite upbringing, in that one of my parents was always home (at least until later in life when I was more self-sufficient); nowadays you can't seem to make ends meet or own a house unless both parents are working.

I mean I'm the age my dad was when his third child was coming and I was only able to buy a reasonable house last year. He / they were able to buy a bigger house, newly built, with more land on a single, low income wage and a 12.5% interest mortgage nearly 40 years ago.
It's hinted in the article,

Basically, as this is an average for societies, the average environmental factors are better in Scandinavia than in America. But those factors already peaked, and now are starting a downwards trend:

>The authors note several possible factors, among them worsening health and nutrition, a decline in the quality of education, detrimental changes to media exposure, and the indirect effects of immigration.

OTOH, America's average environmental factors are still improving, so, it's still on the rise:

> It may be that, once we’ve made our schools as good as theirs, we’ll see our Flynn effect max out, and then whatever channels feed their anti-Flynn effect will show up in our data, too.
Yeah, I don't think there is a professional C++ developer who has any of these problems. It's called static analysis... welcome to a decade ago. Why on earth would an organisation move their codebase to Rust when they can just run Clang? Which they should be doing anyway.....
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I have a PSVR, and I hardly use it. Reason? The cabling arrangement is a mess, there's no built-in audio (so unless you have wireless headphones that's another annoying cable), the PS Camera has to be in exactly the right position vertically to track you properly and you also can't be more than a few feet away from it. To be honest, PSVR is only really usable on a regular basis if you had a dedicated PS4 that's set up in a room just for VR.
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You'll need some kind of degree to get a first job in such area. CS degrees are the best for it, but it should be possible to pull it off with a business degree that has some tech focus.
In what language can you just “compile 4 times” to target android, iOS, windows, linux, macos and any future platform?
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