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Sorry for not including this in my original post, but I'm mostly on your side with this one. I despise the EUs ban on small disposable plastic items as well, because all replacements are utter garbage barely able to fulfill their purpose, while not doing anything at all regarding the pure volume of plastics used. Banning the source of 0.001% of all disposed plastic is, in my opinion, completely pointless, when there are much bigger fish to fry. Really, all I wanted to tell you is that biodegradable plastics are a marketing scam you shouldn't fall for, just like plastic "recycling".

Besides, I adapted the habit of always carrying two foldable plastic boxes in my car and two folded paper bags in my messenger pouch which I use since +5 years now anyways.

The reason they are doing it is fairly obvious and laid out in the article you linked: People don't give a fuck. Its enough to pretend to care about the environment so people can blissfully ignore the real changes and get a fuzzy feeling of having done something. Politically, it's much easier to enforce such a ban on plastic household items than trying to get the industry to change, who will object much more vehemently and with much, much more leverage than the average consumer.

Now that I think of it, some months ago I had a discussion about this ban with a women who legitimately thought plastic waste was somehow linked to global warming, as in more plastic waste => more global warming. Anecdotal of course, but it makes me wonder if this misconception (or close ones) are spread in the wider public perception or if this was just an outlier.
Doesn’t look as cool as Tesla’s Semi, but it’s going to be on the roads starting next week.

They seem to use a 30% larger battery?
That's pretty low for that long experience even in NZ, what's your role and tech stack at the moment? Maybe I can find a referral for you if you want to stay in NZ. There are also Australian companies hiring remote that pay much better than that (e.g. Atlassian and Zapier,).
> So, your argument is that methaphysics is based on belief and no logic?

I'm really not sure where you think I said that. And I think it's a false dichotomy in any case. Logical argument has a place in metaphysics but logic requires agreed axioms and those axioms are by definition not amenable to logic.

In general you seem a little bit unclear about the difference between induction and deduction. I'm always a little uncomfortable when people repeatedly use the word "proof" around when defending or defining science. Science doesn't really "prove" anything except in the most causual and colloquial use of the word. Science is always provisional. Proof belongs in mathematics not empirical science.
If you dig deeper he was clearly aware of the issue and chose to cut corners even though he was of course pressured, read his email on page 3: https://transportation.house.gov/imo/media/doc/Compressed%20...
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Well, their jobs got moved to China anyway and they started doimg marketing, so...
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I was in a relationship with an Albertan between 2014-2016, and moved to Edmonton from Europe in early 2015 (had flown over a couple of times in the prior year).

Even though the city was marketed as the "fun" city with all its events and festivals, I found it to be remarkably dead looking (architecturally cold concrete downtown, McMansions and overdeveloped cookie cutter cul de sacs everywhere).

Then we took a trip to Calgary for a couple of days, and I saw an even less appealing place.

Don't get me wrong, these places were filled with nice people, many which I miss having contact with.

But I would not have been able to settle there permanently (architecturally cold cities, extreme overconsumption, focus on fossil fuels and more played a role).
I reported them to OSHA and to the state health authority. This was a while ago. I got reminded of it today and posted the story because I had a call this week asking me to send in written testimony in addition to the form I filled out.

Wrongful termination is a no-go. I talked to a literal slew of lawyers. The amount I'd be looking to recover would be probably the cost of court. Also chump change compared to my overall income, so not worth my time.

Now, as far as media - no one died, no one was greatly impacted - probably not very interesting, and very technical. There was an outage for a day, records of a couple of hours of data (5-10 patient visits) was lost.

Now, as far a "higher up the food chain" - I got a rant here about my 20+ years of experience in corporate america. The guy up the food chain took a chance (saved money on salaries) by hiring a manager of an 18 person team, who has literally had 3 years of work experience. That was a bad decision. He (my boss's boss) doesn't want his boss, (my boss's boss's boss), to see this bad decision. So he's going to protect her until someone dies and he throws her under the bus. This is just a fact of life.

I've been at several hospitals over many years. All the IT people care greatly about patient care. The management is willing to have deaths on their hand to shave a day off a project. Management at hospitals are people who shouldn't be allowed near medical care. The higher up the chain you go, the closer you get to the money, the closer you get to the purpose of the hospital: pretend you're losing money while underpaying and overworking staff, and scamming sick people.

Think about it: you are a supplier. Your demand curve is inelastic. Your customers don't know the price before they buy. Now, what kind of people is this type of corporation going to attract? The worst of the worst.
The way it works in Austria, another country that only allows single citizenship is as follows.

You apply for Austrian citizenship while you still have your original citizenship. Austrian authorities decide whether or not you should receive citizenship, *but do not grant it to you*

Instead they give you documents that basically say that you have an entitlement to Austrian citizenship the second you renounce all other citizenships, if possible. There are exceptions for some, none cooperative nations.

So if you are a US citizen you would basically have a document that says you are an Austrian citizen the second you renounce your American one. I imagine the Germany handles it similarly
Looks like writing of someone who does not "get" the game. It is a bit like people who are asking why offside is needed in soccer. If you play with your friends on a beach, surely, does not make much sense, but in a real game on a large pitch it makes hell a lot of sense.

"Golf balls went too far and were hard to catch" - I hope nobody else will go that way unless one tries to win Darwin Award...
Unfortunately not public, but what I use is home manager, you can check it out here https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager. There is also chance that other people have it publically
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> many base assumptions made by e.g. statistics will not help you at all with neural networks

There is lately a lot of hate against classic statistics on HN. I don't know why. Does it help to understand why and how NNs work? Not yet. But saying that it is utterly useless and won't provide any useful insights in the future sounds to me like telling the young Steve Jobs that dropping out of college and taking calligraphy classes instead of is utterly useless. And still, I am writing this on an Apple product, which set the standards for digital typography...
I'm a little skeptical of the results as well. A tonne of CO2 releases 2489 kW*hr of free energy when formed from C and O2.

However, reading the original paper, it seems like the end product is "highly oxidized carbon", "akin to that of slightly crystalline graphene oxide". So they're not claiming to undo the carbon oxidization, more to vitrify the carbon oxide in a solid phase. This, presumably, takes significantly less energy than reducing the carbon.
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yeah there seems like there is some web -> idea connection that should exist for super slick in-IDE reviews. Best reviews means most context, IDE has the most context about the code (is why its best to resolve merge conflicts too) so we should be leveraging it more.

Always surprised to see people resolving merge conflicts anywhere other than their IDE, IDE has the most knowledge about the inputs to the merge and your chosen resolution, why would you ignore that important info? (like.. does the resulting file compile? for ex..)
>The prosecutor has every incentive to get participants to roll over and follow the conspiracy as high up the ladder as it goes.

This is naivette.

See this:

https://www.corporatecrimereporter.com/news/200/lead-boeing-...

From the article:

the case was settled with a deferred prosecution agreement — an agreement that Columbia Law Professor John Coffee at the time called — “one of the worst deferred prosecution agreements I have seen.”

Boeing did not have to plead guilty to any of the allegations.

No Boeing executive was charged.

And the Boeing deferred prosecution agreement included an unusual provision finding that a compliance monitor was not necessary because “the misconduct was neither pervasive across the organization, nor undertaken by a large number of employees, nor facilitated by senior mismanagement.”

“That is without precedent,” Coffee told Corporate Crime Reporter earlier this year. “I have not seen that anywhere else and I’ve looked at a number of deferred prosecution agreements. Prosecutors themselves are not conducting the investigation.”

Boeing’s lead corporate criminal defense law firm is Kirkland & Ellis.

Erin Nealy Cox, the lead prosecutor in the Boeing case, left the Justice Department earlier this year.

And last month she joined Kirkland & Ellis as a partner in its Dallas office.
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It sounds a whole lot like you’re agreeing with me - but seem to think you’re not?
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Two things:

(1) Fig trees bear a type of pre-fruit. If that pre-fruit isn't there in the earlier season, then you know it won't bear any fruit in the final season.

(2) It's super obvious from the context that the fig is a metaphor for Israel. The temple system hasn't been bearing fruit because the Pharisees/scribes running it have so misinterpreted God that they will end up killing his Son. This is a foreshadowing of the destruction of the temple sacrificial system (begun in ~32 AD when Jesus died, finalized with the temple's destruction around 70 AD, never to be rebuilt again because the Muslims have built dome of the rock there now).
> I can imagine some recommending it for XML compatibility (which is related to the original purpose of the ignore-the-trailing-slash behaviour, though slightly inverted in direction), but I don’t think I’ve ever encountered anyone saying so.

Well, pleased to meet you!

I do use it for XML compatibility: it allows me to use XML editor modes (usually nxml in Emacs) which, being simpler to implement as they don’t have to encode the rules of which tags close where, are more likely to be available and to work well.

I’ve also done little customizations to nxml over the years, and this way I have them always there no matter whether I’m working with XML or HTML.

And then occasionally I use other XML tools on it, such as xsltproc. You can still pipe the HTML through tidy to translate it (although xsltproc has --html, tidy has been more reliable), but having it compatible with XML does spare me small chores again and again.
I would not agree with that because it's pantheism.

One meaning for His Face being everywhere is that everything is turned towards Him whether they know it or not, since He is the giver of being. It does not mean a literal encapsulation or identification of the Infinite with the finite.

Rather, closer to your sentiment from an Islamic theological perspective is to say that what we experience in the universe is an interplay of His attributes since He is the causer.
I apologise that this probably reads more troll-like than intended but I’m actually not much clearer after that honestly. What part here was bad and should be illegal?
I wish California was one.
This is the same guy from the failed sudoku solver... http://ravimohan.blogspot.com/2007/04/learning-from-sudoku-s...

Maybe he had also tried TDD "wrong"? Or maybe he's just another snake oil salesman, like "uncle" Bob?
> mathematics is not necessarily a reflection of the physical universe

Nobody knows if it is or not. It could also be that the physical universe is a reflection of mathematical truth.

> It can be, in cases like addition, but it doesn't necessarily need to be. Which was the parent's point.

Again, nobody knows if it what you claim is true or not. What we do know is that all scientific models are based on math, and if there is something wrong at the foundations of math, then all science is pseudoscience. Gödel's theorems are at the foundations of math. You can't just decide that you are skeptical about that part of math being applicable to physical models but addition is fine.

The real problem with Gödel is that it says something that a lot of people don't like to be true.
No it isn't. Also why is it only ok to shit on the way Americans say things but not anyone else?

I guess your culture says nothing strangely eh?
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I feel like a lot of people are commenting about sport, when the point of the article was an allegory about lazy or badly applied adoption of a practice...

Surely people actually read the article?..
"USB 3" is also ambiguous as hell. It's unfortunately talking about one of perhaps 10 different protocols, some of which are different depending on what year you are speaking of, because there's name collisions between incompatible versions.
Even if indirectly, your body absolutely needs it.
any plans for MSSQL?
In my experience sculpting is much easier to learn than the vertex-twiddling side of blender. Start with a cube. switch to sculpt mode. Find the remesher and give it a poke. That'll subdivide the cube. try some of the sculpt tools, most are pretty self explanatory. Remember to poke the remesher whenever the mesh faces get too distorted.

It's quite a nice workflow for organic shapes.
Car insurance is required in Texas, so your hypothetical is somewhat nonsensical. If it's not required where you are from, maybe you should worry more about fixing that first?
I’m surprised he has all his fingers with that lackadaisical approach around the table saw.
I'd say this is a problem with the PDF reader, not the paper.

Why is PDF reader having trouble displaying 30MB of data?

It's even better than a 30MB of images, because images have to be decoded but vector graphics is just bytes at some point and you decide how to render them.

It's probably some accidentally quadratic behavior that struggles with 10000 vector objects.
It sounds pretty much on par for American approach to everything. It's ok to have shitty healthcare for the poor and pay less taxes, as long as you donate from time to time. Student loans? Medical loans? Shitty care for vets? No worries, Americans are the highest donating people on Earth by capita - so it's all fine. That last argument I keep hearing all the time - Americans are such good donators that they don't need a robust social net, after all if you are really in need then someone would have donated to you already /s.
To be fair, outside of US almost everyone calls this sport American Football, whereas the local translation of football in most countries simply refers to "soccer" ;)
Fly by wire isn’t really the right term here. Fly by wire means that control inputs are transmitted to actuators via an electrical signal (rather than by a hydraulic or mechanical connection). As far as I know, the 737 MAX retains conventional primary flight controls. Lots of airliners with conventional flight controls also have various forms of artificial stability that modify pilot inputs (such as yaw dampers).
It's definitely difficult, I started a remote work site before covid but it didn't take off. Couldn't solve the 'chicken-or-egg' marketplace problem, I couldn't get enough companies to post jobs and people found an empty site apalling.
Maybe he's looking for a US O-1 VISA, eg, showing extraordinary this and that. One of the qualifying points is published stuff.

I see sooooo many blogs from India, and this may be another reason why. Publish.
That's the purpose of validation. I think we was talking about sanitisation before storage. But I think that if there is a good validation, sanitisation is half taken care of. Sanitisation will still be indispensable even if one is using parameter bindings or prepared statements.
Don't waste your time, this is all about climate hoax and cabron tax, thus bogus.
"Nature" in this sense, does not exist.

Neither does "The Nation", "Society", "The Universe", and other such pseudo-agencies which people use to guarantee meaning in their lives.
> > 11. One of the biggest differences between a senior engineer and a junior engineer is that they’ve formed opinions about the way things should be

> I don't like this one. IMO it tells you nothing and assumes everyone shares the same culture of pushing opinions.

I like it, and think it tells you a lot. It doesn't say they have to be pushing their opinions, just that they should have some.

And honestly, can anyone really know a lot about something and not form an opinion about it? Ask someone, "So, what do you think about ...?", and if their answer is "I don't think anything about it", then most likely you know that yeah, they haven't thought about it.
They're also incredibly dull, poorly acted, bad script and low budget.
> Labor productivity is also lower in Europe.

You know, i feel like this is probably a bit misleading, at least because of how we measure productivity:

> Labor productivity measures the hourly output of a country's economy. Specifically, it charts the amount of real gross domestic product (GDP) produced by an hour of labor.

(from https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/labor-productivity.asp)

Whereas i'd like to see something along the lines of:

> The ratio of hours needed to develop features X, Y and Z, as median values based on the output of all the companies within the industry in said country, categorized by tech stacks, the education/experience of employees etc.

That'd let you have a controlled environment (same features, categorized by stack), as well as get insights based on how the different groups (students, younger developers, more experienced developers) compare in different countries, possibly as a proxy for the quality of education and how much companies invest in skill development.

If we don't do that, our productivity simply describes a hourly measure of GDP, which feels wrong, at least as far as semantics and the language aspects are concerned.

Of course, the above suggestion also isn't realistic, because there have been attempts to formalize estimation (for example, COCOMO 2), but even those didn't work out.
I'm puzzled by the do not discriminate bit, doesn't that mean you do discriminate by only choosing the names you can't pronounce?

Minutae aside, as a European I'm shocked and appalled at that process, but surely an employment tribunal would have been the next step? Seems open and shut if you have the details to hand and everything evidenced properly. That said I'm sure you probably didn't want to be there from that point
Given I fundamentally disagree with a lot of right-wing / conservative opinions, I suppose I would consider then "wrong", yes.

"bad", not as much, until those opinions start to impact (mostly vulnerable) people negatively.
Ah yes. I'll do that right after I download more RAM.
A nice exploration of Postgres trigram extension.

A few things I'd try if I was building a dedicated code search tool is to introduce custom per-language tokenizers for Postgres FTS that actually tokenize according to language rules (thus making "def" or "if" a stopword for Python, but also splitting "doSomethingCrazy" into ("do", "something", "crazy").

Then, I'd do two searches: one using such a FTS query first for more relevant results, and trigram search after. Combining results might be tricky, but not overly so imho (though the devil is in the details).

As for "limit interval to", you can approximate that by doing a LIMIT on unsorted results in a subselect (get the number with heuristics and adjust it as the data set grows), and then sort those by relevance: the result is effectively the same, except that you are using dataset size as the boundary instead of time.
Yeah, if you're on cheap shared hosting (which many, many WordPress sites are), then you're going to hit various limits and have your site disabled the day Ahrefs and Majestic 12 both decide to crawl your site the same day.

A properly set up caching plugin basically saves the pages as plain HTML and serve them with mod_rewrite instead of invoking PHP every time. The speed difference for an individual page load might not be that much for a properly optimized site, but the overall resource usage will be much lower.
That's a very obvious SQL injection, and a completely unnecessary one. I don't actually know how PHP handles this, but usually it's really not any more work to pass parameters as parameters and not concatenate them into the SQL string. And SQL injections are not an obscure or difficult to understand subject, it's probably the most obvious common security issue.

There are cases where it's more annoying to do stuff in plain SQL and where you'd have to concatenate strings. But this is not one of them, is a simple parameter that needs to be passed to the query.
You are misunderstanding my point. Mathematics is not related to the natural world at all. 1 plus 1 will equal 2 regardless of whether there is a universe to experience it. It turns out certain types of math are useful to us, it doesn't mean that all types are. For example, infinite numbers exist, but the natural world cannot have an infinite or infinitessimal amount of things, there are upper and lower limits. Does that mean infinities don't exist? Of course not.
The paper is a bit over my head. Are there any findings with respect to the phenomenon of Deep Double Descent [0], or the more recent grokking phenomenon [1]?

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.02292
[1] https://mathai-iclr.github.io/papers/papers/MATHAI_29_paper....
National ID is certainly not a requirement for voter ID, and there’s no reason I can find so far that state/local ID couldn’t be mandated instead. While you’re correct that most countries that require voter ID have a national ID card, I would guess that’s more of a correlation due to a latent variable that underlies both of these: possibly some sort of trust in a national authority (relative to local authorities), ease and necessity of international travel within Europe requiring convenient proof of citizenship, etc.
I like the result. Too many people hide behind “I was just doing my job and helping the company.” At some point you have to make a personal stand to not harm humanity. And programmers reading this, that era is definitely upon us.

When we see programmers charged who implemented the twisted evil shit Facebook or whoever ordered them to, we will be making some progress on fixing the problem.
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I've rarely seen people being very positive about any product in a Hackernews thread.

[0] Coinbase : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26816636