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The Gates of Paradise by Jerzy Andrzejewski was published in 1960. It consists of 40,000 words in two sentences. The second sentence is "And they marched all night" [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gates_of_Paradise
> It’s the other way around. If the money poured into renewables had gone to nuclear there would be no climate crisis.

That's a very bold statement for which I have seen absolutely no proof. Solar and wind do not have the long term waste issues associated with nuclear and cost a small fraction of nuclear per installed Watt of power generation.

There is no significant difference in CO2 output of nuclear vs solar or wind so you'd have a climate crisis just the same. If you're looking to displace fossil fuel with nuclear you're going to have to look much further than just electricity, and solar and wind are just as good or even better at that as nuclear power is. Working fusion would be better than all of these options, but unfortunately we don't have it.

> There are 9 countries with nukes and 31 with nuclear power. The idea that nuclear power plants were build to acquire nukes seems unlikely.

It may seem unlikely to you but it is a well established fact. France, China the United States, Russia and the United Kingdom, some of the earliest nuclear powers all got into the nuclear plant game to make weapons grade material. The power generated was a by-product. Countries that got into the game later and that did not have access to nuclear technology were licensed 'safe' tech that could not be used for enrichment.

Iran and North Korea are only interested in nuclear power for weapons purposes, everything else is just a fig leaf.
You actually need to understand the basics of relational databases in order to use Access effectively (unless you are only using a single table - in which case you might as well use excel).
So where’s the spec
There is also a convenient Redshift applet for Plasma.
Its package is called plasma-applet-redshift-control in Debian.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_effect#History

«The existence of the greenhouse effect was argued for by Joseph Fourier in 1824. The argument and the evidence were further strengthened by Claude Pouillet in 1827 and 1838 and reasoned from experimental observations by Eunice Newton Foote in 1856. John Tyndall expanded her work in 1859 by measuring radiative properties of a wider spectrum of greenhouse gases. The effect was more fully quantified by Svante Arrhenius in 1896, who made the first quantitative prediction of global warming due to a hypothetical doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide. However, the term "greenhouse" was not used to refer to this effect by any of these scientists; the term was first used in this way by Nils Gustaf Ekholm in 1901.»
... which can result from the wrong server being asked to fulfill a request due to DNS issues.

I've seen blocking implemented by responding with another server address that is supposed to give some meaningful responses (an "ad blocked" image instead of the user just getting an unable-to-load image icon, for instance). This is getting less useful as HTTPS becomes more ubiquitous as you need to install your own signing key on the client machines to pull it off and it isn't often with the hassle, but it is still sometimes attempted.

I've also seen DNS level blocking send out 127.0.0.1 which strikes me as stupid.
Crypto payment in a web shop isn't even a real use case. What they do is send crypto to a third party which sells it for fiat and then the good is paid with fiat. Does that need crypto? No that would work with anything else. The Code on a Paypal PSC for example isn't a crypto coin/token but it can do the exact same thing just better in most cases. The reason you can buy stuff with crypto in web shops is because people wanted to not because it makes sense to do that. It would kinda make sense if there would be a world current with rather stable value. But stable coins are IOUs aka debt so they are not really cryptos.
> that is the general vibe I get about Perl.

Perl <=5 did make it, it was quite big in the 90s and early 2000s.
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Customer Data Platform – What Features Makes for a Great CDP
One of my first games as well. You're correct about the popcorn soundtrack
then why don't you start breaking all the windows of the neighbourhood? that surely creates jobs for the window makers?
Larry's actual approval (although he has basically said before that the community doesn't need his approval anymore) is here: https://github.com/perl6/problem-solving/pull/89#pullrequest...
I want to question the "global" a bit. I zoomed into Vienna and there was just the normal OSM tileset (showing lots of public transport) without any additional data.
Yes, the RSS feed will be updated with new releases! :)
These are the kinds of things I expected to come out of WebComponents/other component architectures taking off. Inatead we got nested component spaghetti and app wide state management. (tongue in cheek, I know you can avoid it and I know it has it's purpose)
Can't say if it does but at https://nextjournal.com we do. We also support running on GPUs.
The reports of the death of the file(system) are grossly exaggerated.

And it's not been for lack of trying.

While I share many of the author's misgivings, files are actually making a bit of a comeback. After many years of trying to void the very idea of a file, Apple was essentially forced to introduce the Files app for iOS and introduce mass-storage support for (some) iPads. This is a good sign.

The anti-file movement has also been very strong and vocal in the programming world, where many claim that many if not all of our programming problems would go away if only we put our code in databases, or (Smalltalk) images instead. Yet the files, they persist.

That doesn't mean that files, or hierarchical filesystems, are perfect. However, whatever the problems ("Unititled 54.txt", anyone?), the proposed cures for what ails files invariably appear to be worse than the symptoms. And almost inevitably, we have to bring back or reinvent the very same concepts that we gleefully got rid of. That's a resilient concept! One that is apparently useful and pertinent at a somewhat deeper level than we fully understand.

So how about we stop trying to "get rid of files", but instead see if we cannot improve the concept and the mechanism(s) to fix the problems.
(Explanation for anybody who isn't a pilot or up to their nose in this stuff:)

VFR is Visual Flight Rules, meaning the pilot's training and the paperwork qualifying them to fly is only for when you can see where you're going. The other case is IFR Instrument Flight Rules, which means you need to learn to ignore your brain's guess as to where it is and how it's moving and trust the (redundant but not necessarily infallible) instruments to tell you what's happening. You still look outside the plane, because there might be something important to see (e.g. geese!) but you mostly are scanning your instruments, seeking confirmation that everything continues to be good, the instruments don't disagree with each other or with the pilot's understanding of what's supposed to be happening.

VFR qualified pilots are not supposed to go near clouds at all. The exact distances vary depending on where the plane is exactly (low, slow flying planes get to be closer than higher, fast moving planes) but the general principle is that you need to stay so far from all clouds that you can easily see anything coming out of a cloud and avoid it entirely, since under VFR you are relying primarily on what you can see. Unfortunately they sometimes stray into clouds, and 178 seconds isn't very long.

Obviously the people flying a Max will all be IFR qualified (the commercial pilot licensing doesn't have a VFR option) but the parent's point is true anyway - we are already training pilots not to try to fly by instinct because humans do not have appropriate instincts for flying, we are earthbound.
We are talking about injecting heavy metals to aquifers and at the same time surface radon patches from deep areas. Mercury in water that somebody will drink later and Radon that kills silently people when accumulates in basements.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMsLEqjVbgA

And is known that had caused earthquakes in dense populated areas from Mediterranean coasts (see Castor Project) or US, so is a danger for infrastructures also

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6PHVhjaNRI

And there is also this thing that I don't even have words for it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvJAKVnK4qM

All for a source of gas that could last one or two years in many cases, and then is exhausted and left contaminated. But is heavily subsidised by taxes in many cases

Fracking is greedy monkey stuff. Is a nonsense from any human point of view in any historical period (past or future) to pay for deliberately allowing a few people poison your own drink water.
IP aside, anyone else concerned about the business of HiQ?

I presume what they are doing is:

* Scrape profiles.

* Calculate time delta in jobs.

* 'Predict' churn rate for (prospective) employee.

With respect to prospective employees in particular this seems likely to entail lots of risks. Average job time delta is going to be a massively overdetermined variable, and noisy wrt 'next job delta'. I'm worried how they're going to sell that to employers.
The project site (https://victorribeiro.com/dial) is down at the time of this comment. Guessing it got HN's 'hug-of death.'
> The point of the SE was to bring down the price of a device with a more recent SOC.

This was the original press release:
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2016/03/21Apple-Introduces-iP...

It's all about the 4" display
"The average viewership metrics were not inflated by only 60%-80%; they were inflated by some 150 to 900%," stated an amended complaint."

I'm curious to understand how they proved it
It's a good piece (and damn it, book added to basket - that looks ace...) but I think it's confusing to suggest Flash was the [only] creative bit. What was truly creative / inspiring / enabling in the 90's / 00's IMO was the fact you could see something someone had made and then view source and see how they made it. Then with cheap or free tools you could edit locally, fiddle with it, upload to a cheap host if you wanted. This is clearly the opposite of what Flash gave us which was a black box with no way of seeing inside.

Nowadays you've got no chance of working out what a site is doing or how it's working - view source is a litter of external resources which you've got to follow until hell freezes over. And apparently now you've got to brew-grunt-git-node-fuckknowswhatelse in order to get anything running at all.

I'm an old git and it's hackneyed to say it but I miss the simpler old days. I'm really hoping the Javascript trend dies quickly so beginners / amateurs can get back in the game.

Now: Flash: what's interesting to me is that what Flash offered genuinely doesn't seem to be a thing that can be done any more. We do a lot of rich content work and frequently get asked about making online experiences to help explain concepts or ideas as infographics or games. Flash was may bad things, but the universality and really easy to use building tools just don't seem to have been replaced by anything comparable. Or maybe I've missed it?
And the ones working on the licensed ports were lucky, with their fancy arcade machines on free play in the corner of the office. Authors of, er, 'tributes' just had to wander down to the local arcade with a pocket full of coins and play until they'd remembered everything.
I’ve always found climate scepticism strange, because of its emphasis on refusing to accept the connection between rising temperatures and CO2. This really seems to be the least defensible position which could be chosen. The “scepticism” is disputing really basic science which has been well understood for a long time, and it’s in that sense that calling it denial is accurate. It would be much more defensible to accept a lower level of climate sensitivity, but dispute the mechanisms which cause higher sensitivity, or possible future positive feedback effects.
The Internet Archive is an officially-recognized archiving institution, and can thus take a few extra liberties when it comes to preserving copyrighted materials that others would be unable to. It's quite clear to me that if we want the bulk of 'orphaned' content from that era to be preserved, that's only going to happen via some 'disregard' of legally-imposed constraints.
Steve Jobs managed by walking around (MBWA) (2011)
It's that I could do it while in front of the ATM when I needed it, and that there are no interchange fees. Revolut and a few others use the same average price for conversion both ways.
The quote means that freedom really exists when it applies to all, including those who disagree with the government/powerful/majority.

I.e. the freedom of the dissenters is the measure of freedom in the group.
Most of the money spent on nuclear research is spent on fusion projects and things like pebble bed reactors, most of this is in the proof-of-concept or early production stage and funded by governments.

Most of the money spent on renewables (solar, wind) is spent on scaling up and (boring, but necessary) production. Some (tidal, geothermal) has gone into proof of concept level projects. The amounts specified vary greatly based on the source.

ITER alone (originally projected to cost $5B) already clocks in at $20B and doesn't seem to be much closer to something resembling a working prototype than it was several years ago.
We use a combination of real machines and VMs for building software, and dealing with macOS VMs is a major hassle. There are always compatibility issues that are hard to debug (eg. don't try to configure your VM to use more than 2 vCPUs if you want to run macOS 10.12). There is a lot of manual work that goes into maintaining VMs, and often automating those tasks doesn't pay off. If your app has any GUI components, those are often buggy in VMs (anything using the GPU is extremely unreliable).

Our main build machine is an actual Mac, because it's just so much easier to keep it running.

VMs are nice if you need a lot of different setups (eg. one app we distribute has components that need to be built on different versions of macOS, and VMs are nice for that).
Buying books from established offline book stores through Amazon works good for me. Not the cheapest option but the results are worth it.
+1 for ClickUp. We went through Trello, Jira, Pivotal, then Jira again, Airtable, and now we're finally happy with ClickUp.
I'm really starting to wonder about other possible _shady_ things that go on at Facebook, but are swept under the rug or go unreported.

Just in case you were not already aware, Facebook is not to be trusted under any circumstances.
I used a weak password for some throwaway account many years ago (I think it may have been Yahoo). Now I'm receiving daily ransom demands from someone quoting this password back to me threatening to expose my porn habits and whatnot :-)

That email comes in so many variants it's really entertaining. Someone is really trying hard to find the magic wording that gets through spam filters and makes people pay. It's not getting through my spam filter sadly, so when I want to read the latest episode I have to go look for it in the spam folder.

So I think what's far more important than choosing strong passwords is choosing different ones for each account.
Small companies fear the Unitary Patent as vehicule for software patents (p254) [pdf]
آلبوم عکس ویلای 1450 متری خزرشهر شمالی 09301301018
Yeah, I agree. It seems to happen a lot when one culture attempts to copy another. The artifact will be analysed and reduced to a few properties which are then optimised. The article talks about how British Chorleywood bread was optimised for price and how that's not right. Well, guess what, optimising food for anything except eating pleasure won't be good either.

It happened to beer. Americans discovered the centuries-old brewing traditions of Britain and Belgium and then turned the characteristics up to 11. What you get is beer brewed with so much hop it's just not pleasant any more. And so much malt that it now has to be sipped like wine. And in the end you've just got yourself another hyper-optimised product.

Some of these hipster loaves have crusts so tough that I'm seriously concerned about my teeth. But, hey, the baker has been learning how to make that gluten network even stronger so it must be good. The holes are so large it reminds me of atomic structure of matter: more empty space than bread. I can't spread butter on air. Nor can I hold cheese with a something tougher than shoe leather.

At the end of the day there is one thing that matters: is it nice to eat? If you go to France and find a boulangerie on any street corner in the country you will find a baguette. I could tell you about what makes it a baguette---the soft French, unbleached flour; the Viennese steam oven, the cultured yeast, and so on---but none of that really matters. What matters is it tastes wonderful, it feels great, and it works well with other foods. In short, it's a joy.
Good Things Don't Scale
> the 737 Max is an inherently stable aircraft without MCAS.

Ok, but 737 MAX wihout MCAS is not the aircraft in question. 737 MAX is the aricraft and it comes with MCAS. And that is unstable, right?
No, you're right. I say "uncomputable" but that's not what's happening here. The problem is not "uncomputable" it's just that the result is negative (X men can't cross Y distance carrying Z provisions).

Thanks for pointing this out, my bad for using "uncomputable" wrong.
On the other hand those events are monitored and taken seriously while other sources of pollution and their long term effects are routinely handwaved by leaders of important countries
What if Android was designed in a way that meant the device makers had to modify only the UI and not alter the functionality of the features. Wont this have solved their problems? Im thinking this because many phone makers just apply their skin on top of stock android and nothing more!

Things like settings UI can be fixed for all vendors so that we don't get confused everytime we get a different phone!
I hope fushcia does it this way!
Small clarification: "state of the art" just means "the best currently available", not "a perfect and effective solution that handles all the problems and has all the possbile functionality". So if no one has ever built a decoder of a certain quality level, that specific level can by definition not be "state of the art".
Steak and Thermal Comfort Simulation
I use Firefox as my main browser on all my machines and haven't once been bothered about Pocket or other sync stuff. I vastly prefer it, for moral and technical reasons. I feared the switch from Chrome would be very hard and aggravating but it wasn't.

(The only thing that got me the first few weeks is that opening an incognito window is ctrl+shift+p instead of ctrl+shift+n. Once I got used to that I realized it actually makes sense because ctrl+shift+n re-opens a closed window just like ctrl+shift+t reopens a closed tab.)
> A MacOS virtual machine is probably illegal.

It's not, as long as you run it on genuine Apple hardware. We use a bunch of macOS VMs that are 100% legal.

The problem with macOS VMs is that there are a lot of compatibility issues, and in my experience it's a lot of effort to set up macOS VMs. If you have the space and the money, real machines are a lot easier to deal with.
Just a nit, (the Kingdom of) Lesotho is a separate country from South Africa, although it's landlocked by South Africa.
iPhone 9 is a terrible name.

It is not part of the standard line-up, so why would you recommend naming it as if it was released 2 years ago?
Look at seller names. Names like "SummitPark Prints" and "TheProductsHub" are very sketchy.

They scream they have printers and binders running producing dubious quality books from PDFs found on internet.
The second part was going to be my complaint as well, but your observation about the catch for the finger is even more important.

I think there might be some kind of lesson here. Rotary dials might be a usability punchline right now, but there is actually a lot of thought that went into their design which made it quite usable. I'm sure similar things can be said about other old interfaces.
Airbnb Wants to Send You to Antarctica. Don't Fall for It
There was also a digger remake, which is now so old that it's also nostalgiaware! https://digger.org/
Yes, it had a 4 inch display because it was an updated version of the iPhone 5s, as the copy you linked to points out.

>iPhone SE takes a beloved iPhone design and reinvents it

The newer iPhone SE will also take an existing design and update the motherboard and SOC.

If Ming-Chi Kuo's report is as accurate as it usually is, we're looking at a $400 device with an iPhone 8 body and iPhone 11 guts.
What Technology Is Most Likely to Become Obsolete During Your Lifetime?
Someone disagreeing with you is not "toxic".
With a little bit of practice, you could dial a phone number directly on the receiver hook. This also worked on touch-tone phones because the switches were all made backwards compatible with the old equipment.
There are DRM-free ebooks available. https://www.defectivebydesign.org/guide/ebooks (and there seems to be other stuff as well: https://www.defectivebydesign.org/guide/audio ). But I mostly agree with you. I hope watermarks would be used instead of DRM.
Indeed, I find the following: https://tracker.geops.ch/ more complete.
It's the same in most of Europe. A letter from a lawyer can be worth much more than from an employee and lawyers won't charge you if they expect the employer to pay the cost anyway.
>Costco doesn't check membership at the door. That would block you from purchasing things that don't require membership.

The 3 Costcos in my area all have staff checking for membership cards right at the door.

Yes, if one knows the "life hacks" such as the pharmacy hack, the liquor law hack, the "I'm picking up contact lenses at the eye center for my friend" hack, and lastly, the "I want to browse the store before I buy a membership" hack, the staff will let you through.

Apparently, all the above hacks are enough psychological friction and/or are not well-known that Costco has much less volume of problem shoppers than Walmart.
Quite interesting.

> The software also contains code to properly handle Gamecube optical discs

I suspect this is the real reason behind the experiment. I've been looking for years for a way to get raw DVD data, to decode XBOX discs [1]. Why can't manufacturers give us raw access to the discs? Are they afraid we might use it to break copy protection schemes?

[1] https://xboxdevwiki.net/Xbox_Game_Disc
Happened to me a couple of times early in my career and both times were totally unfair but they were very good experiences in terms of building my character.

Companies can be completely irrational. You should never depend on any entity for your survival.

I think the growth of corporations is extremely unhealthy and should be illegal because it forces massive amounts of people to depend on a few entities for their livelihoods. This dependency gives corporations power which allows them to corrupt governments and to continue this cycle of increasing exploitation of employees and manipulation of governments.