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>> Panda Express the person asks if you want to donate a few dimes for charity

These requests burn me up. The cashier at Super Store asks "would you like to donate $5 to charity?" What charity? It's nutrition focused for school kids; what kind of monster wants little kids to go hungry?

Then you find out it's the Weston (controlling family) charitable organization, they use the money to buy food through their own organization and benefit from the tax credits... no thanks.

My process:

1. Sit down with your family and decide what causes you'd like to support,

2. Do some research to identify organizations that are cost-effective with their money,

3. Make a commitment on an annual or reoccurring basis,

4. Be the dick who says "no" to every other casual request at your front door, stores, etc.
Aesthetics are pretty objective despite some people refusing to acknowledge beauty in favor of their own ugly idea.

I don't even like Apple and I can say people like stainless steel more than plastic.

That said, if you bought a product because of the color, I got bad news for you.
Perhaps you would benefit from a customizable latency on autocomplete, similar to what I've implemented when building autocomplete form fields. You don't want stuff popping up with every key press or even as someone is still typing and presumably understands what they want to type next.

If you could customize the lag after ceasing to type a key and match it to your normal typing cadence I imagine your experience and utility from IDE autocomplete would be much greater.
Having a masters degree in X is a "formal qualification" but does not give you any more ability to perform more research after doing that degree than anyone else, in the terms (money) you are talking about.
For anyone curious about the intricacy of the guidelines of the Apple logo: check this out here:
https://www.applearchive.org/1987-feed/apple-logo-standards-...

It goes into absolute depth into the do's and don'ts of their logo, which I find quite frankly interesting to see from a designer's perspective.
Allow me to offer an optimistic view.

There are solutions in progress - nuclear tech, carbon capture, etc - and we'll come up with technology we can't yet predict. We're getting better at making things more efficient. Countries have fewer kids and care more about the environment as they get richer, they tend to clean the rivers and air. Trends have been positive the past few decades as poverty has decreased substantially and continues to.

Humans are good at solving slow moving disasters, even when they're of global scope. Remember the ozone hole scare, which was solved beyond expectation. The year 2000 problem, solved beyond expectation. It was long thought we were about to run out of oil and food, solved beyond expectation (indeed creating opposite problems).

We tend to solve these. Climate change may well end up being one of these things that freaked us out for a while, but we figured it out. Then we'll move onto the next slow moving disaster and solve that too.
>It will likely affect some earthbound astronomy significantly, but much (most?) of the most important work in modern astronomy is satellite based.

I'm not an astronomer but I'm not convinced that that's the case. The number of space telescopes pales in comparison to the number of terrestrial observatories. Moreover, advances like adaptive optics have done a lot to close the gap between ground and space capabilities (for optical telescopes). Even once you've invested in expensive tech like adaptove optics, a telescope in space still costs an order of magnitude more than one on the ground (thats being really conservative. JWST has already cost ~10x more than the most expensive ground telescope ever, and the thing hasn't even launched yet)

There were a few space based radio telescopes in the past, but I don't think there are any now. Imagine building something like the Arecibo Observatory[1] or VLA[2] in space. And speaking of the VLA, some of the techniques for getting high quality results (e.g. interferometry without physically conjoining the receivers) are difficult if not impossible to do in space.

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

[2]: 27 of these guys, which are able to move around precisely on rails to generate constructive interference with the different waves they're receiving: https://public.nrao.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/vla_panor...
I would like to point out that there is a movement within tabletop games to create new games that are either refined clones of old-school D&D (particular B/X Moldvay-Cook D&D) or capture the spirit of those older games.

It's called OSR and stands for Old School Revival/Renaissance. Titles include: Old School Essentials, Dungeon Crawl Classics, Labyrinth Lord, OSRIC, and many others.
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I see no mention of emacs' dynamic completion, which I've been an addict of for several decades now. Rather than autocompletion based on some defined domain of possibilities, dynamic completion backward searches through the buffer to find completions. Keep hitting the key (I use Ctrl-/) and it will eventually search every buffer you currently have loaded.

I'm sure one could set up some automatic completions-generating target in a build system that could be fed into an IDE. Well, I'd certainly hope so. But emacs' dynamic completion works so well for me, with no work to get the full benefit no matter what I'm writing - code, a letter, financial docs, anything at all where I just want to hit Ctrl-/ to finish off that slightly-longer than usual term that I just used a few lines earlier.

Yum.
Autocomplete is the main reason why I preferred Microsoft Visual Studio over other environments when I was in school; and then why I gravitated towards Microsoft tools as a professional.

It's not just memorizing: When working with a new or unfamiliar API, it's very easy to guess and navigate this way.

To be quite honest, when I work in environments without autocomplete, I feel like I'm learning slower then when I learn in Microsoft Visual Studio.
I would say keep your own copy of the warnings - email them to yourself or similar.

When shit hits the fan if the company wanted to throw you under the bus they could delete them remotely from your machine or work mailbox and then pretend the warnings never existed.
I've not heard of parachute jumps for charity in the USA. Is it more popular in the UK?

And if so, is it possible the existence of the NHS – making participants & charities somewhat more indifferent to the medical costs – is what's helping the popularity (& resource waste) here, in a classic 'moral hazard' situation?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_hazard

Have UK charities just figured out a way, via a slight nudge to wannabe parachuters, to siphon off some of the value of NHS coverage into their own program funds?
> Bright, fast-moving things are pretty terrible.

Why is that? Almost everything astronomy studies isn't fast-moving. Shouldn't it be easy to filter out that noise?
> Guile runs elisp just fine

While this may be the case, my understanding was that once the codebases were combined and guile-emacs builds were brought online, they encountered a severe performance drop from vanilla Emacs due to back-and-forth string conversion between Guile's Unicode strings and the Emacs internal enhanced string type. I thought that the project was abandoned after finding no obvious resolution to the problem short of a complete rewrite of all Emacs string handling.
> You could completely automate it, remove the human and nothing would change from the outside.

Right, but my point is that following a bunch of translation rules from one language to another is not the same thing as understanding a language. That's not what humans are doing when they use language.

> The solution probably isn't symbolic but numeric, but that hardly changes anything - you still need a lot of math to consciously solve such an equation numerically.

This is assuming the brain is doing math. Even deeper than that, it's assuming that math is something more than a specialized human language. That math exists in nature to be harnessed by neurons.
JWST is being built to do things that are truly impossible on Earth. It is an infrared telescope that will image things that cannot be seen through Earth's atmosphere.

JWST is not the first IR telescope (Spitzer Space telescope, retiring this month comes to mind, 0.85 m diameter primary), but its size will allow both improved resolution (diffraction limit falls like 1/diameter) and improved collection efficiency (grows like diameter^2). Without constellation-flying and interferometric telescopes (see Keck Observatory), one cannot get either one from an array of small telescopes.

There are a lot of scientists grumpy about JWST because of its huge budget, but as long as JWST works, the view it gives of our universe will be spectacular. At this point, I think everyone really wants JWST to work, as so much has been sacrificed to make it possible.
Read again: Coding is NOT a real time performance activity, thus can not be compared with aviation and surgery in that way. Pairing is a requirement to do aviation and surgery reliably and accurately, but is completely optional for coding well, and arguably reduces quality of code in many cases.
WTF is this green tech company doing with moss?
I just want Taleo to be disrupted into oblivion.
Can adaptive optics be applied to filter out objects like Starlink satellites?
I totally agree. Main mistake is customizing the ERP to the company. I also noticed that what usually goes smoothly is the accounting. I believe that the reason for that is that accounting - at least in italy - is a quite standardized process and rarely companies have a special kind of accounting, so there's no need to customize it and screw it up.
The reason why in the US is because you have a very real chance of getting shanked or violently attacked if you do 'notify a violator' in public.
Oracle just released 334 security fixes in critical patch update
I know it can be frustrating to present work and criticism veers off to focus on other things, but thank you for being receptive. Its much better now :-)
Scientists discover secret to bird flight: 'natural velcro feathers'
Intel patches six security issues
SpaceX could provide a handful of at-cost launches for astronomy projects per year. It wouldn't fix anything for the ground telescopes but could be a bit of an olive branch for the community.
Your best bet is to invest that money in a Total Market ETF like Vanguard's VTI.
https://investor.vanguard.com/etf/profile/VTI

It should net you 5-6% a year compounded over the long-run.
>This is what leads to nightmarish Java type names ("AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBean") that makes this language practically demand auto-complete.

I suppose this is really just a matter of opinion, but it seems strange to argue that autocomplete is bad because it can be so useful that you'll definitely want to use it. Sure, it's a separate argument whether "Factory" and "Bean" are useful, but long, verbose, meaningful names are good in my opinion. A random example taken from the React source code: `attemptHydrationAtCurrentPriority`.
https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/ep27pk/probabl...
There is also the possibility that we miss an open window of opportunity. This might be a key resource running out, a plague or global war or even an asteroid impact.

That might close the window of opportunity and not give us a second chance. So better not risk it. :-)
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Or it could be like in Culture (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_series)
The weather that we have here today is warmer than the ocean climate around NYC

Don't wear your shorts out tonight because it is going to be <20F and snow.
I would request you to consider web apps as well. I tried submitting http://arcadejack.com but no luck. Here is what I had entered as comment: "Consider this no-bullshit math game to help kids practice math. Free, no iap, no login. Everything is stored locally."

Edit: Still super early in dev and pin for "grown up" tab is 1222
What would be a good practical project to learn about DSP? Preferably in Python, and preferably relevant to music somehow.
In fact, people did go to jail.

Here's just one example, but there are others...

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/seven-defendants-mortgage-ori...

Also, the CEOs and employees of the banks like Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch in question large portions of their life savings.

The CEO of Lehman, for example, lost 50% of his net worth - over 4 Billion dollars. ...and obviously destroyed his reputation. Well deserved, of course, but it's hardly "no punishment".

...the same was true with most if not all senior employees. All of them had large portions of their compensation in equity stock options. I'm, unfortunately, speaking from experience.

It's one thing to say the people "responsible" didn't get punished enough - that's true. But most people at these banks definitely suffered, materially.
The 60s through the 80s were the coldest years of the 20th century. 1978 saw the worst winter on record for New York. The 80s saw record freezes for central Florida that devastated the citrus industry.

Note the central Florida citrus industry was thriving in the first half of the 20th century with freezes being extremely uncommon. During the 70s, it even snowed once in Miami.
I think you're missing OP's point:

Once the sun is set in their orbit, they should be invisible both to the eye and telescopes.
I'm on the side of lisp here, but in OOP you'd usually write something like

val.firstFn().secondFn()
This is what I'm wondering. It seems pretty trivial to filter out with some basic image processing.
Taking a moment to proselytize on the value of color laser printers. They're well worth the investment. Inkjet printers are one of the greatest sources of human misery.
I don't compete with that kind of games but IAP/ads is the business model of 99% of games which makes money, which is obviously a goal.
Producing a product of quality is a top priority but it's not enough, you need marketing too in order to have market adoption.
There is many games of quality that people don't want to buy. Making a paying game in 2020 on mobile is definitely a wrong strategy choice for most of the games.
I just think the neutrality, reduction in resource use and sustainability has to come first. Otherwise Jevons. Of course there can be intelligent overlap. I would hope that as nations move near to neutrality they must have put effort into a rethink of agriculture and forestry (and every other human activity).

Now they can re-plant locally appropriate species and create new forest that will eventually appear to be entirely natural ancient woodland or rain forest. Forest that's destined to be mainly left alone as carbon sequestration. Along with wood production that's sympathetic to the planet and sustainable.

Greening deserts feels, to me, like a "near neutrality" re-wilding project. Something we can think of adding in a push to carbon negative, to undo some of the damage done. Something to do after we have sustainable, renewable electricity everywhere network to desalinate and irrigate. Something that can be carefully seeded to take account of species and that appears and acts natural, and stays put as national park or reservation. Without destroying yet another wilderness.

Not as a green project slapped down as Deus ex machina solution in a world that's not yet moving to neutrality. That risks making it worse. In fact it will almost certainly make it worse as coal and oil is still permitted to keep on looking for new markets and uses.
I feel bad for people who don't use worldview, like the scientists that discover things you thought were true already.
I don't really know where you're coming from - Guile is a leading implementation of Scheme. It's valuable by itself.
> So now I suppose my Chromebook will be soon a useless brick.

ChromeOS devices don't, in general, rely on Chrome applications any more than windows laptops do. The vast majority of the "apps" you might see on your home bar are, in fact, just web links. Is there a specific app you're worried about?

Some of your branding confusion is, in fact, exactly what Google is trying to treat here. "Chrome Apps" were a particular API for persistent web applications. It doesn't mean "apps on Chrome" and it doesn't mean standards-compliant progressive web apps.
The most significant difference in my experience is with dynamically typed languages. I started to write some code in Lua in a simple editor. It worked, but I was very slow, because I made many silly mistakes, mostly typos or trivial errors and those manifested only at runtime, requiring full restart of an application and repeating all actions until that code is run. Then I switched to IDE which highlighted silly errors and allowed autocomplete which eliminated typos and my productivity was few times better. I'm sure that it'll be the same with JavaScript or Python.
Absolutely. It's true that Intel CPUs have a history of bugs, and it's always a danger when working with any CPU. But unless you really, really know what you're doing you probably didn't, especially if you are doing something relatively basic and think you've somehow uncovered a new bug.
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Wouldn't it be cool if the author could post scans of the material alongside their analysis so you could follow along? Without 1978's copyright extension, they could have! These documents would have become part of the public domain in 2006 (or 2034 if the authors chose to renew in 2006; seems unlikely). Our current state of copyright-length-insanity is actually very new. It didn't have to be this way.

https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2020/shrinking...
The X.509 structure does put all of this together, it's just that cryptographers will tend to refer to the actual numbers which vary from one to another as the "public key" as a shorthand, they know the rest of the context is important but it's not what they're talking about right now.

In RSA for example there's a public exponent, yours is almost invariably going to be 65537 and most of the time nobody will even mention this parameter, but the "same" key with exponent 3 would actually be a different key than yours.

In code such shorthand becomes a bug.

If you only allow a handful of named algorithms the bug is essentially useless to adversaries. Microsoft's non-standard decision to allow parametrised curves makes it into a huge attack surface.
Are there many people playing bridge these days? I'm in my early 30s and was one of only half a dozen members of my school's bridge club (Grammar school, in England), most of our opponents were older folk, we all thoroughly enjoyed match days but I doubt many British schools have bridge clubs, is it popular elsewhere in the world?
I would also recommend trying the process on a wide range of existing software you can get your hands on (let's say PostgreSQL or something similarly big). This will reduce the risk of any edge-case that your mock didn't cover.
yeah but which one of the 38 citations makes this statement? I vastly prefer wikipedia's style of having direct inline citations for statements that are making claims.
> universal public education is a recent thing.

Not that recent - it's been around since the 1750s:

"The education reform was met with hostility particularly by peasants who wanted the children to work in the fields instead. Maria Theresa crushed the dissent by ordering the arrest of all those opposed." -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Theresa#Education
There is an upper limit to the amount of CO2 that soil absorbs - it's clearly not infinite. There is an equilibrium in the Earth's natural Carbon cycle.

Once a soil matures (a process that might take many decades), the amount of CO2 retained vs emitted reaches equilibrium.
I love the early 2000's Apple aesthetic. I'm not sure if it was actually really good, or I just associate it with a happy time in my life.

I still have an iTunes playlist with all of the music from the dancing silhouette iPod commercials, and I get the warm and fuzzies when I listen to it.

I wish there was a high-quality archive of these commercials online to relive some of those memories. Unfortunately, every time I look for them on YouTube, they're incomplete copies of over-compressed copies of watermarked copies of cropped copies of altered copies of something someone recorded off what looks like low-grade Betamax.
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Right, but that means that stealth costs mass (weight) and means less satellites per launch. So that means making them less visible costs more money.

For non spy satellites where stealth isn't one of the top goals, that might mean people don't do it.

Also, typically one does not simply ask a surveillance agency how they do things. They would probably respond with something like, "NO SUCH PERSON AT THIS ADDRESS, RETURN TO SENDER."
> It's so simple things like truck drivers who prefer to keep their diesel running during loading/unloading

Well, one reason is that it might not turn on again. A lot of mechanical faults happen at startup (or shutdown).

In the US Air Force, C-5s are notorious for not turning back on again once you power them off. Hence, if you just landed in a remote area, you better keep those engines going, because if you power everything off to save energy you might be stranded until a repair crew can fly out.
Big Charities are fundraising companies with a branch of operations which do some actual good.