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Calling SpaceX SpaceRyanair seems unexpectedly accurate. O'Leary and Musk have a lot in common.

NASA's shuttle would have solved reusability in the 70s/80s, but a combination of DoD interference and severe funding cuts effectively crippled the project. This was politically fatal because it killed NASA's reputation as an effective manager of innovation. Which is why every project from the 90s onwards has been supported by slightly overwrought rapturous PR - to try to restore that reputation, because funding relies on it.

SpaceX has copied this.

So yes - SpaceX is incremental. A non-incremental company would be developing blue sky alternatives to chemical engines and/or looking for new propulsion physics. I can't see that happening without a government-run academic R&D program.
I understand your point, but really floats are not reals and we should test for equality of a float+precision.
cut the snarky tone. if you disagree, you disagree. say that, don’t be unpleasant
I also stopped using dating apps. The statistics are just sh*t. I don't want to chat to so many people I have nothing in common with and I hate the interchangeability. I want connection, not bad feelings. I'll just force myself to go out more, to events and places where people like me hang out at. And voila, I just met a girl at a climbing gym 2 weeks ago.
It does not, in fact. But it is hard to keep your drill bit enough harder than the rock to cut it.
"Eliminates" in the title seems to contradict the content of the article; the fungus converts organic mercury compounds into less-toxic inorganic compounds.

I see this quite often. Recently I saw a claim that tiger worms can eliminate heavy metals from soil. How do they do that? Do they jump up, and spit the heavy metals onto the garden path? Turns out when you read the paper that the worms just concentrate the heavy metals; to eliminate them, you also have to sift the soil to remove the dead worms.
Likewise, HRanDoMCApitals gives me overwhelmed-bordem flashbacks to my early teens making windows GUI apps.

help(int &&WhYIsThisLang **so, const auto *LaYereED, &&(f(auto h(int *)) []withBS) {

auto otherLang = stopTryingToRepairC++ByMakingProgrammersAddMoreSymbolsToFixIt()

return move(move(move(boost::boost::HPatienceInstance::Empty)))))));;
}
Notably, I don’t think an app helping manage a relationship would gain traction. Which would seem to be the extension of your pointing out they’re dating apps.
> The definition of a hard drug has nothing to do with whether it is legal or not.

I agree. But there is also a legal definition and we are taking about the law. You can bitch and moan about whether the law is just or not but that’s a different topic.

Which is why you’re missing the point and I wasn’t.

You can argue to you’re blue in the face about what the law should be, but that doesn’t make the law so.
Dating sucks for unappealing men, and dating apps have made it suck for them more efficiently. That’s the primary male grievance against them, and it’s everything to do with the aggrieved, and nothing to do with the apps.
Very questionable decision by Musk to send such an e-mail, which can also be viewed as an insult, in addition to an ultimatum. If a person has their act together, easily can see them taking the 3 months pay and finding another company.
Being an SNL bit, this clearly is an exaggeration… but I feel it’s referring to the same principle: https://youtu.be/PxuUkYiaUc8
> Anyone who saw the beginning of Tinder realised it wasn't efficient.

Tinderisation of okcupid was such a shame.
I loved the forge of god and anvil of the stars. He wrote life into his books, impossible decisions, moral conundrums and still, one day feasible technology, he dreamed ever onwards.

May the great simulation resurrect him other heat death.
Well obviously a lot of guys in such an app(Tinder as well) will press match every time, hoping than some woman will press it as well.

Online dating is problematic in many ways and very hard for men especially. I think women see men who use those apps as of lesser value anyway.

Therefore I think the best advice for men is to understand how women signal interest in real life. Some people pick it up intuitively but many people today have to learn it. Undercover Sex Signals by Leil Lowndes is a good book to start.
Don't use online dating!
Probably something specific about applying it to concert tickets and/or over the internet. In the US, patents are good for 20 years, so a patent expiring in 2020 would have been issued during the dot-com bubble.

Also, although the patent office does review the applications, they aren't perfect: it isn't uncommon for patents to be invalidated if they are challenged or there's a lawsuit.
anyone who use illegal drugs regularly
Codified dating rules at companies are for people attractive enough that being asked out by them is flattering.

Being asked out by unattractive people is creepy harassment in what is supposed to be a safe space, even if they only ask once and politely accept rejection.

An unattractive man asking out a woman from work is taking a 10x or 100x career risk compared to a very attractive man asking out a woman from work.
TIL so replace in my list Wire with Briar
> is the core of Robert Matthew Van Winkle's SCALE loop. SCALE is an acronym for Stop, Collaborate, and Listen

Makes sense. How else you gonna come back with a brand new invention?
Amd64 and VA_arg
As part of my data consulting, I struggled with identity resolution and started working on scalable no code identity resolution - https://github.com/zinggAI/zingg/ . It has pushed my limits as a software engineer and product builder, and I had to do a lot of learning to build it. Its cool to see people use Zingg in their workflows and save months of working on custom solutions. Big highlight has been North Carolina Open Campaign Data https://crossroads-cx.medium.com/building-open-access-to-nc-...
> Why would or should men be included in something they are excluded from by nature, by biology, and by logic? Especially when it's regarding medical information

I think you made the classic mistake of assuming that terms such as “birthing parent” are a way of including trans women. They aren’t. They’re for the benefit of trans men and non-binary individuals who are able to give birth. This isn’t about including people incapable of giving birth. It’s about including people who ARE.
Same, search results are actually pretty good around 60-70% of the time. Specially around programming.
Even my grandma with dementia knows how to burn CDs. The software to burn a disk image to an SD card is even easier to use.
Cool Name. But pretty hard in terms of SEO. Search for "rust on nails" on Google.
One of the companies I worked for did exactly that to safely run customers' JS code, while also limiting / extending the API surface available.

The performance was quite adequate.
What’s the goal of a date if you can’t stomach chatting for a few days? Is this a hookup thing?
Regain control. Guilt free productivity
It would rather seem to me that despite the challenges, that it should be easier to dig a hole than to do 'Nuclear Fusion' in which case we ought to consider maybe doing more substantial research?

Imagine if we solved this problem and over the scope of 40 years the whole world just went geo and dumped Oil, Solar, Nuclear?
nah youre wrong bro. There are structural issues that would would make dating apps work better for most men. You have to remember that there is a 80-20 distribution for women on how many men they find visually attractive. 20% of menive are very attractive to women, while 80% are not at all.

I've seen the difference at work. And for those 80% the changes OP is suggesting would be good.
I recently had emergency surgery for an obstructed small intestine and the surgeon was pretty much in charge of my care. I can't tell you how many times I heard "we have to talk to the surgeon before we do xxx" Members of his team saw me every morning and he came around every afternoon. This was at the West Palm Beach Medical Center in SE Florida.
https://archive.ph/nEghe
If you self host, only use your instance yourself and don't use tor routing, how does it minimize tracking?

A single ip is still exposed, so they can just build profile out of that. That's why public searx instances are great, since its a single ip for multiple people.
Ah, right. And apparently this was a prime motivation to for the first Lispy closures implementation, which was called... Scheme. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Scheme:_An_Interpreter_for_Ex...

"we have implemented an interpreter for a LISP-like language, SCHEME, based on the lambda calculus [Church]"
Another library I found recently, which has a different take (simpler API) for using QuickJS compiled to WASM:

https://github.com/taowen/define-function
This statistic got out a few times in blog posts, but of course dating apps don't want to talk about it.
PHP's arrays are a bit like this. You can treat them either like an (ordered) hashmap or like a growable array. The underlying representation will adapt depending on whether the current state can be represented as an array.

And I hate it! I'm always unsure about an array's contents. I write functions that expect to operate on linear arrays and might misbehave if given a map, or vice versa. It's rare for the conflation to be helpful. Arrays and maps have different meanings and are used in different ways.

Maybe a very mild version of this would be helpful, like automatically converting an array to an array-backed deque—though even that case seems better handled by a linter making the suggestion, so the programmer can make an informed decision.

Going all the way would be terrible. Types are helpful. Even in a dynamically typed language they give you a vocabulary.
Very good article.

Much of OOP code suffers from classitis - too many classes doing very few things, so now you need to keep in your head hundreeds of them for even simple things. Similar things happening in infrastructure with microservices - problem on dev side is moved to infrastructure and it has its own new and funky problems nobody understands.

After 20+ years in IT, I find that simple things, with a little bit of ellegance here and there, are the best regarding maintenance and velocity.

Also, no specialized tools, I prefer OTB scripting over enormous IDEs any time, as any computer in the wild can be my IDE then. People usually complain to me that they don't want to do it beause of the performance, but honestly, one needs performance very rarely compared to the volume of written and quickly needed code.
It is not possible. It is not even a millionth of the way to possible.

It is, instead, cheap concern trolling. Worry instead about money diverted, from building out wind and solar that actually address looming climate disaster, to chase wills-o-th'-wisp.
the Semantic web was a pretty interesting set of ideas that really intrigued me, to which extent has the industry adopted such concepts?
I fear that if there is hundreds of thousands of dollars in demand pressure on getting some rich guys in, the chain will break somewhere. Maybe they'll bribe the entrance staff, or someone sells access to a VIP guest list, but it's bound to happen eventually.
If you're addressing an individual person rather than talking about humans in general, then yes, sure, go with what that person prefers.
I used to get dates from Tinder but recently I feel like the platform has become - less appealing to women (reducing the number of women in it) and increasingly user hostile.

Hinge is a much better platform, since you can filter out for ie religion. The idea of matching with conservative Christians (or even wasting time looking at them) on tinder is absurd to me - I'm bisexual lol. Those girls do not want to meet me.
How do things that aren't NixOS packages interact with this? E.g. if I want a Python package that I can install with pip, or acquire in some other way, that isn't in NixOS's packages.
Surveillance Too Cheap to Meter
Before internet, it was super normal to know someone in real life fairly long before asking that person out. By knowing I mean you would know a lot about their personality, reactions, interests or opinions.
OK and how can I have 25 points for 1 practice instead of 5 now without spending 5 times more time? This UI change has nothing with improving experience for users but forcing them to pay up.

I'm done with Duolingo (just finished 1000 days streak yesterday or day before), last night installed bunch of apps to compare, they use different approach, but Drops and Memrise seem to stand out among those I tested.

Lingodeer is coded by idiots, it will launch, I can also quickly do something before they realize I don't have Google Apps and then it will show prompt and force exit the app, although it has nothing to do with functionality, since clearly app works fine before they detect no gapps, hate apps like that, if you are such asshole then at least don't allow launching app at all to not make it so obvious you wanna discriminate without real reason.
I did some hobby work with a commoncrawl dataset. A year or so later I got contacted by a startup to see if I could do something similar for them. They basically wanted to collect phone numbers and email addresses of businesses from the couple of TB of data. I gave them some disclaimer like: you can use this for good and bad things, I trust it's good and also it is your responsibility to comply with privacy regulations. They ran my code in their own AWS account and probably collected millions of addresses. I think the startup didn't make it. No idea what they did with it but I still feel a bit bad.
I for one just don't like stuff I have the feeling I can't control. With those intelligent loudspeaker and microphone devices I have always the feeling I need to cut the power supply to switch it really of.
Interesting and ambitious article that (it seems) ultimately aims to place the current deluge of different note-taking apps into its total historical, social and technological perspective.

It seems we are at the cusp of something in the "Tools for Thought" domain - the question is what comes next because something big is likely about to happen. The article doesn't answer that AFAICS, but it does lay some solid groundwork IMO.
Most businesses only look at growth, and for this they only require short to medium term satisfaction of their users. Long term satisfaction, such as marriage, is mostly irrelevant.
My shelves are filled with three things... Some fantasy, a bunch of textbooks and a whole heap of 20th century Science Fiction. Bear is featured prominently and will continue to live on in page and thought for a long time to come.
Here's a well-argued critical analysis of this analogy to adoption: https://hollylawford-smith.org/the-adoption-analogy-revisite...

In summary:

"There are several crucial differences between biological and adoptive parents, on the one hand, and transwomen and women, on the other hand. These include:

- that both biological and adoptive parents actually parent, whereas it’s not at all clear what transwomen and women have in common that is supposed to play this same role;

- that there is no historical power relationship between biological and adoptive parents, whereas there is between male and female people;

- that calling adoptive parents parents doesn’t undermine our understanding of what it is to be a parent because what is core to parenting — raising children — is done by both, whereas what is core to being a woman is being female, and that is not done by both;

- there is no established history of adoptive parental violence against biological parents, whereas there is an established history of male violence against women;

- that adoptive parents do have ‘similar enough concerns and interests’ to biological parents, but transwomen do not have these to women (especially considering the heterogeneity among transwomen);

- that there is no ‘oppressive ideological agenda of parenthood’ but there is of being a woman (namely being feminine); and finally,

- that there are many ways to be a bad parent, which we can probably agree on, but there are no ways to be a bad woman."
This is what the last paragraph was intended to convey. The tool should be aimed at setting up any environment, not just development.
Maybe if you don't leave a paper trail. If you use a written medium to communicate failure, there is a good chance that will be exposed during discovery in a lawsuit, and now the plaintiffs can show that not only was there a problem, but that employees were aware of the problem and did not fix it.

The news article practically writes itself. "Despite repeated claims that all ice had been cleared, internal documents show multiple employees were aware that only 99% had been cleared. These emails show considerable concern about the remaining 1% of ice, but no further action was ever taken by the company to rectify the dangerous situation."
Exactly. Sounds more like the problems of a certain bubble.
A woman is someone who sees in herself at least one attribute, which she regards as a sufficient condition for her own membership in that category. What that attribute is can vary from woman to woman.

The same definition applies mutatis mutandis to men.

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Now what is the concession that's being made?
You've highlighted the problem - which is that management culture selects for ruthlessness and sociopathy, not for creative and organisational talent.

Occasionally you get someone with real creativity, but mostly you just get assholes. And they are ultimately responsible for the mediocrity of most organisations. They make noisy but poor decisions for personal reasons, and resist any change that inconveniences their personal ambitions and self-image.

I've been reading a history of Commodore, and at one point Jack Tramiel effectively destroys the brand by refusing to do a deal with a national computer distributor. He threw away the chance to compete with Apple and IBM because he refused to go into a partnership that threatened his aggressive one-up narcissism.

It's a persistent pattern. The story of Tramiel's companies is one of perma-drama, with constant swings between boom and bust. He was good at growing the pie up to a point, but not good at sharing to make the pie even bigger.
They might find they have increased problems with gender dysphoria as their body changes during pregnancy. It might cause a number of problems that should be considered/monitored/treated by their doctors.
Yeah, that's exactly what people do already.

And secondly it doesn't take an extremely high temperature to reduce steel's strength. Many steels starts losing strength at 200°C, cast iron at 400°C. Source: https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/metal-temperature-strengt...

This doesn't mean that the drill is soft but at extreme depth extreme hardness is required.
I find this hard to relate to as a gay man, since us gay men happily exchange information about our penises (or other equipment) before meeting up. I think if it's important to you that your prospective partner has a penis or vagina, then it ought to be be possible to clarify this directly rather than making assumptions based on gender identity. If you find that it's not possible to do so in the current dating climate then, well, I'm sorry. But I don't think trans people are to blame for whatever is creating that barrier to honest communication. My guess is that there are probably a lot of other questions that you would like to be able to ask your Tinder matches but can't because of various societal hangups and tabus.

From the gay side of things, I've never had the experience of finding out that someone was trans only at the point where they took their clothes off. I find it difficult to believe that this is a common enough occurrence that it's actually causing people significant problems in their dating lives. If you don't want to ask, then assuming that women have vaginas is a pretty accurate heuristic. In a small number of cases it may not work out. Of course, dates don't work out for all kinds of reasons; unanticipated penises are likely to be the least of them.
Everywhere? Or perhaps this more of a European or even Swedish phenomenon? Here HR have a lot of sway in recruitment processes, both external and international. I guess it stems from their role as the interpreters of various personality tests and the like.
But that is not an uncommon view, for example influential critics like Penn Warren and Cleanth Brooks, etc had an approach which accorded primacy to the text above any external context like authour identity or biography.
Oh, that's interesting. That makes the whole thing a LOT more like an 'actual computer'. Way more interesting to my mind if you include 'and it can run as a replacement OS on this very commonly available hardware, which you're used to seeing with a whole UNIX inside'.

That means anything TIC-80 can do, can also incorporate teeny hardware to host it.
Heh good one. I meant professional help as in seeing a medically and professionally trained psychiatrist not a religion. Just based on his other posts I'm not sure where the others think he's 15 years old? He reads like someone who english isn't his first language and write in a way that makes him think that he's smarter than he actually is. And looking at his profile he's from Turkey so not that unsurprising. He doesn't sound like a 15 year old either people this age sound nothing like this. Anyways this is all I found about him.

"So, I come from an Islamic family, a very faithful one i might add. And, eversince i was a kid i’ve always wondered about existence. I remember looking around me, asking myself questions like “Why are we here?”, “Where IS God?”, “Who IS God?”, “What if everything that i’ve learnt about EVERYTHING is wrong?”, etc…"

Yeah he sounds closer to what someone who is unfamiliar and doesn't really know English sounds like. I know this because I grew up in an immigrant community and well it's very easy to tell when someone doesn't actually know English but knows words. Or knows an incorrect version of it.

Edit: Ah I see it's in the intro paragraph, yeah no. This definitely was not written by a 15 year old. I've spent a lot of time around children who are "Geeks" or very talented children at a young age, they don't act like this, nor do they reach this stage naturally from being around many of them of even really understanding what a CTF even is or anything to do with security, everything here seems like a man in his 30s pretending to be a child. Heck the kid probably exists but it's most likely not him. Looking through his profile and knowing similar ones around the world, it's astroturfed and I wonder why.

Well I guess the footer is what stand out here.

"A blog to help you know WHAT TO THINK when you are bored"

I'm guessing the What to think portion is in the sense of creating a false sense of what children in the region are capable of even though it's far from the truth and even in America this isn't really a thing either. Weird and manipulative I guess.
Has anyone ever had success on an app like Hinge, then deleted it only to see a large drop in your success rate when nothing else changed about your profile?

If so, it could be due to things like this:

https://tech.okcupid.com/evaluating-perceptual-image-hashes-...

Match Group owns OkCupid, Hinge, Tinder and so on.. so wouldn’t be surprising if they all used the same or similar algorithms for spam prevention and noob boost abuse.

They probably also collect other data like your phone number, deviceID, etc.

This is bad because if you ever delete your profile and remake it then your internal ranking could plummet due to these aggressive spam filters.
Likewise, fission: costs too much to bother.

Fusion already powers the planet. We just need to build out the solar panels and wind turbines to collect as much of it as we care to find uses for.
Do you know someone unattractive who had this happen to them? I’m wondering how prevalent the situation you’re describing is.
The World Cup ball has the aerodynamics of a champion
Well, that is sad - one of my favourite SF authors. RIP.