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> > > The Germans have switched from nuclear to coal.

> > No, they did not.

> There have been several recent stories about the increase in coal usage this year.

But was there any closure of nuclear power plants in Germany this year? If not, you cannot say that this increase was because they have switched from nuclear to coal; they must have switched from something else.

> https://www.dw.com/en/germany-coal-tops-wind-as-primary-elec...

That story implies that Germany this year switched from wind to coal (due to weaker winds), not from nuclear.
Here's a real 'climate clock', albeit one which only looks back:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interglacial#/media/File:Ice_A...

Notice how the last interglacial was markedly warmer than the Holocene (the current interglacial which began ~11.700 years ago). The question to ask, and this is a serious question, is how the planet ever survived this climate crisis. If the records can be believed this interglacial is markedly cooler than the previous 3 at least, the peak temperature of the previous interglacial lies above the most pessimistic prognoses for the current era yet, still, earth abided and life did not end.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_climatic_optimum#/med...

Even the current interglacial shows some marked ups and downs with a clear trend toward lower temperatures. The "climatic optimum" - the period with the highest average temperature - lies some 8000 years in the past, since then the trend has been towards lower temperatures with the eventual drop into the next cycle of glaciation somewhere in the future. If those dire predictions hold truth, how can it be that human civilisations actually came to thrive in the stone age?

To put it bluntly, this type of scaremongering only serves to discredit the concept of anthropogenic climate change, it is the climatic equivalent of 'there are 5G transponders in vaccines'. The more this type of apocalyptic messaging is pushed, the more the messengers will start to resemble religious zealots instead of objective agents.
The correct link should be

https://www.tomdekan.com/think-differently
Rats in Doom VR
>"they have very little understanding of a number of issues that 'middle-class' people face"

I get the same impression reading private-school-educated Vox writers.
Really interesting article about enabling longevity and success as a software developer, but it matches my view on all kinds of skilled work: whatever your employment arrangement, treat yourself as an old-fashioned professional.

Like a doctor or barrister, more tied to your profession than to one job. You need to be effective in your role, build your reputation by demonstrating your skills are beyond the bare minimum, and continually develop yourself as you go along. Ideally you get lots of win-wins: your 'extra' is a win for the company in the long run, and you come out of it a little wiser, and over time you're more effective due to the effects of past 'extra'. The benefits of these win-wins can be pretty intangible, but they do build up over time.
All I can say is "No shit, Sherlock".

I'm constantly bombarded by ads for stuff I've already decided to buy (or more usually that I already bought last week). This stuff has zero value. The point of advertising has always (until now) been about taking your product to people who didn't know it was there. Targeted advertising would be a funny joke if so many people didn't take it seriously.
also posted here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28855484
The background issue is that Germans, with their harmful surpluses, all this talk about costs, seem to completely misunderstand economics.

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I get that the Cold War hurt a lot in Germany. I've met my distant relatives stuck on both sides of the iron curtain, for example. That would have made issues of proliferation and whatnot extra salient.

But the fact of the matter is that the environmental problems we face now completely dwarf whatever environmental problems were being chased after then.

You have to realized that when you thought you were fighting the end-game boss, but you were actually fighting the mid-game boss which is the minion and now the big boss has shown up, everything changes.

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Please connect those necessary readjustments to thinking more critically about economics and whole-system things in general, to connect my two points, and we'll all be very happy.
> In the end, I hope it's clear that I'm not arguing that we neglect our Normal Work.

But you are. Choosing extra is choosing to ignore the prioritised work for something you want to do instead.

Just because the estimate was too low this week doesn't suddenly mean there's no more work.

While I think what they describe as Extra is valuable, I think there are reasonable paths to it:

* Get paid by the project, not the hours. Then the time is yours.

* Get buy-in to spend a reasonable amount of time doing "extra" things.

The latter has the obvious benefit of not only happening when people estimate things wrong.
But money!
It amazes me how much time has passed since then. I would have to go and look up the history and events to remember what order things happened.

However, with my FreeBSD hat on, it should be pointed out that we had this wonderful fellow called Cameron Grant. He is largely responsible for FreeBSD's post-OSS audio system. FreeBSD could have gone several ways for audio at the time, but he made it work, and it worked well. It had virtual channels with in-kernel mixing with very low latency - with full API compatibility. Tragically, Cameron's time was cut short.

Over time, other people got involved and picked it up. The subsystem gradually progressed from the user perspective of being simple and Just Working, to something that is rather powerful today.
In most cases they still perform better than in-house HR/Recruiter departments. Their's job is to adverse job opening to as many candidates as possible and do initial filtering on location, salary and tech stack.

For a jobseeker they are good because they often work with multiple companies to match you with a company or pass your resume to another requiter that have jobs with better fit. They can get you pass initial screen where clueless HR would reject yours resume because of spelling error. They often can provide information on hiring process based on experience with previous candidates.

For a small company that cannot afford having a dedicated recruiter, they are an easy way to outsource responsibility of finding people. For a large non-tech company they are better than in house HR because they have basic understanding of the market.
Do I recall correctly that those turbo buttons would, counterintuitively, actually down-clock the CPU? For compatibility with software that had hard-coded timings or something?
"[Tobacco smoking] has been a major health problem for many decades. For the entire 20th century it is estimated that around 100 million people died prematurely because of smoking, most of them in rich countries." (https://ourworldindata.org/smoking)
Can you point to some example(s) of companies that finance exercising private company options?
In 2017 when making this choice, presumably the FMV would not have been anything close to what it is now, and there's little to no issue with AMT.
This comment is related to the title but not the content. Several years ago I read "The Planiverse" by Dewdney [1], which I thought was delightful. The premise is that a CS professor and his students simulate a Game-of-life/Lenia type system for a while, and then in one case they learn that they can actually communicate with them. The book is clearly inspired by Flatland (which I'd also read and like).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Planiverse
Thank you for this quote, it's a great one, saving it.
I'm pretty experienced with Clojure and here are my takes on those:

1. The Janet docs suggest `cond` as a replacement for if-if-else-else chains in other languages and `case` for `switch`-`case` blocks. That's a pretty good rule, although maybe you've already encountered that explanation? My main rule of thumb is that if the important value is "enum-y", representing a particular kind of thing or state, try `case`. If not, use `cond`. Neither Janet nor Clojure have enums (although you might be able to hack them in through macros or interop), so keywords usually serve that role.

2. I would prefer `when` to `if` because it's usually clearer what's going on. I usually don't use `and` in place of `if`. The trivial negation problem is an issue in basically any programming language that has `and`, `or`, and `not`, but it does add more options. Whether to use `and` or the equivalent `or`, I think your first instinct is often best.

3. I tend to favor threading macros (`->` and `->>`) when something is three or more functions nested and manually nested expressions for the rest.

For a total beginner, I would actually suggest forgetting about the more specialized options until you're comfortable. In other words, just use `cond`, `if`, and manual nesting. (Obviously still use `and` within the branches of `cond` or `if`.)
Generally the most outspoken climate change activists are the ones that will be affected the least by the costs of policy. The worst that will happen to them is there might be a little more crime in their area or things might be a little more expensive, things of that nature.

Meanwhile the monumental social and economic upheaval it would likely cause would mimic the American Midwest after de-industrialization in many places. Maybe we should tell them all to learn how to code and it would miraculously solve everything.
> I stopped the ToS email with around 70k more users to send

I don’t want emails about changing to your ToS
WebAuthn fixes this. You cannot give a password to a scam site, because there is no password and the authentication token is tied to the original site.

https://webauthn.io/

I just tested and it worked with my iPad and TouchId.
"If this was the goal, why would they report the truth audibly while lying to you visually?"

It is possible I have it reversed in my mind. Lets look at the picture at hand and see if we can agree what it represents[1].

[1]https://thefederalist.com/2020/08/27/cnn-chyron-on-kenosha-f...

Tell me what you see in this image?

To respond to what I think you are saying. Maybe the senior lead thought reporter could do better job on his feet and gave him a shot. Live riot. You will need to take some chances and see how they play out. Poor guy was clearly not ready for prime time.
I am getting survey requests from AA after each flight. It doesn't cost them much to send an email.
And then we call out the National Guard to put an exclamation point at the end of that sentence.
Awesome as always, but unfortunately from January 2014, not a new post by Dave Addey.
WebAuthn – The Passwordless Future
Except that as this thread demonstrates, there is no realistic possibility of this researcher actually making more $$$ in real life by trying to find another bidder.
I'm pretty sure you're supposed to catapult into doing training and speaking stuff, and "leadership" roles that have you writing blog posts and attending meetings all day while taking credit for what your team is doing, after faking your way to a "10x" reputation.
So far as I know, essentially all grey market vulnerability sales are tranched, which is an important consideration when comparing bounty payouts to the grey market.
"Android" doesn't but Google Play services & bundled apps do
Apple's bug bounty is notoriously slow to respond, to the point that it has posed legitimate security concerns in the past: particularly their rhetoric around Thunderspy amused me.

https://habr.com/en/post/579714/

https://thunderspy.io
Fukushima killed one (1). In the context of a massive natural disaster that killed 10000.

Three Miles Island happened years before Chernobyl and killed no one, because it wasn't a dodgy, duct-taped together soviet piece of junk.

In the last 30 years, the only nuclear power accident was Fukushima and again, caused just one victim. Fossil fuel depot fires have killed thousands more in that time.
Unfortunately exercising consumer choice works a lot better in a healthy free market than it does in one controlled by an oligopoly. I totally agree that people should try to avoid buying from companies that do immoral things, but it can be quite hard in a consolidated market.
Well, sorry, but PAHs are toxic and cause cancer - there are lots of toxins involved in the process of cooking. The food itself is ridden with AGEs, which are toxic and impossible to get rid - "thank" them for diabetes, dark spots, macular degeneration, aging in general, and all kinds of chronic disease.
Who Has Been Speaking?
I cited a three-day disruption, just a few months ago.

The article indicates "upwards of 50% of our aircraft lines flow through Florida".

There's more to Florida than just Miami, and the FAA backs up the weather claim.

Meanwhile, none of the other airlines who also instituted mandates saw delays.
You can't "exercise options before they vest" because you don't have the option until vesting.

What you describe -- and as someone that was bit by the AMT wrt ISOs, I recommend -- is exercising as soon as they vest to minimize the gain between the strike price and the fair market value at time of exercise. If the FMV goes up, you're going to be stuck paying the AMT on the spread, and not even be able to sell your shares to cover the tax, because pre-IPO stock is effective illiquid. If you wait until after the post-IPO lockout date to exercise, you'll pay even more in taxes, but at least you can sell some stock to cover it. Ironically, this is actually less painful, because you actually have liquidity.
Would you know what size a "hello world" app is?
In Germany, Fusion and not Fission is the future (ducks and runs).
You can rely on the vast majority of people to do the right thing when it's in their best interests.

You can likely rely on a good majority of people to do the right thing when it isn't for or against their interests in any substantial way.

I'm not sure the amount of people that will do the right thing when it's not in their best interests by some small but noticeable amount.

I'm also not sure the amount of people that will do the right thing when it's vastly against their best interests, but it's bound to be far less that the prior group, and I suspect it's way below a majority.

The point isn't that these people aren't doing the "right thing", it's that these programs are designed to align doing the right thing with the best interests of the researchers, so noting that we might get more results that are not in the best interests of society at large or the company in question if they don't hold up to what they agreed to is not only a valid observation, it's the likely outcome if we're to expect these programs exist for a reason.

To put this in perspective, say you find a suitcase with a million dollars in it. You can turn it in, or you can keep it for yourself. If there's no real expectation you'll get anything if you turn it in, how does the reasoning go in your head? What if you know you'll get 10% for finding it and turning it in? What if you live in abject poverty? What if you have $60k worth of medical bills for a family member to pay off?
Nobody said the USN had them for the whole ocean. The point is that the Navy likely has numerous methods of providing external references to a submarine's INS.

Map != position, by the way...
I hate this in homebrew and macports: they use a progress line that mostly works, until your terminal is too wide or too narrow.

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I'm a DevOps engineer, so take my thoughts with a grain of salt here...

This is an interesting idea: charging an abstraction layer tax on compute and execution time vs the underlying raw AWS resources.

But also... sorry, I hate the idea that using this abstraction means incurring additional ongoing infrastructure costs vs other competing tools. And not being able to deploy to your own AWS account is quite the showstopper. The 2k requests per second seems like another odd limitation too... considering that a single API Gateway in front of a Lambda function can do 10k requests per second out of the box before getting rate limited.

It's really just shifting the lock-in from one cloud to one serverless service ¯\_(ツ)_/¯... I wonder if Serverless Cloud is fully open source?

I don't see myself using something like this personally for production projects compared to a tool like Terraform. But I do appreciate AWS Chalice for small simple serverless projects. If someone builds a Terraform escape hatch like Chalice has, that would make Serverless Cloud more appealing to me.

That said, my experience has been that the benefits and developer experience of these types of tools breaks down fast when you: (1) need to interact with cloud resources created from outside of the magical interference process, (2) the magical inference process gets it wrong or does not support the full variety of configuration options required, and (3) the magical inference abstraction doesn't support the resource types you need at all.

Multi-could abstraction is a hard problem as soon as you go beyond using pure cloud primitives to any of the fancier services that make life easier but are apples to oranges comparisons across clouds.

I've yet to be convinced that multi-cloud abstraction is a valuable problem that most companies actually need to solve, much like most companies don't need to be (directly) running their own Kubernetes clusters... but enterprises sure will throw a lot of money at chasing it, so I get why they're aiming for that market.
That's a universal problem in estimating inflation. People buy different things, and products come and go.

How do you compare a house build to 1900 standards to one build to 2020 standards? How do you compare fresh foods from the local farmer to factory-manufactured ones?

People shift preferences based on prices too. Manufactured goods started out as premium products, and now, fresh foods are increasingly a premium product.

It's an impossible problem. People either do their best, or lie with statistics, depending on the domain.
How much money did they manage to launder with their shell company?
And this is why Germany has increased its coal use - Germany hates nuclear more than coal.

When that changes, and someone is adult enough to realize that tough trade offs have to be made rather than relying on finger-wagging austerity, then Germany will migrate out of coal.

My bet is that we'll get more scolding, hand-wringing, and continued coal use well into the 2040s if not beyond.
Fair enough, but you couldn't do 5 minutes of walking by an open field?
So they switched from nuclear to wind to coal?

Coal in the primary source of electricity. If they hadn’t reduced nuclear, coal could almost be gone?

“ Nuclear power in Germany accounted for 11.63% of electricity supply in 2017[3] compared to 22.4% in 2010”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Germany
I've been doing a lot of this lately. I got the cheapest Macbook Air and SSH into my machine at the office. Tmux attach and go! Lag is never an issue for me.
I could get used to this.
They would get diluted if the company did something like a three for one trade (which happened to me and I know Gitlab did not), but in the case of an IPO there isn't dilution. Dilution matters when a company is getting bought by another company.
Zerodium pays more for the exploits, and unlike Apple, is willing to compensate you in non-traceable currency.
Bland blogger, long since they've jumped the shark, writes bland review on the marginal improvements in the 7th edition of a useless gizmo.
Nobody. You don't need to go far away to see how companies care about employees, just search here on HN to see lots of articles about wage theft, unpaid work hours, unpaid benefits and a lot of other stuff.

There are good companies out there, but they are exception, not the rule.
That's a bit of nonsense there.

You don't own the artwork, you own an URL pointing to the artwork which can change or stop working at any moment and likely isn't maintained by you.
React is a UI framework where the view is a direct representation of the application state. A (react) component is a function (or class) that returns a UI element based on the props (state) it receives.

With React; component + props = view, this makes it easy to reason about what your UI looks like because it is a result of how you manipulate your data.

With jQuery that is more like: view = html + a bunch of (spaghetti) code. This can make it harder to reason about because you need to implement the logic to update your view and event handlers yourself.
Just look at Bill and listen to him speak... that guy ain't talking his way into any romantic adventures if he weren't a gazillionaire.

Elon's hair plugs aside, at least he's got a personality and isn't the ugliest guy in tech.

So yeah, I'm coming from it totally from vanity but we're all human right? You couldn't pay me to be Bill Gates but I'd trade lives with Elon, no doubt.
He should have at least exercised exercised a single NSO for 27¢. At least then he'd be kept in the loop to a certain extent.
The headline alone doesn't give a clear picture of what's being discussed here:

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“One client of ours is a woman who hit her head against the wall so many times that her retinas were detached,” said Attorney Max Stern, who represents the parents and guardians of Judge Rotenberg Center.

“It was not until she went to multiple various other institutions, not until she got to JRC and got this treatment that she was able to get this behaviour under control so she could have surgery to make it possible for her to see again,” Stern told Massachusetts News.
Are they compelled by law to undertake invasive medical procedures?

From [1]:

> An invasive procedure is one where purposeful/deliberate access to the body is gained via an incision, percutaneous puncture, where instrumentation is used in addition to the puncture needle, or instrumentation via a natural orifice. It begins when entry to the body is gained and ends when the instrument is removed, and/or the skin is closed. Invasive procedures are performed by trained healthcare professionals using instruments, which include, but are not limited to, endoscopes, catheters, scalpels, scissors, devices and tubes.

Without the consent of the person it would constitute a serious form of assault and battery, a common law crime that stretches back at least 1000 years. I do hope that you or anyone else is not subject to such things on a daily basis.

Are you?

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6678000/
a pinhead emits less light than the sun, too
> Janet has os/ and file/ packages, as well as a PEG system which mostly stand in for the best features of Perl. Some low-level POSIX-specific operations (like daemonizing and forking) aren't practical but I can just use C for those.

The README briefly mention the C API. How easy is it to use it, and how easy is it to "lift" results from the C API into Janet? (e.g. wrapping an fd from the POSIX API into a file object)