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Renewables don't compete with nature, there is more than enough energy from the sun.

It's in fact the opposite, the sun radiates too much energy, that's how we get to global warming when not enough gets radiated back into space. Using nuclear adds even more energy, renewables don't.
You need to unify with Germany and other countries with the EU, this will give you the required clout against the other blocs of the world. As a Brit, Brexit was the day the world fell apart.
Ask HN: What is the best way to learn?
> Peace can only exist when a powerful entity enforces it.

We have this. Certain civilizations can wipe us out at the push of a button.

The players who aren't in that same realm have to hope those that are do the right thing.

Fighter jets aren't going to help.
That is one solvable group, they just need reasonably priced housing in reasonable locations.
The mentally ill and substance abusers(including alcohol), is much more complex issue.

And then there is probably small group you will never house, because they prefer to be homeless. Still doesn't mean the two other groups should not be solved. It is just that there is no political will to build enough housing or solve the systematic issues.
That's a good approach, thanks for writing it as a reminder. This takes me back to math and physics lessons, where we tested a given function/formula at extremes and one or more interesting points in the middle, just to get a good feel for its behavior.

Continuing your mental framework, the problem with interpreting such research is that the results we get are in the "probe some points to get a feel" category. Consider a single learning style, and let's plot its known effectiveness, as a function of "learning capability", where "learning capability" is a measure that places students with relevant disabilities on the left, and students with relevant gifts on the right. Assume, for the sake of the exercise, that this metric is sound. We get something like:

EFFECTIVENESS
^
| oo
| x x x
|
|oo
+--------------------------------->
LEARNING CAPACITY

Where 'o' are obvious values derived from the thought experiments like you did ("what happens if a student cannot hear?", etc.), and 'x' are points from research of the method over a population of a given learning capacity. Looking at 'x' points alone would make you think the method doesn't improve anything for anyone. Looking at 'o' points alone would make you conclude it obviously is effective. But the points I depicted above are not enough to tell you whether the function looks like this:

EFFECTIVENESS
^ ***
| ***
| ************************
| **
|**
+--------------------------------->
LEARNING CAPACITY

Or like this:

EFFECTIVENESS
^ *******
| *******
| *******
| ********
|****
+--------------------------------->
LEARNING CAPACITY

Or something else entirely. This is something to keep in mind too: does the research data you saw, whether from single or multiple studies, sampled enough of the search space to give you some confidence in the conclusions?
I think a lot of this is personalization-related, too. I primarily use Bing for the rewards points. If I can't find it on Bing, only very seldom do I find it on Google.

But I've noticed on my work computer where I rarely use the browser, results are absolutely atrocious. But that's true for both.

But beyond that, I think search engine quality for anything but the top 100 websites has declined dramatically over the past ten years. Google has straight up delisted websites I used to visit that still exist, seemingly simply based on age.
> you really think your professors, your future colleagues or even your fellow students have nothing to teach you?

I really like this.
I mean, it happens often that I learn something from colleagues who have less experience that me just because while they searching for a correct way to do something ( which I already know ) they find interesting logically based solutions that maybe are not the best, but bring with them experience of some function or logic that I do not know
`notcurses-demo` works badly in `wezterm`. `mapscii.me` works fine. Nice terminal, but a bit hard to configure, because of Lua.
I think the Australian actions here were reasonable, the project was massively over budget and well behind schedule. The regional security situation has shifted a lot in the last 5 years since this project was announced.

The news could have been delivered more nicely but there was always going to be fallout. Ultimately Australia doesn’t owe France a submarine contract, and France wasn’t doing Australia a favour by letting it buy submarines. It was a commercial agreement that Australia no longer wishes to pursue.

For Australia I think the strategic calculus is in a way simple. The US is the only country that can credibly oppose China. If a significant escalation of tensions with China is at all likely, then Australia’s best chance would be to operate closely with and support the US in opposing China.

The submarines come as part of a larger package including larger US forces being based out of Australia and the placement of tomahawk missiles in Australia.

The more interesting questions I think are is open conflict with China likely and does China actually pose a threat to Australian sovereignty?
This says reefs are doing well:

https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2021/07/23/pet...
We get it. Microsoft wants to take over another language and posts cute propaganda.

How about posting "power dynamics in Python core and their detrimental influence on free software development" puzzles?
> No, my point is that I haven't seen, and am asking for, data to back up the belief that the pursuit of mental health is causing mass seizures of people's belongings.

Ah, but that was not my claim. My claim is, association of mental health and guns will cause (and is causing) people to avoid seeking mental health.

I don't know how can I be any more clear, but you can read my past comments again.
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Ask HN: What’s your personal finance strategy to exercising startup options?
There's nothing "fair" or "unfair" about salaries: it's just an open market. And their strategy is not a winning one. On my last remote job search, I encountered a few companies which were mimicking gitlab's approach (they actually said out loud that gitlab was where they got the idea). Needless to say, I accepted the offer from an American company which offered American salary instead. Three times as much as companies with "gitlab-like" policies offered me.
Who controls App Store? A Russian Senate committee meeting, eng.subs[video]
I’d… still prefer just to have a signed original work vetted by an expert, sorry.
ESA's own website doesn't mention any such thing as of 2021-09-18: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/

"Launch date: 18 December 2021"

This seems like the sort of thing they would take some trouble to keep up to date. Got a source I can trust more than some random YouTube video?
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And that’s is the US with absurdly low gas taxes. In Europe, taxes represent more than half the price of gas
If they don't have an alternative to Google how can they:

- Negotiate with google?

- Keep on serving a useful browser experience if google doesn't want to be on firefox anymore?
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Interesting project. In an ideal universe something like this would make the "Web" a.k.a. HTML/CSS/JS completely obsolete.
You'd be surprised how many people don't care about this and are happy to be labeled incompetent, as long as they reach their goals.
Being self taught doesn't have to cripple your career. I'm self taught and doing reasonably well, and there's another guy I worked with a few years ago who's also self taught and studied music in college who's now an engineer at Facebook making I don't know how many zillions of dollars. Looking at LinkedIn just now, I discovered that another self taught engineer I know, who doesn't even have a high school diploma, is now working at Netflix.

In a sense, we're all fortunate that we lucked into a career in an industry that de-emphasizes credentials in favor of knowledge, ability, and track record.
I am calling it now: that blockchain royalty system on NFTs? It is only a matter of time before Hollywood makes NFTs interact with DRM. Your movie purchase will be an NFT with hardware-backed chain verification.
There's no age to start afresh. From [0]:

> Colonel Harland Sanders created the world’s largest fast-food chicken chain, Kentucky Fried Chicken or KFC. From an early age, after his father’s death, Sanders was responsible for looking after his siblings. He worked numerous jobs including being a streetcar conductor and a railroad fireman. When he was 40, he was running a service station in Kentucky which he eventually shifted to a restaurant across the street. A fried chicken recipe he came up with became so popular that the governor of the town named him a Kentucky colonel.A while later, Sanders began franchising his business. Over the next few years, he traveled to restaurants across the country, striking franchise deals. In 1964, with more than 600 franchised outlets, he sold his business to investors for $2 million. From a farm boy in rural Indiana to a fast-food chain mogul, Sanders had come a long way.

0: https://os.me/hard-work-beats-talent-when-talent-doesnt-work...
The title doesn’t make sense at all to me. If the statement was literally true, what would happen to the millions of minimum wage earners? They literally couldn’t afford rent and would be literally living on the street, or in shelters.

And I’m using the word literally literally.

You can make a case for some sort of relative poverty where they find hardship in renting which is absolutely true, but this clickbait title is just bullshit.

Unaffordable means you cannot pay. It doesn’t mean it’s hard to get by.
Yes.
And again late 20s.
And 30s.
Each time, I lived. And adapted (and improved).
Yeah, I just don't understand that line of thought. Of course, each individual's actions are meaningless, but they're wouldn't be the only ones who do it.

If only the voters of the green party in Germany would stop/sharply reduce flying, that would be ~10% of Germans (~16% projected votes, ~70-75% citizens are voting).

Since they do fly more than the average person [1][2][3], and since they are more likely to be part of the upper class which tends to contribute more per capita, the impact would be even larger. They could single handedly massive reduce the pollution from air travel just by changing their own habits. Yet they don't, keep on flying at higher levels than other groups while demanding legislation to stop them.

It's like a cliche movie killer who asks to be stopped.

Look at vegans who are vegan for moral reasons. They don't say "we shouldn't eat animals, and the state should outlaw it, but until no one is allowed to eat animals, I'll have a steak every day". They start by themselves and then try to convince others and (sometimes) call for legislation.

"Since my influence as an individual is meaningless, I'll continue to be (an outsized) part of the problem instead of being part of the solution" is just completely alien to me, I literally don't understand the reasoning behind it. Would they own slaves if it wasn't outlawed because one slave more or less doesn't change the big picture?

[1] https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/gruenen-waehle..., 2014

[2] https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/umfrage-zur-flugscham-gr..., 2019

[3] https://www.businessinsider.de/wirtschaft/klimawandel-gruene..., 2019 for green members of parliament who fly more than any other party per person
If the NFTs could be bought and sold, this would finally allow a decentralized secondary market for DRM media.
> But isn't Midi the equivalent to SVG

MIDI (1.0) is more equivalent to NES/GameBoy-style sprites. It was designed almost exclusively with piano-like keyboard controllers in mind, suffers from a lot of 80's-era hardware limitations, heavily biased towards western music, relies completely on the sound bank for actual rendering (you can't even set your own pixels on a sprite - you can only say "paint a Mario here"), relies in some places on vendor-specific extensions, overall really it hasn't aged as nicely as say TCP.

A true "SVG, but for music" kind of equivalent would be an insanely interesting and challenging project. I'm not even sure if it should strive for more of a middle ground (so it can gain widespread adoption), or for flexibility (so it doesn't constrain creativity and allows expressiveness).

Also check out: MIDI 2.0, OSC.
> Complex jobs cannot be accomplished effectively with transients. Therefore, a manager must make the work challenging and rewarding so that his people will remain with the organization for many years. This allows it to benefit fully from their knowledge, experience, and corporate memory.

My fave.

My favorite Rickover story may be an urban legend.

It is said that, when salespeople showed up at his second-floor office with sample kit, he'd grab the sample, walk over to his window, and drop it.

He would then say "If it still works, we'll talk."
Another German mixed beer drink is Diesel: Beer and Coke. Not a big coke fan but surprisingly good.
As long as one haven't been stripped of all control of one's life and well-being, I'd say there exist but one true failure. It's the conscious choice of not ascribing to anything anymore. Giving up on all hope and deciding to be miserable.

Every other failure to achieve some goal is simultaenously an opportunity to learn. Being able to step back and look upon one's conceived failure with perspective and draw out positive experiences from it is an essensial life skill.
And in the Tolkien movie.
That would make way too much sense... I predict online streaming on poor services that will shut down in few years with no option for backup. With both monthly subscription and individual purchases, and user losing purchases if ending subscription...
I'm not sure the first part is contrarian, since everybody loves to complain about web standards. It also seem a widespread fallacy among developers that you can fix all problems in an technology stack by scrapping everything and starting from scratch.
Please take this piece of advice from a 30yo me who "failed" the same way you are. Scroll down if you just want an advice and don't care to read my story. ↓↓↓

Just in case I started having fun in computer-related stuff more than 15 years ago and finished my first paid freelance project around the same time. Unfortunately I didn't get any education for the similar reasons and until this day haven't been to a single job interview.

And my interests changed dramatically over decade and half and I jumped from some terrible arbitrage / SEO (back in 2006) to cybersecurity, then to making attempts to run my own business and then back freelance programming. Also went through PHP -> C++ -> Java with tons of other skills in between. Without ever doing proper full time or offline team work it's extremely hard to estimate my skills against what people have on market.

At the same time I never ever felt lack in options or possibilities to earn money. For me as freelancer it's was always just me against my lazyness. My last amazing one-year-long single man project that paid me well and let me dip my toes into world of Java. Now after half a year of downtime I started to look into Kotlin as well as Ethereum-based projects and Web3 which have a lot of opportunities.

I never stuggled financially for a long periods of time, but not having stable source of income is obviously feels like a problem at my age. While I have a wish to try having "proper job" sometimes it's still as scary for me as it's for you. And yeah I'm planning to find and try some interesting full-time job in team at some point this or next year.

...

So the advice is: you never really failed until you decide to give up and do nothing. There is abundance of opportunities to learn, earn money and work on interesting projects. Not all of them require you to have tons of full-time job experience and able to pass complicated interviews.

And if you really need this job. I know plenty of people who find their first job as frontend developers after learning basics just for a 3-4 months. They just hated their previous jobs and put a lot of effort in this short periods of time. It's not like being fancy ML expert or software engineer at FAANG, but it's a job and it will pay your bills.
This is true. I have heard security people argue that SMTP, POP and IMAP are 'legacy protocols' that must be ditched to better secure email.
Homeowners have the same fears, they're just pushed a little further out. Even if your house is paid off, you still have to worry about property taxes, basic upkeep, insurance (unless you go without and risk losing it all, which leads right back to that stress), possibly large HOA fees... the fact is, unless you have a lot of savings or are 100% certain you'll always have money coming in, no one's safe from anxieties about being able to stay where they live. I agree that it's worse for renters, but owning a house is not what it once was and definitely doesn't make the stress go away.

I have thought for a long time now that basic housing (your own private room with a door, heating/cooling, water and electricity) should be considered a fundamental human right and guaranteed as such by the powers that be. Without such a guarantee, the vast majority of us are going to continue to feel existential dread over the possibility that losing our ability to generate income could lead to being homeless.
Oh Boy! Life is a marathon, not a sprint. You are still young (revisit these words when you reach 32, 42, and 52). So, hear me out. You need to work on developing habits, habits of winning, winning every time, develop a process of learning and improving and trust the process. Ignore failures, you might look boring and unsuccessful to some people, but once your habits start to work, it can change your orbit.

You’re not failing, boy. You are growing up and this is how life look like. If you read a lot of books/biographies, you will realize how some very successful people have had setbacks. Ignore these negative depressing whispers, and learn, read more. Most of us were in that spot before, do yourself a favor, and take some time to watch this talk
"Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams", Randy Pausch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo&vl=en
I think the vast majority of people selling NFTs are not recouping their listing fees.
Nice job an all of this, but the real story is about how to capitalize on 40k Twitter followers.
That is pretty smart. How is this not already implemented for film distribution and avoid leakages and pirating? Honest question, i've been on all forms of streaming since 2000, back to torrenting lately to avoid cartelization
Things like applying a different colour or styling for visual effect is a common-ish reason, or parsing some input which looks like:

Stuff I want
Extra stuff belonging to the above line I want to ignore
More stuff I want
More ignore stuff
[..etc..]

Which can be from a CLI tool, a web scraper tool, something copy pasted from a webpage, or something like that. This data can often be "messy" but in a regular way. I've parsed WikiText tables from Wikipedia like this (very crude, but it only needs to run once).

Another example of "% 2" is for centre aligning strings in a grid (e.g. a terminal; if it's odd you need to add one extra space to one side). I've also used it for time calculations (e.g. printing seconds as "hour:minutes:seconds").

That's from the top of my head; I've probably used it in other things as well. Note this is all high-level application work: no muckery with low-level controllers, firmware, or whatnot.

Is the % operator very common? No; but I don't think it's as "virtually never happens"-uncommon as was mentioned a few posts up the thread.
People don't seem to understand that we mount missiles on expensive jets because jets can travel thousands of miles and must not be shot down before they reach their destination.

When people talk about how they can build lethal drones for $100 or something they assume that you can launch the weapon 3 miles away from the target and that the target has already been spotted.

It's like saying that a million dollars can kill a million people because bullets cost less than $1. Making the bullet is the easy part. You still have to deliver it to the target.
Thanks. What do the animations of letters (flickering or appearing) means? Is that live blockchain activity or preprogrammed in some way?
Homeowners can also lose their job, not be able to make a mortgage payment and see their house repossessed.

Not saying homeownership isn't more stable than renting, but let's not make it sound like homeowners live in a utopia.
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You’re right, the “crippled” career part was as much due to other circumstances at the time, but a certain benefits of the degree program could have still helped alleviate those issues.

> In a sense, we're all fortunate that we lucked into a career in an industry that de-emphasizes credentials in favor of knowledge, ability, and track record.

Agreed, though I think there are costs to this as well, but most people probably will never worry about them.
Debian package management doesn't have to rely on an internet connection. You could have the source of the security updates be a cd or USB stick or something with no problems
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It would also allow the recreation of something like the original Netflix DVD service but purely digital.

No more having to manage a half dozen plus streaming subscriptions. One company could go out and start building a comprehensive library of NFTs for every film and series.

When you want to watch something you check out the NFT from the library. When you’re done you return it. For very hot items, there may be a waiting list, but you’ll get it eventually. No more being stuck in a content ghetto like with modern streaming services.
Let's solve them with weapons instead