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Yeah, thinking about the long term goal, the result, is what keeps you going. Imagining how good you'll look if you lost 20 lbs makes you want to exercise or eat healthy today.

Maintaining a streak has more of a negative feeling, where you are committed to it but don't really want to do it. Also, what happens if you lose the streak. If you missed 1 day, now the streak and motivation is gone. 1 day turns into 2, etc.
> I don't know anything about how the SO community works, but I suspect they resent the site's status as a kind of reference to be accessed through search engine results, and would rather all it's users to be active members of the community.

Why do you think that? I guess I'm a member of that community and really don't care how people reach SO. The site is also saturated to some extent now... There's a good chance that your question's already been asked, so I don't expect the site will get many new active users really. Maybe with some new languages/frameworks becoming popular - but if you're writing C for example, you're very unlikely to get actively involved in SO at all. It's still a good reference place for C.

> the community dislikes questions that are answered in documentation or elsewhere on the internet

"the community" is not an uniform blob. On one hand side it's tiring - if someone didn't bother to do a single obvious search, why should I spend time writing the answer. On the other, if you do answer that, the are rules about including actual answer and not just linking to a document which may disappear in the future.

> the question has been locked for being unconstructive, off-topic, (wrongly) a duplicate, whatever

You can vote to reopen. Or if you can't, you can flag for moderator attention and say why it should be reopened.
I tend to be very skeptical and have a good sense of whether somebody's feeding me bullsh*t. I'm genuinely surprised by some of the things I see those around me just blindly accept. I hope when I'm a parent, I can instill a healthy sense skepticism in my child.
The Forbes title frames a bit of bias too. An equally valid title would be "ESA Initially Refused to Move Satellite at Risk of Collission with a SpaceX Satellite".
Functor is a good enough name. Much better than for example quark from particle physics with its colors.

Mappable is definitely better in one specific context but contrary to the author I think that Iterable may be even better as it is a more generic name (Iterable can be also Foldable).

Or does Mappable mean that you will mutate the state?

But why not refer to multiple names? Functor also known as Mappable or Iterable?
Wonder if they have any partnerships with the Five Eyes?
Shouldn’t they reflect the suns heat away from earth?
No PRs have been merged since 2017.
Super interesting. At Burning Man this year it seemed like a significant percent of the city had goTennas, which had never been true before. I also remember reading about a big mesh in Brooklyn being a thing recently. I bet we’re going to be hearing more about practical mesh networks in the coming years.
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I don't see it as very coherent, because if you favor local control you should favor a local community reflecting its own priorities, deciding to regulate more or less. Obviously there are abundant places that decide to regulate less. Throw in a zealous belief in free market principles (which these types tend to claim) and then I would say: a diverse set of regulatory environments should help markets find the best.
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dang's niceness rules make it too hard to explain what's wrong with a comment. A few years ago, when someone was wrong I would've explained why and how. But that's difficult enough to do without having to also make the correction sound kind. Nowadays, if I make a correction in reply, I'll get downvoted myself. So I silently downvote and move on instead.
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Standard "high-temperature" superconducting wire (e.g. YBCO) isn't actually all that bad to handle or wind. You buy it extruded in a metal matrix (usually copper), and treat it only a little bit more gently than standard copper wire.
Wouldn't the reflection of heat work in both directions?
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Either possiblity is bad. If the satellite couldn't move, then we are now putting expensive weather satellites at risk because SpaceX has put fixed obstacles into orbit. Furthermore, other organizations have to shoulder fuel costs disproportionately since only they are moving the satellites. SpaceX doesn't have to do anything.

SpaceX has a higher collision tolerance because their satellite is cheap compared to the expensive weather satellite.

Are we really going to allow private companies to bully public institutions?
So why not just use a RDMS from day one?
Let’s solve both of these problems then, which it seems like people are doing. Plus, we already know how to solve ground transport, we just refuse to actually do it (renewables, public transit, dense development, etc). Air travel is more challenging given the massive amount of energy required.
Pretty sure that isn't true of FreeBSD, NetBSD or OpenBSD. It most certainly wasn't true of any Unix.

They all have files that end up as /usr/include/sys/syscall.h and define well-known numerical constants for each (documented!) system call.

https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/sys/sys/syscall.h

https://github.com/lattera/freebsd/blob/master/sys/sys/sysca...

http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/sys/syscall.h?re...

Oh, look! They even share the exact same numerical values for the old school system calls. #1 is exit(), #2 is fork(), so on and so forth.

Gosh, on my linux laptop, here in /usr/include/asm/unistd_64.h is pretty much the same numbers, but objectively hidden a little bit more than in the direct Unix descendants. I interpret this as "less documented than in Unixes".

Wow, even Minix source code has the same numbers: https://minixnitc.github.io/posix.html

I wonder why that is? Maybe it's because the system call numbers are in fact documented, part of the POSIX API, and descend from Bell Labs Unix source code. Here's V7's list of system call numbers as proof:

https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V7/usr/include...
> Esepcially for the case of a database, the only way to make money is by having managed service or licesning it to cloud vendors. I can't think of any other way of monetizing such a product

What about charging all their users? It's worked out fine for Oracle.

The current licensing scheme is fine, too. Again: no one has any issue with Mongo charging their users! It's just not open source software.

> For the case of Amazon sponsoring linux, it's because the very interest of Amazon that Linux stays alive and active because all their billions from AWS comes by running linux kernel as infrastructure, not to mention having the advantage to influence the components being added and maintained that result directly in more profit for them.

The question remains, though: why is it acceptable for Mongo to profit off Amazon's open-source contributions without compensating them (or at least donating to the projects themselves), but not vice versa?

> Linux foundation is totally different in its structure and goals from a for-profit company like Mongo.

I don't understand your point here. Mongo isn't owed anything extra just because they've decided to structure themselves as a for-profit company.
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> If climate change is truly the harbinger of the apocalypse, and if it needs to be stopped at all costs, then the flight tax would have to be infinite.

I don't see how that follows. On the assumption that we don't have infinite taxes in general, every $1 raised via a tax on emissions from flying can be put in to offsetting, capture, or research which wouldn't otherwise.

> That's basically $100 per person on a 100-person flight, enough to prevent many people from flying.

It's unclear to me what you mean by this. I think you mean that it would likely reduce demand? Sure, bonus.
Is economic viability the problem with HSR? California voters approved a huge bond package for one eleven years ago. Over a decade later and there's still no rail line close to done. The issue doesn't seem to be that its fares can't compete with plane tickets, but that the state is just totally incapable of actually building it.

Even when the money's there, you still have: NIMBYs, corruption/incompetence among officials and contractors, and (ironically) vague environmental laws with loose standing rules that cause any infrastructure project to end up in court. Among other things.
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When a tree dies that CO2 will mostly just be released into the air again. Planting trees is a measure to slow the immediate effects of fossil fuel usage, but not a long term solution. At some point you’ll run out of space for new trees.

It’s like fixing a leaky pipe by adding sponges. Sure, they’ll soak up the water and are cheap, but eventually you will run out of space for new sponges and have to pay for a plumber.
I capture all their email in Zendesk, that lets me keep all correspondance related to specific tasks in one ticket, I haven't looked at integrating it with a project management tool, but there are a number of offerings in the Zendesk marketplace.

I'm grandfathered onto a very good value Zendesk plan, so I can't speak to the cost/benefit for someone who signs up today.
Progressive taxation is generally a thing we accept. I'm happy to pay more tax than my friends who don't earn as much too.

Really? I'm livid I pay much more tax than those with a net worth much higher than mine. Real estate has all the tax benefits in my country, while gainful employment is punished.
What happens if the two groups disagree on the odds of impact? Because one has either more precise or just different telemetry than the other?
Then they're breaking the code of conduct, and should have their accounts suspended. That's a lot better than letting them keep their reasoning silent.
Seems there's some debate about that and the article didn't actually cite any resources to back it up. According to the end of this National Science Foundation article [1], it depends on the type of cloud. Contrails are maybe analogous to cirrus clouds, which block more thermal energy from the ground than they reflect back into space.

[1] https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/clouds/question.jsp
Von Neumann's popular IAS computer design (ILLIAC, JOHNNIAC, ORACLE, etc.) used an unusual analog adder design. It added two bits and carry-in as analog voltages, and then converted the resulting voltage to digital sum and carry bits. (Don't confuse this with an analog computer.) This seems convoluted to me, but apparently it was a viable alternative to a normal adder based on Boolean logic.

Edit: If you want full details on this adder, pages 60-63 of the manual [1] explains how the adder sums the voltages, getting 54V, 104V, 154V, or 204V from the sum. The digit resolver then turns this voltage into a sum bit. (The carry bit is easier, as it can be generated by a threshold.) You can look at the schematics [2] if you like vacuum tubes; the digit resolver is schematic #200.

[1] http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/univOfIllinoisUrbana/ordvac/ORD...
[2] http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/univOfIllinoisUrbana/ordvac/ORD...
I could see them going after a european company, or America going after an American company. I'm guessing the europeans are going to insist they want it done in their courts, and SpaceX is just gonna shrug and say, "Nope, not showing up." europeans can't really make an American company do much.
Interesting idea. My understanding is that some of the seeing impaired community does use echo location tools to help navigate. There were also some pin grid tests in the past that effectively gave the seeing impaired the ability to see again. Which is one of the things that got me to thinking about interesting ways we could extend our senses.
I'm getting an error 500 and I did not log in. Just hit try. And the error trace back is visible w/paths etc.
These are an awful lot of leading questions for basically a breaking story with only one sided information.
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One of your examples is a recommendation for a solution. The other is a way to profit off of the opportunity.
Most businesses make a profit by offering some unique product or service.

With the GPL someone could take your unique product, make it their product, undercut you on price and then put you out of business.

GPL is unquestionably great for consumers. Not so great for commercial businesses.
"But she [Carrie Lam] said China was 'willing to play long' to ride out the unrest, even if it meant economic pain for the city, including a drop in tourism and losing out on capital inflows such as initial public offerings."
I think inversion as a problem solving technique is valuable. It's not necessarily the only tool. For example, to bring it back to OP's article, I know I want to be a good manager but that leaves me with a very huge space of possibility and ambiguity. I can reign that in by inverting the problem, "What would I have to do to be a bad manager?" This bubbles up things like low transparency, lack of follow-through, chastising directs, etc. Now I have a clear list of things I definitely should not do and maybe work on if I realize I exhibit some of those negative behaviors.
To be clear, I have tried going to restaurants both before and after I lost a majority of my weight and I still lost weight but not as rapidly.

It appears as though cutting out restaurants made a difference but it’s also easy to underestimate the power of having a morning-based feeding window. People are more insulin sensitive in the morning and have reduced appetite (hence everyone saying “IF is easy, it’s so easy to skip breakfast”).
To me that would be a fail and is part of the premise. It's basically "Don't break the chain". I don't want half credit or it would encourage me to accept half-assing it in the future.
I don’t answer questions on SO, but I occasionally answer questions on r/aws. Half the time after further digging, it is an XYProblem.
Nobody's forced to read SO questions. Optimizing the site to maximize the probability that users feel stupid is not IMO the best choice. It doesn't take much time to add a comment. You could even let the downvoter select a reason from a menu.
If you tax the fuel there is no incentive to burn them cleanly, only efficiently.
Given South Africa is a member of BRICS, it's not likely.

> In addition to commercial motivations, the new fiber optic Silk Road could also have geopolitical and strategic implications. Russia and China evidently share a desire to shield themselves from U.S. and other Western intelligence agencies and probably believe that their own communications – both with one another and to and from Europe – will be better protected if cables run across their own territory rather than through the Indian Ocean or the U.S. The same motivation explains the announced Telebras cable, which will connect Brazil to Portugal without any U.S. technology, and the BRICS cable project, which will link Vladivostok to Brazil, via China, India and South Africa.

https://thediplomat.com/2015/04/a-fiber-optic-silk-road/
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Indeed, Textile is slightly more intuitive and powerful than Markdown, but these days it's unaccountably Betamaxing.
I mean personal domain, managed SSO, support, etc for starters.
Where/why are you going that you can spare two days?
If you're interested in the history of why Europe has such a dense train network, and the United States doesn't, it's partially about war.

There was a multi-part show I saw on BBC Four about a year ago that explained that Europe's train network isn't the result of some kind of visionary urban planning or anything altruistic. It's because European nations have such a long history of fighting one another. And in the early part of the last century, the continent went on a rail-building frenzy because of WWI.

The United States have only gone to beating each other up once, and that was before trains were viable as large-scale tools of war. Perhaps if the Civil War was delayed by a couple of decades, things might be different.

Of course, there are many other factors, but this is one that I find interesting and almost never explored.
Driving and flying have approximately the same emissions assuming 1 person in the car.

A bog standard 100g/km car would emit 600kg to go 6000km; a passenger flying London-New York also emits approximately the same. (Obviously you can't drive London-NY, it's an example).

Short haul, as you say, it tips in favour of the car. Multiple people and it becomes a no brainer.

Then take into account the fact that tons of journeys would simply not happen. It's common for people to jet around Europe for weekend trips. No-one would drive that.

I have a sense that US domestic flights tend to skew discussion on this.
What keeps me going is that I like the soreness that follows a day or two after a good workout. So that's the goal, to get sore.

Sounds masochistic but it's like a good sore if that makes any sense.
Judging by the comments here, this piece has succeeded in planting the idea that StarLink is dangerous using incredibly little detail.
I don't see how they could risk it

What non existent risk are you talking about?
This is gonna get ugly pretty soon. I'm pretty convinced it's less an issue of moving (which esa itself stated it does once every week to two weeks) and more of politics. A couple possibilities:

* europe mad at America b/c trade

* europe mad at American companies beating european ones to space and getting more of the limited orbit spots first

* europe mad she wasn't really asked before SpaceX put up satellites

* europe has a principal objection to the idea of private companies playing on the same level as the bureaucrats or an issue with corps occupying space at all

Most likely, it's a combination of all of the above. Regardless, people will start getting awfully catty about this, and it's possible knocking some one else's satellite out of the sky could be a serious issue.
- Decent UI
- conveyed the purpose from the site

However, a trail/demo page to test out an image from UI would be much helpful than expecting people to try out with the code.
Right, so you want it to be _more_ progressive, rather than the current imperfect state.

It's broken in the UK as well. Capital gains taxes are tiny as compared to income. :P
Compliance isn't the issue. Food Inc. marketing is. As is, humans naturally assimilate to "the norm." As the waistline of the norm increase, the waistline of the norm increases. A doctor's words lose meaning when all other inputs say "Don't worry about it. You're just like everyone else."

Long to short, what used to save us, is now doing us in.
I'd image it would have provided more than just lulz. It'd think a video like that would be of enormous engineering value in crash-dynamics.
Couldn't someone just fork on the last fully open source version of Mongo, similar to the genesis of CentOS?
You are grouping lobbying organizations with what were traditionally considered news organizations. So sure, I agree that is an appropriate description of the end result of the fourth estate arbitraging its trust away. But it doesn't really address the general problem with that trust having been sold off.

If everything in mainstream media is modulated by advocacy for one commercially-expedient policy or another, then a person might as well throw a dart and choose a random authority on the web. At least there is a better chance that the wrongness will be uncorrelated (flat earthers) rather than deliberately malicious in support of some corporate agenda.
I'm not sure whether they update the minimum system requirements alongside the game. Keep in mind, CSGO is from 2012 and has received numerous updates, and looks, feels and sounds completely different today.

When I first bought my main laptop in 2017, I could play somewhat smoothly at 1080p, now I have to use 720p.

It's an interesting side-effect, before Steam and other content-platforms, games titles iterated much faster.

EDIT: Then again, when I think about CoD, I'll retract my last sentence.
> On the assumption that we don't have infinite taxes in general, every $1 raised via a tax on emissions from flying can be put in to offsetting, capture, or research which wouldn't otherwise.

That’s very...optimistic of you. I wish I had the same trust in these systems.

Regardless I highly doubt there will be a global movement to kill air travel any time soon, there’s no world gov to implement this mass tax so it will have to be a few very brave souls who do it while trying to convince everyone it won’t result in a massive brain and money drain which will be multiple x bigger than the tax “return”. Not to mention lost productivity.

Asia and the US (I’m assuming EU would be the first) will suddenly sound like a far better place to live and do business, then there will be a ton of disincentives to follow suit.

Remember when France was going to do their millionaire tax? That didn’t last long once the consequences became apparent and they could be dismissed with campaign slogans.
It's more like fixing a leaky pipe by adding a patch that will last for centuries, that can pollinate itself and produce additional patches in the future, and that can be removed and used as a building material for a new house.
Anywhere, for any reason. I work remotely and could do so comfortably on the train, so what's the rush? I'd rather spend more time and have a good experience than be treated like livestock at the airport.
I work in the enterprise and we spend tens of millions a year with AWS.

Our Security, Cloud Engineering and Finance teams understand VPC, IAM, Costs etc back to front and so when you add a new AWS product they know how to manage, secure, finance and support it. And of course there is no Procurement process with adding a new AWS product.

With a managed MongoDB (even though it's on AWS) you need to get buy in from dozens of people and go a vendor comparison to get through Procurement. It's why for many companies AWS dominates and in the future could well end up owning everything under the application layer.
> What you're essentially saying is, vacationing far from home should only be for the rich or very rich.

If we reduce the number of people doing a thing, then by definition, the rich will be the last ones left doing it, because that's what makes them rich, yes.

> If you have fewer than 3 people in your car however, flying puts out less carbon.

As far as I can tell this isn't the case. It probably depends on whether you're talking about massive American cars or a 100g/CO2 car that's more common in Europe though.

But yeah, people won't make those journeys. It really took off recently (oho) and should just go away again. We don't need Ryanair flights around Europe for student budgets.