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It sounds like your concern is masks, not saving lives. Because if you care more about saving lives you will realize people only need to stay home. Fewer fatal accidents, infections, and other disturbances if people just never ventured outside their homes.
Thanks for sharing this - it is fascinating to see the dogs working together with people. They are very efficient!
ICE families/generations are quite well defined if you follow automotive news.
I think it's really interesting that you view changing the eating habits of millions of people "easy".

We've known and broadly accepted that smoking is bad since 1964[1]. Yet new people start smoking every year. Even in countries where packaging displays disgusting pictures showing the long term results of smoking.

To me it seems unlikely that relevant parts of the world will become vegan in the short term, or that cattle farmers will pivot to something else. But I do often see that "green" initiatives that also save companies money are adopted quickly. Not all farmers may care about emissions, but needing less feed (and thus saving money) seems like an easy win. Hopefully all these small gains will add up.

[1] - https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/sgr/history/inde...
Do you consider Amish people to live in communes? I wasn't aware they all failed. Or is only the failed ones that end up a commune in your dictionary?

This axe you're grinding is getting hella sharp. Can't believe you failed to bring out the 'millions of deaths' because of communes this time.
I suspect swappable batteries and/or standardized battery tech would be a huge boon. Plus expansion of available charging stations. Those kinds of things would really move the tech forward.
Scala has a Lisp-like quality in that I feel like I should love it. On a certain, 30,000-ft level, I do, but when I'm actually trying to solve a real problem I usually end up just doing it in Java and then "translating" it back into Scala.
> years spent in NASA before that were all about papers.

And the development of knowledge Armadillo relied upon.

Unless they developed their own CFD models for their rocket engine.
Infrastructure is the most important part, IMO. For widespread adoption, EV charging will have to be just as convenient as gas vehicles. They've gotten a lot better in recent years, but there's still a lot of holes.
Between USB2, USB2-Power, and USB3, I haven't got a laptop that I know what USB port does what in a long time... And I still didn't get any with USB-C.
China will produce most of the ICE vehicles. VW will simply buy a Chinese company, and hide behind a new 'brand'. It's cheaper to make things in China, ICE engines haven't changed much in two decades. Also, ICE engines aren't going anywhere, it'll just be too hard to make money building them, as China ramps up production. Much like N.America lost out to Japanese cars in the 1980s, now they'll lose out to Chinese ones.
It should be races that are exciting, not accidents.
Go is not a simple language. Please learn from my mistakes, and ignore arbitrary metrics like how go has fewer keywords. The complexity doesn't go away, it's hidden away somewhere.

If anybody wants to learn go, ignore everything about how easy it is to learn. Because it's extremely deceptive. Take time to actually read through a lot of the important underlying concepts like how slices work.

Ignore comments about how go is simple to write. There's a fair amount of bad go code and people break rules all the time. From official sdks to standard libs. Go can be extremely difficult to both write and read. It's implicit interfaces and judicious abuse of interface{} can make tracing how a library is supposed to work a PITA. Writing go can be difficult because of a lack of some language constructs that leave you unsure how to proceed.

If you can, use goland. I use vscode and it's... not pretty. Almost every single thread I've seen on reddit recommends goland. My experience with vscode has been very unpleasant, particularly with go plus.

OTOH, things like criticisms about it's error handling are overblown. At best it's a mild nuisance, and more often than not, a good thing that makes error handling explicit and clear.

There are many things about go that have made me appreciate it's existence. There are also many things that have left me absolutely baffled at how bad it is.
Habe you tried the latest substitutes? Artificial chicken based on pea proteins has become virtually indistinguishable from real chicken.
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Not sure that’s the best example to use, since food costs are a trivial fraction of the retail price of a bag of Doritos, and harvesting labor is a trivial fraction of the price of food.

Edit: that was just based on my general memory of non-perishable food economics. But I googled it and found this (sorry, quora) from someone who would know, a 2 oz bag of potato chips costs 15 cents to produce and bring to (retail) market. Of that, a fraction is potato prices.

https://www.quora.com/How-much-does-a-bag-of-57g-of-Lays-act...

Edit: fix Verizon math.
Shipping by electrified rail is one option. Efficient and potentially 100% clean.
So Go is a language that values the compiler writer over the programmer?
*Robert Macfarlane. For a second I thought John had added being an accomplished writer as a side gig to philosophy and coding
Some sites use referrer as their "cookie session". One site use Cloudflare Anti-DDOS referrer as their cookie. Removing that referrer will cause the browser to infinity loop in CF Anti-DDOS because the site is expecting that referrer before entering the site.

I hate sharing Amazon shopping links because Amazon packs much referrer as possible in the link. Amazon uses the referrer to track who am I sharing to and use it for data for them to sells.
On a personal level, this may be a little self centered, but I use cases like this to put my own problems in perspective. Recently I had to troubleshoot lots of IT issues during a winter storm. It was a bad outage for the organization during high load important scenario. I distinctly remember thinking during the thick of it “this is bad, but imagine being the poor engineers in TX responsible for the power grid.” This helped me not panic and focus on the problem at hand.

I feel like this ability to step back and not take a problem more seriously than necessary can be an asset. In this case, it’s pretty bad, but “at least people aren’t in immediate danger of their life.” Think it to yourself, but probably not best to share with others until after the problem is mitigated ;)
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Granted, it's a bad example for a Security Engineer to not offer HTTPS. Unfortunately I use a provider that doesn't make it easy at all. I will get there eventually.
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At least in Germany, while it's in principle possible to sue the employee for damages, it is very difficult to succeed with that if it isn't downright sabotage. You can't force the employee to work, it quickly goes into negligence on your part if you can't handle an employee going missing, ..., so you'll probably not reach much more than the salary - and for that just terminating the contract early would be easier, either in agreement with the employee or one-sided after they stopped showing up.
for most simple HTTP webservers, python maintains somewhat OK-ish source/binary compatibility between python-versions. But my experience with scala was things breaking between scala-versions / waiting for some library to compile with next scala-version...

I'm surprised why scala couldn't solve it better than python -- I mean, scala's a compiled language, so it should have more wriggle-room...
Or, just ship the seaweed. There is no reason to "keep it to a minimum", shipping things takes far less energy than people like to imagine.

You'll end up spending FAR more energy cultivating it in lots of small locales.
Why not go to zero?

It's a bit like saying:
"Reducing the amount of fossil fuel is a good idea, but why go to zero?"
If you add CCS to the natural gas it would. And that would likely be cheaper than nuclear.
Python is distributed in source code and it sounds like Scala dependencies are distributed as JAR files. The compatibility problems when moving compilers are not entirely unexpected, I'd say.
With pork barrel it's the government, through their elected officials, and, therefore, the people themselves, who plan these strategic job creation and maintenance programs.

SpaceX and Boeing don't answer directly to the people.
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This has been happening for almost 3 decades: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_emission_standards

Hardly super visionary :-)
The issue here isn't hardware capabilities, it's that vendors like to make their gadgets centrally connected for convenience and analytics and then on top often don't care about hygiene (e.g. no crypto at all).
An electric motor is way simpler than an ICE. Even controlling it electronically to increase its performance, efficiency and response should be easily doable with simple MCU's. There's no reason we should accept electric cars with complex computers running complex unfixable proprietary software that only the vendor has access to the source code and is updated over-the-air without owner's consenting.

Cars may become the next walled garden.
Yup. Most states are "at will", which effectively means both parties can leave the arrangement without notice or repercussion.

There are federal laws that limit this, typically applied to larger employers making entire business lines redundant (closing a factory, etc). State laws very, some with zero extra protection, some with a bit more, but AFAIK none with European-style rules.

In professional jobs, it's traditional for an employee to give 2+ weeks notice. Most employees will try to stay long enough for a reasonable transition - depending on position/project status, that could be 2 weeks or a month or two.

It's traditional for employers to give 2+ weeks severance. Most white-collar employers have periods that start at 2 weeks and grow with tenure. Including benefits is hit or miss, and a HUGE issue because health insurance/care in the US is so expensive.
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Will you be pushing out a fix to address the complete lack of any process that should have flagged and prevented this from happening in the first place? The quick fix I am pushing out for my clients who use Backblaze is moving them to another backup provider.
Also Zigbee and Z-Wave.
Where are you getting the electricity to power the rail?
> We don't even have these numbers for, say, the stock market, so we don't even know how good or bad that is. We can't answer the first questions that arise from this kind of analysis.

Crypto isn't competing against the stock market, it's competing against something like Visa. And we can answer that comparison: https://www.statista.com/statistics/881541/bitcoin-energy-co....

1 bitcoin transaction takes more power than 100,000 Visa transactions.

> But I also don't think judging the industry on power consumption is particularly fruitful, unless we want to look industry-by-industry and weigh utility vs energy, which we do not do.

That's exactly what I think we as a society should do. We are limited on the amount of sustainable power generation, so looking at cost vs. value is exactly what we should be doing. Especially when something comes along that does the same basic thing as an existing system, but 100,000x more expensive.
It's very valuable...to working with the existing Apple ecosystem. These are the issues that keep sinking Swift as a general purpose language: it is hamstrung by its requirement to bridge to Objective-C.
You could start by not representing people who eat meat as stereotypical fat redneck americans, which, in addition to just being baseline offensive, is hardly a dominant trait among people who eat meat.
For folks who use Redux, the React Redux library has gotten much much more developer-friendly than it originally was. The other libraries like Easy Peasy and Rematch serve a nice syntactic sugar, though.
It doesn't solve the problem of dealing with water runoff pollution. Or air pollution (seaweed is not a 100% reduction). Or ethical problems with wellbeing of animals. Or health concerns of eating too much meat.
Where I live (which uses the NBR 14136 standard), the 20A plugs and sockets look identical to the 10A plugs and sockets, the pins and corresponding holes are only slightly larger (so that a 10A plug fits on a 20A socket, but not the reverse).
The source of this thread was a comment attempting to set the expectation that things will never get better, and nobody will ever again live the way they did in 2019. There’s a huge chasm between that and your (reasonable) claim that some people have moved a bit too fast and there may be public health consequences.
This reasoning is flawed in the same way recycling is flawed: it puts all the responsibility on individuals to change their behaviour rather than government or industry using their greater leverage to change the system itself.

And it'll work just as well.

If you want to stop people eating meat, the solution is to tax it so that the price of the good reflects its true cost. But that ain't gonna happen. So the least we can do is clean up the production and supply chains to reduce those externalized costs.
Yet everybody is making big claims about possible progress in ev technology without any grounding in reality. Do you see the flaw in your logic?
You still have lots of challenges ahead, convergence is the biggest one (imo). Good job so far, Good Luck.
Not to brag but I recently ported our legacy java code base written for Java 1.5 to Java 8. The only change we made was to swap the jdbc jar as we also upgraded our Oracle DB.
You're essentially correct, and (I think) being downvoted for the tone of your rhetoric, which could be phrased in a more pleasing and convincing way. Also, most of us do love cheeseburgers, unhealthy though they may be.

Either way, humanity hasn't matured enough for this viewpoint to be considered common sense. Give us another few centuries.
I feel this one. I really liked the ambition and ideas of Scala, and after I took Odersky's own Scala course, I was all charged up to use it. But so many things about it end up being a giant pain in the ass that it just wasn't worth it to me for general-purpose coding.
It's not the AI's inherent bias as such though. It's the bias of the dataset which has more cases of women cooking and men being professors in Hungarian texts.
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They are actually pretty good — I believe much better than truncated sinc (likely because of the discontinuity in first derivative of the latter), but I haven't done that analysis myself.
Yes and no.

First of all, you get benefits as a full-time employee that contractors don't get, like healthcare, disability insurance, and paid time off. (This all mostly boils down to money of course.)

Probably more importantly, yes, a company can in general simply tell you your services are no longer needed one morning. However, in reality, absent either company downsizing or a documented performance issue, that is unlikely to happen out of the blue. Whereas not renewing a contract at the end of some project is commonplace.

Employee status vs. independent contractors is actually something of a political football at the moment as contractors include both the stereotypical gig economy workers and freelance writers who want to freelance as well as contractors of other sorts.
Fastly currently serves all of PyPI's CDN traffic for free. Cloudflare probably would as well.
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may I ask what kind of consulting and how you got into it? I’m a final-year in uni trying to ensure I don’t stay locked in golden handcuffs.
It was to reduce BOM cost. That is such a driver that there were (/are still?) cables without any data lines at all and only power, just to save money.

I used them for plugging into public power supplies, but they were never sold to consumers labeled for that purpose.
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Are there plans for self-hosted versions? That's pretty much the "if I will use it or not" question for me. Atlassian's killing of their self-hosted solutions for smaller companies is just really a shame.
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Fun thats exactly what I did once. I gave them the info in the order of the fields I saw in one of the screenshots of the GUI they were using to configure their firewalls (no idea what brand it was never saw that before). It was indeed much faster.
Don't have a lot of Java experience, but think it's backwards compatible, even across major versions, whereas Scala isn't even backwards compatible for minor versions.
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> Democracy, populism, and individual self-interest

Let's totally skip the major contributor, capitalism.
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How about we keep eating locally produced meat because it's healthy, far more than those "fake" meats that are no more than vegetable oils, estrogen from soy and the likes, and chemicals to add flavour, and instead reduce waste?
Do you really think that the increase in vegetable prodution would not have any environmental impact? We grow them out of the air?

And ICE should continue to exist to make sure we stop at the border all those who break the law to try to entering a country. No country owes any right to foreigners to enter illegally. Let them fix their countries first :)
I'm curious, what is the lisp like quality?

I like scala. I haven't used it for anything big, though. And hard to argue that it has an interesting approach to discipline.

Lisp, though, I like to use. I'm not as impressed with myself for getting something working in it. I am impressed that all of my books have code still work.
I suppose, but it has also enabled larger and larger vehicles compared to the small vehicles of the late 70s. SUVs have never been more popular.

To defeat Jevons Paradox (where greater efficiency just means more of the thing is consumed, making it potentially even worse than before), you gotta electrify everything. Perhaps even meat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
Roughly 37% of the US population was infected. A large fraction of Americans never took it seriously. Does that sound familiar? Oh yeah, climate change.
> Scala can also bring out the weirdness in programmers and create codebases that are incredibly difficult to follow, independent of the maintenance cost. Some programmers are more interested in functional programming paradigms and category theory than the drudgery of generating business value for paying customers.

This is the tragedy of Scala. The maintenance cost is bearable. In return you get a language that dares to shed legacy cruft and fix bugs. Trash fire code bases, on the other hand, are hard to deal with.
All coal plants produce the same amount of CO2, the dirtyness is inly related to micro-particles.

The richest countries are the reason for climate change. We've lived way past what is sustainable for a hundred years, and now you want to blame it on somebody else?

Sure, everything but taking personal responsibility...
how do you handle health insurance?
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Bromoform is incredibly toxic, and possibly even a carcinogen.

But if you feed them seaweed then it's suddenly all natural. /s

That might be why. But in seriousness, I'm not so OK with feeding animals bromoform or seaweed for that matter if that's a common component.
Their current customers. Customers change (both changing habits and younger customers).
Where's that American aim of being #1 ("exceptional") in ways like "ethically good" or "world leader taking the world into a better future"? Why is it now "well, others are doing bad things, we may as well pollute the shit of the planet too"?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/09/chinas-appetit...

Do I need to comment?
> Yes, and allowing people to speak introduces this exact same issue...

It's not the purpose of a translation service - to let people customize the translation such that it fits their own personal biases and sits more comfortably with their world views.
That counts as harassment in my opinion if it happens without at least some reasonable reason to believe the women may be interested in dating him, if he persists with a given woman after she doesn't respond with interest, if there is any sort of power dynamic or other coercive context in place that might make the woman feel not free to decline without social or professional penalty (within a community like the free software world this obstacle would often be present in relation to someone like RMS who is prominent within that community), if he makes a habit of propositioning people in professional contexts, or if he asks women out in unprofessional ways like inappropriate touching. If none of these patterns occur, it's probably not harassment, but I suspect he does some of them.

And if it is harassment, I'd probably say it's sexual harassment since it relates to unwanted seeking of romantic or sexual relationships in a professional environment.
You’re assuming a system which can easily & correctly identify “exempted” people, the police power of the state being benevolently withheld to allow paying some less. Hardly realistic.

You’re assuming paying people to do nothing will result in “unpaid” productivity greater than their UBI. This is not dominant human nature; all basic needs met, most turn to fighting/copulation/gluttony/drugs/sloth.

Oh, just noticed your racist BS at the end. Bye.
I've worked such a job at a large enterprise. It really does feel like firefighting (minus all the smoke inhalation and physical strain and death risk).

However, not only is not everything a true positive, probably only about 0.001% of things are true positives, among a sea of alerts and reports and dashboards across myriad systems. Some coming from your SIEM, some generated by security appliances and products, some from internal employee reports.

An ideal place will have people who continuously work on trying to reduce alert fatigue and false positive noise - but, in practice, at most big companies it's probably like working at a fire station and getting hundreds of dispatch calls per hour, every hour, every day, each about a potential fire at a different residence. And then you drive up and see they just used the stove for a few minutes or a character said the word "fire" in a TV show they were watching.

But you have to urgently show up every time no matter what because, occasionally, the house actually is engulfed in flames and might be on the verge of igniting the whole town.
This is the thing that a lot of executives don’t ever seem to understand.
It seems to me that Google translate is just playing the odds. It doesn't see "he is beautiful" very often (if at all), so it has two possible outputs: "she is beatiful" or "he is beautiful" and goes with the most common one, as it not only should, but must.
Also, agricultural runoff can be an issue for oceans. I think that’s mostly fertilizer, but I have to imagine a large scale beef operation near the ocean could have runoff consequences.