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I get what you mean, especially when compared with historical examples of fighting for civil rights.

The anger from the oppressed, those demanding their rights, is justified. And it does sound absurd to ask anyone to be sensitive to their oppressors' feelings and reaction.

I guess by "sensitive", I meant changing the system together, rather than against each other. But in retrospect, that may be a naive and unrealistic expectation.

If Saudi Arabia continues to improve civil rights for women and there's a "gender riot", angry men on the streets calling for return to "traditional values".. Well, so be it, that might be the price of progress?
And they're going to have to think of something to do with that wood, if it's going to be part of a carbon reduction methodology. The trees don't live forever, and if they are left to rot or burn, they release all that CO2 back into the environment.

Lumber would be one use. So would charcoal, or paper. Or possibly even burying them. But either way, growing them is only half the battle.
Beijing. I was working for MS China.
2019.2 fixed a lot of intellij/typescript papercuts for me, vscode still has a slight edge (it's error messages are still better) but the gap is close enough that I haven't had to boot open it in vscode to figure out what the error message means since I started using the RC.
Does anyone knows the scientifical name for the tree pictured in the article ?
Yeah, the 3.5" disks are actually 'stiffies', not 'floppies'.
Question with myth #1 that "electricity is trying to get to ground". Would that be an accurate statement if you replaced "ground" with a place of lower electrical potential?

Or can you elaborate but the meaning that it's trying to get back to it's source?
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I dualed in math/physics undergrad, and I appreciate the banter. Relevant XKCD: https://www.xkcd.com/435/

Joke: How can you tell if someone is a physics major?

Don't worry, they'll tell you.
I absolutely love it. Got a home in the 400s with a 10 min drive to downtown (I actually bike instead, there's some very bike-friendly roads. Just under Bay area pay for much lower cost of living.

You never run out of things to do. The only downside is the traffic going north to south - if you find a place to live close to work you're fine. If you get a house, then later work at the other side of town, you might have to put up with a 1hr commute.
Look who's being all logical over hear. pssh
For real though, my friend is a professor, and one of her students asked her during office hours why she had 3d printed a bunch of the save icons and kept them on her desk.
Empress trees certainly have some impressive specs, but no one plant is going to be the silver bullet.

Can we eventually take per capita carbon footprint down to a fraction of what it was in 2016? I think so, if the people can be convinced to elect sane leaders in the US and elsewhere.

Can vast regions in the USA and other countries be re-forested? Yes, if the willpower is there.

Is it worthwhile to develop artificial carbon sequestration facilities that operate on vast scales? Yep.
> some dude out there still has working floppy disk drives and feels that they might still be used

I don't know if I would ever use mine (maybe with MESS emulation for my TRS-80 Color Computer?) - but I have a small collection of 3.5" and 5.25" working floppy drives (plus cleaning disks, alignment disks, and an analog Tek oscilloscope) that I keep around "just in case" - mainly for emulation purposes, or for some odd time I might need one. For both, I also have collected at least one of each of low-density, double-density, and high-density drives - because again, different systems. The only kind of drives I don't have that were common back then were the 5.25" ones on the Apple IIe - because they were crap back then that'd break if you so much as looked at them. I doubt few have survived in working order today (seriously, they were that bad - you take one of those drives and compare it with a TEAC or similar from the era - night and day).
Yes, but all that is easy to optimize. You can scan the mail file on entry to the queue and store file path/recipients to an indexed database. Then removal is just one SELECT query and unlink() call.
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> Ya, that's finance 101. But here's Finance 5400:

And another point: you have to imagine that the richest companies in the world have the best possible financial expertise on staff. It is safe to assume they know what they are doing.
> The complaints were (and still are) conspiracy theories

The people making those complaints are probably not crazy; it might be a good idea to try to understand their actual concerns instead of jumping to this inaccurate (and insulting) misrepresentation.

> they were streaming constant recordings

That would be a waste of bandwidth. Obviously a constant stream isn't happening. While a trivial noise gate and high-efficiency encoding could easily[1] allow almost constant recording of voice for trivial amounts of bandwidth, that isn't really the concern.

> constantly listening

It has to be constantly listening, or it wouldn't hear the wake word. However, this too isn't really the concern.

> in a targeted, continual sense

Dan Geer, on "targeting"[2]:

>> There is no mechanistic difference whatsoever between personalization and targeting save for the intent of the analyst. To believe otherwise is to believe in the Tooth Fairy. To not care is to abandon your duty.

Targeted surveillance is by definition rare and often hard to avoid. I'm far more concerned about non-targeted, sparsely-gathered data that surveillance capitalists like Google/FB/etc can use to refine their model of your pattern-of-life[3]. While this touches on a few important issues, yet again this isn't why I consider always-on, remotely-controlled microphones to be a serious problem.

The big problem is that you're normalizing the idea that remote 3rd parties might be recording in areas traditionally considered private. Kyllo v United States[4] created a bright-line rule that asks if a technology (in general, not any specific product) is considered to be "in general public use"[5]. If it's not, using that technology is considered a "search" for 4th Amendment purposes, and a warrant is required if the police want to use it. When a technology is "in general public use"[5], the police no longer need a warrant to use their own voice-activated internet-controlled microphones to see the "details of a private home that would previously have been unknowable without physical intrusion"[6].

I don't care what these devices may or may not be recording right now. I do care that normalizing of the idea that voice might be recorded inside the home by a remotely-managed device is eroding my future 4th Amendment rights even if I never buy an Alexa/etc.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16346416

[2] http://geer.tinho.net/geer.source.27iv17.txt

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern-of-life_analysis

[4] https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/533/27.html

[5] used multiple times in ruling[4] (esp. section II of Justice Stevens' dissent)

[6] see [4], 2nd paragraph
So what would be the potential consequence if I didn’t connect the “ground” wire (green or bare) to the little brass ground screw on (let’s say) a ceiling fan when installing it?
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Well, Firewire probably would have won if it weren't for Steve Jobs too.
Because 15 years of compound interest in the stock market more than covers the difference in income between a 25 year old and a 40 year old. The 25 year old has enough time to take risks with money, while the 40 year old needs to be thinking more about preservation of capital.
If you can remember the hotkey for Windows task manager, sure. It's Ctrl+Shift+ESC. If not, you can access it through the menu.
Well, that's the thing. Most jobs are 80% stuff you don't want to do and 20% stuff you do. You're not being paid to do your hobby, you're paid to make money for the business and do what your bosses say.

There are many places though that understand writing good code, even if it's boring, is important, and any decent programmer can go fish until they find a workplace like that.

Having a solid older developer around is important even if most of the work is boring. You're there to help the younger folk from making costly mistakes.
If you can't enforce the rules on an extension/library developer because they are based in a non compliant nation just kick them off the market.

To be blunt most current software in use in US/Europe already comes from US/Europe.
I like to think of it as a matter of scale. At a very low scale, a human mind designing a process can be efficient (a specific part of an assembly line, a function, etc.) As you scale, you quickly reach a point where one mind is worse than many, even if those minds are communicating mostly through such apparently low-bandwidth measures as observing the flow of money.
Presumably, some of that 103 tons are taken care of already by existing plants/trees.
> Homeschooling is mostly awful. Parents don't have the time or skill to teach students properly.

Care to back that up with some data...
Today is the first time I heard of Homomorphic Encryption so I have 0 knowledge about this. But just to show this is not magic, you can provide N*N number of lists where each list has totally different results and then get the max index for each list as a return. Since you know what original list was the right one, you can keep that result and discard rest
I'm not too surprised; I find a YouTube mix of an hour or two Psy Trance or Psy Breaks to pass incredibly quickly. Classic trance gets a bit dull, EDM is too engaging.

It's even more effective than thunderstorm or "train in the rain" soundscapes, just as long as it doesn't have much in the way of lyrics.
That's really cool to hear :)

Also interesting that you used different drives to achieve that too, I wonder why different drives could read different sectors. Possibly the pickup coil of the read head was slightly different size maybe? Or the stepper motor aligns the head to slightly different positions of the track?
makes me want to avoid Autotrader... where did this /advert/ come from anyways...
My plan B is literally bomb a mosque and the kill myself
The linear predictions and feedback loops aren't speculation. It is known, at least to an order of magnitude, the amount of sequestered carbon in boglands and clathrate deposits. Same thing with trees in places vulnerable to wildfire.

We know the amount of ice in places vulnerable to climate change, and we have a solid understanding of the albedo effects of Arctic sea ice.

The correlation between CO2 and atmospheric temperatures isn't just empericial, but can be well modeled with today's forecasting supercomputers. The predictions that were made 40 years ago are in line with what we are observing today, and the ensemble modeling system we use to look at different climate scenarios shows the ample world of possibilities.

None of those things indicate that there's any reason why there should be a _better_ case than the already conservative predictions, and all point towards those feedback loops being substantially more dramatic.

For the record, the "extrapolation" isn't unbounded; there are limits to atmospheric temperature determined by atmospheric radiation, ocean albedo, the effects of temperature on cloud formations, etc. It's just that the limit is high enough that there will be literally no ecosystem able to adapt and our capacity to grow food is out of the question at the point.
The goals of extremely ABC-heavy portfolios (i.e. those of its founders and top executives) probably involve a lot less volatility for ABC than diversified external investors would want to see.
The year is 21XX. Multi-story "tree towers" pierce the skyline in every direction, competing for vertical supremacy with even the tallest of skyscrapers. Solar and other renewable energy sources provide the lighting necessary for the unexposed levels.
There are a lot of things wrong with this idea.

- Shallow burying the wood would not stop emissions from escaping into the atmosphere. Doing so would deprive it of oxygen which would cause the production of methane which is even worse than co2

- Wood is way less dense than coal so even if the idea worked you would only be able to store a fraction of the amount of co2

- Its hard to imagine the sheer scale of collecting all the wood to ship back to the mines. As mentioned wood is much less dense than coal so the effort to ship the wood to coal mines would be much more difficult than shipping the coal out of the mines. Not to mention that the wood would be coming from a much wider area.

There are ideas about burning wood to produce electricity, capturing the CO2 exhaust and pumping that deep underground. The concept is called Bio-Energy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS).
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Software ages by association. Whatever system it's on or associated with dictates its life span.

Like if you put a soda on a block of ice outside. It will last through the winter and stay solid. Wait until spring and things start getting slippery and wet. The ice and soda are showing signs of aging. Summer hits, and your soda crashes to the ground, spills, everything is just sticky, unusable, and bugs are everywhere.
The company's market cap will typically factor in the giant hoard of cash. As it increases, so does the stock.
I seriously doubt the number of instant millionaires is significant enough to impact the total numbers. 25% of programmers did not become rich enough to retire, and if so, I'm doing everything wrong.
That's sometimes the plan. But as always, you get what you pay for. Some management teams are savvier than others.
I've been doing IF since 2014 and still haven't managed to get much past 24 hours -- partly admittedly for lack of trying -- I can't imagine trying to do an extended fast (more than 24 hours) only a few weeks in. You need more time to work up to it and get familiar with your body's signals and needs.
Which is fairly common, and often why compensation packages for folks in those positions are structured the way they are.

The assumption is that someone leaving a director/VP level position will not find another job quickly.

They often have severance agreements that provide either large lump sum payouts to cover them while they look, or multi-month notice that they're being let go (I've seen 3 months and 12 months, with the expectation being that they'll continue in an advisory position and draw salary during that time, but focus mostly on job hunting).
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The first time i saw an 8-inch disk, i thought it was some sort of wind-up. But no, there really were disks that big once; my dad had one from some ancient minicomputer he'd worked on at some point.
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I was cleaning out my basement last week and found some 5" floppy disks. It hadn't occurred to me that Linux would drop support.
> about making sure that it's kept in sync with changes to the rest

At one of my workplaces we had an application that was without a formal supporter and everyone hated to touch it. After I was assigned to dive in to fix a bug, I did a study of how it got that way. I was very surprised by the results I found. Basically, two things went wrong:

* Firstly, due to some mismanagement, the local team moved away, leaving it unsupported.

* Secondly, outside code underwent some paradigm shifts, meaning that anyone who knew outside code found this code to be foreign. Often, people assigned to fix bugs/add features in this code would try to apply the outside paradigms without understanding or adapting the local conventions, creating ugly code interfaces.

Here was the part that amazed me: The time between this code being not-perfect-but-perfectly-normal and becoming ugh-I-hope-I-don't-have-to-touch-that was _6 months_(!)

We've always known that technical debt becomes a problem, but I had no idea it would compound so quickly. Granted, this was at a "post-startup" company going through rapid change as the scope of work kept increasing, but that's still a startlingly fast decay rate for code that was decently written and tested.

Definitely proved to me the value of an active maintainer.
Good, so you can maybe know (and tell us) what is manufactured from the actual timber (i.e. to whom it is sold and for what use).
My standard of proof is recommendations from Mayo Clinic, AMA/JAMA. I am not a medical researcher, so I turn to experts.

I am not familiar with Dr. Ohsumi, but looking at a summary of his award in 2016 indicates his research for the genetic and chemical pathways of autophagy. The author of this article is the one linking fasting to autophagy.

My last statement is trying to state that there is room for additional research. Currently the impact (on many things, weight loss, cancer, heart health) of intermittent fasting isn't clear. This is the horrible wishy/washy statement that you get because there is a hypothesis that hasn't been proven/disproven. Personally, I'm ignoring IF until proven otherwise by larger human trials.
That's why I told my students when I was a professor -- don't become a "programmer" become a "computer scientist." Could Alan Turing get a job if he was still alive?
Interesting, I hadn't realized pyrolysis (used to produce biochar) does not release CO2. Seeing "pyro" (Greek for "fire") I had assumed oxidation. Sounds like a good technique for making the wood "indigestible" for microorganisms. I wonder if it's worth doing energywise, compared with just burying it somewhere.
Granted, there are certainly worse implementations of immutability than others, but immutability as the foundational architecture (even in its best design) creates bottlenecks.

Yes, a person owning their data should mean they can change it!

Fair point on UI/UX, you got me here - you are right.

It is trivial to build immutability on mutability, this is what MD5/SHA checksums do all the time on things like downloads. But if your base system is immutability, it is hard to do anything else well.

To your question: I agree signing is important. Doesn't mean it needs to be immutable!

Very well said! I'm impressed with how both precise and concise that was. Good point.

Oh sorry, decentralization is great, just its target use case should be "developer fantasy" but "user value add". Sorry for the confusion here. I'm pro decentralization (I build p2p protocols).
Worth mentioning that ballot stuffing is a problem with the people counting the votes/running the polls, not the voters. So it would be more accurate to say that the problem is preventing the entity that organizes the vote from accessing discrete votes.
Well, electrical potential is only defined as a relation between two points. So the neutral point on a transformer, for example, doesn't have any electrical potential in and of itself. It has electrical potential with relation to, say, the termination point of one of the phases.

The electrical potential between any two given points is dependent on the impedance along the pathway between the two. The lower the impedance, the lower the potential (or work/energy needed to move current). So, yes, in a way electricity wants to get to the point with the lowest potential, but that point will always be the point where the electricity originates.

I was a little vague with "where the electricity originates" because that could be a number of things. It could be a battery, a transformer, a generator, a turbine, a dynamo, etc. Whatever is creating the difference in potential between two points is the "source" of the electricity.
It wasn't until I dated a middle school teacher for a while that I realized how crazy the pay scale is there. Her pay would automatically go up for any grad degree. She was teaching middle school science, but she could have gotten an online Master's in sociology and received a pay bump.

I absolutely would have gone online and done the absolute minimum in the easiest possible program I could find, and I wouldn't have thought twice about it. The fact that any Master's degree would do already tells me that it's irrelevant to the school district whether the degree improves teaching (and let's be honest, even getting a Master's in bio won't really help a third grade science teacher), so what difference does it make if it's a total BS degree?
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I use this one:

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The Mizar proof system (2017)
Reminded me of the Boeing Dreamliner integer overflow: https://www.engadget.com/2015/05/01/boeing-787-dreamliner-so...

I very much dislike that simple coding errors like this are finding their way into production aircraft software.
Sure, because rent will just get cheaper and cheaper, as we magically make more land and nice housing appear, then give it away.
I am avoiding Chinese goods as much as I can. Anybody buying Chinese goods is supporting a totalitarian regime.

If it says "Mads in China", I am not buying it. Simple.. And I don't care, if I have to pay more or if everything is made in China these days. I am NOT buying it.
I mean, I feel like more programmers were working closer to the metal back in the day.

In the 80s you needed to understand computer hardware much better and there was a bigger fraction of C++ developers. Now all those people have migrated to hardware (or have kept doing it) because that's where their skills are needed.
From my understanding, if the hot wire (black) were to come in contact with a piece of metal on the fan it would build up electrical charge and or allow for current to pass through the piece of the fan. Then if you were on a ladder fixing the fan and touched that piece of metal you would become a path for electricity to pass through to a lower potential.
If this interests you, a related concept with similar applications as HE is functional encryption: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_encryption
> If I'm depressed then it's environmental

I agree.

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Not automated. I look at the threads first, to make sure there's something relevant to bother clicking on.

Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20556927 :)
What is the best tool for tracking todos, projects, meeting notes?
What do you use? Paper and pen vs electronic. Sometimes I find paper and pen works best when I am in a meeting where someone is presenting a complicated topic or problem.