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The attitude to recycling needs to change. Right now it is something you have to do or something that makes you feel good about yourself. But it is fundamentally still an optional thing and an afterthought. It's nice that that iphone is packaged nicely but that wasn't the reason you bought it.

It needs to stop being optional and it needs to be something that is part of the product design process. Companies are not currently doing more than the bare minimum here because it is not their problem and mostly they do it to look good and there are a lot of companies for whom looking good is not much of a priority or for whom it is more about the looks than the reality. That needs to change. It needs to be their problem.

Sustainable production processes are not sustainable unless they consider the whole product cycle from production to discarding. And the simple truth is that everything gets discarded eventually. Forcing companies to think about the post sales life of their products changes how they build their products. Planned obsolescence is a lot less lucrative if you have to clean up the obsolete mess you helped create. If they are forced to think about efficiently recycling used products they produced, the economics change. Durability becomes a topic. Repairability as well and facilitating recycling by using materials that are easy to recover and products that are easy to disassemble.
I discovered the importance of fresh air last year because I have downstairs room in my apartment with no operable windows. I wondered why I always felt tired when I worked from there. Anectodal, but it turns out it was just a matter of air quality. Now I keep my windows open as much as possible. It was above 32 degrees recently and so I opened my windows and keep them open. I now prefer to be cold with fresh air than warm with bad air. This is really an unfortunate consequence of modern building systems, that all buildings are more or less isolated ecosystems circulating HVAC air.
The good news is that all commit times fit in the unix timestamp which started in 1970 :)
Lets run a thought experiment. It is 2100 and the sealevel increased by 0.25 inches. Did those 1-4ft increase predictions increase or decrease scientific authority?
This is also the case (tax not fine) in Melbourne Australia. Largely because of the perception that many high-end properties are being used to park money by overseas investors and left empty.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/mar/06/victo...
As a piece of history and source for research, this is simply amazing. They show an example of `git blame` on `pipe.c` that includes names like Ken Thompson and Bill Joy; pretty cool.
There was also a crash where the pilots turned too much off at once.

If you hava a lot of computerized equipment to help you you depend on the things that work. You want only that malfunctioning part off. Here the problem was that before Lion Air crash nobody but Boeing even new that MCAS existed, let alone turning deadly with the malfunctioning non-redundant sensor.
You're absolutely right. Rack is incredibly powerful!

Might it be possible that there is a subtle catch in "if you know how to use it"? The more powerful a tool is, the more potent a temptation it can present to those who might understand what Rack can do but who could perhaps also stand to possess a greater degree of wisdom in considering what the right tool is. A small number of very experienced, wise, and deeply skilled developers can be trusted to use their tools well - yet this may not describe all possible scenarios.

Again, you're completely right. Rack is vastly powerful and immensely useful. Yet perhaps there might be good reasons for not quickly introducing people to all the glory and power of Rack.
Came to say basically what you said. The communist bloc/empire collapsed and was places like these were washed away in the tide of globalization. The same happened in the rest of Europe, but it was especially brutal in the Warsaw bloc. The more capitalist countries were better prepared to handle globalization.
Have you tried RailsAdmin? It does a great job of getting you over the line with the basics (though configuring it can be fussy and customising it is pretty miserable).
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I really disagree with that simplification. Look at this: https://news.cornell.edu/stories/1997/08/us-could-feed-800-m...
That makes no sense. Disposable things almost always have much lower value than thigns that last.
And even less people are killed by terror threats worldwide. Also a small number of people die from shark attacks or from airplane crashes. It doesn't stop people from taking safety precautions.
Elliot, are you part of "We are Donor Conceived" on Facebook? There is a group of 1,000+ people on there that I think could really benefit from your perspective.
"more error prone and less safe"

right there... if I could vote you up a thousand times, I would. I can place a bet that most home grown apps have no security measures against CSRF or XSS in place.
As linked in the repository: https://youtu.be/S7JB0mhrGCQ

For this alone, all the work paid off.

On a more serious side, I wonder what we can learn from this data. Its not a question for the field of computational social science, but social science of computation!
No, the scientists get on TV and into news media and talk about nearly guaranteed outcomes. When those outcomes do not pan out the scientists are shocked to discover that to the population they look like buffoons.
Your solutions sounds pretty good to me (I'm vegetarian), because you are already aware of all the bad things about that industry, but you probably also know that most of the people don't know that and aren't capable of eating meat or fish from sustainably and healthy sources. In my personal experience, there's a lack of culture that makes easier for everybody to become vegetarian or vegan rather than learning how to find that kind of products that you mentioned...
They'll just spin up more instances of support_agent.py
Quick brief of idea: AI Sparring buddy for martial arts, that use AI, to adapt and help you to train your skills. E.g. Wing Chun sparring is good starting point. For prototype, it's okay, to have upper body dummy on a stand.
It's really awesome
The only supplement needed on a vegan diet is minimal amounts of b12, and that’s only necessary because sanitation kills the bacteria that produce it.

The environmental footprint of a vegan diet is way lower than even that of a pescavore.
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The key is to make your culture filter not cause people who actually would be a good fit to self-filter. Mental illness is insidious because it can make people who actually would enjoy something if given the right push instead think/assume that they don't want to do it. It affects a large enough percentage of the population that it's something companies need to be thinking about.

One of my friends worked for a company where one of the official values was "100%", and to me this was problematic because different people would understand it to mean different things. Some would assume that it just means that everyone works hard, that it's not a cushy job. Whilst others would interpret it to mean that everyone works crazy hours and is expected to give their life to the business at the expense of other commitments. My friend couldn't recognise that different people would interpret the value differently, so believed it was a perfectly reasonable way to get the wrong kinds of candidates to self-filter.
Remember this the next time you don't get that job at Google. Somehow the most selective and elite of tech institutions can't bother to do customer service.
Same here.

But, I'm not sure if the concept of "full manual" is anymore relevant with modern passenger jets. Are they even flyable without any computer intervention or too unstable / have too complex flying charasteristics?
Did you already forget the millions of muslims who tried to rise up (and were mostly denied unfortunately) to throw out the dictators in their respective countries in 2012?

Their sole act of resistance against those dictatorships just contradicts your stance that Islam is a reactionary ideology. It's a religion, and as such, encompasses too broad a spectrum of beliefs and interpretations for you to simply put that under the same umbrella and call the entirety "reactionary".

I suggest you follow İyad el-Baghdadi[0] (the Emirati, now Norwegian citizen, not ISIS chief evidently) because you'll learn a lot about Islam that you probably didn't know.

[0]https://twitter.com/iyad_elbaghdadi
Sounds like an unpolished async change - it changes only after the server has confirmed successfully saving. I often hit this in my projects and if I want to be safe I would usually add a progress to make sure the user knows what's happening, but when it's not a critical change (losing a new name of a column would classify for that in my book) I would just apply the new state on the client for better UX, risking losing the change if the user somehow navigates away/kill the app before a request is sent/completed. It's just better UX, IMO.
My bets are on news regarding:

- Something related to VR, which will probably push competitions in the VR gaming sphere

- Or their game streaming service as seen in the AC test run (this is more likely)

- Or some type of gaming hardware (prebuilt gaming-focused PC) - This is least likely going to happen but we'll see
> ...the F.A.A. outsourced key elements of the certification process to Boeing itself, and that Boeing’s safety analysis of the new plane contained some serious flaws, including several relating to the mcas.

This sounds insane. Is there a reasonable explanation?
> Anything that is behind such a whitelist should be a userland permission, approved (or not) by the end user, not Google.

You’re assuming that Google’s desire here is to protect the user. I don’t think that’s the case: I think that their desire is to control the user. Cf. how Android presents the user with a warning if he installs his own trusted HTTPS certificate (and how newer version of Android simply ignore his trusted certificate): Google claim that they are simply concerned about naïve users, but my contention is that they are motivated by a desire to prevent users from viewing the traffic of Google apps.
I wonder if remote work opportunities could become significant enough to slow this trend and make more people prefer smaller/quieter towns to the big city life while still holding jobs for big industries.

Does anyone happen to know if this effect is/can be a thing or do remote workers still flock to big cities anyway? I imagine this could eventually lead to lower rents in cities (but also lower salaries due to increased competition in cheaper places)
Because that would be incredibly dangerous.
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Yes!
Videos are the best.

Two things:

1) Sometimes it can be hard to find good YT vids, especially a series of vids that will deep dive into the topic you care about. Maybe sign up for an online course where there videos of the instructor coding in real-time and address things in detail.

That will definitely give you a place to start with someone who has actually professionally done things you’re doing according to some best practice.

2) After you’ve got an idea of what you think is best practice, even if you have lots of questions remaining, just keep moving ahead with your project with a focus on making sure your API successfully does what you plan for it to do.

it’s not possible for you to know all the best practices, especially in isolation, and still be productive. you have to get your work done, and some of it is just going to be terrible. It’s possible that you may end up with a lot of tech debt that requires time to go back over it to refactor, but what does your boss expect if you’re alone and making the whole thing by yourself?

Unfortunately, you have to meet your timelines, so compromises must inevitably be made. More could be said about this, but i’ll leave it there.

Also, overtime, you will start to see what the better way to implement things are, as you continue building out features and run into use-cases you might not have thought of previously. The videos and documentation you read later on will make more sense since you have a framework in your mind of how the patterns get used or implemented in code.
The 2016 position says

>[Vegetarian and vegan] diets are appropriate for all stages of the life cycle, including pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, adolescence, older adulthood, and for athletes.
I’m torn. On one hand I think we should think about the “motives” of these monsters and try to explain why they are wrong m, like you just did.

On the other side, I don’t want to legitimize even a semblance of rationality exhibited by this guy. Even if Europeans had been in NZ for a thousand years, this is not the right response.
I'm not that type of "developer". I don't do that to my users, and I wouldn't want that as a user either.

Remember, this behaviour (even if it is explicitly mentioned in the EULA) used to be called spyware and tools were created to detect and remove such things. Then the big companies caught on and spun it in the "but it's for the users!" direction, and now it's harmless? I see the "if you're using this and Azure you should trust Microsoft already" point, but this is presumably software that isn't for just interacting with Azure.

Given the sort of data that usually resides in databases, an application for interacting with them that will occasionally make connections out into the Internet just triggers suspicion regardless.
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Perhaps a bit OT, but it is interesting that people keep bringing fear of flying as "irrational risk".

People fearing flying more than driving are not afraid of the relative chances of dying (which are low either way). They are afraid of the feeling and experience of spending long time in a falling plane knowing that you are going to die, being stuck in one seat and not being able to do anything about it. This does not happen when you are driving, if there is an accident, you usually either die instantly or in some rare cases receive some injuries, but at least then you can lie at the site of the accident and hope that medics will come. It's not the same as being stuck in a box for 10s of minutes knowing you are most likely about to crash to a painful death. You have to spend time in that experience, to feel it, in a completely hopeless state. That's why people afraid of flying, not because of some statistics.
I think there's a role for consumption of meat and animal products. There's also a lot of land which cannot be used to directly generate human food in any sensible way, e.g. in the uplands. Furthermore, animals have an important role in maintaining soil quality, which is vital to ensure good crop yields.
Most modern apps use api/json based endpoints where csrf is not needed (cookies are no longer used for auth) and xss is massively simplified since html is rarely returned by backend.

In other words most web frameworks that help with rendering html on the server and writing forms to database are not needed either.
"Kilo LISP
A Kilo Byte-Sized LISP System"

But it's 25k of code, the executables and memory requirements are both greater than 1k.

Did it start off as 1k in size, and since expanded?
> For example - is it really "better" to say 7.even? rather
> than isEven(7)?

Yes. And that has nothing to do with rails, it's just the Ruby way.

> Or is the article's example of a data model migration
> really better than a series of alter table sql statements?

Yes. Migrations provide much more than just altering DB schema.

> And why not go for a pure SPA rather than an
> AJAX-sprinkled compromise

I would love more people to ask themselves "do I really need SPA?" actually.
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Haha I was pondering the same line of thought just 2 days ago (while I was on an airplane).
Boeing has been allowed to self certify for years[0].

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/faa-e...
I use Azure Data Studio for SQL Server already and it's fantastic. Super lightweight, fast, and a really well-thought-through interface. It's honestly the SQL administration app that I prefer out of all that I've used, free or otherwise, and I'm very happy MS are taking it to more backends.
A lot of the time, the TeX output target is paper, and there (with a decent resolution printer) it looks rather splendid (in my view anyway).
TurboC compilation is 13KB and GCC is over 512KB. Very interesting Lisp-1. I am going to look at the C code. Should be good for embedding as a scripting language.
Not seeing that in either the definition and essentially all control algorithms, like say PID control, are meant to run "forever" (meaning longer than you can foresee in the code, they need an infinite loop)
>In the USA that should look like heavily taxing Silicon Valley and NYC, etc and using that money to fund high speed Internet and education and companies and business centers in under developed regions like rural Alabama or Mississippi or North Dakota.

Great Idea. But politically impossible.
Thanks, good to hear. Elsewhere I've added something similar, and populate the data this way:

var vue = new Vue({
el: '#app',
created: function () {
for (var key in __app.dataForVue) {
this[key] = __app.dataForVue[key];
}
},
// ...
};
> because it's too much effort

This is exactly the reason these scientists are focusing on genetic and other medical ways to increase lifespan, which are going to be packaged in products that can be used without effort. One might say what they want about people not wanting to expend unnecessary effort, one might call it lazy or just smart, or a drive of progress, it doesn't matter. The fact is if you give people a method that requries less effort, more people will use it. Thus we will have a greater general effect on the population with these methods.
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They did some research on "red mercury" and leaked plausible info on it, such that the other side would try it out, sink resources and get themselves killed (in the lab) in the process.
The New Yorker article is a rehash of the Seattle Times article, which is excellent investigative reporting.
I guess they trusted Boeing. After all they also don't want their planes to crash and have a long record of being reasonably responsible.
The survey linked is what they found in the great pacific garbage patch, but the numbers are a bit fishy if we use them generally. The yearly amount of fishing net sold world-wide is as far as I can see is significant less than the amount of plastic dumped into the ocean each year.

That said, there are two large areas that contribute to ghost fishing. The fishing industry is getting centralized into fewer entities, and those might find it cheaper to discard nets rather than use costly manual labor to repair them or pay the cost of proper disposal. The second area is theft. A fishing net is basically an unguarded month of wages marked out with a bright buoy. I know fishermen that once they have a net stolen they will start removing the buoy for a while and simply drag for the net, which naturally increase the risk of loosing the net. If they can't find the net they don't even know if it is because they can't locate it or if it is because of more theft.
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If you loved Light Phone, you should try this android app "Less Phone". It is brilliant.

If you want both smartphones and don't want to get distracted during office hours or private time.
Sure, what you are describing I would consider "passive suppression".

I should have been more specific and mentioned "active suppression" to imply a focus on behaviors inclusive of things like pre-emptive sabotage.
Ech at least on android you can easily install apps outside of google play. _I_ find it scary to make business with as you can be pretty much _snapped_ out of existance in a single decision.
Everyone these days want to 'delegate' work to someone else if permissible by law, and sometimes even if they are not, I guess. I have a feeling the report would come out with, 'due to lack of funding and experts, some of the work had to be 'delegated' to Boeing' etc...
Because these plane have too many subsystems to go "full-manual".
I am going to do exactly that. Why? Because of all alternatives I personally could use: PHP/Symfony, RoR or Node.js Ruby is the most elegant and pleasant language and Rails is best framework. Other my think differently, of course.
Yeah, I guess the logic goes that a group of aero engineers know better than average pilot, who may make bad choices under stress (panic).
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There’s no reasonable explanation. It also speaks to the lack of oversight and funding of FAA by Congress. Pathetic really.
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There is, kind of.

My understanding is that there is a button on the stick to disable the autopilot if the pilot just wants to be maneuver. And a circuit breaker to really shut the thing down if there is something wrong, as it happened during the accident.

You don't want to disable everything at once, and put too much cognitive load on the pilot during the worst times. Especially not safety systems like MCAS is supposed to be.
I saw this exposed a couple of weeks ago at the Vitra Design Museum near Basel:

https://www.dezeen.com/2009/06/27/the-toaster-project-by-tho...

The author tried, as an art project, to build from scratch a <10$ toaster using locally sourced materials and methods of production.

It cost him more than 1000$ bucks, 9 months, and the result was, well, what you see in the photos.
I prefer frameworks but sometimes there is a lack of fine grained escape hatches. Feature X covers 99% of the things I need. To get to 100% I have to stop using feature X and do everything myself. The solution to this problem is to make feature X more flexible, not to rip out the rest of the framework too.
Part of the problem with the Max is that it handles differently compared to the old 737, so a pilot used to flying a 737 isn't immediately ready to fly the Max. To quote a pilot on the issue;

"I think it is unconscionable that a manufacturer, the FAA, and the airlines would have pilots flying an airplane without adequately training, or even providing available resources and sufficient documentation to understand the highly complex systems that differentiate this aircraft from prior models." [1]

Unless you're confident flying that specific model of that particular plane just turning off auto-pilot is really dangerous. Planes aren't all the same, so "knowing how to fly" doesn't really work, especially on take-off and landing where the margin of error is very, very small.

[1] https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/12/pilots-boeing-737-...
I don't mind vegetarian. I rarely eat meat and never crave for it. However vegan just sounds horrible. Eggs and cheeses are incredible, milk, fish, prawns. Cutting them out feels like cutting half of the nutrients out of my diet. I wouldn't risk it unless I had very extensive knowledge and dedication to human dietary requirements and what which plants can provide, which I don't have and won't have.
They also want to make a profit and therefore might make compromises in security. There is a reason we have independent inspections like everywhere we deem sensible enough to pay for it as a society.
Yes, but because those latitudes receive less light, plant growth is hindered somewhat.
Tech salaries aren't great here. They are going up but still low compared to rent costs.
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