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The primary difference between Roman and modern cement is that Roman cement does not have reinforcing steel in it and cannot support loads that put it under tension stress. This reinforcing steel is what fails with age - cracks develop, let in air, and corrode the steel. No steel, and what you have is basically a shaped rock, and that can last a really long time.

The downside, of course, is that not being able to resist tensile loads severely limits the designs you can make with concrete. Reinforced concrete is significantly more useful than unreinforced concrete.
I cannot seem to find your email address in your profile.

Drop me a line - my email is in my profile.
Years ago I would upgrade-in-place, now I don't bother.
Being treated equally may seem like a punishment when you've become accustomed to special privilege.

Suppose property owners have been benefiting from the tax shelters for 10 years. That was the payoff. Don't dally around asking what their next hand out should be. They've been riding the gravy train for years. Now the perks need to end. Welcome to a level playing field.
USPTO raising fees, setting DOCX as standard format
Interesting to see the military still didn't have a mature solution of secure physical destruction for things other than crypto keys.
Show HN: Design your own t-shirt using JavaScript
Shenzhen not only has twice the population but millions more commute to Shenzhen from throughout Guangdong.

I remember it when it was a series of fishing villages.
I made this website because I had a fun time making a code-generated t-shirt design, and I wanted to make it easier for other people to do it themselves. Give it a try! I'm keen to see what other people come up with.
Gerrymandering is far more useful as a form of voter disenfranchisement. Voting districts can be messed with in subtle ways like having far more voting booths per capita in whiter areas, they can make people not show up to vote for president since their vote is legitimately not worth anything for everything downballot, etc.

The best gerrymandering nowadays is to make people not bother to vote anymore.
There's plenty of racism to go around in all major political parties. "Super-predators" anyone?

> efforts to take voting strength away from voters of color by implementing a citizenship question on the 2020 census.

It seems totally rational and fair that people be asked about their citizenship on a census.
I would argue that most people can't, which kind of irks me that recommendations like this have been the status quo for quite some time. I think programmers in general over romanticize this way of learning.
Well, let me give some examples.

Citizenship is used to deny people without it participation in Democracy and deny them certain freedoms, for example.

Borders deny freedom of movement and are currently being used to lock people up (deny them virtually all freedom) for crossing an imaginary line.

Nations create and enforce inequality is basically what it comes down to. They are created and enforced through violence.
Meat still does equal wealth to a certain extent - have you priced a whole rib-eye roast, or a full-sized beef brisket lately?

They ain't cheap (and if you buy one, they are daunting to cook - because you know if you screw it up, you've just wasted $100-200.00).

Ground beef, or chicken, or pork - those are all still very inexpensive; though pork can get pricier for certain cuts - mostly it's still very inexpensive.

But damn - if you've ever smoked a pork shoulder and made homemade pulled-pork sandwiches - you know there's no substitute for that.
I agree with this article, but I think it can be summed up as, "People need the option to buy the LTSB release of Windows 10". Microsoft refuses to sell it to consumers. It is an enterprise only option (unless that has recently changed and I am not aware of it).

I have one windows 7 machine for playing WoW and it will stay on 7 until I can get the LTSB release of Windows 10 and the ability to turn off 100% of the telemetry, for real. If Blizzard would build an unsupported 64 bit ELF binary for WoW, then I would not even have windows. I'm not using wine.
>They are treating women like props, and they just want women to be present so they can feel inclusive.

May be they are afraid of the alternative - being branded as non-inclusive, male-chauvinistic, etc. if they don't bring enough women to make the quota sufficient enough to avoid the branding (as we've seen such branding is no joke in the modern environment and can be painfully damaging when it comes to real things like employment/etc).
I highly doubt the absence of any religious iconography is going to harm my employer in eastern markets.
I must have missed that invite. I went into CS because that's what I was good at.

I learned how to program at an early age, despite discouragement because I wanted to make video games.
Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good
I'm not arguing that there is a better period in the past than what we're experiencing now. But American history relative to the present has no bearing on the severity of the atrocities we're seeing now, no?

Are you suggesting that what I've outlined above is somehow acceptable because America has always had black marks in the history books?
Several things to unpack here:

- Unless you are in the SLT of KFC, you have absolutely no way to know what's in their spice blend. It is one of the most closely guarded recipes in the world.

- There's famously 11 spices in the original recipe. So not only could you not possibly know what's in it (and therefore what's questionable), but you didn't even get the number of ingredients right to criticize.

- Based on all the various copycat recipes out there, I highly doubt that 10 out of the 11 ingredients (same proportion that you used, just adjusted for accuracy) are questionable. You know, unless "salt", "flour", "thyme", "garlic salt", etc. are all questionable. There's only so much that can go in a spice blend after all.
The nail can itself be 3D printed with the right printer.

The design that I was talking about was 2013. Since then there have been legal issues back and forth. Entirely plastic designs probably exist, but are not legally available.
<puts down Cat's Cradle>

"Are you double-dog sure this stuff can never get out in the wild?"
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One wonders what the point is of publicly shitting on people’s work, like you just did.
Literate.jl – Literate Programming in Julia
California is unique in applying this limit to all real estate. Many states have taxable value caps for owner-occupied residences.

Also, nothing is "banned" by Prop 13.
The point is that it's awesome!
If there is no afterlife, then the only way to carry your ideas and genes into the future is to have children. It seems like the destruction of religion would get more people interested in having children as it's the only "higher" function that exists for mortal beings.

Regardless of today's trends, in 100 years the only people who will exist will be those who's parents had children.
I always hated Curry Wurst but Beyond Meat sausages are awesome.

Tastes are different. Surprise surprise.
Why form bonds, and relationships, and become close with people...

To have something like the full gamut of experiences in your short time on earth. It is hard to describe, but as a lifelong atheist I still think of the birth of my children as something like a transcendental experience. So intense and so many emotions.
I do understand the logic of not having children is a mercy because nonbeing is less harm than existence. I think it is flawed in thinking about pain and loss in black and white terms as "bad" and therefore to be avoided. This will lead to a really narrow life.
Kids love to make sand castles at the beach, and they cry when they get knocked over by the next wave. Does that mean that they should never make sand castles?
Super Paper Mario uses an extremely similar engine as Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door, which uses a slightly modified version of the Paper Mario 64 engine.
Revisionist nonsense in what sense?

All I heard was comment of "SpaceX Steamroller" from industry insiders. The companies that could have invested in rocket reusability decided to sit by and do nothing. It's not like it's an impossible physical achievement either.
To replace their falcon cores in the places I talked about in my second paragraph.
high end universities do make an effort to recruit clever kids from underprivileged backgrounds

I'll believe that when I see recruiters from high end universities out on the reservations in the US, but I guess imposters are easier.
There is nothing wrong with the expression or the idea behind it. We all know what it means, and what you mean when you say it. We all (seem to) need the reminder.

It would be nicer not to be the product, but the world isn't always nice. Sometimes it is.
So do sick people.
>Today's 9900K is also around 40% more performant than the comparable Ivy Bridge (4960X).

Most of that relative performance gain is not from increased speed but from decreased speed of older processors due to meltdown (and spectre) mitigations. In the past the 4960X and it's contemporaries were much faster.
At some German universities, research groups that have too few female members (for a rather arbitrary threshold) are put under pressure to fix this. Except that they can't because they don't get any applications from women.

This kind of statistics driven approach to gender equality seems to be spreading around here.
People find ways to ruin all good things. Even something like helping women feel more welcome in the industry.

They always seem to have a high representation among authority figures at conferences for some reason.
I don't doubt we saw a very edited version of his defense.
To savings...?
What do they expect. The US tariff wall and embargo is essentially a subsidy that encourages local development. Without it it’s cheaper to continue to depend on US controlled designs. Essentially low tariffs make it hard for local industries to get themselves above the price floor.

These parts aren’t much to get excited abOUT today but they’ve finally given China a reason to subsidize local efforts, resulting in the long term with an ecosystem that can take off the us design giants.
I agree with you, but I'm curious as to why french bread in stores is universally less good than french bread from dedicated bakers (places like ACME, a Berkeley based bread producer, that sell to larger stores such as Safeway I would classify as dedicated bakers).

Maybe something about the volume of dough required to make bread on a truly industrial scale means it's not feasible to knead the dough properly? I was reading that you actually knead a baguette relatively little, but I can see that with a large volume of dough, it would be hard to achieve a uniform dough with very little kneading.
They sell mass produced 'french baguettes' at the grocery store i go to regularly. They're not as good as the in store baked ones but they're passable. Definitely noticably different to the standard mass produced white bread.
Nanopond more closely matches what you might envision an artificial petri dish looks like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5yE8Si8rMM
I'm no fan of churches or religion, but actually you'd be surprised. There's a bunch of Christian and other denominations that are really not anti-abortion. The Presbyterians and Lutherans are rather liberal these days and probably don't care about your view on it. Also, the Unitarians will certainly welcome you. They're not all conservative anti-abortion places the way you're thinking.

However, I will point out that the liberal Christian denominations are generally dying out these days: the evangelical denominations (who are the ones you're worried about) are the ones adding new members, building "mega-churches", etc., while the "mainline Protestant" denominations that have liberalized themselves a lot to try to stay relevant and get new members are full of elderly people who are literally dying off. Basically, younger people go one of two ways: if they're more liberal, they tend to just abandon religion (like me), but if they're conservative, they instead go to conservative (typically evangelical) churches.

Also, this is a US-centric view. Christians outside the US, esp. in Europe, tend to be far more liberal than in the US. If you go to a random non-Catholic church in western Europe and tell them your views, they'll probably be happy to have you. Even super-Catholic Ireland just legalized abortion.
> The way out of his is to ignore him

And any thread that involves him; I'm not good at this, but I'm trying. The reason Elon Musk inspires such hate is because he is constantly PRing (generously) unverifiable claims, but rarely gets any consequences from it. If he would let his work speak for itself, there would be less haters; his companies are clearly doing some things well.

It's kind of a Steve Jobs thing, but Jobs rarely made forward looking claims -- sure his claims of invention were irritating to some, but they were about a product that existed at the time of the claim.
The classic fake payment QR code scam
I realize that sourcing wikipedia is kind of lazy but I lack the time to read entire books full of every sort of misinformation that happens to be going around.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vegetarian_Myth

From the article:

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For the earth to survive, Keith thinks, the human population needs to be reduced by more than 90 percent. She also argues that the human food-supply needs to come mainly from hunting and small-scale animal husbandry.[4]

Criticism:

Sami Grover, referencing "Jason V", says Keith's book is filled with "factual errors and fallacious thinking". Furthermore, Jason V writes that Keith fallaciously uses her ex-vegan status in an attempt to depict herself as an authority on the subject.[11]

Patrick Nicholson writes that the book misinterprets scientific articles, cherry-picks facts, uses strawman arguments and relies heavily on anecdotes and faulty generalisations.[5] Ian Sinclair writes that Keith's arguments are "full of lazy thinking, willfully ignorant logic and glaring omissions".[12]

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My thoughts:

I think its meaningful or even sane to suggest that virtually everyone stops having babies or dies and all the survivors go play hunter gatherers in the woods.

I think our present trajectory is obviously unsustainable but that doesn't make any alternative suggestion reasonable.

Our future is the stars or extinction. In between we have to find a sustainable reasonable way to live civilized lives. This probably isn't horrifically complicated we don't have to reduce our population by 90% we just have to not keep increasing it and make do with simpler and less.
It's not "a structure", there just happen to be few women willing to speak at such events.
I've been programming for 35 years and I can say I've never once done this. Is this a thing?
I pretty much don't. Subway is horrible, by the way.

UK sandwich shops are sort of alright, at proper bakers. But then that's not really a meal, it's a sandwich.
Construction site closed after complaints about low number of female labourers.
Thank you for the informative posting. I have had no contact with Discord, so I learned something.
From my limited understanding stemming from a passing interest of such things: that sounds similar to how WINE operates, is it not?
Can you imagine if they closed hospitals because there weren't enough male nurses? (Only 9% of nurses in the US are male, I have never seen initiatives demanding getting more men into nursing careers, CNA, RN, Nurse Practitioner, or otherwise)

Make sure the career pipeline has no bias (education->workplace), discrimination isn't taking place in hiring and the workplace, treat people as people, and move on.
> The accepted answer fails to understand that the standard library is exempt from following the C standard

I didn't read it that way at all. Consider the audience: the questioner admits that they are new to C. Because of that, the author of the accepted answer wanted to make it crystal clear that code like this should never be written "especially if you're not a C compiler / standard library vendor". The answerer explicitly acknowledges that the code depends on implementation-defined behavior.

IMO, the answer is great. It starts with a strong warning to never write code like that in your own programs (which you shouldn't), and then explains how it works, and why it works in the context of where it's written.
I can only write from my own anecdotal personal experiences.

The USA is still more so religious than Canada from my interactions with young people in both countries. Although, the perception that religion is comparable to a cult is rising among the shared expressed views of religion compared to ten years ago. I don't necessarily think religion is bad for society if we educate people to be closer to understanding reality by conclusive science than the whims of faith-based thoughts.

In any case I definitely witness patriotism decreasing because the young generation has been having a difficult time in society financially speaking and compared to their parents. I would think most young people feel betrayed that quality of life is somewhat being stolen from them. This brings me to another assumption that desires to have kids is being grossly influenced by lack of finances and subconsciously. Everyone I know is opting in for a dog or a cat and so they can try to afford a mortgage for a home. Build more homes to offset the cost!
Lol at whoever felt the need to downvote a personal anecdote
repne scasb disagrees with you :)
Teslas have active battery temperature management, even when parked in "deep sleep" mode, and very robust heating and cooling capacity. Left on a hot Arizona parking lot, our Model S will occasionally run the AC for the battery. This is a huge improvement over our Leaf, which lost 30% of its battery capacity during a single summer of being parked on Scottsdale blacktop.
There is even talk on supporting packages that are larger than 10GB[1], so three or four hundred gigabytes might be passed quicker than we'd think...

1. https://lwn.net/Articles/789449/ - Gives a little information if you scan for "size"
Shame you can't add CAs for a particular set of subdomains, that it's all or nothing.
Your local want ads will have home raised eggs at below store prices in most areas. I suggest supporting your local farmers and ranchers as the best offset against factory farms.
Wonder how storing and transporting artificial meat compares to the real thing.

Unrelated - anyone wanna invest in my new startup? We're gonna cross DNA from a spider with a chicken to produce 8 legged chickens to disrupt the chicken market. Hopefully we don't get spiders with wings.
Regardless of your politics, if the original story that they only got one female submission out of 250 is true, then wouldn't adding more female speakers essentially be creating a "potemkin village" of sorts? (If you're unclear of the definition: "In politics and economics a Potemkin village is any construction (literal or figurative) built solely to deceive others into thinking that a situation is better than it really is. The term comes from stories of a fake portable village built solely to impress Empress Catherine II by her former lover Grigory Potemkin during her journey to Crimea in 1787."

If there aren't enough female speakers applying to talk, isn't making a hail-mary attempt to add more female speakers (like a lot of people seemed to want) just masking the problem?
Are there really people that worried that they’d cancel an entire conference? Do people feel their lives or livelihoods are at stake here or?
> What if a film came out that satirized, I don't know, science, or abortion, or same-sex marriage, or racial equality?

You are wasting your time. All people of faith believe that everyone else's beliefs are based on insane delusions and that their beliefs is based on evidence and truth and so they cannot do an unbiased comparison of their beliefs with others. Comparing belief in e.g. rights for sexual minorities with e.g. Islam is always going to be seen as a false equivalency. Just like the Muslim is going to see a comparsion of belief in e.g. feminism as a false equivalency with Islam. You see, the Quran is based on truth while feminism is based on an insane delusion.

They can't both be right. At least one of them is wrong.
> ideas and genes into the future is to have children

This thinking disturbs me.

I don't care about my "ideas" and my genes. I care about being alive, actually being alive. Your "ideas" and genes being passed on, is nothing even close to the afterlife I'm talking about. Not even close.
I thought it was starfox 64 actually
Amusingly, the DeSol web site has a copyright date of 2023 on it. I sent them a message asking if the product existed yet. They sent back, from a GMail account, "Who are you". I replied that I'd signed my message with my name and sent it from my own domain, what more did they want? Asked "You're sending from GMail, who are you?" Got back "(HN does not do Unicode emoji)". So, not sure what to think of that outfit. They seem to have a good sense of aesthetics; no idea if they can make it work.
Original: "Giant Pumice Raft Floating Toward Australia Could Help Replenish Great Barrier Reef"

84 characters.

GBR is off Australia, we can drop that. "Toward" adds little. Rearrange:

"Giant Floating Pumice Raft Could Help Replenish Great Barrier Reef"

67 characters

Since "raft" implies "floating" and "giant" is a largely superfluous conditional (anything that might help the GBR would have to be substantive), you could drop those for a length of 52 characters.

Headline writing / editing is an art.
SpaceX's plans are to reduce the cost of a launch for their superheavy to $5 million per launch (assuming 100 launches with minimal maintenance). Each launch will be around 100,000 kg to LEO. That reduces the cost of transport to $50 per kg.

That's expensive, but not ridiculous if we are able to get some good composites out of it.
I'm a big fan of Language Oriented Programming and Racket, but I guess here what I am talking about is an "in moderation" flavor of that, where you are not building new languages by addition, but rather by subtraction (sticking to a smaller subset of an existing language). It's certainly the same idea, but this one is more of a pragmatic approach that hopefully helps you avoid falling into unanticipated complexity traps that you encounter when building a new language from the bottom up.
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Some good points, but I don't think 'nationalism' means what you think it means.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalism
But the site hasn't been updated and that issue dismisses them as not a problem?
Sometimes, a Greener Grid Means a 40k% Spike in Power Prices
They certainly are "social clubs", but that doesn't mean they "aren't functioning" as churches. They're functioning just as their membership wants them to function. Whatever Jesus may have said is really irrelevant; I'm sure they can pull out some other bible verse that supports their hard-line position, and a religion isn't defined by some character in a book that may or may not be historically accurate, it's defined by how the members of that religion currently behave. If a church isn't welcoming to someone because of their views on abortion, you may think that goes against the spirit of that religion, but you're not the authority on that religion, that church is the authority on it for themselves (though they may disagree about many things with other churches/denominations).