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> It's also hella dangerous combined with weed

I’ve never heard this before; it seems like something I should know; respecfully, would you mind elaborating?
> I’ve found that hiring contract devs for say 20 hours per week yields the same output as an FTE at 40

This is interesting bc of how common it is to hear people complain about pointless meetings. Do you see a sacrifice in devs not being familiar enough with the product?
You took my first response as "climate change is left-wing". You took my second response as "statistics aren't real". I never said either of those things.

I think pointing to a weather event and saying "look climate change!" is dumb. It's not statistics. No matter how steep your line is, it doesn't prove "X weather event would not have occurred if not for global warming".

All I responded to was this comment which was nasty and added nothing to your post:

> And where else in the USA has been a bastion of oil/petrochemical industry climate change denialism, than Texas?
It will be a while before they get better images downlinked. The radio link is unbelievably slow by modern internet standards[0]. Note that the faster 2 Mbps link is only available when one of the orbiters is overhead (4-6 times/martian day[1]). They also have a lot of work to do checking out the rover systems making sure everything is healthy, etc.

[0] https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/spacecraft/rover/communicatio...

[1] https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/mission/communications/
A common example from my work: I’m doing layout code, so I need to clean up some constraints that are broken. Often this a fairly manual process where I change some code and run it to see how it does, and then adjust the code as needed. Sometimes I need to change my strategy (instead of manually pinning this view, I can put it in a stack view…) and this requires me to change a couple lines of code. Then I run it and it breaks in a way that makes me realize that this direction was a dead end, so now I want to go back to where I was five minutes ago. Or, sometimes this is the way I wanted to go but in the process of rewriting it I forgot to carry over a constraint, so I want to see how I was doing it before and pull out a line or two so I can include it in the new code.
Do undergrads even cover it? The fraud/bias aspects of the experiment are interesting
"The markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent"

If I could short bitcoin over a 20, 30, 40 year timeframe I absolutely would, unfortunately that's not possible. There might be utility in some cryptocurrencies for some applications, but bitcoin as it currently exists is worse than useless, it's actively harmful.
Experiments have been done similar to what you describe which help prove that we are not in certain types of simulations.

I can't find the specific paper now, because of all the pop-sci clickbait which comes up thanks to Musk musings.
Indeed: https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/22/us/margaret-sanger-planned-pa...
Exactly this. Slavery was only the "standard of the day" so long as you didn't ask the slaves.
I'll talk about those (heroes/villains) who single handedly changed the trajectory of entire domains and the culture around it. (for better or for worse).

* Narendra Modi - Modi is a phenomenon. You have to visit India to realize the extent to which everything revolves around him. A tier of popularity that was reserved for a Gandhi before this. The only man in India who can use the word 'privatization' without being cancelled. Did things that were considered political suicide (370 abolishment, Ram mandir, triple talak, now the Farm Bill).

* Arnab Goswami - changed the entire TV news landscape of India. Uprooted an entire entrenched industry and redefined what 24hr TV looks like for the whole country.

* The Viral Fever (a group) - Spearheaded the rise of stand up comedy in India. It had been simmering underground, until their comedy skits blew the entire industry up in a matter of months. It was all everyone talked about for a 2 yr. span in the early 2010s. The industry has risen at an incredible pace (thanks Netflix) and now a 'normal' way to spend a weekend evening in urban India.

* Netflix founders - Duh

* Boris Johnson - Brexit was THAT big of a deal
> ~2TB Postgres database into a 70GB Clickhouse

was your PG DB been compressed?
The current situation, where certificates have SANs in them resembles what PKIX (RFC 2459 etc.) expected from the outset many years ago

What actually resulted in this finally happening was not the change in the browsers, in fact the browser changes were permitted by the reality that there aren't certificates without SANs any more. Though I agree the browser change does prevent backsliding. Nor was it the change in the Baseline Requirements which spell out that CAs must use SANs.

No, what mattered was Certificate Transparency. Especially mandatory CT, but even just voluntary compliance by CAs eager to show willing before that.

The problem we've most consistently had with CAs isn't that they're deliberately breaking the rules, but that they're incompetent. Which makes sense, humans aren't mostly bad but they are mostly incompetent. So they might intend to comply, but they screw up.

CT allows independent researchers to check stuff. For example after certificates for "private names" (e.g. "hplaserjet" or "myrouter.home") were banned, there was a period when CAs mustn't issue more but had time to revoke any that still existed. After that time limit expired I ran a script to pull out any certificates from CT which (in the script's opinion) seemed to be for private names, yet (again in its opinion) had not been revoked. There shouldn't have been any. But of course there were and the CAs had to clean up their mess.

This allowed us to really clean up several problems with certificates, where a practice was banned, everybody agreed it was banned, but it kept happening anyway. Today if you issue a certificate that shouldn't exist (as we saw recently with that 1024-bit RSA certificate) it's likely to get noticed fairly quickly and you'll have to explain yourself.
Cool! Do you still have a copy of it?

Nowadays it's sometimes adequately fast to implement a JIT by spawning gcc or tcc and then running dlopen() on the result ;) It also makes the FFI easier :)
We always bought manual/"stick shift" because they were cheaper in AU/NZ. Not the case nowadays.
You have changed the topic from the overall homicide rate to a survey you wont link or even name. I offered speculation but in truth I didn't need to respond to your strategic digression. I do not know if my theory is correct. I DO know you haven't shown one whit of proof that 2020s overall murder rate was higher. I will continue until you do to operate under the assumptions.

- it represents a small increase in the 2020 homicide rate that doesn't change the national situation. The proper topic of our discussion.

- Given a 27 year trend line an increase at a time when our nation is going through a time of extreme crisis logically represents an aberration not a trend.

America isn't meaningfully more dangerous on average than it was in the 50s although it was in the 50s and is now more dangerous than some of our more civilized neighbors.

* Edited for clarity and correctness*
The UK digital identity and attributes trust framework
People are attacking texas' less interconnected system for being "independent" and others are pointing out more interconnections from places with no power to spare would not have helped.
Exactly. Sometimes you start heading down a change path, and as you discover more, you realize there is a better solution. You want to save some of your concepts, but discard others. That's what this helps solve.

Git stash can be helpful. Stash your "wrong direction" change, then apply just the good chunks from your stash.
But if there are more people in the team, it will be a great amount of noise they will have to go through before reaching any useful commit. Definitely not recommended.
Will they really require these gpus though? In my experience you can play virtually everything on a 4-5 year old card on some level of provided graphics settings.

IMO people obsess far too much on turning games up to the top setting when the actual result is hardly different, and certainly not worth buying a top card yearly for.
Yeah, it probably would have been easier to metacompile from an existing FORTH, but the whole point was to not have a lot of dependencies on existing code.
I disagree. There is no history being lost here. We aren't sending gag orders to Wikipedia, for example.

It's just a name on a building.
My wish for Python4 would be please never exist.
You're correct; my comment may have overstated the case. I reworded it to say "most tasks quite adequately".
I wonder why exactly companies would be against this, if 1. the employee's performance was acceptable, including their ability to schedule properly, and 2. the companies were not competitors where insider knowledge, IP ownership, etc. was an issue. If I could actually manage to do 40 full-time hours in company A and 40 full-time hours in unrelated company B, why should they care?
I think the 0% floor is more of a matter of things starting to become wonky when you hit negative rates. People will just start hoarding cash instead of receive -1% / year of their money. This will cause a bank run of mass withdrawals, banks currently have 0% reserve requirements, so could be insolvent from even minor bank runs...
It may not save space overall, but does it save horizontal space in favor of vertical?
Take control of your vcpkg dependencies with versioning support
Those I write in JS: http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/81hacks/progeome
can confirm, am still running a late-2015 macbook as my daily driver. it still works really well and despite trying to convince myself otherwise, I can't think of a good reason to replace it.
CXX – safe FFI between Rust and C++
There's something just right about 1/16th of an inch. About the same as a millimeter, and easy to do math with... it is weird though 1/8th, centimeter is hard to conceive, for me anyway.

When more precision is needed, so easy to go to the 32nd
I actually avoid the used video card market now, the resale price is insanely high and odds are the card was driven as hard as possible for months at a time mining crypto before being swapped out for the latest and greatest.
| in vimscript is like ; in other languages. I'm not sure pipeline is a good name to call it. It's just a list of commands run in sequence.
> Colonialism, Slavery and imperialism were seen as justified expressions of the natural order. Skulls were assembled from around the world and brain volumes meticulously noted down to “prove” this.

And to expound a little more - most rational, intellligent people from those eras believed in these things as well. After all, they told themselves, most reasonable, compassionate people do.

As such, it's interesting to ask yourself what we do today that will be held as barbaric by some future generation. Chances are, it'll be something that most of us believe to be normal and right.

And if you're someone who doesn't have any opinion that your peers would find scandalous, or at least unorthodox, chances are you are participating in some act that a future generation will find appalling but that is entirely acceptable today.

Abortion?

Meat eating?

Or some other practice that most of us take for granted.

For the same reason, we shouldn't judge past generations by today's moral standards. It makes no sense.
I do the same - both commenting out and viewing the file in parallel at different spots - vim vertical splits are great for that. In fact, one of my colleagues remarked that he never thought to view the same file alongside itself when he saw me do that when we were pairing.
A heat pump would be far more efficient if you have the ability to install one in your room.
Moving money over the internet without needing a central authority.

It really doesn't matter if you don't recognize how big of a deal that is, but to A LOT of people, it's a complete game changer. If you don't need a service like that, well that's fine, but obviously a lot of people do, which is why the network is where it is today. Massive amounts of value is being moved through the network daily, and the fees that people are paying to utilize the network are not at all trivial. It's worth it to them though, or they wouldn't be using it.
Simply because the entire loss couldn't be replaced, doesn't mean some extra supply couldn't be if it was connected.

Arguing that the problem couldn't be entirely fixed, and ignoring the possibility of ANY help seems as I described, demanding perfection to ignore any possible improvement...

As far as a possible collapse of outside systems, the other connected systems seem to have done well enough for now.
It's great that your customers have said it's too cheap. That tells you two things.

1) they value what you are selling

2) they don't want you to go out of business.

What have the businesses said about how you charge them? I assume you've had this conversation with them? How do they expect to pay?

My gut instinct, (not knowing your business) is the price per staff is a good way to go as it's simple for the business to understand. You should also be able to figure out how many SMS messages that business would send per month, as there are only so many appointments each staff member could take. Of course, this is an average, so if you used an average number of SMS messages, and include that into the staff fee, you make it easier for the business to understand what they'll be paying per month.

You can take that SMS fee and and try to 5x or 10x it in your pricing model and see what the response is. This also helps to make sure your costs are significantly covered should there be an increase in SMS usage or pricing.

Keeping the pricing model simple for your customers has the dual effect that it's simpler for you to build, simpler for them to understand, and simpler for you to explain to them.

Simple, simple, simple. I made the pricing on our website WAY to complicated when I thought it was simple. We charged by the number of views with decreasing amounts as people used up views. It was a nightmare. Seemed simple to me, lots of customers didn't understand it, then thought it was too expensive, while others thought it was too cheap. TBH, they were both right, depending on what type of customer you were. I optimized for the little guy, when they didn't want to pay at all, and didn't charge the big guys enough.

Hope this helps, best of luck, and congrats!
I don’t even agree with the scarcity argument. Every Bitcoin represents 100,000,000 traceable assets. The “supply” of an entire Bitcoin may be artificially limited, but practically speaking there are infinite Bitcoin satoshi to trade.
What is this? Hacker news or china propaganda?
a workflow i'm pretty hooked on is:

using vim w/ git-gutters plugin, which shows the state of a line (+-~), and so you can stage and unstage these hunks with mappings.

so maybe you unstage a whole hunk to see what its original state was, but then just do an undo to return it. this is technically many undos in one

there's some more conveniences here, but this is one that stands out regarding "many undos ago"
As load following for wind?

Technically it might be possible, realistically and economically its not. The hydro could load follow, but as the other pointer notes scaling it would be very difficult.

Nukes are on the other side, its much more difficult to load follow with them, particularly economically. The maint and overhead costs are going to tend to be a huge fixed overhead independent of if they are at full capacity or idled. And spinning them back up frequently can take days (as just happened when a sensor tripped at STP1). Your better off building 100% nuke capacity and running it at 100% and dumping the excess energy into syngas production via co2 recapture, desalination, H2 production, or whatever other energy intensive processes that could be used to burn up cheap excess energy while providing a return.

So he is right, and I've posted (and been down voted) for noting the exact same thing. The wind in Texas is enabled by the cheap NG peaker plants, some of which aren't even combined cycle. They turn them off when the wind is blowing and the price of energy goes down, and can spin them up very quickly* when the wind dies and energy prices spike. There really isn't a good replacement for them (and no batteries aren't there). But the big negative of course is that your no longer talking about wind being a "green" energy source (or really cheap) if you have to build a MW of gas for ever MW of wind to cover the ~25% of the time they are covering for the lack of wind capacity. All you have really done is slowed the growth in CO2 emission by a decade or two.

*(note cold startup of first stage in 20-25 mins https://etn.global/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Startup_time_r...)
Flipping the HTTP/2 switch was amazing for me -- I have a page that for reasons needs to load ~500 small images. Initially I was worried about having to figure out a sprite-based method to compile the images (which is not ideal because there are many permutations of which 500 images), but when I turned on HTTP/2, the overhead just disappeared. The images load instantly. I'm nowhere near the multi-k RPS metrics as above, but it was night and day for me even for individual requests.
That would suck in the short term, but it would also be a HUGE incentive to massively ramp up chip fabrication capacity, leading to long term cost decrease due to economies of scale.
> From that PoV I would not try to erase their memories.

How is choosing to no longer use their name for a building or award erasing their memories?
We use millimetres. That table is 1250mm high.

If you're cutting it yourself, a precision of 1mm is finer than your saw blade or pencil line anyway, so it's plenty enough.

When I hear anything past about 1/8th of an inch my brain shuts down, and I give up.
I like Climate Catastrophe, because that's what we are in.

Frank Luntz brags (exaggerates) about changing the vernacular to benefit the GOP/deniers - we should do the same to scare people into accepting and understanding the current reality.
They do help. The national guard is deployed during natural disasters, the coast guard does a lot of useful work.
Blurple and magenta LEDs seem to be on their way out last time I looked into growing lights. It is white (or white appearing) LEDs now, which are getting 190+ lumens per watt. The light spectrum is still tuned for plant growth efficiency, but it is a broader spectrum per LED rather than more specific spectrums from specific diodes.

It is worth noting too that these newer white LEDs are spectrum efficient enough that people growing with them have had to turn up the overall room temperatures to compensate for the drop in leaf temperatures created by "waste" wavelengths that the sun and old sodium bulbs use to provide.
AWS Lumberyard has a special clause for a zombie apocalypse
Yes. But generally not in the area it is for. For example Microsoft had a trademark for windows. But you can still use the word windows for glass windows, just not software
>something exists that isn't being used to it's full potential

In a way it is, the extra capacity gets used to manage wear. So it can distribute load over the cells to make the overall battery last longer.

Same thing we have in flash storage where is more flash storage than you are able to use but as parts die, the reserve gets used to replace them.
> "It is fraught to judge individuals outside of their time, but it is clear from the documentation presented that Millikan lent his name and his prestige to a morally reprehensible eugenics movement that already had been discredited scientifically during his time," Rosenbaum said.

Why should I have a problem with the idea future generations might take my name off a building?
I didn't know anything about WWII until I attended Adolf Hitler Art Academy. Thank goodness they weren't forced to change their name.
You can also use SQLAlchemy Core, which is an intermediate between the full-blown ORM and running actual strings of SQL. I've had a great experience with Core - I can easily have it output essentially the exact SQL I'd write by hand, but I get many benefits (like the ability to compose queries) that are nicer than dealing with raw SQL.
> Nuclear is in a bad state in France. Their recent attempts to build new reactors have gone massively over budget. Existing reactors are aging and it looks like they cannot replace them.

This is a political problem which has nothing to do to with technology or costs themselves.

Most infrastructures are aging and in a bad state in France, and the skills and knowledge to build or replace it has long been lost.

Add on top of this politically strong ecologist-extremists who decided that nuclear is evil and must be gone, and who will do everything to sabotage any project.

To take a counter example, nuclear is doing fine and growing in many countries, including China.
Shortly after removing Calhoun's name from the now-named Grace Hopper Residential College, members of the Yale community set their sites on statues and paintings of the university's eponymous slave-trading founder, Elihu Yale. There was/is talk of even changing the university's name.
> What's special about natural gas here?

On/off in seconds as the sun fades or the wind drops to fill in for the missing power output.
That concern is isolated to your region selection tool, and orthogonal to the undo functionality :-) So, you could select by lines, or intelligently select by parentheses/braces, etc. And ask these are nicely composable, so you could easily set up custom shortcuts if you don’t like the sequence of keystrokes.

For eg, see https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2017/08/09/selecting-things-i...
I suppose there was that time when the US had >15% unemployment (now around 7%).
It's a lot more common than most people want to believe.
there is a whole section of mathematical economics that is devoted to conducting effective warfare, should we claim that entire branch of science is fake just because it's resulted in millions of people's death who typically belong to a specific non-white race?

What I believe is that a person can be shitty, but also be a really great scientist to the point that we should overlook the personality and honor them for the contribution.

I mean, hell are we going to start scrubbing Edison's name off of everything just because all the PETA people are offended that he used to electrocute dogs, cats, horses (and even an elephant i believe) just to prove that inefficient DC is safer than Tesla's magical, "can transmit through the air and electrocute you to death while walking down the street" AC?

No we shouldn't just because we hate their personal beliefs and actions. First of all we shouldn't scrub them from the history books so we don't forget their atrocities and failings, but secondly we shouldn't scrub them out because the contribution has had a far more valuable and beneficial contribution to society.

Like I pointed out in another comment you say it's bad because the idea led to a horrifying geopolitical conclusion.

But what about all of the medical miracles that eugenics led to like establishments of bioengineering in both crops and microbiology?

You could literally say that people like Robert A Milikan are indirectly responsible for all the lives saved with this COVID vaccine just as much as he is indirectly responsible for all the lives lost in the holocaust.

Idk, was he probably a shitty human being? Sure but so were most of our grandparents. Are we going to start chiseling out the names on tombstones so society doesn't have to suffer the eyesores of their cultural blights?
TDD (test driven development) really help in solidifying interfaces ahead of time and also to capture regressions.

Yes, git diffs help, but once I’ve passed a parameterized suite of unit tests, never needed to undo/redo. Maybe not perfect the first go, but only need one/two tries to working code. Then refactor for readability.