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Plants not only make wood, they make nectar, sugars, ambar, they make alkaloids, and they make thousands of seeds also.

Some hard nuts remains have been found after 3000 years. They will survive for as many time than wood or longer. A big walnut can produce 160 Kg of nuts each year. A sequoia can produce a number of pine cones that I can't quantify, but would be probably measurable in thousands of Kg/year. Easily

Even more, upper members of the Plant kingdom produce a very special substance. One of the most inert polymers found in the nature that is much more desirable than wood for our needs of stabilising climate. Its degradation time can be measured in millions of years and appears fosilized or semifosilized in all continents and all ecosystems, with or without trees. Is called sporopollenin, and is the extra hard and waterproof material that makes the outer layer of pollen grains.

You don't need a tree to produce really hard pollen. A humble daisy can sequester carbon in a powder that will easily remain structurally intact for the next 1000 years. Everybody that has a garden and has cultured a big conifer knows that males of this creatures release copious amounts of the substance each year. Also old plants. _Specially_ old decaying plants that are about to die and invest all its reserves on reproduction. Maybe its time to start quantifying it.

Therefore your statement that plants only sequester CO2 when they grow is clearly false. If your maths and calculus do not include nuts and pollen, and do not include soft herbs, flowers and annual weeds they are incomplete, and most probably wrong, IMHO.
Er... my car is eligible for it, and it's certainly not a "banger". Though it is 20 years old.
From Biter experience the sort of sites you have to do remedial work on are not blazing fast some common problems I see are :

using unoptimised images

adding massive amounts of javascript

messed up canonicals

internal links requiring redirects to add or remove trailing /

terrible design choices - oh yes lets put 10 products on a single page
Thanks for starting this Jaclyn.

I come from a non-traditional background. More than 10 years ago I started a niche community that grew at its height over 1.5M/monthly visitors. Everything custom built in PHP.

Then I co-founded a SaaS analytics service which we ran for 5 years.

In 2017 I started a solo project while learning Node.js, Vue.js, Postgres, microservices, to keep myself updated.

I decided that I wanted to join a team after going solo for a while and to progress my professional career. However having no CS degrees I lack foundational programming skills. I only know the stuff that I come in contact with so during interviews, sometimes I can't answer seemingly basic programming questions. I always focused on implementation and having limited time, didn't look for the why.

I'm falling between junior and senior experience and I feel companies have no clue what to do with me.

At the moment I'm learning advanced JS concepts, programming paradigms, data structures and algorithms, and plan to open source a project that shows all that. Showing my portfolio with projects is not enough for the roles I'm looking for.

I probably lack interviewing skills. So thanks for creating hatchways, I might use it in the future. From a hiring perspective, hiring full time based on a couple interviews is super risky. I actually like to work freelance/intern before committing myself - culture works in both ways. This is obviously a privileged position if you have time or money.

I like the idea of the hiring manager/interviewer being more of a coach during the process, and tailoring the process towards different personalities/situations.
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I started with perl in 1992, ncsa httpd came out in 1993, which was the first release of CGI.

I ported EBBS/BBS to A/UX and ran one for a few years.

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

https://github.com/virtadpt/eBBS (my name is in the credits)
Good work!

What I personally find "unbelievable" is that one needs to go to Twitter to find contacts (a human) or the security team.

I mean, how difficult can it be (or how much does it cost) to have a "security@company_name.com" mail address and actually monitor it (particularly for large companies that actually have a security team)?

On a very minor-minor scale, a few years ago, while I was looking for some information on the settings of a router, I happened to find out (no Shodan, a normal google search) a number of instances of that given router "homepage" that were:

1) accessible from the internet

2) set with "admin" as password

All in all I found some twenty or so of those, since the model was more "soho" than "enterprise" I managed to contact all the people at the "small firms" involved, the exception were two (large, international) companies.
In the end I found a way to contact one of the two, the other one was simply impossible.
Also, at least among my peers in the Philly area, jimmies were the brown/chocolate ones, sprinkles were the multicolored ones.
Agreed. I think the professional/unprofessional distinction would have been much better. In this article the term 'amateur is used in a derogatory way, a sort of 'put down', such as one professional referring to another professional colleague as an 'amateur'. It's used in a sense that amateur is bad and professional is good. However it's not unusual for amateurs to be as good as professionals. For instance, major golf tournaments will often invite an amateur as a guest competitor. And so, in this case, the amateur/professional distinction isn't how good they are at playing golf (they're all equally good) - instead it's in the sense of 'is it a full-time career' and 'are earnings derived therefrom'.

Our industry (software dev specifically) is inclined to use put downs in this way. I've often thought the phrase 'code smell' is used as a 'put down', a way of diminishing someone's work in order to make them change what they do (i.e. to be more like some perceived standard). I think the use of that (and other similar derogatory phrases) is unprofessional - which is a tad ironic.
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For context: This issue affected a large number of CAs because it was an issue in a widely used free CA operation software (EJBCA).
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Same here, the minified JS returns the whole index HMTL.
Not the OP, but this is a great book to get started:

https://github.com/hmemcpy/milewski-ctfp-pdf
I thought they were actually slightly different things. Italian ice being much harder and water ice being softer. https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/08/10/489217423/wa...
the wikipedia seems to imply they are they same.
For global warming to be relevant in a conversation about culling plastic waste, it needs be shown that either the efforts are mutually exclusive, or that fighting plastic waste somehow increases global warming. The former I’ll leave to speak for itself, the latter is a bold claim that requires actual numbers: how many people switch to a supposedly worse reusable bag after said ban (as opposed to just reusing the existing bags), and how much does that actually influence global warming? The >1000x number posted elsewhere in this thread was about ozone. Once you have those numbers, there is one final question to answer: is it worth it?

Without those numbers, bringing up climate change does little more than discourage a worthwhile effort.
For low income families, furniture is something major.
These examples looks like bug reports that I don't want to read.

The bold/non-bold text, email not balanced and too long paragraphs mixing numbers and letters makes me wanna vomit, not because it's disgusting but more like when you read in a car.

I agree with links though.
> We could have that in *nix land, you know.. something like opening /proc/$victim/status and using it to wait for the process and keep its PID from being reused until this is closed.

We are going to soon: "The 5.3 kernel also adds the ability to pass a pidfd to poll(), which will provide a notification when the process represented by that pidfd exits." (https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/794707/905eb6b5b7287e77/)
Don't know why your downvoted - what people need to do is embrace statically rendered sites which pull from a more traditional back end.
It's not so difficult. It's just covariance and contravariance. C# has long solved this issue. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-g...
The "bag tax" normalises this. Twenty years ago, if I walked into a supermarket to buy one item I would assume I should take a bag (which was "free") and a receipt for the reason you give - it might look shady otherwise.

Today I shove it in my pockets and walk out the door. Because of the "bag tax" people don't think "Wow, that guy just stole that" or even "Crazy person, why not use a bag" they think "Oh yeah, good idea, no bag tax".
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"We analyzed Dgraph, a distributed graph database, and identified numerous deadlocks, crashes, and consistency violations, including the loss and corruption of records, even in healthy clusters. Dgraph addressed many of these issues during our collaboration, and continues to work on remaining problems."
That's fair and, being an east coaster, I don't have a good feel for what is/isn't "LA". I wasn't trying to nit-pick or strawman.

Even with that, it seems like zoning isn't what's kept LA rents high. LA has parts that are fairly dense and more free zoning doesn't seem to have made Houston become notably dense.
Terraform slightly predates Kubernetes, May 21 vs. June 6, 2014. They were developed independently.

Links at: https://landscape.cncf.io/category=automation-configuration,...
That would be a good analogy if OP told you that you had used $5 worth of resources and now have to pay, then calls the police on you when you close your tab.
Millions? Citations needed.
Assuming this is right in some sense, alcohol has been integrated into functioning civilizations for thousands of years and still causes this kind of damage, where insane garbage like LSD hasn't, and no civilization worth talking about has managed to integrate a psychedelic drug with it and maintain a high level of civilization. And yes, I've tried it, and I've seen what it does to people: nothing positive.

Sure makes people think they're clever though.
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Why not deliver to your home in that case? You won't use up bags, and it's more environmentally friendly than driving yourself to the shop because the drivers are making multiple stops. It's wonderfully convenient and you can choose how specific of time you want (price for delivery will vary)
To the makers, hackers, and DIY enthusiasts like me: I just released the brand new Pushcut API!

My intention is to offer everything that is needed to integrate Pushcut to any DIY automation system you might have.

Check out the [documentation here](https://www.pushcut.io/webapi.html). <- You can even play around with the API through the web UI, which is pretty cool I think ; )

The primary use is of course to send smart notifications with dynamic content and automation actions to your iOS devices.

However, I think the coolest part is the possibility to register you own (local network) webhooks as "online actions" in Pushcut.

This way you can trigger anything in your local automation system - directly from the notification action - on your local network.

My hope is that over time there will be more and more "plug-and-play" integrations for all various DIY solutions out there (openHAB, Hass io, Node-RED, webCoRE, ...)

Let me know if you are interested in collaborating on an integration, or if you want to request additions to the API.

Also, which automation system would you like to see a Pushcut integration for?
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But the first question that springs to my mind when I was reading the web page, what happened to Shareware? 30 days trial.

We used to have games that we could play a little to decide whether we want to buy it. Now it is like a money bet hoping for the best.
Uh oh there was another loud music related police blotter this week! Someone yelled at a driver playing loud music and punched his car, leaving a dent. Both parties were charged with disorderly conduct.
Yeah, I agree with the other comment.

> "For us, in order to be able to cover our server costs, we ask our users to contribute a tiny amount if they find the app useful. Donate to see the detox counter again."

As far as this message goes, I'd just remove the word "server". We all know that's not the only cost associated, so pointing it out as the only cost seems... dishonest? Maybe you'd want to link the word "costs" to a web page that elaborates on the costs a bit. Not with concrete numbers, but more like percentages: 60% on the time maintaining it, 10% for the server and domain(s) etc.

As far as the funding model goes, I feel like pay-what-you-want would be a good strategy for this use case, but that's up to you to decide. I'm certainly bad at monetizing my projects, so I'm in no position to make suggestions.
"They wouldn't do this if they weren't helpful in modeling risk."

This isn't necessarily true.

A counterargument is that credit scores offer banks an easy way to outsource what often ends up being a very contentious, politically-fraught process. Yet many analyses have found credit scores barely better than random dice -- the guy with the perfect credit score has a perfect credit score, until he doesn't and there is a wake of delinquency in his wake.

It's also helpful to assess real world motivations. Extraordinarily few of the employees, including at the executive level, at a bank are legitimately concerned about the long term risk to the bank. Success is measured at the quarterly interval, and if you can justify your actions on a quantifiable measure -- even if it's a measure that has little predictive value -- then that's just perfect.

The biggest indicator that someone is a credit risk is that they are maintaining or growing higher interest borrowing products, such as carrying a balance on a credit card. This is an absolute flashing light indication that someone is over-extended, yet the credit monitoring agencies would not bite the hand that feeds them by making too big of a deal about this. Indeed, gross over-borrowing is barely a blip on a credit report, because the people who lend the money ensure that it isn't. The world is absolutely awash in cheap cash and banks are desperate to lend it.

In the wake of the subprime crisis everyone said "oh yes, of course there's a problem there it was the credit agency that was just marking these all wrong", but exactly the same thing is happening on personal credit reports. Of course it is, because the credit reporting agency is there to legitimize whatever the bank wants to do.
>I don’t believe I took more than five years off of my life.

>Died September 27, 2016 (aged 39) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn
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That made me lol but I’ve never heard it as anything other than a noun/pronoun.

You usually don’t replace a person with “thing”.
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I haven't been gaming for a while now, but on my Xbox 360 I could download a demo, test the game for a bit and then decide to buy it or not. I have used that quite a lot.
Back in the late 90s I had a roommate from Philly and used “jawn” almost every sentence. His excuse was “I’m from Philly yo”
> What's the problem with that?

That a superpower that basically shits on human rights has no one to tell them to fuck off?

> If China becomes richer and more influential, there is nothing bad for the U.S. in that.

It is, because (actually right now) China holds leverage over the US. They ban exports to the US, the US economy grinds to a halt.

> Soviet Union was dangerous because it pushed through Communist ideas which threatened to uproot everything the Western world stands upon, starting with family and religion.

What's the problem with communism, per se? And communism has nothing against families.

> China isn't going to do any of that shit, they are a super-pragmatic nation and they don't believe into any "ideas" themselves for that matter.

They're only putting Uyghur muslims into concentration camps and exterminating anything visible from their culture (e.g. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-religion-islam/sign...).

> If their way of government threatens Western democracy i'm more on the side of them rather than Western democracy

Chinese way of government threatens not only Western democracies, it also threatens the entire concept of "human rights"!
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It's worth it until you miss a payment and run in the absurdly high interest rates. Which makes it not riskless, because your risk of missing a payment is non-zero, even if you think it is zero.

And regarding having cash: if you set aside the full amount in cash at time of purchase in order to reduce the risk of not being able to pay the rates, then you did win absolutely nothing. Opportunity cost of not having that cash available for profitable investments in case of paying in cash is what could possibly be the reason for the credit variant being cheaper in the end, but that of course depends on you investing the cash and divesting just when it is necessary to pay a rate.
Yes. There are even large chains where you can rent things like furniture and TVs.
I assume you meant per person?
Low income families need to buy furniture at the goodwill, not taking out loans for a leather sofa.
It's possible, I'm not sure. I'll have to pay more attention to see if it's become normalized where I am. I can't seem to recall seeing people shoving things into their backpacks, but I haven't particularly been paying attention to this either.
>This is a dogmatic viewpoint I think often seen in very technical people who are unwilling to see the interconnectedness of how our society works.

You're asking him to argue against himself rather than put a strong case forward for a position. And you're framing the fact he doesn't as a mental limitation. You're denying the authors agency by asserting it wasn't even a stylistic choice about presentation; he didn't present what you would have so therefore his brain must be broken.
That is an interesting one, thanks!
The false equivalence is assuming the impact on A and B is equivalent. If A is 100x as bad as B, but X’s impact on A is 1/1,000 as much as B then B is more important.
You built this to look at NSFW subs didn't you?
> I‘m as much against (single use) plastics as the next guy but what’s the alternative here?

Strong, reusable plastic bags? I'm using those for years and they're as good as the cotton ones.
Thanks for sharing, I've always thought cable lacing is one of the most beautiful ways of doing permanent installs.
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> Certificates which are perfectly good for communication and do not pose any significant security risk.

Is it so? I remember that in 2008 someone was able to create a rouge CA certificate because of the predictability of serial numbers[1]. It was a different time: we still used md5, but are you sure the limited entropy used to generate serial numbers does not pose any security risk?

[1]https://www.win.tue.nl/hashclash/rogue-ca/
Multiple-use plastics. You can use a plastic bag way more than a few times.
I'm an author on CPAN who pushes one or two releases a month[1]. I'm actually surprised the number of uploads is still as high as it is, and a few thoughts struck me about the graph:

1) Most long time libraries have pretty much reached stability and the (still relatively high) backwards compatibility promise of perl5 means they don't have to be updated to support changes in the language, which still has releases every year.

2) The quality of uploads to CPAN is of the form of solving more complex problems or interfacing with core Unix/network/internet/lower level lib stuff stuff - you don't see so much of the leftpad type modules on CPAN.

3) It definitely feels like the number of authors has shrunk significantly, even though the graph suggests that has stayed relatively level. I suspect there's a long tail of active authors and most signups never actually upload anything

4) The biggest problem now is finding modules for newer APIs - I wrote some, including for more well known services such as GoCardless and Monzo

5) Holy crap, the graph covers almost 24 years of uploads. You will probably see the same pattern in Python, JS, Go, and so on if you come back in an equivalent number of years - the most common problems get solved first, and libraries uploaded for those.

6) The graph covers uploads to CPAN, I'd guess a far more important one would be downloads from CPAN as that will probably give you more information about the relative level of use of the language.

[1] https://metacpan.org/author/LEEJO
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It's not always worth it. If you have to spend 1 hour to set it up initially, sign the paperwork and then an extra 15mins per month paying it, it might already be very much not worth it.
I'm not too fussed, I'll just keep using this to point out the absurdity of intellectual property and we can make sure it doesn't come back after western society collapses.
Compared to lugging around several bags a backpack is almost a necessity living in a city, I do it all the time.

The security guards don't bat an eyelid, the only time I was stopped funnily enough was because a security sticker tag that is found on meat packaging was stuck to my backpack. Causing confusion for both me and the security guard finding nothing in my empty backpack.
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Didn't perl always have multi-dimensional arrays?

Just the syntax sugar for them is more recent.
I think it's because the poster understood it as saying they were geographically distant "from us", rather than that they are geographically distant from each other.
I was thinking the other day I would like to have some cool and lightweight pants for hiking that are highly resistant to stinging nettle, multiflora rose, etc -- and that some kind of hi-tech synthetic material might be better for this than jeans.
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I didn't know about this at all! Why is it not done anymore?
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There are key differences with that: either the photons are shot backwards (like a rocket), or the source of the photons is not on the ship itself. ("The limitations posed by the rocket equation can be overcome, as long as the reaction mass is not carried by the spacecraft.")
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