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Σπᾰρτῐᾱ́της is a perfectly fine greek noun and was used in antiquity to denote the ”homoioi” of spartan society, it is not a made up word by Bret Devereaux. Historical sources <em>do</em> consider helots to be spartans, just not citizens or ”homoioi”.

I would suggest reading the posted blog-post. The author <em>do</em> know what he is talking about and–in my opinion—quiet an engaging writer.
All this is pretty interesting but it is a bit click-baity tweet... In one of replies he states "when all else fails, a propane generator kicks on, but rarely."

https://twitter.com/repthomasmassie/status/10824617000230461...
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As someone who grew up hearing the world was headed for certain and total disaster by overpopulation, it’s very hard for me to get upset by projections of a gradual and gentle move the other way for awhile.
Glad to see this, I have been favoring cotton socks for decades, hard to find mostly cotton socks now, the petrochemical industry is poisoning us all.
Wow… and I thought Iterm(2) is the best terminal on MacOS
You seem to have some ...
I side with the lead developer. The "reporter" clearly don't use any nuances and think that his opinions are "aligned with the general public".
I suspect it’s not the US relationship with guns, but the US relationship with violence.

The national myth about the founding of the US is about using violence to solve problems. And Americans seem very quick to turn to violence when under any sort of perceived threat.

I doubt getting rid of guns, even if you could find a way to do it, would solve the problem.
I agree with all that you said, but I'd add [0] I'd rather see them pouring money here, than funding real estate bubbles or oil companies you know.

[0] unless their ventures are really immature glorifying ways to spend money and produce nothing
You'd make the same argument if your life expectancy was 40 years and people proposed medicine could let you live to 80.

You'd also make the same argument if your life expectancy was 200 years and medicine advancements could let you live to 300.
I'm curious -- is this realistic? Can most experienced programmers really do all this? I've been coding for a few years and I can do maybe one or two of these.
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Watch these Excel pros duke it out in a financial modeling competition
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A month ago skepticism about crypto was very much not a minority position on HN. AFAICT, it has been the default position for at least several years. Check out this article from 10 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26063920 or this other article from 4 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16216329 or even this article from 6 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10905118.

In all cases people are rather reserved about it, if not outright hostile. I think it is because many on HN have a lot of technical experience and can immediately see that normal databases can do everything blockchains can at a fraction of the cost except the whole trustless thing, while everything interfacing with the real world (ie everything not a currency) will involve a lot of trust anyway. Someone has to enter the data into the oracles, for example.
Hahaha. That's not bad, actually. :)
Maybe there's not much else going on in the world where some of the blame can not be directed straight back at the media?

I wonder what's going on in Afghanistan right now, for instance, and is it worse than an illicit Chritmas party or having someone else pay for your wallpaper? Given the amount of coverage by the BBC, obviously not.
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I'm not against research to better understand aging and diseases that are a consequence of aging such as dementia and various cancers. But when I read this announcement I feel an air of arrogance that fucking annoys me.

Your feeling of arrogance seems to be a product of a cultural programmed reaction. There's no shortage of movies, cultural works, and tv shows that tell us that immortality is unwanted, unattainable, selfish, or somehow otherwise bad, starting with our oldest myths and stories, Epic of Gilgamesh.

If the goal of medicine is to cure or prevent every diseases and dysfunction in the human body, then we must conclude that as an unavoidable side effect that being healthier will extend long life.

If we care about our fellow human beings, especially the elderly, then we do not want them to live in pain, to be in dementia, or otherwise have a poor quality of life. We must also recognize that many of them may not want to die.

I applaud the pursuit of longevity and health so long it is paired with the egalitarian outcome in that everybody will be entitled and receive it, regardless of who they are and what they did.
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This would be great, because I definitely match this description
It also happens to me in C++, because I always use binary libraries.

Still looking forward to the day cargo will support them.

Having said that, the more AOT compiled languages that join the Turbo Pascal/Modula-2/Oberon/Delphi/Eiffel/Go compile times club the merrier.
No, the solution is: Don't save unnecessary data about your visitors. Then you don't need any Cookie banner.
On the one hand, it is another step towards more inequality, a society of Eloi and Morlocks, since these treatments will only be available to the very rich who develop them. They claim in the announcement that the costs will (eventually) come down so ordinary people can afford this, but that's not the way all tech goes. As shown by the rising difference in health-span between the wealthy and working poor, medical advances do not always trickle down.

On the other hand, it could actually provide tangible benefits to some human beings. Saying "I was the first to land a human on Mars" has no such advantage.
> It's pretty rarely done though.

Exactly. That is why I like the Deno solution even as a long time Java user: it is on by default and so simple that there is no reason to disable it.
I share your sentiment, and I also decided not to reproduce.
Did the title of the article change after this was posted? Or was the title modified by the poster?

Article title says “Greeks”, not “Spartans”, which would make a lot more sense (and avoid the need for half of the arguing in the comments).
There is too much to gain from tracking website visitors. Most companies that run websites would rather subject visitors to the pop-up in order to satisfy the law, than to remove tracking.
Now that is something I can agree on. :)
I would bet there's a very large population of people that use a smart phone and have never touched a computer.
Well, it's basically malicious compliance. They're supposed to be super annoying because the people which need them do things which have been deemed unacceptable from the legislature. Instead of complying, they choose this obnoxious practice so they could continue with what they've been doing for years, which is monitoring every action a visitor does.

You don't need a cookie banner to be allowed to create Cookies. You only need them if you're using them for something like tracking.

A session cookie, selected theme etc is all fine without that banner
"Green should look like green and not yellow by default" is not an entitled opinion, and definitely shouldn't be met with the hostility it was.
I have not accepted it: I immediately close the tab almost every time I see the first pop-up on a website.

For example, I no longer use Stackoverflow since they started showing these pop-ups, ostensibly to force me to accept what I regard as an invasion of privacy. When reading a web page, I would like to be able to concentrate on the content without any distractions, and my feeling is that a site that shows pop-ups does not respect this sufficiently.

As to solutions: Wherever I can, I support all measures that let a website get rid of any existing pop-ups, for example by advocating for less tracking and more respect for users' privacy and ability to quickly obtain the information they want.
I note your observation that the outcome of this strategy is a world populated by people who don't share the strategy, but that doesn't worry me.

I don't want the world to be populated by people who think like me. I just appreciate it for what it is.

It's a big old interesting world, and I'll only ever get to see bits of it.

There are so many people in the world, all of them different, each of them thinking different things and trying to get to different places. That's what I like about the world. It's an interesting, surprising place, full of variety, unexpected schema, and ways to do things that have never occurred to me.

What parents want for their kids is just the starting point for kids anyway. Where they end up and why, who knows?
Added to the title, thanks
> Once you check your node_modules in, there's no need to run an install step before you can get up and running on the codebase. This isn't just useful for developers locally, but a big boost for any bots you might have running on a Continuous Integration platform (e.g. CircleCI, GitHub Actions, and so on). That's now a step that the bots can miss out entirely. I've seen projects easily need at least 1-2 minutes to run a complete npm install from scratch [...]

Couldn't this issue be solved by using caching? If I remember correctly, Travis CI has the option to cache certain folders between builds, meaning an npm install doesn't have to start from scratch, and can just incrementally update the cached node_modules folder (any changes are then copied to the next CI build).
>If offered a pill to be restored to youthful longevity in that moment

The only enticing thing of that pill would be if you'd retain all your memories and material possessions, because let's say you had to compromise that:

- You get a pill but your memory will be wiped;

- The cost of the pill would be so high you'd lose all your material possessions;

What would be the difference between that and dying?
> OSS is not about free (as in $0) it is about Open Source.

FOSS has an 'F', which stands for "Free" in the sense that anyone can fork, modify, build and distribute the software. Without the 'F', you have code that is only open-source in the sense that you are allowed to read it. If you include the 'F', you have software that anyone can distribute, either for money or for $0. The market price is going to converge on $0.

Plainly some devs are willing to work for nothing, whether out of passion, for the props, or because the software is important to them. So the market price of any software that isn't ringed with patent and copyright fences is going to tend towards $0.

I favour a Universal Basic Income. Many people will leech; but many users of free software are leeching now. I believe people do productive work because they want to, not because they're paid mega-salaries. In fact, that's the only plausible explanation for free software. So make taxpayers finance a UBI. Admin costs are tiny (no eligibility checks, you just pay everyone). You can also get rid of most Social Security infrastructure.

I think UBI is unpopular mainly because people hate the idea that the taxes on their income from work will be paid-out to people who don't care to work. That's understandable, but is it reasonable? Do they also complain about the number of people who are paid out of tax revenue just to check claimants' eligibility for SS support? I haven't heard that complaint.
I remembered a person asked questions about everlasting youth and indefinite lifespan to people, with the option to commit suicide.

People weirdly reject it for some reason, even though there's no catch. I suspect it's a cultural cached response, because taking these pill always mean some sort of catch.
How do you get any work done?
The dystopian take on this being that longevity will always be gated, limiting it to the wealthy. They would continue to externalize the actions as being the result of lesser people.

The way the wealthy will take responsibility is by taking up the mantle of human zookeeper, restricting lesser people's locations and movements. Just look at where the toll roads are near you, it's already happening.

Then the negative actions necessary to create personal benefit will be limited to the areas of the lesser people. After you find the toll roads, look for the power plants and factories in your area.

There's a reason we keep coming back to fiction that elevates the obscenely wealthy as being beyond the law, beyond the control of governments, and eventually physically beyond the world in floating cities.

It's a small solace that rich people continue to die within the same age range as poor people. I hope I don't live long enough to witness longevity being solved for the 1% only.

edit: changed "gated behind price" to just "gated" since gatekeeping comes in many forms.
Mentha spicata benefits from lots of water and you can consider a root barrier to keep it in place (or use big pots). They tend to overcome other plants in moist soil

You could enjoy also the infusion made from skins of wild rose hips. Really easy to found in the Northern hemisphere. Discard the seeds or cook the fruit entire and filter the liquid apart. Will obtain a sweet and clear infusion rich in vitamin C in a nice red tone. Good for the cold days of winter.

And there is also the Australian bush tea made from Leptospermum leaves that a lot of people culture yet in their gardens for the long lasting flowering season. I remember it dark and bitter.
The EU directive actually requires that opting out of cookies be as simple as opting in, which hardly any of these pop-up systems allow. Unfortunately, because of the limited power of the EU, it is up to members states to actually enforce these rules. So the corrupt idiots you should stop voting for are members of your own national assembly.
That was the common view at the time, that you couldn't trust it because it wasn't from a trusted publisher. The inaccuracy was the implication that you could trust legacy media.
The number one factor driving cancer, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, heart disease, and a myriad of other types of human suffering by an order of magnitude is biological age.
I suspect almost no human beings actually carry out such a rational calculation of risk.
The blame is at least partly on the economic models of the modern web. Tracking increases the payout of ads, ads are the main source of revenue... cookie popups allow this all to continue.

Without a fundamental reshaping of the web economy, this isn't likely to change.
I've never used SO. Why are people so reliant on it?
This is the correct answer. Nobody needs to ask for cookies that are required for providing the service. They choose to annoy people.
You are the part of the problem then.
Mixed feelings. On one hand I can imagine situations where longetivity and its development might really be useful, for example when (if ever) we enter the human space travel era, where the human lifespan will eventually start to factor in. On the other, its hard to not consider the deeper meaning of such pursuits. After all, death is what gives life meaning and pushing it further raises lots of possible negatives e.g. 1) less sense of urgency 2) traumatic death will be even more traumautic, especially in the early years of life… I do wish I can live healthily to the end of my days, but its really a sort of miracle in todays world if the reaper doesn’t collect you before aging runs it course.
Change isn’t always a good thing. Having your elders all die before they can pass on their knowledge, culture, and values isn’t the panacea you’re describing.
I think the trick is that you should use `npm ci` instead of `npm install` in most cases.
> Generally if you are barfing meg's of data to screen you're prolly doing something wrong... (You prolly wanna be using less?)

Why? Many commands I've run have produced a lot of log output in my day.
> I applaud the pursuit of longevity and health so long it is paired with the egalitarian outcome in that everybody will be entitled and receive it, regardless of who they are and what they did.

And therein lies the crux. I don’t believe that’ll be the actual outcome.
Interesting - I have a strong recollection of someone making a comparison of the agoge to the methods of modern cults (I do not think it is something I would have come up with myself) and I thought it was somewhere in this series, but I see it is not. Maybe I heard it from Dan Carlin?

Not that you have to agree with the comparison, of course!
Increase in human lifespan (and longevity of "youth") is the most obvious sign of the success of modern civilization. We have doubled the average life expectancy in just about a century, so by your reasoning, past humans would likely call us "arrogant" when on average we live better, more fuller lives than they ever did.

There will be unintended consequences of humans living longer, of course but those are problems which will be solved by smart people of the future (and present).
I'm sure they could seize it, since they can and do freeze and sieze bank accounts as well.

However self custody ensures they can never get it even if they kill you, and since it is programmable money there is a way to ensure it gets to a friendly address, maybe years later, perhaps to a loved one.

Seems the market places a worth on a possession that can not be taken from you by force, or even by your death, slightly more than 0.
Would be even funnier if there were zero non-GPU-accelerated terminal emulators written in Rust.
You have to remember that society changing over 200-300 years is an anomaly in the history of humanity.

Also, I am pretty sure that old people were involved in historical changes themselves, or will be forced to confront historical changes anyway.
If SpaceX goes public it'll be drowned in capital the day of IPO.
I suppose that’s quite true as you were probably running in something like VGA text mode.
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Don't call it renewal, call it rot.
Some things, we let rot. We shouldn't let people rot.
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> We have internationally coordinated programmes of work to get people to move away from burnt fuel stoves to just about anything else, because so many people's lives are cut short by indoor air pollution.

I'm not sure you read the doc you quoted.

I mean, it's recommendations are to ditch unprocessed coal and kerosene stoves, not biomass. On solid fuel (wood and biomass) the recommendations are to use better insulated stoves instead of open fires.

Thus, I fail to see the relevance of this in this discussion, given that the use of thermoelectric generators that served as a basis for the proposal already implies that your WHO recommendations are already been followed.
Clearly, they don't think so.
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Feynman's fascination with basically everything is always so fun. Here is another, where he is talking about trying to figure out why ice is slippery...

https://newsletter.butwhatfor.com/p/takeaway-tuesday-richard...

Copy / Paste:

"But the problem, you see, when you ask why something happens, how does a person answer why something happens? For example, Aunt Minnie is in the hospital. Why? Because she went out, slipped on the ice, and broke her hip. That satisfies people. It satisfies, but it wouldn't satisfy someone who came from another planet and who knew nothing about why when you break your hip do you go to the hospital…

And you begin to get a very interesting understanding of the world and all its complications. If you try to follow anything up, you go deeper and deeper in various directions. For example, if you go, “Why did she slip on the ice?” Well, ice is slippery. Everybody knows that, no problem. But you ask why is ice slippery? That’s kinda curious. Ice is extremely slippery. It's very interesting. You say, how does it work? You could either say, “I’m satisfied that you’ve answered me. Ice is slippery; that explains it,” or you could go on and say, “Why is ice slippery?” and then you're involved with something, because there aren't many things as slippery as ice...

A solid that’s so slippery? Because it is, in the case of ice, when you stand on it (they say) momentarily the pressure melts the ice a little bit so you get a sort of instantaneous water surface on which you're slipping. Why on ice and not on other things? Because water expands when it freezes, so the pressure tries to undo the expansion and melts it. It's capable of melting, but other substances get cracked when they're freezing, and when you push them they're satisfied to be solid.

Why does water expand when it freezes and other substances don’t? I’m not answering your question, but I'm telling you how difficult the why question is. You have to know what it is that you're permitted to understand and allow to be understood and known, and what it is you're not. You'll notice, in this example, that the more I ask why, the deeper a thing is, the more interesting it gets. We could even go further and say, “Why did she fall down when she slipped?” It has to do with gravity, involves all the planets and everything else. Nevermind! It goes on and on."
The people who do not share your opinion value cryptocurrency at roughly 2 trillion dollars. Opinions is how value is determined.
If we flip the script and imagine a world where everyone lives healthily, forever, the person advocating that everyone die painfully at 70 seems like a murderous psychopath.
> Well, it's basically malicious compliance.

Agreed. I can't think of a more widespread and effective campaign by an entire industry to gaslight their customers into hating a regulation more than the invasive practice that is being regulated.
That CSAC module has of course a much better long-term accuracy than the rubidium oscillator from this article.

Nevertheless, the rubidium clock qualifies as an atomic clock as the distinction has nothing to do with the precision or accuracy of the clock.

If the average value of the frequency of the clock is determined by the dimensions of some resonating device, which can never be reproduced perfectly identical, then it is a non-atomic clock.

If the average value of the frequency of the clock is determined by a resonance frequency of some atoms, ions or molecules, then it is an atomic clock, because, at least in principle, it should be possible to make clocks with identical average frequencies. (In the cheaper atomic clocks the reproducibility is not ideal, because the output frequency is shifted by various constructive details, e.g. the buffer gas in rubidium oscillators).

So a rubidium clock qualifies. A less obvious example is a helium-neon laser with the frequency tuned to a resonance of the methane molecule.

If you use that laser with the frequency determined by methane together with a frequency divider (made with a mode-locked fiber laser) providing an output frequency in the MHz range, you have an atomic clock, and one much better than most rubidium clocks and than many of the cheaper cesium clocks.
Elon is wrong on this one. He has six kids he hardly ever sees, do they even know their father ? We have too many people on planet Earth now. The mostly Asians are vaccuming the oceans of aquatic wildlife. Mass consumerism, billions of humans driving cars which most consume fossil fuels and contribute to global warming, even electric cars have lot's of plastic and rubber tires which end up as granules or powders washed off roads in creeks, streams and rivers to our oceans. Same for plastic bags, packaging, toys, the more humans - the more need for them to buy all the garbage coming out of factories and eventually ending up in landfills. The more problems with sewage, water shortages whether drinking water or water to irrigate agricultural crops to feed more and more humans. It's unsustainable. Wars, famines and pandemics are necessary evils to pushback against human overpopulation.
Caching glyphs, into a texture. Then they don't need to be re-rendered and can just be copied.