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I hate this backlash because it's just "greenwashing". People think they're virtuous because they didn't use a half gram plastic straw, and then burn a quarter ton of jet fuel traveling by air. A single plane flight uses more oil than a lifetime's worth of single-use plastics, but people have no intuition for the numbers. And people have a limited capacity for doing good, so by thinking these vastly different harms are similar they can do great harm by trading between them.

Single use plastics are responsible for big savings in food waste and transport (which is still almost entirely fossil fuel based). They improve people's quality of life for a very small cost in oil. The only significant problem is a small minority of people disposing of them improperly, and the only reason people even care about that is because of emotive reporting showing dead animals (nobody cares about all the animals killed by air pollution and climate change).

The solution isn't banning single use plastics, it's enforcing existing laws against littering. Enforcement can be funded by a tax on the plastics.
What we need is backlash against oil.

The existence of any public subsidies of fossil fuels is unconscionable.

They should all be diverted to subsidize solar, wind, and geothermal.
"Ministers expect that, before long, wind energy will operate without support."

Not when there is a anti-cyclonic high pressure system anchored over the UK and the wind isn't blowing. No wind, no turbine rotation and no electricity.
>"White people"? That's racial discrimination. Why is that being printed with no consequences for the person who said it, why don't the rules of racial discrimination apply uniformly?

In the quoted sentence, “the system, or public safety, cares more about the city, now that there’s gentrification and you’ve got big businesses and you’ve got dollars and you’ve got white people moving in,” no racially discriminatory statement is being made about white people.

Race exists. It is, for the most part, a social and political construct, but when discussing it in the context of the United States, it is a construct which has been baked deeply and inextricably into the identity of, and power structures of, American culture and governance.

What is being implied is that the degree to which the city cares about public safety depends on the presence of, and business of, white people, and that gentrification (as an expression of economic class and property values) is correlated to race.

Those are statements about government and economics and race, but not stereotypes about, or discrimination against, white people, and the implications of a link between the economic value of a racial demographic and public safety might be worth discussing.

Unfortunately, it seems like you just saw the phrase "white people" and got triggered and had to pick the low hanging fruit and concern troll.
Don't bother with python 2 compatibility, it's EOL in a few months. And 2to3 will probably work but even that is more effort than it needs to be.
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Much of this is still applicable today - ironic that this link appeared in a gaming thread but appreciate the knowledge dispensed.
I'm not an expert, but anecdotally my uncle is a chemist at a company that makes plastics and they make all of theirs from natural gas. They do not drill, refine, or otherwise use oil.
> We should be doing a fuckton of R+D into energy storage solutions

I agree that we should research energy storage, but there's no guarantee such research would be very fruitful. I don't think it's sensible to double down on the CCGT stopgap, and put our faith in technological breakthroughs. Nuclear fission is a technology which exists now, and we should invest in before the window closes.

That said, I can't see it happening in the UK because our politics are a dumpster fire.
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I'll probably disagree here. Symbolic meaning is attached to the abstraction only on the second stage, when you have to express it. You can totally understand things and their relationships without attaching words to them – actually, people who learn foreign languages should be familiar with this feeling, when you understand thing, but can't attach words to them.

Here is a quote of Albert Einstein (his actual quote, this time, from "Ideas and Opinions" :)):

> (A) The words or the language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The psychical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images which can be “voluntarily” reproduced and combined.

> There is, of course, a certain connection between those elements and relevant logical concepts. It is also clear that the desire to arrive finally at logically connected concepts is the emotional basis of this rather vague play with the above-mentioned elements. But taken from a psychological viewpoint, this combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought — before there is any connection with logical construction in words or other kinds of signs which can be communicated to others.

> (B) The above-mentioned elements are, in my case, of visual and some of muscular type. Conventional words or other signs have to be sought for laboriously only in a secondary stage, when the mentioned associative play is sufficiently established and can be reproduced at will.
aside: Taipei Times please get a tls site.
Given these numbers, how was it possible for Germany to cut nuclear energy production from 156TWh in 2002 to 72TWh in 2018? (source: https://www.energy-charts.de/energy.htm?source=all-sources&p...)
Banks cooperate internationally, you're on the hook both in your home country(or whatever country the co-signer is from)and the country the college is in. it's impossible to just skip out on loans nowadays(unless the trusted co-signer disappears with you ofc)
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You can get pretty cheap nuclear plants from South Korea or even advanced pebble reactors from China. Those don't take as long to build, the west is just to proud to do this.

You can also plan to use modern reactors for the next 30, mutlibe companies, including British Company are already in the regulatory process in Canada (and they went their because British nuclear regulation were so backwards).

Both options would be cheaper then building some costum plant based on old tech.

That said, if they are willing to build modern gas plants with wind, that's actually one of the better options.
Headline has been changed to: "An anguished Dutch teenager, who was raped as a child, dies after euthanasia request." They've also tacked a 'clarification' to the bottom of the article: "An earlier version of this story reported that Pothoven’s death came via euthanasia. It is unclear whether doctors assisted her in death, though she earlier requested their help."

Sloppy work by the Washington Post.
> you may have no idea what type is being sent your way, where from or what to meaningfully do about it as a result.

How is this different from (a) errors bubbling up with a pile of concatenated strings as the only type information or (b) errors not bubbling up because someone decided they would never make a mistake?

The whole value of exceptions, to me, is consistency. The error is guaranteed to propagate in a consistent way up the stack. Static type analysis has a fighting chance of predicting what could ever propagate up the stack, whether checked or unchecked.

Trying to work out out what `err` might be in various situations is an exercise in forensic grepping. Trying to react intelligently and reliably to different types of error is an exercise in hoping nobody changes the error string.
Good luck trying to change the hospital mindset. Doctors actually have a term for patients who suffer sleep deprivation: hospital-induced-psychosis. It should be called a crime and the head nurse and doctor in charge of the patient ought to be arrested.
Not sure what the materialization of that suspicion might look like -- competitors trying to crush DO's business? mass account creation or mass fraudulent logins? "mining crypto"? What I could come up felt quote-unquote legit grounds for a timed suspension but only instinctively so.
This is probably the most insight comment that I've seen on HN all year. Thank you.
With an agile company nothing is definitive. It's just that at this point in time it's not the thing they're working on.
Thank you for sharing this. I've seen mentions of this book before, but haven't read it. Adding her works to my watch/read list now!
The problem is that the plastic straw will still be polluting the environment in 10,000 years. Getting macro plastics out of the environment is difficult getting microplastics may be impossible. At some point we have to accept that single use plastics have an environment cost that is totally unacceptable.

As for emotive press stories about dead animals being the only reason people care. Did you know that the average human meal contains microplastics now? That your body contains microplastics right now?
It's not at all unclear. They did not.

She requested euthanasia, was denied, attempted suicide on several occasions, was hospitalized, was forcibly put in a mental hospital, and finally decided to stop eating and drinking. Again.

The doctors decided there was no point in persisting, and there are also rules against forcible treatment. So instead of letting her suffer as she died, they provided painkillers. Not enough to kill her, mind.

It's a terrible tragic story, but everyone involved (except perhaps the girl) seems to have made the best choice they had.
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The real problem is most definitely not the support rep. They don’t really go off book. This is the process as designed and approved by higher management, not by a low pay first level support (unless you assume they have some top level engineer doing this stuff).

And going off process could make it better... yay, self pat on the back. But it could make it worse in which case I see unemployment in the support rep’s future. So they won’t go that way very often.

Anyone who ever had such a low positioned job knows how it works. At that level your only freedom is to do what you’re told and follow company process.

No, this is the fault of the manager who asked for this process and their manager who approved it. Management isn’t just about picking up a higher paycheck, it’s also to take the accountability for the decisions made under your watch.
> Programmers are not different from other professions no matter how special you may feel.

I find it odd how offended you seem by my post.

I don't think that programmers are any different from other professions in this sense. But the subject of this thread is about programming which is why I commented about that. It is just like other STEM subjects in that - a lot of people study them at university, but only a few people actually go on to work in the field they studied. Some studies find that only around 25% of STEM graduates actually go on to work in the field they studied.

http://shortsleeveandtieclub.com/what-percentage-of-engineer...
Great answer. And the ones that were created which have bad initial distribution... they're safe to ignore, but bad distribution makes their security null.
Era of the Body Snatchers
The main reason for this post is, Apple replaces bash with zsh as the default shell in macOS Catalina. Just so that people might find this easier to set up.
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It's not at all unclear. They did not.
She requested euthanasia, was denied, attempted suicide on several occasions, was hospitalized, was forcibly put in a mental hospital, and finally decided to stop eating and drinking. Again.

The doctors decided there was no point in persisting, and there are also rules against forcible treatment. So instead of letting her suffer as she died, they provided painkillers. Not enough to kill her, mind.

It's a terrible tragic story, but everyone involved (except perhaps the girl) seems to have made the best choice they had.
Its insane to say nuclear window is closed. In 100 years people will for sure use nuclear and not wind and solar. It would be insane not to. The efficency fuel and land usage is so much more efficent, its an engeneering and regulatory problem right now, not a fundamental problem.
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Yes, the engineers their seems to be responsible for picking something that makes as much money as possible to work on.
Good? We need less population, not more...
No, clearance is different. At least in UK stores that's marked down from the shelf price.

Example, Battenburg cake, when it's on promotion it always has one of: mismatches (not quite square), loose seams, cake edges (crust that's darker coloured, not burnt), too much jam. It's not old, but without the promotion it would probably end up in clearance because people are more choosy with "full price".

Similarly in restaurants, the waiter will recommend food that's not inferior, but would become so if it's not sold. Or to use a product their supplier discounted.

Managers special might be "we got excess inventory at our central warehouse and I get a bonus if we shift more of these, which are perfectly good product".

Et cetera.
"That’s a worst-case scenario, but it shows the potential disruption to the industry, where plastics already account for half of demand"

"half of demand" is not 4%. Or is it another industry? What am I missing?
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In so many words, yes!
You don't need subsidies for injection molded plastics to be massively cheaper to produce than any comparable material. Machining aluminum is very expensive, and die casting metal requires much more expensive tooling than plastics.
How tremendously forgiving.
> There are rivaling explanations, one being that you estimated the distance wrong, the other that there is no Dark Matter. Isn't the first one the more likely one you should investigate?

If you look back at the original paper claiming the discovery of the dark matter free galaxy, they do explore several different ways of estimating the distance and argue that they're consistent and imply the more distant value. So that's something they had considered and attempted to cross-check between different distance indicators. Later came the Trujillo paper saying essentially, hey you didn't consider "X" which argues that the galaxy is closer. The authors of the original paper then published a Research Note (that I'd liked in my original post) saying that "X" doesn't agree with the other data.

So people did consider distance errors before claiming the absence of dark matter. But getting accurate galaxy distances Is Hard and there are multiple ways to do it. The original paper considered the distance estimates they could think of and they were essentially consistent. So they did investigate that first.
Global Foundries has a 12nm for most of the new AMD CPUs.[1] I’ve heard the difference between processes at different companies is just marketing talk but I’ll let someone knowledgeable chime in.

[1]https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/amd/microarchitectures/zen%2B
Using alternative to plastics sounds like a much easier and better solution than trying to stop littering.

Same way than having shorter circuits to reduce transport, or packaging at the end of the chain, or even smarter selling unpackaged good is a much smarter way to deal with transport pollution.

I love this backlash and I'm really happy to try to my small contribution
go back to

- ~consigned glass jars
- fiber bags
I recall some in-game commentary from TF2 where they talked about the design of each class. And how they worked hard to ensure that the look and even the outline of each class was unique to aid identification. What happened to that?
So are you arguing that Apple hasn't known about privacy violations by third-party apps in their store?

Given that Apple is announcing patches for these loopholes, it must have been working on them for at least months, if not years. But searching "apple privacy third party app" shows nothing before late May, 2019. Maybe I missed something, and if I did, please share.
He said he couldn't afford First. There's literally two other tiers in between that and Economy.
Oil may be the easiest solution to the original problem. If there were no oil, would there have been a different solution that might have been as easy?
She was suffering from mental illness and was seeking help, but to no avail. Maybe it's a failing in the Dutch healthcare system with lack in extreme cases like hers which drove her to this decision.
There is a detailed interview (Dutch) here: https://www.ad.nl/binnenland/noa-is-16-maar-klaar-met-het-le...

From the sources I've gathered she was not assisted with suicide, but nobody intervened (eg: forced feeding) with here attempt to starve to death.
I might be too much of a control freak to give up the explicit precision of SQL.
> I would argue that 99% of sites sending cookies and personal information to social media do so for tracking purposes.

You could click on the reports on this page [1] to find out which sites are broken. Maybe I'll do it when I have a chance.

Any site that uses an API published by one in the disconnect.me list is rendered unusable. That list is 3,000 domains long, so even if there were only an average of 1 legit non-tracking site accessing each domain, that's still 3,000 broken websites.

> You may be the exception. But its a privacy tradeoff that benefits the majority.

I don't know that a tradeoff is necessary. It seems to me it would be possible to not send cookies for the 3,000 domains in the disconnect.me list when tracking protection is enabled.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1101005
Actually I have complained to Amazon... and they have always responded within a couple days and in one case where I complained about Prime Video, they called me on a Sunday, which shocked me because everything is otherwise closed in Austria, except gas stations, restaurants and hospitals.

Google on the other hand, I make complaints or suggestions once every couple months and 99% of the time I don't even get a boilerplate response.
> At least I’ve never seen properly conducted studies involving psychologists or neuroscientists upon introducing yet another new fancy feature into a programming language.

I studied Mechanical Engineering, but did my Master Thesis on "Evaluation of MicroPython as Application Layer Programming Language on CubeSats"* - way out of my depth.

I tried to find some prior work on how to chose programming languages for specific domains, and how to judge if a language is the right tool for a task - and there wasn't much.

I even tried to measure how "easy" a programming language is, in a hilariously misinformed user study. There were 8 people, I was measuring the time it took them to implement small snippets in Python vs. C. I had this one dataset with weird outliers, where a person who performed really well, just took forever for some of the tasks ... later one of the participants told me he texted during the study.

And although I felt really bad about my really bad study, I also felt like the avantgarde of the field^^

Anyway, if we can find someone to fund it, I'd like to see brain activity scans of programmers using different languages. We already know smartphone usage rewires our brains. I wanna see the brain of JavaScript developer compared to a Lisper, Rustacean, ... .

* conference paper: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319525786_Evaluatio...
Do bad actors get to hold good actors to the good actors principles? This seems unsustainable and a recipe for disaster, ie tolerating the intolerant whose objective is to gain power and stamp down on dissent and impose their own values.

Similarly If you do not believe in open source can you hold anyone else to account by the principles of open source? And if you are committed to open source do bad actors need to be given the same privileges that are extended to everyone else? Do they get to play the 'principle' card that they themselves do not adhere to?

Cloud providers are profitable and the work of these app developers arguably has a role in their growth and profits. AWS, GCE and others are solving all their business problems. Why should it be so difficult for them to build a mutually beneficial relationship with open source projects? Or the pipeline of projects they can use breaks down.

If they just want to take without adhering to the spirit of open source, then playing the open source card whenever confronted seems too self serving.
well shepherding a project is truly important if you want contributors - you have to tag issues that are good for noobs, help people with pull requests, not blow off issues that are requests for more documentation of how a module works etc etc. a lot of which i can see you're doing by looking at your issues tab.

Another sad fact of life nowadays is that github issues reduce friction but a lot of "hardcore" developers prefer email or some other offsite system that has lots of friction to people getting involved(i see this a lot in gitlab/bitbucket/sourcehut hosted projects). which means an open source noob is going to look at another project instead of getting involved with yours(again not an issue with you). for better or worse github is king here.

most open source projects don't bother and tend to rely on interest levels to keep them afloat. this works for the popular ones but tends to sink niche projects
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Plastic bag bans and similar movements are about increased quality of life too! We need to avoid the either-or mentality that arises in discussions like this. We can have a shared economy that prioritizes value for consumers and care for our ecosystems, but we need to expand our imaginations with regard to what's possible.
I don't know many people having or even considering children under the age of 30. The window to actually have them gets pretty tight, a mother aged 35 or older is considered a geriatric mother on the NHS (basically higher risk). I'm sure that a lot of my friends are going to find it difficult to have children as they get older, in contrast to parents in the 80s and 90s who were mostly having their first child in their 20s.

From my anecdotal perspective it feels like we are going to see population growth flatlining and global population starting to decline over the next 100 years. It feels like the data is moving in that way to back that up.

This could be a really tough problem to solve. How do we keep economic growth going if our main driver (human capital) is disappearing?
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> they didn't use a half gram plastic straw, and then burn a quarter ton of jet fuel traveling by air.

what about people who do neither.
This is not so much C++ as it's C with some C++ syntax. From the look of the bits of code I've seen is that it's written pretty much on demand. Not building an engine or library, just only the code that is needed and nothing more.