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I think usually the unsustainability argument is about scaling it to the population of the world. Our modern and in many ways awful systems of mass food, energy, and water production are just vastly more efficient per capita of resource requirements than individuals could ever hope to be "living off the land". Even if their footprint's a bit lower, it's only a solution for the relatively-elite of the planet, and they're actually being more wasteful than others of net resources in some senses.

Just doing the quick ugly napkin math for rough validation, Wikipedia says the world has roughly 14,000,000 km² of "arable land". If you convert that to acres and divide by the current global population, that's a little under half an acre per human. If the average family grouping were of size 4, that's only 2 acres of supposedly-arable land somewhere in the world per family. That's skipping over a whole lot of details and side-points, but still, it doesn't seem like this is a sustainable path for the whole planet to go down.
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>Perhaps people shouldn't have started paying nerds a good amount of money to do super nerdy things.

I've got discount pitchforks. Get your pitchforks. 3 for $5.
I used to go and work at our City's Cathedral library: access was free to students, it was in an awesome building about 700 years old and most importantly didn't have WiFi so there was no distraction :)

It was also cold - I find most libraries to be warm and stuffy which makes me drowsy and unable to concentrate.
The difference being made that people are willing to spend big on short term things but are stingy on things that they use a lot. Be it a keyboard, shoes, bed sheets or whatever.

I just ordered a "new" keyboard. IBM Model M, space saving version. With below USD 200 a steal!
My argument is simple: I want it for myself.
Besides cost there is also time. Many of London's lines are very deep, and so it takes significant time just to get down there & back up again.
Yeah, but that's just a common story (repeated throughout history), that happens to take place on Mars, just like it happened on Earth. There's nothing in it that explores the fact that they are on a different planet.
If you do consulting, you should consider using pre-tax money to buy whatever hardware you need for work. Trump made it much easier to amortize business expenses up to a certain limit, and this could save you a lot of money if you're in the higher tax brackets. I spent ~16K on deep learning hardware for my business this year so far (consumer GPUs, since I'm not running them in the "datacenter") because I'm not made of money and think current cloud GPU pricing is a rip-off.
Funny, I've been struggling with exactly this issue. Over the past few years my eyes have worsened to the point where doctors cannot find a contact scrip that works in both eyes: we have to compromise with one eye fixing far-away and the other fixing near. I had TWO optemtrists generate an Rx and they differed in all domains, with the astigmatic axis off by 90-degrees in both eyes! I've wanted to buy a lens kit and do it myself for years, but after reading how complex a process it is to find a compromise due to all the daily fluctuations, I'm ready to accept that my eyesight is just a mess and nothing can fix it for ALL scenarios.
I think in general you're right, but I think it's wrong to say type annotations are "useless" without some qualification of that statement. I use PyCharm as my Python IDE, which does some static analysis on type annotations to ensure consistency and to give better autocompletion hints, which I find very useful.
Out of curiosity, is there any more recent useful analytics / instrumentation related content on landing page creation you can suggest?
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This was the biggest pet peeve for me. That and you couldn't even really enjoy or use those spaces, because if you spread out at all then you'd be in the way. You'd also have people circling like sharks, on top of the people pushing by to get to the books they need.

It just seemed so sub-optimal to me.
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That might actually dissuade a new rider :-) from ever riding !
Is this open source or source available? There is a meaningful distinction.
Yeah, I think I've mixed something up.

I was [lightly] researching this a few weeks back and am pretty sure I found that the net effect of the final ruling was that for the purpose of enforcing regulations [any] city could mark tires, and that because it the outside of the vehicle on public property it was not trespass...
As a kid growing up, I lived in a very wooded area with a varied mix of trees. The Red Oaks were probably the most color changing out of the mix. Most of those years were considered drought years, and the fall was meh at best. The autumn of the first year with significant rain fall after all of those years was simply stunning.

I've always wanted to go up to New England on a leaf peeping trip. Saying peeping makes it sound kind of taboo. However, I never plan it right as New England has Fall while those of us in the south are still considering it summer.
Remember you have a super-power. If you can make anxiety your friend you will be able to get into a hyper-focus state.

How to get into that state: Trying to calm yourself is actually the wrong thing to do. Meditation works right before the episode or if you're a master meditation expert. It does work for some but I found that my ADD and Anxiety make it really hard to meditate.

Like many of the comments here, do an activity that excites you; jumping jacks, powerlifting, running, taking a shower etc. Anxiety has a similar pattern in the brain as when you exercise. So you're tricking your brain to divert the feelings to activity instead of panic.

Then when the tightness in your chest subsides and you spent yourself, CODE!!!!!

You'll realize the focus is different. Your thoughts are still there but now you can put them aside and use that anxiety to power focus.

My routine is to pace, pumping myself up, acting like Muhammad Ali then for hours I can work.

It's hard, this is very hand-wavey, your struggle will work; you just need to find your inner strength buried beneath worry and uncertainty, trick your brain and unleash your super power.
A computer can be used as a weapon.

Just ask anyone who has been hit over the head with a laptop.

Ban all computers.
Why do you claim that most bicyclists espouse some extremely specific philosophical viewpoint? Have you surveyed a representative sample of cyclists or something? It's just extremely weird to me to make such a sweeping claim about a large group you don't count yourself in.
Cars are great for long distance travel. They do well for medium distances in some situations and are terrible for last mile.

When my family wants to go to grandma's (or any other vacation destination) our car is the best way to do it. The key here is a family - we fill our car so per passenger we use less fuel (carbon), the train or bus could do better but because the route isn't direct it isn't that great of a win - and they need to be full to compete which they might not be.

For medium distances (less than 50 miles) they do great if and only if there are few other people going the same way. Which is to say rural and non-dense areas. However because they are such low occupancy in denser areas the congestion and storage needs when you get there get you.

For last mile the storage needs at both ends means that even though they seem great they just spread the places you want to get to farther than if you didn't have a car and just walked. In suburban areas we ignore this because there is no place within walking distance you would want to get to anyway.

Note that the key to long distances is far enough that you wouldn't do this normally. If everybody's grandma (or vacation spot...) lived in the same neighborhood as mine this would fail - but then the bus/train would be a direct route and so it would be practical.
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Do you know where that Gurdjieff quote comes from? I've not heard it before.
Bombing another country is a legitimate act of the state. It's no more an endorsement of "violence" than wishing for the arrest of a notorious serial killer is an act of "kidnapping". Conflating legitimate acts of the state with extralegal personal criminality is a political statement.

If a site's terms of service prohibit endorsing legitimate acts of the state, that TOS is a political statement.
Even ordinary city libraries can often help with reading lists.
Why? A metal kettle will not contain any trace of whatever was in it after washing.
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I still put my money on K-Ras being much more important than any fungi.
And for Adobe, cloud is way more than just Creative Cloud and the subscriptions for Photoshop or whatever.

When Adobe bought Omniture, that was I would argue, one of the best acquisitions since DoubleClick, and Adobe has taken that and built out this very high-margin, very lucrative “marketing cloud” business for agencies and small businesses and large enterprises.

It’s genuinely impressive and brilliant to see how Adobe has turned its business around.

And as an end-user, I may dislike that it’s harder to pirate Photoshop (and if we’re legit honest, that’s what 95% of the complaints about Creative Cloud’s pricing comes down to), but if you’re a creative professional who relies on those tools, $600 a year is a worthwhile investment, especially since the updates have been higher quality and more frequent. My employer pays my sub but I’d pay it myself if I had to — just because it makes my life easier — and I’m not even a designer or video editor by trade (I do edit a lot of video, however).
Yes, this is particularly annoying for autocompleting column names when writing SELECT (and DELETE)

with INSERT and UPDATE the user provides a table as context for autocompletion of the column list.

There's been a billion revisions of ANSI SQL and they've never provided alternate ordering options. Who cares about users?
I agree with the idea of impact fees being used to fund public transit but your first suggestion sounds very confrontational for a few reasons:

First, why are only the people who "got there first" allowed to use the public streets for storing privately owned items?

Second, why not require that people who do have parking are only allowed to own as many motorized vehicles as can fit in their parking and cannot use the public right of way to store their private possessions, with huge fines?

It seems like we need more carrot and less stick.
Dude, San Francisco is small, no less homogeneous than Switzerland and fairly wealthy so we can conclude the difference isn't due to that.

Also, absolute straw man. No one is asking that Cary, NC have underground rail.
Yeah, as I was working it out in my head, I was realizing that it would approach 50% but never hit it, since no matter the distribution you choose, the higher number will always be greater on average than the smaller (by definition). You can approach an equal average as you choose a larger and larger range, but never hit it.... which I guess is what the paper is proving.

Practically, though, you could get close enough to 50% that it would be immeasurable by sampling.
Generally mathematical theorems involving real numbers, do not care about computability (except if you are a finitist https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finitism ) ;)

On the other hand my intuition is: flipping a coin (generating next digit of a real number between 0 and 1) and then trasforming it to e.g. an exponential random variable should always take you to the point where you can decide about the ordering in countably finite coin toss, with probability one...
A much more entertaining and informative book than it's title or pedigree would hint at. Genuinely recommended reading.

One of the most surprising details in the whole book was the trading system devised by the biggest HFT-complainer, "Thor". And not even the system itself. Trading firms have to connect to practically all the exchanges, because they need the ability to send in orders directly to one of them. In trading, adverse selection is a thing - if an institutional trader sends in a big order, liquidity providers (HFT firms) can get hammered pretty badly. So when someone is buying or selling in one exchange, the HFT shops will adjust (read: pull) their quotes on other exchanges before the same executions would hit them there as well.

The basic assumption of a liquidity provider can be summed up as: if someone is executing trades, they must know something more; the prices currently on offer are clearly wrong. Pull quotes before things get expensive.

Thor wasn't exactly an optimisation engine, it was more a synchronisation engine. It kept track of transmission latencies across all the exchanges and could coordinate order creation times to such a degree that the orders that it wanted executed would land in all the exchanges at almost exactly the same time. This would allow it to execute its orders on all the exchanges at the prices available at that very time, without giving HFT firms the time to communicate across exchanges to pull their quotes. If I remember correctly, even the book used the term "slam" for the behaviour.

Thor used a strategy that any half-decent engineer should come up with in less than 5 minutes. But it was considered unfair by all the other market participants. The book didn't tell much more about Thor, other than that its use was discontinued shortly afterwards.

Rather amusing, nonetheless.
I don't know about exact policies on Swiss railway/local public transport networks, but I'm pretty sure by now fines and frequency of checks are calculated such that it ends up being cheaper for the transport company to only do random checking instead of check every ticket.
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My ultimate goal is to become proficient in statistical learning (you may know it as the boring part of ML). I’ve read a lot of good things about Introduction to statistical learning, but that book assumes a level of statistical knowledge that I do not possess - specifically, it throws around word like t-distribution, degree of freedom, p-value etc.

I’d like to understand those basics before I get deeper into the book. Is there some other preliminary textbook which would introduce me to those concepts?
Our teams at my work have recently adopted this stack. We're now building 4-5 apps this way and I couldn't be happier.
No, I don't, and it was not my intent to lessen the value of "self conducting trains" at all. Having been raised in Germany, I'm a big fan of public transport.

I just wanted to point out that "self driving cars", in isolation without any change to the infrastructure they operate in, are, by my intuition, a pipe dream.

I think we are aligned here.
I've been using it for almost a year with literally zero issues. The closes to a problem was the lack of a windows client (though there was a third-party option a used for a while), which is now fixed. If this is alpha-quality software, I look forward to seeing like what the beta and release versions look.
I’m using Vue as a UI for a desktop app for developer collaboration (https://aether.app), whose Vue part is about 60,000-70,000 lines of code. I guess this makes me a large, advanced user.

I don’t get it. Seriously, Vue 2 is great, so much fire and forget. There’s a bunch of problems that I am supposed to have, which justifies these changes, but I really don’t have them. Single file components solve it all for me.

This feels like Vue is trying to become React, but ... I’m using Vue because I think it’s much more valuable than React. I also get that it’s said that none of the things I like will change and I could just keep using it as is, but when was that ever really true - the new features always take more of the mindshare than keeping existing users.

This might be the curse of us all: the people who build successful things tend to be the most extreme users of their own thing. It helps you by making you have high standards at the beginning, but later on, if you keep serving yourself, you’ll end up with something like Angular where it eclipses past the sweet spot where most of the users are and goes for ever more advanced things with not so much of an audience, just because you’ve been solving your own problem and that has even a good metric thus far.
I don't think being a paying customer changes much here either unless there's some sort of explicit customer support package in the deal, especially when we're just talking about donors.

I once made the mistake of accepting donations for a forum I run and learned how people will expect the world from you, like 1:1 customer support whenever they need it, just because they once gave me $5.

Eventually all the "this is outrageous, I am a paying customer!" made me refund everyone and I never accepted donations again.
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I understood the context. What usually happens is students purchase books that are assigned for everyone taking a particular class, then use the library to borrow specific books to complete research papers, criticism etc. on their chosen topics.
I thought tether was pretty much accepted to be a massive scam?
Agreed. I'm in the middle of moving our code base over to the plugin above. I figured the Typescript + Decorators Component API was a dead end, so it'd be easier to transition from the plugin to Vue 3 when it eventually came out.

It's been a breath of fresh air when working with typescript.
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I'm a bit like you. I'm very much so a self starter (maybe I'm assuming a bit there), an avid reader, and I grew up in a situation I wouldn't wish on anyone. I turned out more than alright, but like you said, it's due to a massive amount of hard work. I figured I'd offer a different point of view for you to consider.

First off, I want to make it clear I respect that you likely feel like the parent comment takes away from your hard work. No one is questioning that hard work and perseverance makes a difference in life. You and I are probably good examples of that.

However, I want to also make it clear that even though we got where we are today through hard work, it doesn't hurt either of us to consider how much further we could have gotten (or how much faster) if we were afforded the advantages others had.

For instance, I wish I could go start my own business, but I have to weigh the fact that I have zero social safety net. As such I'm left to save for at least few years in a salaried position before I can even consider it (and yes, I do hack my own side projects in my off hours). You're probably thinking I should just go do it, right? Well, I need the medical insurance unfortunately. I have a sleep disorder called sleep apnea (and before you assume I'm fat or something, I'm a gym rat). One night without my machine will likely result in my death one day (my AHI is 79). Now consider those who have it worse than me!

Inequality is a given, it's not a debate to be had. What if you had been born blind? Or with fetal alcohol syndrome? Just do some hard work friend! What if you not only lacked a system of support, but had a system of the opposite? People actively trying to ruin your life while growing up? This is a reality for a lot of folks!

So when you say "it's possible!", yes of course it is. But is it likely? No. The environment you're born in, the safety net you have, the people around you, the medical conditions you have, they all have a tremendous effect on your life. To suggest otherwise is foolish at best, but more likely willfully ignorant and prideful. Am I proud to be where I am? Yes, and a discussion on inequality doesn't make me feel threatened. It shouldn't feel threatening to you either.

Yes, hard work like ours can sometimes overcome terrible scenarios. But even I know I could wake up tomorrow with cancer and find my life savings drained. No amount of hard work can save me from that situation.

You're also assuming that those friends / family / neighbors you grew up with didn't work hard. Just because they weren't successful (your words by the way, not their own I'm sure), doesn't mean they didn't work hard. Hard work does not equate to "success" (or what you think of as success) in all scenarios. That's life.

The parent comment tried to explain all this, and honestly probably did a better job than I did, but I figured I would offer you my point of view.
>This is in contrast to React which squishes the three into one monolithic class in it's .jsx

What exactly are you talking about here?

First, React is (largely) no longer class-based.

Second, it's completely unopinionated about styles. You can write your own classes, use CSS-in-JS, whatever. Nothing about React components is concerned with styles at all, let alone forcing you to structure them a certain way. Vue is, if anything, way more opinionated about styles.
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The immense streetcar network in the Los Angeles area.
What part of any of this has to do with "lan sending is being phased out," your original claim?
I mean that part is true and is exactly how markets are supposed to work, but the conclusions he draws are just bizarre. He makes the argument that HFT is the classic story of the fat cats stealing even more money from the little guys. But it couldn't be further from the truth. HFT's are helping the retail investors and actually "stealing" from the "fat cats" (institutional investors). Retail trading is now cheaper (free in a lot of cases), easier, and faster today than it has ever been, largely due to HFT firms and low-latency liquidity providing strategies. Also the ETF revolution and the massive democratization of financial asset classes and strategies is entirely predicated on HFT arbitrageurs.

But Lewis realized that the idea of HFT actually helping the little guys and hurting the big guys wouldn't be as sensationalist and provocative a story, so he decided to twist the facts to suit his own narrative.
As a fellow backend developer, I found Vue to be the absolute perfect entry-point to the world of frontend frameworks. If you set up your project with Vue CLI v3 then it automates all the setup and even offers a web interface called "Vue UI" for managing your app, it's plugins, and NPM packages. It's a dream.

Suddenly, I don't hate JavaScript anymore.
Construction of the tram 8 extension took place 2015-2017, total costs of 170mio. The length of new tracks was only a few hundred meters, the rest of the line is sharing tracks with existing lines. Everything above the ground. Difficult part of the construction was the fact that the new tracks were built across an existing bridge that is also used by car traffic. Nothing too difficult I suppose, just a bit of clever traffic management was needed (both during construction and afterwards).
You forgot storage and the huge lock-in that storage has.

It would cost $850,000 to move 10PB of data out of a cloud. People aren't going to do it. They aren't going to be able to afford to do it.
Couldn't say about your local laws, but in the US (where I ride) cycling is a right extended to all, but driving a car is a privilege which requires certification. My sense is that the spirit of those laws aligns with some of the discussion here, cars kill (other) people, where cyclists are likely to only get themselves killed.