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>They're selling people a solution to loneliness.

I'll one up you, they are selling hope. Odds are this will be seeded with a bunch of bots, and these lonely people may or maynot get some sense of temporary relief thinking they are interacting privately with someone else, when its really just a bot.
Honestly, a lot of this comes down to whether you prefer iterators or C-style for loops. I prefer iterators myself, as it's way too easy to make C-style for loops unreadable. Reasonable people can disagree, of course.
Distractions are often worse than nothing.
I have not tried installing Linux on a more recent MacBook Pro (USB-C generation) so I couldn't tell, but I remembered it took around an hour with Arch Linux's default config (e.g. "let's compile this and go have a breakfast & make a coffee and hope it's done")
Pretty sure it doesn't take a literal ton of fuel to move me across Europe in a train. In an airplane, it does.
I think you are referring to our brains' inability and incapacity to perceive reality, right on. But recognizing a smaller illusion (religion) within the larger one (the reality) is still seeing part of reality as it is.
My friends tell me to stop seeing my astrologer. My astrogoler tells me to stop seeing my friends. It's a hard problem.
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Oh yeah, you're absolutely right. I don't think they can deliver on what they're promising.
Rayon is basically the "OpenMP of Rust" already.

OpenMP is designed around C-style for loops, which Rust discourages.
I'm betting, the people in charge at Google who shut down all these projects were in the first category.
Unless you are using something like Hasura which in many cases negates the need of a backend developer. Front end developers can have almost total autonomy.
That's why I put a disclaimer in parentheses. I was responding to the claim that a wealth tax would result in unchanged or higher income, which is patently false. My answer to getting some sort of "benefit" is programs like corn subsidies, which are not democratic, and are one cause of the obesity epidemic in the US, because corn syrup is shoved into anything and everything, fed to animals, etc. Again, not arguing against the wealth tax, just the assumptions behind taxation that are being made.
China's Paris commitments were significantly laxer than other nations. Commiting only to stop increasing only by 2030.
> I feel like the language designers didn't pay attention at all to how natural it will look to developers

This is not true. We agonized over syntax decisions. "fn" was actually preferred by most of the Rust community.
The 1930s were one of the most irrational times on record, with Stalin and Hitler being heroes for most of the world.

Anyway, if rationality was ever invented, it was a few hundred years earlier with the scientific revolution.
A couple uses, but the primary purpose is as a VM host and file server. Hyper-V for the VMs, and Storage Spaces with ReFS for the storage.

My current build uses a core i5-4570s, but I'd love to have more cores & threads for running additional VMs. My use cases don't require _real_ server hardware (IPMI is overkill), just the ability to run a good amount of test and lab environments.
Nice, that's more than I ever made in 36 years :D
That's not scientific, and especially not empirical, /by definition/ - it's pragmatism, with a very vague metric of what is 'helping'.
Are you building like FPGA bitstreams or something? 4 hours seems insanely long for software unless it is literally millions upon millions of lines of code
If I could honest 4 works, hard, and then go home, without worrying about emails coming in or server alerts or whatever, I think I'd be very happy and very productive for that time. I can't say the same now - even when I'm off I'm still at least partially thinking about being on.
The answer to why not diy is usually predominantly available time.
"I don't see how you can take this and draw a conclusion that video games have the same effect on the prefrontal cortex as meditation."

See below.

"Lots of activities can boost the size of various parts of the pre-frontal cortex – video games, for example – but it’s the disconnection of our mind from its “stress center” that seems to give rise to a range of physical as well as mental health benefits, says Taren."

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/what-does-mi...

The funny thing is that, as mentioned before, I almost bought into the meditation hype too.
Thanks! I actually do use Rust as my main professional language (since my company’s product is based on timely-dataflow and differential-dataflow, so it was the only natural choice).

But I’m always curious about how it stacks up against other languages I’m less familiar with that share similar ideas.
Wow that is mesmerizing.

Kudos to you for making such a plainly generally valuable and worthwhile piece of technology, itroot.
This is awesome. The focus on climate pragmatism is exactly what we'd like to channel. I'll post about it on Collective.Energy - if you're involved with tmrow, get in touch!
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That is counterfactual.

Since the 1970s, military spending has decreased as a percentage of government spending and as a percent of GDP, while "for the people" spending - social security, healthcare, etc. - have risen dramatically in both measures.

See http://metrocosm.com/history-of-us-taxes/ and scroll down to the spending breakdown.
I believe in this case it's reasonable to interpret the past imposition as a statement of future intent and resist by proportional means.
Discontinue consumption of substances offered to you by someone who has previously intoxicated you without your consent.
Use violence as necessary to resist being coerced into consumption in proportion to the degree being intoxicated and used for gratification inhibits your survival and pursuit of objective truth.
Would you rather sociological models not contain any physics or math? What do you propose?
There are some core fundamentals you'll need that will help with any web development route you take. Javascript, CSS (SCSS), REST APIs, etc. These are fundamentals that you can self-teach from free code camp, and other online resources. However for the sake of locking in a job, it's easier to come in on a specific framework. Angular, React, Drupal, Wordpress, etc. However, as others have mentioned in this thread, popular frameworks and the jobs that use those can vary city by city. So it's worthwhile to find what the desired skillsets are in your area.
html/css/javscript/backend language of your choice/database of your choice. There are plenty of shops out there that kind of capitalize on people breaking into the field and will pay them lower than industry standard for a few years until they go off to a regular company. Below the industry standard is usually more than what people were making before though so employees are grateful.
>Democracy is more tolerable because no people die (in the open) when the landscape of power changes.

Tell that to the family of a friend's friend that was ambushed and decapitated in the middle of the night by an opposing political party because they made statements denouncing a political party during elections in a Democratic country.

ETA:News story to clarify what I'm talking about.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/29/world/asia/philippines-ne...
The Louvre has astonishing content, but does a terrible job of telling stories. It's not so much a museum as a trophy case: "Look at all the fabulous art we collected when we were rich." Why this art? Why do these pieces go together? None of those questions have an answer. The walls are just covered in art.

Taking down the Mona Lisa isn't the answer to that. The answer is to give the public a reason to look at the pieces leading up to it, and the pieces around it. Tours are one way to get that, but explanatory placards could do it. Take the visitors through a story, any story. Chronological, by artist, by subject, by method of acquisition -- any is better than just "a bunch of paintings on walls". The latter may appeal to people who have the experience to tell their own stories, but the general public doesn't learn anything from the museums except "I don't know why that piece is so famous".

The Musee d'Orsay across the river does exactly that. It's a more modern museum, built around telling stories rather than displaying prizes. The Louvre is a relic of the power of French kings and emperors and the subsequent attempts to share their acquisitions with the public. It's even more glaring with the historic objects, which are relics of colonialism rather than telling the stories of the Egyptians, Mesopotamians, and other cultures who produced them.
Needs to be qualified with what location you're in
I think it can really come down to: Some people want to take the red pill, and some people want to take the blue pill. Why should it matter to you what pill they decide to take? Most of this world lives in some sort of lie or deceit anyway, similar to those in the Matrix.

Your privilege is having a choice because you see above it. Many people don't have that privilege and can't function at that level. I have more than a few friends that can't see past their own emotional trauma and they are now approaching their 40s and some in their 50s. Does it matter if they see the world a different way than us, and in a way that makes them happier?

As long as they are happy than the alternative, does it matter?
But only if you await them in that thread. If you `spawn` them, they can be executed in another free thread; although you'll miss the return value in this case.

So for people new to async/await in rust, how a web server usually works:

Request/response future is spawned to the runtime, and a thread decides to take the future for execution if the runtime uses multithreading.

Inside of this request/response future whatever futures are .awaited will continue the execution in the same thread when ready.

Users can also spawn futures inside the request/response future, which might go to another thread. The result of this future is not available for the spawning thread.

Some executors have special functions, such as `blocking` that will execute the block in another thread, giving the result back to the awaiting thread when finished.
You can take part in ongoing discussions with no judgement or qualification required. If you can help even one person, it will be worth it!
this is a special case of reading the internal GIST spatial index used in PostGIS by the implentation code for operator '<->' , so no joy for N-dimensional search..

You can use a python library inside PostgreSQL using plPython, but supplying the coordinates to the evaluation is not going to be as compact and specialized as this
Memory management errors are just like regular bugs, but they have a disproportionate impact on security.

If the security requirements are permissive, what's the point of investing so much effort in preventing only one category of bug? There's no misconception.
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React is the current biggest front end framework, with Vue growing.
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Why is that impressive? Those two numbers in a vacuum tell us nothing at all. Why isn't the IRS making $50 for every $1 in their budget?

Suppose we cut their budget by 50%, it's possible they've just been wasting money and now they'd make $8 for every $1 in their budget. Great! Suppose we double their budget. If they don't do anything differently they'll make only $2 for every $1 in their budget. etc etc.

There must be some component of their budget that is the part of the IRS that goes after potentially fraudulent tax returns, and presumably increasing or decreasing it will have a yield effect, but your figures have zero to suggest what that is or where the point of diminishing returns may be.

Broadly speaking, context-free numbers that don't actually imply anything (maybe more to the point cannot imply anything without more information) should be viewed with suspicion. :/
Like I mentioned in another comment, there's no quality control and testing in the wild west of VR games on Steam so many of them are terrible and cause motion sickness. My hope with LBE is that the experiences will have been thoroughly researched and tested to mitigate the sickness problem at least. The other advantage to the theme park model is that the experiences last under 10 minutes.
I want to know that too :)
Feels like you're getting rid of one of the greatest parts of remote work - working from home in solitude without the distractions of open working spaces.

If I wanted to work around others, I'd just go rent a desk at a shared working space. I don't see the value added by this 'club'. Please explain.
Thanks. I'm not sure I understood the answer given in the specific post you're liking to (or at least, I don't see how it answers my question). A following response linked to this story: https://www.ccn.com/bitcoin-atm-double-spenders-police-need-... which gives a pretty good answer.
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> There is no short conversation you can have that'll turn a stranger into the kind of friend they're seeking.

I'm actually not sure this is true. And I say that because I'm actually not sure this is true:

> It. Takes. Time.

And I say that because of things like [0], which seems to say that connection is more about vulnerability and depth of understanding than anything else, and achieving that depth can be accelerated.

[0] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/014616729723400...
I'll teach them about the true, true nature of truth, about logic and evidence, and about facts and information. I'll also teach them that they should be skeptical, and that they need to learn to differentiate truth from falsehood. I don't know exactly what I'll teach my kids. I'll probably teach them to trust, and to not believe everything they are told or do. I'm just not sure which lessons I will teach.

What I do know
Can motherboard break from the fan weight? Those huge coolers have solid weight.
There’s hotels that provide this, look for long term hotels. They will have kitchens and everything else. If those don’t work than you are going to have to gamble with Airbnb. I used to use Airbnb for same reason but found inconsistency and don’t have patience to hope the place is adequate. Therefore I went back to hotels.
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Could this leak be a response to Zuckerberg's statements regarding Facebook's political advertising policy?
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Yes, its all well and good looking at things like a Passivhaus for a new build, but in places like the UK there are very few opportunities for new builds, given homes have historically been built to last for decades or centuries rather than be torn down and rebuilt every few years. As a result, 76% of UK housing stock is more than 40 years old and 20% is more than 100 years old[0]. Even after the mass destruction of housing during the Second World War, some of the prefabs (built quickly and only supposed to last 10 years[1]) are still in use over 70 years later (in some cases ironically now listed buildings[2]).

[0] https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/English_housing_st...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefabs_in_the_United_Kingdom

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/society/2009/mar/17/historic-pre...
Or you could use a zero coding backend solution on top of a database like Hasura or PostGraphile.
Actually, at this point its like 7 years. jeez I am getting old.

I live in the bay area. I think my salary is average for my experience level. https://www.levels.fyi/
Do you plan any moderation to combat climate deniers?
Isn't mysticism the most important part? I've only ever heard people who believe in astrology reference that aspect of it (opposed to say the aesthetics of the movement).
> The market can’t seem to distinguish validity of claims

I can't discern the validity of claims and wonder if we would be better if the whole system was abolished.

Can anyone give an example of a patent that was necessary for its intended purpose? According to the U.S. Constitution, the purpose of patents was to encourage inventors to reveal their inventions (to "patent" means to "open up"). Without protection, the thinking goes, geniuses would hide their ideas or give up inventing altogether. But the whole premise is wrong in my experience.

First of all, useful advances are made by highly specialized people working on specific problems in their field. These advances are usually small and cumulative. Every "invention" depends upon a thousand preceding discoveries. Finally, whatever is found is often found independently and concurrently by others.

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https://sivers.org/multiply - Ideas are just a multiplier. They're useless without execution.

https://www.everythingisaremix.info/watch-the-series - Art and science are replete with copying all over the place, by everybody. No one is exempt!
If I'm reading your comment right then the negative price is mostly a an accounting fiction.

If solar farms are bidding -1000, but not getting paid that (i.e. not paying that) when they deliver power, just using it as a placeholder like null, then the price isn't actually -1000.
I think this is one of the best comments in communications.

Struggling to make my point through similar scenarios your explanation hit me.

Do you have more resources so I can improve?
I haven't seen a single internal document on child labor or corporate plans to assassinate the president... This all seems rather tame considering the amount of flack FB has been taking in recent years.
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More materials for the curious:

Some benchmarks here: http://serge-sans-paille.github.io/pythran-stories/testing-p...

Some more benchmark you can run on you own: https://github.com/serge-sans-paille/numpy-benchmarks/

A comparison with Julia and native code: http://serge-sans-paille.github.io/pythran-stories/micro-ben...
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It feels like you're complaining about things in the Rust language without taking the time to understand how the language idioms work. RTFM.

Additionally, you're making snarky comments about how you don't like how the base language doesn't handle something like JS...then reference a third party JS library. Base JS doesn't solve your 'problem' either.

To answer your question, async/await provides hooks for an executor (tokio being the most common) to run your code. You things like that in the executor.

https://docs.rs/tokio/0.2.0-alpha.6/tokio/executor/index.htm...
I would go so far to say web dev is still a superpower IMO. Check out how many of these various products are web based

https://www.indiehackers.com/products?minRevenue=2000
https://www.capterra.com/categories
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Hi,

We can now run Linux desktop on any rooted Android device.It is done via two applications.

Here is a clip of VolksPC OS running on ODROID-N2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbVtqfnRhwI&t=13s

And on ODROID-C2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNzru9WAoYg&t=17s

Vasant
I'm not a fan of any kind of patents because they create a tax on a market that newcomers have to pay to established parties. I'm even less of a fan of patents that are just paper vapourware that only exist to extract value from companies that actually produce value.

The only valid case for a patent, in my opinion, is someone making a unique product, investing in it, providing there's a market for it, and wanting to protect this investment from a better funded competitor trying to swoop in and take over the market without having invested anything in it. Patents exist to protect real investment, not to seek rent from parties who are doing real investments.

No doubt there's some grey area in there, but if you're not somehow involved in serving that market, you've got no business claiming that those who do are violating your paper monopoly that you're not even using. Go use it, then you might have a case. If it's actually innovative and others are clearly taking advantage from your investment.
I think you're missing what the parent is saying: since the majority are poor, they plainly don't rule (since then they wouldn't remain poor). If democracy is defined as "majority rule," and we plainly see that the majority in the US do NOT rule, then the US is not a democracy.
> Democracy is nothing more than a system that replaces swords/bullets with votes. That's it.

Why stop at bullets, why don't you say aircraft carriers or something
I can't imagine you'd want to calorie starve the human body when it needs the calories the most. I guess if you could get all the calories you need while you're un-fasted and can store it all as fat for when you do need it, maybe that would work, but we know that caloric deficits in childhood lead to reduced growth. I really can't see a good argument for children fasting.
When the plane takes off, why doesn't the tail hit the runway?
> I don’t think it’s immoral or particularly hazardous to democracy for individuals to amass a large amount of wealth in their life time.

"Large" is hard to represent when it's multiple orders of magnitude more than the righest we can relate to. $27b in rolls of quarters put end-to-end is enough to go around the entire earth.

I think an Elephant is "large" compared to a human.

The size of any continent is already a lot more than "large" compared to a person.

Here, "large" is more like comparing the diameter of Jupiter to your own height (80 million times the average person). That adjective doesn't quite do it justice.
We already have several other players that have experience building aircraft: Bombardier and Mitsubishi come to mind, and China has a manufacturer that's keen on challenging the duopoly with their jet too.

Don't forget, building a jet isn't that big a deal. Boeing doesn't even make the 737MAX fuselage! It's built by a company called Spirit in Kansas. Boeing doesn't make the engines either, of course (no aircraft manufacturer builds engines, which are surely the most complex and technically challenging part of the plane). Boeing does the engineering, the wings I suppose, and the final assembly.

It seems like it shouldn't be that hard for a smaller competitor to get a capital infusion and scale up to building larger jets.
I also think async (the paradigm) is kind of weird in rust world. I agree with https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-....
What you feel is irrelevant to how the universe works. Just because you "feel" something doesn't mean it's true. The gravitational effect of remote celestial objects is insignificant on something the scale of a human.
An example thing to do that you might be able to replicate in your city: https://www.edinburghsolar.coop/

Co-op and mutual solutions have interesting potential, although this one does rather rely on government subsidies.
Its point structure supports 4 dimensions, but I'm not sure if the Z and M components are part of the distance calculation.

https://postgis.net/docs/manual-3.0/ST_MakePoint.html

Edit: The distance operations are 2D by default and it looks like there are only 3D variants.

https://postgis.net/docs/manual-3.0/ST_3DDistance.html
Back in the 1990s there was a crew taking down a building on the block where I worked. Early on, they needed to remove a section of cornice so that a debris chute could drop straight. How do you cut through a concrete cornice? Well, you lean out the full-height window, hang on with one hand, and operate your jackhammer with the other. It didn't look safe to me. On the other hand, the guy was wearing a hardhat...
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