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Cognitive declines in their 40s because of not working professionally?

That's the first time I've ever read this, so I'm very skeptical.

But if it were me (and I'm working in that age range right now), I'd be jumping on personal projects I've always desired. Writing, in particular. And probably a little tech project stuff in areas that interest me.

May I offer that many of these wealthy people you know aren't intellectually-minded? That's certainly true of most financially successful leaders I've come to interact with.
Because it's a standard pitfall: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/cpp/Duplication-of-Side-Effec...
US says Donald Trump regrets not being tougher on China
Rationing isn't stupid, nor taxing necessarily better. If there's time it's no doubt better to start with taxation and see how far that gets us. Quite possibly not far enough:

In the case of wartime fuel rationing, and perhaps if we were to end up with a carbon ration, it achieves a fair distribution, without the wealthy simply being able to pay extra not to participate. With enough wealth someone may not care that something carries a punitive tax rate, and they can continue being part of the problem.

In times of crisis, such as wartime or a failing ecosystem, we may find that ability to pay your way out of it unacceptable. Reasonably so in my opinion.
Personally I disagree with both the article and most of the comments. I don't particularly care about meaningful work, I enjoy solving problems that matter and I'm good at it so I want to do that. Retirement, however, doesn't interest me since most interesting impact-full problems are in industry. I actually like having a boss who does all the boring things regarding running a company so I don't have to. At the same time I will trade money for a less stressful job (ie: less politics, better boss, less boring work, etc.).
I respectfuly disagree with most of your points.

Being respectful of other people not being interested in your BS opinions is not stopping your freedom of speech. You're at work to get work done, not to espouse your opinions on the middle east.

Politics isn't the only way to keep your critical thining sharp. We're knowledge workers after all.
> You might be thinking of a contract, which is a binding agreement between two parties.

Nope. I'm thinking of a license, which is a contract (go look it up if you don't believe me). And contracts can be a binding agreement between two or more parties.
git does use multiple threads for some longer operations, like gc and pack, so using strtok would be a disaster.
You can make a distinction if you want:

A child taking their own sexual photos of themselves, with no other person involved, would still be child porn, but not child sexual abuse.
That they are still taking about the same prevention techniques for decades is depressing. You would think a state home to some of the worlds best and brightest engineers could come up with a better solution to this than the same old tired argument of forest fire prevention and prescribed burns.
Disagree. A competitive market cannot really exist without profit motive. We can have capitalism without monopolies and global corporatism, it just requires a little regulation.

I'm not saying profit motive is the only thing that drives corporations, but it's like breathing is to living creatures.
My preference for Linux over macOS is actually the UI. I like having a real package manager and such, but it’s not like I care much about kernel subsystem differences. I have used macs a lot and I just find their UI cumbersome.

And this is from someone who loves the iPhone.
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There is a slight problem with this strategy if you are running a VPN to avoid tracking, as you have a static exit IP in your name which only you use.

VPN providers usually have multiple IP and often many users coming from the same one.
It's probably helpful to think of the service as like a mini bus that provides an extra transfer point. You're getting some great efficiencies from all of the services that way. If you keep a few of these vans in a neighborhood instead of going from south of Seattle to north of Seattle, you can keep using the vans for that area over and over again. Going straight point A to point B in an Uber means it needs to now pick someone up at point B to gain any efficiency.

> why have a taxpayer funded version of Uber that isn’t even as good as Uber?

Because that's not the point of the service at all. Its to get you to your next transfer point and that's it. The problem with everyone using an Uber is that it doesn't scale, but public transit does scale.
Why is airline fuel untaxed?
Not if there is competition. Otherwise they would lose market share quickly. Or not?
Clearly the demand for CA living indicates how people feel about those other states.

It’s not like everyone is clamoring to live in say, Georgia.
Somewhat off-topic: Are there any efforts to add signify/minisign support to git?
Scryer unfortunately seems to not be progressing very much. I really hope it takes off, though!
As a rule-of-thumb, I would stay away from any "linear algebra" textbook that does not even have definition of an abstract vector space in the first few chapters. In a sense, it's like programming without data types.

When I was in high school, I learned linear algebra from similar textbook, but it wasn't until college (and that was an engineering linear algebra course!) that I got any sort of understanding of what it's really about.
>We did that. It’s called the entire south. And that’s why cities like New York lose more residents to Phoenix, Atlanta, and Dallas than they get from those places.

That's mostly due to those places being cheap to live in. Which implies, as we're a capitalistic society, that people value living there a lot less than they value living in NYC. NYC is full and yet people will pay ever more money to live here.
That's right - the "non-stop" part is usually an hour at the terminal at least between landing and next takeoff. It's still a non-trivial amount of energy (the total expenditure of the flight) to be loaded into the battery. For the kind of range we are talking these days, that's more or less the same average rate the battery gets discharged during flight.

Swapping batteries would make more sense if we get to the point a full charge could allow a passenger plane to fly for many hours and charge speed would be limited by the total amount of power a terminal full of recharging planes would be requiring.
No.

Oregon has fairly lax requirements for setting up legal sales and growing/processing, but put a moratorium on new permits because the market became flooded.

California legal prices are twice as expensive as both Colorado and Washington State, simply because of taxation.

Interestingly, I believe a similar situation is occurring in Ohio for legal medical sales.
It was "legalized" here, and for a little while you could buy local, outdoor grown cannabis legally and cheaply. Then they regulated it so much that everyone but the large operations can no longer stay in business, so in many ways we've gone right back to where things were before it was "legal".
Funny thing, given all the emphasis on doing things via terminal in Linux community, is that I cannot find a decent Linux application to manage SSH conections. My work laptop is a Windows 10 machine, where I installed pro version of MobaXTerm (used to access/manage about 50 linux servers), and I fell in love with it. No Linux application that I know of comes close. Any suggestions?
what problem is this actually solving that the market isn’t already solving?

Taking the bus/train/light rail generally uses less energy per passenger than driving a bunch of cars. Burning less fuel to get where you’re going is definitely a bonus IMHO.

It’s going to take more time, but it’s also a lot cheaper - $3-5 vs $20-40 for an Illegal App Taxi to go downtown or to the airport or whatever.

Also it is a way to get people in the suburbs used to using public transit, so maybe they’ll actually be willing to vote for improvements to it.
I would think that this comment could have been made in any point in history and a lot of people would agree.

I just watched a documentary on Henry Ford - in his time making cars was a “solved” problem - you’d have various highly trained and talented teams of craftsmen that would build a car using simple but versatile tools. It all worked rather well in europe and america, and is a model that has been around throughout most of human history - a “proven and reliable way” to do things.

And here comes Ford and invents mass production as we know it by applying principles already present in the military to the civilian sector. Not precisely new but applied and perfected in a different area. Changed the world.

Today I can see similar changes - people from the software world disrupting traditional industries by applying new methods learned in a different field. Sure a lot of the time they fail spectacularly and get the “I told you so” treatment, but there are some notable winners. Look at what Elon is doing for example.

So I’m rather hopeful to be honest - there is so much stress, unhappiness and efficiency problems present in the world, that I really doubt we’ll run out of things to do anytime soon.
To rephrase adrianN's comment:

It wouldn't mean breaking things on compilers other than GCC. It would simply add compile-time checks when building with GCC, and would do nothing on other compilers.
Now this is a topic that might raise heated discussion so don't get baited into it, but a lot of anime and hentai content does cross the line. Drawing a 13 year old girl and saying she's 18 doesn't really change it.
I think we are saying the same thing. The profit motive is fine but it's not sufficient. Competition is needed.
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I find that many people who say things like this have never actually tried to boost their productivity on Mac in the first place. As someone who uses Alfred, Karabiner Elements, Keyboard Maestro, Spectacle, Omnifocus, and a host of plugins on fish shell besides, it baffles me how slow my peers are at doing basic stuff they do twenty times a day. Just set up a shortcut, it's trivial.

Not so trivial on Linux. The fact that the author considers Firefox add-ons (!) a Linux feature is a clear indicator they never even tried on a Mac and were enamored by Linux due to the lionisation in the particular subreddits they follow.

Kind of like here! Not that there is anything wrong with getting excited about something. Just don't make sweeping generalizations.

Also, a small tip: You can put your Mac apps and configurations in Dropbox and they will show up and work as you expect across your multiple machines.
I was _almost_ sure it goes right alongside “fwiend” and referred to Canadians... Facts FTW
There exists a black market in “tax free” cigarettes is states where they are available (Native American land doesn’t impose state taxes).

Has legalization increased demand in general?
Yeah I understand having same defaults over customization. I just don’t find all the mac defaults to be all that sane. The maximization putting windows in their own workspace at the very end of the workspace list is one of the stranger decisions of the mac UI
“Inspired by bats” Binaural obstacle detection implemented in GA144 [pdf]
The concept of theft is predicated on the existence of property.
I spend most my time in Emacs so OS might not matter a whole lot. Though I like being able to verify browser display / experience on a device similar to my users (mostly Mac).
Depends on how you compress them. Some representation are good for storing, others good for processing in different ways.
Many "pure capitalists" would argue that you only achieve competitive capitalism through "pure capitalism." The idea applies a cynical view to human nature but is interesting none the less. The idea can be boiled down to one simple point; everything can be bought for the right price. If there is a governing body that has the power to regulate any and every business then it only follows that the biggest of those businesses have every resource and incentive to guide regulation to enforce their monopolies.

We may think about these as backroom deals between senators and lobbyists but I'd argue that you actively participate in such deals by just sitting in front of your TV or surfing the web. In America the biggest governing body is voters.
I have witnessed multiple situations where a high paying company had a very poor management team and a terrible work culture. People did stay here mainly because the pay was good. The 10% pay difference was because the first company was in the financial domain and the other was not. I have witnessed other case of people moving out of a financial software shop with similar results (better work/life balance, better satisfaction, slightly lower salary at the beginning).
A quick search on “uber lose money per ride” suggests that they lose an average of $.58 per ride, and I doubt that figure includes amortizing the cost the driver spends on maintaining their vehicle.
There is already quite the discussion going on related to macOS versus [insert linux distro here], but here are my two cents. I've been quite happy with my 2015 MBP since I took the time to "gut" most of the default shell tools and replace them with newer ones. It's not a convenient process, but from my experience, it's really not that much harder than setting up a fresh Arch install. It's as close as I've been able to get in terms of having the "hackability" and freedom of working in a Linux environment, while still having the pleasant UX that comes with macOS (good DE, decent memory management, lovely touchpad, etc.).
Oddly enough, I was just in the process of writing the following in an adjoining window for a blog post:

"The modern business corporation is not just an investment vehicle, but is also an integral part of civilization. We spend as much has half our waking hours working within these organizations, tend to find purpose in them and make many of our social relationships through them, so it is not incorrect to consider them social institutions, not unlike school or marriage. As such, corporations are best structured and operated with the wellbeing of all involved stakeholders.

One can think of a corporation as being built on three pillars: the investors, the employees and the customers, with employees as the conduit that connect investors and customers. Contrary to the theory of shareholder value maximization, sole focus on the investor does not, on the long run, lead to good outcomes for the investor."
From the article:

"The figure is 2.7 km (1.7 mi) tall with a perimeter of 28 km (17 mi), extending over an area of about 2.5 km2 (620 acres)"
Yes, you do lose soundness. You can lose soundness in statically typed languages too (even in Haskell). But the difference is the frequency in which it is lost. In SBCL Lisp, if you want fast code, the answer is "almost all the time".
F# is missing OCaml modules and functors, which are the biggest reason to prefer OCaml versus other similar languages. OCaml also has structural typing via row polymorphism. And GADTs.

It's easy to dismiss this as "type theoretic stuff", however these features we are talking about are very natural to use and when dealing with static typing and FP you bump into them quite a lot. And given that OCaml has some of the best type inference in the business, this happens without you even knowing about it.

F# is also missing a means for doing ad-hoc polymorphism like in Haskell. So no type class capabilities, no higher kinded types either. This greatly diminishes what you can express in it and the gymnastics you have to pull off to work around it are not fun.

Here's for example what you need to do in absence of GADTs: http://fssnip.net/mq (n.b. this pattern is called "tagless final", resembling "visitor" from OOP land).

I love this sample because if it looks complex, well it's in fact more complex than it seems, as the type system is actually not fine with this usage either, so you end up with forced type castings anyway.

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F# is a fine language, all things considering and not having certain features might be considered an advantage in certain circles.

However do learn OCaml and Haskell, because they have plenty to offer and you'll learn useful abstractions that in F# are not very accessible.
I don't think the US ever ratified the CRPD and we are talking about Seattle.

Are you seriously arguing that a person of average intelligence can figure out which people wandering around obviously fucked up in the head might hurt them but science can't I don't find this claim credible.
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Daniel Kalny's GA144 projects' YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVMrX6BlNjIeGfX0QcBobGg
Not only do things change but CF has hundreds of employees that weren't CC'd on that informal permission so there's still a high chance of being inconvenienced, and there's a decent chance the CEO won't be at your disposable should a problem occur.

Should CloudFlare later ban you for the practice, will the random support person you reach unpack the CEO's comments here and ensure nothing changed internally that prevents allowing your continued use and advocate restoring your account for you?
F11 works in almost all apps, but it is dependent on the app and not the window manager, so it's not completely universal. All gtk and qt apps will be fine, but I had to configure my terminal (alacritty) to support it.
Vi (or emacs) have steep learning curve with immense benefits for rest of a programmer/editor life.
I would love to see the data that suggests people are moving out of New York to Phoenix because they couldn't stand the public transit anymore
As a parent I can see that a lot of conflict with children has to do with them being (or us seeing them as) something we have to steer and prod in the right direction. And a lot of resent (also reward) is created by having them in your space constantly messing things up or putting demands on your life. When your kids are taking care of themselves, and living as autonomous adults... the relationship changes.

As an adult, I moved back in with my parents for a few months in university, prior to moving out to Toronto. At first it was fine but within a few months the same old conflict with my father came back. Being in 'his' space made it hard to be friends.
Looks more like an implementation of undefined behaviour to me.
Why Clojure Is Not Just Yet Another Lisp
There you go. How to read a book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004PYDAPE/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_Fp...
If the meaningful work you want to do is in education or environment... There is basically no well paying jobs.

There's no business profit in clean water or air, so capitalism doesn't cover the need. The fact there might be no customers in an area in 50 years is outside the scope of economic patterns. In 40-45 years all the current business leaders will have their pockets lined & be retired... and new leaders will beg the government to fix "the problem no one saw coming"... Shifting businesses profits today for taxpayer-funded fixes later for "economic revitalization" or "environmental repairs"

On top of these issues... if you have bills, you often can't take a pay cut to pull this off. I'd be willing to take a pay cut for meaningful work, but it would still need to cover child care and rent. My wife looked at jobs with the EPA, they offered $50k for masters degree and 8 years of experience. A single family home on 1/5th acre is $500k+. If we both did meaningful work we could not live there, let alone have kids ($1250/month child care).

We decided we just couldn't do meaningful work in the DC area and left. This stinks because we really need to be worried about this stuff for our children's future. But as long as private industry pays 50-75% more, the rising costs of everything to accommodate those well paying jobs chokes out teachers, environmental workers, and low-wage retail jobs (aside from kids still living at home)
Volunteer your time for a non-profit that you feel is awesome, or build some FLOSS software in your spare time!
Surely it has, the increased advertising alone would increase demand.
> Linux is perfect for development but nothing Adobe or Autodesk runs on it, which is extremely frustrating.

True for Adobe, technically false for Autodesk if you aren’t in CAD. Maya and MotionBuilder (acquired from Alias in mid 2000s) run on Linux for the film/VFX industry.

Though to be fair, I’m pretty sure they are the only applications in AD’s entire portfolio that run on Linux, and it wasn’t because of them.
JSON5 looks like good, actually. It has all of the added features that it should have.

They don't mention mismatched surrogates and otherwise invalid Unicode characters, but they should perhaps be implementation-dependent, like duplicate keys are. (It can either allow them or report an error.) There is also the possibility that some implementations may wish to disallow "\x00" or "\u0000" too, I think.

The thing I disagree is the part about white space. U+FEFF should be allowed only at the beginning of the document (optionally), and other than that only ASCII white space should be allowed. Unquoted keys also should be limited to ASCII characters.

Other than that, I think it is good.
Nobody would suggest human coordination in this scenario. It's more like machines negotiating directly or assisting the negotiation so that all craft in the given volume agree on what it looks like and what it'll be in the next few minutes.

There are some very interesting research topics in there in how to achieve this distributed consensus and how to deal with malicious actors trying to disrupt the air traffic in the region.
The difference is k means has literally nothing to do with linear algebra. Might as well sneak in a chapter on finite state machines, or zebras, either would be just as relevant to linear algebra, which is to say that at a certain point the topics in a linear algebra course should be somehow related to linear algebra.
The problem with many of the consumer brands, particularly cleaning and laundry, is the sheer amount of pointless innovation.

Convincing a generation that liquid soap is better than a simple bar, despite being vastly more wasteful in both product and packaging. Same for laundry in working to replace a cardboard box full of powder with all sorts of tablets, sachets and gels in plastic boxes. Or new recipes that replace original ingredients with super cheap palm oil or HFCS - sold for the same price. It's endless, and brands have burnt 95% of their former goodwill by being too damn clever for their own good.

Unless consumers are, in aggregate, entirely idiotic, buying up dozens of small brands won't pay off as they hope. We've had decades of large companies buying up brand and niche leaders and completely ruining the product in just a year or two. Leaves them cynically trading on the name only and damn near profiteering. Surely people are wising up to this finally? Success of discounters like Aldi and Lidl against major brands says they are.
Not just European: a few Hebrew words and the rare Inuit loanword can also make it.