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> Not all of us move fast and break things here, unlike the web dev world.

Then how many more years do they need to switch to Python3?
Then complain to the companies you license software from for continuing to build on a soft-deprecated platform. Don't complain to developers for ignoring a platform whose deprecation was announced over a decade ago.

And certainly don't badmouth people who are using the not-deprecated tool as being ok with unstable infra.
Coal-fired power plants produce CO2 daily as waste products, nuclear power plants use fuel rods annually and solar energy uses nothing. The costs for coal-fired and nuclear power plants are after 50 years, for solar cells probably after 15 years. So the environmental impact is expected to be 50 years, although Chernobyl cannot be recycled forever.
This really is reason to start thinking about alternatives to github.

Now the vast majority of open source projects are controlled by Microsoft corporation which must obey the US goverent and this is the outcome.
Yeah, adds overhead, but works somewhat in the “easy” case where it’s the torrent client itself producing the packfile.

But most files we might want to find on the network aren’t actually left “unpacked” on disk by their seeders and only virtually packed at torrent creation time; but rather are sitting in existing archive files that the seeder wants to redistribute unchanged (usually because the archive is cryptographically signed, or is a functioning self-extracting installer, or has some other property it would lose if the extraction of the archive’s contents were given instead.)

In such cases, a naive index wouldn’t work; but you could just slap libarchive into torrent clients, allowing them to pull out the leaf-node hashes from files packed into an archive file at any depth (and also the branch-node hashes of any intermediate archives.)

In a sense, we’re talking about the same thing that virus scanners do, except the “signature database” is a produced and shared artifact of the network rather than a manually-curated set!

This requires every torrent file in existence to be re-created from the source data, though, which is probably unlikely at this point, unless someone is planning to write the equivalent of Archive.org’s Wayback Machine to spider all torrent trackers, download everything they’ve got, recreate the torrents, and seed them in the new format, which is hopefully backward-compatible with the old format in such a way that this seed shares peers with the existing seeds.
If you wonder why people ignore the Global Warming BS here's a quote from a peer reviewed article that tells a few facts about WBT.

It tells the truth, it's centuries away (When we'll be much more capable to deal with it, unless in 100 years time our technology is still crap.... right) and it's not deadly anyway.

"Heat stress is the net heat load to which an individual may be exposed from the combined contributions of the metabolic cost of work, environmental factors and clothing. Humans can adapt to temperatures exceeding both human skin temperature (35 °C) and even core temperature (36.8 °C). However, WBGT exceeding these limits pose a risk to human health and well-being. These risks have implications beyond the individual. For example, apart from discomfort, heat stress adversely affects human labour capacity and performance. In a previous study [3], it was suggested that by 2200, the labour capacity across many parts of the world may be reduced by up to 60% in hot months under RCP"

https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4433/9/5/187/htm
Me too but it's not been released in ALGOL 68 either!

Upgrade. Or accept that you are using a dead language.
Being able to overcome greed and laziness is human nature.

Lobsters are a slave to their instincts, humans are not.
Would you use the REPL to inspect / modify / debug running applications in production, or would it mainly be useful for development purposes?
This is well attested over the years with stay at home wives unhappy with the disruption of their routine when the husband retires (especially culturally prominent in the salaryman class of Japan).

Hou can also buy a yacht cheaply in Fiji because of the number of people who think it would be great to Sal together and, after a few months, realize it would be better to stay together than to live on a boat.

My wife and I married after traveling together and I think in retrospect that was smart/lucky....at least it worked for over 20 years.
Thanks. "In the end" is a useful nuance. My "voting doesn't matter" was a bit of a hyperbole.
The standard Hypercard should be compared against is janky, macro laden excel based “tools.”

Users don’t have these basic expectations you’re talking about of internal software. Every large company I’ve ever worked for or with has tons of critical business processes that are 100% dependent on some shitty spreadsheet that gets passed around.
Did you find this firm? https://privatemachines.com/enforcer/
No, but they could... someday... in the future!
It's almost like there were good reasons for strict legal and religious positions on monogamy and marriage for thousands of years all around the globe.

Not to say your statement is invalid or that it's time for a shift, just a reminder that this is a well trodden field.
More that Java is a platform.

You target the JVM. So Java libraries are awkward to call from e.g. C++ or Python.
> and highly trained workers such as mathematicians and physicists are being tied up in finance.

The problem in my observation (in Germany) rather is: I know quite some excellent mathematicians and physicists who would love to work somewhere else (even for less money etc.), but the only place where they found jobs was in finance.

Quite some great mathematicians and physicists that I know have/had lots of trouble finding jobs because they are/were rejected because they are "overqualified", "too specialized", "too academic" etc. Specifically the finance domain seems to be somewhat more open towards highly-intelligent applicants.
This is already a thing; see Coober Pedy [1] in Australia, there's houses carved out of mountains, etc. This is also likely how people will be living on Mars. And houses can be built to emulate living underground, with e.g. shutters on the outside (another thing that has been around for centuries).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coober_Pedy
3D circuits make a lot of sense. I'd be interested to know how they plan to cool this though. My understand was that the in current chips, the 3rd dimension is largely used for heat dissipation, and that heat is the primary constraint on faster processors.
AFAIK, celery doesn't provide a message passing bus between main process and sub-processes.
The account confuses me. Diamond's central argument was that the Islanders cut down all their trees, and thus no more could grow.

This article suggests they got all their stone from a single quarry, and so must have collaborated around that quarry.

....this doesn't seem to contradict the central claim of a society destroying its resource base. Am I missing something? It's also not incompatible to have collaboration around a central resource and conflict elsewhere. Though I mainly think it's a sideline to the tree story.
Ah you're right, the asterisks have been interpreted as italics. Can't edit my comment, sorry

Here's a paste: https://pastebin.com/kBHprdyj
Crimea: Illegal occupation by Russia. Ethnic cleansing.

Syria: Using chemical weapons, sponsoring terrorism

Iran: Assisting Syria; Actively developing nukes they say they will use, nuclear proliferation, biggest sponsor of terrorism, ....

On the other hand, some people can't use an internet service. Oh! The inhumanity!

Get a sense of proportion.
It seems regrettable that after having endless subsidies and encouragements to buy a family home, that people are insisting on keeping them long after there's any point in having a large house. Given the housing shortage in so many markets, this seems like another nifty way for the Boomers to pull the ladder up after them.
It's unlikely. GitHub hasn't banned Iranian IPs or completely closed Iranian users, but just blocked those users' access to their private repositories and Gists.
Yeah its called 'submarine disease', usually visible after +-1 month of continuous travel / any other way spending 100% time together. People become more irritated by small things that usually wouldn't be an issue.

It happens much more often than doesn't, not only in couples but also among friends. The cure is simple - spend at least few days apart. Not so easy in more dangerous countries. Rather plan ahead with this in mind.

On the other hand, it brings people much more together - backpacking 6 months in india brought us together more than many married couples after 10 years.
I think he is implying that a .com domain would be more easy to seize by the US authorities.
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He just said Leinigen still needs the JRE preinstalled, functionally it's the same thing.
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This is obvious if you stick around to watch the garbage trucks roll by. The blue and the green bins get dumped right into the truck together.
If Crimea was unwillingly annexed by Russia, then the sanction is punishing the victim instead of the criminal. If Crimea people genuinely supported the unification with Russia and received sanction for that, then it is a blatant attack on Crimean people's freedom.
300k -> 125b is still staggering growth. All though, Andrew Carnegie still has him beat (in terms of inflation-adkusted wealth and starting position).
A solar roof providing 3.8 mi of battery-only range per day isn’t going to replace the need for a charging network.

A 1.9 mile commute is what, 4 minutes drive?
So Clojure is useless and just stick to Python and Javascript. If you will push some customer on such mine, hope you have liability limitation in contract.

We work with big customer who is 90% Java, and we as C# shop have one project with them. It is all time fights to get rid of us. But we are doing good work and deliver so it is hard for them to kick us out.
I don't have a strong opinion on the subject but I recently read an article [0] that tells another story. You might find it interesting.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.de/millennials-vs-baby-boomers-b...
I think that's a fair answer and is totally understandable from Github's standing point.

Wish they could give a heads up earlier.
This library uses asyncio, which is Python3. What do you expect?

You may be okay to stick with Python 2, but this means you also agree not to expect new features and new libraries. So please don't mention Python 2 to a new library.
Do 12k+ mostly just walking to work from home and back / or when I go out for a beer :)
I view plastics in landfills to be temporary. I think one day it will make economic sense to dig it up and use it, and pre-sorting it probably makes that day closer.

Here's a TED talk (from 2011, not sure what's changed if anything) about this: https://www.ted.com/talks/mike_biddle?language=en

And a key quote:
"Now when you see these mountains, most people think of garbage. We see above-ground mines. And the reason we see mines is because there's a lot of valuable raw materials that went into making all of this stuff in the first place."
Maybe it's because you're not not a developer who would gain by working with C++. If you don't need performance, speed, or low memory footprint, I can easily say that you don't need this language, so I don't think you can understand why this language is how it is. Just use something else.

But you can also be a little curious as of why some industries are using C++, because if you look hard, there are not that many language like C++. Rust is an exception, sure, but it's very recent and it's not like Rust can pretend to replace everything that is done with C++.
Twitter didn't fail but it was on its knees for a long time due to poor architecture and technical capability in its early years.
>Nuclear energy is the only practical and CO neutral way of energy production that we have now, right now.

Then again, I've read that if you add design, construction, operational, and storage costs plus expected operational timespan, nuclear only works with hefty subsidies. And the byproducts are a ticking timebomb...
I would only vote for it if there are tax releases in other areas because tax rate is already enormous in my country. We already have an environmental tax that was used to stuff holes in social security systems.

That said, binding environmental costs to actual prices would be terrific.

But if households only generate 1/5 of overall emissions (depending on data and negligent of consumption), we might need other mechanisms.

You can control many things through taxes, but I believe this to be inefficient. I would have no problem with paying double for fuel. But that isn't the reality for most people that are dependent on cars.

Better than nothing perhaps, but I have very low expectations for this tax.
We have working solutions for storage and disposal. Yes, no one wants those, they cost a lot of money and are at best temporary. But they are practical. The same isn't true for carbon, or rather the "fuel after usage" when it comes to gas or coal power plants. I don't much like the situation or nuclear power plants either, but considering the time we have to fix this (climate change) it seems like a valid solution.
I cannot believe all these idiots throwing away tons of plastic in poor countries with a big proud smile.

Makes me vomit honestly as a resident of China.
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This is hilariously misguided with little real truth to it.

Are electric Cars heavier? Yes...but not really by much. Sure a Model S is heavy, but it is a full size car designed to compare with other 4000-pound range cars and a side effect of the platform's age meanwhile a Model 3 is less than 10% heavier than a BMW 3 series.

The traction idea is just absurd.

The real reason why Norway wants to raise the road tax is because the taxes they use on gas cars and gas itself is used to pay for road repair and if there are no gas cars then there is no road upkeep budget.

Also, Toyota wants to do hydrogen because they are materials-cheap, offer specific marketable advantages, and easy to build under current architectures enabling larger profits.
Animals don’t have access to any of those tools. I wonder how long until we have a heatwave that kills all the tigers or elephants in India at once.
By that logic USA should be blocked too, right?
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Don't build a system to circumvent sanctions if you're within the reach of the US Government, AKA much of the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_extradit...
Not like the US government is any better right now
I'm amazed how conservative HN comments are when it comes to climate action. You really love your flying and driving here. Personally, I've stopped doing both.
The United States of America already solved this issue with the perfect Mojave desert option. Unfortunately, politics caused mayhem to the program.
Great work, thank you for the effort you have put into this.
Zecoda allows you to turn your Sketch files into front-end code automatically.

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I'm not entirely sure what the point of this is. Do we want people to write code that looks unsafe and raises red flags?
That would bankrupt Boeing. That's probably not a desirable outcome for such a company - and this would discourage any investment in aviation moving on.
Not necessarily. Just to take a random example

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage#Contemporary
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it's signed, hierarchical, decentralized, supports addressing multiple artifacts within the same module by type, includes a standardized way to retrieve sources or docs, supports pinning the version of transitive dependencies so you can manually resolve conflicts and on top of that can be extended to use completely alien package sources (which is unholy if you ask me, but it helped me survive the great osgi catastrophe of the 2010s thanks to tycho)
An increasingly large percentage of Americans live in "food deserts" where the only options are small convenience stores or somewhat larger Dollar Generals where there are no fresh foods except perhaps milk and eggs. We can blame people for making bad decisions but a lot of times the only decision they can make is between one package and another..
This feels a little unwarranted (almost rude?) and without considering the differences. So let's do some proper analysis of your statement and comparison of the car market and the phone market.

1. Smartphones provided a new type of utility and a very significant leap of value to the user (I bet most people do other stuff than calling for the vast majority of time spent with their phones, which was not the case with feature phones or generally before the iPhone). Electric cars provide a minor difference in new utility and probably also value. It's more a difference in the means rather than a difference of the end result.

2. Phones are significantly cheaper than cars. Thus, there's a much larger market unit wise than cars (there are probably a similar number of units in use at any point in time, but cars don't get thrown away after 2 years...)

Apple did something similar which is pretty well known in disruption theory. They moved up the market and became a truly premium phone company. That's also why they have a quite small portion of the market unit wise (less than 10%?). They are actually not dominating the industry, they are a niche player (but very successful at that, as seen profit wise, especially compared to their competitors). They are also really good at being a premium phone maker, and have leveraged a lot of other core competencies (look up on Wikipedia for more about that concept) well such as their software competencies and their ecosystem thinking (locking their users into their ecosystem and providing most key parts of that ecosystem).

So what about Tesla? They are hardly as good as Apple premium wise. The market for premium is also a lot smaller for cars, especially if you move upwards from where Tesla is right now. It's also very hard to make a profit in that market, and most make a profit by combining a mass scale operation (more or less all premium car brands are owned by one of the big car companies). So is (more) premium a great direction for Tesla? I doubt it. It will hinder economies of scale which have proven difficult to not have.

So, unless Tesla partner up, don't believe electric car engines/drive trains will become commoditized in the near future and/or have some significant premium/lock-in/ecosystem stuff up their sleeve, it looks like budget is the way to go... They might stay in the premium but not luxury segment, but it's cut throat with lots of competition. To me that sounds like a lost opportunity and waste of some significant base innovation.

And... I guess above is why Tesla seems to desperately try to find additional competitive barriers; self driving, fully automated manufacturing, quick charge network, etc. But, they are long shots so far. It's difficult to innovate one area, very much so multiple areas simultaneously.
>> C++ compiler needs to provide robust compile-time and run-time checks to tell programmers that things are wrong

> Hard to do without breaking backward compatibility, which is among the main reasons why we still write C++.

Although the language specification may need to preserve backwards compatibility, compilers can offer strictness warnings that go beyond that (e.g. -Wstrict). And the standards have deprecated and removed things as well. It’s not a straightjacket.
> And more to it regulators have clearly demonstrated their incapability and unwillingness to find something.

How can you claim that since the plane has not been allowed to resume flights around the world since it was stopped? Are you privy to the current investigation? Any secret you'd like to share?

> Surely all issues will be fixed which the regulators can find

Funny you say that, since this is precisely how aviation has progressed over time: we keep finding failure modes and fixing them so that we make flying a little more safe every time. If all companies were fined to death every single time they made a mistake/had an accident, there would be no one flying anymore.
A balanced and intelligent comment.

Although, if Racket is for educational uses only, if you see their main website you will notice that it is actively preparing itself to become the next Python.
Why all this old post are published here?
Demand for mobile apps continues to skyrocket due to the proliferation of smartphones. In the mad rush to launch mobile apps and grab market share, businesses often make serious mistakes, especially as a result of partnering with inexperienced or incompetent development teams.
Here I find a best article to answe this question: https://citrusbits.com/5-things-that-can-derail-a-mobile-app...
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I'm not sure what's mean-spirited about the simple statement that the size/complexity of the npm-eco-system arises only from personal/corporate business-decisions.

But thanks for telling me anyways ;)
Why would you sanction a country that has been invaded and is being ethnic cleansed? Get a sense of not being an idiot.
Yesterday I posted on /r/crazyideas about doing a startup that would design reusable, standard packaging of difference shapes for all possible food forms. It could be made of high quality plastic, glass, maybe stainless steel, etc as long as it can be easily recycled and that brands can put paper stickers on them. Those can be returned/sold back.

Someone answered me that most plastics can be recycled because he worked in a recycling plant, meaning this was a bad idea. I linked him a forbes article after a few comments and he stopped answering. It's hard to know if that guy was just astroturfing me.
So (one of) the advantages compared to a Peltier element is that you no longer need a cold side?
ToS claiming illegal things are okay are not legal where I live. If they are legal where you live, then look seriously at emigrating because you live in a functional corporatocracy.
US: actively developing weapons of mass destruction. Has committed several war crimes and illegally occupied territories in the middle east. Actively funded and continues to fund international terrorism.
Israel: ethnic cleansing in the occupied territories in Palestine.

Yet Crimea, Syria and Iran are the bad guys (btw Iran was funded by the US - yes same regime that now the US cries against).
Sixty points in two hours and rank 500? I guess someone doesn't like the title?