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Thats the value of Mars. It forces whatever is built there to be sufficient and is largely a one way trip. A moon base will probably function more like a research station on Antarctica. New supplies will be shipped, people will transition back home every 4-12 months.

For health reasons you'll want to avoid people spending too much time on Lunar gravity. A similar issue exists on Mars, but causes the opposite result. Due to the time scales involved with sending someone to Mars and returning them, it will be a larger health risk for them to return to Earth than stay on Mars (3-9 month trip to Mars + mission time + 3-9 month trip back).

Think about the impact on culture as well. The sort of perspective you have working at a job site that you will only spend 4 months at is very different from the sort of perspective you have working at a home you expect to die in 30 years later. People that don't expect to come back to Earth may have kids on Mars. Most of the Martian kids will not be able to come back to Earth because of cost and health reasons.

A Mars research station is far more dangerous, more likely to fail, but if it succeeds is far more likely to result in long term habitation of an other planetary body.
I thought it was a deliriant
Volunteers can only do so much. Money is a powerful motivator and hence Linux is head and shoulders above its brethren because it has vast corporate involvement. And it still can't compete with Windows (in terms of hardware support for desktops and workstations) which tells you how much the hardware and software industries are black boxes...
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> You cant teach a class full of elementary schoolers 'from home.'

Why not? Kids seem perfectly willing to sit in front of screens — they would probably be perfectly willing to sit in front of screens on a group chat, learning from a teacher and interacting with their friends.

> You cannot manufacture electronics 'from home.'

A robot factory can! Granted, that switch won't be so great for the human workers who used to do that job.
After a brief poke, this seems like some highfalutin language around a random collection of pirated files, like an old FTP server from 1990... with the same "bandwidth exceeded" errors.
I did -- thankyou. He3.
Thank you. I'm glad to hear. Perhaps best to discuss via a github issue if you have further questions or suggestions?

I'm not entirely sure the concern over plaintext, if the request is over https and it's signed, but happy to explore options :)
Best thing I've read this year. Couldn't agree more.
IMHO, there are quite a few reasons small "organic" (certified or not) farms like our CSA are more sustainable:

- Small scale focuses more on adapting crops to the land rather than adapting land to the crops (using fertilizer, pesticides, herbicides, irrigation, etc.)

- Crop rotation allows the land to produce more yield in the same space without chemical augmentation

- Reduced emissions from transportation (the farm is about 10 miles away)

- Fresher means better taste, so we eat more vegetables—and therefore less meat; and we also throw away less food (especially since our CSA uses a points system that allows us to choose veggies we're more likely to eat)

- Reduced packaging use

- No treatments required to preserve freshness (I know someone who has a severe intolerance for corn who has to be extremely careful with fresh vegetables, as they're often sprayed with a corn-based preservative)

- More genetic variety, since freight-tolerance isn't nearly as important
No offense, but you could not possibly be more wrong. While just 1% the quantity of CO2 is enormous and large important resource. With CO2, ice and martian soil you got everything to get plants to grow. Nothing can grow on the moon unless you import carbon.

Also CO2 can be used with electrolysis of water and sabatier reaction to produce methane which can be used as rocket fuel. The fact that the atmosphere is almost pure CO2 makes this much easier to do than on earth. This is also important feedstock for producing plastic.

If you want to build any advance industrial base, you need to be able to produce plastic. This is a huge disadvantage of the moon. You are limited to metals and rock.
Does enforcement count as infrastructure? As discussed, laws/signs without enforcement do little. Is seeing police that rare that everyone would risk it? Accountibility is foremost before progress.
I guess I am a bit curious as to why this is being posted now since Fig has existed for a while. People talked about it and the fact that the founders of it used it for funding of Psychonauts 2. It definitely has had some success stories such as What the Golf? which is available on Apple Arcade already and I found quite fun. Outer Wilds and to a lesser extent Pillars of Eternity 2 are also games that seem to have been successful that used the platform.
Well... you know... housing in California is expensive.
> So, let's cave in to peer pressure or management dictates and continue down the wrong path (technically/socially)?

That's not alignment. For alignment to happen, everybody should be on the same page. And any party can tank this if they refuse to negotiate.

I read this as getting alignment between all parties is something that leads to successful projects and therefore is something that should require attention and effort to make happen.

I've ruminated on Jeff Bezos/Amazon's "Disagree and commit" leadership philosophy a bit and think it pertains here.

Leaders are obligated to respectfully challenge decisions when they disagree, even when doing so is
uncomfortable or exhausting. Leaders have conviction and are tenacious. They do not compromise for the
sake of social cohesion.
Once a decision is determined, they commit wholly. [0]

Where I think "leaders" is a quality of a person's actions, not a job title.

[0]: https://www.amazon.jobs/en/principles
Symfony (https://symfony.com/) and Slim (http://www.slimframework.com/) are also worth looking at. Though since Symfony has become more modularized, I think it can also be used as a micro framework.

I've also started looking at Flask and Django of Python, can't help the feeling, that the Python frameworks are a bit more mature in terms of breaking changes.
But what sentence would be reasonable? 25k to life?
https://parazite.the-eye.eu/

Hmmmmmmmmm
Right, I don't think it's necessarily the people that are _for_ PHP are ignoring the past, it's that the people _against_ PHP are still stuck in it.
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> Windows support was added in Turbo Pascal for Windows.

I think Turbo Pascal for Windows was like a branch, but then TP7/BP7 brought it into the mainline. Just before the mainline was reworked into what became Delphi.
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Now imagine if all the countries would not produce unnecessary waste... We have some serious problems when it comes to consumerism and excessive waste. We need to become more self aware about the environment we live in and contribute more, in a positive way, in our communities.
Louis Rossmann (independent MacBook repair owner and Youtuber) has recently been flying all over the US fighting for right-to-repair (r2r), from Maine to New York to Washington state to possibly Hawaii now. He's even learning about the plights of farmers unable to get their equipment fixed after they repair it themselves at harvest time because a factory-authorized tech has to use a factory magic box to flip a magic bit somewhere in the tractor to clear an error, while 20 farmers also want their self-disabled tractors reenabled too.
It's also interesting, as a platform, in that it allows users to actually invest, rather than "here, take some of my money and maybe I'll get a videogame in two years". Riskier, yes, but I think ultimately healthier for both fans and developers.
I'm unclear what is "out there" exactly in his statement.

According to the WHO cancer is the 4th leading cause of death for High-Income Countries [1].

[1] https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/the-top-10-...
Given that humans crossed it, resulting in the extinction of the majority of megafauna in the Americas... yes?

The Clovis people are long gone, and prosecuting their descendants would be pointless and cruel. So I find myself agreeing with the first half of your sentence.
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> Why not?

Because behavior supervision and response is a significant and integral (that is, as well as necessary function accompanying the actual instruction, it is a component of the pedagogy) part of teaching children.
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Phoenix Point too. Backed that one when it came out for $25. I'm not happy with the game, but people seem to enjoy it.
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I have only ever funded one project on Fig, and I regretted it. The developers missed their release target by several years, which wouldn't be that big a deal except that they were also pretty poor communicators for a lot of that time. Then they went Epic exclusive right before release.

I'm not saying this reflects badly on Fig per-se, just crowdfunding in general. I'll never do that again.
That seems to be a big difference to me. I wonder if this is more like SeedInvest than KickStarter, but more people understand the Kickstarter model. I can't look now, because I'm getting a "site can't be reached" error.
Totally agreed. And I think it's no accident that white-run schools don't end up teaching the history of white violence. Between the organized propaganda campaigns of groups like the Daughters of the Confederacy [1], the desire everywhere for history to instill pride and obedience in children, and the natural tendency not to want to think about thinks that are personally unpleasant, I'm not shocked that I had to find out about this stuff entirely by accident and on my own. Pure POSIWID, of course. [2]

[1] For example, the Confederate Catechism: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2017/05/29/con...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha...
Kickstarter asks the community to shoulder the risk of development -- you put your money in, with explicitly no guarantee that you'll get a game out of it (just a guarantee of a good-faith effort to put the game out), much less a good game.

As much as the big publisher model trends towards games that feel somewhat alike and tend to chase trends, it moves the burden of risk onto an entity that's designed to assume that risk.
just in case someone didn't have the link https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h...
I think most other languages and frameworks work via a more declarative API - "if a GET request to /this comes in, return that". I had to look it up / remind myself how it works in PHP as well the other day, and it's a bit more involved:

- Create a .htaccess file that rewrites /api/x/y/z to /api/index.php/x/y/z
- Read $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'] for the /x/y/z
- Read $_SERVER['REQUEST_INFO'] for the HTTP method (GET/POST/etc)
- Create the response starting with some calls to `header()`
- 'echo json_encode($resp);'

I'm sure all that is abstracted away in e.g Laravel though. The PHP standard library could also do with an overhaul for modern applications for requirements like this though.
Am I the only one to whom the third and the fourth boys in the bottom row seem kind of weird? Like if they were much older than they're supposed to be. Is this normal for Polish kids or is this some malnutrition-induced sickness?
There is nothing stopping you from building self-sufficient and secluded colonies on Earth as well. Svalbard has a no-visa-needed policy and is barely populated. If you can convince the Norwegian government to sell you land, you can build your colony there and will mostly be kept alone (compared to a colony in say Sahara which lies on a heavily populated continent).
Heh, that's a bit awkward... Anyway, went into some details about why they are bad.
I wouldn’t say marketing is his skill. His skill is getting shit done. The only reason why we listen to his (crazy) words is because he actually does what he sets out to do.
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I own a few of them, as do I cars. I have so far managed not to murder anyone with either. Whats your point? We also have a lot of crime and an individualist attitude, and some large unintergrated culture bubbles
which likely contribute more.

Murder is in the intent, not the tool.
It's just below in the article. Scroll to "How to decrypt a WhatsApp media file". Then read the explanation, then the commented code.
It's based on the H2 and the H1 geared hub axles would need to be heavily modified to handle electric motors. The H1 was full of defects. I replaced the pitman and idler arm 3 times, ball joints twice, engine once (paid for by AMG), starter once. I had not snapped the geared hub axle, but I know someone that did as they did more off-roading than I. They are designed to break early on purpose to protect the geared hubs. There is also not much room for batteries in the H1. It is designed to be low profile while having a lot of ground clearance at the same time. You would have to use up a bit of the cargo space which defeats the purpose in my opinion. Someone may mention that with electric motors, there is enough torque to not need geared hubs, but that isn't why they were implemented. It was to get the differential away from the ground for more ground clearance.
It's nice to have several competing services (this way we might avoid situations where developers loose all access to funding if they are dropped by monopolist like Patreon).

And Fig seems to be way more specialized, since it also offers to act as a publishing.
I agree, I meant to address the point the grandparent made about what grade you could possibly need as a software developer which I read as implying that surely you must be good to go with just a laptop. And I wanted to bring attention to the fact that for many developers, "gear" would be that specific work laptop, not any given laptop. So it's not like there would be no disruption, you still need to grab it in advance to work from home.
> IMO the pursuit of, or even a concept of 'clean history' is a fallacy and waste of time. It is a level of obsession which I think is just not worth it.

While I do obsess over a git clean history (at least in my personal projects), I still mostly agree. Doing rebase instead of merge to have a cleaner history (as in git log) might not be worth it (git log --no-merges will return a similar image). But there's one feature I use constantly that relies on not having any useless commits on it: git blame. Whenever I'm asking myself why a changes was made (at least weekly), I'm looking for the commit that introduced the change. Things like "fix typo" or "add missing files" don't help. Hence, I am doing a lot of amends and interactive rebases to combine changes that belong to each other. It may take 2 more minutes, but it will make my (and my collegues') life easier in the future.
Python???! Python2 vs python3 is probably the worst thing I have ever seen a language do. Now teams are stuck supporting both versions, new devs are always confused, teams can't upgrade, or if they do upgrade much of their python2 code is useless. The language is now filled with hacky crap: urllib, urllib2, urllib3 and ... AND python is slow.

"That is the difference between having to look something up" PHP (for 15 years?) has had IDEs that fill it in for you.
Plus it’s the most janky site I’ve encountered in a while (reading on an iPad). Hijacking scrolling on a goddamn blog — thanks for the creativity.
Here's one challenge with micropayments: how do you charge micros? There are a few challenges here. One, the cost of payment processing is high, and so you can't "pay as you go". If you bill in arrears, you may still face this problem, your customer may be upset or dispute the final bill (was a page reload billed when they believe it shouldn't be?, etc), or customers may default and you have to foot the bill.

The other option (which we and others tried) was to up-front charge a fixed rate, say $5, and debit against it as you go. Perhaps you "top up" when the account balance hits some threshold. This is analogous to how many toll payment systems worked in the US, so the assumption is customers will understand and accept it. It also solves the payments processing problem.

We uncovered three psychological issues in our research and implementation with large numbers of users: 1) People will be unhappy suddenly paying for something they never had to pay for before (trying to analogize with tolls is equivalent to the "cost of a coffee" pricing strategy) 2) People are very particular in terms of which sites they want to micro-pay for, but shockingly unwilling to choose them a-la-carte 3) People HATE variable payment schedules. People didn't like seeing charges hitting their cards when the top-up threshold was reached at unexpected times, then proceeded to complain about what sites they were billed for and how we determined billing and then churned.

There's another challenge to mass adoption for micropayment systems and it's around publisher compliance and the publisher-user relationship micropayments represent: how to get money into the hands of the publishers. If you rely on every pub to sign up, that's not going to work. And if users realize that they're paying into escrow accounts that these service providers control and that aren't going to the publishers, they'll mutiny.
While Hardy's book is still relevant, there is a more modern attempt at answering the same questions for those interested: Mathematics without Apologies: Portrait of a Problematic Vocation by Michael Harris.
> Should the government also mandate a standard messaging protocol must be used or that it has to work with SMS?

Wait, are there places in the EU where is SMS is still that popular?
Null values are so important in representing data. But they cause so much confusion in a) unexpected behaviors in queries and b) inconsistent handling across various engines... I sometimes wish <whisper> that they hadn't been included in the spec at all </whisper>. But then I come to my senses again, and go fix yet another bugged query for an analyst who didn't account for nulls in the data.
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At the lowest level the team lead (you can call it manager or whatever) has to be accountable and needs a budget and the ability to freely hire and fire people to be able to meet objectives.
Instead of no, say “how am I supposed to do that?”
Every country I've lived in in Europe does this. Maybe you shouldn't extrapolate from the US to "all developed countries".
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100% this.

Write test for everything, don't do manual testing. If the test is green my code is good. Don't spend time manually testing your code.

Touch typing was a huge improvement. I'm not a fast touch typer so it wasn't really improved my typing speed. It's more of that I outsourced my typing from my brain to my hand, so while I type I can stay focused on the problem.
Oh, so many wrongs in his statement:

1. He extrapolates from his own experience of cancer
2. He blames people for not taking care of it (so dying of it is their fault)
3. He talks about a disease group that kills a lot of people like it is a cold
> So it seems like 2MB shared buffers shaves a few seconds off our tests. Is 2MB in the range you were thinking of?

Well, hard to say without knowing anything about your tests. I think the cases where I've seen it make a really big difference were more ones where people upped and upped shared_buffers trying to improve test performance, without noticing that it made things worse.

I'd probably not go below 16MB, otherwise it's plausible you could run into some errors (e.g. if you have a large number of cursors or such - they can end up pinning a few buffers, and if there's only 256 buffers, you don't need to be too creative for that).
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How much did it increase the workload and manual error rates of the reviewer for having to check multiple documents?
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Many people, mathematicians and aspirants, would find "Mathematics made Difficult" by Carl E Linderholm (pub. 1972) entertaining and possibly instructive. PDFs are available to those without scruples.
population is an obsessive topic with lots of underlying psychological baggage, so much so as it is almost pointless to start listing. 100,000 caves dwellers versus 12,000 cave dwellers in some proportionally larger area (e.g. New Mexico) would have how much "impact" ? One Chernobyl for 120,000 people versus 1,000,000 people over a proportionate area (Ukraine) has how much effect? etc..

Large topics often bring out more the personal obsessions of the commentors.. therefore, take the time to specifically refute this comment point-of-view...
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Because it's not PHP it's C++.
using them as "bin bags" is not "reuse". "reuse" means "taking them back to the store next time to put your groceries in it again". You'd be better off buying bin bags that are made for that purpose.
Don't forget that interviews are usually edited ("for brevity"), and especially in Der Spiegel of 2020 (as opposed to, say, 1980), I wouldn't be suprised if they heavily edited it.
IPv6 is ancient at this point and we still don't have it deployed.
I wonder if you could use the same principle as quantum radar to mitigate that problem?
The "skunk works" approach to difficult problems has been well proven, often as a "small is beautiful" approach within a bigger company. Beyond a certain size, it's hard for the effort of a single individual to have the kind of large effect that is a key driver of motivation—it's hard for enough of the individuals to each feel they have a large effect on process and outcomes.
What makes this different from the Internet Archive?
For things like this you can abuse organization accounts. They take a few seconds to bootstrap and now you have a completely independent resource limit for that specific service.
So humble numbers of people infected outside China, why is the whole world panicking?
Many successful interplanetary probes have launched with significant faults that had to be patched or worked around to complete the mission. Luckily the teams are usually able to do that.
> population has declined by over 99 percent

> This year's estimate [...] stands at about 29,000 monarchs, just above last year’s all-time low

> Federal officials are considering listing monarch butterflies for protection under the Endangered Species Act

Very disappointing that the feds are moving so slowly.
The safety part does have something to do with it. But more often the horn is used as a stress ball, as if pressing it will somehow get traffic moving faster.
There's also this category of bikers who want to speed on empty roads looking all "heroic" who honk away without a care in the world.
JFK sold us on space because "we choose to do these things because they are hard." It was an aspirational exploratory message.

The reality is that we are in space because it is required for great power contests. I'm mired in space as a DoD executive, so I promise you space - at least inside the GEO orbits - is extremely practical. Starlink is honestly amazing.

Mars though? I've steel-manned that one and I don't see it as anything more than what JFK did. Tickling the never-ending exploration/expansion desires of humanity.

I say it frequently: Outside of the sun exploding or the moon crashing into earth, there is no future event that would make earth as uninhabitable as Mars is today.
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