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Point of diversity not being discussed: Justice Brown Jackson is the first on the supreme court with any experience as a public defender. She was raked over the coals for it in her confirmation hearings, but the bottom line is that everybody deserves due process, even when we think they're guilty. Long live the 6th amendment.
Sorry to be mean, but is this your project?

It's fine to post your projects here, if you don't repost too much. Also, comments are usually friendlier when the author is here and reply the questions.

For example, I'd recommend to put the list of supported languages higher in the webpage.
Several years ago I had a string of clients who also came into enough Google Cloud credits to make a switch worthwhile.

For these companies it wasn't a problem to have a few minutes of downtime, so the task was simply recreating their (usually AWS) production environment in Google Cloud.
I am assuming the kids who stopped having the issues would have dropped out at a higher rate. If a kid is having an issue their parents would want them to remain in to help find a treatment for the kid.

I am not aware of any data on why kids dropped out, but it does call into question the accuracy of the results. When almost everyone drops out of a study you should start over or make sure you get the reasons why they dropped out so you can figure out if they stopped having the issues.
I guess it's got something to do with repeat rates or animations or something, but Windows' cmd prompt (or just DOS itself) has always felt better to type in, to me, than any other terminal I've ever used.

I don't like it otherwise, but that part's nice for some reason.
I never heard about Fast - till now.
So my opinion is that they failed in advertising. Maybe they spent too much on engineering but definitely not enough on advertising.
Extreme car dependency.

Toronto is suffering from the same problem Dubai has. It suddenly became relevant when sovereignists gained power in Quebec and the business class were worried about Montreal being a liability. So they packed up and went down the 401 to Toronto.

It has the infrastructure for a much much smaller city, and one in the North American car-driven style (massive highways, occasional regional rail that is artificially slowed down by regulation, little to no metro service in most areas, etc)

Combine with NIMBYs blocking every form of intensification, and here we are:

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.6783092,-79.352227,3a,90y,68...

A metro station close to the downtown core. In Tokyo this is the kind of development you find on the far side of Saitama, bounded by mountains or poor soil. In Toronto, this is an area that has suffered population decline, as the locals went from having a nuclear family to being 2 or even 1 empty nesters, being replaced by DINKs.

It gets much, much worse the further out you go.

A lot of the city has a blanket ban on anything more dense than a single family detached home.

Just look at the city's size in sqkm. It will never scale like this, things need to change and density needs to be improved.

All other Ontario cities suffer the same paste-eating mentality, especially Ottawa and cities in the GTHA.
In my experience, scaling a large project in a dynamically typed language with 100% unit test coverage just gets you production outages with all unit tests passing. A reasonable threshold is probably closer to 70-90% _plus integration tests_.

Hopefully you also picked a language where a bigco has created tooling that lets you incrementally add static types -- TypeScript, Closure Compiler, Python typing and/or pytype, etc.
It's the real estate equivalent of blaming immigrants for stealing jobs.
Could you please post the article here you've mentioned if you'll find it?
hypothesis: the Great Filter is that every sufficiently long-lived society eventually invents and uses the Deplorable Word from C.S. Lewis's "Narnia" universe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JRLCBb7qK8

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This could actually be a feature and not a bug from a legal perspective. If they are blocking anyone who gives any indication that they are under 13 then it might be easier to show compliance with COPPA.

This has made me wonder at times if the best way to get my data delete from someplace is to talk to customer service and repeatedly say that I'm twelve.
That doesn't only exist in Victoria and that busy-body group isn't only about building and housing. They are active against many things. I live in California and they complain about people walking down the street, water restrictions, lifting water restrictions, cleaning your driveway with water, not being able to use water, it goes on and on.

It does touch on building, but it's mostly about, "NOT IN MY BACKYARD!"
Nah, them Aussies are just envious we're getting all them lovely nuclear power plants and them poor sods have to make do with coal.
> Or maybe something like being able to read thoughts at a distance or even influence them.

We have that, it just doesn't work quite the way you think. One of its many manifestations is called "Twitter".

This isn't a joke. Consider the conventional notion of a mind control device, a magical mind-laser that can target one person at a time from a distance and modify their thoughts or even beliefs. Compare to what a motivated billionaire could accomplish, today, using paid botnets and content farms.

Today's version is wildly more influential, can not only change beliefs but also inoculate the targets against future influences in the other direction(s), and operates at a mass scale. It is so successful and effective that it doesn't even need to be kept secret like the usual scifi version.

The only thing exaggerated in my description is that it doesn't require the resources of a billionaire. You can operate it for far less.

We need an adaptation of Arthur C. Clarke's "sufficiently advanced technology" quote.
Mostly my problem with it is that it's buggy: frequently clicking a thread or comment chain doesn't actually load, but scrolls the screen as if it did, and other similar annoyances.

On mobile particularly if logged out (or particularly particularly if in a private browsing mode) it's quite aggressive about trying to push you to the app, or letting you view only a couple comments in a thread before saying you're not allowed to see more, or not letting you view some subs at all. "Old" reddit doesn't do any of this.
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Want an exodus to reduce housing demand? Let the unvaccinated flee the country.

Some Canadian needs to step up and become the unvaxxed Moses. “Let my people go, Eh?”
Why? The issue with speeding is that ... you're driving faster. And as I've laid (at least somewhat) the speed limits the US commonly employs are sane as a choice and also very common in other countries.

A huge issue is that american residential roads are way overbuilt, further encouraging speeding. A lot of residential roads in Central Europe have specific provisions encouraging and forcing drivers to slow down. The residential streets in America sometimes look like a small, two-lane, highway regarding their width and straightnes.
> octopuses will form dominance hierarchies

A dominance hierarchy is not a good argument against abuse of a sentient creatures. Nor is it an argument that a "community" exists. Lobsters and beetles do this as well.

The real and substantive argument against octopus farming is that it won't work. The dollar to calorie ratio will be too high. Even if it does get going it'll collapse in a year. Might as well try farming wolves.

IMHO it's a poor idea and punching bag.
If you're not squashing your PR's I can see the problem, but I also see the other problem.
Ew, nobody needs more mandatory red tape for their private property. Busybodies like you make life a hellish nightmare of compliance with crushing systems that bloat their way into every facet of life. What you are describing is megalomania by slices.
> Sounds like the engineers were just entertaining themselves with shiny toys rather than solving the problems they actually had.

Programmers love to add the latest tech to their resume then move on to a new position within ~18 months
> The slack client is just written poorly.

Why yes, Slack does seem to be written poorly - just as poorly as every other web app that I use including VS Code, Discord, MS Teams, etc..

Maybe the Slack developers are just stupid, uneducated, malicious, poorly managed, or ambivalent (or all of the above) but the platform does to be conducive to creating clunky and bloated software.
>The point of hobbies is not "getting good at them". It's enjoying them for their own sake. Otherwise they turn into ... work.

I fall into this pitfall a lot, whether it be working on small personal projects or playing a video game. I think a large part of it comes down to comparing yourself to others.

I took up drawing a year ago and it was completely new to me, as well as the first hobby in a while I went into without caring how well I did. And as a result it was fun and relaxing. A few months ago I started looking at other artists and their work and started comparing my work to theirs. And guess what, I began feeling like drawing was a chore or work.

More and more I am starting to believe the phrase 'Comparison is the thief of all joy'. I try to remind myself of this when I notice that I'm comparing myself to others.
In europe casually flying somewhere is fun, cheap and very accessible if one works remote (or one can just go for a weekend). Not everyone plans things in advance.
> How you can use micro-commits to effectively apply the Strangler Fig pattern.

Definitely a late April Fool's blog
I'll refrain from picking a side, but Air Power Australia and the credibility of its proprietor Carlo Kopp are... controversial [1,2]. He has extensive knowledge of many of the relevant topics, but is viewed as having an axe to grind about particular systems as they pertain to Australian procurement decisions. Russian SAMs have always been shrouded in a huge amount of marketing mystery. While they are obviously capable and advanced systems, evidence continues to accumulate that some of the magic is smoke and mirrors.

I read this article with great interest over technical details, but stop short of accepting conclusions along the lines of "Flap Lid is comparable to SPY-1". Only the folks who train and operate against those systems in the real world really know if that's true, and it's one of the things we are least likely to have accurate information about in the public domain.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/CredibleDefense/comments/1vj7r6/is_...

[2] https://www.f-16.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=27190&
Waterloo region is building density, despite complaints (1), because there’s no supply. People claim to want all of: affordable housing, no sprawl, no community impact - but that’s not possible. Glad they prioritized units, although a lot are still condos which are not quite ‘affordable’, but the supply will help

(1) https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/belmont-vi...
Even Intel flirted with RAMBUS and paid for it. When I was at Pandemic Studios in 99-02, we'd get lots of prototype hardware from Intel and they sent us PIII's with the RAMBUS-exclusive i820 chipset. The things were impossible to get working stably and the RDRAM was ludicrously expensive. Total dead end from the get-go, and slower than AMD's stuff.

Intel was really on a dumb path starting in the late 90s, with RAMBUS, Itanium, the P4 debacle, and missing the emerging mobile market, and didn't right themselves until 2006 with the Core series. But they were big enough to be able to make a few mistakes unlike SGI.
China Harvested Organs from Living People, Researcher Claims
> Yours is a bad example. I on-boarded at a remote-first company (they were remote pre-COVID) a year ago and my experience was nothing like yours.

Mine is not a remote first company, it's a an office-first company that moved to remote for covid and is trying to embrace it.

That's why I was expressing a desire to find a remote-first company instead, to get the kind of experience you are describing.
https://youtu.be/lokKpSrNqDA?t=56
I had no idea these machines existed. When tasked with writing a ray tracer way back in college, the first thing I did was create a scene description format based on S-expressions. Yesterday I was nostalgically looking at backups of the assignment and found my first scene file:

(camera 0 0 -20)

; red sphere
(sphere 0 1 50 5 (material (color 255 127 127) 0.8 0.8))

; green sphere
(sphere -20 1 200 9 (material (color 127 255 127) 0.8 0.8))

(plane 0 1 0 20 (material (color 127 127 255) 0.8 0.8))

I went so far as to make the scenes scriptable with Guile. I had another scene that procedurally generated spheres positioned about a helix, but that seems to be lost to the bit gods.

To me, there's something very natural about using S-expressions to create graphics. I wish there was a video (with a high enough resolution) that shows the Lisp interactions—especially in the subdivision modeler.
I worked at a company where the founder manufactured an inane 13 level hierarchy (at seed!!!). We had two engineers, all level one, lol.
You seem pretty obsessed with xenophobia, but its really just easier to target wealthy foreigners than wealthy domestics. This is a class and land use issue - the have nots don’t need to “better themselves” (nor do they need the implied patrimony in that statement), they need homes on affordable mortgages. The government can do that! We know they can, because they have before, you just need the land. Oh look, some unoccupied mansions…
Almost everything you're saying is a symptom of poor investment in public transport. I have no doubt that the car works better for your commute, as is the case for millions of other people. Unfortunately, stick millions of cars on the road and you have a huge bottleneck for growing the commuter belt, which means only houses in a relatively small area are useful, and they get extremely expensive.

Historically, and in some countries still, we solved this problem by identifying when it was happening and creating new public transport lines for faster commutes and people living further out. In the UK, we even developed whole "New Towns", upgraded their transport, amenities and infrastructure specifically to support shuttling a greater number of people into London. They weren't particularly inspiring towns, and we still make fun of them nearly a century later - but it worked. Even today, it's far quicker to take the train into London from those towns than it is to drive, as is the case for pretty much all suburb to central commuting here.

There are still lots of situations where a car will be better (I have one too, in London), but if we can get people out of their cars for their commutes, that frees cities up to expand and useful houses will become more affordable. Driving to the tip or mall is much less of a problem.

Regarding the violence and antisocial behaviour, that's really a problem of policing and allocation of funding. It needn't be that way and it doesn't happen to nearly the same extent in the UK and I put that down at least partially to the excellent British Transport Police. Apparently it used to be violent and dangerous in the 80s but we turned it around. Now the train stations are mostly far safer than the surrounding environs. If I was ever being harassed or attacked, I would run towards the station as there would most likely be someone to help me there. Living within a few minutes of a train station also significantly increases your property value here, provided you're not so close that it rattles your bed...
I'm sorry but you seem to be misplacing a lot of your judgments. NTFS is awesome. What's not so awesome is the performance of Windows's I/O subsystem when opening files, and this doesn't really have much to do with NTFS. Also I don't know how you're compiling files, but if you're using GCC and observing it to be much slower than on Linux, you should be aware that that's a GCC issue and not an OS issue; it neither happens with Clang, nor with MinGW versions of GCC. As for the whole "registry is flawed" thing, I've never heard one good argument for that assertion. It's a meme people keep repeating without even bothering to make good arguments for it. "Trying to bring every setting and registered library into one single infrastructure" is literally what the filesystem does too. Except if you're on Linux it drags in random stuff like /proc and /dev in for the ride. All the registry is is a very fast and well-implemented hierarchical key-value store for small bits of data. Either you want such a thing, in which case the registry is a great implementation, or you don't, in which case the problem isn't the registry. I haven't experienced greater joy dealing with ~/.config or dconf than the registry, but if you want those you can always use %AppData%.
There was a Twitter hoax going around which had users put a birthday making them <13yo effectively locking them out of their account. It was that widespread that the company made a tweet warning about it.
The choice of a curve isn't a random variable. The choice of a curve is a human selected, non-random variable. Quite probably, and in practice most definitely, I have seen it adjusted so that in a 'top-performer' class the median is a 'C' while in a 'anyone-with-a-pulse' the median is more like 'D/F/dropout/incomplete'.

This isn't random. With higher selectivity, in practice, it seems likely and at very least not impossible that the variable is adjusted to make grades elevated vs median cohort member so that difficulty of passing is constant across selective vs non-selective. IDK how you could possibly assert the curve bias is random. And you've still completely ignored objective grading systems, which I have indeed seen used in core engineering classes to ensure cohort performance is completely irrelevant.

>Until then, selectivity on average is causal to difficulty.

You haven't proven this. It's a totally unsupported claim. There's zero evidence to indicate mere selectivity confers difficulty.
It already exists and is largely related to time (but not space)
site is down for me but there's an archive snapshot

https://archive.ph/gxhCC
They died like they lived - Fast.
That's protecting the one pilot in exchange for whatever is on the plane in terms of risk.
thanks for letting me know, do you know if there's a term for that notation?
We don't know all of the laws of the universe (multiverse?) and probably never will.

Sure, people do retroactively interpolate foggy/inaccurate memories to fit missing puzzle pieces, but this event was incredibly distinct.
My estimates - the company had a combined total of $200,000 dollars in credits across both clouds and the OP charged $10,000 for the migrations.
Sorry, I was 10 so I don't have the best memory of the era. Lol.

And I still probably lied about my age in the 90s. I doubt StarCraft allowed 8 year olds to play on battlenet
A lot of what I read about Rare talks about insane hours/relatively high turnover in staff. Did you find that to be the case?
It’s amazing how many downvotes pointing this out gets. People have quite the kneejerk reaction when the downsides of car transit are pointed out to them.
> I think we're the first generations where this won't be true actually

The jury is still out, but I wouldn't bet against entropy. Cloud companies do not yet have a clear guidance on what to do with data belonging to deceased users, but if that data is not profitable, it'll likely be deleted[1]. Phones and NAS devices will end up in the attic or landfill: sure programmer-archeologists of the future may encounter some with partially recoverable files, but most of the present day data will be lost.

1. I missed a payment to a SaaS provider by a week (I was traveling) and irrevocably lost data. When the payments stop due to infirmity or death, the data will be deleted.
So.......built up in big cities? Isn't that what a big city is supposed to have in the first place?
yes. By default all your harddrives (even freshly decrypted veracrypt volumes) are found as mountpoints in /mnt. So nstead of C:\users\name\Download you'd go to /mnt/c/users/name/Download

But usually you don't even have to because by default the wsl shell already puts you in /mnt/c/users/name and you'd just cd into Download
The problem is you’re comparing the commute by public transport in the current status quo and missing the point that fixing the car culture means improving public transport so that it does become more convenient than taking the car.

Plenty of European cities have achieved this. I work in London and I wouldn’t even dream of driving into the city. It’s far more convenient to get the train.
Love it. Been trying to just have fun with the game daily but this is injecting just the right amount of analysis to (maybe) take my game to a slightly new level without overthinking.
Yeh this is bang on - I find that type of person tends to say they know something, where in fact they know the name of something and thats’s about it - there’s nothing below the surface.
Super discoverable.

Put Home on the sidebar by default like Thunar, Nautilus, Dolphin, Caja, earlier versions of Mac OS X...
Why not? Cultures throughout history, part of becoming an adult was to start a family. Take that away, what does it mean to be an adult in the modern age?
Imo the problem with Org-mode is that it "afterloads" all the complexity into the :PROPERTIES: drawers. Those quickly transform into unreadable hideous beasts of metadata that _require_ you to use Emacs. Every plugin developer likes to create their own set of properties, which directly leads to the problem of "multiple Markdown flavours". Extensibility is not always good.
Of course not everyone in the government apparatus are elected. The post I replied to explicitly refered to politicians.

But I also don't think public servants (Fauci etc) should be punished. Again, for what crime? They receive orders, in the form of laws, court decisions or executive orders from elected representatives. As long as they fulfill their duties implementing those orders they are not responsible for the consequences in the eyes of the law.

The elected representatives are however responsible for the laws and directives they make. And they do face that responsibility when they meet the voters. Ultimately the voters are responsible to elect sensible people.