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> That's about the farthest explanation from "mostly positive" you can get without admitting to physical pain. It sounds more like you learned how to navigate in an apathetic and disconnected bartering economy. "City life is mostly positive, you just have to make sure never to handle cash where anyone can see you and not go out after 9PM."

you're not wrong. i think a lot of people feel this way on dating apps. it's far too disconnected from real life and removes any sort of mutual respect you've agreed to give people in a society.

> Furthermore, the fact that you actually work for a dating app will likely make it very difficult to convince you of any of its potential secondary negative effects on what's left of society

trust me, my eyes are very open to all of the negative consequences of dating apps, but i think this argument can be extended to a lot of the rest of the internet, general media, etc.

> The claim I and others on this thread are making is that this subset of people would not have had such a hard time in real life before the advent of social media and dating apps.

i'm not convinced on this. i'm not putting my hands over my ears. i'm open to hear an argument, but i don't see why someone who sucks at dating apps and can't write something relatively interesting to somebody would magically turn into a different person in real life. i would guess very few people are this way and the majority that are boring online are boring face to face
It happens on the system making the initial DNS request: so, for example, your PC.
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Factorio and its genre are escapism to an alternate fantasy world where there is a clear and linear connection to effort and reward. It's almost sexual in a way
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Yeah, and the amygdala has specific functions. Not that it's the only piece needed for that, or that it's not good for anything else.

The evidence for more advanced brains in higher mammals is also plainly there.

The author seems to be over-stating all this stuff in order to reject it.
I’m really sold on the premise that reducing agricultural farmland use is a good thing. It seems one of the best arguments is that it’s a cause of deforestation/bio diversity loss, but it would seem that is primarily driven by urban sprawl, pushing farmland into new areas, rather than a problem specific to agricultural land
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Husbanding the land typically increases its fertility, because animals and nature have evolved simultaneously into a symbiotic relationship.

Modern agricultural practices is extremely rough to the land (but getting better). But then again so is modern factory animal raising.
Thanks for the comment fblp, I agree with you here: this depends on the situation - sometimes async voice memo can work better than having called another meeting.
My first attempt went totally crazy - like the last version posted :)
fun anecdote:
when I first apprenticed for heavy diesel repair there was a safety practice at the shop that was weird but never ignored: Always return swivel jacks to storage with the jack pin in hole 4. no exceptions. even though the stand was unloaded and not used, it seemed weird to be so specific but the rumor was youd get fired on the spot if you didnt do it.

Eventually I asked an old timer whos name was on the training SOP. He smiled and told me, "people who cant be bothered to pay attention to the swivel jack pin when its safe, probably wont when its under load."
Both dBase III and dBase IV predate the acquisition by Borland. This kind of stuff is super easy to fact-check, so I'm always a bit put off by pieces which make those kinds of factual errors.
What did people eat 50_000 years ago?

Probably not steak and eggs in cheese sauce washed down with a glass of milk.
those are from a minuscule portion of the animals. plant and polymer substitutes are readily available for most use cases, and where the real thing matters, a few animals may of course still be raised for that dedicated purpose. this is about reducing meat consumption.
Its not the 17th century anymore, we can make those things from non-animal components. Leather and lanolin are a wholly unneeded vanity and for the vain they can just do with alternatives.
Probably one of my own more controversial opinions is an extreme tax on red meat, not unlike the Australian tax on tobaco. This seems entirely possible in particular because tobaco is fraught with the issues around addiction which isn't an issue with meat.

I would aim for a tax that makes red meat 7 times more expensive over time. This is based on the idea that most peopple eat meat 7 times a week and by making it 7 times more expensive it would force most people to move to a healthier once a week diet.

The money could be earmarked towards efforts to help people eat a healthy and balanced diet that is mostly plant based. Or it could be used towards investment into lab grown meat.

Of course I don't expect anyone would ever get elected in a decomracy on this platform so I suppose it'll have to remain only a thought experiment.

EDIT: I don't think I expressed myself as clearly as I should've so I'd like to offer two clarifications:

1. I wouldn't propose a 7x increase over night. Instead, much like the Australian tobaco tax, it would be gradual increase(e.g. yearly).

2. I suspect that this tax existing and some of it being invested in lab grown meat research would accelerate how quickly we could have widely available lab grown meat.
> That is not to say ML isn't a powerful tool in the right context, but I feel it is grossly over-hyped and over-used. And that seems to be a controversial stance. Even within start-up circles I've encountered push-back when suggesting going the simpler route and saving ML for much much later.

Exactly. Many times when people are looking for an intelligent solution to a hard problem, Machine Learning is actually the wrong solution...but ML enthusiasts (as opposed to experts) are so eager to use it that they end up prescribing it as a solution to every problem, and that can really mess with non-technical managers heads.

I recently advised a high level non-technical manager who was looking for a solution to a very combinatorial optimization problem, and I advised to him that he should be looking to hire some expertise from the field of Operations Research. But he also had a dozen software engineers that were chomping at the bit to put some machine learning on their resumes, who were all advising that he needed a machine learning solution. And when the reqs went out, they were all for data scientists...and when the first data scientist came on board, he quit after three months and told the manager that he didn't need machine learning, but that he needed a Gurobi license and someone who could model Integer Programming problems...also known as an Operations Researcher.

I know I know, /r/ThatHappened. But it's a real problem and ML enthusiasts are actually feeding the next AI winter by overprescribing it where it is the least applicable solution to the problem, ultimately generating disappointment in ML. Sometimes you don't need Machine Learning...sometimes you need Linear Programming, sometimes Econometrics, sometimes Statistics, sometimes Constraint Programming, and sometimes you just need an Excel Pivot Table.
What would population control look like?

Preventing people from having children?

Sounds pretty misanthropic to me.
>The future of Greensill Capital, a UK financial startup backed by SoftBank (SFTBF), has been thrown into doubt after German regulators shuttered a bank it operates, the latest twist in an unfolding corporate collapse that could put 50,000 jobs at risk.

How does anyone know what is going on / manage risk / assess anything at SoftBank if they're funding a startup ... that owns a bank... that gives loans to suppliers... that is then reliant on some fund out there that this other bank relies on to back their loans, that can be tanked by two fund managers?

The amount of disconnect and even just potential randomness due to a fund manager's whims seems unmanageable.

It seems like it's impossible to be sure of anything, and just some unrelated events that would impact those fund manager's decisions are impossible to account for / could bring a lot down with it...
"dBase was THE first commercially successful DBMS in computing history"

Got to love people who think computing didn't exist before the PC.
So I’ve seen this negativity towards reducing global population but I don’t entirely understand it. Based on the fact that richer countries tend to have lower rates of reproduction than poorer countries. So why not reduce global inequality and then let people have as many kids as they want (which tends not to be enough to increase the global population). It seems like a win win.
The (1) also mentions C.

I would partially agree with you, if it only mentioned C++.

Only partially, because too many C++ devs still use plain old C strings.
Fair enough. Like I said, mine was doing well until a house sitter didn't show up to water it while I was gone. It never quite recovered from that. But it did well for the 2 prior years. Now that I have a house with south facing windows I want to get another one but haven't yet, also the cats my wife wanted have a tendency to eat plants so I'll need a cage for the poor tree or it'll be wrecked.
I think how hard those things are depends on the timespan. Our current massive meat consumption is a relatively recent phenomenon, which is only made possible by factory farming.
RAM (the temporary memory where your operating system, programs, etc are stored) stores bits as charge in a capacitor. Now this is where my understanding falls apart, so I'm going to take an educated guess and hope someone smarter corrects me: Random energy from thermal heat or stray cosmic particles can cause these bits to leak from the capacitor or for an extra charge be thrown into the wire as the data gets transmitted.
I can't imagine this beating the combination of history-tabbing (ctrl + tab in IntelliJ) and fuzzy search.

Just like with tabs, I now have to manage which files are "open", when usually I only ever want to: A.: go back 1-4 files, or B.: go to a specific symbol. I have two or three splits, and use whatever split is least relevant to view the next file.

I'm only so critical, because it's sold as the next big innovation, when it seems more like a 2% improvement. Having a bit more virtual space is nice I guess, but everything else I already have or don't want.
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That's true for all software development. In seven years most of your team is replaced.
I’ve seen statistics that show that suicide rate has not gone up during this year of pandemic lockdowns. I’m not saying things aren’t bad.
Well i don't have links at hand but there's been plenty of studies in different fields (computers, cars) and overall the environmental costs of new hardware are always (to my knowledge) greater than the environmental costs of keeping inefficient hardware around.

For example, it will without any doubt take more energy/ressources to build a Raspberry Pi than to keep your old desktop computer powered.

However, from an economic perspective the opposite is true because as consumers we pay energy far greater prices than the industry does. Which means i can buy a raspberry pi for the price in electricity that my desktop would consume in a few years. That device will then use a lot less energy to run, but took so much to produce it's meaningless.

That is, without even taking into consideration recycling concerns. Recycling for electronics mostly doesn't exist (see open-air landfills with children taking metals apart using dangerous chemicals), and in any case also requires energy/resources and produces pollution.

We are economically incentivized to destroy the planet. All those "buy a new car" programs are not meant to save the planet, they're meant to save big corp profits by keeping everyone buying new stuff. That's what is really worrying in my view.
Actually, action for action managed languages tend to be "faster" than C in the sense that writing the equivalent program would be slower in C. However, the additional freedom leads to increased program complexity and that complexity eats into the performance budget enough to end up slower than "idiomatically" written C where the developer distilled the solution to its bare essence.

Javascript has the fastest general purpose hashmap/dictionary implementation of all programming languages but at the same time you are forced to use them all the time which overall slows the language down. Writing exactly the same code in C would be even slower since C hashmaps aren't as optimized. However, C code is rarely written like that so it's usually faster.
The definition they are using is the dollar value of the mined bitcoins. For each $1 of bitcoin that is mined in the USA, the mining process causes $0.49 in health and environmental damages.
Sportsball toys can be made from alternative substances the same way we don't have whale oil lamps in our homes.
It means put into position. Seems perfectly reasonable
There is a lot of resistance to dropping Verilog among working processor designers in my experience. Interestingly, LLHD is being folded into CIRCT [1] which is part of LLVM.

[1] https://github.com/circt
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Would you give more details on how you guys evaluate companies' environmental impact ?
Thanks christophilus, we're actually looking into integrating playback speed option down the road.
I don't know if prohibiting people from having kids so you can keep eating burgers is the optimal solution.
Actually looks pretty simple to use especially if you have some kind of coding affinity. When the next diagram making is needed I hope I'll remember your Tool.
These are already famous people. As a rule, journalists don't mention names in the headline that would likely be unknown to the audience. Of course, this creates a chicken and egg problem sometimes...
> this story has a German angle as well

There is a running joke in finance about a bubble or scheme never being over until a German bank loses its shirt.

The German banking system, in particular its Landesbanken [1], have been notorious for reaching beyond their circle of competence since at least the 1980s. They are lightly regulated, furiously defended as national champions and reliably capitalized with loyal deposits.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landesbank
Making food prohibitively expensive is not cool. Leave what other people eat alone. >:-|
That's strange, I never had problem with getting a refund after paying with BTC. Have you had issue with it?
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That progressions of screens is remarkably similar to what you see today with things like Quickbase, Zoho Creator, Knack.com, Ragic.com, etc.
I don’t think this will be an issue in 25 years. Artificial meats like impossible meat, and lab grown meats are going to become better tasting than the real thing within our lifetimes. People will change from eating animals to plants/lab grown meat because it tastes better.
It seems Isabel was "verified trans," and had sensitivity reading done. As lived experience is the metric that matters here, and then she/they got the additional verification done, that's the full stop here. She/they lived it, she/they got sensitivity readings done, and QED she/they can write about it... at least as the current rules go.

All your points largely summarize to there being some suspicious aspects to her/their identity, and because of that, shoot first and ask questions later was apparently ok.

"Because we as an industry are hyper tuned to any slip up on these key metrics, let's verbally slaughter whoever has some oddities to their author profile regarding these metrics."

Given that Isabel ended up in a hospital, as you said, the lack of introspection from the publishing community once the facts of the matter came out is ugly and why many authors are terrified for their careers.
So for every thing we "gain" here, what do we lose? Seems like we could forego frivolous products to save the planet, no?
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who? this guy? https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=kmPBeTMAAAAJ&hl=en
I remember a proof in CLRS which first developed a function that was bounded above by 5 for all conceivable input ("a very quickly-growing function and its very slowly-growing inverse"), and then substituted the constant 4 or 5 into a complexity calculation in place of that function, giving a result which was "only" correct for all conceivable input.

The same approach applies to key length requirements for hash tables with arbitrarily large backing stores. They do not grow as slowly as the CLRS log* function, but they grow so slowly that there are easily identifiable sharp limits on how large they can be -- an easy example is that a hash table cannot use more memory than the hardware offers no matter how the software is written. A backing store with 1TB of addressable bytes cannot need the key to be more than 40 bits long.

On a different note, by "table size" in my earlier comment I meant to refer to the number of entries in the table, not the capacity of the backing store. It seems like you might be using the same word for a different concept?
I find these critiques effective:

https://deniseminger.com/the-china-study/

Natural selection seems to have selected us from ancestors that mostly followed herds of ruminants around and ate them in place of vegetation that we can't digest.
> In the energy market, demand drives supply

> Bitcoin miners don't put their operations in the middle of nowhere and then ask someone to build hydro plants...

So now the demand follows the supply?
I agree loloquwowndueo: safety first - don't text and drive or do anything distracting while driving, including listening to work-related voice messages.
When I was a kid there were between 3 and 3.5 billion humans on earth. Population control would also help these kinds of problems, but people really dont like to talk about that.

For some reason it's ok to criticize someone's eating habits, but not their reproductive ones.
How to run language server with Sublime Text on Windows?
Hi there :)

I have installed `lsp-tsserver` (https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript-Sublime-Plugin).

When I open a JS file, there is an error message:

> Could not start lsp-tsserver
> [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified

I tried to add the `"node_path": "C:/Program Files/nodejs/node.exe"` in the Sublime Text's configuration file, but it doesn't seem to help.

Does anybody know how to fix it?

Here is an issue on GitHub where people discuss it: https://github.com/sublimelsp/LSP/issues/337. I asked there too, but the guys there seem to visit GitHub very rarely, so I don't think I will get an answer from there soon.
There is no all-in-one replacement for wool: it's insulating even when wet, it's fire-retardant, lightweight, has antibacterial and anti-mould properties, and it's bio-degradable.

Regarding leather: if one cares for it, it last decades. No plastic replacement I ever had lasted as long as leather that was occasionally cleaned and greased.
They did the same thing when they switched to Intel. Nearly every model inherited its previous design, with big design changes coming after the product line had transitioned. At the time the general consensus was that they were timid about making big visible changes that might make existing customers feel like their products had changed too much. But now it seems like the norm for Apple to stagger architecture and design changes.
They had all sorts of deficiencies and ate anything they came across. Literally anything. As in, practically every culture has had cannibalism, for instance.
Are you healthy ? Can you post a picture of your body or training regimen ?
In fact, it was at least in part the screwed up introduction of dBase IV that led to Borland's acquisition of Ashton-Tate.
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Curious why does square want a stake in the ecosystem of music artists?

Even eventbrite didn’t need square readers, people mostly buy their tickets in advance. Maybe it’s for event organizers to upsell at the event to attendees?

Maybe this is a play to demonstrate investment in black community, as someone else mentioned?
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many years ago i slaved away in a low end (5 people) ecommerce web shop with a homebrew php cms. i hated working there, but was too vain to quit. one day our biggest customer by far complained about slow loading speeds and i was set upon the task. it was spaghetti code of the worst sort, but i managed to find the culprit quickly: converting a list of rows (for pages) from the database into the hierarchical menu tree structure; of course it was O(n²). i fixed it and the page generation time went down from 7 seconds to a few milliseconds again.

they didn't let me push the fix back into the main repo because "it only affects this one customer, so we'll only fix it here". luckily i was fired shortly after. fin.
Right now Bytedance (TikTok) is their top winner. Their stock just doubled last year, so they are not as bad as their reputation. It looks just biased media to me at this point.
It is a failure of humanity. Just when climate change is become so obvious that basically no one takes the deniers seriously anymore, some asshole goes and invents a way to straight-up burn an ever-increasing amount of energy to power a pyramid scheme and people go mad for it.

Frankly, I'm increasingly of the opinion that we don't deserve to survive as a species.
Browsers are moving to block cross-site caching though.

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/01/26/supercookie-pro...
In horseback riding combat, the horse needs to be strong, not the rider. The idea that diet played a role in this and not geo-politics and military tactics is a bit out there.

Red meat being tied to masculinity is big right now (Rogan, Alex Jones, alt-right, etc) and its sad that shoddy arguments are being made like this to keep people from mindfully considering what exactly it means to raise and slaughter all these animals, some of whom are empathic and social mammals just like us. Worse, meat consumption is tied directly to cancer and heart disease. You're not going to be "strong" on chemo and its not "strong" to be dead a decade or two or three before you should because of your poor diet. Not to mention the link to obesity, that often starts in childhood, so a lifetime of being obese also isn't "strong."
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Another excellent use of the tax money from this could be subsidising non-meat foods which makes more food cheaper.

Anecdotally my own experience switching to a diet with less meat is that food costs have gone down.
Before your edit, I assumed you were not being serious. Regardless of the claim that meat and dairy cause health issues...

Bad diets generally do not make people die during the period where they are able to have children. Natural selection has very little effect. Even if it did, the time period it would take for these effects to matter is significantly longer than most people care about when confronting the climate crisis that requires immediate action.
I gave one "non-misanthropic" example in the message you're replying to. There are others.
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> Population control would also help these kinds of problems, but people really dont like to talk about that

It's not a problem in the developed world. And it's not a problem in the best organized of the developing. So population control would amount to developed nations regulating poor nations' populations' reproduction, which is a difficult campaign to run on.
I have the same job as my father. Grandparents immigrated at a young age and grew up in the same area of the city.