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you don't ever work with directories? fortunately there is a pretty defined separator in my directory hierarchies, so that is pretty much always correct ;)

(although if you are taking arbitrary user data I suppose there is nothing stopping you doing something stupid like putting an escaped '/' in a filename, which would break this.)
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Vernacular design is just very localized design using local materials and suited to local weather. It's like adobe homes in the American Southwest and igloos in Alaska.

What is a typical home like there? How are they heated and cooled?
For tournament directors I recommend Disc Golf Metrix. The UI isn't great but it's the most powerful tool out there.
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Wow, that is absolutely tragic. Neurodegenerative diseases are something I fear the most, having seen what Huntington's can do to somebody.
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Every day there's probably a few thousand morons on the internet clutching their pearls about how you theoretically don't need car insurance in a few states despite the reality that anyone who can afford to opt out is better served by buying insurance and the only people who opt out have very, very, niche use cases. You are using a a similar presentation of the truth but not the whole truth in your comment.

States have widely varying laws. Just because something isn't specifically illegal doesn't mean some existing clause wasn't used to prosecute it. If a state doesn't have a lot of frequency of some event it will likely not develop specific laws, it will just use existing laws and precedents in weird ways. For example CA has all sorts of laws about wells and water in order to mediate disputes. Arkansas for example simply doesn't have those laws because those issues aren't as common and the volume is low enough for those issues to go through different parts of the legal system without causing much problem.

Saying X wasn't illegal in every state until Y year is about as meaningful as saying Z is known to the state of CA to cause cancer for any value of X and Y you could pick.
Exception handling may indeed end up with less code, but often it is because the developers forgot to handle most error situations properly. And that's my biggest gripe with exceptions, particularly the unchecked ones, which can just pop up from 100 layers below. I've just seen it too many times when developers just throw exceptions and let them bubble up to a place where there is so little context that the final error message presented to the user is near useless.

On the other hand return values (using something like a try/either monad) have the property of forcing the developer to think about the unhappy path in every layer. Maybe a bit more code, but the quality of diagnostics - priceless.

IMHO exceptions/panics should be reserved for bugs only (eg assertions), and return values for all the other error handling caused by user input or environment.
I've noticed some people saying "kids don't pick up phones anymore" and really, no, we don't.

Kids? Hell, I'm 47 and that's my policy as well. I basically don't answer unsolicited phone calls unless it's my dad or one of a very small number of close friends or family members. And honestly, even that's not guarantee that I will pick up at times.
This just says that the US was looking for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, not that they found any... is that false reporting?
I'll concede it's not a typical country since the weather is pretty unique, but Scotland is ~97% renewable and ~75% wind. It's well suited for some parts of the world at least.
If Android suits you better then use Android. As Steve once said, to paraphrase, if Apple is making a mistake then users will buy something else and they’ll learn, and the market will sort this all out.
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The 99xx numbers were all payphones where I lived. All the exciting test numbers were the 00xx numbers.
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> SPARK is something I wish all languages were: formally provable as a first class citizen.

It wouldn't make sense for the average language to make this a goal. The cost is steep. To the typical programmer, SPARK looks like a thoroughly anaemic language, which of course it is.

If Rust, say, had made formal verification a goal, it would have had to sacrifice its ergonomics to the point it would lose much of its appeal.
True, but then there are also quite a few bots editing the Wikipedias. In the end, bots are still run by humans, and are subject to prior community approval.
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I don't think you've tried very hard to figure out ways to decide. The obvious one is lottery, but there are many more.

I'll note that lots of people want FB developer jobs, but they don't solve that problem by cutting salaries until the number of applicants is roughly equal to the number of jobs. It's a tell that you use one hiring heuristic for people in your social class and a different one for people seen as lesser. That's a great illustration of the overall problem that the original article is part of.
This is such a well known phenomenon that there is a shorthand for it: SWERF. Sex Worker Exclusionary Radical Feminist. The core of the belief is that if there is a financial transaction taking place then it is not possible for the worker to give meaningful consent so all Johns are rapists.

Thankfully I think this is a fringe viewpoint, you won't find too many people like this in the real world. They tend to stay on the Internet where they can be maximally amplified.
You don't have to supply the entire grid demand - only smooth out the brownouts, which something the size of Hornsdale would likely be able to do for Costa Rica

Note that Hornsdale is also tiny compared to batteries currently being developed in Australia. The new battery in the Hunter will be 1200MW - which is enough to nullify the need for all gas-generated peaking capacity in that state
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Note on Plausable analytics, you can actually host it yourself and pay nothing'!
So if someone sails a loaded warship within the line of sight of a foreign nation military base without their OK... They should just be cool? Asking for a friend.
It wasn’t always like that, it used to be just 10 attempts you could do in a minute.
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I cannot take this page seriously, it's just a list of links with a one-liner rarely specifying more than "it's bad".
I live in Copenhagen. Nowadays we have bridges or tunnels everywhere except when traveling to Germany. However, when I was younger ALL train travel outside Zealand (with Lolland and Falster) would involve going on a ferry. The carriages were on the lower deck sometimes mixed with cars and sometimes with cars on a separate deck. After departure you could leave the train for a nice break. It wasn't particularly fast but very relaxing. Surprisingly, I also remember that I sometimes would meet old friends while strolling on the deck. These ferries were bottlenecks and would put a lot of people in the same place at the same time.
3 cm isn't that much of a deal. 20 cm is.

And if 10 cm categories are too wide they can be adjusted to 5 cm.

I would actually change the rules in olympic basketball to have 1 player from each category :)
Maybe it's like telling ME patients it's all in their head, and they can be cured psychologically. It may work on some, but for many they get permanently damaged from too much pressure and stress. After such abuse and being ground down, it's hard to be sympathetic to ignorance and abuse.

I don't know enough to conclude, but trying to understand and ask more questions is a first step.
The fact that you went back to 2003, and found only this speaks volumes
I would hazard a guess that it wouldn't improve.

The kinds of people involved in violence are overwhelmingly poor, young males. This is not a group that cares about laws or cultural norms. They lack the money to pay for sex workers, they don't have cultural hangups about it. They lack the money, education, and human decency to maintain a girlfriend relationship.

Which is to say they're not bad people because they're sexually frustrated. They're sexually frustrated because they're bad people. Which can be a negative feedback cycle.
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For us specifically that didn't work out because the main reason we were travelling was usually to see friends or family who we'd be staying with anyway. I appreciate that's not the general case.

While I'm happy to spend a little more for the sake of the environment we're talking something like 3-5x more expensive.
No, that's a version of the Basilisk that makes sense (almost – you don't need an AI for that). The original formulation was that the AI, built with the goal of [something good], would decide to torture people who didn't help build it so the threat of torture encouraged people-in-the-past to build it. (Yes, this is as nonsensical as it sounds; such acausal threats only work in specific scenarios and this isn't one of them.)

But yes, even if the Basilisk could make the threat credible (perhaps with a time machine), your strategy would still work. You can't be blackmailed by something that doesn't exist yet unless you want to be.
I had a similar situation whereby someone sued me because i worked with someone 10 years earlier and he was hoping to get dirt on him by extorting me. I called my cousin and the deal was that he will represent me and take the whole compensation for a dumb ass lawsuit. Fortunately it worked and i saved about 8k$ in legal expenses.
Tell me you're missing the point without telling me you're missing the point.

>The kind of strict-enforcement situation the OP describes actually seems like a tidy to solution to the problem of prohibiting prostitution without crating a trap for women in a trafficking situation.

Except that’s not the situation this solution generates. It makes any aboveboard legal situation impossible, recreating the problems of prohibition and creating a trap.
„At least we’re not Stalin“

It really baffles me how indoctrinated Americans still are, long after the cold war has ended. I see dogmatic, almost conditioned responses so often. Many of you seem to be literally unable to even explore „soviet“ ideas even in thought, or allow yourself to question the factual, not mythical, relationship between capitalism and human welfare.

Do you realize how these things are researched and talked about outside the US? In „soviet“ Europe? I wish there was a way to make you see how limited your thinking is, when it comes to „communism vs capitalism“.

You can stop now. You won. The soviets are gone.
Avatar describes Moomin characters. These characters were first introduced by Swedish-speaking Finnish illustrator Tove Jansson. I find them very Nordic. But the characters were also adopted by a Dutch-Japanese animation production and they spoke Japanese. I found it also kind of fitting and natural.
Headline is a question, and I suspect Betteridge's Law applies.
Honest question: What do you want from the guy? Billionaire donates billions, you hate him. Billionaire doesn't donate billions, you hate him. Billionaire bails out company saving thousands of jobs, you hate him. Billionaire doesn't bail out company, you hate him. You can hate the system for letting people become billionaires, but Warren is giving away all of his money to charity and lives a frugal life. Is this just fetishizing the hate of rich people?
You had to set your line not to send caller-id data or use *82 on every call. That would stop ordinary people calling you back to complain.
Nuclear is brilliant. All that is needed is to solve construction cost overruns, waste handling, no private sector insurability, uncompetitive pricing, nuclear weapons proliferation, and decommissioning cost overruns.
I think it is very difficult to compare stats between countries where prostitution is legal and countries where it is not. The linked article is light on details whether this is accounted for or not.
I don't think that my point is getting across because you're focusing on the people that you have most commonly observed in the environment around you. Sure - people can work harder, most of us are average and we don't need to get close to our limits in our jobs. That's not who I'm talking about. I'm talking the extreme outliers on the lower end of the intelligence distribution. Those are the people for whom the innate intelligence limit is low, by definition.

People with IQ below 75 can be classified as having a mental disability. That's just under 5% of the population. Do you think those people can take your advice and just put in more effort? What about the people who score just above that threshold? Do you think they could do your job only if they had better teachers? I don't think they could.

We all have natural limitations - it's much better to recognise that some people's limitations are holding them back so much that they can't function normally in modern society. That seems healthier to me than pretending that people just need to apply themselves more.
Good. Breaking up the duopoly of US parties with deeply calcified sets of positions and constituents in favor of a more flexible set of platforms (that may or may not overlap with others on various concerns) could lubricate the government (especially the legislature) into operating based on policies and priorities that more accurately represent the majority view on any given topic.
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Don't know where you're from, but I've rarely paid for dates; it's almost always either split or "I'll pay this one, you can pay next one". This has never been an issue, and seems to be the default in most countries I've lived in (Netherlands, England, Ireland, New Zealand, and even Indonesia! Although that last one is a bit more complex.)

This comment kind of seems 40 years out of date? Or maybe it's different in other places?
Well, in fairness, the few prostitues I've seen downtown where I live all seem to be meth addicts or crackheads, not super employable. I would assume your high end super desirable escorts make far more money and are subject to far less danger
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Right, I don’t want app developers to be able to do an end run around the App Store scrutiny and privacy vetting. If I had to side load Google and Facebook apps I probably would, but I want them to have to go through the App Store to get on my phone.

I don’t want the ‘freedom’ of everything working like Android.
I expect that many people pronounce "plover" as "clover" if they saw it written down first before they heard someone who knows the pronunciation say it. There are plenty of words like that in English.

I pronounced it as rhyming with "clover" too before learning that it's actually incorrect.
I heard a similar story at a university I once worked. They did some kind of one-off portscan in the early internet days (with blessing of the local providers whose range was scanned). Some local companies got really angry because they spent a lot of time investigating the source.
I agree it's possible, but the developed world already has sub-replacement fertility. Each additional hurdle (freezing eggs, committing to fitness, avoiding other health issues, still having the desire for more children in your 50s, ...) filters away another significant fraction of the population, until what is left has no hope of replacement fertility, or even a manageably slow decline.

You'll hit a population cliff, with all the pain associated with that metaphor.
Something like this? https://github.com/yglukhov/nimpy
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> Tiny country that has very little industry?

Pharmaceuticals, financial outsourcing, software development, and ecotourism have become the prime industries in Costa Rica's economy. High levels of education among its residents make the country an attractive investing location. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa_Rica#Trade_and_foreign_i...
text control (including hyperlinking) is something we definitely want to invest more time into, so super yes to code examples

for now, you can copy and paste linked text into the text control, so format the text using something like https://trix-editor.org/ home page - then copy and paste it in

can you share more about what you have in mind for diagrams? drawing them with shapes or detailed diagrams (excel style)

animations and even code based triggers are features we think could really introduce more depth and interesting authoring abilities to this blogging site. if you have examples of animated diagrams, I'd love to see them and plan features with them in mind
> Surely, trains need less infrastructure than cars - a road to every building in the country?

Trains need that too. It can be a road from the train station to the building, or it can be tracks. However in the end every building sometimes need something delivered.

Maybe the trains allows you to downgrade the road to gravel, but trains still need the road network for that last mile.
On that note... am I the only one who thinks that it's something of a shame that payphones aren't really a thing anymore?
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> No country has run on a high percentage of wind/solar/battery for a long period of time.

Only because it's early. The first grid-scale battery only went online 3 years ago.

In that example (South Australia) you only have to look at this chart[0] to see what it done to grid renewable demand and where the trend is heading.

There are multiple GW more of additional battery coming online over the next few years

[0] https://opennem.org.au/stripes/sa1/?metric=renewablesProport...
That happens when you can’t access the Apple account that has the activation lock for the device. You don’t need the device passcode to reinstall it.
This shouldn't be legal, if it is some how. It's should be treated as if an agent of the company came into your house and modified the product to no longer work unless you pay them.
>What are territorial waters?

>Waters extending to 12 nautical miles from the shore of a coastal state. The territorial sea is under the sovereignty of the state, although foreign ships (civilian) are allowed innocent passage.

Is an 8500 ton destroyer a "civilian" ship?
Marital rape didn't start to become illegal until the late 70's. It wasn't universal until the early 90's. So you can pick some date in between and then use that date to draw the obvious conclusion that our deeply mysogynistic society has serious issues with sexuality and gender.
In order to partake in give and take, you have to have something to give.

When you pick up the microphone, that is your chance to make an offering of what you have to give. What we have here an offering of Joe Rogan debates.

> What do you have to say about the primary phenomena of clinical suffering? Its etiologies and its course in medical debate across the west? That is a discussion which hits squarely on "What is trans?"

The response is "I think clinical suffering is bad?"
> We really need two words for renewables: one for types that scale but don't provide power on demand (wind, solar), and the other for types that provide power on demand but aren't available at scale everywhere (hydro, geothermal).

The wording you are looking for is "dispatchable" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispatchable_generation).
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Yes! The other thing that got me was, to build ghc for compiling Haskell, you need to already have an older ghc, common enough for bootstrapping installers, but the code for ghcup throws a filesystem error if you don't an '/etc/os-release' file. It can even be an empty file, because it will accept installing a generic version for an unknown Linux, but it unconditionally tries to read the file without first checking whether it's actually there.
It’s already this way. It hasn’t been “about” height in a long time. The best players in the league aren’t the tallest by a long shot. Steph Curry is 6’4.
The downside is that the whole point of having women's sports was to give women a chance to win, which they would usually be unable to. What you are suggesting will again put biological women in the position where they cannot win. So you have defeated the whole purpose.
I can’t reply to eloff directly but you are wrong, which is why we should base law on hard numbers and not „guesses“.
It also relies on the fact that you can simulate the Basilisk well enough to know that it'll definitely hurt you (or the simulated you), such that your observation of its (conditional) decision to hurt you affects your actions.

However, we're not good enough at simulating the Basilisk; if it would decide to do something else, we wouldn't know, so it has no reason to waste resources on torturing us, so we have no reason to believe the threat credible, so nobody will make the Basilisk in the first place.
This is completely wrong in premise and conclusions. We should be avoiding Proof Of Stake cryptocurrencies because they are building an oligarchical nightmare. Of course the author does not understand this, because they are obsessed with magnitudes of energy, and consider this bad. Energy usage is a good thing actually, and secures the network. You cannot throw out the energy without throwing out censorship resistance, security, decentralization, etc.

PoW is the most fair, egalitarian distribution strategy that has been invented. It requires ongoing capital maintenance to prevent rentseeking from existing wealthy holders. Just say no to PoS.
Does Apple encrypt iCloud backups now?
> Except that’s not the situation this solution generates. It makes any aboveboard legal situation impossible, recreating the problems of prohibition and creating a trap for women.

How does this create a trap, when a trafficked women can always run to the police and get everyone who tried to exploit them arrested, without being in any legal peril themselves?
Just imagine the world we'd live in if 20% of the billionaires were like Warren Buffett... Not saying we should have that many (or few) billionaires, just that as far as billionaires are concerned, it's hard to be much better than him.
I need to launch a product with an ambiguous pronunciation, and then “helpfully” suggest a heteronym as a guide.
I believe the only time you have to name a tuple is when you define a tuple type. You can otherwise easily work with "anonymous" tuple fields.

https://play.nim-lang.org/#ix=2lK1

Tuples with anonymous fields are equivalent to those with named fields as long as the types and values match. Two tuples with differently named fields will not be equivalent even if their values are.

> magically know the names of elements as well from returned tuples.

This is not magic, is it? No more so than knowing the return type.
There's an interesting theory that opposition to prostitution by other women is partially fueled by seeing seeing sex workers as "scabs", giving a resource away too easily in a way that devalues the artificial scarcity the others think it's "supposed" to have, taking away "negotiating power" in dating.
Is $100,000 supposed to be some kind of ‘set for life’ amount of money?