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Can you articulate those risks and rewards? If you can't, then you don't really have risk or reward.

And it doesn't matter if you consider "being right or wrong" as risks and rewards themselves. It doesn't make it so.

> How does one determine what does and doesn't have a point?

A simple metric is the fact that regardless of the answer, the consequences are the same. And with the question of free will, the consequences are the same whether or not it exists. Nothing changes.

> If free will does exist then we can modify our government based on the notion it does exist if we think it does. If it does exist and we think it does not, then such modifications might be incorrect. That alone is enough for us to determine if there is a point to the question, even outside of any more abstract interest in the question.

You're ignoring the real fundamental point. If it doesn't exist, all that happens anyway. Because we would be fated to do so. If free will does not exist, we can't prevent ourselves from making the decisions we're making. We lose choice.

If we were to discover free will did not exist, there still could be people who are predetermined to not accept the result. They would still believe they had choice. And since free will does not exist, they can't choose to change.

Your crash example relies on free will existing in both cases. Because if free will doesn't exist, we cannot choose to not punish the first guy if we believe he should be punished because we don't get a choice in our beliefs.
“usque” (see <http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%...), because the second letter is a long s (“ſ”), not an “f”, and “q;” is the abbreviation for “que” as mentioned in the text:

That semicolonish mark at the end of the fourth line from the bottom isn’t a semicolon, it’s an abbreviation for que, Latin for “and.”
Denis Efremov is the new maintainer, Jiri Kosina is the old maintainer.
way too mellow. She needed to melt faces right away :)
That's true, there are some limitations. Sometimes you can still do those sort of things in CSS if you set the target values using JS (instead of changing height to 0, change scaleY to 0 and translate up the elements from below with the height of the element that was removed). If all elements are same height, or the height is known beforehand you can just hardcode that translate value into the animations.
> In the meantime, though, every single older developer I've met has been extremely knowledgeable and frankly much better at the craft than myself.

While this is true for you, there is a lot of selection bias and survivor bias involved in this.

For These older developers you need to also consider their comrades they were working with 20 years ago. For every older dev you work with today, there are 10 of their former buddies that decided long ago they didn’t need to advance beyond VB 6, or IVM mainframe assembler or RPG/3.
Exactly, just because you have a lot of cash doesn't mean you should force investment into things that may not make sense. It's like if you had a huge buffet and force fed yourself until you threw up. If anything, Google probably gets flak for having too many ideas and being all over the place. People keep saying they need more focus, yet when they do that, they get accused of not having any more ideas...
The idea is that by 40, you have accumulated enough to exit the software field.
Back in the late 80s we had a PL/M development system from Intel we used to program 8051 and 8096 microcontrollers for industrial sensors at Honeywell. The code was saved on 8" floppies.
Other professionals go to bazaar and flea markets to get their tools at a discount, but they still have to pay for them.

Just in IT it is now fashionable to feel entitled to earn money without buying tools, then comes dual licenses, closing doors or acquisitions because devs don't pay supermarket with pull requests.
This is really interesting. I've run into an issue finding qualified participants for user research studies many times. The companies focused on that space tend to be very businesses. Will take a look next time I have a survey!

A tiny thing I noticed on the site. If you change the estimated time on your "Study cost calculator" and hit tab, you are bounced down to the next section on the screen so you cannot see the results. I believe adding "tabindex=0" to the HTML on the result would solve this. I kept getting confused as to where the result went. :-)

Good luck on your project!

Edit: typo
Is it wise to antagonize dangerous wild animals like that?

I would've left it alone and hoped that it did the same in return.

Then again, if I were to start hiking, I'd probably read up on these things so I'm not a complete idiot in the wild.
The 80/20 Rule could be one reason -- the more they spend on health care, the more they can spend on other things.

https://www.healthcare.gov/health-care-law-protections/rate-...
I think it will be really enticing for people that want to play sports games but don't want to invest in a console. Those customers are also not going to be the ones concerned about latency.
The name refers to easing into or out of the animation. You want to ease into an animation for something leaving the screen (train leaving the station) versus one entering the screen (train arriving)
If those senior citizens have index funds or mutual funds, they'll be fine because the indexes automatically rebalance to the companies with the highest market caps.
Which is true, assuming the 40 year old is still employable.
> Observables are all the hype in javascript ? Well, great, I've learnt that pattern 15 years ago...

Well, the listener/observer pattern is used to explain observables in order to make them familiar, but no, it's not the same thing.

Observables are streams and you work with them the via composition of streams. When viewed from that high level, the underlying protocol (the observer) becomes irrelevant and in fact, if you're often finding yourself working with that protocol, you're doing it wrong.

People familiar with functional programming will be very familiar with this style, because composition is very natural to an FP developer and the composition of all kinds of streams is in the repertoire of FP developers.

But I've seen plenty of colleagues, who are otherwise very capable people, really struggle with the concepts involved. The mentality shift from the imperative programming that people have been taught, to describing actions via function composition and then doing evaluation "at the end of the world" is a mind fuck.

Interestingly, functional programming has been with us for some time, being older than Java.

However people are not interested in actual functional programming and more recently there's this trend to classify junk as FP, just because you've got a shitty API that takes functions (often doing side effects) as arguments to other functions, but that's not FP.

So going back to Observables, as a piece of advice, don't mention that in an interview ;-)
Probably the best thing is to change around every couple of years. IMO, small/medium-but-growing companies offer the best opportunities to work on your technical skills, while larger companies offer the chance to grow your ability to navigate complex organizations.
Great idea.

Now consider something similar for Audiobooks.
Zookeeper has implemented dynamic reconfiguration since circa 2013-2015ish, but it required support for the feature in clients, as well as servers. That said, implementing an autoscaler that manages that as well was not trivial, in my experience.
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This can be helpful, but it's still a shortsighted solution. There are two types of carbon cycle on the planet: the short-term and the long-term [1].

The only natural mechanisms to transfer carbon between the two cycles are the planet's tectonic and volcanic activities. This has changed in recent history and we are constantly extracting carbon buried underground (long cycle) and release it into the atmosphere (short cycle). Capturing the atmospheric carbon into trees can be helpful, but it still remains on the surface.

The real solution is to stop burning fossil fuels altogether.

[1] https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/CarbonCycle
Not any reliable data, it's admittedly anecdotal. I have been in education for about 15 years and haven't seen any quality homeschooling. Students would have been much better off going to a decent public school.

And homeschooling isn't feasible for the vast majority of the population, so using homeschooling as solution is ridiculous.
Returning money would create inflation for acquiring future cash cows (think : firebase)

Imagine, if Google returned money then investor gets the money and now they try to invest it somewhere else, highly likely, these guys will go after companies which Google want to buy out. Why make it expensive for yourself to buy your threats?

The idea is that investment opportunities are shrinking, more money in market for limited opportunity is what creates inflation, makes it expensive for everyone to acquire new companies.

It's specially true for big tech companies where pension funds and other investment fund own large chunk of stock, if they get the money, they'll put it in venture capital or private equity which either increases cost to acquire technology (patents etc...) Or existing businesses.
That's not true. Majority of the front end is in html+js+css these days. Most of it is /browser and /toolkit directories.
The rest is Gecko engine and it's written in a mix of Rust, C++ and JS. We're moving more to Rust with the back end but staying with JS on the front end.

You can develop almost any feature of Firefox without ever leaving JS.
There’s something called opds. Sort of like a file that defines a library and its contents.

https://standardebooks.org/opds/

I’ve never really been able to get it to work with calibre, pretty much the standard go to piece of software for all things ebooks.

I would be interested in hearing about any tips for getting an opds working.
Yup. We've taken the worst aspects of both sorts of system and combined them into a Kafkaesque nightmare.
How do they collect this data? Do they have chrome store crawlers?
As a former software guy, life long computer hacker, who moved to desktop support for years, I ran into new people hired as programmers who had to be coached to hit Ctrl-Alt-Del properly to log into their newly deployed laptop.

I'm working on hiring back into software roles now... I figure if the bar is that low, I can rock it out if I can just convince anyone that I can still code.

Interviews have been interesting.
Somewhat distantly related - the Pro One synthesizer from the early 1980s had some "appropriate" graphics silkscreened on the PCB and the copper etch. A list and photos here:

https://jamebus.backpackit.com/pub/294552
It doesn't go "back out to the ground rod," it goes back to the transformer. Note this paragraph in the parent comment:

> And it's not that charge carriers are always flowing back to earth, but back to their source. That's why ground is sometimes called a "return path." To move a charge carrier, you need to give it potential. It will lose that potential and return to the point of lowest potential difference from its origin - which is its origin.
(((Steinbeck))) --- Yep, checks out. He did, just like so many others.
At the end of the day look where the major banks ended up after the crisis. Mostly unchanged. They knew what they were doing. It's just that what they were doing wasn't in the public's interest.
I'm a generally anti-legislation kind of person, but as long as breaking up big tech is a hot topic, why not pass a bill requiring cash prices for any not-for-profit insurance providers and co-pay networks? There's a lot of interesting competition happening in those spaces, and making not-for-profit insurance a better deal seems like a great way to get capitalism grinding at the issue of overpriced healthcare.
I grew up in the burbs and am the exact opposite. After six months in London, I felt incredibly isolated when I returned to the burbs.
In 2008, I was living in Central Pennsylvania, taking many a weekend hike along a short section of the Appalachian trail that ran within a short drive from my home. Then I got assigned to a project in Bloomington, Illinois. I spent a month out there, this strange land completely devoid of trees. I never thought of myself as an "outdoors" person before that, I just liked hanging out with some friends and getting a little exercise. After Bloomington, I realized just how important trees were to my mental health.
You can't count all 103 tons. The Empress wood is really just substituting for other wood that grows more slowly and less efficiently. So, if you grew Empress trees that yielded 10M board feet, there would be less of some other tree grown. Since the Empress is so efficient you could use less land to grow those 10M board feet worth of trees. And if that land which you wind up not needing to grow plantation trees on instead becomes undisturbed forest, then you could count that portion as a net reduction in carbon emissions.

It also possible that Empress is so efficient that the market for wood expands more than it would otherwise. Say you use more wood to replace concrete in buildings [1]. That would also count as a reduction. But in neither scenario would you be able to count all 103 tons per acre per year.

A confounding factor, can it really compete on a mass scale with existing lumber?

> Paulownia trees take a lot of work to manage. They require pruning twice a year to establish a clear timber trunk. They need particular growing conditions, and don’t like wet feet or strong winds. [2]

Is this why the industry is not already growing the tree?

[1] http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190717-climate-change-wood...

[2] https://thisnzlife.co.nz/how-a-small-waikato-farm-harnesses-...
Wouldn't it be nice to have an ultrasound and not know the price, nor care?

That's what countries with single-payer are like. America needs to give up on this nonsense. There should be riots.
Always amazes me that people find it necessary to downvote a comment like this
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Are you familiar with LibriVox? https://librivox.org/
LOL at wishful thinking, and beware unintended consequences. Making something artificially expensive does not make it obsolete. When trains can go 500mph in straight lines, maybe.
Rural and small town living is the way to go for me. You'd be hard-pressed to find anyone here defending the aesthetics of cookie-cutter suburbs.
Another FYI type comment I guess. :) Some of my more gripey statements here may be outdated info, so DYOR I guess.

Dynamic reconfig in 3.5 addresses the "restarting every zookeeper instance" problem. [0] You stand up an initial quorum with seed config, then tie in new servers with "reconfig -add". Not sure how well it would tie into cloudy autoscaling stuff though. I wouldn't start there myself.

A much bigger pain IMO is the handling of DNS in the official Java ZK client earlier than 3.4.13/3.5.5 (and by association, Curator, ZkClient, etc.). [1] The former was released mid 2018 and the latter this year, so tons of stuff out there that just won't find a host if IPs change. If you "own" all the clients it's maybe not a problem, but if you've got a lot of services owned by a ton of teams it's ... challenging.

Even with the fix for ZOOKEEPER-2184 in place I'm pretty sure DNS lookups are only retried if a connect fails, so there's still the issue of IPs "swapping" unexpectedly at the wrong time in cloud environments which can lead to a ZK server in cluster A talking to a ZK server in cluster B (or worse: clients of cluster A talking to cluster B mistakenly thinking that they're talking to cluster A). I'm sure this problem's not unique to ZK though.

Authentication helps prevent the worst-case scenarios, but I'm not sure if it helps from an uptime perspective.

TL;DR: ZK in the cloud can get messy (even if you play it relatively "safe").

[0] https://zookeeper.apache.org/doc/r3.5.5/zookeeperReconfig.ht...
[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-2184
Beyond opaque and variable pricing for the same service, there is also the question of whether something simpler would do the trick.

Some years ago, I thought I might have broken my finger. I went to the doctor and it was actually the physician's assistant who saw me. I'd explained at the front desk that I had a high-deductible policy and I would be paying in full for the visit.

The PA said "Usually we would send someone for an X-ray, but since your insurance won't cover it, there is a quick test we could do and it would just be part of this office visit."

He opened a drawer and pulled out an instrument and asked me if I knew what it was. Being a musician, I said "Yeah, that's a big tuning fork. And with those weights on the end it must vibrate at a very low frequency."

He said, "You got it! The idea is we get the fork vibrating and then hold the end against your finger. If it's broken, it will hurt like the dickens, so just holler and we will stop and you go get that X-ray. If it doesn't hurt much, it's just a sprain, so take it easy and you should be fine."

We did it, and my finger was fine. Saved me a bunch of time and money!

Edit: Thank you everyone for the lively commentary! I would like to mention something that I forgot at first (it was ten years ago) and your comments reminded me of.

The PA didn't pull out the tuning fork until going through a complete set of manual range-of-motion and "does this hurt" tests. All indications were that my finger was not broken, it was just a mild sprain. I'd only gone to the doctor in the first place out of the proverbial "abundance of caution".

So it was my decision not to get the X-ray. Please, everyone, do not blame this on the American medical insurance system! I could have easily afforded the extra $150 for the X-ray, and of course I still had that option after the tuning fork test. But since both the PA and I were both so sure at this point that it was just a sprain, I figured I would same both time and money by skipping it.

It was my call how to proceed with this very minor injury, no one else's.
http://archive.is/U1psP
There are very limited cases where growing trees for carbon sequestration purposes is a net benefit for the planet. Yes, there are places where land is un-utilised, and water is sufficient but it's often better for the environment to allow wild plants grow so wildlife can flourish. Here is a very good article by the respected Bob McDonald speaks to this topic: https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/trees-carbon-emissions-bo...
You completely ignored the prices I mentioned in my comment and compared a low-end Nokia to a mid-range iPhone. Pretty much all iPhones use the same LCD's up and down the price spectrum, save for the OLED models at the very top.

Go compare that Nokia to an iPhone 6S if you want an apples to apples comparison.
Several of his works were published before 1964 and the copyright was not renewed.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Philip_Kindred_Dick
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Sounds like the government needs to sue both insurance companies and hospitals for collusion to stop this.
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Once again, you have zero suggestions for how to school 99% of the population.

Homeschooling isn't feasible (or preferable) to a majority of the population, so unless you suggest something else, then you are just complaining.

It's like you are bitching about having a military, but you don't suggest another way to protect our country.
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you misunderstand how enforcement works. It's done via law enforcement agencies that exist already. It doesn't need a special new "bureau" for each type of rule. If you don't believe me that there are law enforcement agencies, I can show you how to summon them very easily.

Now, the question is, why don't these agencies enforce the same laws against corporations? That's the premise of my initial comment, which you also misunderstood.
All of my floppies are either very old commercial software (that I could likely download from an abandonware site) or personal data that I backed up a long time ago.
"You mean the person who has repeatedly posted false info? Photos where they claim to have secret information that were just taken from other websites, that people were arrested who haven't been... so on."

This does not meaningfully distinguish Q from any other media outlet.

You may note, reading between the lines of this conversation to date, that I don't exactly give a lot of blind credibility to anybody claiming to have information for me.

"What exactly is that?"

That powerful people are involved with more sex crimes then we thought before.

You kinda didn't get what you expected out of this conversation, did you? You expected to be dealing with some sort of raving lunatic who could be easily mocked for boldly overreaching.

Unfortunately, you're kinda the one overreaching here. "Pizzagate is a conspiracy theory that is not true and anyone who believes it or even entertains it is crazy, therefore any evidence that could potentially point to it being true must be false and/or unimportant, therefore these bits of information can't be important and must not mean anything, lest anybody give any credence to a false conspiracy theory", which I think is what you're trying to feed me here, is not a logically-defensible position; it is as riddled with fallacies as "Pizzagate is probably true so the slightest bit of evidence that seems to support it should be immediately believed and is also probably true and also proves Pizzagate, which will also prove the next bit of evidence true." In fact, it's almost the same bundle of fallacies in both cases.
Nice little project. I wonder if the SiC MOSFETs that are becoming widely available would help with doing that kind of design?
Hospitals could also be charging insurance companies more, but not for subsidizing cash patients but for greater profit.
Americans in general are in love with the idea of the "just world". If someone gets sick, it's because they did something to deserve it. If we treat their illness for free, they won't learn.

Additionally, lots of employers also love holding their employees hostage via healthcare and they spend millions lobbying to this end.
Interesting.. it doesn't seem likely that wellbeing causes trees. So what are the other possible arrows of causation? Maybe healthy people choose to live near trees?
But the Flash Designer could accommodate more design complexity and would scale to different screen sizes. It's not impossible to build modern RAD tooling and layout designers. Even some of the ones existing on the web these days for end users aren't bad.
Walk without rhythm and you won't attract the worm.
The profit is all based on lumber sales too. If profits really were that high it seems like capital would flow in until there were so many of these trees that prices would go down (though I'd imagine they're a small part of the global lumber market), especially if you can only use their wood for a limited number of things.

On the other hand, if they really do such a great job storing carbon, seems like there is potential for them to make money on the fact people are willing to pay to offset their emissions.
Lots of TV shows before 1970 weren't renewed or had copyright notice errors, making them PD -- many of them on archive.org: https://infogalactic.com/info/List_of_TV_series_with_episode...