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I definitely thought this would be philosophical, not technical, based on the title, and I got excited. "Modeling mutual friendship" is definitely something I want to do for my kids, for example.
I wasn't suggesting taxing individuals but large-scale farming. That's why I said x thousand gallons, though I guess I ought to have said xx million gallons. Edited.
Does co-founding a Leninist organization not make one a Leninist? Why would you create an organization if you don't believe in its ideals?
Thanks for the feedback!

The reason it is listed as Teen with a note of "Alcohol references" is because it's not meant solely for throwing parties but can also be used as a tool to understand BAC without drinking) by setting the party size to 1. This can be used in a health class or similar setting when they discuss alcohol consumption. I view this as similar to handing out condoms even when teaching abstinence. Also, many parts of the world do allow some form of adolescent alcohol consumption. I did get curious and just checked similar apps - they were listed as Everyone or Teen. Mine was listed as E, but Play suggested changing it to T, so I did.
NASA has so many entrenched issues from being a primarily political organization. even if you fully funded them, I wouldn’t expect the level of innovation as elsewhere.
Perhaps consider a pinned tab or bookmark?
Crystal started way before Ruby's static type system[0].

Matz even mentioned Crystal as a study case while explaining what Ruby's static type system would be like - back in 2016[1].

[0] https://manas.tech/blog/2016/04/01/the-story-behind-crystal/
[1] https://youtu.be/1l3U1X3z0CE?t=1755
The multiplier was the same way I dealt with estimating time budget for homework in university. I would estimate the amount of time I thought it should take and multiply by 3 and it would usually take between 2-3x at the end.

It's a little harder when the work is more nebulous and I don't have to do it for others but it's all based on personal estimations of productivity as well as understanding of the problem. It's not easy to do.
It also means no one uses the park when it’s hot, so less maintenance in that regards. I could definitely design an unusable park that had zero maintenance fees :)
Are there good figures on how much of that water is “wasted” and how much ends up replenishing groundwater reservoirs? Utah isn’t that close to the Pacific so that water has a lot of opportunities to do something other than flow into the ocean.
This has been going on for 25ish years now, but the iteration is quite slow and there are systemic barriers to speeding it up.
Apparently they should be put in a blind trust for their own financial well being!
In the grands scheme of things.. it's extremely wealthy.

The top 1% make 500k
The top .01 make 18 million.

260 millions put Rick in a world of his own.

Only 16,000 families make at least 7 mlion a year.
Pelosi et al

are fucking criminals. They should be in prison...

I dont think its my responsibility to tell you why, and how... If you have not been paying attention to the corruption that is all abound between tech and politics, or even if you havent even had a glimpse/perception of it or a gut feeling for it, then nobody can help you on that path.

She is scum, there are so many that are scum.

She needs to have AGE limits and EARNING limits applied to her seat in congress....

Get the fuck out.

She attempted to place her god-son (Newsome) as the next presidential candidate and he fucked up so badly in CA that they went with her next best minion, the prison person: Kamala Harris....

You remember her? The Coked out girlfrien of Willy Brown? The one who created a secret Masonic Police in the state of california, the one who wanted to jail parents if their kids missed school. The one who wanted to keep people in for profit prisons beyond their release dates so the prisons got more tax payer money?

Yeah - I am not doing the research for you... go look it up if youre ignorant to what pieces of shit these people are....
No, it should be called Software Hacker. Engineering has to do with the physical world, there is nothing physical in software
I lead the Zulip project.

I'm not sure about this detail of Slack's ToS. At a technical level, you can certainly export your data from a Slack (which is we implement https://zulip.com/help/import-from-slack); I imagine it's easy to write a tool to format and publish it.

FWIW Zulip maintains https://github.com/zulip/zulip-archive, which is a configurable API-based tool for creating a static HTML archive from a Zulip organization, with tooling to update it every few minutes. A lot of larger open projects use it. (We're also working on a native logged-out access feature with less janky formatting, which has a working PR that we need to integrate).

I suppose you could export your data from Slack, import it into Zulip, and then publish that using zulip-archive if you didn't want to write any code, but I'm sure the formatting would be better preserved if one avoided the "convert Slack markup to Zulip markup" step.
Teams is not free, it's a free addition to the subscriptions that almost every IT department buys already. So you can think of it as a subsidized moat, or a loss-leader for new clients. Any competitor needs to figure out how to cover the not insignificant costs of running this service, plus to give them their due, Microsoft support is better than almost everyone else in the enterprise setting.
I (not a lawyer) understand copyright law to mostly prohibit us from copying the spec document without permission, and then the license provides permission for some copying of the document.

I'm pretty sure the authors really want to prevent competing implementations that make money for someone else, and the wording expresses their intent. I believe that copyright on the document won't let them stop a company that can afford decent lawyers from implementing the spec, but it certainly doesn't make me any more likely to touch anything related.
Have we done studies to show this conclusively? If not, I would think that getting to the moon would be important in order to perform those studies.
The lack of empathy in the comments is scary. No wonder the situation is so bad.

Let me present a scenario which might seem more relatable since it seems people understand physical pain but have no "scale" of what mental pain could be like.

You have a chronic pain (maybe one of wrists is broken in a way that there is no solution). No painkillers help. Every doctor you go to doesn't have a quick-fix. People around you keep telling you "you're imagining things", "be spiritual", "it isn't as bad as you think", "it'll go away". Nothing you try seems to help. You wake up every day feeling the pain and it keeps getting worse with no end in sight.

EDIT: Missed one crucial component. The pain is so much that you cannot have normal social interactions because 80% of your energy is spent trying to cover up the pain. You feel exhausted all the time due to this and don't have the energy or the motivation to do anything.

Image living this for even a year (where this is what life looks like for some people for the last 20 years or more) and then tell me you wouldn't say no to "anything to make the pain go away".
Over ear wireless headphone recommendations for many hours of coding?
The freebie Beats headphones that Apple threw in with my daughter's MacBookAir when she went to college are on the fritz. Looking for a replacement so I can jam and tune out coworker noise for long hours of coding. Something wireless, ANC, and works well with the 16" MBP (and affordable).
The original version of MongoDB valued speed over durability, which was not a good look for a database. Since then I have never been able to trust them, even though I've been told repeatedly that "they have changed now".

They have great marketing and appear to solve problems for some customers, but they also seem to cause major problems for customers.

So I'll just keep advocating to stay away from it.
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I just finished The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal. It is a fantastic piece of alternate history science fiction that I highly recommend.

I mention it because the premise is that a meteorite hits the earth off the east coast of the United States and what the after-effects of such an event would be. It's horrific. A slow death at first that rapidly increases over a period of 50 years. It would be paradoxical because the immediate effects would be cold but the long-term effects would be a planet so hot that it couldn't sustain life.

Our global response to COVID has proven that we wouldn't be able to handle such a thing. How would you convince people that, sure, it's cold now but it's going to get hotter in 3-4 years? A LOT hotter. We can't even get these people to not freak out over having to wear a tiny piece of fabric in Costco!

We know something like this is going to happen. It's just a matter of when. Spending money to get off the earth could very well be the best way to save the species.
To be fair: As a patient, except for them scanning my insurance card, I see very little evidence that would suggest that most of data exchange isn't being done via fax, snail-mail, or people talking into phones.

Why in the world do I get a piece of paper from my doctor that I'm supposed to mail to my insurance provider (or scan and upload if you're lucky) when I'm being diagnosed with something?

Doctor's offices are the least digitized businesses around.

There's first signs of this getting better, but I can't wait for things to change...
That is an amazing comment. Feels like comment should have been much longer. Have you written about this anywhere else?
> It's how we get to the moon and Mars and how we survive as a species. It's what's next.

The core fallacy is to assume whatever made Earth less than ideal will not follow us to the new destination. To assume our survivability as species only depends on the locale, not what we will eventually turn that locale into.

This happened with every new frontier. The romanticism of "it will be better in the new place" is baked into our genes probably because of the explore/exploit mechanism; it is natural for any animal to want to wander off when resource/danger ratio in a place isn't ideal. What we omit is that the most important layer of our habitat is the anthroposphere; us and our artifacts. We will drag the best resources and worst dangers with us anywhere we go.

> that their money is better spent here at home reminds me...

What that money represents is an agreement on commanding other humans' goods and services. As such, how much can that be "theirs" if we are taking a plant scale perspective? Don't get me wrong, I am not trying to inject a purely collectivist perspective here; money works great at certain scales, but for entire-humanity-scale issues it is a rather useless construct to think with.

To me a more accurate perspective is "smart but ultimately single person, thus bounded in their rationality, somewhat exploits the imperfections of our value representation/abstraction layer to redirect tons of goods and services of humanity into what is ultimately a useless vanity gesture that will generate no insight into humanity's perennial problems".
There are international treaties with Canada that are supposed to forbid that. But yeah, that remains a worry.
Some of them are. Like we could stop making how green your lawn is into some kind of class marker.

The first step would be defanging whatever legal machinery HOA's use to ensure that you keep up with the Joneses re: how much water you can afford to waste.
Which is good! Don't use gas for heating or water, that makes a much larger impact and is not as noticeable.
> Steinach described how his patients “changed from feeble, parched, dribbling drones, to men of vigorous bloom who threw away their glasses, shaved twice a day, dragged loads up to 220 pounds, and even indulged in such youthful follies as buying land in Florida.”
what does this have to do with the linked article?
Sshhhh! - We can't support the required influx of climate refuges. /s

Seriously though, nothing silly about it, choosing a climate that requires the least resources to live in is the common sense thing to do. Living in the desert, now that is silly.

EDIT: Why is parent getting down voted?
Expecting all the modern amenities of life while living in the desert is just pure arrogance. I seriously don't know why governments subsidize it.
Just like we fight deforestation by planting trees maybe we should fight drought by re-watering our land. It's a massive logistical problem, to be sure, but it seems like humans already have a pretty good handle on draining water from the land.

They could start by banning lawns and golf courses in the desert. No reason someone living in Phoenix needs a verdant green lawn. Maybe place some limits on unsustainable agriculture in the desert. I imagine such bans would be a tough sell in most parts but it's hard to imagine how else the land can recover.
You are suggesting that we hold him to a different standard than everyone else and give him the benefit of the doubt. Other people have had their careers ruined for far, far less, while Jones gets a television gig and $100M for his troubles.

And wikipedia does discuss his Leninist activities. See below.
The article says they are smuggling cocain. I doubt cannabis would be profitable enough.

It's not just about the cost of the drone, it must be a serious undertaking for a gang to get a hand on one of those without anyone noticing. The thing is basically an ultra-light aircraft, and probably extremely illegal to operate anywhere in Europe or any sane jurisdiction...
I used to always keep about 100$ in 2$ bills in my travel bag when I traveled often... it was the emergency cash that I'd -never- use unless I was really screwed and needed cash. (Sorry cash only, credit card machine down... Sorry cash only, etc)

Now I just keep a few 20$ behind my phone case for the same purpose.
I think people underestimate that simplicity. Sure, the Taycan can charge faster. In real life, the time you'll spend finding a working charger makes it far slower. Tesla makes it just work, and they do so stunningly well. They're compared to Apple for a reason.
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Wrote this blog back in 2014-2015 thought I would share some of it here
The same is true in California, where almonds, which consume massive amounts of water, are grown, along with alfalfa which is largely exported. Also, stunningly, rice is even grown, which requires flooding fields with water.

All of which is to say, our water problems are as much a political problem - due to overuse in farming - as anything.
You are missing the crucial role of propagation - looking at the current state and making inferences based on that. Admittedly, DPLL is pretty weak on that with “just” unit propagation, but it is still _very_ important.
The issues with doctors is that many of them are operating on knowledge that is not completely up to date.

Doctors have an extremely hard time dealing with complex disorders or even diagnosing them. People go years without a proper diagnosis.

I would love for doctors to just take all the information during first visit and then use some kind of search engine/AI that would go and analyze current literature, new research and suggest things to rule out in a cost effective manner while ruling out things that would need immediate diagnosis/treatment such as cancers.

Patients also need to be tracked if they agree to it, especially if they have a serious disabling condition. Their sleeping habits, diet and everything they do needs to reviewed in detail but just isn't done. Most of these things are self reported and that can be problematic.
I did my masters research project at university on the issues with MongoDB's distributed consensus protocol (or lack thereof). One of my friends suggested the title "Distributed Cisterns".

That said, I think that the wire protocol is probably ~fine for a schemaless document store if that's what you want. I know that Apple implements MongoDB with FoundationDB, so that there are much stronger guarantees behind it, but they can still use MongoDB drivers in various languages, and that seems reasonable.
> You can't be living like a modern westerner in the rat race and do buddhism on the side

Well, you can, actually. Many people do, and they're not fakes (or "tourists"). It's not easy, and Eastern teachers aren't best-positioned to help Westerners with the difficulties.

There are Western teachers who have been trying to develop ways of teaching Buddhism to Westerners that address the problems. I believe Trungpa was the best of these teachers (he obviously wasn't a Westerner, but he understood Westerners better than any other Tibetan teacher, I think).

I studied under a Western student of Trungpa. I think my teacher was too afraid of letting-go of the ethnic and cultural baggage; all of his teachers were Tibetan masters, and I think perhaps he felt diminished for not being a real Tibetan.

So I don't think the Western teachers have nailed it yet. I'm sure some Western teacher will eventually figure-out a teaching programme that works fairly reliably for Westerners.

But they won't be able to "de-fang" Buddhist practice; it's intrinsically dangerous.
> I do wonder how many actually uses sites like this

The one I've been using for years and years is A Soft Murmur [0]. You can put together a mix of a few sounds to suit your preference. I like to prioritize the coffee shop and rain (about 50% each) with some thunder (25%) and a light fire (25%). There's also a "meander" option where any non-silenced sound's volume will move up and down at random so it's not the exact same sounds for the whole time.

I dunno how you can be productive in perfect silence. If I have perfect silence I find myself getting anxious and distracted. I work best when I can hear other people around me being productive in some way.

[0] https://asoftmurmur.com
I don't know any numbers, but we're over 100 all summer, so I imagine it mostly evaporates.

Flood irrigation here is just as bad as if they were doing it in Phoenix or Las Vegas
It's exactly the central limit theorem that breaks for fat tailed distribution.

Some fat tail distributions also break the law of large numbers, but I don't think task size estimation is this flawed.
A core tenet of communist ideology is violent overthrow of democratic governments to implement a "dictatorship of the proletariat". Both are rooted in violence.
Your employer doesn't hire you to promote your freedoms. They hire you to serve a purpose. For private enterprise that's to make money.

If you want freedom in the workplace, then that exists in the form of democratic workplaces, like worker co-ops. Joining or starting one is certainly possible if that's something you value.
Natural immunity against Covid-19 significantly reduces the risk of reinfection
First, congrats on launching.
Second, "AWS GovCloud for ITAR compliance," can the USG access my data (EU company) then?
He pivoted the NSO group targeting to Apple-Google discussion, with out any proof that Apple had anything to do with Pegasus.

He wants biggest American companies that world has ever had to open source and loose all the edge against rest of the world, but he runs close source proprietary server software which he wants people to use for secure communication.
> I always wondered why is that a space separated string, when a list can work as well.

Saves a bunch of typing. 5 chars:

'x y'

vs 10:

['x', 'y']
"There are no solutions."

There are solutions, but they are not simple. You could relocate the main users, like agriculture and industrial users, to areas that are not as arid. This would also cause some migration of individuals. I mean, that is the driver of the scarcity - building cities in the desert.
From 400B to > 2T market cap in the past 5 years. Not sure that's dumb luck.

Teams is terrible, Azure DevOps is painful, windows has a had a lot of misses; but .NET is awesome, Azure is my favourite all-round IaaS/Paas and lots of their new initiatives are pleasant surprises, so IMO Microsoft is at their best as any time in the past 10+ years or longer.
The UAE does not have a Mississippi river.

One side of the country is a desert unsuitable for growing crops, naturally stubborn Americans grow crops there anyway at staggering economic and environmental cost.

Meanwhile on the other side of the Mississippi, where I live, we get around three to four feet of rain per year for free, and corn grows pretty well most years without artificial irrigation.

It makes a lot more sense to move the farmers and their farms than to move the water or implement other hyper-high tech nonsense. The UAE of course has no choice so best of luck to them, but it probably won't work as well as simply moving the farms.

"We" do something similar with cows. In some states it costs 100000 gallons of irrigation water per pound of produced beef or whatever nonsense. In my state, we just call it rain water, and its free, LOL. Americans being Americans naturally we go to enormous expensive effort to make sure we grow cows where cows should not be grown, rather than simply moving the cows.

"We" also do something similar with humans. There's nothing special about a job done by humans in a desert, other than its an environmental, and eventually economic, disaster. Americans being Americans, we will spend everything we got and then some, to make sure that people can work from home in an uninhabitable unimaginably expensive desert rather than working from home in a nice easy place to live. We'll destroy the entire planet before we make people move from Vegas to Chicago. Which I guess says something about Chicago (LOL just kidding)
There's one here: https://github.com/crystal-community/crystal-libraries-neede...

Not sure how active it is, though.
For me the article reads like something between a bunch of truisms and outright straw man bashing.

I half expected the author to tell me that waterfall is bad[0].

Last but not least, the interesting programs quite often aren't written with perfect knowledge of the domain. You often have to push forward even though the uncertainty is there. "Why did you write it this way?" "Because I didn't know how to write it and I needed to write something to move forward." "Ah-ha! Cargo cult! I am so smart!"

[0] Waterfall is also a bit of a straw man https://ultimatesdlc.com/father-waterfall/
The issue is with ever increasing consumption. For water conservation a change in diet to move away from water intensive calories like almonds and beef could be replaced with less water intensive crops like poultry and peanuts.
Virtually all agricultural irrigation evaporates. It doesn't even run off into local streams (which you can verify by, heh, the lack of local streams in the Utah desert), much less seep into the ground.

Underground aquifers fill over decades and centuries, and in this environment, almost always laterally, not from seepage from rainfall. I think the demand for proof needs to go the other way, honestly. Presumptively this water is pretty clearly "wasted".
Meanwhile other markets were heavenly corrected around 2009-2015 after the housing crush Sweden came out quite unscratched. Low interest rates also have created an incentive to invest in housing for the average citizen. On the other side construction companies in Sweden are quite shy to build new housing as investment goes to other more profitable industries, Sweden is below EU average in construction. Finally Sweden population have grown more than the EU average.

So, the swedish housing availability is insufficient and prices reflect that. It is an imbalance that is difficult to solve short term. And probably also overpriced as the interest rates are low and predicted to be low.
At the end of two completed projects from each new starter
If we end up in a situation like in today's Cuba, there would be nothing the people can do to stop the government from doing whatever they like.
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