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Yes. So-called `green tech' and its boosters have greenwashed a bunch of tech which is far from actually green and clean when you look at the details. I'm unsure whether these people are ignorant or mendacious. Charitably I'm going with the first option with a touch of the ol' ideological blinkers thrown in for good measure.

Examples:

(a – transport) electric vehicles, hydrogen-powered vehicles – In the first case, how are batteries made? where do the elements come from, what are the environmental costs? what are the human costs? what are the industrial processes? In the second case, to echo your question, great but where does the the hydrogen come from? And what about disposal and recycling?

(b – energy production) wind turbines, solar pv panels – Same set of questions: how are they made? What are the social and environmental costs? What's their lifetime? How are they disposed of or recycled?

This is a shame because actually greener tech (like nuclear in the case of energy production, and cycling and mass public transport in the case of transport) is overlooked or sidelined to the detriment of the whole planet. Unsurprisingly this childish ignorance will end up hurting us all. This stuff needs to be taught in schools.
The article does cite that reason.

> A second global flu epidemic in 1934 cemented Japan’s love affair with the facemask, which began to be worn with regularity during the winter months—primarily, given Japan’s obsession with social courtesy, by cough-and-cold victims seeking to avoid transmitting their germs to others, rather than healthy people looking to prevent the onset of illness.
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I've noticed some artists marking certain releases on Bandcamp as 'private' they're all at the bottom of my collection - usually if the record is picked up by a larger label, did that artist delete them or mark them private?
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Nope, at least not in general.

Tests tend to test values. Types generally don't catch wrong values, so if you implement add() as subtract(), the signatures are the same, but you still get a wrong result.

However, tests of values incidentally also test the types, because values have types and for the values to match, the types must also match.

So if you write the tests that you need to write anyhow, the ones for the values, you have also tested the types, without extra effort.
You take input from both sensors only when they don't disagree (by a margin). There may be failure modes where both have the same bad input but I don't think that this doubles your chances of processing bad input.
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You guys are probably at the other ends of the spectrum, and not only geographically :p
Tech recruiter here.

The list of repos give a rough idea about the tech stack the person prefers.

That's it.

If it is Javascript or Python (I can read & assess the quality of the code of these languages) I sometimes dig into some project, if it is not a fork.
Right. The optional packages don't add additional sensors and don't add redundancy. But they may improve situational awareness by drawing pilot's attention to a sensor problem faster.

The MCAS system, apparently, always takes its input from one of the two AoA sensors - it alternates each flight. Lots of details here: http://www.b737.org.uk/mcas.htm
Just how to edit Windows share permission?
version 11.2 seems no menu to configure it
but the default permisstion is can't write even I use root to auth.
The biggest problem with Solid IMO has always been that very few people care about privacy enough to deal with the pain of managing their own data.
Should I warn my diners of added glutamate via parmessan, tomatoes, sea weed, fish sauce, cured meats or other foods high in glutamate?
Of course! But that is one technology of many. The power dynamics that technology amplifies can be a net positive force, and often is. In other cases it’s a net negative, like new technologies to kill, oppress, etc. The point, which Kranzberg captures, is that technology as a phenomenon is not a good thing, just because it can be and often is used for good. We don’t get to pretend that technologies don’t exist in a larger social context.
by the way, I'm talk about share permission, not the directory permission.
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Anecdote: I am right now travelling in a metro train bound for Tokyo. Of the 17 people around me, 12 of them have masks on them. Pollen allergy is one that could explain such high numbers of masked people at this time of the year.
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I see what you're saying but innovation in high-speed mass transport is going to take a breakthrough in tech: could be sabre, could be hyperloop, could be superconducting maglev. Despite what your spidey-sense is telling you, maybe this is one of the breakthroughs we need. Having said that I think we should be aiming for low environmental footprint with all our tech from now on given what we know about the damage we're doing. I'd like to see these breakthrough techs compared in terms of environmental costs.

My ideal combo would be superconducting maglev high-speed trains coupled with nuclear power to deliver the electricity.
It's just micro-optimization that doesn't matter.

Thinking that you require perfect memory to use arrow keys while programming is just hyperbole.
So stupid, it cause experienced user just don't know how to use it
Hatchback is simply more practical than sedan

That depends very much on the particular models. Some, especially smaller, hatchback models have tiny boots compared to similarly sized sedans.
fivethirtyeight.com: "That MSG causes health problems may have thrived on racially charged biases from the outset."

Yeah, sure. Couldn't have just been the usual, nonsensical intellectual fashion of the sophisticates ("ooh, chemicals are so bad!"). No, today's nonsensical intellectual fashion of sophisticates ("oooh, racism explains everything!") has finally figured out what was wrong with yesterday's nonsensical intellectual fashion....
The article does state this reason.

> A second global flu epidemic in 1934 cemented Japan’s love affair with the facemask, which began to be worn with regularity during the winter months—primarily, given Japan’s obsession with social courtesy, by cough-and-cold victims seeking to avoid transmitting their germs to others, rather than healthy people looking to prevent the onset of illness.
It would be good if you could list several domains and show the countdown for whichever one is the next due to expire. Once that one gets renewed, shuffle the next one due into the countdown.

Or use lets-encrypt and automate renewals.
I am the same and can remember getting excited about it back in the day. I find it difficult to regain that excitement. This is especially true given the things that companies like SpaceX have achieved, let alone what they are working on.
So what exactly is the great stable commercial alternative in the 90s?

OS/2 was pretty solid...
I create the share,but can't edit the permission
Ha, yes, JSON-LD is RDF in JSON but no one admits that so it doesn't look ancient.
I suggest you give Xenophon a try next. Anabasis is a great adventure book, with a crystal-clear style (possibly even more so than Erodotus').
Yeah, that was my experience going in too - took about six hours at the border to get two cars through - and if it hadn’t been for my wife who speaks fluent Russian, it would’ve been no dice.

Tiraspol feels like many post-soviet cities, and reminded me of Volgograd - the only real difference is the ubiquitous and contemporary soviet imagery.
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Moving cursor using arrow key vs using hjkl is no way comparable to not knowing arithmetic. That's like some fanboy comparison.
and the default is not usable, I have never seen such a stupid software
Gurjieff was a new-age guru, a mystic, who taught a "Way" to find enlightenment with no scientific basis, or any other basis than the fact that he came up with it and managed to convince people to give him money to be taught it.

There is nothing there to engage in a "deep", rational manner. Are the guidelines supposed to protect "work" like that also? Should we spend time and energy carefully rebuffing every psychic, UFOlogist and astrologist, who is linked on HN, also? Or should we accept such articles as if they have something useful to contribute, just because someone took the time to write them?
There _are_ an infinite number of _things_, but which ones are important it's up to you.

I will be advocating GTD. It doesn't only give you the framework. Once you're done with the basics, it also allows you to make clearer decisions. A nice quote (self-translated, I wasn't reading in English): When the boat sinks, you don’t think about its course.

"Essentialism" is another classic in the subject, more disciplined in rejecting unnecessary stuff, complementary to GTD in terms of your concerns.
It's not just a matter of slow/fast, because when you pick a tempo, this allows adopting solutions that would be awkward at a different speed. (Using a programmer's analogy, picking a tempo is like entering different branches of a very deep tree).

To understand this, consider bars 185ff in the development section. Here, after a long passage where another theme dominated the scene, the main theme returns two times: first in d minor, then in B-flat major. How do the pianists play this passage?

- Kovacevich (https://youtu.be/MAZ8PA5_gVA?t=744) play the d-minor and the B-flat phrases quite in the same way.

- Brendel (https://youtu.be/TKy0Lyl4g-s?t=443) and Richter (https://youtu.be/ZbJtHzaFpBQ?t=983) play the second one much softer than the first, as if the B-flat phrase were a distant echo, or a timid answer, of the d-minor one.

- Uchida (https://youtu.be/l7cc2FD06FM?t=812) plays both occurrences very softly as if the composer wanted to remind the listener of the long-forgotten theme.

What I am trying to show here is that, apart from speed, there are many other subtle ways a pianist expresses what the composer meant. This kind of nuances can be very hard to spot, but adopting Richter's tempo makes easier to appreciate them.
They need to be seen to be doing something other than bleeding money.

Every extra driver costs them money, every lift costs them money. If they can hold out the illusion of "we know we can save money here when we've got time and have won the market", maybe it keeps the money rolling in.
it make simple thing complex.
> Large corporations tend to stay away from independent projects altogether.

Two possible reasons:

- Risk assessment: In 2 - 5 years, will there still be further development, bug fixes, especially of security bugs. Taking over responsibility for all those abandoned projects is not an option.

- Cultural differences: Large corporations understand requirements of other large corporations better. Like long-term maintenance commitments.
Well, the sole realization and acceptance that money are not all, will bring you peace.

All jobs are stressful, some all the time, others at time to time. Personally for me, I found "more" peace when I started working something more satisfactory to me - for myself. But working for yourself is also stressful, even more I can say! The difference is in the level of satisfaction you get in the end of the day.

I don't listen to crap like educational videos, made for making audience and money. Many times I just prefer my own company - sitting on my comfi chair reading a nice fiction. Letting the steam off.

Reducing PC time also helps, that includes phone and all digital equipment. Working 10+ hours a day on a PC, I don't need also my free time to be on a PC.

Don't know the reason of your unsuccessful marriage, but that certainly brought a tremendous amount of stress to your system. For love related issues - time is the healer.

As a conclusion, try not to put constant pressure on yourself with too high expectations and goals. Go easy, and make small-step progress every day. Money are not important, and they will come automatically after you FIRST find the inner peace to work on your goals. Spend time alone, get out of the routine of the day. Go for a hike, take time at a quiet place, exercise!

Good luck, and cheer up! :) Life is beautiful, we just have to lift our dark glasses and look.
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Thank you for giving me a compelling reason to try this. I have a stash of IR LEDs lying about and I've been intending to experiment with and IR-decorated hat for a good while now, but basically been too lazy. Now I have to try it!
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> Google is not forcing anyone to install this browser nor does it auto install when you navigate to Google search.

Making it so that a number of the worlds largest properties only work in your own browser comes very close to "forcing" in my opinion.

When should a company be forced to make sure its products works with other companies products? Thats not for me to decide but personally I think there's some extra responsibility for very large companies and personally I'm surprised they haven't been hit with one or two major lawsuits over Chrome yet.
The funny thing is the UK had a good rail network but threw it away at the behest of the road lobby. The transport minister at the time (Earnest Marples) owned a road construction company.
The book "Amusing Ourselves to Death" by Neil Postman presents an helpful idea to deal with it :
information-action ratio.
Basically, news about things you can do nothing about are not news, they are noise. After reading the book, I started selected my news source based on that ratio. Now I only read tech news and local news.
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For a long time I've used a saying I originally got from a pilot (iirc), "It's not the first problem that gets you, it's the 2nd and 3rd".

In this case it's looking more like a sequence of survivable problems in short order leads to aircraft loss, as you said, horrific.
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A lot of "blast from the past" comments! But as a counter example, we still use Jena extensively (in combination with its server Fuseki) to deal with biomedical ontologies and taxonomies for use in Natural Language Processing (e.g. Human Phenotype Ontology, Gene Ontology, etc). We even recently made the step to add some PROLOG-ish inference rules [1]. I have nothing but love for the RDF ecosystem, in the sense that I love their ideas even if some of the implementations are a bit wonky. For example, the performance of property paths (i.e. the + and * operators in sparql) leave things to be desired sometimes. Not to mention the funny looks from some devs when you say you use RDF, but I take that as a badge of honor!
It took me a while to get it, so I finally decided to write down what it all means a couple of years ago [2].

[1]: https://jena.apache.org/documentation/inference/index.html

[2]: https://joelkuiper.eu/semantic-web
Because using the stuff is better than just keeping it somewhere underground?
Go is not very impressive when it comes to type system power though. My bet is that if you wrote your statically typed code in Crystal instead, then you wouldn't have any problems creating your mocks. There is nothing in the concept of static typing that forbids duck typing - it is just that most type systems are weak enough that it doesn't work.
Hi there. The article's author here.

In my place of work there aren't other programmers. I'm kind of a "one man show" there.

And you got this precisely right, I should've know better and before starting the rewrite and thought about the trade-offs.

I think that the point I was trying to make is that I've always been kind of blind to the fact that there are alternatives to OOPL and that they're are viable.
It might be not that hard for someone who's literal job is examining skeletal remains.
(disclaimer: SUSE employee and user)

I get the impression that people using Debian and their derivatives seem to live under a rock regarding other distributions.

I would trust zypper dup hundred times over apt-get dist-upgrade. This gets amplified by the fact that openSUSE Tumbleweed (rolling distro), is much better auto-tested before being published every week, than my experience with sid was (tested by their end-users).

Today's Redhat dnf package manager is based on SUSE's dependency solver (https://github.com/openSUSE/libsolv), and both package managers provide a very nice user experience.

People seem to be still confused about SUSE "using YaST". YaST is just a front-end powered by libzypp (https://github.com/openSUSE/libzypp), like zypper is.
Why is MCAS needed? If the MAX is so similar to old 737’s and no additional training is needed, then why the MCAS? The most relevant question is “is the MAX aerodynamically stable?” If it is, why do we need the MCAS? That needs to be investigated.

If plane at a low altitude at full power is stalling, just lower the nose. That is pilot training 101. Why need a system like MCAS to help. The pilot should be able to disengage the autopilot and take control of the airplane. This should be simple.

My suspicion is that there is an inherent, more fundamental problem with the MAX. Before Boeing rushes a software fix, idependendent entities “(remember we can no longer assume the FAA is independent based on what transpired over the last few days) need to investigate and makes sure the plane is safe.

I for one will not fly the MAX regardless of what the FAA and Boeing say. Their reputation for prudence and safety is gone.
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I'd imagine the cockpit would need to be fully shielded? Just as a fun exercise, let's calculate the kinetic energy of a 3kg goose impacting the airplane at 5000 kmh:

The formula is (m*v^2)/2.

Plugging in the figures, we get 2.9 MJ, or the equivalent of a little more than half a kg of TNT. Not bad :D
I completely agree for the LionAir crew. For Ethiopia, I can’t imagine any 737-Max crew could step into a cockpit not having the NNC for stab trim runaway, whether MCAS or not, reviewed and top of mind and have the idea of killing electric trim at the first hint of a trim issue.
EU regional and convergence funds really helped in the case of Ireland. Yes, there are claims that the money was misspent at times, and Dublin benefited the most (as ever), but a whole bunch of motorways were built from Dublin to the main towns in the country: Belfast, Cork, Galway, Limerick, Waterford, plus a Dublin orbital.

Problem is, Ireland converged and the money dried up! Now we got to fund major infrastructure projects ourselves and we haven't really done that since the Victorian era when we were part of the British empire! (I kid you not.)

There was this joke back in the day, what's the easiest way to make loads of money? Lie down and pretend you're a road. Dumb joke but it wasn't wrong, billions were spent.
Crystal.
Oops I mixed up the A92 and A90. But that's interesting, and I figured Aberdeen-Inverness would likely be mostly single carriageway. I also remember A9 from Inverness to the south being a bit hairy at times
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Seconded! He has lived through the transition architecture made from just scaling things up (as engineering advanced), to scaling things up while thinking about effects on human psychology and sociology.

And for anyone paying attention, that same pattern is repeating in the Software Architecture today.
No, you don't need a blockchain for decentralization. Also, you don't need a blockchain[0].

[0]: https://thomaslarock.com/2018/11/no-you-dont-need-a-blockcha...
Still, for me it is quite hard to imagine what would I create with APL.

Usually, when trying a language, my instinct is to implement a web-service. Or a simple gui-app, with some library.

With APL, I am looking at it and wonder. I looks powerful. But what should I do with it? Make a compiler? A database? How does I/O even work there?
Wow what a waste of time.
You understand that you can google either of those and get thorough, comprehensive breakdowns of environmental costs? Because that's exactly the kind of questions that being asked by people like you for last couple decades. Not that they ever read the answers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_aspects_of_the_e...
It's more likely just race mixing, since if I remember correctly, native americans don't grow them.
RDF, and in particular OWL2 (reformulation of RDF tech based on description logic) is about decidable fragments of first-order logic, whereas Prolog is an existential Horn fragment on terms with Turing-complete extra-logical additions such as negation-as-failure and "cut" hence has undecidable decision problems. I actually think the EU-granted research belittled in another comment did a good job of carving out fragments of FOL for relevant applications with desirable complexities of decision problems. But from a practical PoV, RDF, OWL, and SPARQL is bordering on unusable (starting from the fact that open world semantics alone isn't applicable in many real-world scenarios), though jena and rdflib are working fine. Think about OWL2/description logic as a variable-free representation of axioms with just two logical variables (plus some with three vars such as the axiom of transitivity).

Today there's a renewed interest in Prolog and Datalog, which makes me happy after RDF had captured the field for almost two decades.
The article does imply that hay fever is a big factor when it references air polution and pollen from Japanese cedars.

> Then, in the 1950s, Japan’s rapid post-World War II industrialization led to rampant air pollution and booming growth of the pollen-rich Japanese cedar, which flourished due to rising ambient levels of carbon dioxide. Mask-wearing went from seasonal affectation to year-round habit.
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Don't presume, ask; something like "do you have any dietary requirements?" along with a dinner invitation. Covers everything from vegetarianism to highly specific allergies. Also puts the ball in the other person's court to be clear upfront before anything is cooked or purchased.
You’re not going to have to wait long, the first VW electric cars on the new modular platform are entering production by the end of the year, and scaled up at the start of next year. VW in fact has a regulatory requirement to reduce average fleet emissions which will force a massive scaling up of its electric production. And its board have already signed off on tens of billions of Euros of investment over the next five years to that end.
>CapEx is too low for Model Y

Source?

They said multiple times that they have enough cash already to start and ramp up Model Y production.

NB: the Nevada Gigafactory is already built (that's where Model Y will be assembled), they already got the money for the Shanghai factory (enough for 3K/week vehicles and battery packs at end of this year). They will soon announce the European factory (hints of European production for end of 2020 in the Model Y press releases, probably financed with local bank loans just like in China).

We've heard "Tesla is done" since 2009 and yet, they keep eating into the competition's profits, and keep increasing their market share in the EV market at an evergrowing speed.
The German car industry has been doomed every other decade by various factors such as Japanese cars, American cars, the oil crisis, etc. I have full faith in their ability to overcome this one as well
It does not matter if you do not use GMail, google/microsoft/<insert any other popular email provider here> has all your emails anyways, since everybody sends you emails from those domains.
If there’s any truth at all to the idea that Boeing applied inappropriate pressure, at any point, via any means, I’d like to see the rest of the world push back very heavily on Boeing imports
Some insightful analysis here :
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