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> Debt forgiveness punishes people who worked their ass off to pay their loans off.

So we should just continue burdening people into the poorhouse (or worse)? I feel for everyone burdened by ridiculous student loans (I am one of those people), but I would gladly take on everyone else’s debt forever if it meant people could have their education and be debt-free. Should we talk about my friends who have to decide if they pay their rent or their student loans every month? Does your righteous indignation do anything to help them? “I suffered so you have to suffer too” is toxic; it’s basically frat hazing.

As for why it’s okay to take out a ruinous loan, I was 17, and I didn’t fucking know any better. Everyone told us to go to college or else we’d wind up destitute. And they were partially right, at least if you managed to get a “profitable” degree. My high school-educated friends have shitty service jobs and alcohol addiction now. I have loans, and I’d rather not, but at least I have any hope for a future. That’s more than I can say for a lot of my other friends.

> It is not morally justifiable to suddenly foist the collective horrible decision making of a generation onto the larger society.

That would be the Baby Boomers, right? Because I’m pretty sure they (and their parents) are the ones who all voted to end state funding for universities. They also voted for politicians with ties to the financial industry, so conveniently the same people making it necessary to take out loans are also shareholders of large financial institutions.

No, what’s morally indefensible is bankrupting someone for getting an education, and then berating them for making a bad decision when they were 17, a decision practically guaranteed by a rigged system. What’s also morally indefensible are the attitudes that this is someone their faults, because at the end of the day, we all still have student loans, and no amount of your pedestal-sitting is going to change that.
SiFive has a few videos where they have their RISC-V core running an AMD gpu (via the in kernel amdgpu driver).
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Because captchas do more than just "user clicked on image", and has to be very wary of creating openings bots can abuse.
The kids go out even when it's 0°F and snowy. There were a couple of days at below -10°F when they did not go out, and a few days when they only stayed out for maybe an hour instead of 3.5 hr. In the winter, they wear snow pants, heavy jackets, gloves, hats, face mask/scarf. In the rain they wear rain jackets, rain pants, and rain boots. They do just fine. The teacher for my kid's class warns ahead of time if they expect different gear to be needed than normal for the season.

My son's class of 14 this past year had a teacher, a naturalist, and two aides. This is a public school system. I do not know if private classes would have more or fewer adults.

So, fights with sticks could happen, but they don't seem to any more than any kind of fight in an ordinary classroom might, and the teacher/aids deal with them the same way they would with classroom fights.

When the kids are out in the woods and not in the outdoor play areas, they are more closely supervised. They don't have free roam of the entire forest. Hiking and adventuring is led by the naturalist and assisted by the teacher and aides. They are taught about things like "don't eat the mushrooms" and such. Still, things happen. My kid loved to jump into water, and he always got his shoes/boots/etc wet, even when it was cold. One time he broke through the ice at the very edge of the lake (deep enough to get into his boot). The adults and kids deal with it, just like we had to in scouting when I was a kid. The main difference is that when I was a kid, I only got to do it about once per month on a weekend, whereas my kid could do it all day every (school) day. How awesome is that?

When I was 14 or 15, I slept in a tent in the deep woods in -20°F overnight. It was really no big deal. My kid at 5 is already at least as good of a naturalist as I was at that age. :)
>Really, there is no reason why a form should require JavaScript.

This is one of those things that's technically true, but misleading.

Without scripting, you can't do any client-side validation, so you have to submit the form.

Without scripting, it's then harder to repop the form for the user when it fails.

I'm not saying things aren't excessive today -- they clearly are. But tossing client-side scripting entirely seems like a baby/bathwater situation.
Some possible alternatives are covered here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleic_acid_analogue

And I agree that RNA and DNA are pretty good molecules and probably close to some notion of 'optimal'. The ribosome, however, is big and complicated and there are probably millions of different ways something like that could have come about and that would affect the 3-base codon, protein structures, etc.

Also, look at the contortions DNA has to go through to copy what's called the "lagging strand". Clearly duplicating double-stranded DNA did not come early or easily; it's pretty obvious a system bolted on top of some other, older system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_replication#Lagging_strand
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The pro controller is significantly better for the comfort of adult hands. The sticks are just a little too long though, so the travel is a bit far. Might want to look at third party versions.
A few months ago I decided to try uMatrix out, which defaults to blocking third-party JS, but allowing first-party JS. It broke a lot of things. But I persevered, and manually whitelisted various things as time went by; I decided to always whitelist by individual third-party for each domain, rather than just throwing in the towel and letting a site do what it wants. Some things were very painful to get working; Dropbox login, which I occasionally need to use for work, was excruciating.

More recently I’ve been playing around with heading in the other direction: when things break, I try blocking first-party JavaScript instead. This has often been successful, so that I’m considering disabling all JS by default and only turning it on when needed.

All this definitely speeds things up. I installed NoScript on my fairly slow phone (Firefox for Android) a month ago, which I don’t use for much, but do a little web reading on sometimes. Disabling JS definitely sped things up a lot.

A few sites do stupid things like visually hiding all content if you don’t have JS. Those I don’t use, use reader mode or once or twice have added a user stylesheet for if I’m going to touch them more than once but decide not to whitelist them for probably capricious reasons.

But this disabling-JS lark is definitely not for the consumer.
> Does even anybody remember the good old HTTP basic acess authentification?

Yes, I use it on some of my sites. For some reason chrome password manager won't work with it. Not sure why.
I think I will wait for the pi 4 compute model, tyvm.
In 10 years we will be back to preferring "handicapped" as "disabled" slowly slides into offensive territory and we still need a word to talk about this concept. Grandparent was probably just being considerate of future Internet Archive readers.
High Performance Python by Ian Ozsvald and Micha Gorelick - fairly outdated at this point, but still quite relevant (I believe the authors are working on a new edition).
High Performance Python is a good book.
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/high-performance-python...
Everyone should have a dashcam for situations like this.
Americans pretty much only care about themselves. It's evident if you watch the way they drive and road rage. The insanity, super fat people in cars driving 1/2 a mile to McDonalds, screaming at everybody along the way who happens to "get in their way", never understanding that "they aren't stuck in travel, they are travel".
I used to do this many years ago. Then I added JS to upvote and downvote on HN and reddit. Then I gave up. Now I just use umatrix on Chrome or FF
That's one of the reasons I felt it was important to point out. I'm not even sure there is a negative connotation in American English (I have vague recollection that "handicapped parking" is sometimes mentioned in American TV shows). The fact that it's being downvoted to oblivion probably indicates that there is not.
>A significant reduction in the size of a class instance in RAM is achieved by eliminating __dict__ and__weakref__. This is possible with the help of a "trick" with __slots__:

What is the downside to the __slots__: trick? In what cases do you need the dict and weakref?
Aren't PCIe lanes shared? Why would I need to remove the USB 3.0 chip rather than just hooking right to the pins on the device where it's soldered in place?

E: Apparently it's the PCI bus that is shared, not PCI Express lanes. Ty.
i use write_sql but in this case you would have to resolve the object values to their integer primary keys.
That's a secondary effect. Primary effect I had in mind when commenting was the movement of the emissions from the local tailpipe to the electric plant (which is very far from 100% emission-free today).
I changed OS, had to reinstall, then forgot about it. I also don't browse as much as I used to? I'm mostly working on personal projects when I'm home, so I barely spend time outside of podcasts or youtube videos.
Yes, exactly. My son's outdoor classroom (as the free play area is called) still has a boundary and adult supervision. Sometimes the teacher or naturalist is leading some activity, and sometime they give the kids something new to investigate and then get out of the way. But they can always intervene, if needed. It's really not often needed.
It's not just personal responsibility. Everyone is responsible for the whole and have fiduciary duty to everyone else. Owners will watch each other.
Finally. Something that removes the TV tax and I can give to the kids to play. I don't want something that takes over a TV, ever. So this is great. Seems like the Switch will be around for folks who want the TV stuff.

Maybe there are loads of people like me. Maybe a few. Sales will tell I guess.
> are there really any downsides? We've had vegetarians for a thousands of years

Vegetarians are self-selected. We can have reasonably high confidence it would be fine, but we can't be sure, and some people literally will not be able to tolerate it.

> I am not aware of have any health problems that are most efficiently solved by adding meat.

Depends how you define "efficient". There are plenty of nutrients that are most concentrated in meat, such that small portions of meat can replace the need to consume large portions of plant matter.
That's one reason I hope autonomous vehicles are functional and available soon.
This is a very plausible theory. An analogous phenomenon happens in the world of memes, where some ideas produce "phenotypes" that wipe out other, competing ideas. c.f. Tienanmen Square in China or the Nag Hamadi scrolls.
Genuine question: can anyone comment on which alternatives to async/await were considered? And if so why they were rejected?

It’s proliferation puzzles me: c#, python, node, rust and no doubt others. Yet it seems like a poor abstraction.

1. The cognitive overhead. Whilst the example might be intended to show off power, that function signature is not at all easy to parse mentally. Even allowing for generics it’s still a lot more difficult to think of a function that returns a future that will return the result at some point (as opposed to a function that returns a result synchronously).

2. It’s declared at the call site - not by the caller. As the writer of a function, how am I supposed to know whether the majority of callers will get sufficient benefit to offset the increased cognitive overhead? It can also have viral tendencies: a function that calls an async function is async itself, and so on. (Not sure if that’s mandatory in all language implementations). I’ve seen more than one code base where async was like a virulent rash.

Personally I find Actor model concurrency so much easier to deal with (e.g. Erlang). The rules seem significantly more straightforward and easier to deal with mentally.

Data flow concurrency (e.g. FRP) also seems much easier to reason about.

Async/await by comparison seems like a poor substitute. So I’m puzzled but intrigued by its growing popularity.

I can imagine it’s easier to implement in the language (compiler/runtime), which might be key for rust. I can also see that it’s an incremental step for procedural languages. But then surely it’s a wise investment to build good abstractions in the language - even if it’s (a lot) harder - rather than burden the programmer with more complexity?

What am I missing?
They're pretty different databases with different use cases in mind. If you don't really have big data you can get away with a row oriented database. If you do have big data for reals - well then you almost certainly have to use a column oriented store.
After having read Sapiens I realized that there's something deeply disturbing about it all, though.

The fact that Harari seems to think that everything is just a 'story' that we tell ourselves, is way too nihilistic.

Maybe, taking this external perspective, we can understand better the direction in which we're going, but it doesn't resolve a fundamental question: why do we live the way we do?

In the long(human timescale) run, this is unsustainable and depressing, it takes away from the ethics and the aesthetics that have made human life what it is, that have brought us to live the way we do.
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No it wasn't, you were replying to:

> Is the author summarising his own impressions of Sapiens (surely acceptable), or literally lifting the original text of the book and taking it as his own [...]?

The first sentence about cutting it down answers that.
His CV has this little gem:

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"it is not like the money will be just gone, it will just go to other people."

I don't think that's true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window

There's an opportunity cost being paid and it's going to no one.
This is, unfortunately, incorrect.

The reason the number of accidents got suddenly smaller is because people were used to markings but then they had to re-learn how to function when the markings were removed. When you learn to drive or when you are in unfamiliar place you tend to drive slower and be more attentive.

But this is only temporary effect. After some time people adjust and same problems show up.

Still not convinced? What about south asian countries which tend to have little in the way of traffic signs? If lack of markings makes people behave more carefully how do you explain relative lack of safety in countries like Vietnam, Thailand, etc?
> I was 16 at the time.

I.e. you weren't driving a car and you were underage.

I'm not saying that the legal system in The Netherlands is unreasonable or anything, but I feel like your case doesn't really represent the kind of case people are thinking of in this thread.
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The article doesn't mention a hidden gem in Python's standard library - typed arrays!

Those are in package `array` and they are a very barebones version of numpy's ndarray - with just one (explicit) dimension and no overloaded operators. But if you just want to keep a bunch of numbers in a contiguous array, they can save you tons of memory.

(I know the purpose of the article is to describe a more complex data structure, but arrays can still get you very far.)
You need to re-do all your client-side user assistance prompts+ with real validation serverside anyway...

+ client-side validation is not validation.
What you're looking for is a Neighborhood Electric Vehicle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neighborhood_Electric_Vehicle

Some retirement communities are specifically designed to handle those, and they work fine in many urban and suburban areas.
I can imagine that we could use bio compatible chips to accurately measure blood levels of different vitamins and proteins. With this personal bio data you could identify if you have an imbalance of anything and address it, improving congnition and other conditions. Maybe this would be something a company like Apple or Fitbit develops as it seems like a natural extension of the health tracking they already do.
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>Will X even work?

Why is this so often a question for things that are clearly possible? If this or that particular method doesn't work, well, ok, but I'd find it hard to believe that never in history would people be able to spread genes through a population. Computer viruses, cloning, facial recognition, atomic bombs, genetic engineering, cryptocurrencies. These are things there were weakly (or un-) regulated until they came into existence. Now, you might ask yourself if jetpacks might be a socially viable for of mass-transportation, not if they are technically possible.

Years are wasted asking if something is possible before preparing for it, and precautions and regulations are created post-hoc by lawmakers for stuff that was sure to come. Does anybody know of a good "turned out to be impossible" situation?
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Is having too many cats a problem though? Looks more like a bonus to me
> I agree we need way more nuclear, however its costly and very slow to bring online

The other poster is correct that this is a regulatory issue. Other countries can bring nuclear power plants online in under 5 years, where it takes almost 15 in the US IIRC.
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It's kind of true, but how could you let people ride bikes? They don't even have airbags.
A company can reform, however.

At least: if you bring up the leopard as an example of animal having spots, be prepared to document it has them.
But not in The Netherlands, which he explicitly stated he was from. The real answer is that he probably wasn't driving a car.
Nintendo first-party IP is a HUGE draw, and they're currently on a roll in terms of making games that are both innovative and good. It's hard to overstate how important that is.

The Switch is also huge for being the most successful example of letting people play "real" not-mobile games in a portable device. With pretty much any modern indie release, my choices are to buy it on my computer, where I can play on my TV or my monitor, or buy it on Switch, where I can play it at home but also on the subway, when traveling, etc. That's huge.

It also means local multiplayer with my friends is way easier than it's been before. My Switch case (which comfortably fits in my bag) has 4 controllers, and because the Switch itself is so portable, it's also easy to play games where my friends each bring their own Switches. The combination of the Switch's mass-market success, and (again) the fact that these are "full" console-sized releases instead of smaller "portable" releases, make it feel meaningfully better at this than e.g. the various Game Boys/DSes or PSP / PS Vita.
Recording what?

It’s mostly for video on demand where you wouldn’t need to record anything. It wouldn’t have enough local storage anyway.

The only things that I could imagine you want to record DVR style would be live streaming like with Sling and DirecTVNow and they both have “cloud DVR”.
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Yes, without their exclusive IP there would be very few switch sales. It's why I have one for sure, same with PS4.
There is nothing that will decarbonize our economy in 10 years. Comparing nuclear power to magic isn't useful.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...

Emissions neglect exports also. So despite exporting most of the worlds shiny new things, China is doing pretty damn well. Which country do you represent and do you think it "bodes" well for our collective future given it's comparative environmental damage?
That's what I understand, but I'm not an astronomer.
I don't think we should avoid discussing the issue at all. But I also feel that groups have the right to determine what they find acceptable as a collective noun. If disabled people in the UK are uncomfortable with the term handicapped then I won't use it; that has been the case for as long as I can remember so it struck me when I read it.
I know you're joking but that legitimately sounds like a lot of fun.
Hardware smells of rosin core and ozone. Software smells like someone hasn't showered or changed clothes in two weeks. Not a good mix.
Oh for sure. I didn't mean to imply it was a good idea. For anybody in the USA this is not going to be a legal winner as any transformation from crypto A to crypto B is going to be a taxable event.

I bet there's still plenty of people using this for tax purposes, either misguidingly for tax avoidance or explicitly for tax evasion.
> I personally will not reduce my living standard for the sake of some "green dream".

(1) It's not a dream, it's the physical world around you. If you like the way it is then action needs to be taken now.

(2) If you will not not willingly reduce your standard of living for a green world, then you will forcibly have your standard of living reduced by a shittier planet. Massive specie die-offs, expensive food, droughts, more frequent bad weather, heat and violence that comes with hotter temperatures, countries panicking and fighting for resources, people panicking and fighting for resources, etc.
I'd love to see the permit application form that would accompany this kind of thing today.
If you are writing code that adds or removes properties at runtime. I.e., when you want to write shoddy code.