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> what's your point against "sustainable"

"Sustainable" is just a label, it doesn't in itself prove

a) that the methods it describes are sustainable;

b) that the conventional, industrial methods are not sustainable.

However, I agree that nothing natural can sustain a population of 7 billion. But we can try to concentrate the necessary unnatural food production on the smallest possible area, or use less technology and spread it over a much wider area.
Sad to hear. I don't know what exactly he did for python project, but if we take the pudding as proof of the recipe he did a lot of things right

Edit: I meant I don't know what he did as a bdfl day to day.
Does the state control the environment [1]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison%E2%80%93industrial_comp...
Serious question: did anything good come out of paying attention to Twitter? Like, ever? I'm sure it has its bubble-living adherents here. Then again, so did Quora.

As for the claim of "questioning [his] authority", isn't that a given? With or without social media. That's pretty much human nature. It's up to you to establish the tone and medium of how people interact with you. Linus, for example, is pretty much strictly email and most things go through one of the "inner circle" who are largely responsible for areas like networking. As brash as he can be, you pretty much know what to expect and you have delegation.

Honestly, I wonder how much of this goes back to GvR's handling of Python 3. This should go down as something to be studied for years on how not to do a breaking change. IIRC Python 3 was released in 2008. Here we are in 2019 with no end in sight for Python 2.7.

My favourite Python 3ism was the removal of the s and u string literal prefixes. In Python 2.0+, u'this is a string' was a Unicode literal prefix. It was removed in 3.0 for reasons that are beyond me (I know Unicode became the default for string literals) but then added back in 3.3 for backwards compatibility. Why remove it in the first place? It makes no sense. But this just went to the perception that the Python powers-that-be were removed from reality in their hubris.

Anyway, GvR... one can't help but respect his stewardship and contribution to Python. Please make no mistake about that. The weird thing about human nature is in situations like this, if the peanut gallery senses they're getting to you it only encourages them. Sad but true.
My Mother-in-law could never figure out how to use a touchscreen phone. Getting her own phone line was very difficult and finding a good flip style phone is getting harder and harder.

I found that many newer models of cordless home phones will bluetooth tether to a cellphone. This way we could keep her phone plugged in and charged and she could just use the cordless style phone she was already accustomed to.
Brilliant! Thank you. I knew I loved Douglas Adams.
> 6. $1K/mo on "children's lessons".

In NYC, these fees are necessary if you want to get your child into a "good" public middle and high school. The alternative is to pay $50K/year for private school. So #6 is a valid strategy to cut costs via attending public school--the very opposite of "luxury".
You’re missing the one that dwarfs the impact of all the rest:

Don’t have kids.
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Is your code really clear though? What are a and b? What types are they? What if they, or one of them aren’t that type? Why would you call the function? When would you call it?

I mean, I get that your example is directly related to the point you are making in verbosity, I don’t even necessarily disagree with you, but your example isn’t very clear to me.
Sorry, didn't realize I was talking to someone who believed making changes at the margin don't matter.

None of your arguments justify continued high meat consumption. I don't own a car, I recycle, I live in an apartment, don't have children, thrift, compost, ??eat less?? (no - I eat sustainably, and it more than makes up for the amount I eat).

> The militant "your opinion is bullshit" on individual issues

Thinking you're wrong isn't "militant" - it's just thinking that you're wrong. Learn to have a discussion.

People don't take climate change seriously because they're able to hide behind moral excuses for their own behavior, not because they're turned off because a vegan was mean to them once.
So do you assert that both the district court and the supreme court were part of a conspiracy to discredit an entrepreneur? Or merely that the prosecutor got an accurate tip-off from some hostile party?
One extremely low hanging fruit is to replace beef with pork or chicken wherever you're not really tasting and enjoying the beef. E.g. for tacos, where the flavor is dominated by spices anyway - at least for me it's equally good with minced pork.
> As a continent, Asia is the largest polluter by far.

Don't forget that a lot of that pollution is due to production for western consumption.
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Super interesting. Yet IMO kids have more than a text available. They have several senses, most importantly their eyesight. Hence this comparison does not seem to be on spot.
If I can ask, how long have you been living in the new city for? What reason did you move over for?

You can definitely find friends at the gym, find someone of a similar size to you and ask them to be gym buddies. Don't weird them out, make sure to shower and get your hair done before =profit?
There is usually a setting to allow unknown numbers through if they call again within a short amount of time. That may help with the emergency case.

Unfortunately the 2FA calls for my corporate login seem to come from different numbers each time..
A lot of what you point out is fair, but there are some points I disagree with.

First, absolutely right that the big problem with agriculture is its industrialization. It uses a ton of petrochemicals and relies on shipping things all over the world. And monocrops are terrible for the planet in all sorts of ways.

Second, grazing is actually good for soil, which in turn is quite effective for sequestering carbon. Potentially rivaling forests if we’re talking about replacing industrial monocrop acreage.

And I like what you say about the cost being more realistic if we switch to smaller, local farms. Beef would cost more, because it would reflect the price of growing it sustainably.

Where I disagree is the attitude against veganism. This idea that you can’t be vegan and healthy is ridiculous. If we’re talking anecdotes, then my wife and kids (who are vegan because of allergies) are a good example because they have regular annual checkups and are thriving on a vegan diet. I have a friend who lifts and went vegan, and got before and after bloodwork and is remarkably healthier now. Most of the research I’ve seen over the past several years suggests that not only is veganism a totally healthy way to live, it might actually be the healthier way to live.
If you even need to indent them then why you don't write a full if else statement instead? Nested ternaries shouldn't be used at all.
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Though there's some weird reverb or similar going on too I think, not simply the odd choice of a synthesized speaker for the countdown.
hexo
it's a static html blog framework.
Silly to advocate for population reduction when people in the developed world (esp. the US) emit multiple times as much as those in the developing world.

This is largely an overconsumption problem, not an overpopulation problem. Most of the people born today will emit less than you or I ever will.
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> We can all read our own code

Six-months-ago-myself thought so as well. Turns out six-months-ago-myself is a goddamn moron.
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How on earth are you going to get farming local in NYC? Where? Thinking that making all roofs farms will make even a small dent is absurd, especially since it would be competing with solar.
My project (that I'm currently trying to get away from) is a large project that has been cobbled together over many years from many different teams both internal and external.

In the beginning everything was done to get something shippable and now that the project has shipped it is a monolithic monstrosity. Several devs have made an effort to infuse unit testing into the project but they always fizzled out because estimated dev time never included testing and so if a crunch happens now then the first thing that is dropped is the testing effort. I have learned a lot from my project however it's a lesson in how not to do things.

I will say that code reviews are heavily enforced. So we at least have that.
https://www.timesnownews.com/international/article/man-murde...

I've seen similar articles a few times. Not to uncommon it seems.
> Here we are in 2019 with no end in sight for Python 2.7

An end is in sight, is coming soon, and it’s sort of concerning that more folks haven’t realized it yet - https://pythonclock.org/
> What makes it such an insulting proposition?

People are bred and raised with this axiomatic, individualist "you against the world" attitude from birth. There's a huge cultural divide.

"Why the fuck should I have to ever give anything up that I don't want to, to help you? And fuck you for guilt-tripping me" is pretty much the standard fare.
> And the problem is, what browser am I supposed to use from now on? Lynx? Sigh

You can try Firefox from your distribution's repositories. eg. Debian disables this sort of things.
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Just embed a real comments platform for free like Disqus, or Discourse. There are plenty of better options that make this pointless for anything more than a "just because" project.
Doc, is there any way to measure my current risk of sudden cardiac arrest/death?
I put "Amazon" in the title, as it was in both the headline and URL of the linked article, and someone edited it out?
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On the contrary, I think the zeitgeist for the last 5-10ish years has been the opposite. "Verbose and explicit > Succinct and implicit".

I think python and golang are largely responsible for this kind of movement in recent years. Because of that, I find languages like Perl 6 to be a breath of fresh air.
I’ve always considered the existence of “Type 2 fun” as a bug in our brain hardware: it’s the same mechanism that makes your brain believe that experiences like “playing a slot machine for hours with a negative rate-of-return (both average and total)”, or “taking a drug that you’ve long grown habituated to and don’t experience a high from any more”, were still rewarding-enough experiences to reinforce their addictive potential.
closer to be a drugged nation. marijuana legalized, crime below certain amount(around $1000?) incur no legal consequence in states and cities, soon we will have 10+ genders, two-man couple presidential candidate kissing in front of national TV, now comes magic mushroom, what's next?
I've often seen the exact opposite of this: entry-level devs being all too happy to 'fill in the gaps' in a spec based on their own (very limited) understanding of the problem domain (not even being fully aware of where the spec ends and their interpretation begins), and more senior people recognizing when they don't actually know the answer and realizing that it's important enough to clarify with the domain expert. Basically Dunning-Kruger effect.
Their manager can bang on the door?
Personally when I find myself with these constructs of complicated and nested conditions I try to simplify the branches and condition checking to functions.

This is not always possible, but when it is it's much easier to follow the flow of code and it reduces the number of lines of the condition tree.
Less crowded prisons
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Do you have any guesses as to why you've been chosen? I can't remember the last robocall I got.

I'm in my late 30s, have a cell phone only, which is on the do not call registry. The only times I get harassed are when I update my resume on whatever job site. Then for a few weeks/months I get what I consider too many calls from recruiters.

I wonder if we have different purchase histories or something that has resulted in this very different outcome.
Also happens a lot with scripting languages such as Ruby or Python. It's like people are looking for cool ways of writing less lines of code.
This exact thing happened to my brother once. They took his laptop and did Windows Explorer searches for image extensions as well as the words "boy" and "girl", so your (and his) hunch that they were searching for child porn is probably correct. This was maybe 5 years ago.
The reaosn people don't take climate change seriously is because they are severely lacking in science education, grossly misinformed (both of which cause said opinions to be "bullshit"), or selfish.
> > Especially the case of "var person int", how is it cleaner than "var person int = 0"'

> Because they're equivalent. There no uninitialized values in Go; everything not given an explicit initializer is zeroed out.

Using equivalence is often regarded as less clean.

Because it relies on the reader to be familiar with language-specific quirks. Even if they are, it adds a touch of cognitive overhead until it's become habitual.

In a language like Go, I think the performance will be identical in both cases because it has a basic data flow optimiser.

I program a lot in Perl5 too, and like you, I tend to favour the built-in support for things. I also really recommend the "experimental" function signatures, which make it read a lot more like other languages, and removes boilerplate. However, for better or worse, performance matters in some things I write, and Perl5's optimiser doesn't bother with much dataflow optimisation (improving the interpreter seems to have stalled for decades). So when performance matters, I do write things like 'my $x;' instead of 'my $x = undef;', relying on familiar equivalences. I would prefer the interpreter made them identical so I could state the intent more clearly without penalty, especially because performance-sensitive code tends to be difficult algorithms where clarity is more important.
The lack of public transport is not due to the distance between New York and San Francisco. It's decades of car-centric city planning that is responsible. Russia is a big country too and public transport in Moscow was pretty good when I visited.

There are people with very long commutes in Europe too. I personally know people who commute 100km+ one way.

If you had to drive 75 miles to get to the next Walmart you probably didn't live in an urban area so any arguments against cars in urban areas don't apply to your lifestyle. You won't find public transport in the countryside in Europe either.
Seriously, I wonder how many of the people who proclaim "no end in sight" for 2.7 are actually using Python. In the usage I can see, the majority of the ecosystem seems to support 3, and at least a large minority has stopped supporting 2.
>Unless you're proposing we print money

Yes of course; with a quarterly growth GDP currently around 3%[1], we should and indeed do "print" money at related rate. (again, with the assumption we're discussing USA here).

However my argument hinges on two other aspects: the system is open in regard to energy gathering and resource gathering. The system (again, assuming we're discussing USA) is also open in regard to outside trade - USA can't completely control the policy and state of economy of trade partners. Are you proposing we close up the borders and/or cap energy & resource extraction & waste recovery?

>without concerted effort on the side of the working class, the owning class will keep and push wages low while keeping the gains of growth to themselves

A salient observation.

>It's well known that efficiency has increased while wages have barely grown.

It is also well known the pool of labor supply has grown significantly.

I propose we slow down the supply of labor a bit, to help the price of labor go up naturally, without any forceful methods. Care to join me on this quest? It works well for every segment of work market where it's implemented: doctors, lawyers, licensed engineers, you name it.

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-gdp-grew-3-2-in-the-first-qu...
If there are really separate concepts, yes, but ZFS's creators, who came from virtual memory systems, not filesystems, made a compelling case that there weren't, and that these layers were historical hacks that cost more than they were worth. It's worth spending some time reading about this design.
I get 2 to 3 unsolicited calls a week... I think SFR sold my number, simple as that.
Yup.

A voice call means they need my attention RIGHT NOW. (This is fine if it's during declared "office hours").
If the call is from someone I know, then it's likely they could have also messaged me or emailed me.

But if the call is from someone I don't know, it's either a scam or they're trying to sell me something. Some situation where they are more prepared than I am.
But even then, text can be unambiguous in detail where I might fail to hear something in the call. And with text, I can generally take my time to reply when I choose to, can take the time to consider what to reply, etc.
For better or worse, text omits a lot of "body language" aspects too.
I incorrectly assumed the tomahawks would be on VLS launch platforms but no, they're like surface launched or something. Took a while to look for those "coffins" when I was looking for a square on the deck :P
I used it (well, Apple events, lower in the AppleScript stack) to generate piles of PDFs for from Quark for clients. Later book automation.

It was super handy for that sort of thing.

Sort of miss it, in a maybe-masochist kind of way.

Open tools to HTML are much nicer. And much less bizarre.

If anyone has some hairy InDesign or Quark or Illustrator thing they need automated, let me know.

...

...personally? lots of useful hotkeys.

But the shit keyboards finally drove me away. Linux on a XPS13 now.

I don't miss AppleScript the language. But I do miss the fact that it was sorta built into everything by default.
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Leaving messages at secret places https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_drop
If it were true for this example, St. Louis metro and Kansas City metro would be swapped.

EDIT: Looks like the population ranking has swapped! My apologies!
Section 3.2 'Advancing fingerprinting' shows some more ways you can find particularities which will be hard to hide.
Medium doesn't have access to that part, even though you see it on your screen. It use an iframe, which in the past, was accessible, but now with crossdomain policy and all that, the iframe content is no longer accessible.
But on the other hand: if you aren’t consciously acting to optimize your life-experience toward any particular terminal preferences you have, then aren’t you just a mental vegetable—in the “elephant and rider” metaphor, an elephant whose rider has checked out and isn’t steering the elephant any more? Can the rider actually survive without ever attempting to do anything but passively observe? I would expect your consciousness to simply decay, like an unused muscle. (And it is my understanding that heavy enough doses of anti-psychotic drugs, taken chronically, do effectively submerge consciousness in this way, resulting in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium .)

I get that this is kind of what is meant by the Buddhist concept of nirvana; but I’ve always wondered what the difference is between “achieving nirvana and then living for a hundred years” and “achieving nirvana and then immediately committing suicide.” If you don’t care any more, why are you still going on? Why is the sensory tape still playing, if nobody is watching to learn anything from it?
Your question is « how to think about it », not about receiving a pre-cooked answer.

My suggestion is to think about it strategically. Make a diagnostic (what is wrong and why), derive principles (what are the truly important rules to observe if you want to fix things), finally build a corresponding action plan (what you need to do, and in what order). Rewalk these steps regularly. Talk with your family and partners. Guilt will go away if you stand on principles you believe in. Good luck!
What's wrong with any of things you mentioned?
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I don't know about that. A good number of them end up dead below my windows each year.
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As the author of the op-ed you are referring to, allow me to chime in. It's true that a huge effort went into saving my husband's life with phage therapy but as a result of that, it's getting easier to treat other cases. I'll comment on your other points too:

1) Broad spectrum phages don't exist in nature but gene-editing techniques can be applied and this technology now exists. Several biotechs are now working in this space.

2) Phages are not hard to keep 'alive'. They need to be refrigerated and kept away from sunlight.

3) True that phage therapy is relatively new in the West but the field is exploding. There are very few pharmas still developing antibiotics and very few in the pipeline, esp for gram-negatives, so there is an imperative to have alternatives to antibiotics.

With an ever-expanding phage library of well characterized phages, it is possible to generate personalized phage cocktails in days. An antibiotic takes a decade to develop, at around a billion $, and has collateral damage on the microbiome. For more on the story, check out ThePerfectPredator.com
Obviously the outcome is worse. And obviously prisoners are capable of much more extreme violence than school children. But all that is a function of the prisoners and their choices and actions, not the government. The kind of violence that happens in prisons isn’t easier to detect and prevent. A stabbing can happen in the blink of an eye.

I don’t see why you think funding is an issue. Our prisons are extremely well funded.
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Nested ternary is fine as long as it’s written on multiple lines because then it exactly mirrors the if/else-if/else structure.

return (
a < b ?
-1 :
a > b ?
1 :
0)
Might not be polite, but I don't say anything to salespeople and Jehovah's Witnesses, I just shut the door in their face. They disturbed me in my house so I don't think I owe them anything.
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Their last mile coverage is quite impressive. I'll get notifications on my phone letting me know my menial package is 9 stops away and to expect it soon. When I open up the alert (usually after it's delivered), I get a picture of the package on my stoop.

It's a way more transparent notification system than I've gotten with the other "Big Three".
mostly use AppleScript with iTunes, such as rating songs playing with Alfred and various Doug's AppleScript for itunes. Actually I learn AppleScript by tuning Doug's script for my own needs.
You could get away with it if you could download sandboxes from iCloud and be allowed to have multiple sandboxes.
But referring from the title, human is not among the one million species.
Fwiw, I think you've been downvoted because of the dissonance between being selflessly compassionate and being preoccupied with "cruel, hypocritical, hateful liars". Ultimately we're all the same, so if you really want to be selflessly compassionate, that should apply to those people you dislike, too.