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It's funny to see how the whole world concentrates on this Git thing, while there is a treasure trove called Mercurial.

Mercurial was made for humans. It is seriously convenient and productive. Something I cannot say about Git, which more reminds me of an adhoc job.

I use both Git and Mercurial on daily basis. But my preference goes to Mercurial: it is just more sane in a big way. It is clearly a piece of art and love.
BBC regional news will often promote British businesses. It's part of their remit.
But the big companies do everything that's possible to stop us from using browsers and plain, old websites. Users are not blind, but choosing not to conform to corps' will requires knowledge (why and how, because dark design patterns are called dark for a reason)
for my kids’ university I’m assuming 8+ years...and that’s if they don’t follow Mom’s path through multiple PhDs!

All so they can program the robot caregivers that will swaddle me someday.
Looks like you have a few misconceptions there. There are many different sign languages, just like there are many different spoken languages, and they developed in much the same way. Sign languages definitely have accents and dialects, and are not inherently easier (they're full complex languages with all kinds of nuances). This tool doesn't translate sign language signs, or even detect them. Your argument basically amounts to "everyone should speak Esperanto" or similar.
To be honest I would say seeing this on the road is enough to pull it over and ask for registration MOT etc. From reading the article it sounds like it was all very peaceful and went without incident.
I always liked Joel Spolsky's CityDesk software. It's way out of date now but the basic principles were good. I'd love to find a modern equivalent.
Good for them. A thousand deaths are not enough for Medium.
Because lots of companies have been hosting infrastructure elsewhere, with real managed servers or complete racks as unit. Now you supposedly don't have to know or care anymore that there actually are real servers and real infrastructure beneath your software.
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A nice fantasy, but how is biology going to change?
> Instead, the events where the top women are close to competitive with the top men are at the ~days level.

People keep repeating this idea throughout thread but as user geargrinder posted earlier, the difference at the ~days level is pretty big, at least in ultra running. For example [1]:

1000 miles Records

Men: Yiannis Kouros - 10 d + 10:30:35

Women: Sandy Barwick - 12 d + 14:38:40

I had also heard - and believed - the idea that women were roughly equal at ultra distances but seeing the tables posted by geargrinder has been a massive revelation to the contrary for me. Is there some other proof that indeed backs the claim that women are roughly equal at large distances, or is this a total urban legend?

[1] https://ultrarunning.com/featured/ultrarunning-magazine-all-...
For many people the choices are limited - do work that harms others, or suffer harm yourself.

People whose morals are strong enough to suffer the harm and deal with the uncertainty of trying to find morally-responsible work aren't that common. And as soon as you have family responsibilities, the pressures increase.

The underlying problem is that compliant behaviours and attitudes are rewarded, sometimes generously, while dissident attitudes and behaviours are punished - often in ways that imply the dissident brought misfortune on themselves.

There's absolutely no mainstream reinforcement of the suggestion that many aspects of the culture this happens in are toxic and have a skewed moral foundation, and plenty of reinforcement of its opposite - that the culture is healthy, generous, open, and perhaps even the best of all possible cultures.
Hi, plus codes founder here. We did think about this but we think there are two things that reduce the impact of this kind of movement.

First, most plates move a couple of centimeters per year, and the fastest plates (those in Australia) move around 7-10 cm. The default precision plus code is 13x13 meters, so it should take a long time to be wrong.

Secondly, one aim is for this to be an addressing solution in places without street names. If the point doesn't exactly align with the house, if they have a sign, it's still going to be easy to get the right place.

Nice question though!

[edit: move corrected to most]
An example where we treat men as the default and women as atypical?

https://www.abramsbooks.com/product/invisible-women_97814197...
This was such an interesting article!

The only nitpick item I'd mention: isn't kind of crappy that the U.S. gov. gave the Union Pacific railroad pretty much a monopoly of that 200-foot right of way piece of land? I mean, i could understand if the railroad used it for their own uses, which from a functional perspective, i understand and agree...But for this railroad to turn around and authorize others - and I'm sure they charge everyone for this! - to then use that land, just seems sort of unfair. I understand that it's "convenient" for other entities to only work with that single entity; but that still seems a monopoly to me. So, forevermore, the Union Pacific railroad will get money for use of this land, that they were given so many years ago; well, that sucks.
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As a non developer, but someone who codes, the hire for Java mindset always confused me. If I can pickup an entirely new language (with the exception of Haskell) in a few days, so should a professional. Then, I noticed how low the bar is for an average developer when it comes to understanding their tooling, basic commandline knowledge, and problem solving. Sure, the best developers can solve a business problem with pretty much anything if they have to, but the average one chooses a major language and framework and hacks things together with stack overflow. We've all done that before, but then again good problem solvers are also capable of picking up a book and learning something new like Lisp and a lot of developers simply aren't going to do that ever.
A BBC article about Paris:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-4...

"Mrs Paris did the race during a week-long break from writing her PhD thesis"
...and in many cases, sufficient filler to tip the video over the 10 minute mark so that more adverts can be shown during it.
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One of the memes on https://reddit.com/r/collapse is "faster than expected," referencing the frequent articles mentioning how climate change's effects are kicking in much sooner than expected.
But sold it before he had a copy.
Wouldn't distributed scrapers be blocking Google Analytics scripts by default? Or are you sending data there server-side?
The most common example of that is probably a const volatile variable for the input data register of some peripheral. New data can come in at any time, and writes do nothing.
A dogfooding video, where you build your own site with it, would be much more convincing.
Honest question - why did authors feel like creating new langauge instead of contributing/expanding something that exists, ie. Crystal seems to be extremely close to what Julia offers, or am I wrong? Are there any fundamental decisions that put Julia above Crystal?
I wouldn't trust SourceForge at all after all the horrible stuff they've done. I know they have allegedly improved after new owners and a come-to-jesus moment, but damn, that was some shady shit.
And yet people overwhelmingly chose Git. Why is that?
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If that's true, it'll be because the word "strong" is redefined.

I'm genuinely undecided as to whether that's a good thing or not.
That has quite a bit due to the fact that lobbying works and has an amazing ROI. It only cost about $1 million to divide voters enough to fail to pass a carbon tax in Washington State: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/rival-par.... (I understand it wasn’t just lobbying, but I think it played a major role.)

I hate to be cynical but the ROI of lobbying against climate change is super cheap. How can we switch this equation?
The sad reality is that they probably are able to buy their way of of this.

I was visiting Tito's bunker in Bosnia last week, and to think it was ok to build a multi-billion dollar facility to hold only 350 politicians and VIPs in case of global nuclear wipeout seems crazy, but when the need arises, people with power will always try and find a quick way out, often at the expense of others.
> Barely, if any, difference between the sexes in races at this distance.

Are there any facts that back up this claim?

50k is barely over marathon distance, and there is a huge difference between woman and men on marathon distance (~2:01 for men vs ~2:15 for woman (10% slower).

I don't know of any longer distance running event in which such a gap doesn't actually increase. That is, the larger the distance, the slower woman actually become relatively to men.

At the far end, for example, for the Spartathlon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartathlon), the fastest men complete the distance in around ~21 hours while the fastest woman takes ~24 hours (13% slower). If you look at the times of the top 3 males and woman of each year, most years top 3 mens finish in ~<24 hours, while women are at ~<31 hours.

It might be interesting to visualize the gap per year vs the temperature. There are some studies about how heat affects the running performance of men and woman in marathon distance races, but not so much for long distance races (https://insights.ovid.com/article/00005768-200703000-00012). IIRC (don't take me for this), heat affects slower runners more independently of sex.
Well they haven't quite stooped to cannibalism yet; but give them time...
The key differentiator on Github's side is community involvement. The UI allows you to quickly search for projects across repositories.

Bitbucket seems more geared to teams working internally; finding projects on Bitbucket is hard.

To be brutally honest, I used Bitbucket because I had a grandfathered academic account (most features free). Github offers nearly all that I had on that account now.

Github is great for "social" coding, but Bitbucket is very clearly moving towards targeting insular, corporate development tasks. But then, with the price ticket on Atlassian's products, that's hardly a surprise. B2B is their bread and butter.
It's a classic tragedy of the commons. It is in everyone's best interest for everyone to act, but it is in hardly anyone's individual interest to act alone if no one else does.
What if humans collectively decided to not have any new kids anymore and maximize quality of life for the humans that already are living on planet earth?

I would love to see this thought experiment thought out in detail. What decisions would we make? Where would we invest? Would climate control still be an issue?
I guess you missed all the news about excessive use of force by the French police during the riots, and the insane show of force by the French police on the volunteers (many of whom are French nationals btw) helping immigrants?

French police are not exactly a beacon of friendship.

You can twist this however you want - you still can't take away the fact that HK protesters seem much nicer, better organized and well behaved.

And no, I have nothing to do with China/HK, never been there etc. I am just an impartial observer impressed with the HK protesters, thats all.
This comment confuses me because the implication here is that people identify as nonbinary exclusively to win trophies in non-existent sports categories? Isn't that just lying?
The earth looks huge from the moon. The moon’s diameter is 2,158.8 mi where earth’s is 7,917.5 mi, meaning it looks 3.5x as wide and covers 13.5x the area. So more your fist at arms length than your thumb.

In terms of impact gravity and atmosphere extend that somewhat. Though, that’s still not enough to make a meaningful difference.
Yeah, I thought about saying that, but then I realized maybe the dude is talking about rural Tajikistan or something where there were and are no hotels, and I didn't want to be argumentative. (I imagine in rural Tajikistan random people would be delighted to offer you their hospitality, though.) I did travel around Costa Rica in 2003, and I never needed more than an hour to find a place to stay on arriving in a new town, even though internet access was scarce. So I'm not sure what the guy is talking about there.

The other things he said are mostly true. Here in Buenos Aires I've never owned a car, but that has more to do with being a huge megalopolis than anything else.
Plus morality is highly subjective and beliefs on what is moral varies by individual.
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Wow - interested to hear it is that dramatic. My only experience is towing a folding camper - this fits nicely in the 'slipstream' of my car, and I assume weighs less than your caravan no doubt.

But since you are limited to 60mph towing, I often find that my MPG is the same if not better when towing, though pulling away and uphill is affected. Not sure my current car would cope with a caravan!
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From a comment there about planting trees or preventing deforestation...isn’t the problem now that climate extremes will make it harder to expand forests with droughts and fires? Seems like it may have worked 50 years ago but too late now.

I think we need to start investing in ideas that remediate actively and aggressively. Like “oh my god there’s a killer asteroid about to hit us” level of motivation.

I mean the planet will do just fine without us, but if we want to stay the dominant species (and not jellyfish), we had best do as inventors/investors what politicians and governments cannot.

Like:

* Make totally off the grid solar easier and cheaper than PG&E (remarkably hard to do today)

* zero petroleum scalable ag

* zero petroleum mass consumer packaging

* recycling that actually recycles

* economically profitable global scale carbon capture that can work in deserts and fires and extreme cold

Etc

Edit: Because this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20745486
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> 1. i thought the idea of banning something died with the "war on drugs".

no, I never saw that memo. I'm in favor of banning many things, including but not limited to the (literal) murder trade. I'm pretty sure you are too. and the fact that people still buy murders doesn't make anyone argue that murder should be legalised.

and if you want something benign, how about partially hydrogenated vegetable oil?

> 3. how about cars?

well, at this point I'd be happy trying the licence and regulate approach. at the moment, licensing is a farce and government thinks making roads more dangerous is how you make them safer. but that's a whole nother hn thread.
not sure, the science has changed considerably since victorian times
It would be interesting to read a breakdown of why Mercurial failed against Git. It is superior to Git in every way except performance and adoption. Git won because GitHub won, and I bet GitHub chose Git over Hg's Python implementation because it was too slow.

I wonder if Mercurial would have won if it was implemented in C or Rust (had it existed then).
waiting for business people to solve this problem is silly.

We need an institution that represents a broad cross section of the population. Something like...government
Egregious violations of traffic laws and revenue traps notwithstanding, basically all traffic enforcement is just cops stopping whatever makes thier spidey senses tingle. If you drive something that is super odd or highly out of place you will get stopped by every bored cop. This is not the first or the last time this guy will be stopped.
Hi - plus codes founder here.

We display the plus codes in Google Maps on all business listings.

We don't display it on political features or boundaries (typically because having a lat/lng for "France" isn't super useful).

That particular Eiffel Tower result is for the area, not the tower itself, so it doesn't get a plus code.

The entry specifically for the tower, https://g.page/toureiffelofficielle?share, should display the plus code on it.

If you're on mobile, you can get the plus code for any location by just holding your finger on the map, and then expanding the card that appears. It should include the lat/lng and plus code.

Hope that helps!
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Don't you run into sampling bias this way since not everything is published on crates.io? (I'm not saying that having that tool is a bad thing, just saying that maybe that tool doesn't give you the actual answer ...)
For production we usually just use some form of a/b testing, as we found out that the offline metrics are often misleading. When the offline metrics of your model Like f1 or whatever are good enough we just promote the model to production competing we the other models in a multiarmed bandit way.
Absolutely not, suggesting that the government should regulate gambling and responsible gaming has nothing to do with building the machines outright.

As I said, these machines should be available if you can use them responsibly, the government should dictate policy that gambling operators should adhere by to ensure that users don't take things overboard.

Blaming the engineer who built the machine makes for an easy scapegoat, of course, but if the issue isn't addressed on a societal scale, there will always be another engineer to replace him.
To quote them:

> at this distance.

~~All the distances in those tables are significantly longer than the 50k this article was about.~~

Edit: Ah, I missed it due to the weird order - but my original point stands, there is no point in ignoring part of someone's comment when trying to rebut them.
Actually very difficult. They use a 30in telescope for these observations and the beam becomes extremely attenuated. The laser 'spot' projected on the moon is roughly 7km across. Only a tiny fraction of the light is reflected back as the reflector is only a few feet across, and is similarly attenuated on the return journey. The return beam is 20km across by the time it hits the Earth.

Due to the extreme attenuation of the final signal the observation takes several hours using highly sensitive equipment, averaging it out to extract meaningful data.
Hi! I built this Chrome extension a few weeks ago... it allows you to see, download and edit all images on a website. You can download all images in one go as a .zip file, download individual ones, or edit images directly in the browser (e.g. resize, crop, apply filters, etc).

I've been using the extension myself over the past couple of weeks and find it super useful.

It's still a bit rough around the edges and could do with a bit more polishing. I would also like to add a lot more stuff, especially when it comes to the editor, but would love to hear your thoughts in the meantime.

Any feedback/ideas/comments/suggestions much appreciated! But be gentle pls!

Thanks!
>Consider all the market validation they did, for you, for me, for free. Consider all the product design work they did, for all of us, for free.

I have a feeling that their intent wasn't to do it for free. What happened is that they couldn't gather enough information about their users to turn a profit. Yes, that's what capital does, but the end result was not free for any of its users - they gave up personal data to use it.
Is there any feature in mercurial that git doesn't have? Is there some plugin to allow mercurial users keep using the client with a git remote repository (like the one for using git with svn)?
Improve existing platforms: Wordpress, Ghost, etc.

There's none of that nonsense on those open source platforms.

An aside: Tumblr isn't hostile like Medium is. At least not last I used it. I prefer seeing Tumblr to medium you can really just do any kind of blog you want whether it's a meme feed, or some serious blogging.

Edit: Forgot to add, also Tumblr lets you optionally advertise to non-logged in users to join Tumblr, and it's not a modal, just a button on the top right hand corner where the "Follow" button shows up to logged in users, or you can hide it entirely.
Geez, I didn’t know that “for-profit corporations” where out there releases GHGs into the atmosphere just for funsies.

Also, fun fact: “not for profit corporations” in the Soviet Union were massively more polluting per unit of output: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-grim-pollution-pictur_b_9.... GHG emissions scale with energy efficiency, and in a socialist state that subsidized energy as an essential need, they had no incentive to be efficient.

GHGs are the result of the stuff people want—food, transportation, next day Amazon delivery, etc. for-profit corporations are a way to deliver that level of stuff as efficiently as possible.
Would be nice if we didn't already have touch id and face id.
> […] it has never happened before.

FTA:

> “Obviously there’s a lot of great women runners, but you don’t see them winning ultras outright a lot. When it happens, they get two awards.”

Sounds as though it’s infrequent, but not unprecedented.

> Edge cases are a poor guide for good policy.

Consider this situation to have been a bug in a production environment. Would you advise your junior developers not to patch it, or write unit tests for it? Edge cases are where the rubber meets the road.
Network effect and first mover advantage.
What you're saying is that it's okay to treat all black people as if they're criminals because a small subset of them engage in criminal activity. It is well established that black and white people use illegal drugs at about the same rate. Where's the call for stop-and-frisk of all white people? Or doesn't that fit your think-of-the-black-community veil over your racism?
> I don't want to go full "no ethical consumption under capitalism"

True but one step at a time in the right direction is all it takes for change. Say if I got shafted by Expedia. I would like to add them to my "do not buy" list and have their other brands (e.g. orbitz, travelocity etc) added to the do not buy list. Could make it social so that if my sister got shafted by some company I could see that too and opt for an alternative. There are often stories about unethical companies (Monsanto for example which is now owned by Bayer). I'd like to avoid them, but the burden of doing so prevents it. Lower that burden, provide alternatives and maybe over time we'd see improved ethics and accountability.
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Humanity would die out. Doesn’t seem very useful.
Seems to me that one-stop shop is very different from one-stop tool. GitLab is aiming for the latter, whereas Atlassian (at least when I was using those tools) seems much less integrated.

Jira may be the most comprehensive issue tracker (which isn't necessarily attractive -- but then they have Trello now, too), but on the version control and CI front I don't think Atlassian will have an easy time competing against Azure/GitHub/GitLab.
You can also use the kOS mod for KSP and restrict yourself to only flying spacecraft for which you've written the control logic by hand :)
We use Bitbucket at work because they offer selfhosting. Until Github can offer this I don't think Atlassian has anything to worry about.
They take significant practice to even get started, so the barrier to entry is pretty high. With a normal keyboard, anyone who can see and spell can immediately use it.
Wash dishes or cook a meal once a week. The amount would based on the individuals.

A CEO shouldn't be the ideal target of a student. There is a lot to offer the student but little for the CEO unless they are related or doing a favour. A junior exec makes more sense.

Someone 10 years away makes a better mentor relationship than 50 years.
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