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What they really need to do is stop pushing fake meat as “like beef” and start pushing it as delicious on its own.

Fried crickets are amazing. It’s natural to be squeamish but just like people were once scared of red tomatoes they’ll come around.
I agree. I'd much rather eat that tbh. I'm not terribly fond of eating wheat or soy protein.
> However, lightweight desktop environments which don't rely on the GPU, like Xfce, MATE, and LXDE, absolutely still run on older hardware and can make it zip right along.

This is simply not true. It isn't just about the GPU, it's about everything accruing bloat.
Post-consumer paper can be recycled in to some forms of low-density card that doesn't require high quality pulp. Egg cartons come to mind, and as a percentage in some packaging, newsprint and sanitary papers. Post-consumer paper cannot easily be recycled in to anything resembling printer paper due to the contaminants. Pre-consumer paper is recycled heavily as it's of known quality.

I'm not aware of any plastics that are recycled in to the same form. I know that PET (1) and HDPE (2) are recycled in to fibres.

It's a similar story to glass, certainly where I live a large amount of glass is recycled in to crushed aggregate rather than new bottles. The energy costs of cleaning don't make it worthwhile.
>> CPython is 100 to 1000 times slower than C

> That's very context dependant. With annotations, typical calculations compile to C code roughly equivalent to native. The more of the actual runtime you use, the more you call into cpython which can't be sped up this way. Cython compiled code will be somewhere between C and cpython in terms of speed, but putting a single number to it will be always misleading.

OP said "CPython", not "Cython". CPython is pretty reliably 100X to 1000X slower than C.
This x100. Devs who do this deserve to die in a fire (just kidding, but seriously, you know what I mean).
I guess a little? I can see what you mean but in the scheme of things it doesn't seem too bad, though perhaps I've become a bit inured to such titles at this point. At least in one respect (though perhaps they didn't mean it that way) it also seems to be pretty on point: from the sound of it no one is prepared for it, because hagfish slime defies our normal developed common sense about material properties. It's described as being quite unique, and the videos they have there are kind of wild.

At any rate though yeah, I found it a fascinating little read. It is pretty wild to see what sort of adaptions can come out in the pursuit of specialized niches, and to see expectations about order of development flipped on their heads. The material properties done with the same basic building blocks vs our current knowledge of chemistry are also really interesting from a tech perspective, and might open up new avenues for biomimicry. Spider silk is probably the most classic example, but this water version seems equally impressive in its own way. And so many mysteries in this one animal we've yet to understand! It's an amazing world.
Heh - my TRS-80 Model 100 has that feature:

A small NiCad (though I'll be swapping it with a newer super capacitor soon) keeps the memory contents available when you swap out the four AA batteries if they run low (you get several days of runtime off them).
I think siblings play an important role here. More than a few times I remember going out and having no one to play with but my brother, only to be joined later on by other kids.

Moreover, I can only assume that it was through me that my brother got introduced to the "social scene" of the neighborhood. I was the older one, so when we came out to play, I was in charge of him, and that meant always inviting him to play and introducing him to all my friends.

Siblings are like friends you have no option but having (and playing with). Incredibly reliable, in that sense (:
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I'd also disagree with

- People who want meatless products aren't buying meat so they're an expansion opportunity. I think that's a fair assessment.

I think that the desire to eat meat-like products is much lower than a lot of people assume in vegetarian/vegan people. Products like Seitan and other "meat texture" items have always done poorly when compared to vegetarian/vegan offerings that simply omit any meat-like ingredients, some people don't like the texture of meat and those that do find near-meat but not meat products to always fall short - sort of like (all)gluten free bread, it exists and you can buy it, but it feels like having a mouth full of sand. If it's late and you're itching for a slice of toast but can't have it it's just better to find whole alternatives, nuts, maybe something involving harissa. I think imitation foods will always end up falling flat because they're imitations - and there is some psychological reinforcement there that keeps us from saying "close enough" even when it gets really close - probably the same effect that makes people try to call backsies if they fail the pepsi challenge.
> meant to be more like beef

I hate tastes like X concept. I don't care if doesn't taste like beef, it never works, our brain is way too smart to fall for this kind gimmicks.

Surprise me with new products, tell me whats in it straight up.

I really hope this "tastes like meat" trend dies.
Full socialism is the only true answer. Don't provide the elderly a money stipend, provide them medical care, housing, and other basic needs (and probably free rides on public transit infrastructure).
You must be a real delight to work with.

None of your rant addressed my question at all - is what Route53 is doing standard practice, or, is it the unusual one?
Not exactly the same, but the EU has commissioned audits and just started a bug bounty program on some important open source projects.

https://juliareda.eu/2018/12/eu-fossa-bug-bounties/
As major !meat firms start scaling up, I hope it expands rapidly like the milk-alternative industry. Embrace the source. Exciting times
A bitcoin is divisible to 8 decimal places so what you are talking is not an issue whatsoever.
The x201 is a thinkpad with an i5.
While I certainly have had a few annoying issues myself, full credit to the team behind DevOps (nee VSTS) for doing an amazing job over the last >12 months to overhaul and improve the product. I have been impressed at the pace things are improving.

I have not had the same issues with build machines disappearing into the ether (we use Windows hosts however) but definitely agree that the (lack of) caching is maddening. Our apps are not huge but the NuGet & npm restore times now account for 25-30% of our build time.
All glasses are a compromise in some way, so you have to decide which flaws are most tolerable to you. -6 is strong enough correction that I'd seriously consider contact lenses if I needed it. Contact lenses avoid the image distortion and shrinkage you get with glasses, and because they move with your eyes, the image is sharp in all parts of your field of vision.

Polycarbonate is IMO a terrible material for corrective lenses. It has very bad Abbe number, so you get a lot of chromatic aberration (rainbow artifacts) and it's very soft, so coating is pretty much required. Its only real virtue is impact resistance, which is important in safety glasses, but you can get flat safety glasses that fit over your corrective glasses. The weight is marginally better than CR-39, but not enough to make up for the poor optical performance. I haven't seen it person, but going by the numbers, Trivex seems superior.

Wikipedia has some information on common materials:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrective_lens#Lens_materials

My preference for uncoated applies only to CR-39. Other materials have properties that make coatings more important. It's also possible that some coatings have much better resistance to cleaning than others. Unfortunately, details about coatings are generally secret, so there's no way to evaluate them.
wow that sounds pretty seriously broken. Has anybody else here actually used it & can comment?
To be fair, we’re already eating ground crickets and roaches in our food, along with rat feces and other stuff. Personally having eaten insects my problem with them is the taste and texture, but I feel the same way about bologna and hog dogs. On that note, if people are willing to eat what’s in hot dogs and Slim Jim’s, ground crickets would be a huge improvement. Mechanically separated meat is... awful. If all I’m going to taste anyway is chemical preservatives and flavoring, I’d rather eat mashed crickets than pig anus and eyeballs.
Anything taller than 16:9. Unless you like scrolling, or use the professional developer laptop for watching movies all day.
Where did I say or even imply that?

I simply said it was hard and rigorous. Not the most.
Can you please explain how Obama’s daughters are disadvantaged based on ancestral violence?

The point is, racist discrimination, even if “positive”, produces unfair outcomes. Obama’s daughter don’t need even more advantages. If you want to help kids from disadvantaged backgrounds (and I think that’s a worthy cause, even if you ignore “fairness”, simply because it increases the odds of finding the next Ramanujan and improves the well-being of the society), you should help people from disadvantaged backgrounds. Admitting them to degrees they don’t deserve isn’t actually helping them - it’s mainly just fixing superficial statistics and perpetuating harmful stereotypes (e.g. people not wanting black doctors because they suspect they’re worse because they weren’t subject to as strict standards as white, let alone Asian, doctors). To ensure actual equality of opportunity, you need to help them when they’re young, improve their school system, help their families, etc. Everything else is just a bandaid, at best masking rhe underlying problem.
As a long time flexitarian (I hate that phrase too), I just roll my eyes at all of these "non-meat initiatives". Impossible and Beyond burgers don't hold a candle to a classic portobello burger.

People have made delicious meals without meat since society began, and they didn't rely on "tricking" people into thinking a meal is something else. It's baffling that the marketing department of Beyond and Impossible have turned standard food r&d into an environmental savior.
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As a consumer, I would absolutely replace some of the consumables I buy with perfect substitutes if I liked them.

This is exactly what economists assume.
Agreed. But I have experienced self-checkout setups that just replaced a normal station with a single self-checkout station, replicating the old behavior. These are being phased out near me.
It's helpful to separate natural resources (land, woods, oil, etc.) from wealth (valuable possessions).

We take natural resources, often plentiful, apply labor + skill, and get a more valuable product. We're wealthier as a result.

Yes, natural resources are finite, but not the limiting reagent for most things. There's a zero-sum game in that land used for farming is not available for an entertainment complex. But we have so much used for "nothing" that switching it to "something" is a giant increase in wealth. You can buy an acre in Kansas for a month's worth of minimum wage work. Las Vegas was built in a desert surrounded by hundreds of miles of wasteland. Did turning land, earth, trees, and iron ore into Las Vegas add zero value? (Not saying it was the best use of resources, just that assembling buildings improved the value of the raw materials.)

As a counterexample, consider melting down a car into slag. Are you less wealthy with your charred steel than a working car? Of course -- charred steel is less valuable. The number of atoms is the same. In other words, is an assembled watch worth the same as a pile of gears? Are you indifferent to the two?

If wealth were fixed in the earth, we must be getting poorer as the population grows. A few thousand years ago we had 1M people on earth. Were those peasants 7000x wealthier than us?
That's fair. Then they've managed to educate themselves, not exactly a non-trivial feat either.
The reason it looks so similar is likely the art style. Since it's less realistic, they can (probably) lean heavily on good textures and less on high polycount and fancy graphic techniques (realistic shadows, HDR, etc)
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> The games might have been less violent for a bit longer without id though.

Probably not. They were just channeling the culture which was a lot of heavy metal and horror/action movies. Personally for me in my early teens it was a nice outlet for feeling powerful in a game rather than bullying some kids at school or whatever.
An update on the program: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/09/non-l...
We use Azure Pipelines for https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt with some help from friends at Microsoft, and it's a great product!

It's very "power user" in that it's easy to get lost amongst all the options, but nothing else I've tried has the same breadth of OSes and ability to have one job depend on another in intricate ways. And, 10 free parallel builds, including macOS!
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About 20 years ago, while I was in highschool, my foreign student Korean friend would get care packages and in them would be 3-4 pairs of glasses to change it up depending on the occasion. Apparently, glasses run around $30, even with an eye exam.

When I visited a couple years later, I could get glasses, even with thei highest index for $30. Some places would charge 50-70 for frames + high index lenses, but the big volume shops, you could get a bunch of pairs for cheap.
Does the browser actually enter the CC before you pick it? I don't think it does...
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Nope, I intended it in response to the comment you were responding to, but it went dead before I could submit it. So I just addressed it to that poster, and used your comment as a surrogate. Sorry for the confusion!
I agree, with current technology it seems pretty impossible to differentiate. But I do think there is hope in the field of whitelisting, things that people commonly use JS for should be slowly added to the list of native features, as long as this process has oversight we could start having more responsive sites with less JS requirements.
I know that it's not exactly the same type of product (13vs15"), but I've been myself highly considering this xps13 previously and switched off primarily because of this 16gb issue.

I went for the Thinkpad X1E instead, and I have to say the experience has been nearly perfect so far (small minus for the battery performing far from what they announced).

It's fairly light for a 15", has plenty of ports, good screen (I'm using the mate screen), has 2 ram and pcie ssd slots, supports up to 64gb ram - future proof I'd say), and overall performances are just great.
It's possibly an embellished number, I cannot remember the actual number but it was significantly larger than 100. I seem to have remembered it as 3000. The project had many frameworks: spring, glassfish, camel among others.
Do-it-yourself wooden frames: https://www.instructables.com/id/Techniques-for-Making-Woode...
We've had flying cars for decades... they're called helicopters.
That's more like a helicopter with wings than a flying car. There's no way you could land that into a parking space. You'd need something much more like a heliport.

So, maybe an improved "air taxi", in the same way that helicopters are used today in certain cities.

But not a flying car.
We had to deal with this in reverse: we had a form that depending on what you fill in and the settings doesn't show some options.

The browser was submitting the form with auto-fill details that failed the validation checks for those fields. Hard to show an error message for fields the user can't see.

Yes, it is more robust to have code on the server side discard input that isn't expected rather than validate it, but it annoying extra work when those fields have no security impact.

The alternative is to tell the browser not to auto-fill those fields, but doing that feels broken too.
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An uncanny valley effect, perhaps.
Non mobile link: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-announce/mVeX...
Yes! What could possibly go wrong?
There are ~30 million businesses in the US. What's this natural winner-take-all dynamic you talk about?
:) Hugs
I did the exact same projects in my 3rd-year networking class
> 350-500k sounds about the right range for senior-ish at top large tech company as a software engineer.

holy hell. I am need to quit my job.
Yes, agreed, this is what I meant by “basically zero-cost queue synchronization”. Global queues tend to lead to more balanced systems, but at the cost of constant global queue access. But in grocery store checkouts, that cost is basically zero.
Wouldn't people eventually look at the ingredients though? They will just find out about crickets there...
> Maybe InjeliJ would be a little faster and compile times would be a fraction faster but I doubt I'd notice it.

Just because you don't notice doesn't mean that it's not there. The argument is that it's insane to pay developers north of $100k per year + benefits and then don't invest $4k every 3 years to buy them fast hardware.
nothing that couldn't be addressed?
You might appreciate one of my older blog posts:

https://drewdevault.com/2016/03/22/Integrating-a-VT220-into-...
But it's a good proof of concept of the technology which could easily be remade into an organic version. And the cheaper price afforded by not using organic practices might help speed up adoption to a point where organic versions could become more cost-efficient.
I've looked him up. He is working on a "startup" idea but I don't think he has gone anywhere with it.
Ajit knows. I belive he is intelligent. He is a top executive and uses his position to screw the internet and generate more profits to his supported groups.

He is not trying to do any good for anyone.
> which by your argument would be racist.

You seem to have misunderstood my argument; maybe I wasn’t really clear in that part. I think a policy that helps lots of poor black people, some poor white people, and doesn’t help Obama’s daughters (because they don’t need help), is a good, fair, and most importantly effective policy. A policy that doesn’t help poor white people is racist. A policy that helps Obama’s daughters is ineffective (and I don’t want my tax money to go to that cause).
Disagree about GF bread. I have celiac disease and enjoy many varieties of GF bread and other products. In fact I take people to a completely gluten free restaurant and they almost never know anything is different. A lot has changed since the gluten free fad started that has benefitted celiacs.
I haven't been able to put my finger on why cljs isn't more popular, especially given all of the great stuff David Nolen did in the early days of React and the ease of use of figwheel and some other cool things in the ecosystem.

I always just assumed it was too big a syntactical hurdle for lots of teams. I.e., I suspect a lot of individuals appreciate it, but it's hard to choose cljs from the business side of things because it looks so foreign to many. That's a shame!

Haven't looked into PureScript yet. I'll add it to the list!
Ah, a veggie burger. Truly a paradigm-shifting innovation.
I'm sure this is partially due to (lack of) scale and equal parts lack of competition.
I use both a last gen macbook and an xps 13 9360 every day. Even after three iterations of the new keyboard style, the macbooks do not have a decent keyboard. The keyboard of the xps is better (still not as good as the perfect keyboard of an X1 or a yoga) and way more quiet.

The trackpad of the XPS is worse than the macbook, but at least it feels OK. Overall, I prefer the input methods of the XPS.
Or simply: it's based on coercion.

It has zero value, but the US government forces you to take it. "Do you mind to sell me that barrel of oil for this piece of paper? No? Oh that's great!"

Bitcoin has become useless thanks to its developers and the same parasitic "industry" around it. Yes it could very well go to zero. There are and will be other cryptocurrencies, though.
Anyone who has worked for one of the immigration firms that Oracle uses could tell you horror stories. They work with lawyers to systematically string along their employees and then use fake work locations to drive salaries down for the prevailing wages. It’s a sick industry and most of the immigration law firms working for big tech are part of the problem.
Ultraportable limits are generally courtesy of the Intel chipset.
Companies will underpay by an amount related not to the cost of the immigration paperwork (which is low) but to the perceived value of the outcome for the employee (which for professionals from many countries may be closer to $300k than $10k).

The government might as well collect that surplus as tax.
NPM (nodejs package manager) has started doing that, revealing three combined metrics for each package in the search results. It assesses every package by popularity (number of downloads), quality (a dozen or so small heuristics about how carefully the project has been created) and maintenance (whether the project is actively maintained, keeps its dependancies up to date and if it and has more closed issues than open issues on github). The idea is that when you search for a package, you can see at a glance the relative quality and popularity of the modules you're choosing between.

Its not perfect - there's no way to tell if the packages under consideration are written in a consistent style or if they have thorough unit tests, but its a clever idea. And by rating packages on these metrics they encourage a reasonable set of best practices (write a readme and a changelog, use whitelists / blacklists, close issues on github, etc). The full list of metrics is here:

https://itnext.io/increasing-an-npm-packages-search-score-fb...
with regards to Harvard et al., they have a harder time to do positive discrimination since some court decisions in recent years. all in all, they look at extracurricular stuff to try to give extra points, because they can't discriminate - even positively - based on race, as far as I know. (the legal history of affirmative action is pretty long: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_action_in_the_Unit... )