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I think, mankind need to understand the nature of god, the nature of humans and the nature, of nature itself.
Humans should realize that theres only 1 god for all.
And u cant arrive it with killing people with an other religion.
Mother earth is our god! And its not a construction in a manwritten book, or from a man spoken words. Based on historical myths, written down everywhere on planet, with similar storys, reasons and more.
But most religions are constructed and were used to create power and force.
Installing a system to control people and their thoughts. As well as their behaveiour.
BUT: Our whole planet is our god. If people would realize that there would be nothing, without this nice little planet. A planet wich had his own rules in physics, chemistry, philosophy, mathematics, enviromental rules.

Before humans exists!

Everything was served to live on it under best conditions.
In nearly every religion, blasphemy is forbidden. People get killed over blasphemy in some countrys, untill today.
But humans made the biggest blasphemy of all, as they mixed a created religion with money and power.
And this will now fall back on all of us. On every human beeing on this planet.
Nowadays religious systems are not compatible with our international and enviromental behaviour.
Stuck in knowledge of civilisations, thousands of years old.

Sucking out oil for 100 years, burning it and making so much money, a normal worker would have to work millions of years for it.
While on other places on earth children die of starvation.
Where people have to flee from war, hunger, death.
There are some entities, they so rich, they dont know where to invest their money, to make more money.

Invest your money in helping poor countrys to fix their infrastructure and food/energy produktion.
Not in military and stupid and uncontrolable weapons. Billions of dollars/euros every year for weapons and war. Like were to stupid to invest in helpfull things for fututre. We invest in future war and perverted weapons.
States should NOT allow big oil and energy companys, also their owner and managers, to earn that much money. Thats crazy!
Cleaning the planet and helping other humans should be a religion.
Respecting our planet, our nature and the humans around the world, as they deserve it.
A VPN should only be ever used to:

1.) Route traffic over hostile connections like shady Starbucks wifi etc

2.) Spoof your geolocation to route around censorship imposed by an ISP. e.g: my residential IP wont allow me to connect to thepiratebay.org

And that's it. Many VPN services suggest you should use them for privacy, but remember $5.00 per month is enough to pay for a lawyer's cup of coffee and not his/her legal fees
Zubrin is not an honest interlocutor in this issue, though the basic message is probably sound. Examples of his dishonesty:

1) The price argument. Hydrogen will generally be more expensive than gasoline; his argument about current prices is like making an argument about gasoline before it was a widely used industrial product.

2) The delivery argument: this doesn't even begin to make sense. Straw man argument where he claims it couldn't be delivered efficiently in the domains he suggests. It is harder to deliver hydrogen than hydrocarbons, but the numbers he quotes are just garbage.

3) Limiting the vehicle storage to compressed gas (muh hindenberg) and cryo. No serious people really talk about this to my knowledge. Metal hydrides (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_storage#Metal_hydride...) are the way hydrogen probably would be transported in a hydrogen economy. It's still less efficient volumetrically than hydrocarbons, but then so is everything else. The argument that it must be as dense as hydrocarbons is just goalposting. People like electric cars just fine, and the batteries they use are 100x less efficient in energy density. At least at one point, the envisioned hydrogen economy was you just retrofit hydride "gas tanks" to existing internal combustion machines. If you can make everything else work, that's a fairly reasonable thing to do. Which is probably why Zubrin never mentions it.

4) Fuel cells; yes, these are very hard to do for a consumer product. They are amazingly cool though, and they should still be invested in. I think this is Zubrin's biggest fear. His goalposting about fuel cell efficiency is silly: so what if they're not more efficient on some measurement than an ideal diesel motor? They don't smell as bad either.

Zubrin is a neocon type who works in the defense industry. For all we know this could have been commissioned by some oil company types, or maybe he's just being cussed. I don't disagree with the over all message though. You'd have to change a lot of major infrastructure to make hydrogen work for a portable energy source.
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I know we tend to think of cloud-agnostic architectures as over-engineering, YAGNI, etc., but for a massive, massively expensive, mission critical government cloud perhaps it’s a good idea?

Apart from fail-over/redundancy benefits, it would avoid lock-in and drastically improve negotiating leverage that could force ongoing competitiveness and accountability.

The engineering costs are significant but still a drop in the bucket compared to the size of these mega-contracts.
I use it all the time indirectly when using a map or working with JSON. I don't find it all that messy to work with. If you're talking about type assertions, I don't use them all that much but they do come up. It doesn't require much boilerplate or special handling. If the assertion fails I return an error like I do everywhere else.
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That was for a different program (AI/ML stuff).

They dropped out of JEDI because they couldn't meet a bunch of contract provisions in the RFP.
> You're likely being downvoted

I do not care about downvotes on here.

> You can use virtually any character as part of your variable name. Lispers

This is not a good thing.

> However, it is nice that for a domain specific problem, you can just invent new syntax and use it.

This is equally not a good thing.
EU shooting themselves in the foot with all these data rulings. Innovation will never happen there, US tech products will slowly suck the wealth out of European nations, much like China manufacturing sucked the wealth out of the us manufacturing sector.
Just to be clear, I was referring to the article, and not to the research it reported on.

But yes, point taken. I should have explained my criticisms of that particular article, rather than being generally dismissive of science reporting by non-scientists.

I could have said that I found the article to be confusing and misleading. About our understanding of the atmosphere's electrical potential, and about the particular research reported. But I just made a snide comment, and pointed to the Feynman lecture.
Personally speaking, vast proficiency in any given language or languages doesn't mean that much to me. You'll pick up es6 or go or whatever else. I care about the thought processes behind development choices, their implications on computational efficiency. They teach this in school, at least in the schools I attended.

In fact, many professors were adamant they didn't care about languages at all other than someone grading it can read it. Some classes never wanted to see your source code. Most classes didn't have code at all!
> The plaintiffs believe that because Social Security numbers had a fixed format, GitHub should have been able to identify and remove this data

No it's not, especially once you add binary files to the mix.

I once worked at a company that required everyone to run some sort of local scanner to see if there's sensitive data on their laptops. My laptop with no sensitive data had something like 10k+ matching files. I promptly ignored the thing.
Hey everyone -- figured people might find this interesting. I wrote a basically "minecraft realms" sort of server that starts the server on join, and informs the users when the server has been "hibernated". Eventually it'll stop it when there is no activity for an amount of time as well.
But why are data brokers still allowed to exist?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_broker
And me :) - I love s-expressions.
You need neither.
Simply hash both articles, and reference it by hash.
Then you will automatically get the right paper, no matter the source (it could even be from a bittorrent magnet link).

DOI are horrible invention, they are prone to man in the middle attacks and dead links, please don't use them.
"He warned that the decision would go beyond Facebook and effect all social media plug ins, which are important for many firms to expand their reach on the web."

Add an image on your own website that links to Facebook. Problem solved. You keep your like buttons, their servers are no longer involved in serving your web page.
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You're so meta.
Would this include ad-tech, like advertising cookies and other tracking stuff (specifically, not Facebook / google ones)?
News feed algorithms that maximize profits for the social media company inevitably promote sensational, emotionally potent content. Doing so is part of their design.

Consider the following experiment with YouTube. Search for something, anything. A list of relevant search results will appear.

You might imagine that after you watch the top search result, the next video to play would be the second place search result.

But alas YouTube does not want you to see the second most relevant thing that you just searched for! YouTube wants to show you the most addictive thing that relates to the item you just watched.

YouTube’s algorithm is essentially walking a graph from whatever you are currently watching, following the edge to the most addictive thing that relates to it.

It’s like a vending machine that dispenses the chocolate bar and then automatically dispenses some nicotine gum immediately after.

This is “news feed profit maximization 101”.

Viral content creators know how to make emotionally potent content and one can see the extent to which YouTube’s algorithm has rewarded/incentivized this by observing the vast percentage of YouTube content that is gimmicky, uses irrelevant thumbnails, etc.
Let's combine things the many people hate: lisp parenthesis with python's GIL. :)
Interesting that you paid attention to his salary. What about his course work? What about the hardware and languages he knows? He was more skilled than the average developer today in his freshman year.
There's important findings in here, but it also reminds me of reactions to Prius, Tesla, public buses, etc., where people latch on to any viable excuse to continue their wasteful status quo.

Scooters aren't perfect, just like everything else, but there's some interesting innovations happening in micromobility that encourage more walkable cities and greener commutes. I'm excited to see where the trends head, even if the immediate scooter to car eco comparison is muddy.
I did this and wrote about it[0]. It works really well, is very fast and doesn't compromise your users' data. There are also libraries that make it very easy to add.

[0]: https://www.stavros.io/posts/scourge-web-analytics/
I'd assume many systems would store SS numbers without spaces or dashes in the backend so that rendering is up to the client. Which means you're looking for 9 digit strings. For example, full zip codes (xxxxx-xxxx) are also 9 digit strings.
What's the target audience?

Looks convenient for notebook/repl style use (assuming the the editing environment still supports autocomplete/correct and other niceties). I might just be stodgy and change averse, but I'd be a bit less willing to try things like this in production.

Landing page or FAQ could possibly benefit from an explanation along these lines.
Bitkom criticizing it would be expected as it's a lobby group for "Neue Medien" and "Digital Transformation" and many of their members are AdTech and Analytics companies. https://lobbyfacts.eu/representative/3d75bcd811c04ccfbfa6d0c...
Fundamentally flawed is absolutely an accurate moniker.

Yaw dampers are workload mitigation devices; not compensatory for design flaws. Dutch roll is inherent to any controllable aircraft. Violation of 25.173 in the form of decreasing stick force response curves on approach to stall is absolutely not the same beast.

Design criteria are prescriptive, and I'm not aware of any line of regulation that says an uncertifiable airframe can be made certifiable by the addition of a computer. These handling characteristics are not undesirable, they are uncertifiable according to regulations as written, and intended.

Even Airbus meets these minimum design criteria at their minimum automation threshold. Boeing for some daft reason seems to be being written a pass to selectively ignore regulations around Civil Transport Aircraft certification based on some serious levels of sunk-cost fallacy.

I don't believe in supporting limp-wristed minimal compliance when it comes to safety critical engineering. Not going the route of designing out the behavior requires the implementation of system after system, after system to compensate, with each link in the chain adding additional risk for failure over and above what doing it right in the first place would have created.

Whitewashing wins no one but Boeing anything. Please remember that. We entrust these people to design and manufacture safer, more efficient, machines. Instead of living up to that mission, they jeopardized it in the name of optimizing the revenue/profit generating characteristics of the company.

I get the reluctance to throw away a potentially recoverable airframe, but I'm dead against letting anyone whitewash over the fact the plane is more dangerous than it needed to be because someone wanted better numbers on their held stock, and was willing to put a more dangerous product on the market in able to do it.
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They were definitely available in the early eighties: https://www.nytimes.com/1984/11/23/business/typewriters-of-e...
When I was a kid I had a family member who would perform these "swappy swaps" that you were the victim of.

He would go out and buy a new card, gently open the wrapper so that it could be melted back on with a heat gun, remove the card, replace it with something of similar weight, and reseal the package with a heat gun.

One time I ruined the wrapper on him and he had to take the item to Blockbuster. He made up some BS about it being a birthday gift that the wrong child opened and he needed to use the cellophane machine. It didn't work, and Best Buy wouldn't accept his return. That was one of the last times I saw him use that trick.

I also saw him sign up for a store credit card using someone else's social security information. His plan was to get approved, buy a TV, and then shred the card. Luckily for whoever SSN that was; their credit got denied on the application and he was unable to steal a TV.

Sorry to hear your Best Buy horror story, or to think that I saw that stuff go down. On the bright side my family member no longer engages in those types of transactions and mostly flies straight these days.
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Great detailed pictures. I'm curious where general hinting belongs.
Oh,I've seen that part as well, however there were also some very good comments made by other users on that section.Bill was doing stuff on a computer since the childhood,so by the time he walked into the uni he already knew more than an average guy.
> See above comment. With 2, you don't. With 3, you do.

Unless all 3 different give different results, two failures and one correct.

IIRC the shuttle had a 3+1 system 3 as a cohort with voting and if they couldn't reach consensus the 1 was a minimal system that could keep the lights on.
There’s a strange sort of perversion to your idea that other countries should shoulder the responsibility to change your climate and carbon policy.

Essentially the citizenship gets off free for not voting in more responsible politicians, and hey, “it’s the other countries fault for not forcing us to do it”. Hilarious.
Hydrogen storage in underground caverns is not only feasible, it's actually practiced in several places around the world.

Hydrogen's place is for rare times when renewables or short term storage can't do it. This is the last 10-20% of the electrical power market, the part nuclear fans seem to harp on (even though nuclear would be terrible for filling it also.) For such rare uses fuel cells would be inappropriate; gas turbines would be better (even if the round trip efficiency were lousy.)
You should give the Rentenkasse an call. They are happy to tell you, if this would be Scheinselbständigkeit.
"The current state-of-the-art in RO desalination works very well, but the cost of RO desalination driven by electricity is prohibitive,"

Why is taking salt out of sea water such a challenge?
> But if the rationale is accepted, it will need to be applied universally to startups and SMBs as well.

I don't think that's necessarily true.
Hi, I am the author of the mentioned article. It is not an ad :). In fact, I am Czech publisher of Matthew Walker's book "Why We Sleep" (mentioned in the article) and a bit lifehacker too – blogging in Czech-only until recently. I just wanted to check if my suspictions about the most hyped sleep-trackers are legit but waited for something better to compare them with. I believe Dreem can be used for this task, but, sure, it is not perfect – some people report worse EEG signal quality and thus less effective stimulations. Dreem removed weekly reports in last app update and there is nothing like Oura Cloud for "data mining" in Dreem, which is really a miss! I finally bought another Dreem2 for my mother, so I have to translate everything from English to Czech for her but I want to try to help her with her terrible sleep habits. The article will probably continue one day with my longitudial results (tested on me and her too). Ask whatever you want, I will try to answer.
Best, Tomáš
Meh. Are you Brazilian or just a news reader?
The winner probably should have been AWS and close behind was azure and then Google.

IBM and Oracle just are not at the same level but I do suspect they have the best sales teams for government deals.
Quote (from memory) from Rob Pike, a few years before he wrote the editor "sam": "Everybody writes a screen editor. It's easy to do and makes them feel important. Tell them to work on something useful".

This was not long after he had left Caltech, where he had been a system admin/system programmer for CITHEP (Caltech High Energy Physics), for Bell Labs. CITHEP hired a few undergraduates as the new admins and system programmers. I was one of those undergraduates.

Most of us used the line-oriented editor QED, but as programmers were wont to do in the early '80s, said that someday we were going to write ourselves awesome screen editors.

One evening, Karl Heuer and I were both boasting about how great our screen editors would be, and it somehow turned into an editor writing throw down. We took terminals at opposite sides of the room, and both started hacking away, designing as we coded.

This continued all night, mostly in silence, with the occasional boast ("I've got text search working!") and counter-boast ("I had that an hour ago--I'm doing regular expressions now!"), and frequent trips downstairs to the vending machines for soda and snacks.

Another of the undergraduate system admin/programmers, Norman Wilson, then arrived, and saw what Karl and I had been doing all night. He sent an email to Pike about it, and the quote at the start was Pike's reply.
We recently hired exactly the person you describe.He was hired for non tech position with potential transition if performs well.
I would vastly prefer the "US innovation" ideology to stay the fuck over there, and we keep our privacy rights.
Wait...

Given enough SSNs as training data, could someone make an ML model that churns our mostly valid SSNs?

Because that could be really really bad
> Bitkom, a German trade federation for online businesses criticised the ruling, saying it would heap costly bureaucracy on firms without enhancing consumer protection.

Swap "costly" for "mildly inconvenient" and then I could almost see where they're coming from but I think they're missing the forest for the trees here. Let the "like button" die, rulings like this take the wind out from beneath it and eventually it's a metric you'll never be burdened with.
American fat cats should buy up the amazon for the purpose of protecting it. I’m obviously not defending the idea that they exploit it same as the Brazilians.
Which is every corporations modus operandi.
Where are the docs? The “docs” link just forwards to a Twitter account.

How would one use this with existing Python packages? Or is this a parallel universe to PIP where libraries need to be written explicitly with FF?

The website doesn’t mention how FF packages are versioned or how version restrictions between dependencies are resolved.

I see this as quickly becoming full of “left-pad” sized packages, can you analyze a full project to fetch everything ahead of time?
Gasoline powered internal combustion engines average around 20% efficiency, cutting edge new stuff still doesn’t really break 40%. Need to keep that in mind! Yes, gasoline itself is very energy dense, but that doesn’t mean we efficiently use it in automobiles.
I doubt this will ever happen. It's all about complexity, and in case of text editors there are layers and layers of abstractions that often (for UX reasons) have to be integrated tightly. Trying to unpack all pieces into fully generic bring-your-own implementation is going to be a lot of work upfront and in maintenance, and complexity explosion.

I really like some technical aspects of Xi, but I view it as a typical wishlist project/technical showcase. In the meantime projects like kakoune, with much smaller scale but better focus, in shorter time, build ecosystems that can be a practical Vim alternative.
Or, just possibly, Americans will wise up that surveillance capitalism is a net negative in the long run.
If that's the case, it's worth noting (since it's often lost here, on reddit and in the news) that is app is only required at border checkpoints in Xinjiang. Putting Xinjiang on your itinerary would likely result in your visa being refused anyway. If you are traveling to China for business or pleasure, you won't need to worry about this.

Source: Was in Shenzhen within the past month. Normal customs/border control practices. Nobody asked for personal devices. Only surveillance that was obvious was biometric checkpoint at customs, and some sort of face scan (?) at the subway queue.
Some of us really like the parentheses!
To me, a link to an authoritative source would be a link to the web page (or pdf file) on the site of the journal that published the paper.

You wouldn't link to your friend's mailbox if it was your friend who sent you a copy of the article; why would you link to scihub for basically the same?
Who powers the pirvate NSA datacenters in terms of hardware and software? I understand that was close to a 10B investment.
Out of curiously, would you recommend any good journals, magazines or books for people in your industry (grokkable by a general level programmer ideally but not that bothered if not).

I find all the different domains of programming endlessly facinating.
I’d estimate that I need to complain about approx 1% of the stuff I order from amazon.

I guess YMMV, but I feel like I’d spend much more time if I shopped around for alternatives.
> So again, why is the amazonian rainforest the property of the brazilian government? Did they plant it? Did they bought it from the people who used to live there? I don't think so.

They fought for and defended their territory just as other sovereign countries.

Quote from some levels above:

> Why do the natural oil reserves in Texas or Alaska belong to the US?
They will also give the reason why/why not on paper. So you should be Fine.