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>We live in a society that couldn't rebuild, if it had to, the New York City subway, or the Interstate Highway System, or the national electric grid, or numerous other features of industrialized 20th century America.

We live in a society which lacks the collective will to do such things. It's only after the knowledge required to do so is lost that it can't be done again.

Unlike after the fall of Rome, there are machine tools all over this country that make it possible. We don't have to rely on manpower, or beasts to do the work. Sitting in basements, garages, barns, forests. We've got the natural resources. We also have a widely distributed archive of machinists books, literacy, and the hacker ethos on our side.

Mostly it's the financial distortions of the price of money, and tax policy, that have moved our manufacturing offshore, for now.
Vitamin D supplementation didn't affect my depression. Going for walks to get more sunlight made it worse.

I understand that not everything works for everyone and I wish those around me, including my doctor, did as well so they'd stop blaming me when their "cure" doesn't work on me.
Exactly.

The working code in Python, as a function, would be:

def extract(mapping, *args, **kwargs):
for a in args:
yield mapping[a]
for key, default in kwargs.items():
yield mapping.get(key, default)
The problem is that the US is rather larger than the UK, so a distributed system was (and maybe still is) a natural fit. For the same reason, all the citizens of the US can't just come to one place and vote for a President, like ancient Athenians could.
It seems like it would be good for non-March people, I'm not sure why the opposite is "obvious". For example if you're applying for an apartment and the other potential tenant is born in March, you'd an advantage even if you have a lower credit score- assuming we live in our current supply-constrained world, where housing is very zero-sum.

For a more extreme example, think of a situation where everyone born in March is sold into servitude, but only people born in February are allowed to own them. Is this good for people born in March? Obviously not. Is it good for people born in February? Absolutely, they'd be able to financially benefit from their newfound privilege. Is it good for people born in the other 10 months? Probably not, people born in March would skew the market for remaining jobs
Definitely hands off my quote searches, but one might hope that if you took out the quotation marks it would be able to pick up the correct quote. In fact it can if you change around certain words in the first sentence (Stories set in the Culture...). I think what's going on is that "without a terminal..." is not such a well known quote and has some pretty broadly applicable keywords (terminal...question...help), while combining the more unique set of keywords from "stories set in the culture...", which is a more well known quote, is more likely to lead the search engine to the quote even if you're missing one of the keywords in it due to a typo.
Roughly, that is true. However, the actual pattern matching rules are a bit more complex:

() # Makes a zero-tuple. The parens are required.

2, # Makes a one-tuple.
(2,) # Makes a one-tuple. The parens are optional.

[2] # Makes a list of size one.
[(2)] # Also makes a list of size one.
[2,] # Also makes a list of size one.

f(x, y) # Call a function with two arguments.
f((x, y)) # Make a 2-tuple and call a function with one argument.
It's only possible if you can identify large portions of the 50k original lines as having been previously implemented by other components (python modules, microservices, etc.), or that large portions are dealing with cases that are guaranteed to no longer arise (so you either produce different results or error out if you detect them).
Ah, ok, I'm tracking you now. I think the confusion is that is not been my experience. Every food truck I've went to go order, pay, wait, receive food.

I don't think your central premise holds, however. You may be reading too much between the lines or giving too much credence to a colloquial (and perhaps incorrect) interpretation.

"when a debt has been incurred by one party to another, and the parties have agreed that cash is to be the medium of exchange, then legal tender must be accepted if it is proffered in satisfaction of that debt. However, otherwise the selling party may set the medium of exchange to be anything they choose: dollars, bananas, precious gems, feathers, whiskey, etc. They may also choose to accept cash payment only via alternative forms (e.g., credit/debit card, check, money order) rather than currency itself."

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/legal-tender-payment/
Bound to happen. Why do you think Buddha has to leave all his wealth and kingdom before even starting the journey of mindfulness, leaving everything behind?

The western adaptation is reducing meditation and mindfulness to a "tool" of relieving stress and better ones mental well-being. As easy as downloading an app and stay calm for few minutes.

Unfortunately, this is not ideal. The traditional way is to seek a guru who asks the disciple to cleanse their heart first. Put them on the spiritual path of purifying the soul. Meditation is a part of ones spiritual journey. Some even leave everything and go to forest or mountains to practice for years.

Fortunately, for those who want to live in a society closely, they should practice "Raja Yoga" which is also a spiritual path where one raises their spiritual plane by helping others and following ones duty with high-integrity.

However simple breathing exercises still work for the body and can be easily incorporated into every day lives. There are so many apps helping with the patterns of different breathing techniques.

But don't expect you or anyone to become a better person just by doing some mindfulness exercises. When one goes to discover/amplify their inner core, you will just highlight whats inside you more. I.e. if you are bad, you will get worse. Mindfulness has nothing to do with it but just amplifying what is already there as you discover yourself more through mindfulness.
No, I mean sending the mail, outgoing, running a mailserver and receiving mail is generally not a problem.

Let's say your email server is running on blueflow.person
How do I send you an email on port 587 + authenticaion ? I'd need an account on your server to do that.. That's just silly! We can't expect everyone to have accounts on every mailserver, just to send email to eachother, that'd be like the postman having to have keys to every postbox to deliver letters!

Port 25 is where your email server expects to receive emails from other mailservers (like mine).
For me sunlight and some light exercise everyday were a game changer. I had tried Vitamin D supplements (1000 IU daily) before but there was barely any noticable effect.
So back to aristocracy?
I wasn't arrested, repeatedly seduced by a barrage of women with ulterior motives, or killed by the government, so my story would make a terrible novel, but this is how I felt dealing with the government as the executor of a family member's estate.

After I grieved for some time and taken sentimental items, her house had fallen into disrepair, so I sold it at a loss to an investor, and I was mostly ready to start moving on with my life. Somehow, the death certificate provided to me by the government about a year prior to this did not indicate that the government was aware of her death, and I needed send them back a copy of that very certificate in order to make the government officially aware of what happened.

Then I was told that I would need to wait six months for the estate process to end. During that time, I was given random tasks to do at no set interval, usually with deadlines of only a couple days. Then literally one day before the six month time period was over, I was told that the government would be taking the money in the estate due to unpaid medical bills from some years before her death (the same trips to the hospital that had failed to diagnose her illness in the first place). After getting more lawyers to investigate whether this was possible and correct (it was, private creditors' time limit starts at the time of death, but government's time limit starts whenever the aforementioned paperwork is filed (also this only took me a day or so to figure out, because I do not enjoy long drawn out bureaucratic processes unlike the state government I was interacting with)), I resigned to give up and give them the money.

However, that was not an option either. It took ANOTHER six months of random tasks to actually give them the money. I honestly don't remember what most of the tasks were, because none of it made any sense, but the final task really summed up the whole process. I received a call on a Thursday afternoon: I had to mail a physical check to my lawyer to then hand-deliver to a department within seven days, but that department was only open on Mondays 10AM to noon.

All for the terrible crime of having a family member die without having memorized estate law ahead of time. I do consider what they did some unnecessary abstract form of violence/coercion, because otherwise I obviously would not have voluntarily signed up to do any of that shit. At least if they had been honest enough to tell me at the start they were planning to just take everything, I would've just declined to be the executor and let the government do what it wanted with the property. They could have had that money (probably more money, since I wouldn't have paid a third of it to an estate lawyer and the house would've been in better condition) close to two years earlier and left me alone at the same time.
Isn't I3 terminals only? Am I just missing something?
I mean, mindfulness is literally about taking a few minutes off to concentrate on yourself. I bet people who go on longs walks in nature to reflect by themselves also increase their "selfish" tendencies.
Indeed.

Now you can do:

import operator
foo, bar, baz = operator.itemgetter('foo', 'bar', 'baz')(mapping)

But it's verbose, inelegant, and doesn't handle missing values.
For what it’s worth, I have successfully reversed a chargeback. I had a customer who ordered a downloadable product then did a chargeback. I presented evidence that they clicked the unique link for their download and the email exchange we had about the product. That seemed sufficient to satisfy the card processor.
There are some workloads where Java's JIT can beat C, C++, Fortran AOT compilation. They are probably not very common, but stuff like un-inlining can really save on instruction cache misses in workloads where the most likely path is consistent for fixed periods of time, but changes relatively often (for something like `if COND { foo(); } else { bar(); }` in a hot loop, where COND is sometimes true for a while than false for another while).

Of course, Java also has a lot of overhead from the language and implementation level, because of things like no generic lists of integers, no struct embedding leading to lots of pointer-chasing, a tendency for over-allocation, and direct overhead of the advanced JIT itself - performance counters, dummy instructions to support de/re-optimizations on the fly etc.
I do not agree. The identity can be extended with some GUID and then hashed. The GUID and hash can be kept, but the identity discarded. Then the original identity is lost, but if encountered again, it will be known that it was previously seen.
Indeed. I tried to give it another shot a couple years ago but I could not find an alliance that would have me because all of them were enemies with various alliances I'd been literally over a decade ago.
How am I to remember all that? I need a mnemonic.
Would there be any confounding factors, around the income, literacy, education and leisure time of the type of people who practice mindfulness?
> Currently supply >> demand

Is it, though? I guess we must clarify an industry, of course. But if we're talking about software engineering - the balance had surely changed, but I don't think it had tipped over, and especially for a "much greater than" (">>") sign.

If supply would start to outweigh demand, salaries would naturally plummet down. As far as I've heard talking to friends (for personal reasons, I've been not exploring any opportunities, being busy with some other matters, so I haven't really kept an eye on this), last year they rose up.
wat? what ya talkin about?
How soon until we end up with government-mandated email addresses? Email is already a required field in many governmental forms in the US.
Humanity also managed without computers for a very long time.

But look at that, we're both here. Guess the tech must be good for something, and it's better than not having it.
Yes, but since it's an expression it is very verbose for a simple assignment.

Python really needs something like:

{foo: "default", mapping} = mapping
Americans have been de facto banned from visiting Cuba as long as I’ve been alive. I can totally imagine similar policies for Russia and China in the not too distant future.
I really desire the feeling that I’m disconnected from the matrix for a little while.

Leaving my phone at home, and foregoing all my other digital tools really makes me feel like it’s just me and my immediate surroundings I’m paying attention to.
>Knowing that I had two offers, and that I had gone through a very long process with them and having received an offer, I knew that I was a candidate they'd like to hire. This is the perfect time to get that extra worth, as you hold a lot of the chips, especially with two offers.

This has always been really hard for me to do, particularly if I actually am happy with the offer. It could be imposter syndrome, where I often feel like I don't "deserve" it.
I always bring my phone in case I'm in a traffic accident and need to call someone to pick me up or let them know I'm going to the hospital
My siblings and I would tape a monopoly board to the TV to split it vertically and then play team games to get around “screen cheating”. I think it had the best of both worlds. We were still in the same room but we could ambush and sneak up on each other. Definitely less expensive than this solution.

Goldeneye 64 was the best bang for our buck of any game we ever bought. We did the same thing with Perfect Dark.
Not only that, but a phone solves the "where am I" problem, which was such a pain when I was younger. Having to look for the nearest street signs while driving around, barely being able to read them and guessing its suffix, then searching the map index for which coordinate that street is in. Basically all problems solved by GPS. The directions feature you pointed out is basically a whole other application (replacing printing mapquest or written directions).
What country does not require you to carry an id at all times where outside your house? Most countries do and most don't even accept alternate id's like driver's license.
I remember this life well, I guess the trick is to use only the time saving feature of the smart phone (the are enormous), and skip the time sinks... They are equally enormous :)
Sure, but it seems aspirational at best to say "I love having my phone on me at all times because with it, I can access all of human knowledge" while really using your phone all day to procrastinate your goals, waste time on TikTok, and never actually tap into that knowledge except for the rare Wikipedia search.

Kind of a "...but I always can if I want to!" cope.

That said, I was similar to the thread OP in my early 20s when it came to my computer time. I spent all day on the computer which was totally cool because of all the things I could do on it, even though I was addicted to Warcraft or Diablo or whatever. And it took 10 years to admit it and find a healthier relationship with it.
Market is very hot still and in favor of the candidate, atleast from my perspective. But I have 10+ years experience.
Also the Disposition Matrix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposition_Matrix
> like in countries with better gender equality, where we see more unequal distributions of workers in different fields [0].

I wish the correlation/causation and replication crisis crowd would update their priors on that paper.

They published a correction (notably after all the press coverage) because they weren't measuring what they said they were measuring, but it was still a pretty lousy study, and of course demonstrates nothing about causation. [1] has a commentary, but maybe other people have better coverage.

[1] https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/srichard/files/richardson_...
Listary is pretty much the best I've encounter on Windows. Fuzzy search for all applications & files with dynamic ranking of results based on usage habit + possible customization with search engines.
When I'm on a laptop of someone else, Listary is the one that I miss so much.
The ? attribute would indeed be a welcome addition, but not to work in the same way as in JS. In JS, it ignore null values. That wouldn't work in python.

We would need a ? to says "ignore AttributeError, IndexError and KeyError on that access".

However, the use of {} for set is not a problem.

First, remember than Python is much, much older than JS. Insight is 20/20. Second, you could always use a different syntax.
Is empty string acceptable in place of None? If so, consider partition:

key, sep, value = item.partition("=")

If you need to know whether there was a split/match that occurred you could test sep's truthiness.
I mean, it's possible, but I think there's room to start holding companies that do that kind of stuff accountable. For instance, my company made a big deal about remote hiring during the pandemic and has now completely reversed course. I think they'll pay for that in the long run, not only in terms of turnover, but now every time I tell the tale of working there it ends with, "They eventually squeezed anyone who wanted or needed to go remote so hard they left."
There seem to be so many people on HN and elsewhere who are interested in ambient data displays, but they never catch on with the masses.

My favorite one was called Statusboard. It was an iOS app from Panic (yes, THAT Panic) which turned a spare iPad into an ambient data display.

Configuration was easy, and on mine I showed RSS feeds, mail information, weather and more.

I used it on an old outdated iPad I had laying around. Other people I knew did the same, but hooked it up with the lightning → HDMI wire to 40-inch flat screens they had left over when everyone upgraded to 4K.

Sadly, Panic EOLed it years ago. Which is a shame because that happened right about the time that surplus iPads and cheap flat-screen TVs became a thing.

Now, with so much legacy display tech headed to landfills, I wish some iOS developer would make a similar app and make a dent in the flow of e-waste.
Yes , wre're in the gold^H^H^H^H nicotine-yellow stained age of
dankness :)
Yeah, I hit something weird like this the one time I tried to sell something on eBay, too. A buyer bid on it, won the auction, then after-the-fact tried to back out. I’m not sure what the scam was, but I said no, and they paid and took the item. But it totally soured me on selling anything on eBay ever again. This was a low-cost item and the hassle of it all made the whole thing such a waste of time and effort.
FWIW my I made my grandma download element to text me and she's using it without problem
Am I reading this correctly? It sounds like the product is an LED matrix which requires third-party cloud servers to update the display? That doesn't sound right.

Also, the author uses 2x 32x32 panels @$97 each as a price peg, but you can get a raw 64x32 panel from Adafruit (a quite expensive supplier) for $50.
Yurp. I live in the south of England and even here I take vit D for pretty much that time period or I end up with little to no energy. I always make sure to go outside as much as I can, but when the sun is coming up at 8am and has gone down by 6pm it's pretty hard to get enough daylight and also work.
I use my phone as a mobile phone 90% of the time when I am away from home. The other 10% is tracking my cycling with Strava, I can easily live without that.
I don't know that it's necessarily fair to describe this as a purely Western phenomenon. The Lamas were a hereditary elite who ruled over Tibet in a brutal caste system which reduced most of the people in it to the status of serfs, and all with their own particular strain of Buddhism used to justify and excuse it all. On our fridge, my wife has a picture of the Dalai Lama wearing a big fancy watch on his wrist. I always wonder how such a luxurious ostentation is supposed to fit in with what he preaches.
Any, I was just curious. :)
Imho that doesn't hold water. Today's phones don't deliver more useful functionality than the phones of 5 years ago, but they do use more power. Their cpus have gotten faster in order to keep up with the javascript and advertising bloat of badly designed web sites. It would be better to keep the phones low powered so the web site operators have to maintain some self-control with their js and ads.
There's a difference between LP (or TDD or ...) working to help you improve your programming and get over hurdles versus a metronome. A metronome is a practice aid, when you perform you will generally not use it (though in an ensemble, someone or some group is often playing the part of the metronome in establishing the beat). With LP and other techniques they are not practice aids (or not just practice aids) but performance approaches. Now, you may not use them all the time, you may not find them generally applicable, but that doesn't mean that you should skip it if it gets the job done.

In this case, the more you use it the more natural it will become for you. That means you'll be able to use it with greater fluidity and move in and out of the mode of literate programming (versus more traditional programming styles). Maybe you think, "I know what to write in code, let me just blurt it out." You do, you get it done. Then you reorganize and put it into a literate style because you like that presentation better, or you've reached a point where you need to clarify your thoughts before moving on ("I'm not sure what to do next, or is this really what I wanted? Let's examine it.").
It's really not propaganda though. WFH's job pool is at least your entire state, if not your entire time zone, if not your entire country.

When it's in person, it's people within commuting distance. Simple as that.

That being said, people overestimate the will of management to replace current employees. WFH is really more of a problem in the hiring process, not the firing process.
Why? Isnt enough if you mix markdown with code? What are other tools for LP?
Having trouble fully believing that they wouldn't provide any information about the reasons or evidence, but they would tell you the length of the banishment. Like, if the phone rep was going to simply hang up on you, why would they hesitate just to squeeze in the fact that it's a lifetime ban.

I'm not saying this story didn't happen, but like most things, when you only hear one side of the story, certain events may not be told precisely as they actually happened.
I’m from Portugal. I’ve been living in Germany for 3 years. Last winter I was feeling very tired when walking, even dizzy. Doctor said I got very low levels of vitamin D. I never felt depressed, though.