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California's wildfires are poisoning drinking water supplies
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Was there something about F# on .netcore you didn't like?
Would make a re-write much easier, I'd think.
As difficult as it is, control for launching and landing a rocket is vastly easier computationally than even apparently simple robotics problems.

Robotics is simply hard, from algorithmic, computational, and engineering perspectives. Only some parts of it can be solved by throwing money and raw compute power at it. Even in areas where progress has been made, you generally need experts to decompose the problem at hand into something that can be tackled with existing techniques,and those experts are expensive and in relative demand.
Ripple is junk, there's nothing to reset. That thing doesn't even have a proper blockchain. Anyone could run a service that works just like it out of a cloud hosted DB (or on Github, with transactions submitted in the form of commits).
That was kind of my point. CA just took the work away and replaced it with nothing.
Spending money is the point. Don't imagine that the reptiles care about the region one way or the other. All the bullshit about peace and modernity and hating Islam is pure marketing. That's why their arguments for war in one nation can completely contradict their arguments for war in a different nation. (In Syria they pretended to care about "good governance". In Libya, not so much...) Like every other region of the globe, the Middle East is just an opportunity to reach further into the pockets of American taxpayers.
Well it might be single occupant, but it's often also on the way to another gig. Ignoring that is double-counting.
Well, you did try and close a door to a possibility. And you tried to frame that as being “scientific”. Yet, you cannot prove it.

Science never has final say on what’s impossible. Until (if ever) we have a grand unified theory that perfectly coheres all we find and ever find, you cannot claim to know of an impossibility.

For example, an easy proof you’re wrong would be simulation theories. In that case, the Big Bang is just a sub-simulation inside a bigger universe. Can you prove we aren’t in a simulation? If not, then you cannot make any claim about how it’s not scientific to talk about before the Big Bang. We just don’t know, so taking the positive is an error.
"The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted."
I definitely recommend it for dental work. You can easily find a dentist in Mexico that went to school in the US and has the same credentials. You'll save so much money.
It strikes me that having a duality of political groups like this doesn't mean they both have equal legitimacy or deserve equal platform.

American conservatives have pretty eagerly woven prejudice into the ideological fabric of the party. Similarly the party seems willing to promote or at least enable blatant criminality.

They made their socially-regressive bed and now they can lie in it. "Fiscal conservatives" who don't see themselves in the rest of the picture would be right to feel disenfranchised.
Science leads you to the conclusion that we are here as the result of a series of chance events. Not because of any "decision" to put us here. If we're all just here by fluke, and when we're gone we're gone entirely and completely, what transcendence could there be?
Use cases for conda or conda+pip:

- Already-compiled packages (where there may not be binary wheels) instead of requiring reinstallation and subsequent removal of e.g. build-essentials for every install

- Support for R, Julia, NodeJS, Qt, ROS, CUDA, MKL, etc.

- Here's what the Kaggle docker-python Dockerfile installs with conda and with pip: https://github.com/Kaggle/docker-python/blob/master/Dockerfi...

- Build matrix in one container with conda envs

Disadvantages of the official python images as compared with conda+pip:

- Necessary to (re)install build dependencies and a compiler for every build (if there's not a bdist or a wheel for the given architecture) and then uninstall all unnecessary transitive dependencies. This is where a [multi-stage] build of a manylinux wheel may be the best approach.

- No LSM (AppArmor, SELinux, ) for one or more processes in the container (which may have read access to /etc or environment variables and/or --privileged)

- Necessary to build basically everything on non x86[-64] architectures for every container build

Disadvantages of conda / conda+pip:

- Different package repo infrastructure to mirror

- Users complaining that they don't need conda who then proceed to re-download and re-build wheels locally multiple times a day

Additional attributes for comparison:

- The new pip solver (which is slower than the traditional iterative non-solver), conda, and mamba

- repo2docker (and thus BinderHub) can build an up-to-date container from requirements.txt, environment.yml, install.R, postBuild and any of the other dependency specification formats supported by REES: Reproducible Environment Execution Standard; which may be helpful as Docker Hub images will soon be deleted if they're not retrieved at least once every 6 months (possibly with a GitHub Actions cron task)
But usage on smaller, uncrewed probes could be much closer.
> That said, I would hate to have IBM be the highest level contractor for anything that really mattered to me.

My experience is with highly-skilled staff who are very comfortable with using the IBM troubleshooting facilities of the product, you very quickly (a few days on normal support cases, 2-6 hours on Sev 1 cases, about an hour on Sev 1 where you're paying for enhanced support) get to real developers with real source code access.

The problems come when you aren't using skilled staff. There has been a huge upturn in support cases I've see in clients' IBM Support case histories that are really "professional services/training-through-support" incidents, where it is painfully obvious the requesting parties don't know the most basic aspects of the products they're opening support cases upon. Both customers and IBM are shooting themselves in the foot here: customers for leaning on IBM with unskilled staff, IBM for accepting it. No good solutions without spending more money (on both sides), unfortunately.

Everyone who snarks about enterprise software: the road to enterprise scale dominance is paved with a maze of twisty little requirements, all alike (on the surface, then you peel it back and the cockroaches of edge cases come swarming out). There are more things in IT, Horatio, / Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
So is "The Years of Rice and Salt" from him, though it's only one book, not a trilogy.

I feel like I actually learned something while reading it, but that is because I've read it on screen, while having Wikipedia and Google-maps open in the background while reading it, pausing to look up things there.
They spent ton of money to get me to install their app and consider it as an option. There is really no reason for me to use one over the other. Lyft, uber, some random taxi app.. Same drives are coming in the same cars.

Now they are motivating me to look for alternatives and actually give 'some random taxi app' a name.

this combined with "dont attribute to malice what can be attributed to stupidity" leads me to doubt their professionalism. I think this is a huge mistake. and if it's not a mistake but inability of the company to execute, then that's on executives.
> If anything this is just a tool to aid human authors

That's an extremely nontrivial use case.
I live in Germany and was speaking from experience.
Just pointing at a formula is not a good way of discussing things - you point out 5% efficiency loss in transmission lines and are implying that efficiency of a pneumatic system will be greater.

To substantiate your claim you pick some links
with formulas for pneumatic systems, but leave the actual calculation as the exercise to the reader. Why would you do that?

If you have the skills to do the calculations yourself, you should do them and demonstrate that for some set of realistic parameters, greater efficiency is possible. If you either can't do them, can't find parameters to support your claim, or you can't be bothered to, then it's not fair to leave it to the reader.

I have done what I can, but it's not my speciality, so there could be mistakes.

Firstly, what does it look like to have a pneumatic system transfer 4 GW of power? I have used this PDF on sizing cylinders, and made the assumption that the pipe and the cylinder would be of the same size. http://www.gearseds.com/files/chp2-5_diff_work_energy_pneuma...

With the help of a calculator at: https://www.sensorsone.com/pressure-and-area-to-force-calcul... I have arrived at a pipe with the inner diameter of 2 meters (!), pressure of 100 atm, and the speed of air at half the speed of sound (125 m/a).
How Thick is the wall of the pipe? Using the calculator at: https://www.engineersedge.com/calculators/pipe_bust_calc.htm... details here: https://whatispiping.com/pipe-thickness-calculation-per-asme...) It comes out at 3 inches thick, for steel, with 50% safety margin.

How much is this pipe going to weigh? Here is a pipe weight calculator: https://wcalcul.com/pipe-weight-calculator - It comes out to 4.1 tons per meter.
This pipe is quite similar to those used for gas transportation, but it's about twice the width. Certainly doable, but this is >10X times the material needed for high-voltage cables.

To calculate pressure drop, i have used a calculator at: https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/pressure-drop-compressed-... - I end up with 0.3% for 100 KM, which is is roughly in line with HDVC: "Depending on voltage level and construction details, HVDC transmission losses are quoted as less than 3% per 1,000 km"

So I am surprised that it's even theoretically possible. There are obviously many unaccounted losses - valves, turns, distribution to smaller pipes, etc. Casual glance at compressed air storage, which has none of the distribution issues, shows that their efficiency maxes out around 70%.

Electrical transmissions lines can be and sometimes are placed underground, especially the DC variety - earthworks are very expensive and that why it's not usually done.

Now, safety - have you seen tyre explosions on a truck? They regularly kill people, and they are 10- times lower pressure than this pipe would be.

You point out fragility of powerlines, compared to what? Do oil and gas pipelines need repairs any less often that powerlines do? How many fires were started by high voltage powerlines? Substantiate your claims.

Everything indicates need for a lot more equipment than is required for dealing with electricity, I think the pneumatic system would be much more expensive and dangerous.
How much did the wear and tear on the car take out? I've been thinking of doing the same, but i keep hearing that when you factor in all the repairs you'll have to do, then it comes out at pretty much a wash.
Why Are There So Few Black Directors in the Criterion Collection?
Well the ones he really liked are underlined, that's a form of ranking. Not sure you need to know the nuance between #1 and #2, but knowing that there's 15 must reads on that list is a convenient way of showing that.
That's like offering someone who is starving a shit sandwich: "What, it's a sandwich, eat it. Or do you like starving?"

Capitalism frequently tries to (and succeeds) exploit the poorest citizens: they are desperate. Laws like this exist to protect the weakest from exploitation.
Were I rich right now, being educated enough to understand history, and looking at the relative income gap being larger than the french revolution, I'd be wanting to redistribute some wealth right now myself, lest it be taken by force. A 3% wealth tax seems "extreme" right now, but it will be preferable if the wedge making the poor fight each other breaks down.
And if the choice of murder weapon didn't make it glaringly obvious enough, Putin has all but publicly admitted to these, as well:

>"Traitors will kick the bucket, believe me. Those other folks betrayed their friends, their brother in arms." [0]

>"Whatever they got in exchange for it, those 30 pieces of silver they were given, they will choke on them.” [0]

>"Treason is the gravest crime possible and traitors must be punished. I am not saying the Salisbury incident is the way to do it, but traitors must be punished." [1]

They cloak themselves with plausible deniability in many cases, but for turncoat intelligence personnel, they seem pretty explicit: at some point, no matter where you are, you will die an untimely, slow, painful death. It's definitely an attempted deterrent.

[0] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/vladimir-put...

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/vladimir-puti...
I agree with you, and would like to add my thoughts. I realize that the people on the left who engage in such toxic tactics are a minority, but I feel the need to say something: Several people in my friends/family circle lean very much to the right, and they don't seem to really understand that the left-extremists are the minority; and extremists on the right are clutching onto these rare demonstrations and telling their conservative base that this is "all leftists". I personally know several people who equate a vote for Biden as a vote to bring exactly this type of toxic behavior mainstream - they have told me exactly that. These sorts of extreme tactics on the left push many right-leaning people into the far-right-extremes. There are a lot of legitimate points on both sides of the aisle, and it's not my intent to downplay either side here, but I do mean to say that these sorts of tactics are more than mere self-sabotage by the people employing them -- they're actively divisive.
One glance once you cross over to Nuevo Laredo will show you this isn't a novel thought. Especially for dental and smallish out-patient procedures.
What kind of money is that for the space? Assuming a 10 minute video where you want to make $100 you need 100k views. $100 / $.006 per hour = 16667 hours. 16667 hours * 6 10 minute views per hour = 100000.

Incidentally, Cloudflare Stream charges the same rates for serving video ($1 per 1000 minutes).

Any idea what kind of money a YouTuber would make off 100k views? Does something like Cloudflare's offering make a suitable backup where they could eat the cost of serving video temporarily if YouTube kicks them off?

I think it's a really hard problem because serving video is so expensive. YouTube must be a huge money pit.
I'm surprised that you'd suggest that "businesses brought this on themselves." It's a cut and dry government failure.
I (a savvy and sophisticated dev who knows all about right-clicking) got stuck with this today with an unsigned binary of a command-line program. Right-click open didn't work since the OS didn't know which program to use to open it, so there was no "open anyway" option. Launching from the Terminal gave me the familiar MALWARE! PRIVACY! pop-up. Solution was to open System Preferences -> Security, click the lock, then below the radio button for "allow apps from App Store/identified developers" there was a button allowing a manual override.
The core question is, 'what's the use of space anyways?' Orbits have two nice properties - they're high up, so you can see lots of stuff, and they're reasonably stationary with respect to the rotation of the earth, which lets you get global(ish) coverage without needing a huge number of accessors or high system replacement rates like aircraft or ground-based sensors need.

Communications and surveillance are the two largest opportunities, and a variety of companies have already sprung up (Starlink, Kuiper, Planet, Spire...) in addition to traditional players (OrbCom, Iridium, Maxar). There are some esoteric proposals for other uses, like manufacturing or bitcoin mining [0], but I don't think they provide nearly enough benefit compared to Earth-based competitors at this point.

[0]https://www.space.com/25626-bitcoins-satellites-deep-space-i...
If you cut the bullshit, you cut most of society out. Institutions, the government, the media, the left, the right, corporations... And bullshit is the glue that keeps it all together.

So, I would add one more rule. The George Carlin rule:

-- Are they part of any group?

That actually covers the first and second rule of the author.

But to hate the government is suicide because we are the government. Same with society, and same with groups.

My logical conclusion with regards to speech: Learn to observe, think, form your own opinions, always speak your mind, and be no part of group think or group speech. Which is exactly what George Carlin did.

In an ideal world, no one would be part of any group. But since we all are, here is the Carlin rule revised:

-- Are they openly critical of their groups?

But again, most groups do not tolerate external or internal criticism. They're the disloyal traitors and whistle-blowers. So most of us have to chalk this up as doing our job, so we can all have one. Not everyone get's paid to speak like George.

But wherever and whenever we can, we should promote and protect the groups that embrace and advocate free speech against themselves. They are the only groups sustaining free speech.
In school, we (I'm in the US) spent a whole high school semester on Greece and Rome. In elementary school we had a unit on Mayans/Aztecs/the Inca, and we had a unit on ancient India, but not in high school. For some reason Chinese history was really ignored so I didn't get that until I chose to take a class in college. Since we don't have a national curriculum in the US, I'm sure it's different in different places. I think we know about the Mayans because Americans like to fly to Cancun.
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P.S point being they are going to lose market share with no good reason.
They did this in Austin as well.

Easy to do now, considering the rideshare volumes are probably lower than without SIP.
I was referring to a billionaire’s wealth having less impact on the economy that if that money was circulating in the economy, being used to pay salaries, for purchases, etc... Money in circulation generates widespread growth, whereas a billionaire’s wealth almost can’t help but grow but isn’t actually benefitting many people, if anyone at all. Past a certain stage nobody can spend that amount of money. Also that level of wealth isn’t realised money, it’s stocks, bonds, assets, etc... that they amass, often using the theoretical value of their other assets to secure yet more wealth, which in turn becomes stagnant because it’s just excess wealth, sitting there doing nothing except entrench the wealth disparity in the world.
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Cascading is, to me, like class inheritance in object-oriented style of programming. Useful in some cases, but can become unmanageable with more than a few layers.

The "inline CSS" approach is an escape hatch to avoid cascading styles. I can see its advantages, to apply all (and only) the styles on the component level.
Health insurance is a major component. However, the broader theme is the offloading of risk from the company onto their workers, including not only health risk but also for example, accident risk.

Most rideshare drivers are not properly insured — while passengers are well-covered, the drivers and their vehicles are not. Because the drivers are contractors and must navigate the insurance system as individuals, many do not possess adequate knowledge and statistically speaking, a large number are guaranteed to make mistakes when purchasing coverage.

If drivers were employees, then accident coverage for drivers and their vehicles becomes the responsibility of the rideshare companies. There would be fewer bad outcomes for drivers, but because the rideshare companies would bear greater risk, their profits would be reduced.
That makes no sense. You can meet people's basic needs without giving them money. This how soup kitchens, orphanages, and other shelters function - your basic survival needs are met and you can focus on improving your comfort. Money just lets you do the latter much easier, it has no impact on the former.

"I'd give back the following question: why are we rewarding people currently for doing mind-numbing bullshit jobs?"

What the hell does that mean? Nearly everyone's individual work is useless. A fry cook is useless in isolation, a pencil pusher is useless in isolation, even a programmer is useless in isolation. You do not get paid to do work, you get paid to produce value, hence why people can get fired even if they deliver a lot of low quality work. The work you do is useless in isolation, it is the combination of everyone else's work and the system itself that makes certain work valuable. This is why socialist fantasies like UBIs will only ever work if you have a slave force doing the work that needs to be done. The idea that John Doe's individual ability to slap car parts together somehow makes him valuable is what you get wrong. It's John's ability to exchange his ability to fix people's cars that produces value - in other words, John's ability to start a business and exchange work that he knows how to do for other goods and services. The demand and supply of John's ability and the cars that need fixing, provide John's pool of wealth. If Jane knows how to fix cars too, you don't just suddenly start giving her money for doing nothing, just knowing how to fix cars has no value by itself. I don't see why this is so hard to fathom why this UBI will obviously fail unless Germany has an AI work force it's been hiding under its sleeves this entire time. Someone has to do the productive work, and this will only result in musical chairs where no one wants to be the last one with a job. This system rewards people for not doing work, and unless they have a way of filling that gap, at best this will amount to a bunch of already priveleged individuals being paid to just exist, and at worst, those who are late to the party will be forced to fill that gap.
"I wish that wasn't the case, but as long as there exist major powers that challenge the United States and our allies the all-domain arms race will never end."

LOL there we go again. The US is the center of the universe. I mean there are actual reasons why you don't want China or Russia dominate the world (well, in times of Trump that is actually questionable what is the bigger evil here), but you have to bring the most ridiculous one: We are the US, and someone is challenging us, can't have that.
Another big bit is tax deductions. I believe when the employer provides healthcare, the amount they pay and the employee pays is 100% pre-tax.

If you pay for medical insurance yourself, it starts getting complicated[0]. They honestly just need to make it so any medical insurance payments should be 100% deductible, regardless of anything else. It would help level the playing field.

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/are-health-insurance-premiums-t...
Took me a few minutes first time I saw it but it's now firmly in my mental library of idioms.
I had a professor who let us believe it was an open question. But later I learned that's a super fringe belief.
Thank you for the recommendation! From Wikipedia:

> Red Mars won the BSFA Award in 1992 and Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1993. Green Mars won the Hugo Award for Best Novel and Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel in 1994. Blue Mars also won the Hugo and Locus Awards in 1997.
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Christopher Browning's Ordinary Men is about a specific unit of German special police used to round up and massacre Jews. It's been 15+ years since I read it, but I think the conclusion was these otherwise ordinary men (not ardent Nazis) followed orders because of a mix of peer-pressure and obedience to authority.