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What would the purpose of circular modules like this be? You may as well collapse into a single module and the situation would not be any different would it?

What is the purpose of modules? You may as well collapse into a single script and the situation would not be any different, would it?

I'm not being facetious here. The answer to the second is the answer to the first.

A common example might go like this. You have a module for each kind of thing you have in the database. But now if someone loads a Company, they need to get to Employees. And if someone loads Employee they need to get to Accounting for the salary, payments, etc. And Accounting needs to be able to get to Company.

Those are all large and complicated enough that it makes sense to make them modules. But you just created a circular dependency!

The standard solution is to load a base library that loads all kinds of objects so they all can assume that all the others already exist and don't need a circular dependency. But of course someone won't like wasting all that memory for things you don't need and ...
People who mention savings are incorrect. They should talk about reduced loss.

This mission is a total financial loss until proved otherwise.

As of today the only people who managed to make money in space are the brokers and lawyers who negotiated private tourism trips to the ISS in the 90s and again this new wave of space tourism.

There's an irrational exhuberance about space in my opinion
The fine Colombian. When I was in high school back in 1975, we somehow got our hands on some real Colombian Gold. By far the best marijuana I've ever smoked (and I live in California). If they can export that kind of strain to the US, it will disrupt the market.
There is a search bar in Gmail that can be used to search the content of your emails. I think most technical people who have used Gmail realize that it wouldn't be possible for that feature to work without something, somewhere reading your emails to index them.
That was seriously considered. It was rejected because schematics consist only a small portion of the knowledge necessary to build a rocket, most of the rest had been lost to time.

A massive amount of redesign was required to build the shuttle derived SLS, deriving from Saturn would have been worse.

But the real reason was that deriving from Shuttle kept those employees employed. SLS has never been a rocket program, it's always been a pork program.

SpaceX's Starship has twice the thrust of Saturn, so could be tweaked to send more payload by sacrificing reusability. But they have an even better plan -- refueling allows massive payloads.
To start, the huge elephant in the room is that it is insane that cities are more expensive when city dwellers consume less resources and incur fewer environmental externalities, and are more productive. If our only hope is continued "suburbanization with li-ion characteristics", as so many people seem to believe, we're fucked as a country.

So this preposterous fact those that all manner of incentives have gone wrong.

For example, we now know rent control isn't bad, just like minimium wage: https://jwmason.org/slackwire/considerations-on-rent-control.... To flip this around, that these neoclassical-economics-defying conclusions are true means the housing market and labor market are terrible markets.

We do need to abolish bad zoning and things, but we also need more public housing. The simple fact is we need to build enough dense housing to "devalue" the existing events in terms of their rent revenue, and the private sector will be loath to do that.

Another thing is public transportation. Public transit is extremely valuable, but the private sector is unable to provide because a) it's a natural monopoly we can't trust the private sector with (except for Japan, where a bunch of things relating to land use are really different). It works best when cars are beaten back (investments in one hampers the utility of the other), see https://pedestrianobservations.com/2019/09/18/cars-and-train.... The private sector is too impatient without the prospect of terrible rent seeking to wait out a transition from cars, and is also powerless to eradicate lanes and do other things that might driving rightfully harder (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORzNZUeUHAM).

So people saying every government intervention has unwanted side effects are just shills for the continued retrenchment for the state. The fact is the market cannot coordinate on a scale needed to "turn the ship". At the same time, the emaciation of the administrative state decades across across the US means we have a weak and incompetent pubic sector that's currently incapable of administrating the necessarily infrastructure we need.

Hard problems all around, but the former is a hard fact, while the latter is fixable.
I am currently reading the book of Schwab about the great reset, and their analysis in summer 2020.

I don't know if it is real "incompetence" or impossibility to make a good choice, i.e. there is no good option whatever.
There are many states, with many different regimes, parliament from right to left, but everyone seems stuck with the same problem.
Though, the number of tested options is very small.
Contact tracing didn't work because people didn't trust the apps. Lockdown is a mess because it destroys the mind of people. Vaccination with the variants is still under test, and after that, I don't really see what have been seriously done abroad.

Long-term consequences, for sure.
But we still don't know what would be the "new normal", and this uncertaincy is hurting a lot of people, for planing whatever. It is hard to plan even the next month even for simple stuff.
> __all__

No it doesn't. __all__ just defines which objects are imported when doing a star import.
> Seek to support the science of figuring this thing out

It's "funny" because a few months ago, I read that it was definitely an airborne virus, so hands contagion was absolutely not a concern.

Then yesterday I read the complete opposite.

In both case, they were reputable scientists.

Thanks for the advises anyway.
I would be happy working on a grand project exploring a distance moon, contributing to humanities future knowledge, and building that future, even if it takes decades. I think it would be a life well-spent

But if the probe blew up that would really suck
I was just going to comment that Nigeria's wealth is not so much "distributed within Nigeria" as it is expropriated by the Nigerian élites and given to their Western partners. And bribery is fundamental to that process.

That said, it's not only the Westerners screwing over Nigeria. It's also their own rich people screwing them over to get more rich. Nigerian leaders are afraid to go the China route on stamping out corruption because, unlike in China, in Nigeria you can kill the leaders and get new ones.

It's a complex problem, and since Nigeria is the African superpower, there is little that anyone can do about it.
How JavaScript works: an overview of the engine, the runtime, and the call stack
I have heard the same for years. I have a feeling they forbid it in tos, but don't enforce it in most areas?

Does anyone know for sure if Xfinity in Marin County, Ca allows self-hosting?
It's interesting that hipocracy bothers people more than knowingly turning the world into an unlivable hell for short-term profit.
Ah yes, the four food groups. /s

I think you're underestimating what could be done with preservation technology such as salting, curing, drying, pickling, fermenting etc. Meats were in fact frequently traded. Salted pork was a staple food. Cheese even more so.

And what of liquids? You're surely aware of ancient wrecks filled with amphoras? What was in them? Surely not cereals. Oils, wines, vinegars, acidic sauces such as the famed "garum" - all travel well.
It wouldn't be as good though, because then you'd have to install Python in order to use it.
Check your local "listening" API. Unix permits you to just ask for "a port that is open", in a range defined by your kernel that is usually left untouched by everything else and will have no forwarding associated with it. Then you don't have to worry about the port selection process.

However, this is a prime example of a feature that many people writing abstraction layers around networking leave out of their layer, due to either not knowing it exists or not knowing the use case and figuring that nobody could ever have a use for it. So you may very well find it is not available to you (or not available conveniently) in your preferred environment. (See also "what are all these weird TCP flags? Eh, I'm sure nobody needs them. Abstracted!")

If you have Unix sockets working, by all means stick with them, but if you need sockets this feature can help. You can even run multiple such tests simultaneously because each instance will open it's own port safely. (I have test code in several projects trust does this.)
Jittery, I can already feel RSI making a come back.

Still, I’d love to have a bunch of documents open, just like paper
It was working like that before, but on latest updates it automatically turns on every restart (or so).

I don't really need to remove it, only disable it because it visibly slows down machine x2-x10 depending on what you do.
While I agree with you on the overall sentiment, it is very hard to apply sometimes. Here in Germany there were a lot of calls to start handing out Curevac doses. They had a few million ready to go, but we were still awaiting trial data.

Our government decided against the emergency usage in the end, and it was the right decision in hindsight, as it turns out that the vaccine is far less effective than its competitors, and could very well have had similar problems as AZ or Biontech.
wait so TLDR they printed a sierpinski triangle on a chip and then photons demonstrated quantum behavior?

I'm not a physicist or a consciousness researcher, but I'm not sure what the discovery is here. Unless they used fractal patterns to produce quantum effects at macroscales? But the article doesn't say what the scale is, and 'printed on a chip' + 'injected a photon' sounds pretty small.
It is going in to the pocket of employees. The employees at Rivian and the employees at all of Rivian's suppliers.
Walk with me through an AI generated world
There are many people who cannot believe this is possible, but all attempts so far to prove that it is not are either subtly begging the question or ultimately rest, one way or another, on intuition (as do materialist positions).

For example, David Chalmers, who originated or developed many favorite anti-materialist positions (the 'hard problem', the explanatory gap, p-zombies) holds many positions that would normally be considered materialistic - for example, that if one were to replace a person's neurons with functionally-equivalent artificial devices, the resulting entity would still be conscious in the same way as the person we started with, and therefore, presumably, capable of feeling pain and pleasure. It would seem tendentious to hold this position and still assert that artificial conscious entities (complete with subjective experiences) are impossible.
Unfortunately life experience doesn’t come with a control group.
What makes Philadelphia “horrible” in your eyes? As somehow who has lived in what I think were nice but not luxurious parts of both urban cores, I found Philly every bit as livable and probably more pleasant and friendly, but I’m in New York now for social and work reasons
Looking at the "LEO Payload" column here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_heavy-lift_launch_vehicl...

Saturn V: 310,000 lb
SLS: 209,000 lb planned
Falcon Heavy: 126,000-141,000 lb
Starship: 220,000–330,000 lb planned
I read the non-fiction book "The Taking of Getty Oil" about a 1970s series of oil company mergers and acquisitions, and the length that the oil negotiators go to, to include and pay (bribe?) the national leaders is obvious over and over.. The USA and its oil market partners like Shell had been bitten by overseas power dynamics multiple times, and they specifically evolved strategy post-British Colonialism ..

There is so much reward for the winners in these exchanges, that yes they do try different commercial arrangements to make it stick; and that changes over time.

As an American schoolchild we studied Nigeria as a success story and a hopeful future for Americans who wanted a modern stable country in Africa. From what I can tell in passing, the reality is repeatedly short of the lofty goals set long ago. It might be said that there is some responsibility for the sad state of affairs there, with the people who are local and governing, not just the terrible hands of America or Dutch-Royal Shell, right?

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from the wikipedia EN page on Nigeria:

Ethnocentrism, tribalism, religious persecution, and prebendalism have plagued Nigerian politics both prior and subsequent to independence in 1960. All major parties have practised vote-rigging and other means of coercion to remain competitive.
Just remember what most of giving notice is about...

Presumably you've made positive connections with your fellow teammates and feel some sympathy for how they may suffer a bit with your departure. You're giving notice so they (and you) can mitigate that suffering. During that time you may not be doing much work, but answering questions, typing up arcane knowledge you have about particular areas, etc.

Not burning bridges. If you hope to every use anyone at your current company as a reference in the future, give decent notice. The last impression you leave is likely what will stick.

In the end, I'd think of it as following the Golden Rule. Even if they don't, if you'd like to work at a company that would provide severance in the event they needed to let you go (basically giving you "notice"), then do the same. The world is what we make it.
The benefits are mostly somewhat (or extremely) long term.

Most immediately, there’s always the “internet for literally everyone” aspect, where even remote villages will be able to get access to the world’s information.

Much longer term, if we don’t develop a comfort with working in and building in with space, and we don’t wipe ourselves out some other way, we will certainly be wiped out at some point by an asteroid impact, massive volcanic eruption, or some other major catastrophe. All of our eggs are in the Earth’s basket.

Offworld mining wouldn’t pollute/despoil Earth, and elements that are rare here can be found in very high concentrations in asteroids. (A single asteroid could contain the same amount of platinum as has been mined in all of history).

It potentially opens up the ability to do things like deploying massive, thin solar shades as a way to try to slow global warming.

Large technical challenges spin off lots of new tech that get used elsewhere.

The last one that comes to mind, though I’m sure there are many others, is that it’s a big achievement that humans can be proud of together. It makes it clear that we can do more than just squabble over little pieces of this planet, and help us look outward. I think that that kind of inspiration shouldn’t be discounted.

And the point is that if SpaceX succeeds, it will no longer take exorbitant amounts of money and resources. It’ll become extremely routine and affordable even to regular people. I’d try not to view everything in terms of a power struggle with billionaires and corporations sucking up all the resources, that’s going to cast a dim pall on literally everything.
That provision is because commercial property is often valued by reference to a cap rate (essentially a net-operating-income multiplier to get to the property value). This is not a property of the banking system but of the market for commercial property.

The banking angle is to ensure that loans on property aren't durably underwater, such that the bank has a high likelihood of ending up owning underwater property. (The bank is in the money business; anytime they get into the real estate business with a REO, someone screwed up.)

Preventing banks from doing this is likely to lead to a lot more bank-owned properties (REOs), which is generally a bad sign for a real estate market.
I disagree. I find it hard to get started in python. There are loads of package managers, so I don't know which one to pick. There are multiple different rules for for how imports work with local files. The standard library is full of of functions that one should not use any more, and you need to know which is which. Defining a main entrypoint consists of checking a magic __NAME__ constant.

You have internalised all these quirks, and know how to work with/around them. Beginners haven't.
The problem with pyca cryptography was that Python users are not in the habit of using lockfiles which meant reinstalling venvs picked up more recent versions of transient dependencies. That and that they made the change in a minor update and non wheel users got caught out.
The paper explains a mechanism for why the Middle East is also seeing extremely high rates of obesity -- and I wouldn't call Europe's or South America's 20s-ish% rate from your chart "no obesity epidemic" either...
The goal of GPLv3 (and GPLv2 as intended by several of the authors, for that matter), is to ensure that end users have freedom to use the devices they have purchased as they see fit. Suppose a company has patented some algorithm, and has implemented that algorithm in a software project that also uses GPLv3 code. When distributing the software, they make the code available, but only license the patent on the condition that the code is run without user modifications. This infringes on user freedom, because there is no way for the end user to control the software they are running.

For GPLv3, it is important to remember that the primary goal is to protect user freedom. Everything else follows from that goal, specifically in closing several loopholes that were unintentionally present in GPLv2.
Acoording to the OP, the Blue Origin bailout is half of the entire NASA budget.

The Blue Origin investment leads to a shittier Vomit Comet, while NASA has rovers on Mars.
> What does this exploit let you do that you couldn't already do with a local administrator account

There are some things that users in Administrators group still can't do. Hence the need for TrustedInstaller perms.

For example, try running this script:

https://github.com/W4RH4WK/Debloat-Windows-10/blob/master/sc...

You will get access denied since few months back:

https://github.com/W4RH4WK/Debloat-Windows-10/issues/273
Seems you're picking at straws. Hitler hated Judaism and Christianity. Thankfully (and unfortunately), history speaks for itself. The worst and most horrid atrocities and mass murdering were committed under atheistic anti-religion regimes. Clearly, "getting rid of religion" is a straw man that some people like to invoke because they pretend to live in a fairy tale. We're seeing it today in the atheist West. They got rid of religion, only to replace it with tribalism, racism, identity politics, etc. That's human nature, leave them up to their own device and they will use whatever means to gain power and influence. Believing getting rid of religion is somehow going to fix things has been proven wrong time and time again. Not to mention that it is inherent in humans to believe in the One Creator.
"Ignorant" is a bit of a value judgement that I didn't perceive the article as attempting to make. Heliocentricism was indeed the dominant theory in ancient times. There were competing theories but they didn't have many supporters. It makes sense that the Antikythera device would probably reflect the prevailing opinion of its time.
> often used by VCs and the media, which is that a startup is a company still developing a product, either with no revenue of not enough to cover its expenses, and funded by external investments.

It would imply that a bootstrapped business can not be a startup.

> My personal definition is a company which is still looking for a product-market fit.

My first company became profitable on the night of the launch thanks to incredible product-market fit. Showing up to work the second day surely felt like still working in a startup, although product-market fit search was already behind us.

Personally, I define startups to be business ventures where the rate of change and the freedom to take sudden turns is still high.
I love comments like this. Condescending, confident, completely ignorant of extremely basic concepts relevant to the topic under discussion, like the 300 year existence of property tax assessors in every county in north america
Are locally produced solar modules the future?
Yeah I'm super interested in that idea as well. I wonder if there are already some initiatives in the US doing stuff like it? Would it be as simple as setting up a server in someone's house and then splitting the cost of electricity and internet? Would a multiuser setup like that work under a personal internet line, or would most ISPs try to shut it down?
Then maybe the Rust community would be better served by not hyper-evangelizing it so much and at the same time bashing other languages?

There's a perception issue here: people think that Rust people (not necessarily the maintainers or official evangelists, but the community at-large) think Rust is as close to perfect as you can get because of its safety features, because these people talk about Rust like it's a universal problem solver.
Germany: Flood Helpers ′Pelted with Garbage′
Not saying I believe it but I think it is conceivable that the neural networks in our brain are there for certain things like motor function learning, basically like a fancy control system, while the "mysterious quantum stuff" is there for "consciousness". The fact is we can't really define consciousness so we don't know what it takes to make it...
I think most Linux operating systems come with Python already installed (at least all the ones I use do). It could be uploaded to PyPI, which would mean installing PIP, but using pre-installed libraries would mean you could simply use git (which is usually pre-installed too), and then run `python3 setup.py install`.
The implementation of this - a single, huge bash script - is actually a pretty neat thing to browse through if you want to improve your knowledge of bash.

I particularly enjoyed this function that returns the ASCII-art logo for the current platform: https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch/blob/017aa041d86340f2...
>the huge elephant in the room is that it is insane that cities are more expensive when city dwellers consume less resources

50% of the world lives in cities yet they consume 70% of the worlds energy.
It's not so much what the social networks need to do, but rather what you as a user need to do. Or to have. Or to be. You need to have sufficient willpower. And you also need to have a job that does not rely on social media to function. I.e. not an entertainer, not a journalist, not a blogger, not an SMM, etc.
Mixing any two languages in any single code base creates significant friction at the boundaries, and adds new degrees of complexity in major areas (build system, tooling, debugging...). If we're talking about a project as complex as a production OS kernel, this kind of a decision should never be taken lightly. It's a much smaller step from 2 to 10 than from 1 to 2.
The term 'consciousness' is used in many different ways, but I do not think you can simply define away the question of the origin of pain, pleasure and other subjective (or at least personal) experiences.
In particular, all Saturn V engines were completely hand-built and the process was not documented. A lot of very fine craftsmanship went into that that we can't replicate today.
Unfortunately, optimizing for developer convenience seems to have a lot of overlap with optimizing for wasting my time.
Great. It’s the weekend and I can theoretically now stop thinking about software, and yet here I am thinking of ways to efficiently compress lists of phone numbers
Which is why the heat and pressure is important.