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What Is Polymorphism? – Explaining Polymorphism to a Five Year Old
> I think treating nature with respect and letting sentient beings live their life in a way that respects their nature is more important than simply "not killing".

But isn't the best way to respect these animals is to avoid killing them when we don't need to in order to survive? I've talked to so, so many people who keep animals and ultimately kill them that talk about this reverence for the natural world, and they talk about how death is an intrinsic part of that natural world.

Sure, that's true, but that doesn't mean we need to contribute to that death (and suffering, naturally), when it doesn't need to take place. Will there always be gruesome, painful deaths? Of course. Will there always be animals that eat other animals? Definitely. But that doesn't mean it's totally fine for us to decide when animal lives or dies. An animal that has made no deals with you, has not agreed to any sort of symbiotic relationship which ends in it's death in order to feed you. Sure, the animals are treated well, and sure the birds at least can decide to leave, but them deciding not to doesn't mean they are agreeing to get slaughtered.

> and I don't think that "killing an animal ... is always wrong"

You left out the most important part of what I said in that quote, and mischaracterized it. I don't think it's always wrong to kill an animal. I said its always wrong to kill an animal when we don't need to do it in order to survive. That last part is really, really important.

At the end of the day, I'm not saying you don't care about animals, or want to live in harmony with them. You do, and I do as well. All I'm trying to do is get you to consider that maybe we can do that and also understand that animals don't want to die for us, and they don't need to. That's it. You want to live closer to nature? Hell yeah, that's great. You provide a safe place for animals to live and prosper and enjoy life? Amazing, I'm so in support of you for doing that. But then let's continue that respect and peace by deciding to simply not kill the animal.

> I think treating nature with respect and letting sentient beings live their life in a way that respects their nature is more important than simply "not killing".

In situations that are not life and death, i.e. you are not in a sitation in which you must kill one of these animals in order to survive, how are "treating nature with respect and letting sentient beings live their life in a way that respects their nature" and not killing them not the same exact thing?
“Farmhouse cheddar” I believe is the protected term for cheese from Cheddar or nearby.
I guess I'm also an idiot then, thanks, how kind of you to say that.

Actually hang on, I'm editing this to be slightly meaner. Your whole take that doing this is a sign that she's either an idiot or on a power trip is a very familiar thing that people say about women in tech and I'm honestly tired of it, because I can see myself doing exactly what she did and I don't like it when people say those things about me. Please don't do that.
> DNA is extremely flexible, there's no macroscopic form or shape it can't take, as various insects camouflaging themselves as sticks and leaves and what not shows.

That feels like a really bold claim given the evidence.
A hint won't make the query planner use an index column it doesn't know it can use, though.
Well, Walmart's produce isle is cheaper than most prepared food. I would say that a lot of people don't buy it because of inconvenience not price.
The US would be primarily responsible for forcing Korea into the war. The border of North and South Korea is only about a day drive from Beijing, allowing the US to threaten the Chinese government from the very beginning of any conflict. The situation on the Korean Peninsula is commonly thought of as a failing for US diplomacy, but the conflict actually provides perfect cover to keep a huge military detachment almost on the border of our chief geopolitical rival. It’s highly advantageous to the US for Korea to remain fractured.
No, because they're the same thing. We pay for inventions with rent seeking behavior. One person's justified license fees are another person's patent or copyright trolling.

The original idea with these sorts of things, at least in the US, is that we'd have administrative procedures and court adjudication to limit the harm that could come from that behavior. In practice, the administrative procedures are only a bar to the least knowledgeable plaintiffs, and the mere threat of litigation over a marginally valid claim is often enough to coerce most defendants into a settlement. Nobody wants to actually litigate whether or not a patent is obvious, or a copyright owner has been surreptitiously seeding their own works on BitTorrent.

There's also a question about whether or not your two examples are, in practice, always different cases. What if the person in the first example decides to not license their drug at all, so they can do the manufacturing themselves and control the price? That would be identical behavior to the second example... but they still made a useful invention. They're the same person.

You could legally restrict "non-practicing entities" from enforcing patent rights, but that's only a subset of all rent-seeking patent owners. Remember: the entire point of the system is to enable rent-seeking in lieu of up-front payments.
True and interesting point - but if you're able to produce as cheaply to "push out" dirty competitors and still have a net saving when including transport, it would still make sense I suppose. Also, there are always relatively close sun intensive regions near major customers: mongolia / tibet china, north africa europe & middle east, the US has its own deserts...

also, transport is a minor fraction compared to the net saving
I've never used Golang myself, but their mantra is "share data by communicating, instead of communicating by sharing data".

This "communicating" is batteries-included through Golang's channels.
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I do like having a timer and gym log built in my phone. But +1 to not always having content streaming. Turning off music + youtube gives my mind a break.
> you too can harvest $5 worth of tomatoes

Your attitude is the problem - DONT equate $5 of supermarket tomatoes with an equivalent weight of home grown tomatoes.

I go out of my way to buy “expensive” tomatoes, because I don’t think of good tomatoes as being cheap produce, but more like an expensive vegetable (although price is still seasonal).
Repeat overheating even with auto shutoff can result in solder joints going bad and reducing the life span of hw. Additionally not all components that are overheating will cause on auto shutoff.
I think there's an interesting argument to be had here about the point at which "self-determination" becomes "colonialism". A group that is sufficiently geographically diffuse does not have a right to self-determination (ipso facto, because it's not the majority anywhere). Your position seems to be that an attempt by such a group to concentrate geographically somewhere in order to exercise the right to self-determination is fundamentally illegitimate because any such attempt is "colonialism".

Is that an accurate representation of your views? If not, what is?
This one is a tough one and I can relate. I haven't been able to finish a book or work on any labs or FOSS work in years now. I reach for the phone even when I get a moment of downtime. The addiction is strong and now I as learn to be more mindful I realize how common place it is for everyone.
Just about when I was leaving [financial-service company] our team was considering that the Postgres query planner was a significant source of risk, and contemplating mitigations and alternatives.

We'd optimize things so that on our busy day each month, query A would take 2 minutes, and query-set B would take 30 or so in total, and we'd have nice graphs to track trends over time. But every so often, the query planner would change its mind about how to do some part of the operation. You'd be looking at query A suddenly taking 2+ hours, while query-set B hadn't even started yet. In the worst cases, someone would have to get on the phone with our banking partner, and ask for an extended deadline tonight.

Business-critical? The job in question was the business, literally the operation customers were paying for (in combination with a quick template-fill and SFTP, anyway).

It was particularly hard to nail down because the plans would depend on the specific customers in question, and the transactions they were doing that day.
I think some zero-autonomy zero-respect enterprise IT drudgery is more likely than the space program, if we didn’t have access to these “absurd” wages. Which are, coincidentally, just about enough to own homes for our families within range of our offices.
> With good curation, sharing, and sleuthing -- I find

And it's biased because of the "I find". Everyone filters information even subconsciously.
Hi there, still waiting for news from one of your guys (vaivars).

I hope that comment will reach him and finally I will get a response about matrix social/oidc auth...
This is one thing that really pisses me off about hacker news. The excessive use of abbreviations only hinders communication, it doesn't improve it.
Long answer:

I never used a blue box (I was not that advanced as a teenager). I made and used less-cool boxes (red, beige) in the 90s. Blue boxes theoretically still work in some countries, but not the US (even the last 1AESS was removed a few years ago, and that was a digital switch.)

There are (or very recently were) MF trunks with in-band signalling to overseas locations that could be boxed... but the owners of the trunk(s) knew that risk and so used a very non-standard method of signalling that would be hard to figure out. I'm talking about this year, even.

The cool thing about phreaking now (just scanning, really) is that the traditional (POTS) phone system is dying. So it's like exploring ancient architecture. There's a ton of stuff out there to find. Just get an account with a provider like voip.ms (much cheaper than AT&T or other traditional POTS), install Asterisk and hook up a retro phone to it, and dial around randomly.

About school: One can learn to program or hack (even well, if they have the knack) from text files. I went to engineering school about 1.5 decades after the "hacking" career and it's a completely different approach to knowledge.

For example I remember picking up a tech manual for a radio at the age of about 20 and seeing a bunch of 'cos' and 'sin', knowing they were trig functions and related to radio, but not understanding what they were actually getting at with their description. It was just "deep and probably irrelevant" in my mind. Now I can understand (to some extent) those kind of things.

Engineering school provides a lower-level understanding of the world, just as assembly language provides a lower-level understanding of the machine
All maskers must die!

All vaxxers must die!

FUCKING KILL YOURSELVES!
> Supply of PBS quality content is a solved problem.

Not really. Nova, for example, has gone downhill quite a bit in the last few years, in that the content has been dumbed down more and more. It tends to candy-coat things and the host will say things along the lines of "golly gee whilikers!" It's a step above Sesame Street, but not by much.

There are some exceptions. The one about the evolution of language was pretty good, although the information content was thin gruel. It's like butter that's been spread way too thin.
> the only thing you can find to eat is hyper-processed and comes from a box.

Maybe my area's DGs are atypical, but their selection of food that doesn't fit this description is barely better than a decent gas station's. If your only option is a DG then you may already be in that situation, without their needing to close the store to make it happen.
From my limited understanding this seems really impressive!

I immediately associated this to possible disruption in the cement supply chain that's about to hit Sweden. Cementa, which produces about 75% of Sweden's cement, will no longer be allow to mine limestone on Gotland. Their permit was due to be renewed but due to the low quality of their environmental impact study the court was unable to determine if the mining might impact the local residents groundwater. So just a week or so ago a Swedish court decided Cementa muts cease mining operations some time in October. And as I said this mine/factory produces 75% of Sweden's cement. So there are more problems with the current way of producing cement than just CO2.

Most probably there will be a limestone/cement void in Sweden that needs to be filled, and I'd rather have you doing it than some new limestone mine. Best of luck to you!
> Good thing SQL server features plan guides

If only Postgres maintainers got this message.
Feels: A useless language for a hopeless world (2020)
You can't even test for the fucking "delta" "variant".

Fuck these assholes.
>It seems that CPU design for phones and for data centres are quite different problems

Still limited by the same TDP. Just as data point and prospective Apple spend more TDP budget on its mobile CPU core than any current ARM Server CPU core.
Any idea what the intent was?
One of the few cases where Betteridge's law is the good outcome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
from Wikipedia:

> for example, there is no file manager or image viewer installed by default. Users can, however, access the GNOME desktop environment and perform tasks such as installing other software

It's "just" Debian with some default configuration and extras (and version 3 will replace Debian with Arch)
> Nearly everything

That's the problem.
The worst part is database performance goes from great to sucky with no in between. Once a query's plan make it fall off a cliff, you really need the hints (forced indexes) that SQL Server provides to get the plan back to acceptable. Even updating the statistics tends not to fix the problem.
I also bet the popularization of alarm systems help as well.
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Or just let people taste them in the shop. For example, as free samples.
Actually, it's not really my political leanings that are causing this, it's my observation of a complete Republican disregard for any COVID measures whatsoever that is leading me to this next thought. Anti-mask, anti-vax, anti-social-distancing policies are generally Republican. Accordingly, with their complete disregard for the virus / vaccine and what I view as facts about it, I find it to be a small leap to imagine their data reporting around COVID would be similarly lackadaisical / more motivated by politic than fact.

Hopefully you understand I am not American so some ad hominems aren't so effective here.
What about pregnant females? Country I am in doesn't allow them to be vaccinated. Is this allowed in the US?
Ok, assume I can make this 51% attack on bitcoin. I will then mine blocks all day, and I won't let anyone else make transactions on the blockchain.

Now consider that any investor who owns bitcoin can't sell it, because they can't get the transaction onto the blockchain. What is the market value of bitcoin? It's exactly zero.

Bitcoin is taken down. No follow-up work required.
> I think that's the hubris China is currently having: as they've grown stricly because of the reliance of export-led growth, they are now dependent on the global economic order as much as the US is (for its import-led growth).

Honestly, I think the PRC's hubris is more than matched by the US's (and Western world's). They're still overconfident from the collapse of the Soviet Union, and seem to think the chips will inevitably fall on their side, so they still engage with a large amount of wishful thinking.

> And the ones that initially built the factories in China, can always pack up and move to a different country. So global corporations are now kind of "cycling through" a list of alternate underdeveloped countries to build factories in, and keep going until the options are all exhausted.

I'm not so sure...

1) I think it's ultimately the PRC's goal to have domestic champions replace those global corporations in the global economy (e.g. Apple declines as Huawei ascends)

2) I don't think the PRC is as stupid as the US was, and will not allow those companies to "pack up and move" to the degree it's disruptive to their ability to provide an unmatched manufacturing supply chain.
You should be able to dictate the exact query plan to every database. SQL is a bad and obsolete API.
Totally understand your viewpoint. The reality is though that sales is really just one use case and definitely not my (our) favorite. Our focus is more on product experiences and that's where most of our efforts are going towards now.

The video doesn't have to be personalized to your name or contextual information about you specifically, although that is the most exciting prospect for most people. It could be a topic you're interested in being visualized.

We're working with an e-learning company for example to help instructors create their courses more easily in their own voice. To me that's a more exciting use case. If you're interested to learn more about how our roadmap is focusing on use cases such as this feel free to reach out.
> At a bare minimum, human thought patterns have to be rare.

Definitely. In fact, I think they are almost certainly unique in our entire local galaxy cluster, and we will never find anything even close.

We could very well find something interesting, enlightening, sophisticated or using what we might be able to squint and call technology, but I suspect we will never find an alien civilization intentionally broadcasting for example the fibonacci sequence or prime numbers so that we can learn to exchange culture and communicate ideas.
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There's so many cases where this is the wrong opinion that it is mind boggling to see.

There's so many queries NOT blogged about that just do the thing you want pretty much all the time, for no extra work on your part.
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