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Gardens are good for herbs, vegetables, and possibly a small quantity of staple crops.

When you're trying to provide calories (as well as sufficient essential nutrients: protein, essential fats, and vitamins), quantity matters, and a few raised beds really won't get you very far.

An adult needs roughly 2,000 food calories (kilocalories) per day (~1,600 -- 2,400 for women, 2,000 -- 3,000 for men), though it's possible to survive (with weight loss) on less than that.

1 kg of wheat flour contains 3,600 calories, or nearly the daily calorie intake of two adults.

An acre of wheat in the US yields about 40--50 bushels (under modern mechanised agriculture), at about 27 kg/bushel. Which, if I'm doing my maths right might mean an acre can support about 4.8 people (in wheat).

Under emergency and hand-raised conditions, probably markedly less.

Mind: if you've got some but insufficient food, you could supplement with what you grow in a garden plot.

The traditional famine food on Earth (since Europeans discovered the Americas), or Mars (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJCMgwcJNOk) has been the potato, at about 10 tons per acre. That's about 10x the wheat yield, though potatoes have a much higher water content, and rate at about 870 calories/kg, about 25% as much as wheat.
The coupling between systems is insane, and it's all super rigid, with legal contracts specifying what, when and how often something can communicate. Many millions of dollars ride on these contracts.

Basically it's a big jumbled big of Lego that's covered in Kraggle.

With those constraints, lots of bugs are mis-design. IDK bug counts, or if that is even meaningful as it depends on thoroughness of testing, but a huge emphasises was placed on coding standards, static and dynamic analysis. They could well be the biggest single customer of Coverity.

Overall I'd say it hasn't been a critical issue, given the larger architectural problems. The use of something like Ada SPARK in particular components might have focused attention on proving rather then testing, i.e. a completely different philosophy.
Ironically, they care a lot about stability towards user space interfaces, to the point that bugs become features if someone depends on them, but they don't care about driver interfaces being stable.
Just ran across this earlier today: https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/03/22/1021079/united-s...

> The US is about to reach a surprise milestone: too many vaccines, not enough takers

> As production ramps up, the US will soon have many more doses—and not enough people who want them. The change will be rapid: Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, estimated that supply and demand could shift “in the weeks to month ahead.” Walmart, a major distributor of vaccines across the country, has said that the flip could happen within a month to 45 days.

> In some states, the shift from scarcity to abundance is already here. In Idaho, where 20% of people have gotten at least one shot, many appointments have gone unfilled, causing state officials to increase eligibility ahead of schedule. The state plans to open up appointments to those 55 and up beginning March 22.
I don't plan to go to Paris in the near future due to lack of time but being able to view it online allows me to "wander, ponder, and appreciate" at least to some extent
I read it as a succinct and derisive dismissal of white supremacist beliefs, particularly racial purity.
> It sounds like you're saying that top-tier engineers are not generally qualified in terms of non-technical requirements, and I don't know that this assertion is justified.

True, but your top-10% engineer who's also a top-10% manager is going to be 10x rarer and harder to find.
This museum became so full of art, the only thing it was afraid of was losing access to this art...which, eventually of course, it did. Unfortunately, it had many visitors who saw everything it had, then this visitors tried to visit its web site all at once and killed it in combined DOS attack. Ironic. It could enlighten others from ignorance... but not itself.
Many investors might not value Costco for those reasons but not all. It's notable the Berkshire Hathaway only recently divested their Costco shares but only after holding them for many years and even sharing corporate board members [1].

1: https://www.forbes.com/sites/gurufocus/2020/11/17/warren-buf...
That's how BDUF software consulting works. Design something unusable but make it cost as many billable hours as possible. That way, it has to be thrown away and it's job security for the consulting industry to keep a desperate customer throwing money at non-solutions.

A better approach is agile with customer's actual employees guiding small changes all along from the beginning, and customer's project managers/budgeting managers tracking progress, requirements, and costs.
This is a very vague article, focusing on a single person who was employed by Verizon (not sure why they’re big tech). The same person says she’s jealous of her friends at actual big tech (google, fb, nvidia) who are continuing to pay service workers. There are no other companies named as examples. The byline and headline, as well most of the content implies the usual big tech bashing, but they couldn’t find real examples??
That's exactly their point. Even a digital collection doesn't replace the experience of visiting the museum.
The SoC manufacturer provides to the OEM exactly one kernel version that works on that chip.

The OEM has to use that version. Oftentimes the SoC manufacturer will deliberately make it an old version because they know that the next android release will require a newer kernel version, therefore forcing the OEM to update to a new and more profitable SoC rather than continuing to sell an old model.
I worked for a call centre in Canada that had all the same rules.
You have it backwards. The call center employee doesn't have a savings, misses rent, gets evicted and their kids taken away. The FAANG employee has a fat fucking savings account, and can live comfortably for at least 6 months while casually looking for another job.
Project model -> outsourcing -> shitty software

The outsourcing is to be blamed on the project model.

I could staff up a small team and build this thing on a fraction of the budget, as proven by the “competing” initiative.

Many of us could!

You could even outsource some of the work to individual devs around the world.

What you can’t do is accomplish that under the weight of a PMO spawned project with a billion in budget.
> And you still are pretending that steam power plants running on hydrogen don't exist.

Yet again, you originally said we could use gas turbines for hydrogen storage. Not steam turbines. Of course steam turbines can easily be run off hydrogen, you don't need compressor blades, combustors, or anything special. Just a source of heat, a boiler, and a steam turbine. This is less efficient, so there's good reason to develop hydrogen gas turbines.

You're the one who first brought up steam turbines when you changed the goal posts to saying we could repurpose coal plants instead of gas turbines.

And good night.
Your history is really off. Nuclear exchanges because of Viet Nam? Give me a break.

Please, go borrow a decent history of the conflict.
White people are allowed to criticize the country in the exact same way here too. That’s not the type of stuff we are talking about.
Well, war, famine and pestilence has been an unholy trinity since forever, with direct military actions having actually the smallest body count of the three.

IIRC - the First World War (1914-1918) was the first big conflict that killed more people with bombs and guns than through hunger and disease.

Our ancestors would count disease deaths that happened during the war towards the total death toll.
There's a place for unions since companies have an inherent organizational advantage. But they always seem to spin out of control.
But if everyone must do the right thing, why not legislate it so that they will be enforced?

Why give the illusion of choice between the right thing and the profitable thing?
A human pandemic, even a quite mild one, has proved traumatic.

It's not a bad human infection, but one targeting a staple crop (wheat, maize, or rice) that would truly concern me. That was Ireland's experience in the mid-19th century, and its population still hasn't recovered to pre-famine levels, a century and a half later.
EDA is "Exploratory Data Analysis" ?

I mean, I see Electronic Design Automation when I see EDA, and pretty sure it's not that.
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Dang, this is going to crash the NFT market for digital images of Lourve paintings.
Even if some of the kinks have been worked out this still cost us a billion sek and counting.

It’s like something from the early 2000 and it’s sad to see.

You can “feel the requirements” as you try to navigate pages.

It makes my techie heart ache... :)
The Danish government tried to getting a new tax collection system built. The specificatio was 6000 page, not including the tax law that needed to be implemented.

It facinates me that no one ever stopped to wonder if was actually possible to implement all that.

It failed horribly, costing billion of DKK in implementation cost and even more in taxes that couldn’t be collected.
> she realized the root of her boredom was [adventure]'s static, unchanging structure: “It played the same way every time. Each Non-Player Character (NPC) was tied to a single location, and always did the same thing.” She decided her game would be different.

I think this is interesting, as it seems to have been a common sentiment at the time. The OP mentions MUDs, but another response in the same vein were the roguelikes, which largely pioneered procedural generation.
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You’re talking about forcing a company like nfshost to help them in their illegal and/or immoral endeavors? Companies have a right to fire customers they don’t like, with a few very well-specified exceptions. You’re trying to take away that right?
How can it be that when a man slaps a womans ass it requires years and years of discussions and countless exclusions, but when a government commits genocide, people happily accepts it?

I can only interpret it as a form of bike shedding.

Ask yourself this question: Would you have boycotted the 1936 Olympics knowing what you know now about the German regime? The evidence is all there for everyone to see.
I will never go to Paris, so this is the only way I could ever experience it.
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The workers aren’t unionized yet. What the law is clear about, is that you’re not allowed to threaten workers for the act of trying to unionize the workplace.
The term for this is "closed shop".

I've no idea why the US unions tend to be closed-shop, possibly because the high antagonism from employers makes it the only stable solution.
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I wrote some articles on Medium in the hopes that I could get free access to content written by others. But turns out I don't have access to more than a few free articles per month or so. I get more free access from New York Times.

I understand they have to make money somehow. But as an author I don't want to publish there because the audience will be so limited. Luckily I can still read my own articles for free :-)
The original article compared Erdos to Euler. They are comparable only in sheer number of publications. Erdos was a nice and eccentric fellow and a competent mathematician who liked to solve specific problems with other colleagues . Erdos is not in the same universe of not only Euler but of any Fields medal winner. His made claim to fame is his "number", but so is Kevin Bacon's.
I think I kind of understand the Truth that you're getting at - from a similar point of view, aren't artists usually particular about the medium that their art is presented in? because the medium can cause the work of art to have a different effect on the audience. [1]

In any case, it's certainly no substitute for the real thing (but I'm sure everyone kind of understands that).

[1] https://www.britannica.com/topic/philosophy-of-art/The-mediu...
There are many "do everything" mega solutions like SAP. They're usually terrible because they try to do too much, require changing processes to fit the software, aren't specialized enough in each area for real-world use, or aren't customizable enough. They're often terrible pieces thrown together too quickly under a utopian belief that one app will rule them all and users will just adapt to unusable garbage.

There's nothing preventing a group from making a FOSS replacement of a government project made commercially, even if its goals aren't ideal.
This 3rd party app in question ( mobilt bankid) is also used to access everything in Sweden ( taxes, banks, social security applications .. )
Well they're not really a judge and jury, they're reporting you to the police who involve the judge and jury. It's not like the web host is sending anyone to jail. They're just refusing to business with crappy people, which is something all business get to do.
They’re also quite on the ball with system monitoring. I remember once about 15 years ago when I decided to see if I was able to ssh tunnel a socks proxy through their shell machine (I was curious what would happen) and they had my account suspended within minutes. :D Great job, guys (sincerely). Took me promising never to do it again to get reinstated.
Thanks for sharing this! Replies to my comments are interesting but I've been curious about an efficient way to see new comments on a given article _that I haven't already read_. I think this site plus a good feed reader would do the trick.

Sometimes I come to a particularly interesting article in its early stages before there are many comments or I read through all the comments of a mature discussion that continues later. I'd like to be able to see what is new without rereading many comments.

My ideal would probably be an interface similar to mutt that shows all the threaded comments of an article. Keyboard driven, of course. Almost a bit like HN as newsgroups!
The union doesn’t exist yet at their site. The government provides the guarantee of a fair election on whether to unionize, free of threats from either management or the union. Once the site is unionized, the union can indeed defend itself by negotiating with management.
In the .htaccess:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond ${REQUEST_FILENAME} !-D
RewriteRule "^((?:.*/)*[^/.]+)$" "$1.html" [NC]
This isn't about any actual negotiation though. This is about a public statement aimed at discouraging even attempting to unionize. This is well before the point where the union and company would be negotiating.

I think it makes a lot of sense to regulate this kind of activity. It's not about forcing companies to 'give in' or not to unions, but about helping to protect the ability for the union to form in the first place.

We can argue forever about how much company statements might influence the ability for unions to form, but at the end of the day the actual regulation here is basically just stopping the company from setting up their own strawmen in hopes of influencing workers. Naturally, it's very easy to talk tough when you're just pretending to negotiate against yourself. Not doing this seems like a pretty mild restriction, so I don't think it's a particularly onerous regulation.
Anyone who refers to people as "mayonnaise" and "curry" are racist themselves.
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>Now it comes out that they're taking water.

it is natural given that the ship did hit the protective boulders before getting onto the sand bank. I was wondering when it would come out.
> We could transcribe real-time audio with our eyes closed and still be pretty accurate.

umm, overstating the case a bit on average.
That’s a solid point. Who’s to say that I did or didn’t benefit from the viewpoint of the books?
I'm reminded of a policy of the southeastern US grocery store chain Publix: if there's a pricing error, the item is free. It will probably come as no surprise that pricing errors are extremely rare there.

When a company creates a significant incentive for itself to get an aspect of its business right, it will probably get that aspect right. I don't think I've ever wanted to call Amazon on the phone, and nearly every issue I can recall has had a satisfactory solution within their UI.
In the past year, quite a few collections went online. I remember seeing that Van Gogh collection from Dutch museums was digitized and released recently. Does anyone know if there's a list of various online art collections? I'd really like to go through some.

Edit: Van Gogh collection: https://vangoghworldwide.org
I don't see how that could be their point. They said nothing about multiple unions, nor is the article in any way related to it.
What other reasons would nobody be able to "call them on their bullshit"? Is it because they are the ones with a platform?
I have looked into this, I found that [vuepress] https://vuepress.vuejs.org/ compiles into quite good looking static sites.
As to the hosting I am using Google Firebase Hosting for a small static site which is free for the moment.
I am in the process of setting up local hosting on my home fibre.
A pretty cool technique, I just used this to coach my son for an english oral to great effect.
> More housing = more people = more revenue. That revenue turns into more infrastructure, more restaurants, etc.

In an optimistic world, sure.

It can also be that you build a bunch of building. Then, there's an economic downturn, and SF is fucked and left with abandoned buildings.

There are cities that fell into this trap.

I'm not saying it will happen, but it can happen.

Growing slowly is a good way not to push yourself into that corner.

How slow? I dunno. I hope there's an expert that can evaluate it.
Rather disappointed in the US in the continued subservience to China. The Uyghur genocide should have been enough to completely halt all trade with China. A few minor diplomatic criticisms simply do not cut it. Right now, it looks like China can commit any act of evil or suppression and get away with it with no consequences.
You literally satisfy the definition of a Luddite to a T, perhaps not in the most negative way, but some way nonetheless.
It is a call center job. When employees work from office they're being monitored just as strictly.
I understand this is the origin for: "In the first place".
> Part of what makes the Louvre or other museums special is being in a beautiful and decorated historically important space.

This is true in theory, in practice you will meet arrogant and unhelpful museum guides, tons upon tons of people not respecting all the basic rules (no flash, be relatively quite, etc) and a labyrinthine place which can give you anxiety if you are just visiting one day and want to see as much as possible. I went there like 8 years ago in very low season I cannot imagine how it would be today in a post-covid summer with all the instagramers and tik-tokers. So in the meantime I would enjoy all those marvels a my leisure pace in my computer. There are million of things we cannot experience directly and they are still worthwhile to see in original or imagined illustrations, from celestial bodies to ancient civilizations.
An interesting theory as to why spatiality helps so much is outlined in Jeff Hawkins' "1000 brain theory" (https://www.amazon.com/Thousand-Brains-New-Theory-Intelligen...). His team's research hints that all neocortical processing happens with reference frames at the core.
What was the point of your comment then? Bragging ?
I definitely did something like this for column-climbing on occasion, and also tapping shift with fingers from two hands. But yeah n was more about accuracy.

(Hey scythe, brocerious here!)
How can turnover exceed 100%? The entire staff are replaced multiple times in a year?
Well it did say 'nearly' in the name!
Is there any actual advantage business advantage in being so draconian or is it just spiteful? Like my cushy programming job has made me soft but why not just measure performance by their actual performance? I can go to the bathroom or make a pot of coffee whenever I want, and I suspect the happiness that brings increases performance.
I’m pretty bad at keeping on top of that sort of thing, and their email alerts have kept me on top of it for close to 20 years now. I set email alerts at $5 and at $1 remaining and I almost always ignore the $5 one. I think I’ve gotten the dreaded “your account is out of funds” emails three or four times in that time, and I can have it back to running with a few clicks. I’m pretty darn lazy but I think their system is wonderful. No out-of-sight auto-pay that creeps up in cost, but still relatively easy to manage.
Takahashi Meijin, a former Hudson Soft executive, was famous in the 80s for being able to mash a button 16 times per second: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ4lmAFB7d4
In general, call centres are doing it wrong. I'm sure there are some exceptions, but I've never seen a call centre that isn't toxic and hostile towards their employees.
What a sad vision. Per the article, the most important thing about software is that it is safe. The role of an OS is to protect against abuse. The web is inherently safe; therefore we should use web apps instead of native apps. This is profound technological pessimism.

A different vision: computers empower people. An OS provides APIs and UI conventions, and apps can use them to build upon each other, so that users can bring their knowledge from one app to another. Users invest in learning advanced techniques because it's worth it, because all our software participates (think keyboard shortcuts or Unix pipes).

The web has none of this. Websites are not cultivating a new UI vocabulary. Most websites don't support even basic interactions beyond click and tap. They may even actively parasitize the old: Google Docs supports cmd-Z but not Edit->Undo; we are being taught to distrust our UI, the OS itself is being eroded.

> users who cannot perceive or experience the web delivering great experiences

Then build those great experiences and Apple will change its tune. Seriously.

> The web was a lifeboat away from native apps for Windows XP users. That lifeboat won't come for iPhone owners because Apple won't allow it.

iPhone owners are happy and Apple knows it. On the iPhone, web apps are not a lifeboat; instead the web is displacing high-quality native apps with alien-feeling lowest-common-denominator stuff. No thanks.
Many people bake mac & cheese without a roux. In my experience, roux’s aren’t quite as delicate as you’re making it out to be. Cook it enough so that the flour isn’t raw, and it’ll be clear when it’s browning too far. All you gotta do is add your milk and start mixing. It maybe not common knowledge to a novice, but I don’t believe it’s particularly difficult to get right enough for mac & cheese.
If there is no cached data, then it doesn't matter.

With Vercel it doesn't matter even in case there is valid cached data, because Vercel doesn't execute the function in that case.

Cloudflare always executes the Function regardless of the existence of cache and it's Function's responsibility to respond with Cached data. Hence, distributed Cloudflare functions is a necessity.
I mean the quote about options is probably true. It just means employees won't be given any more options.

Unionised workers typically get no or very few stock options compared to industries with no unionisation.
From the looks of things, until China carries out a direct military attack against US territory, America will continue to sleep.

Even that is now debatable considering the way the Chinese have infiltrated and subverted the US political system. I doubt even the annexation of Taiwan will cause the US to blink.
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