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So when it happens, will we stop having kids? Because our current population and lifestyle do not seem sustainable. I only see population increasing and lifestyle being more burdensome on environment.
I am gravely concerned about using too much tech in early education, as this will assuredly hinder the development of critical fine motor skills such as handwriting, drawing, painting, sculpting, among many other skills, all of which I learned as a child. Not to mention all of the physical play we had. As a child I remember having to invent games, stories, and adventures. In other words, we were forced to use our imagination, for everything. Perhaps I’m just a cynical and aging critic, but I feel like the overuse of technology in general will make future generations of children lazier, and therefore less creative. I already feel that my own life has been impacted in this way.

Case in point: The widespread use of Grammarly is dumbing down everyone. Why actually learn proper grammar, spelling, common idioms, and syntax, if AI can basically do it for you? What as a society do we gain from such things? I can’t help but imagine that at some point our understanding of language will become so simplified that we’ll need a proxy language to express “real” phrases so that all we have to do is bang out basic ideas on some kind of modified keyboard which will translate it to real language.
Tim Cook is trying his best. But yes they are coasting on previous innovations like Android is, and barely adding new features. Just more RAM and faster CPU.

They killed the Mac Pro by making it look like a garbage can. It is back to ATX standards but way too expensive, which drives people to make Hackintoshes to play MacOS games. I home Apple can get the PlayMac or whatever gaming Mac out soon so people can play games on it without spending thousands on a Mac Pro.
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I agree with parts of the article such as the issue with common core requirements that make it easier for computers to grade.

I do not see STEM being taught as an issue as I think science helps move us forward as a species.

Connecticut passed a statue last year requiring inclusion of computer science in curriculum. The one issue I have with this is they want to retrain the teachers and make them subject matter experts in computer science.

Public Act 19-128 (“An Act Concerning The Inclusion Of Computer Science Instruction In The Public School Curriculum, Programs Of Teacher Preparation And In-Service Training Programs For Teachers”)
They were all used by the military in accidents like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hsiung_Feng_III_missile_mishap

(Actually the missile in this accident was developed in Taiwan.)
does it say what that equates to in terms of net income per hour when it is all said and done?
> That's your choice.

Yep, it's totally someone's choice to live in a neighborhood with affordable housing as opposed to a mansion across the street from their place of employment. Gee, looks like we both know how to make irrational overgeneralizations.
People have said that since 2012. Steve died in 2011. It's now 2020. Have you really never used an Apple Watch or talked to someone who has?
As somebody said, both Taiwan and continental China want a single China with a government in Beijing, as it used to be for centuries.

But they differ drastically in what government they want to see (along with the rest of the political system).
"The chicken sandwich drama is over."

I had Popeye's for the first time one afternoon last week. There was a handwritten sign in the window saying they'd run out of chicken sandwiches for the day :(
If Jackson could turn The Hobbit into a trilogy, surely he could turn three chapters of Tom Bombadil into a miniseries or a rock opera or something.
>Just look at West Virginia to see the long term boons from coal mining

I don't understand what you're getting at. Compare the life of an average person in West Virginia today to the average person in West Virginia before coal mining and the person today is immensely better off. Technological improvements are the payoffs from investment.
> Gitlab is still the team that ...

I just don't get why the internet neither forgets nor forgives. A startup in it's early days makes mistakes, the only real mistake Gitlab made was be fully transparent about theirs.

You vouch for CF (and no beef against them), but you know nothing of their internal privacy or reliability pitfalls. That warm fuzzy feeling you have about CF is a result of their carefully groomed PR coupled with 0% opacity on internals. Again, not saying CF has any issues, but if they did, you wouldn't know
>UL and UR think that that policy is optimal!

Whatever UL and UR are they're introduced as "reward functions". They "see", they "prefer", they "think" etc. Is it normal to anthropomorphize reward functions now?

I find it makes this article hard to read. Is this common in robotics and if so, why would you describe reward functions in such a roundabout way?
I opened an account on Reddit the first day they came online. I watched as the quality of posts degraded into nothing but senseless rabble driven by the desire of people clamoring for karma. I left about 4.5 years ago, which was about the time the censoring was beginning to become a problem. I look at it now and and it is virtually unrecognizable... I don't miss it.
Records are immutable. A normal pojo can be - but you don't know.
It is the style and design of Apple hardware that helps people choose them more often. After all Apple targets the creative arts community.
How else will Apple market the iPhone 12 with Secure Enclave v2™?
When you have no money net income is pretty damn obvious. I'd argue instead that they're actually pretty rational.

The job requires no training and is untaxing both physically and mentally. Despite driver complaints, it's much more flexible than the vast majority of unskilled jobs. I'm sure for most long term drivers, the job basically sucks -- but it's still better than their next best alternative.
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Precisely. This is why I tip $0 on the app and simply tip in cash when my food arrives.
Thanks! An NSA project, named after Godzilla’s archenemy. Also:

> Ghidra's existence was originally revealed to the public via WikiLeaks in March 2017

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghidra
I'm wondering which foreign company would trust today's president.

The current president receives worse approval ratings than Poetin or Xi ( was a Washington company based petition in Europe, Asia,...)

Which is a very hard achievement to reach.
Not to ask the dumb question, but what's the tangible environmental impact of having satellites visible at certain during the night in an unpolluted sky that in-theory burn up when they're decommissioned much like any meteor might?

I don't mean the impact to human projects e.g. astronomy or even to human culture. I mean to the actual environment itself and the life surrounding us, since the argument seems to make the claim that there's a detrimental environmental impact.

> In its reasoning for its categorical exclusion, the FCC states that its actions “have no significant effect on the quality of the human environment and are categorically excluded from environmental processing.” Ryan says that the FCC may have been wrong in this assessment, however. “The FCC has never performed a study showing why commercial satellites deserved to be classified as categorically excluded from review,” he says. “And the evidence shows that these satellites are having an environmental impact. If the FCC were sued over its noncompliance with NEPA, it would likely lose.”

For instance, the obvious environmental impact of this case cited in the article:

> National Institutes of Health [was] defeated by environmental groups on the question of the lawfulness of the agency’s approval of genetically modified bacteria for crops without proper review

because of the unknown risks of engineered genes leaking into the gene pools of their respective organisms and potentially drastically impacting life.

> U.S. Army Corps of Engineers lost a case in which it had approved licenses for gambling barges in Mississippi without proper NEPA review.

Seems easy, substantially increased traffic to the boats has a tangible environmental impact e.g. pollution, littering, etc.

But I fail to see the same argument here... and I do desire to be enlightened. There's probably something extremely simple that's just whooshing over my head.
I first used GrubHub 8 years ago...
Well sucks that it relies heftily on public funds then.
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In case you understand German, it is worth reading the books (or watching the talks) of psychologist Manfred Spitzer. He makes compelling arguments on why in particular our children suffer from “digital dementia”. Among other things, he argues that our brain learns much better when writing with pen and paper than when writing on a keyboard. This resonates with my own experience at university: I remembered stuff much better when I took notes on paper than when I did so using a computer.

Links:
https://www.amazon.de/Digitale-Demenz-unsere-Verstand-bringe...
https://youtu.be/MRrPbNLhEuQ
> words where the etymology was erroneous (ex. scissor
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/scissor)

Seems the better link is https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/scissors

Apparently “chisel” comes from the same source.
Can we have passion and vison that doesn't need reality distorted and instead follows truth and the laws of physics and logic in our universe?
What frustrates me is you can solve several problems at the same time. Say you install some great public showers. You just created some construction jobs. You need somebody to monitor and keep the showers clean. More jobs!!
If this thread continues any further, we're going to start talking about the dark side of the Force.
To people maybe not confident with their form: you can do free weight squats (deadlifts too, I suppose, with empty hands). Just get the form right, then add a small amount of weight. Then, in small increments, add more weight.
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"I’ve literally played arbitrage between Seamless, DoorDash, Postmates, and a restaurant’s own website"

If you bought food on the cheaper platform, and tried to make a profit by selling it for more on another platform, then you would have 'literally played arbitrage'.

It's the same as when you buy an item from an online retailer, that is shipped directly from the manufacturer (e.g. a large ClosetMaid kit). The price at Amazon and Home Depot might be different, even though the same company is supplying and delivering the item to your home.
Not all orders are like that, but a lot can be, and it depends on the region.

I worked GrubHub back in 2018 when I was between jobs(took some time off to do side projects and did deliveries to make ends meet). These apps play this psychological game on you where you have to accept something like 95% of orders in order to get more quantity and quality(supposedly), so some people are desperate to take all the shitty no-tip orders just so they have a shot at getting better ones.

The funny thing was the lowest acceptance rate I had was 3%, and that's because I hung around a rich area of town and waited for those sweet $20-$50 orders that were only a few miles distance. Always felt like I got the golden ticket. I never got fired for having that low of an acceptance rate.

There were some fellow drivers I talked to on Reddit that got kind of a bad deal. They would drive for GrubHub or DoorDash at a town in Podunk, Nowhere with low demand and would often get sent those kind of orders that were 10+ miles away for $3. If that happens to be the demand, then you're either screwed taking bad orders or you're screwed if you reject too many of them and you get fired.

I think the reason I never got fired is because the LA area, at least while I was doing it, was hot(figuratively) and GrubHub just wanted to fill up the market with as many drivers as possible. In areas where they've fully met the demand, then your arse can be on the line if you reject too many orders.

Overall, it was a fun job to have for a while. But it would suck big-time if I had to actually do it for a living. Thank god I'm good enough at software engineering.

EDIT: Saw lots of hilarious things happen while I was on the job. It's amazing how many women order food while they're taking a bath and then either forget to answer their phone or they come to the door wrapped in towels. WTF! I once delivered a 2 dozen donuts to this one guy at ~10:30pm who was super high accidentally walked into the door before opening it. Also had some sad moments, like those times I delivered to an elder hospice. This one sick old lady wanted to give me a handsome tip, but I didn't want to accept it because I just felt like she deserved that ice cream in her condition and was just happy I brought it to her. But she insisted because she said it might be her last ice cream. :(
So you'd place only 95% of it in a bond. That's not the problem with the idea, the problem is that you need a car.
I'm pretty sure Elladan and Elrohir were perfectly comfortable traveling the Paths of the Dead as well.
What do you mean, "why should the customer care"? If I'm being told that what I'm paying is a tip, I expect it to go to the server. I expect the administration fee to cover administration, I expect delivery to cover deliver, and I expect the tip to go to the driver, not to be taken by management whenever profits are down or their pricing model fails. But since companies can't be trusted to be honest with the consumer about what I'm paying for (even when spelled out with line items), I only ever tip cash when my food arrives.
As more apps have adopted MacOS' dark mode, I've been having a nice experience letting it change throughout the day.
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They do alright with alcohol and tobacco, and even general goods! Black and grey markets make it very hard to get trustworthy information. Imagine if any product in a grocery store could poison you! The threat of recourse through the legal (and criminal) system does not provide protective pressure to black markets.
You can do revenue share. That does not necessary involve equity in the company. You can request equity in the business but the stakeholders really decide what to do with profits. Young businesses usually do not share profits (assuming they even have them) and reinvest in the company (assuming there are profits). Profits (not revenues) may be shared among stake holders as dividends but it never happens in startups.

However, this is something to consider. It looks like you have a cash flow problem. Equity or future revenues do not pay your bills right now. And an app may end up to be worth 0 so even the future value can be 0. That is probably the case. How many of your friend that asked you to build an app for them are making any money 6 months after you talk with them?

It is not impossible but I would be very surprised that an app that you can build in 2 days and require minimal maintenance can really make money to somebody unless there is already a healthy business that can use it.
Oh no, they used CSS! Heaven forfend one delicately and with restraint use something supported in nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine out of ten thousand browsers. Heaven forfend. A pox on their house.

"Sets fonts" is misleading--the creator knows and must know that the default in virtually every browser is whatever dog's-breakfast default serif there is. (Yes, yes, "the browser can change it," because we all know that every user is an artisanal crafter of browser preferences and truly, deeply cares to do that instead of go to a site where somebody thought that through in its presentation.)

It's not 1997 anymore. HTML is no longer a document markup language, it is an application-and-presentation toolkit, and whether or not you or I like it--I don't particularly, there are better ones--doesn't excuse doing bad work because we pretend users who happen to be fully congruent with ourselves want it.
I think something that got lost in the conversation is that a big part of my personal site is experimenting with different ways of delivering content. My current experiment was to see if I could serve a git repo as-is without any build step, and what the trade-offs would look like. Unfortunately everyone just assumed I was ignorant or lazy.
Agreed. I only tip in cash, make sure the driver knows it's for them and NOT for management, and then leave a review for the driver.
"This is what happens when your business becomes a commodity to another business"

'Commoditize your complements' was mentioned in this 2002 article by Joel Spolsky:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/
Not weird at all. Fit bodies are attractive, dancing is attractive, skirts are attractive. And your mind gets to fill in the blanks with whatever it prefers!
You have a good point about tech getting bigger. What worries me is that tech starting to profit more from war. Surveillance , GIS, AI, chips, robotics... are already a huge area and expanding. It is not a stretch to imagine a scenario like facebook signing a deal to provide intelligence, google or amazon providing infrastructure.
Not much actually (I've worked in a fab), the entire floor is porous to allow air through it and fab HVAC systems attempt to create laminar flow from top to bottom [1].

[1] [Photo] https://www.entegris.com/content/dam/web/pure/rare-air/FAB4S...
Do not condescend the poor.
You store them wherever you like, encrypted with a public key. The important thing is the decryption key, which never has to leave the airgapped laptop or the printout in a vault. The law doesn't say the files have to be in a particular format or instantly viewable, any more than it says they need to be stored in an unprotected S3 bucket.
Focus on one and finish it.
Mechanical analog computers for fire control have been around since before WWI, from when the increasing range of big naval guns made any sort of point-and-shoot ineffective.

A lot of interesting material on British systems of that time can be found at the Dreadnought Project:

http://www.dreadnoughtproject.org/tfs/index.php/Category:Fir...

http://www.jutland1916.com/tactics-and-technologies-4/range-...
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As a service, the gig economy deliveries are very low quality and low accountability. I just walked into a Mission taqueria and had to wait on not one but two Doordashers. The first one left with the second's order, came back, and said, "never mind, I'm cancelling."

Recently Safeway has also made a move to use Doordash. My parents have used Safeway's delivery for years and the change is terrible there for a different reason: an order from a grocery store is likely to be 10-20x bigger and more expensive than an equivalent restaurant order. The scale turns it into a fundamentally different job - how much you're lifting, the best type of vehicle, the value of the cargo, the emphasis of the throughput/latency equation. Each time since, when they get an order, it's by someone in a hatchback who is unused to the work. Safeway drivers previously did not accept tips, and so one of the big draws of Doordash is missing. Since the stores have handed off the customers to Doordash, updates on delivery status have become more difficult to get.

Identity is a pretty critical element to this, it turns out. If the restaurant knew their regular deliveryperson and could coordinate that info, they wouldn't send out wrong orders. If Safeway could specify drivers from a pool of truck drivers with freezer units and connect the customer to them directly, as they had before the change, there would be less of an unknown in ordering from them.

On the other hand, it's a case of "it can probably only go up from here" since competing on quality is likely to become the case if the economy stays fully employed and regulation starts creeping in.
That's part of it, but there's other reasons too. Promit[1] had a nice post that described four goals of the new generation of APIs: improving validation, reducing the complexity of the driver, allowing useful multi-threading, and giving developers more control over how the available hardware is used (e.g. multi-GPU). It's not an exhaustive list, but he filled in some of the backstory quite well.

[1] https://www.gamedev.net/forums/topic/666419-what-are-your-op...
Have you read "Schild's Ladder" by Greg Egan?
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There are already enough disturbances that a 30 minute exposure is impractical. Astrophotographers tend to use exposures around 30 seconds. It's true that more satellites mean that astronomers will have to tweak their observation methods and/or reduce their observation windows, but it's not a showstopper. At worst it's an inconvenience to them.

If we were to employ the reversal test[1], the concern about astronomy would be a non-problem. Imagine if the entire planet was covered by the equivalent of 4G cell networks. And imagine if some astronomers asked us to destroy those networks so that some of their work could be made more convenient. Imagine all of the people affected by this network. All of the lives saved by emergency calls, all of the remote locations made digitally accessible to the rest of humanity, all of the scientific experiments in jungles, deserts, tundra… cameras and microphones and sensors reporting data through this global satellite network… imagine all of that destroyed so that some astronomers could be relieved of an inconvenience. That is absurd. Yet that is the world that some people want to live in.

It's so clear to anyone whose view isn't so parochial, so local in time and space, so blinkered by where and when they were born. Does anyone think that astronomers will still be preventing the launch of satellite constellations in the year 2100? In 2200? In 2500? Clearly not.

I'd rather the improvement happen in my lifetime than after. Launch away.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversal_test
There's a standardized File API https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/File and a nonstandard FileSystem API being driven by Google https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/FileSystem

But yeah it seems network sockets are going away. Honestly that seems good from a security perspective but I will miss the mosh app for CrOS.
Absolutely.

The best way to hide the secret is to make adversary believe that secret does not exist
Several family members and friends have Apple Watches.

As far I can tell there is nothing significant about the devices. They're a complicated way to stay distracted with a reasonably okay medical monitor built-in.

They don't seem to be a game-changer the way the iPod or iMac was.

I could, of course, be very wrong.
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Generally I've chalked these feelings up to a certain type of existential dread. Described in this article[1] fairly well.

Kind of reminds you of the total perspective vortex from the hitch hikers guide to the galaxy. Truly, on a universal scale even the most important and impacting human on an earth scale does about as much as a neutrino interacting with us.

[1] https://medium.com/s/story/are-you-suffering-from-existentia...
>Priceless!

Weird then that he didn't ask the individual to pay for it.