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>What gives us the right to tell Egyptians that they are not the best stewards for their antiquities?

Well, for one, modern Egyptians have hardly anything in common with their ancient Egyptian-Pyramid-Building ancestors, even genetically they're fairly different since the Arab invasions...they profit off the tourism industry of these ruins, and the country actively has segments of the population that still considers them heresy and wants to destroy them. But the tourism brings in a LOT of money, so any valuable artifact is important. There's a large black market of stolen artifacts. Written Papyrus scrolls are illegally found and broken up into small pieces and sold as cheap kitch, making deciphering the original document impossible. Even to this day.

>And I know this is far fetched. Let's imagine the objects began vanishing and it became apparent an alien nation had taken them for safe keeping.

Their objects didn't "vanish". In your example, it would be like Aliens coming in and began digging through our piles of rubble that we long didn't give a shit about and found something valuable. Nothing was stolen. At worst, they came and conquered our lands and dominated us for 50 years, and still...they went digging through our rubble and found valuable shit that we didn't care about. We used the big rock piles of old buildings that the heretics built ages ago to build our homes, apparently there was more to it... even though in hindsight we probably damaged these precious relics in the process but let's not even get to that.

Suddenly, our old trash is valuable. Culturally, historically, we have little in common with this trash, but it's apparently valuable to someone else. They took it. Decades later we learn a lot more about these objects through these Aliens, and we understand why they are important to our history. We now want them back. And we are...acting entitled because we feel like they stole them from us? From our trash piles? It just sounds like sour grapes to me.

This is the situation we are in right now, at least with the example of Egypt.

Look up "Mummy Brown" to see just how much Egyptians gave a shit about Egyptian history and culture until the British came and gave it value. I don't discount that the educated metropolitan Egyptians legitimately care about these artifacts by the way, but there's still segments of the country that only see it as profiteering opportunities, and worse still, want to destroy them. I don't get the entitlement that they deserve these artifacts back. They didn't care about them until someone else found them and gave them value. All of a sudden it's now relevant again? After they told us why its important?
I think that's kind of the point — water supply is not a meaningful constraint on residential growth.

A drought will curtail inefficient agriculture, but that's about it. There's immense untapped recycling potential.
I'm responding to the butcher shop comment, not the article. The article has no reference to c sections or labor and delivery in general being butcher shoppy, unless you think scheduling a time for a c section or inductions makes it a butcher shop. I assumed OP was talking about c sections specifically, since it was in response to a comment about c sections, and c sections might use similar tools to a butcher shop(a knife).

The comment makes even less sense if they're talking about labor and delivery generally, which maybe they are. Maybe hospitals are a little too clinical for some, but that doesn't make them a butcher shop, and that's why you can bring your own doula. And maybe the clinicalness is part of the reason hospital births are far safer than home births.
I'm not sure how being pedantic changes the perception, or state, of the industry.
It _looks_ easier because it lets you do anything you want. C++ makes you feel like you're going faster, but then you spend two weeks debugging a weird memory issue.

I come from functional programming background, so I'm all for taking a little bit longer to make my code compile if that means it'll work. I'd rather deal with compilation errors than waking up at 2am to debug a stupid segfault.
> Where did I say that FP was obviously beneficial? You're reading too much into my question. I was questioning the GP's epistemology.

cmon fuckin guy
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Also on wikipedia, for those who don't want to open a PDF.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess's_paradox
Write Hole Phenomenon
Indeed why not. Yet another possibility: remove copyright restrictions on any work featuring alcohol or an alcohol brand.
Energy crisis: the beginning of the end for gas-fired power in Europe
I think the parent's point is that if you only just choose to think of the PR as the "unit of change" on your software product, rather than commits, all of this extra discipline you're imposing on yourself just goes away.

And what do you lose by making this decision?

The main branch, being the only place where the changes really matter, can still capture all of the necessary details of the changes (based on the PR) in the commit message when it's merged. This is the point where the curation is most useful, and where it's easiest to apply and apply standards, run tests, and actually enforce that they're followed.
Isn't the builtin openssl lib a basic shim for LibreSSL, mostly only there for backwards compatibility and with limited functionality. IIRC Apple want you to use their Network framework https://developer.apple.com/documentation/network.
Interfaces are not oop.

Interfaces are part of type theory. Generics so to say.

The unique thing about OOP is objects with mutating state that communicate with one another. This is really the only part of OOP that is uniquely OOP. All other things that are "OOP" like interfaces or object.method() notation are not intrinsic to oop.

Rust moves away from this paradigm I describe.
There is something to be said for loving what you do - which is to say, your job might be inglorious to some, but if it can be done well or badly, why not do it well? And then unfortunately the answer is, "Because I'll get fired for doing it well." Because yeah you work for people who hate everything they do and have contempt for everyone doing it.

But it is possible to love being an accountant, a janitor, and then some, if you're permitted to treat that job as something meaningful rather than hateful. We've been taught to be angry that we aren't living out some fantasy and hate everything around us.

Go ahead, call me gullible...
They’re only doing what their CEO does, from time to time, to make things happen.

Cry me a river. I’ve lived on a farm - sometime you just gotta do what you gotta do…
The impossible index: Combining sparse and dense vectors
The Rise of Rust
As you allude to, this analogy works if you're creating art purely because there is a demand for it and you only put in the effort required by the customer.

But that is generally not the case with illustrators, and certainly not in this case.

Also creating a new model is dependent on artists (at least right now!) while excavators are not dependent on hole diggers.
Lamontcg offered you the simple explanation of why interest rate management is used to manage inflation. They didn't muddy the waters by talking about market distortions and why it is best to minimalise these. They didn't go into an explanation of why interest rate hikes are themselves a marketplace intervention preventing the proper movement of debt pricing. They didn't even get lost in the labyrinth of exchange rates, and the impact all of this has upon a global trade currency.

Their explanation was about as simple as you can get.

> Yes, but prices are not demand, they are supply and demand. What if you shut down the parts of the economy that make food and gas?

Think this through and remember that food and fuel are must haves. There will always be demand, even at high prices. Just less of it. Which is what the point is.
The court has rendered its judgment. Now let it enforce it. The developers should ignore the judge and move forward with the project. Bring those bulldozers to the construction site. Put shovels in the ground. What's the judge going to do?

Too much progress in this country is being slowed down by judges legislating from the bench, on both sides. Everyone should just stop following judges orders, Democrats and Republicans. The only matters judges are qualified to judge are trials.
Lots of “reputable” devs write code that’s every bit as shitty as this. Somehow it’s ok when all you’re doing is spying on your users and shoving ads into their eyeballs.
Except that implementing ideas usually takes a non-zero amount of time.
This type of stuff is one reason I like vendoring all my deps in golang. You have to be very explicit about updating dependencies, which can be a big hassle, but you're required to do a git commit of all the changes, which gives you a good time to actually browse through the diffs. If you update dependencies incrementally, it's not even that big a job. Of course, this doesn't guarantee I won't miss any malicious code, but they'd have to go to much greater lengths to hide it since I'm actually browsing through all the code. I'm not sure the amount of code you'd have to read in python would be feasible, though. Definitely not for most nodejs projects, for example.

I think it's an interesting cultural phenomenon that different language communities have different levels of dependency fan-out in typical projects. There's no technical reason golang folks couldn't end up in this same situation, but for whatever reason they don't as much. And why is nodejs so much more dependency-happy than python? The languages themselves didn't cause that.
Yes, and the media is very guilty of pushing this narrative that households need to be held responsible for rationing water, when the Arizona Department of Water Resources openly shares this data:

"Irrigated agriculture is the largest user of water in Arizona, consuming about 74 percent of the available water supply."
https://new.azwater.gov/conservation/agriculture

"In Arizona, approximately 15 percent of the water supply is for commercial, industrial and institutional uses."
https://new.azwater.gov/conservation/commercial-industrial

So it's on us to do everything we can to optimize the last 10% of all the available water.

To be clear I think we all should do our part, but there are so many misleading news stories that fail to even acknowledge the reality of our water distribution.
My dad was a high school grad from the middle of nowhere and was literally raised in a barn (the girls lived in the house—it was too small for all the kids) with no running water (manual-pump well). His dad was a small-acreage farmer and slightly-successful rodeo rider. Birth year puts him in the early part of the Boomer generation.

He puttered around with not-quite-successful-but-not-quite-failure blue collar sole-proprietor small businesses for most of his 20s, then got a low-level railroad job, worked his way up and spent his last ~15 years in middle management there before being forced into early retirement. Recall, just a high school diploma. He couldn't handle middle-school math (by more recent standards) when I was learning it, and could barely use a computer. But he could run a train yard. Go figure.

My mom quit work when they married in her late 20s, and never worked again. She had a junior college degree and just made enough to get by before that. Lived in a trailer when she was single.

They retired very well and paid my way through college in the early '00s. We never wanted for money at all when I was a kid—which is how they were able to drop four figures on a first computer (good ol' Tandy) for me, just in case that led to something. A big week-and-change road trip every year, sometimes flights instead, plenty of time off and travel around the holidays. We lived in some pretty damn nice houses (at times—there's only so much available when the railroad moves you to some podunk town and you want to buy on short notice).

On one income. In a pretty mundane, middling-pay career.

Union pensions and 20th century union health plans were magical. As were housing costs.
„By maximizing green content and minimizing red content versus standard lighting LEDs, this LED color enables significant enhancements to luminaire cost and performance.“

I thought plants look green because thats what they reflect? Meaning that the other wavelengths are absorbed for photosynthesis.
Do they have the same DPI?
FP isn’t just limited to Haskell while your criticisms seem aimed only at that one language.

Immutability may not be intuitive, but neither are pointers, hash tables, structured loops, OOP, etc. In any case, maintaining immutable code is certainly more humane than trying to reason about 10th order side effects. Finally, the majority of functional languages are immutable by default with optional mutation when needed.

Your immutable argument is a red herring. It’s the wrong algorithm. Bubble sort is much more intuitive than heap or quick sort, but you certainly wouldn’t recommend it.

You are flatly wrong about performance. Ocaml and StandardML are just as fast as languages like Go or Java. This is incredible when you realize These FP languages are maintained by a handful of people with basically no budget and are keeping pace with languages that have tens out hundreds of millions of dollars pushed into them.

FP doesn’t mean no side effects (though it does tend to encourage limiting and separating them). Outside of Haskell and Miranda, basically all the other FP languages have side effects and even Haskell has an escape hatch available.
npm does something similar with their scoped packages. It fixes the problem for the top level packages, but you'd still have to contend with the transitive dependencies written by smaller organizations or individual contributors. In this case, you have to guarantee that no one involved in the dependency chain ever typos anything.
Probably not the people who would lose most by leaving the huge audience that Twitter offers.
I'll just ignore this take and let it become a problem later.
Empty, vacuous statement with no substance betraying complete ignorance of the issue being discussed.
> Make sure the system you want to trace is supported. The constraints that most commonly trip people up are: VMs are mostly not supported, Intel only (Skylake2 or later), Linux only.

I'd guess this rules out AWS as well as containers, too, right?
Ups, yes. I had it switched originally but then for some reason switched it again. Apparently commenting late at night is not a good idea.
Tumblr who? Never heard of them.

Seriously, do they think they can revive the platform 4 years after killing it?
Does it work without fail when you drive out of range of mobile reception?
Seeing that its open source... its not really trying to sell you anything, now is it? :)

also, the page says one thing.

Nerves is the open-source platform and infrastructure you need to build,
deploy, and securely manage your fleet of IoT devices at speed and scale.

There's two CTA on the site.

- 1) GetStarted
- 2) What is Nerves?

Both then proceed to tell you exactly what nerves is and funnel you to code examples, guides, and case studies.
The contestants are incredibly talented.

The average contestant on a fashion design competitive reality show is way less talented than the average fashion designer on Drag Race.

The same goes for dance and comedy and more.

RuPaul’s contestants are basically the top performing drag artists in the country. He has the market cornered!
The problem of going to Mars is more or less solved. Advancing on the rocket front is not going to bring us one iota closer to knowing if humans can mate in very low gravity.

Also, computers are useful even if we didn't think of the Internet. 1000 space ships on their way to Mars are not very useful if we can't actually live on Mars.
I don't think that's true. I started C++ using the 'cfront' system, the major push wasn't because C was somehow lacking, it was because it was fashionable to do object orient programming which is hard in C. Various horrible patterns were invented using function pointers so C programmers could feel like they were doing object oriented programming and all of them sucked.

When cfront turned up, the first versions basically automated that suckage. C++ did get better, but it was still horrible compared to CLOS or Smalltalk. This was largely due to weirdness in how the constructor/destructor ordering worked, the giant bogosity that is multiple inheritance and a few massive other undefined behaviours that every compiler did differently, but I think at this point it's fair to point out the language is bad and things like C# are so much better it's not even funny any more.
This is a good point. There is some work that just wont be done unless it can be automated, and in that case work with a higher rate of error is preferable to no work at all.
You're digging in really hard trying to talk someone out of following good development practices because you don't personally think his effort is worth it. Personally, I don't think the effort being put into this argument is worth it.
For pretty much everything required to build a forum, Rust can easily hide away 99% of the low-level things you don't need to deal with.

You're moving around strings and talking to a database, and possibly doing some templating. It's not rocket science, and provides the same story as Go with regards to build + deploy.
Give your community skin in the game. Fairmint empowers you to grant equity to anyone that adds value to your company and passively receive investment from your biggest fans. Launch in a few clicks and get back to building your business.
It's all because of cryptocurrencies and the ongoing advancement of technology that making money has become more feasible. For me, the structure of earning while squandering time is ideal, and I enjoy https://rollercoin.com/bitcoin-faucet. Since I can play the games I want to play whenever I want and participate in earning cryptocurrency at the same time, this is really significant.
Eh, I've had a number of cars. A lot, you might say, given that I buy a new one at least every 18 months. I've also owned a Tesla. My Camaro was built better ;-). Not joking, either. I got a pretty good Model 3, to be honest, but it still had weird inconsistent problems I don't routinely see on other mainstream makes.

In any case, by consumer hostile I mean: Tesla will turn features off on your car if it believes you are not entitled to them. Sometimes years later. They may cut your battery range significantly because it presents a fire risk, without ever 1) asking, 2) compensating you, or 2) fixing the battery. They may turn off the radar you bought with your car. They take liberties with the OTA updates that warn me away from wanting to buy another Tesla. Fortunately the competition in the EV space has gotten really good in the last couple years and is accelerating.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt_jubilee

The empire declares a jubilee. The financial world requires the good graces of the empire, and the empire continues to make the case that its continued dominance is necessary for world peace (which is arguably true). The calculus then for world finance cartel is to determine whether future profits under new global management post-empire will exceed future profits with empire minus a major write off of debt.

As to US's credibility, let us recall that credit worthiness is set in the West, and, should the empire continue to exist, those who object to US's AAAsuper+ rating by the financial world can go and trade with North Korea and stop buying US bonds.

The energy trap of Petrodollar is now effectively busted (see progressively more negative press on KSA in US over the years culminating in the recent spat), so empire will need something else to create demand for US dollars for payment. Possibly chips? Food?

Which is why there is a slow simmering world war brewing. Everyone knows where this is going. Something has to give. Either the empire and global order du jour, or, the restructuring demands of emerging powers in the developed world + a sore ex empire.

p.s. btw Polyani's The Great Transformation discusses the role of the financial system and world order and the ambiguous but symbiotic relationship between powers and banking, and world order, right at the introduction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Transformation_(book...
Perturbing the Bernoulli Shift Map in Binary Systems
Crunchy Bridge sounds like a new Intel chipset name.
Economists have predicted "soft landings" before every recession I can remember where I've followed what the Fed has been saying (I don't quite remember the Volker Fed, I was a little too preoccupied with Star Wars toys and Legos).
This is a good point. Where less than perfect AI is better than the alternative, it is useful.
Honestly all of that sounds like it maps pretty well to programming.

I sometimes run little 30 minute programming workshops where I teach people enough of the basics that they can walk away with something they’ve made. Give a novice 3 months to go through an bootcamp and they can become a half useful programmer.

But the “other half” of their knowledge will take a lifetime to learn. In just the last 2 weeks my job has involved: crypto algorithms, security threat modelling, distributed systems design, network protocols, binary serialisation, Async vs sync design choices, algorithmic optimization and CRDTs.

It’s easy enough to be a “good enough” programmer with a few months of study. But it takes a lifetime of work if you want to be an all terrain developer.
> their webhook worker(s) being swamped

That's a capacity problem caused by a logic bug. Nothing stack specific. If you throw more work at a system than it is designed to handle, you'll hit a bottleneck.

> Your snark doesn't change reality

What reality? You are just barking your uneducated opinion. No one who ever worked on a service anywhere close to the scale of GitHub (regardless of the stack) would make such statements.
Kind of funny because one of the benefits of tabs vs spaces that people laugh off is that it saves space.

I think it's probably correct to laugh this off though. Why would you care about the non-minified/gzipped size this much?
Fancy IDEs perform code analysis and thus if you feed them something malicious I guess it’s feasible to run a shell command or similar. By definition, IDEs have to do that to compile code, run linters etc.
Strange, I have this feature in mine.
> I actually know how these things work

At least you think you do...
Up to 32, for those reading who (like me) didn’t know about this limitation.

https://support.yubico.com/hc/en-us/articles/4404456942738-F...
Miami at a trendy hotel known for celebs.
Sounds like a DAG based task orchestrator could be a good fit. Where tasks state their dependencies and are allowed to run only when they have all completed.
Is this a new type of SEO spam? Like you write a comment that gets upvoted, then change it at the last minute?
Jill Watson was developed at GaTech to support their OMSCS program, though I haven't heard any updates in a while.

https://pe.gatech.edu/blog/meet-jill-watson-georgia-techs-fi...

IIRC from my EdTech course, work is being done in this area but nothing to my knowledge at the "personalized instructor" level you're asking about here, with being able to explain concepts in simple terms and answer complex questions, but my experience predates GPT3 and the like.
The difference is a farm needs that sort of dedication to function properly. Nature does not have a massive ego, and nothing started and finished this week at Twitter will make a significant or long term difference in its bottom line.