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Where are the couches, what about more rooms?
Could you by any chance point me towards any solid quantitative studies of that? The Wikipedia page mentions it in passing, but the reference is pretty unsatisfying:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_fertilization
This is basically my position; I buy lots of music on vinyl and I hold no illusions that it's "higher quality" or "better fidelity" or that I could tell the difference between a song played off one of my records and the same song played from a CD with my eyes closed.

But I like the rituals around it: taking the album out of the sleeve and looking at the artwork; placing the album on the table and setting it to spin; lowering the needle. I like how I have to purposefully listen to the music - you can't just set up a playlist and walk away, you have to pay attention to the songs and flip over the record once the side is finished, or put the second disc on.
Then solve that problem. Make it illegal to park on the side of most road and enforce it rigorously.
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>The syntax of lisp is objectively bad from a UX perspective since it doesn't properly separate different kinds of objects.

I still don't understand what kind of objects you're talking about and why they need to be separated? Why pencil.writeOn(paper) is a good UX and (pencil.write-on paper) is a bad UX?

> Our brains are very good at parsing symbols

Are you saying we should be all using APL? Point me to a single academic source where it says "from neuroscientific point Lisp syntax is not so good for humans". For the same reasons why Sanskrit writings would not be very easy for me to read, Lisp is not very easy to read to some people. And the reason is - unfamiliarity. But does that mean that written Sanskrit is a bad UX or it can't convey information or used effectively as a language? I will state again: I have never met a single person who after writing Clojure for a few months would still complain about its syntax. Not saying they don't exist, I just have never met any. Besides - after writing Lisp for a few years I find it a bit difficult for myself to read code in other languages - Python, Javascript, C, Rust, etc. And I have been programming in non-lispy languages for over twenty years. I also personally know a few programmers who started with Clojure as their very first PL and then later tried to learn another, more traditional language and they all have struggled. It took time for them to adjust to new, unfamiliar syntax. ALL of them said that they prefer Clojure syntax.

> and lisp forces you to parse text to understand the structure of the code

How is Python, Javascript or even SQL are different? You still have to mentally parse the text to understand structure of the code

> Any language which PL enthusiasts considers elegant since you can do so much with few abstractions will be a really bad language in practice

That is why Lisp refuses to die? When Fortran is forgotten, COBOL completely dead, C replaced with Rust and Java with Scala and Kotlin, PHP gone and Ruby becomes unpopular, there still will be at least a few dialects of Lisp still very much alive and thriving.

Take Emacs for example. For decades different IDEs and Text editors been trying to "kill" Emacs, yet it still thriving and still being used and packages written in emacs-lisp are in abundance and new ones being developed all the time. Check Github stats for different languages - you will be surprised of how much emacs-lisp is published on Github alone.

"Really bad language in practice" turns out to be very pragmatic choice, otherwise how would you explain that Clojure been successfully used at companies like Apple and Walmart, at NASA and many other https://clojure.org/community/success_stories. There are multinational companies like Funding Circle that have built their businesses on Clojure.

Many seasoned CS veterans repeat over and over: "Learn Lisp if you want to master the art of programming".

So if you don't get Lisp syntax - it's just you. You aren't used to it, it's unfamiliar, that's all. But there's nothing inherently "bad" about it.
By "random first file" you mean "first file in the directory," which is for the cli. The printBasis function is the driver for the P part of the REPL, and it's not exactly something that the interpreter depends on for correctness. Poking around the codebase, it looks like they could give types fairly easily to this function, but they just haven't done it yet.

It looks to me like you found one of the only functions that use 'any' in the entire codebase. Others are things involving bindings in an environment (where anything really can appear, though one might argue a union type restricting to only ML value types would be more appropriate) or generic functions like for equality testing, which I'm not sure exactly why they take 'any'.
Dunno man, YMMV, I can "trip" on hypnosis all kinds of ways.

I once (once) managed to have the "Kundalini" experience. It was wonderful. No drugs involved. Yet it was easily as psychedelic as any drug.

I didn't try to do it again because I'm relatively conservative and I am not one to experiment with my own body recklessly. I.e. if something had gone wrong you can't show up at the emergency room and tell them "It was Kundalini" and expect them to have a coherent, educated response. This is a huge biological and psychological "event" or process (akin in depth and significance to orgasm) that is entirely unknown to Western medicine and science.

Not only can the mind re-create drug states, it can also obviate actual drug states. (I.e. you can drink a pint of whiskey and remain sober.)

> any claims that they can achieve the same results (comprehensively) as psychedelics is a misrepresentation.

With caveats about the exact definitions of "they" and "results" and "comprehensively", I will go ahead and claim that the kind of results that people go to therapists to get can be got without using any external drugs at all, at all.

Psychedelics just get you "high as a lord". They just shake up your thought-gland. Any therapeutic value they have is in the "set and setting", as Dr. Leary (the "LSD guy" himself) insists.

If you want to get high, or just experience your subjectivity getting all jangly, then yeah LSD is great. If you want to solve your personal problems you can do that without taking drugs.

It's not impossible to use psychedelics as part of a therapeutic system, but it's important to realize that there's no magic cure in the acid tab or magic mushroom.

Just to wrap up, let me recommend "Sex and Drugs: A Journey Beyond Limits" by Robert Anton Wilson http://rawilson.com/sexdrugs.html
yea, no. It's simply an overpriced asset and the market is concerned that without an adjustment there isnt much room to grow in value.

I dont think anyone think WeWork is not a strong business model. Id even take it one step further in that it's not the cash burn thats really killing people, it's the valuation. I know theyre connected as a larger company should hypothetically be able to sell less of itself for more money, but at 1/3 of the valuation I think the market feels different about the biz. Although the social signal of being forced to cut does some real bad psychological voodoo.
I thought the Amazon was called Earths lungs because of how it sucks moisture from the ocean across land.

(Please correct me if I am wrong) its my understanding that the area would be quite dry, but the plants manipulate the atmosphere with particulates to draw in water from the oceans and create precipitation across the continent. I thought it was this 'sucking' that gave its name 'earth's lungs'.

I also dont like the focus on Co2. that's not the only way the world cools, warms. the water being converted to gas, to water, and gas again takes up energy and cools the planet. beyond c02, if the Amazon were to go away, I think the earth would get warmer to some extent.
I think that is certainly a part of it, but I think there is a part of it that is much, much worse than that. Every time Microsoft reduces the number of user-hostile GPOs, there are certain Fortune 500 companies that complain (presumably in a lot of cash). Almost every GPO probably has at least one BDSM fetishist of IT Admin with too much corporate budget cash and not enough sense.

But a big problem is how cult-like certain GPO setups have become. Asking my IT Department casually, 90% of the worst GPO settings we enforce at my current job are "mandated" in the agreements and contracts with a certain, supposedly prophetic (but unarguably profiteer) vendor of over-priced databases and accounting software "to keep their software working as intended". (Which may be quite accurate if their software is truly intended for the slow torture they provide from a user's perspective.)
During weekend installfest/hackfest events at a LUG that I used to attend, there was always this one guy who would sit in front of a pair of laptops and code in Ada.
One thing I remember about it is just how much it reminded me of Pascal.
Maybe we can get a modern updated VRML spec going.
AdaCore's compiler is GNAT.

They sell a pro version with bells and whistles but AFAIK the actual compiler is the same.
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This is a big incentive for companies to reduce workplace accident.

IIRC there is also a tax or contribution that is directly linked to the number of accident per employee per year.
I don't and I'm bored AF!
How much do you like maintaining legacy DoD projects?
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Sure, fair enough, I wouldn't disagree with that, but that still doesn't inherently mean that Americans are "anti-human".
There’s no such thing as black race being worth positive SAT points and Asian negative. It’s only relative. Your race can only be an absolute positive or negative factor if there’s a no-race or neutral race to compare against ... oh you mean compared to white.
Allowing all of these probably-insecure systems to be built out and connected to the Internet is the problem, end of story.

You're essentially arguing that the US is paralyzed due to the possibility of unknown unknowns. It might make sense to think that way to write a book, or for brainstorming large-scale disaster planning. But every system has someone responsible for it, and that someone needs to be responsible for securing it to best practices.

From a policy perspective, we wouldn't just accept that a power plant's energy handlers hum along unsupervised and so could fail catastrophically due to some latent problems. Rather, there are inspection and maintenance schedules to do the diligence of adhering to best practices. That same diligence needs to be brought to bear on a plant's information systems, and if those information systems are hooked up to a WAN (for which there may not be a choice), then that diligence needs to be applied to handling abstract adversarial attackers.

Not doing that is a grave failure, and what seems to be going on here is a "nobody's fault" because it's not in the plant administrators' or vendors' interest to look down and see that they're already past the edge of the cliff. But allowing it to persist is simply kicking the can down the road in an unsustainable manner.
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Just a note for everyone who tends to go through the comments and weigh if they should actually go read the post (I'm guilty of this), go read the post. Even if you have nothing to relate this to, it's a great contrast to the majority of posts on this site. It's a breath of fresh, troubling air.
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It’s kinda hard to do that when the company who controls the platform you’re developing on is also building relationships with your customers, and can add far more lifetime value than you ever could building your app.

How many people do you think ditched their iPhones when Spotify published their antitrust complaint towards Apple? And Spotify is a huge company itself.

Anything you can do, the platform owner can do better, and this is particularly true in Apple’s case.
Maybe ir's just me but after surfing around I can't really understand what this is. I can't see images neither code. Is this kind of luna-lang? Or a podcast about visual programming?
Education in general is not a profitable business.

Except for a few ultra elite institutions, colleges mostly resemble high schools -- they rely on some combination of public funding and donations, take most applicants, and are happy to just keep the lights on.

There are 5,300 colleges in the USA. Most of those take nearly all comers, don't look anything like the ivies, and would have to shut down without somewhat regular infusions from donors. Most of those 5300 have 70+% acceptance rates, and a 70% acceptance rate basically means you're admitting everyone who could reasonably be expected to make it through the first semester of watered down 100 level courses.

The alternatives that are profitable aren't much better. E.g. the coding boot camps tech folks like to champion charge for 3-6 months of very narrow instruction what their public branch campus counterparts charge for several years of instruction. And, when it gets down to it, are mostly a way for VC firms to vertically integrate worker training programs for the rest of their portfolio.

Educating people is expensive and the people who need the education almost by definition do not have the means to pay for it.
I'd guess around 90% of people (including me) who attended a 4 year degree program did so because "that's what you do after high school if you're a member of the broad middle class".

College should be for academically interested adults. It shouldn't be a rubber stamp that's required to hold a white-collar job. I think the culprits here are the colleges themselves. They're selling a bad product to people who don't need it at a very high price.

Colleges should be much smaller, shouldn't have sports, legacy admissions should be removed, diversity initiatives should be removed, and industry should open up to people without degrees.
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Colleges charge insane amounts in tuition and are still losing money

Either schools are being horribly mismanaged or higher education just isn't a profitable business

There's a third option- the profit is carefully erased. See "non-profits" that divert millions of dollars to an owner, relative, or other.
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To be clear, schools like Trinity are a few tiers below schools like Harvard. Harvard almost definitely does have mass culling (ex: remove everyone with < 1550/1600 unless X, Y, Z) and then do holistic review for the remainder.

Its difficult to even put Trinity in the same bucket as places like the Ivies, MIT, Caltech, Duke, and Stanford.

Here's the question - who cares? As someone that never got into any, I was told elite schools don't matter! Unless everyone is lying to me for the sake of political correctness of course...

I think it's great that institutions can select their student body however they want. They have that right as private organizations, and it's why I oppose the Asian affirmative action lawsuits. But lets not pretend this social engineering is good for America or laudable. Giving a lottery ticket to 500 more people or 500 different people does nothing to benefit society.
The motivation comes with inspiration for me. If I see a problem and know that I can build a solution, I can't stop myself from building it. The more time I spend honing these skills, the higher the bar becomes for new projects, so next time you feel the spark of inspiration, don't pass it up because it becomes more and more rare!
I'm not sure I agree that advertising is the most sane course of action here - if you take tobacco as a reference then the intervention that causes the highest decrease in usage is tax (and higher price coincidentally usually leads to lower usage rates especially in younger people because they're more price sensitive). So if banning is too far to go, then a middle ground might be to have a very high tax on the product in order to 1) decrease usage and 2) put money into a fund in case all these users end up getting a new form of cancer in 20 years that we didn't see coming and that we (society/the state) have to collectively pay for
Please don't reply to an egregious comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes this place worse.

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Also worth mentioning is that the 64-bit 9.7" 2048x1536 32GB iPad with Apple Pencil support has been selling at WalMart for $249 for almost a year now. It makes a good web terminal as well as sketch pad. I've found it convenient and useful for data consuming and light activities such as news reading, online classes, and sketching out political cartoons for my blog.
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Now, website is working fine.

Thanks
Regus wasn't the only vendor, just the largest one.

Also, I'd call one vendor in a space a monopoly. Rareness is about the ease of finding a vendor.
The issue I have with the "rules of hooks" is that it makes some previously trivial things cumbersome at best, and downright complicated at worst. For a quick example, something as simple as mapping an array onto a series of elements with a callback requires (as far as I can tell) that the inner element be broken out into its own component that calls `useCallback`, since you can't create a unique callback for each item in the parent.
I work at GitLab and can shed some light here. As a 100% remote company we work in all timezone. Writing things down actually helps make things more efficient. At my last job, to get anything done I needed to call a meeting because state lived in people's heads. When someone left, of if you couldn't get them to a meeting, it was very painful. It took forever to get things done because you needed to physically be present in order to work. At GitLab because so much is documented it's easy to pick up state and collaborate with co-workers in all timezones. What's cool, is because it's public, other random people will jump in and help you out that you'd never expect since they have access to everything you have.
We do in GPUs, which is where thread-heavy computation is at these days.
The slope is never as slippery as people imagine it to be. Why does every safety regulation always have to end in "kids in plastic bubbles" in the minds of alarmists? And why was the best time to grow up always exactly the time when the "back in my day" people were growing up? No matter when I grew up everything was always perfect when I was a kid, right?

It should go without saying that children dying from preventable causes is not a very good thing to have happen.
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Then why are you not doing it every day and recouping your costs? Seems kind of stupid to me that you're flushing money down the toilet if it's such an easy thing to do with Uber.
The state sets the regulatory framework. Would not be unreasonable to expect fracking to be largely prohibited due to its ecological impact.
I don't disagree with this, and I'm not advocating for creating or perpetuating “noble lies.” But look at the framing of the OP article. It is the perfect example of the squirt gun of truth. The headline refutes a metaphorical statement, not a factual claim. There are ways one could counter particulars or improve the quality of the metaphor without altogether tossing it in the bin. Saying the Amazon rain forest is the Earth's lungs has lots of metaphorical applicability. It speaks to people's intuition about how forests cycle water around the planet as a quasi-respiration organs, very much like gas- and water-exchanging lungs. And with similar importance to the “organism” of Earth's biosphere.

The author could have focused on expounding the ways in which the metaphor holds to underlying scientifically-verifiable truth, taking asides here and there to correct misinformation. As it's framed, and as the headline emphasizes, that approach is ignored in favor of the “gotcha!” truth-telling that, despite its couple of meager attempts to point out how critical the Amazon is to life on Earth, allows the reader to walk away with the impression that things really aren't as bad as they previously thought, and so maybe they can just ignore the issue or deprioritize it a little but longer. And the skimmer looks at just the headline and is justified in their status quo understanding that there is a climate “debate” with two sides that really should be considered by someone, somewhere.
Doesn't mean we shouldn't care; It's amazing how people always view things with a negative and destructive not-my-problem mindset; Humanity in general right now is much more destructive than constructive; We must always strive to make a positive impact for others and for the entire planet, leaving things better than they were before us, not the contrary;
First, this is a great introduction article to Ada. It's a great history lesson, and analysis of where it's used and why.

That said, it seems to be arguing for something in a vacuum. Where is the mention of other new programming languages that also fit this category? Where is the mention of Rust? Rust fits all the same requirements:

- A general, flexible design that adapts to satisfy the needs of embedded computer applications.

- Reliability. The language should aid the design and development of reliable programs.

- Ease of maintainability. Code should be readable and programming decisions explicit.

- Easy to produce efficient code with. Inefficient constructs should be easily identifiable.

- No unnecessary complexity. Semantic structure should be consistent and minimize the number of concepts.

- Easy to implement the language specification. All features should be easy to understand.

- Machine independence. The language shall not be bound to any hardware or OS details.

- Complete definition. All parts of the language shall be fully and unambiguously defined.

The exception is possibly the last one, complete definition. But that's debatable as Rust does have a reference, but no one wants to go as far as calling it a spec. (Also, I know some people think Rust has some "unnecessary" complexity, personally I do not). The article goes on to compare to C, but doesn't mention some of the new features of C++ that make it safer, or Rust which is approximately as safe as Ada. So why would I pick Ada over other modern languages?

btw, I really enjoyed Steve Klabnik's post on learning Ada: https://words.steveklabnik.com/learning-ada
Oh, that is cool! Thank you.
I have the iPad Air 2, released in 2014 and looks identical to the new iPad released today. It has the latest OS updates and it's never had any performance issues. Why would someone upgrade from this 5 year old device?
Also if you've written any PL/SQL stored procedures in Oracle.
What part of instigated coups on behalf of a fruit company and illegally killing people I'm Venezuela is unclear? Cause I literally typed those things in my parent comment. Those seem to me to be valid reasons for having issues with a government. It's ironic that a comment trying to persuade others to "get creative" is the comment that seems suspiciously like copypasta.
Needs to add the option to grab a gun and start shooting down ads.
I must admit I had a hard time believing there were no armed alert aircraft ready 24/7 on the tarmac at Andrews AFB on the morning of 9/11.

Since the Kennedy assaibation, the US Secret Service pre-secures everywhere the president goes, including armored escort cars snipers on the roofs of buildings.

Not having armed aircraft always ready to support Air Force One or Two seemed inconceivable to me. Even in a post-Cold-War environment.