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Yes, good point. Large investors (pension funds being the big ones) have, for many years, struggled internally with this. After all, their job is to generate financial returns. Period. However, stakeholders (i.e. their members) have been putting on pressure for the managers to take into account environmental, social and governance impacts.

I think there is increased recognition that we are entering a stage where real, physical, climate risks are becoming more obvious and both managers and their constituents are realizing that the long-term cost of inaction will overshadow the short-term pain (if any) of staying out of certain investments.

But yes, at the end of the day, large investors do have to prioritize return generation. Luckily, investment opportunities and new sectors evolve and there are ample new areas for investors to look at.
When you're trying to haggle down the price, you can put back the goods you're interested in, in order to show that at a particular price point it's a no go for you. If the seller doesn't respond by offering a lower price, that might indicate they don't care about the lost sale because they figure the next schlub who comes along will pay more.
For me, running window.speechSynthesis.getVoices() in the web console of both Firefox and Chromium results in an empty list. Any idea how to populate it? Using ubuntu packages of Firefox/Chromium. Nor does this demo work in any of the two: http://mdn.github.io/web-speech-api/speak-easy-synthesis/
I think the bigger difference is that initially the sort of person that used the promotion was somebody who saw it as a reason to pick Hoover over Zanussi or Electrolux products and often bought the higher end washing machine or fridge they were actually looking for rather than the cheapest vacuum cleaner, so Hoover often did better than break even on the promotion when taking into account their profit margins versus whatever wholesale price they got on the flight tickets. And lots of genuine customers didn't bother filling out forms, and few people looking to buy flight tickets to Italy for about £119 decided to get a vacuum cleaner and some booking hoops to jump through instead...

When £600-£1000 face value tickets were offered, the logic of buying the lowest cost qualifying electrical product instead of the flight to the US started looking entirely different...
Here’s[1] an early picture of a social security card where it says plainly it’s not for identification purposes.

What’s the better solution — the government making it so you can change your ssn? Or legislation that shifts the liability burden of identification entirely onto the lender?

1. https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/old-blank-social-se...
Seems more like perfect examples of jury nullification and professional misconduct in the justice system.
Save your money. Live to the lowest standard you can.

I had my business start to fail while my second was born. I thought I wouldn’t recover it. I did. It is survivable.

I now have three, but my income is still significantly down. Thriftiness and creativity will do you wonders. Budget and save, even if it’s a little bit.

Some wise financial advice I received as a young man went like this...

Those that make little but save a dollar are better off financially than those that make more but spend a dollar.

The stress of debt will do more harm to you than anything. Try to stay out of it, enjoy these next years, you’ll never get back your children’s early years, but you will always recover finances or a career.

Good luck!
Your analogy works as long as there's a machine doing the washing and drying.

If you replace the machines with people, it makes much more sense for the function definition to define what is and isn't synchronous. If you have to do all the chores yourself, just call the functions synchronously. If you have family members you can delegate some work to, you can call the functions asynchronously and wait for them to complete while you're doing your own work (or twiddling your thumbs).

Elixir allows you to do this very cleanly.
https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/Task.html#content
> won't take you across oceans/seas

yeah bummer. what about balloons?
Last time I gave it a go, I found it was pretty strongly welded to virtualenv, rather than using Python's own (much less problematic) venv. I came away less than enthused as a result.

(To be fair, modifying it to use venv is... non-trivial).
It’s easy to run an async function synchronously; just drop the `await` keyword and wait on the returned future.
What kind of traffic does your service attract?
I don't see how Duff's Device provides "concurrency"? It's a way to unrolls loops. Now surplanted by SIMD instructions.

Or do you mean state machines?
Great article! I find it strange that I haven't come across the geometric mean before, it seems like a fairly valuable tool. One of these days I should really take a deep dive into some undergrad stats books.
I disagree with any fad phrase (emerged in a year or so and suddenly used by everyone, the media, etc) to explain deep rooted human psychology, society, etc.

It just leads to a fashionable, shallow, understanding of any subject it concerns. And just as it come into existence, it will go out of fashion in a decade or so. We have had such terms in every decade, from all sides of the political spectrum.

I'd avoid all such fad/mass-enforced framings...
> not accounting the cooling part

...but the cooling part is critical. These are RTGs which basically just use the heat generated by the nuclear material to generate electricity through thermocouples which rely on the difference between the hot (plutonium) side and the cold radiator side. Without sufficient cooling the power output will be much lower because the temperature difference will be lower.
Observing some beautiful architecture in China and staying at a luxury hotel doesn't feel like experiencing what it means to live in China. It's a theme park in the sense that you are on a pre-determined course going from location to location.
Yes, but being maxed at hotel capacity wasn't solving the the overcrowding problem. It was just pushing tourists further out of the city. It would be like trying to solve traffic in San Francisco by freezing housing construction - it just spreads the problem out over a larger area.

Here is a NY Times article from 1987 talking about the overcrowding problem and limiting the number of tourists in Venice.

https://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/08/world/venice-moves-to-lim...
Congratulations.

It's a good idea to have a list of must have's/nice to have supplies for the baby. Stick to the must have's, skip the others. You will spend less money and avoid having too much stuff afterwards.

The money you save this way you can use it as a buffer for the periods with limited income.
Beyond the advice of "healthy buffers of cash" - which is good advice - you might want to get your sleep now.

I don't mean that you should oversleep - since you want to balance your time in order build up as much cash as possible NOW...What I mean is: don't go out and party much now. You will not have enough sleep when your baby arrives, so sleep now.

Beyond cash and sleep, begin to work out a system (AHEAD of time) with your partner - including who will sleep while the other is on pager duty - er, I mean, feeding/diaper duty. In addition to organizing duties, communicate, communicate, and communicate with your partner NOW, DURING, and AFTER your baby arrives. Communication is so important during projects, and this is vastly more important than other projects, so it makes sense that communication with your partner is essential.

You (and your partner) are about to put a dent into the universe; cheers, congratulations, and best of luck!
Here's a discussion:

https://www.texascrimelaw.com/character-evidence-in-murder-c...
Docker saves some pain, but introduces others.

You have a container that will run anywhere, but it has a bigger attack surface and needs updates.

I also would disagree that it's easier than using virtual environments for development, and only for packaging in some narrow use cases.
Ukraine should have kept its nuclear weapons. The USSR collapsed in 89/90, and Ukraine gave up its nukes in 1994. NATO didn't have the capability of defending Ukraine (had it joined) until 2004 when Poland and Slovakia joined. Without a border adjacent to a NATO member, it's hard to defend.
"Accident" includes events which are uncontrollable, unpredictable, or unpreventable. This is too ambiguous and softens the line of accountability. "Negligence" is insisted upon because it offers no room for excuses and fosters a culture and mindset of handling firearms safely at all times. Reading bad intent into this is unfounded and unnecessary.
I agree. I recently visited Italy and was planning on visiting several of the major cities. I went to Florence for a day and it was such a shit show that I gave up on the larger cities entirely (think thousands and thousands of people crammed around notable sights all trying to get that perfect shot for IG).

Instead, I spent most of my time in the countryside. It was absolutely beautiful and I rarely saw another foreigner.
There was explosion on the sea platform and men were thrown off it by the blast to the water. They were searching for them for a while before pronouncing them dead. This was reported in the Russian media.
For a second, I was excited to see someone created a discord about Principia Mathematica :-/
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When I was at school they were using Moodle. And I gotta say Moodle was very solid. The UI wasn't terrible and everything worked.

But the big plus: Open Source and completely free to self-host
Children are only expensive because we have a consumer mentality that we feel compelled to pass on to them.

Try cloth diapers. Make your own baby food (look it up). Avoid buying all that plastic, processed, unnecessary crap that is associated with childhood.

Child care can be very expensive. Avoid it by getting rid of as many monthly expenses as possible. You don't need cable. You don't need a cellphone--you can get by with a 7-year-old cellular Android tablet and a $15 per month data-only plan, then use dirt cheap VOIP for home and away. Don't eat anything that you did not cook yourself from raw ingredients. Don't go to restaurants. Don't get takeout. Don't buy anything processed.

This will put you in a position of not having to work extra hours to pay high monthly bills, so you can hopefully look after your child yourself instead of paying someone to do it.

Never buy anything new. People throw away children's clothing by the ton. Same with everything else. Start a reuse and clothing exchange/donation program in your building/area. You will drown in kid's clothing, toys, and supplies.

Also plan ahead. Use a condom now to prevent the additional stress that would come with another child in the future. One is more than enough. There's almost 8 billion of these things running around and we're well into environmental collapse because we can't seem to regulate our numbers.
to my disappointment my distro doesn't provide `ddate` any longer :(
I agree. Show me a tourist-only country that is not "third world" level

It's kind of obvious - tourism requires low skilled laborers.
Go on Nextdoor and share your good news. Ask if there’s any hand-me-downs available. You’ll be surprised. The stuff people held onto but are now finally giving away is usually the good stuff that they really liked. Oh and congratulations!
and it can change. Let's say your bandwidth goes from 1GbE to 10GbE and now your bottleneck has changed. You may want to refactor which task is async.
Hospitals could also use hand controls made of metal with a high copper or silver content, or foot pedals. Maybe also autoclave-able interface boards, or disposable single-use plastic covers.

Too many medical devices are designed to be operated by fingers, rather than a foot. Touchscreens help the problem of hand-transferred contamination, but that is the wrong problem to fix. The problem is that hands are being forced to touch things unnecessarily. No one cares about what feet touch, because feet don't touch patients, and shoe-clad feet can step through a shallow disinfecting bath if necessary.
1. Grokking Deep Learning (Andrew W. Trask) and Neural Networks and Deep Learning (Michael Nielsen)

2. I'll probably be off-point here, but maybe The Book of Why (Judea Pearl) could be interesting reading for you.

FloydHub has a great article about this topic on their blog:
https://blog.floydhub.com/best-deep-learning-books-updated-f....
Now consider that for 10 years, minimum, these exploits have been known and easily discovered... enabling enough private data of high school students anywhere these applications were used to manipulate the students and/or more easily social engineer accounts at other institutions. The information gained undoubtedly contained social security numbers, parents full names and so on - the exact verification information used to "recover" lost passwords at locations not yet supporting multi-factor authentication.
Absolutely nothing. They'll either not use it like now, or not be able to afford, like now.
Broadcasting a Dynamic YouTube Video for Slipknot
Actually, cancel that: I obviously didn't properly read what I was quoting, and they "did return to finish the work in May". Still their behaviour (demanding something in exchange for a "good will gesture", delaying the work over the disagreement) is far from that which would engender me to take on their services myself.
Just travel off-season. I went to Venezia, Firenze and Milano last year in October. Barely saw any more people than I would see anywhere else in the off peak of, say, Dublin. Smelt nice, had no problem with crowds, weather was gorgeous.

I can travel off season because I don't have children, and I can take time off at any point in time during the year. The problem of congestion really is for people with families or who don't can't take time off outside "summer" months.
I like how transparent poetry is about what's happening when you run it, and how well presented that information is. I've come to loathe pipenv's progress bar. Running it in verbose mode isn't much better.

I can't be too mad at pipenv, but all in all poetry is a better experience.
What field are you in?

You could switch to a corporate job for steady income and it usually comes with decent benefits.

Honestly, you really want to budget very well. We are planning on having a child sometime next year. We created a plan. Bought a house, remodeled. Now, we are going to aggressively save $50k, so we can survive 12 months without any income if we ever need to. After we save $50k, we will focus on aggressively paying of the house, and investing 1k a month. My health is so so, therefore I am not sure how much time I got.

As far as career goes, I will most likely start consulting in a few years, as I have experience with the full life cycle of applications, even forcefully extracting requirements.
Good point, I'd forgotten about the distributor fees. A quick Google suggest an average of about 50% depending on the film, location and time in the release.

Once you factor in profits from concessions (very high) and the adverts, the maths clearly works out well for the cinema chains. Certainly here in th UK a number of them are really pushing these sorts of schemes.

This is all in comparison to MP, who have to pay the full retail price of the ticket and get nothing from the concessions. The chains can probably absorb two to three times as many visits in a month compared with MP.
No mention of systemd or logind! :-)
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That will unfortunately never happen.
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At a certain point people need to live in physical reality. The 'progress' of everyone going on vacation, eating meat, and building nuclear families was a momentary and unsustainable aberration fueled by willful ignorance of the damage we were causing.
futures-preview 0.3 does have futures::executor::ThreadPool; a simple thread-pool based executor. However, I thought that tokio did its own thing here. I could be wrong.
The languages haven’t changed all that much. PHP, Ruby, Python and so on are still relevant. Instead of wanting to use Erlang (and not using it) you might want to use Elixir (and still not using it).

Honestly the biggest change is that we now use frameworks for the front end and the back end that are rather big and complicated and build systems to wrangle them. Deployment has also become hell on earth because the consensus is “something to do with containers is the future” and it looks like probably docker and Kubernetes, but we are still sort of arguing about details.

Oh, and whatever you do in JavaScript is going to be obsolete in in 2 to 3 years.

My recommendation. If you already know PHP find a light weight framework and set up a project with composer. Heavy weight frameworks are nice if you work in teams and switch between lots of different projects so skip them. Learn some python, node.js and go because there is a lot of glue code you can write or use in those languages. Figure out how to build a docker container and figure the details out based on where you want to host.

For the frontend go with react.js or vue.js and a server-side rendering framework like Next.js or Nuxt.js (based on what you chose for your frontend). Depending on how things go you will rewrite this part the most so put as much logic as possible in the backend. This might make hosting more expensive (once you have a lot of customers), but it will make rewriting the web app easy and implementing mobile apps will also be easier.
Flask is pretty easy to get started with, Django is a batteries included monster.
Goddamnit, I'm blocking everything except CSS and images through uMatrix and it was still able to determine I was unique due to the "If none match" header.
"We had an open floorplan office, so it was nice to get some peace and quiet when I needed it."

Now imagine if you had peace and quiet the entire working day, instead of just 'when it was needed'. Imagine how productive you could be.

It's simply amazing how far we've drifted away from this idea in the name of a slightly cheaper furniture bill.
So per your logic the Windows 10 operating system was created by random iteration of x86 opcodes over a lengthy period of time? Huh?
On macOS, the returned list contains the built-in operating system voices (about 50) and some additional ones by Google (roughly 20). The spec [1] says the voices made available are entirely up to the browser. Doesn't really answer your question, but at least some additional insight.

[1] https://w3c.github.io/speech-api/#dom-speechsynthesis-getvoi...
> Which async/await greatly simplifies.

That's probably the real reason why so many people are so happy and vocal about "simplicity" of async/await – after experiencing concurrency only with callbacks in JS, async/await looks like a blessing.
Not even with the `pipenv lock` command? It seems to work out solutions in multiple rounds, including backtracking, but I might be wrong on that observation...
That’s great. Collectively, individual investors have tremendous power. Money talks volumes.
This article only focuses on a few hot tourist destinations, but it then tries to generalize that to the entire world, which is mostly not one giant tourist destination. "The World" is not "eaten" just because Mount Everest is crowded. Tourism is mostly just eating Tourism.

On the other hand, tourism accounts for 8% of greenhouse gas emissions. As rates of tourism increase, so will a negative effect on the global environment. And an increase in poorly implemented eco-tourism is hurting vulnerable environments without strong economies to protect them; some examples being the Galapagos and Madagascar. Those parts of the world definitely are being eaten by Tourism, and we should focus more on sustainable tourism to prevent further damage.
WHat's stopping the host of your VPN (or any of its upstream providers) from logging your traffic like your ISP might? I'm personally not entirely convinced that using a VPN provides much privacy benefit.
I didn't explain the second one well. Here's some exact code.

group_keys = ...
if not isinstance(group_keys, list):
groups_keys = [ group_keys ]

So rather than listifying the non-list variable, it was creating a new variable. The cause of this bug is that Python doesn't distinguish between declaring new variables and overwriting existing ones.
I think the point is not to get away with the scaling problem.

Here's one service I used in a project's development mode:

https://dummyimage.com/2500x2000/000/09f.png&text=HackerNews

In the production build I changed it to the real host.
I'll bet that most image requests will be within certain parameters. 2^x by 2^y. So you could probably pre-cache most real-world image sizes, and leave dynamic generation for 1-offs.
Building a pure JavaScript widget with Web Components
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Well, sure. Or just use Kotlin.
Congrats!

It really depends on your current situation, so to be more helpful please answer these:

1) how much savings do you have?

2) assuming a spouse, will the spouse continue to work? Do you have parents nearby who can help with childcare?

3) can you clarify your earnings, maybe with yearly breakdown of the past 5 years?

4) where are you located (country at least)?

Option 1) Get a regular job with health benefits. If you're a programmer in the US with some experience, $65-80K should be readily attainable. Certainly much more depending on location and abilities. Likely the least stressful but more boring option.

Option 2) diversify the income as vorpalhex said. This will be more stressful. You do need to figure out your "minimum expenses" and budget for that. You can't afford to go 1 year without making anything unless you've got significant money banked.

One datapoint: in a US midwestern city, a conservative baby/toddler budget is running me about $4-6K not including increased medical. Set a budget just assuming you're going to max your out-of-pocket every year. 1 birth + 1 ER visit will usually get you there.
Returned home recently, saw a local park / nature preserve. There are signs everywhere telling people to stay on the trail. I have never seen so many people disregard them in my life.

When I was a kid, you would go to the educational programs at the park and they teach you about the history of the area, the ecosystem, and the amount of damage that people can do to the ecosystem. Lots of locals will go through this kind of thing. But now there are so many tourists, people stomping through meadows that grow back very slowly. Feeding wildlife. Etc. How do you educate people if they’re only visiting for three days out of their entire life?
Reminds me of the days I would peruse PSCode and delete cookies to reset their join-wall.