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The alternative seems quite self-obsessed, too. When people who have hurt others, and then reformed, say that they have no regrets because everything that happened made them the person they are today, that is a big red flag to me (unless 'the person they are today' really has done some amazingly altruistic things to make amends). It comes across almost solipsistic, like the only thing that matters is their own character and their own story.

edit: and of course, 'people who have hurt others' encompasses all of us, to greater or lesser degrees. I'm not saying that none of us should be happy with who we are, or that we should never admit that we think things turned out for the best, weighing the good against the bad. But surely most of us have some things we really would do differently if we had our time again.
I think that you might be underestimating his work. He was not just a physicist, but a system's integrator when it came to the military. He almost single-handedly structured our deterrence stance. There were von Neumann committees where he shaped the heart of American nuclear and ICBM policy. https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a416289.pdf

He also designed The Critical Component that's kept classified by most governments. These lenses are what compress plutonium to trigger the reaction in a fission device and they're also used in other manners for fusion weapons.

von Neumann did so much and knew so much that we might never know the extent of his true contributions to applied science.

http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2012/02/01/weekly-document-12...
I've definetly come across charm industrial :). What is your plan on the negative emissions part? Underground CCS or do you have utilization plans?
Allied scientists discovered that highly pure graphite could be used as a neutron moderator, I’m not sure of the timing compared to this article. Fortunately the German scientists never figured this out, and continued to attempt to use heavy water, never succeeding partially due to Allied sabotage in Norway. Heavy Water Wars is a great TV series about the sabotage!
You just got your midlife crisis at 31 years old. You are essentially set for life and are now figuring what you want to do with the rest of your life. Be it further growing your company, living off your business and dedicating your life to certain hobbies, social causes, or traveling. It really is all up to you now.
The url and logo say “qmlbook”, so I guess it was originally meant to focus on QML only.
I had the opposite experience. Each to their own.
If you're interested in this topic, I'd highly recommend watching Stephanie Balzer's sessions at the Oregon Programming Language Summer School on “Session-Typed Concurrent Programming”. The lectures are available online (https://www.cs.uoregon.edu/research/summerschool/summer18/to...).

Her recent work (sponsored, in part, by Mozilla Research) really advances session types and the ability to get termination/progress guarantees:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~balzers/publications/manifest_deadloc...
Do the people who signed the agreement actually understand DRM? Did they understand the ripple effects?

Or did they just sign because . . .
How are u managing piracy? With a same username or license - can the software be used by many people? Or you can lock some license remotely?
IMO you can't buy social status the same way that you buy a macbook. This is the reason why you see a lot of kids of wealthy families flail around forever trying to "make their mark" despite having the power that wealth bestows on them. For whatever reason, they cannot get the people they really admire to take them seriously or even acknowledge their existence and it drives them mad.

You can throw an impressive amount of money on things and earn the admiration of certain kinds of people. But those tend to be the same people who will flock to _any_ person with the same kind of wealth. So you have to live with the fact that these "friends" like you only for your wealth and not for _you_. But maybe that's fine if its what you're looking for.
Death comes to everyone, but perhaps something more can be achieved before it does.

Don't forget that both were refugees from the war, and von Neumann was a Hungarian Jew. Neither would be any stranger to personal loss.
Yeah, it keeps working. It's great. I paid for my license last year, in a year or two if it starts to feel buggy I'll pay again. I'm very happy with their software, it's made me a lot of money in productivity gained.
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One solution is to make the formatter interactive and prompt for which interpretation is desired.

A CL restart-style editor integration for this could be interesting.
I mean, if the point of the API is to access the filesystem, and you instead redirect those calls to a different in-memory scratch filesystem local to that incognito session and/or tab, then I'd call that shimming to at least some extent; it'd just be an especially thick shim.
When an open source book has 150 open PRs and the last commit is from 4 months ago I am discouraged to spend time on it.
> Small Arms Survey reported that in 2017, Mexico had 12.9 guns per 100 civilians, although of the 16,809,000 guns estimated in circulation in that year, only 3,118,592 were legally registered.

>This high level of unregistered firearms has been attributed to Mexico’s proximity with the United States, as thousands of gun retailers sit just over the border. A report on gun trafficking between the US and Mexico revealed that almost 90% of the guns recovered and identified from Mexican crime scenes can be traced back to firearm dealers in the neighbouring country.
Well put - I came here to say the same :)
Let's be frank, if salary figures are missing a job listing will always be red after those with a salary range.

Then the description of tech stack and responsibilities.
> Yes, the person I responded to said

> "This is a huge first step on the ladder."

Ha! Fair enough! The person you responded to was me, and I did write that.

I guess "first step" was not actually an important part of my claim, so I didn't think about it as I was writing it.

I'd agree that I should have written "this is a huge next step on the ladder", and not claimed it as the first step.

> This is a tiny step. Come summer when there's actual people on board then yes, it's a significant step towards forward movement, having being going pretty much nowhere since the 70s.

Eh, I think of the launch today, the in-flight abort, and DM-2 as all part of the same step. Fair enough if you don't consider it "done" until DM-2. I probably won't consider the step "done" for a couple of years (when commercial crew is as routinized as commercial cargo and booster re-use), but I would definitely consider today a major milestone.

It's the first operational flight of the hardware!

> The dawn of the space age was October 4th 1957.

Sure, that's true. I mean, it's pretty semantic at this point, but areoform had originally written: "We're at the dawn of a new space age."

I was using that as my reference for being at dawn. I think it's pretty reasonable to say we're right at the cusp of an exciting decade of development in space, in a way that we haven't been for half a century.

I'm not going to stop being excited about that!
Modern HVDC transmission systems have lower losses. A re-design/upgrade/modernization would permit load managament to be optimised for the current population and industry needs, not the last centuries state. Its highly likely new paths, new poles, new pits, new transformers, new synchronous re-generators would be deployed. The transmission grid reflects the technologies used: if less coal and oil and gas is being used, its very likely there would be more points of storage and re-generation deployed, to leverage the surplus power inherent in a lot of solar and wind (which may not be currently captured)

Its not cheap. But, thats what re-capitalization of a public utility function is all about: the thing which makes no sense to any individual profit-seeker but which delivers a non-profit moment for the entire community: safer, (less polluting) more efficient (less loss in transmission, less loss of ephemeral power) and more resilient power.

"it costs more" is a false argument. All improvements "cost more" the question is "are they worth it" and I personally believe (very strongly) btw they are. I absolutely concede there is a case to be put "no, they aren't worth it" but I would prefer that case and the pro-case is made by operations-research, economists, power engineers than the Koch brothers.

It is very unlikely under current economic climate, that any of the TVA, or the west coast power, or a myriad of state investments made in the 30s 40s and 50s would be done: Not because they are bad, but because they generate low profit outcomes, and we have forgotten why corporate entities were invented in the first place. If you don't agree, consider the giant cluster-fuck of US bridges in urgent need of repair and the logjam behind "who pays" with the current federal government favouring handing the assets to private sector investors to maintain and then charge to use, compared to a more normal (I mean worldwide) model of using tax and other central spend planning to pay for utility infrastructure.

Which do you think makes more sense?
You might like zig, it's looking to compete in the C space, while fixing lot's of these kind of issues...
Right now they are focused on IoT and car infotainment systems, as those are the customers willing to pay for Qt licenses.

You can get the latest update on their Meeting C++ 2018 session.

"Recent developments and future outlook of Qt"

https://youtu.be/PqLkBtA7DQc
It seems like every private sector prison services company is abusing prisoners for profit. Whether it's outrageously expensive phone calls, this nonsense, or the worst quality food they could find, it's disappointing to see the profit motive crush human dignity.

Prisions should serve to reform inmates, not slowly antagonize them every day.
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I disagree with that, I have had expressed 'extreme' opinions in this forum but I kept it civil, positive, and all I got hit with was to lose some 'karma points', and even the comments 'slapping me' were positive and I learned from the dialogue.

I am not perfect, but who is?

I believe in this forum we value open mindness and a fair dialogue. I don't like agreeing with everyone on everything, that would make a very boring and unproductive forum.
I'm having trouble wondering what the point of your comment is, and I do not want to try to "read between the lines".

I am sure there are a lot of things that don't inspire you, yet I kind of doubt you spend much time going to all those forums explicitly pointing it out. Likewise, I suspect you wouldn't care much for people going to maker/inventor forums commenting on how inventions don't inspire them.
Indeed. I was bemused by the first sentence in the section explaining the architecture of Qt:

> Qt Quick is the umbrella term for the user interface technology used in Qt 5.

It is not "the" user interface technology in Qt, but one of them. This is a very confusing way to start a book that is supposed to be an introduction to Qt.
The chance of a colony on Mars NOT seeking independence when it reaches a modicum of self-sufficiency is nil. Look at the US; separated by 6-12 weeks of sailing. It's human nature to seek to govern your own affairs, and with travel time to Mars being around 300 days, as soon as they can, they'll become independent.
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i oppose carbon capture and storeage on basic premises that it's stupid and energy intensive. but my meta reasoning kicke in and i supported in because i'm basically pro-spending money on any technology because of the unintended side effects of major discoveries along the way that will spill over . In the case of carbon storeage you're talking about material science, chemistry and physics. . however, the argument about opportunity costs is always essential. so one must ask-----what money/spending is being displaced by the amounts invested into carbon storeage. if it is money otherwise spent on football stadiums than hell yes. if it is money otherwise spent on grants that are well thought out scientific investigations, probably definitely not. ---then again, it's not always so easy to identify true opportunity costs and just because tons of money is wasted , doesn't always mean it's good to waste some more. ultiamtely the u.s. debt will result in hyperinflation, so digging more holes and wasting more money just accelerates the date by which this will happen. and then.....there will be no more money for research , but perhaps, ironically, not much more money for burning fossil fuels either--------the great paradox of choosing policy on carbon is that if mankind's activity is destroying mankind, than any foolish policies that are self destructive will accelerate the point in time where mankind's activies are lowered and mitigated , whereas any genuiline helpful policies to remediate carbon emissions, may only further delay and strengthen mankind's development and growth and population explosion. this paradox is that there may very well be built in a negative and positive feedback loop which balance one another and , on the long run, ensure mankind is in fact not really able to influence all that much other than direct extinction of other species ( which is what all species can and have done over time )
so really the race , if there possibly is one worth worrying about, is not against our own carbon problems, but against possibly eating everything in site. there's no feedback loop stopping that.
we can eat.
Depends on the person of course. Teenagers can die with less fear than 90 year olds. It is often seen as "ignoble" (to quote Bertrand Russell) for an older person to fear death. But it's a universal experience, so spending a little time during life trying to prepare for your end (especially while you're healthy) may be well spent.
A lot of human knowledge cannot be written down and has to be passed on person to person. There isn't enough bandwidth in a book to actually convey a lot of it.

Machining is one instance of this. You basically have to have somebody show you how to do some of it. Same thing with forging.

(At least in my experience)
This is why I like the idea of building a spinning station in orbit and wrangling asteroids into orbit for mining and refining. Simulating a full Earth gravity in space would allow using existing industrial processes and allow humans to work there indefinitely without physical deterioration.
Keep in mind, he might just be saying what he thinks the public (and/or his wife!) wants to hear, but I tend to agree with you. I don't even leave the house unless I get reeeeally restless (which is rare now that I'm a computer nerd), or run out of supplies, or have to go to that pesky "job" thing I seem to have gotten myself involved with.
I also used to hate C and thought it was primitive, ugly, dangerous, tedious to write in and annoying to read. Later, I too, discovered the actual point of C, the beauty and minimalism of it. Then I became a better coder, and once again saw the nature of C as primitive, ugly, dangerous, tedious to write in and annoying to read. I suppose that's what enlightenment feels like.
This is really only the start, after the Doc comes out there will definitely be a lot of people wanting to distance themselves. It's hard to separate the art from the artist sometimes.
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A fair point!

I am not sure what the returns are for VCs, with either male or female founders.

Certainly 'goop.com' has done very well. Theranos, not so well.

It would seem to me that if women founders are being actively discriminated against, investing in women founders should produce returns that are higher than normal.

Of those 2.2% of female-led startups, what has been the return to investors? I have no idea if anyone has ever looked into that.
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Code coverage is really high, legend has it that code coverage was tied to bonus a decade ago. The tests typically add more mental overhead than reduce it due to this.

> Opening 3 files via keyboard shortcuts vs opening them by clicking on 3 different buttons won't solve spaghetti code and low test coverage.

It doesn't solve it, but it makes it quicker and easier to navigate, it's not just the shortcuts but the navigation stack (go to declaration, go to declaration, go to declaration, pop, pop, got to declaration, pop, pop, etc) that make it easy. Tmux and/or vim are also much better at multi-window editing than IDE's which is also handy.
Teslas are finally getting close to good enough for the average consumer. The $35k price rag is still the biggest hurdle. Once they hit the $25k mark and can produce a decent volume of them, it will finally hit the point of no return. Why buy a Camry when you can have a cheaper to operate and maintain electric car that is also much safer? And once a used Tesla is an option, other manufacturers pretty much will have to offer similar products. I think we will hit that inflection in about 10 years.
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You need to write a book and then get on the conference circuit with this message. You would be rowing against the tide but there is always hope!
Mexico has a firearm homicide rate of ~6.3 murders / 100k people / yr. The United States has a lower rate, 4.62 murders / 100k people /yr [0].

If American guns are the problem, why aren't the gun homicide rates higher in the United States than Mexico?

But at the very least, it sounds like Mexico could benefit from stronger border security, too many guns are flowing across its porous border with the US. How many Mexican lives would a wall save from gun violence?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-r...
I would gladly pay double for the price of electricity (or more precisely double for the transmission component of the bill), maybe even triple if you give me a hard sale. The past few falls I've been breathing in air that's more polluted than Chinese air. The reason is because PG&E doesn't have enough money to invest in infrastructure because the rates are kept low by state regulators who only see "cheap power" as their mandate.
Sorry, one of the biggest inhibitors to large projects, let alone nationwide ones, isn't how we run every organization, it is because of politics and the court system.

politics which dictates who has to be involved in planning, building, and whatnot, and the courts as every special interest group wants their payout.

Just look at how the costs of the California's folly of a high speed rail turned out. It was just one state but had all issues rolled into one.

Big grandiose projects need special handling, not walking all over the environment type rules, but handling to expedite them and insure the best bidders along the way are involved and enough rules to keep the legal system mostly on the side lines. I don't think that is possible anymore. We simply have so much bureaucracy both in legislative and the courts that there are too many hands to reach into the pot
It is a problem about "me" but my problem in personal
knowledge is not having it (ok: it is, but thats unavoidable) it's my lack of clarity about which of half-a-hundred models of classification to apply at any given time.

I think this is why google free-text search is so powerful: you don't have to have an organizing principle, you just have to know a few key words, or a semantic construct which can be extracted from (meta) data.

OTOH the chaos implicit in my desk (I use volcano filing) probably perpetuates online in this model.
It's been claimed that the high demand for timber is partially responsible for much of the deforestation of the British Isles. In fact, the demand was so high that the Colonies also provided a significant quantity.

http://www.wou.edu/history/files/2015/08/Melby-Patrick.pdf
I'd say that the biggest cases of disrespect for the law, by far, are committed by those who hijack the concept itself in an attempt to force their morality on everyone else - eg the perpetrators of drug criminalization.

Law only works when the transgressors are few. When the law is at odds with society, society adopts to being at odds with the law. If one truly believes in the rule of law, then it behooves them to reject nonsensical applications of it that undermine its credibility.
I'm curious about the options that they'll offer initially. With the Model 3, Tesla only sold the long-range, premium version at first, which IIRC is more profitable than the basic $35k version. Maybe they'll repeat this with the Y and sell just a more expensive model first as well.
QML is fantastic. I use it for a commercial application of mine. Main difficulty is finding someone to implement designs but I can do that myself if push comes to shove as I don't need to do a full redesign every 6 months.
Mexico would also benefit if we solved our drug problem. We’ve created a huge economic opportunity for the black market in Mexico. If we really focused on drug rehab instead of just throwing people in jail I bet a lot of the violence in Mexico would go away.
Afforestation is part of the solution but even if we would plant a lot of trees and not use them, this solution does not scale. Current most optimistic estimates think trees can sequester 600 GtCO2 by 2050 max while most estimated think this is around 100 GtCO2 or less. We'll probably need around 1000-1500 GtCO2 of negative emissions.

So yes we need to plant more trees, but we also need to pursue other negative emission technologies such as ocean fertilization/ocean liming, soil carbon sequestration, direct air capture and enhanced weathering.
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Gun control works!
That swastika person has been pulling that crap for a while:
https://m.slashdot.org/profile/5542728/achievements

A community that doesn’t quickly ban such awful minority opinions will end up scaring the majority away.
Repeated re-use of forms of code, with no library to call on made me value the python 'include' and 'include from' moments because I stopped re-inventing the wheel.

Learning to use lambda functions lightly made code which I could understand and explain to people because by reducing more complex functions to repeated applications of function in one (changing) argument (with possibly bound static other arguments) reduced the complexity of explaining to the one moment of change across the mapped lambda call.

yield() taught me the distinction between a bounded list or set of things, which you know exists in its entirety, and a sequential stream of things, which may be so big you cannot hold it, but you can still compute over it. Sequences of yield() become compositions of functions.

I disliked python for years. I was a perl and C hacker. I now realize that what I disliked, is the neccessary clarity of thought over what I am doing.

My coding style is finger-painting but I am in a world where fine brushwork is needed.
Define "extreme". Try expressing ideas that are anti-egalitarian or anti-democratic and see how far you can go.
This is the real journey, and probably a large part of travel and adventure too - it just doesn't always have to be the Matterhorn, it could be Bitcoin, Nuclear Fusion, Electric VTOL, Quantum computing etc.
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Has literally anybody said that American guns are "the whole problem"? This seems like a strawman that's simplistic to the point of parody. It's not that people think that guns magically cause murders, it's that people think American guns cause Mexican murders. That doesn't mean American guns cause American murders at the same rate, because (ready for a shock here) America is not Mexico.