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Clojure is still around and a great language for experienced devs. But the experience for newcomers is much less attractive than for other languages, which is preventing growth. Also, the largest Clojure community is the Slack channel, which is hidden from the rest of the world.
brake dust causes dementia. if you live in a city, you're killing yourself from teh air you breath.
Sure, such issues need to be decided by the judicative and a nation's constitutional guarantees for the division of power must ensure that a government cannot abuse them. If a particular government can interfere with or directly influence the particular decision of a judge, then it's probably too late to save democracy anyway.

In that case there is no need to abuse laws about political campaigns, though, it suffices to put political opponents into prison and/or take away their rights to be elected, as happens in countries like Turkey and Russia.
Facebook's woes with young people always remind me of this TechLoaf joke... https://www.techloaf.io/2018/07/25/mark-zuckerberg-offers-si...
AFAIK the smoke is still a cause for cancer.
> I'm probably the lowest paid person in the whole thread.

Maybe. Where do you live?
If I remember correctly, the Snowden dumps showed that the NSA could corrupt a processor / motherboard in such a way (overheating via overclocking?) that the computer would turn into a small radio that could transmit for miles. This would allow exfiltration of data even if not connected to the internet.
The SPA app I am working on is horribly coupled to the back end. In fact I don't think it would be easy to write a front end SPA or otherwise that doesn't know a fair bit about the back end and what it will be sending.
The BGP protocol (decentralized without proof or verification), the DNS system (centralized AND decentralized without proof or verification), and SSL (decentralized without proof or verification) are all relics of the past - design choices that didn’t predict this future.

BGP, SSL, and DNS, create an atmosphere ripe for hijack, MITM and other nefarious activity, and it happens ALL THE TIME.

In other words, the very system “designed to provide trust” actually is also designed to allow rogue actors to utilize that same trust.

It’s insecure AF.
>Privately owned

Ding ding ding! A website is effectively the owner's house, if you come through their door you follow their rules or you leave.
And? It's ok if you do not care. But I wanted to make clear that for the body there is a difference between alcohol and other drugs as alcohol, to the body, is mostly just another nutrient (I mean almost all ripe fruits contain a certain amount of alcohol, yet we eat them without problems).
There already are many places where the selling of sugar and caffeine-ridden products is controlled.
The fact that my kids can get illegal drugs more easily than alcohol is what worries me.

Making drugs illegal isn’t helping. Addicts need support services, not punishment.
This sounds cool and adventurous! If you need a job though, your bosses would be your "master", especially if you need that income to survive.

And it certainly sounds like a lot more freedom than most, but the country your van is parked in would be your "master" as well as you are subject to their laws and at the mercy of their justice system.

That's how challenging it is to be free of any hierarchy in the modern world.
SourceTree with simple but featureful interface and I just can't like alternatives. It's not performant but I can live with it. It has Windows support though.

SequelPro. Man, is this good for handling databases. I used DataGrip for a while but got fed up with slow and cluttered interface. This is even the reason stopping me from using PostgreSQL as it only supports MySQL. I haven't tried but HeidiSQL seems decent for Windows.

ImageOptim. This is the kind of app I like on macOS. Simple, effective and even free. I don't mind paying but interestingly no good alternative for other OS that work on jpg/gif/png/svg exist.

Homebrew is pretty good to install newer small tools, like ripgrep, exa and the likes that hasn't made it into apt repos but you don't have to manually download and deploy them in /use/local and keep them up to date.

CodeKit, which I don't use often myself but for client side only development, this is very useful but once again, there's only Prepros that comes to my mind as an alternative which also supports Windows but isn't as good.

When it comes to image editing for someone who's not a designer like me, Pixelmator is simple, clean looking and powerful enough. There's also Sketch for vector tools which is becoming very popular. Maybe Paint.NET works too for Windows.

And with VMWare Fusion, you can test your site on Windows browsers easily but you can't test on macOS from other OS due to licensing.

For smaller utilities, Kaleidoscope can show diff of images and folder structures which I sometimes use. No idea about alternatives. Unclutter which can work as quick memo as well as clipboard history. I don't see anything that's as elegant as that.

And this is probably most important and not a development app but BetterTouchTool. The comfort of using trackpad with custom gestures just can't be beaten.

IDE (Jetbrains) works everywhere though.

I just like how most if not all of those have clean interface instead of a dozen menu to start with having 'advanced options' where you can configure more uninteresting options like in casual Windows apps. (Of course except for Jetbrains with hundreds of options but they're there for good reasons.)

I see no reason to leave macOS for a while.
legislating morality isn't much better. it's draconian and often theocratic.
What about using an iframe and refreshing it with links targeting it ? Use <link rel="preload" ...> to make it really fast. Do so for any subcomponent of your page that can be updated independently of the rest of the page. Use browser caching for code assets/dependencies.

Pros: cheap & fast (?)

Cons: obviously the logical structure of your app must (somehow) follow the structure of nested iframes in the page.
> People are quick to point out that First Ammendment doesn't apply, but Freedom of Speech isn't just that

But it is at least that, and so includes, as does the first Amendment, the right to choose what speech to support with one's own resources, including the platform one owns.

The freedom of speech not only does not obligate anyone else to expend their resources to relay your speech, it absolutely protects their right to decline to do so.

> Discussion is what makes peaceful progress possible,

RPG.net is a site dedicated to discussion of roleplaying games; it is not necessary for “peacefuk progress” for it to provide a platform for all (or even any) support or opposition to political candidates.
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wow. you have some scary views. how about you mind your own business and let others do the same.
There might also be some risk of psychological damage when you use a criminalized substance that has anxiety as a common side effect. For example, it's easy to see how that could make you a bit reclusive.

So anyone who's really concerned about the mental health of cannabis users is obliged to consider the damaging effects of its very criminality.

(There are all kinds of other factors. Like cannabis use being correlated with higher trait openness, which has its own particular correlations with certain personality disorders, et cetera.)
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> we should definitely still be telling teens not to smoke pot, or really take any psychoactive drugs. And I say this as someone who has done a lot of them.

Man has this annoying tendency not to believe facts unless they are experienced directly. You can tell teens what you want and they will still do what they want, especially if they know you did the same and ended up alright.

I agree that honesty is the best policy, teenagers can smell hypocrisy from miles. Another good policy is to make experimentation safe, so everyone can make his or her mind up without risking potentially fatal or life-altering contact with the worst elements of society.

I personally think public education should also have a dedicated subject on the topic of addiction, be it to drugs, food, gambling, videogames, and whatnot. An economic system based on profit will inevitably thrive on addiction, often at the expense of public health. Surviving contact with addictive impulses is a life skill that gets more and more essential every day.
Yes, if you don't return it when it's due and avoid the rental company. They will file it as stolen and you will be arrested and jailed when found.
That index lists Ladder Logic (#45) as being ahead of Bash (#48). Make of that what you will.
It might "just" be a correlation but it might be heavily interconnected. If you have data proving your "just correlation", please provide them.
Referring to these people as "utter idiots" sure does make you sound reasonable and level headed.
I have their latest Librem 13.

I bought the base model and upgraded it with 16gb of RAM (wish I could have done 32gb), 1TB NVMe, and a 1TB SATA SSD.

So far it is great. I've been using it as my daily driver for about 6 months with Manjaro. I get about 8 hours of battery life unless I'm running my Windows VM needed for some work tasks. Otherwise it's just firefox, slack-cli, thunderbird, and webstorm.
It is (sadly) not clear at all that programming language popularity (or rather, "online buzz" around a language which is all you can measure) correlates strongly with productivity.
Herewith the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, wherein one will find no specific exceptions actually made.

* https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/bill-of-rights-transc...

Enjoy.
A decent translation, but maybe not quite idiomatic. Herantasten or annähern instead of schleichen feel more appropriate.
Would you seriously contend that prohibition doesn't come with awful side effects? The cartels in Mexico and South America are big fans.

We tackle smoking and alcohol abuse through education (and tax, to a certain extent). Meanwhile prohibition is being selectively enforced in the US to criminalize being non-white. I see zero reason to continue the madness, and economics, social science, and history tend to agree.
Federal spending accounts for 44% of basic research spending. at one point, it was as high as 70%.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/03/data-check-us-govern...

Generally, the pattern has been that government and university funded researchers make the early discoveries, and then corporations do the research towards applying them. Universities benefit from patents, but the federal government doesn't.
>>i dont think that scala or clojure have lost momentum i think both clojure and scala, stopped adding new features that are worthy of blogging about

More like Clojure is in Cathedral mode of open source development. Most of the development is in private discussions, implementation and prototyping at Cognitect, and once they have something to share, they release it to the world.

That's more a communication and marketing thing. For example, you can try Googling but you won't be able to see anything on the Clojure roadmap. No one knows what's the plan even year or two from now.

But thanks to smart leadership, and brilliant development team they have, its mostly a non issue if you don't really care about the everyday minutiae. You can bet the top dollar that they are working on something good, and it will be eventually released to the world.

To people coming from other open source tools, that can sound as strange.
Well of course not, all of the ISP's routers were already bricked.
The implication was there and it was worth calling out. I’ve heard surprisingly little about the negative effects of marijuana in general conversation, to the extent that it seems to be above reproach (for some unknown reason).
That's not accurate. Do you believe that an owner should be able to deny services based on political or religious leanings?
The CCP considers Falun Gong/Dafa to be a cult. And in some instances they can certainly appear that way. A long time ago I had a chinese-american girlfriend. And as we were walking past a Falun Gong demonstration in NYC she remarked they were a dangerous cult. I asked why she would think that and her response was that their practitioners self-immolate and only a lunatic would do that. I've carried that thought with me ever since. Only recently have I discovered the immolation demonstrations were, yet again, CCP propaganda.
I’m surprised by some of the response; I actually think they were pretty articulate about exactly what they were banning and it certainly wasn’t all political speech.
Trump stands for so much hatred and bigotry and it’s hard to vocalize support for him without implicitly/explicitly supporting that stuff yourself. We need to stop pretending like this is political discourse.

Intolerance of intolerance is the only acceptable form of intolerance. I think that this intolerance for others through trump support is what they are banning first and foremost.
The website is down when I try to visit it
Sorry but you haven’t addressed a single point in the article. If you’re going to criticize it, make actual points rather than resorting to handwavy “humanities are gibberish.”
The problem is that you have big financial interest from tabacoo (or other) industry that promotes consumption of X and on the other hand you have an under-budgeted health department that will try to spread information and make studies etc. So the average person will be tricked by the gigantic adverting campaigns... my point a person can't do a correct choice when big money companies have the intrest he does the wrong choice.
They really aren't tiring, though. They actually work quite well, although I doubt that they will really catch on given the competition with ebooks (which can be read on a phone for similar competition in regard to portability). As for the old "Pocket Books", I remember those from growing up but always thought the name was a bit silly because, while smaller than a hardcover, there was no way those books could fit in a pocket. For what it's worth, these tiny books do.
I guess it depends. I have the luxury of working in a very "this is machine learning, which is not to be confused with statistical inference" problem domain. It doesn't really even really make sense to interpret most the models I build as describing any sort of causal relationship, and when people are looking at the parameter estimates, they're really just trying to figure out, "What does this model think is important?"
Buying votes is way more expensive than asking for them is. About 30 people are in these mid term general elections doing exactly what I put there. None of them have significant means. Most of them beat the people doing it "the very expensive way."

You are not wrong, buying an office is not cheap. People lacking significant backing, or personal means cannot afford to do that.

That is not the only way to do politicking.

I am not wrong either.
India's Telecom regulator had mandated the following:

1. Each TV channel in a bouquet of channels will have a fixed & uniform, maximum, retail price.
2. Any channel that was priced above the fixed price could not be included in a bouquet and could only be offered on an individual/a la carte/standalone basis.
3. Pay channels and free to air channels, as also HD and standard channels, could not be in the same bouquet.

The satellite TV/cable broadcasters went all the way up to the Supreme Court but have lost the war!
>But it is at least that, and so includes, as does the first Amendment, the right to choose what speech to support with one's own resources, including the platform one owns...The freedom of speech not only does not obligate anyone else to expend their resources to relay your speech, it absolutely protects their right to decline to do so.

This is an interesting argument and implies that forum owners are responsible for the content that they publish. Is that what you believe?
We should start a war on drugs and check back in in 40 years.
Young players will always have the competitive advantage in games requiring speed and dexterity. Just take a look at the age of Starcraft champions - with rare exceptions veterans stand no chance against the young blood
> It relieves stress and anxiety, and also gives me an excuse to step out of the office for a few minutes for a break or to collect my thoughts.

Should we really need excuses to step out of the office to get some fresh air, collect our thoughts, etc for a few minutes?

I think there is much to be said about cigarettes relieving stress and anxiety...
Oh yeah, I get that the stores and industry are a major problem here. Devs who don't play the store ranking game, end up losing. I resent that very much. I'm not certain what would be a decent solution for this problem, cause even if games were rated by users on "quality" - then the shift would be to game that quality system, by rewarding players to rank things higher quality, etc. Just a bummer.
Totally the same as actively choosing to smoke weed.
Like I said, for me the money will probably run out, but I continually bump into people where that is not a problem. They will do this for the rest of their lives.

> you are subject to their laws and at the mercy of their justice system.

While that's true in theory, in practice there is a hell of a lot of freedom here on the ground. It's extremely rare that I don't do something because "it's illegal" - i.e. riding on the top of a truck with no seat belt, riding a motorbike with no helmet, and basically anything else you would want to be doing.

There is a lot of personal freedom in Africa (& Latin America)
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and the original title is different.
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Detectable vs. functioning are two different things. For cannabis, it is metabolites that are detectable for some time afterwards. They are no longer actively having an effect on the person. These metabolites get deposited into some tissue, like hair or fat, and can be detected later.

Imagine you eat cherries and accidentally stain your hair. This means that the cherry substance will be detectable in your hair for a long time, but any effects of you eating the cherries will be long gone.
"more benign" !== "benign"

Everyone I know that smokes daily (a lot of people) is less cognitive than those I know who don't smoke, in every arena except artistic pursuits. And not everyone reacts to weed the same way. I decided to quit when I recognized a lessened ability to solve complex coding questions the day after smoking.
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Teens also have this horribly annoying tendency to go on the internet and find other points of views. Like, I remember finding that essay where Carl Sagan explains how sensible cannabis smoking helped him appreciate art and music, gave him good ideas for articles and books, and was generally a hell of a nice time.
Summary: The absorbing surface gains its lightness or darkness from the fraction of light rays that are absorbed when they hit it. When present the liquid surface reflects a certain fraction of exiting light rays back down to the material, giving them multiple chances of being absorbed (one chance for every time they are reflected back down). Chances are involved because the material's surface is rough, reflecting the light that is not absorbed back out in random directions, some of which strike the back of the fluid-air interface in a way that sends them back down to the material.
Yes. It's still a thing... but I do think Clojure has lost mindshare. Just some impressions:

* It's natural for the development of a language to slow down after an initial period of churn. So Clojure has reached a certain level of maturity where there's less 'new cool stuff'.

* There are other areas of industry where there's more 'new cool stuff' and attention naturally shifts there.

* The Honeymoon period is over, and anybody that had the unreasonable expectations the Clojure was the magical solution to all their problems has been disappointed and probably moved on. (Don't laugh. This happens.)

* People are better seeing other potential costs to Clojure code bases. I know of at least one organization looking into moving away from Clojure for the purpose of having a more attractive portfolio of assets to potential outside investors.

* My understanding (hearsay at best) is that Rich initially self-funded Clojure development for a couple years, and then got understandably tired of taking the hit and shifted his primary attentions to more commercial endeavors.

* As Java evolves >=8, it's gained features that incorporate some of the benefits of Clojure. Java is clearly not turning into Clojure, but it is getting development such that it's nibbling away at Clojure's technical advantages a bit.

None of this should take away from the fact that Clojure is a well-designed and very pragmatic language for the JVM. I personally love writing code in the language and find it the most effective way to use my time. What I hope the above means it that the language is settling into a more long-term sustainable niche.

For context: I use Clojure in several personal projects, and have done so for a while. I've also slipstreamed it into a commercial app, for automating management tasks, etc. Overall, I've been very happy with the platform, although there are still some startling gaps ( https://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/9p4tto/best_way_to... )
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A privately owned and operated web forum isn't exactly comparable to fascist Europe. Don't be disingenuous.
According to the JVM Ecosystem report/survey Clojure is the 2nd main language on the JVM (after Java):

https://snyk.io/blog/jvm-ecosystem-report-2018

ClojureScript also seems to gain traction. Quite impressive when you consider that Clojure is a language/ecosystem not driven/backed by one of the larger tech companies.
I recommend 4.19+ if you are planning to use one with Vega. Anything lower will have problems.

Don't use drivers from AMD site, use upstream kernel and latest Mesa release.
> So I have no loans, and technically don't have to pay tax anywhere.

You must not be from the US because we're one of only a handful of countries that require you to pay tax no matter where you live. It's entirely unfair and barbaric but you can expense the taxes you pay in the foreign country if you do it right.
> Intolerance of intolerance is the only acceptable form of intolerance.

This seems vulnerable to a meta-level attack: "who gets to decide what is intolerable?"
Not to mention that such criminalized substance might well have been mishandled by criminal resellers with no regard for public health. Any time one buys a criminalised substance, it's like he was going to eat a box of unlabelled chocolate: maybe it's safe to eat, or maybe it's full of rat excrement - you don't know until it's too late.