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I'm Italian, living in San Francisco, in my 40s.

For essentially every Italian, in Italy or abroad, Morricone is one of these timeless figures.

His work is considered by many so inspirational and innovative in its own way; and if you pick one of the many contributions he made to music or cinema, you will find layers and layers of details to unveil, often to reveal important aspects of Italy's culture of the second half of the 20th century.

As an example: he composed "Se telefonando" [0], performed by Mina and written by Maurizio Costanzo.

Mina is "the female voice" of Italy's economic boom (1950-1970). He was then ostracized by every media outlet (TV, newspapers, etc) because he had a son without being married, and the Church heavily condemned it.

Maurizio Costanzo is one of the most important figures in Italian TV, and has had a show, the "Maurizio Costanzo show", for decades. Think of him as the Italian Oprah.

You can do this hundreds of times with many pieces that Morricone composed or arranged.

He kept performing at concerts until recently, despite his old age. In Italy people often remember his last appearance at La Scala (the most iconic theatre in Milan, considered to be THE place for Opera and high music, among other things), and concerts at Arena di Verona (a smaller Colosseum in Verona, hometown of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet), the Colosseum in Rome, and the "Terme di Caracalla" also in Rome (ancient public bath houses, the second largest ever built).

He will be truly missed.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Se_Telefonando

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baths_of_Caracalla
Citations very much needed for the absurd _millions_ of people in concentration camps being butchered alive for organs? I've done a lot of research into this topic and sans one far-right kook who extrapolated millions out of interviewing eight people, nobody suggests anything more than thousands of people in "re-education camps". Nothing about organ harvesting in said camps.

I'd urge you to investigate more yourself--and if you come up with a different answer please do update me.
I'm a cynic about unlimited vacation policies for a few reasons:

1. At its core, I believe it's a clever bit of financial engineering disguised as a worker-first policy. All of a sudden your startup doesn't have any accrued PTO to keep on the books, and doesn't have to pay out anything to people who leave (I know this varies state-by-state but at least in CA I got paid out at previous jobs).

2. There's no tangibility to your vacation. You're just given access to this nebulous thing and it is up to you and the company to define a culture and a policy for it, and most of the time they don't do it well. People end up coming up with a "virtual bank" in their heads to justify taking time off and keeping track of things. This leads to totally different value systems between individuals, teams, managers, etc. All of a sudden a number I could look at in my payroll software and was inarguably whatever integer it was to anyone who looked at it is now some weird "idea" that my boss and I have to agree upon, potentially every time I go and take time off. This leads to unfair application of policies across a business, because every employee and manager is different.

3. In an unlimited system, the value of 1 day and 1 week has to be self-assigned by me or my manager, since with "unlimited" the value of any individual day is by definition basically zero. I think this leads people to see their time off as less valuable and are more likely to come online to check an email or respond to a slack. At my current company we have an unlimited PTO policy, but they found people weren't actually "off" when they said they were, so we now have one day a month that is dedicated as a company holiday so that everyone is off at the same time. It's usually used for creating a 3 day weekend, or extending a federal holiday.

Overall, I hope the policies continue despite my cynicism, but only with more guardrails. I hope that companies have better policies in the future encouraging employees to take time off. I would like to see companies do more "full shutdown" days like mine currently does. It's a forcing function that benefits everyone.
Thanks for that, I don't do enough D to know some of these syntatic features but I do love the language. I do plenty of JS so this overview is spot on for me.
Melania Trump Got an “Einstein Visa.” Why Was It So Hard for This Nobel Winner?
I dunno. I think there's a good argument that fracked gas will become more valuable as intermittency of the grid rises. Oftentimes in energy transitions, externalities rise with scale. As the scale of wind and solar and batteries rise, they may hit roadblocks (NIMBY, transmission lines, chemical fires, chemical disposal environmental concerns, energy return on investment issues, etc).

There are plenty of people who say that fracked natural gas value will go up and up. Rocky Mountain Institute is kind of fringe in their beliefs on this topic.

Ken Hartwick at OPG has more nuclear and hydro than almost anyone, so I'm not surprised they are anti-gas.
Both India and China are market economies. Market economies have the property that certain people can succeed wildly, but also that certain people are left behind. This explains why people leave.

How exactly would you build a country that was politically resistant to outside interference from countries that are much wealthier than it? This is a genuine question.
>> We should all look to change ourselves before trying to change other people - lead by example and others will follow.

> This is an epic false equivalence that tries to suggest everyone has an equal impact and an equal voice. That's obvious nonsense.

That's obvious nonsense. Where does GP suggest that everyone an equal impact or an equal voice? Nowhere. What is wrong with asking people to follow the same maximes they are requesting others to follow? Don't we all expect the police to uphold and follow the law exactly because they ask others do the same.
COVID hospitalizations in Texas Medical Center are at 350 per day and rising sharply.

https://www.tmc.edu/coronavirus-updates/tmc-daily-new-covid-...
Some investors got wiped out when the company had to do a pay to play, I believe.
There was this little game I played on Linux years ago where you played an AI trying to reach singularity status while evading detection by humans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endgame:_Singularity

Early in the game, you'd hack machines to run mechanical-turk style jobs to earn money. Later you'd build a factory to manufacture more processors... ;)
> You can't just "move variables from one scope into callback/lambda" scope with any sort of ease in Rust.

Have you tried `move || {...}`?
>The line is bottlenecked by the slowest process.

I visited the BMW factory in Munich back in 2015; at the time it was manufacturing mostly the 3-series models (not sure now).

It was a generally fascinating experience; the most interesting piece of trivia was that, when scheduling the build order, they try very hard to avoid putting station wagons ('Touring' model) back-to-back.

This was because the build-time of the rear-window assembly on the station wagon took significantly longer than other models due to the rear wiper, and that you would get a literal pipeline stall if you had to do too many together.
I've found that the most effective way of regaining focus, is to find something real to do or think about, and write them down as a list. When a time of idleness comes, check the list and occupy the mind with it.

My phone easily distracted me when I'm idling in the middle of some task, for example, waiting for a compilation to finish. But when I'm practicing music, despite my phone being always on as the metronome, I don't get tempted at all. There's no need to fight an urge of browsing the internet.

I have found that the addiction to internet is not really that strong; it cannot compete with what I really want to do. So, as long as I don't let the idleness creep in, I can keep my modern smartphone with me.
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Surely there are nicer ways for people to find structure in their lives than the threat of utter ruin if they don’t perform the mandatory sacrifice?
It doesn't have higher expected value and I wouldn't necessarily advise going down this path in normal times. But calculating the expected value only takes into account the diploma and learning subject matter, none of the other benefits.

The decision right now is between a) paying full price for a watered-down college experience (graduating earlier) and b) gaining some life experience and potentially getting "the full" college experience in a year or two for the same price (albeit with the drawback of a later graduation date).
Looted skulls and human remains are being sold in black markets on Facebook
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Bubonic plague occurs here and there in the US Great Plains. It used to be that I read of a camper or two every year catching it in southeastern Colorado, from prairie dogs, and I imagine one still does.
Whether or not to document "how" will depend on the target audience.

The code is written for people to read and only incidentally for computers to execute. From that point of view the target audience will matter a lot. I agree that in most cases, you expect the audience to be on level with the code and if you are writing code that is not on level with the audience (for example it is way too advanced) then you are doing something wrong (at the very least not considering who will be working with it).

But not always.

Example: I do with a lot of bright quants. With regards to code that does a lot of complicated calculations, they typically understand "why" but might need help with understanding "how".

Another example: when your audience is mostly junior team you might want to explain "how". My current project starts using more and more reactive constructs and oftentimes I throw in an explanation of "how" when I, for example, get queries to explain during code reviews.
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I certainly hope so. I have been saving education money since before my children were even conceived and it is truly disheartening to watch tuition increase by leaps and bounds. My wife and I both greatly value education, and I am certain that my children will obtain some sort of scholarship on their own merit, but I would not shed a tear if the University bubble popped before then.

My oldest is enrolled in online classes at a large state school, and will be graduating from high school in two years. At worst I have saved enough money for both of my children to attend the school of their choice. If it all falls apart, I've secured education expenses for them and their children if they choose that path.

I would love to see some sort of regulation on endowments and either taxing them or forcing Universities to spend at least a portion of them on a yearly basis.
I for one would welcome that. Companies that _actually_ act sustainable gaining headway over companies that don't sounds like a win-win to me.

> It has the potential to corrupt and cause real long-term damage to such movements if they are only used as means to profit financially in the short-term.

If they are only claiming to support the movement, and don't act according to it (like Autodesk does), that's what damages the movement. I don't see how a company that acts exactly like the movement wants to is damaging it.
There are two pumped storage stations in Wales that I know of. Dinorwig (where the power station is inside the mountain, as a student I got to go in there) and Ffestiniog. Wales has a long history of having dams built to provide water to English cities, see the Elan Valley, Llyn Vyrnwy, Llyn Clewedog and many more. The displacement of people and 'theft' of water even spurned a terrorist organisation to stop it called the Free Wales Army!
For all the people up and down this thread saying “just buy a dedicated GPS”, realize that Google Maps is not a GPS device. It has restaurant reviews and information about parks and bike paths and parking lots and busy hours and traffic data and street closures and pictures/menus and so much more.

If the question is “what restaurant do we want to go to after we leave the theater, within walking distance or public transport, that’s open right now and accepts credit cards but also has vegetarian options”, a simple GPS isn’t going to answer that question in a way even remotely similar to Google Maps.
As I said, everything is a spectrum, even Adam Smith wanted capitalism with regulation.

What would you say defines Marxism and Leninism? I have spent countless hours and have arrived at the conclusion that most definitions of these are inconsistent and informal.

I will be happy to engage with you if you have a formal and concise definition and I will be ready to change my stance based on that.
This behaves differently for negative incomes, which are not prohibited by the i32 argument passed in (u32 cannot take on negative values).
As a fat, hairy IT guy who goes to a lot of conferences, I'd be super unnerved by multiple women hitting on me. That's the kind of thing that ends up with me getting hoodwinked out of a bunch of cash or waking up without a kidney in a bath tub full of ice.
Tesla (Musk, specifically) has said the demand for their batteries for utility scale storage is tremendous. I believe that as long they keep spinning up Gigafactories (and everyone else is chasing them), batteries (along with cheap, overbuilt renewables that we curtail and transmission investments) will negate the need for gas in the next decade. Enough sunlight falls on Earth in an hour to power humanity for a year. We just need to continue to scale up the capturing of that energy and moving it around efficiently.

https://gspp.berkeley.edu/news/news-center/the-us-can-reach-...

> The target year of 2035 allows sufficient time for most coal and gas plants to recover their fixed costs, thereby avoiding risk of stranded costs for consumers and investors, if the right policies are in place. Wind, solar, and battery storage can provide the bulk of the 90 percent clean electricity. The report finds that new fossil fuel generators are not needed. Existing gas plants, used infrequently and combined with storage, hydropower, and nuclear power, are sufficient to meet demand during periods of extraordinarily low renewable energy generation or exceptionally high electricity demand. Power generation from natural gas plants would drop by 70 percent in 2035 compared to 2019.
I was curious if there actually was a technical requirement that no one followed in practice. But no. Home offices are explicitly out of scope--although there may be some reactive oversight for other home-based worksite activities.

Policy for Home Offices.

OSHA will not conduct inspections of employees' home offices.

OSHA will not hold employers liable for employees' home offices, and does not expect employers to inspect the home offices of their employees.

If OSHA receives a complaint about a home office, the complainant will be advised of OSHA's policy. If an employee makes a specific request, OSHA may informally let employers know of complaints about home office conditions, but will not follow-up with the employer or employee.

https://www.osha.gov/enforcement/directives/cpl-02-00-125#po...
Batteries are also becoming popular for the same reason. The more batteries you have the easier it is to deal with fluctuations in supply and demand as you can switch them on and off in milliseconds and they can serve to both supply GW to the grid or absorb it from the grid.

Flywheels are useful because they store a lot of energy and don't require a lot of energy to keep them spinning (i.e. topped up with energy). Simply connecting them to a generator can be done (relatively) quickly and allows them to supply power for a relatively long period of time. It's basically a mechanical battery.

Both have the advantage that they are cheaper to operate than a typical peaker plant, which is increasingly the role of remaining coal plants that are otherwise too expensive by orders of magnitudes to operate continuously. Switching those on is a last resort for energy companies. The more battery they have, the less need they have for those. And the less they get utilized, the more expensive they are to keep around. Gas plants are better but they take a long time to turn off and on again and doing that is also not cheap.

Prices have actually turned negative a couple of times in e.g. the UK in cases where the power companies were literally paying people to use their excess power just so they could avoid having to turn off plants that are expensive to turn back on. Basically, grid storage capacity allows electricity companies to smooth out peaks in demand and supply and respond extremely rapidly by either soaking up or supplying many GW.
Does such a search indemnify one of liability though, is the big question?
That's why they gave their parent's a password that could be used in case they ever actually need money. I remember growing up, my mom told me a password that would be used if an adult I didn't know was trying to pick me up from school or was in some way trying to get me to come with them. I think it was only used once when my mom's coworker picked me up after school because my mom was stuck at work. Nowadays, you need multiple signatures, a letter from your congressman, and a notary to let anyone that isn't the parent pick up a kid from school but this was before all of that.
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I'm not quite sure about that.
For example, I dont think any major Database vendor has considered using ML algorithms inside a DB.
Google did try replacing B-Tree indexes with Neural networks, but that was only a research project and it wouldn't have been possible to scale it up to meet production demands.

But I think I understand where you're coming from and I should definitely try to widen my knowledge base.
I feel this way too. I think you can still get access to a lot of the "conversational currency" by just checking it less frequently. Making highly curated lists helps a lot too, since you can isolate a lot of the more drama/entertainment-focused users to particular feeds.
> So you're not aware of race and IQ studies, where differences have persisted relatively consistently over a hundred years of research despite decades of effort to reduce any possible influence of cultural components?

I'm certainly aware of such studies, I'm also aware that pretty much every study that has found some difference in IQ between races has been found to contain social conditioning issues. Whether that was early on issues like nutrition that caused entire standard deviation jumps in IQ, or more recent discoveries like how the race of the test proctor can impact IQ and similar studies, or that if you pay someone more prior to an IQ test, they'll perform better.

Because of all of these confounding factors, it's not really possible to draw any conclusions from what we know to be a bunch of variously flawed studies. To me, the most uncomfortable truth revealed by all this research is how willing some people are to jump at ultimately tenuous research that supports racist preconceptions.

> You assert this, but I don't know it to be the case.

That's okay.

> This is silly, because it means you want to pretend we live in a vaccuum where society doesn't exist and where people don't have outward indications of internal traits (whether deliberate or not).

No, I am well aware that society exists and people can have outward indications of traits. My point is that we should not build systems that discriminate based on those things. And there's no point in building a system that can recognize a person's gender or social class or whatnot if we won't use it, and any use of such a system will be discriminatory and harmful, you're welcome to try and provide a counterexample though.

> Think about this: you may not like this research, but just like with gun control, trying to prevent people from doing it will just push it underground, and if there is predictive power with this, if it is only underground, it will only be used for bad purposes.

This doesn't follow. If it's not underground it will also only be used for bad purposes, but be developed more quickly. And social pressure to not work on or be involved with such tools means that it will be used for significantly fewer bad purposes.

Using facial recognition for policing is a bad purpose. We were going that direction, now we're not, not because the police don't want to, but because social pressure against researchers, by other researchers, caused them to stop developing the products in that realm. That's a clear win.
>>If you get one semester on campus, maybe, then what’s the point? You can get an online education anywhere, for far less money.

First, Harvard didn't choose this. It happened and its for everyone. Maybe they should offer a 25% discount and cut salaries as well...or just dip in the endowment. What's the point on having it if you don't use for these events?

Second, you're a Harvard grad for life and no one will know or care that 2 years were online (everyone is in the same boat)
I think the biggest problem with using unit tests for this purpose is that unit tests tend to (rightfully) spend a disproportionate amount of lines of code on edge cases.
I think the stress that people with lower pay experience is related to what companies can get away with due to lax employment laws.
So many times this.

"Clear code shouldn't need comments" - clear code can make it easy to see what but it can never say why. Let me know what corner cases you thought about when you wrote this.

"The comments are in the commit messages" - almost nobody ever goes looking for them there, they're effectively invisible from `git blame` when they remove lines, people rarely make fine grained enough commits to be able to target specific lines or blocks sufficiently with context.

"Nobody ever updates comments, so they're always out of date" - don't hire such people. It is an crucial task resolving the meaning of comments to make sure everything still makes cohesive sense. Neglecting to do this will often lead to commits that don't quite grok any subtleties of the original design. Don't make the reader of the code do the job of trying to piece together the scattered history of 5 different people's intentions. Of course, it's also useful to try to keep comments as close to the code in question as possible so that references which need updating are obvious to see.
> The idea that girls can’t be inspired by male scientists is extremely sexist.

Nobody said that they can't be, that's a straw man. But there is a difference between not being inspired by male scientists and never having a female scientist mentioned to you.

> > Parents mock geeks.

> I was a kid nerd. I was mocked. (And bullied too, but I’ll take that one for the team.) Trust me, there was absolutely no encouragement provided for me, except by a few geeky teachers. If girls receive(d) approximately zero encouragement, that sounds like equality to me (though not how things should be!). The idea of geeks being cool, rich and popular is very recent, brought to you by the likes of Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and Big Bang Theory.

I don't think the OP was only talking about female geeks but in general. Regarding bullying, I agree it's a big problem, however girls tend to have another issue to fight with, which is being told (by teachers, parents, and other geeks...) from very early on that they are not good at science/math. So imagine being bullied for geekiness and at the same time being told that you can't really do that think you like.