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>> The way I see it, the battleship is sort of the ultimate embodiment of the Western military mind.

Maybe, just maybe, the author should have studied a littel bit of one of thr most powerful navies of the early 20th century, the Imperial Japanese one. Because they liked their battleships a lot, despite prioneering modern naval aviation and despite never using their battleships in direct combat.
>Got any good recipe for flatbread

I don't remember where I got this, but I have it memorized.

6 C bread flour
4 tsp rapid rise yeast (breadmaker yeast)
2 tsp salt
2 tsp sugar
2 Tbsp olive oil

Mix 5 C flour, yeast, salt, sugar and oil in stand mixer or by hand. Add the last cup of flour (or possibly more, depends on temp and humidity, etc) until the dough is no longer sticky.

Dump out dough, knead by hand a bit until it's soft and smooth. Add flour as needed. Make a ball, put in greased bowl, spray top with cooking spray, cover with towel and let rise until doubled, about an hour.

Dump out risen dough, punch down and knead a bit more, then divide into 16 pieces (8 if you're doing pizza crust sizes). Make balls from the pieces, cover with towel, and let rise a second time, about 30 mins.

Flatten out balls into rounds, can use a rolling pin but can also do by hand. Gently stretch to reach desired size. Cook the bread on a cast iron griddle or pan set to medium to medium high heat, about 1-2 mins per side.

Kids love every step of this process. You're supposed to be able to freeze the flatbread if you want, but I never have because it's gone in a couple of days, as I have a big family. I also use 3 Tbsp of olive oil instead of 2 for the extra fat calories. Most of the sugar is used up by the yeast, this is not at all sweet. You can certainly add herbs or whatever, but we use these for gyros, mini pizzas, dipping in hummus or tzatziki, pita mozz, that sort of thing.

It's dead easy, and as I said, if you do it with kids it's great fun.
Because "safety regulations are written in blood". Disaster happens, reactive preventative measures help keep the disaster from reoccurring in that specific manner.

...in fields governed by science and stricture, anyway, like nuclear power or aviation.
Maybe anecdotal but I've always found local application via spray to work much better.

I think oral Sudafed (pseudoephedrine hydrochloride) is still valid though?
Reporting bugs is more then leaving 1 short sentence on random place.
Until you see them buying massive mansions and hiding their money away and even that is a lie too. If you could show me one truly charitable thing they've actually done, rather than ego reinforcing projections, I'm listening.

Sure, they're justifying their means, but none of it has any actual good intentions.
There's a need for legislation here IMO.

Trademarks identify the origin of goods that a business wishes a consumer to believe. We need to expand that law to also indicate _actual_ origin.

For example, this DVD player came from this manufacturer and then got badged as Alpha Inc, but this other DVD had the same technical origin (despite the different case) and got badged as Beta Inc ... consumers should get that information. Capitalism relies on such things so that the best products can be chosen.

Instead, we get things like companies selling the same product code from different factories with wildly different quality. Or, far more egregious companies sending a product to reviewers and early adopters, then making a worse product and passing it off to consumers as the same.

There's much more to do (I should be able to see exactly what a product had done to acquire it's 'country of origin' - another area companies deceive consumers), but this would be a start.
This would be a great Mozilla project if Mozilla is looking to diversify. Anything that will facilitate the enhancement of browser features on every browser should be a Mozilla project.

But there is a data collecting AI advantage that could be added to this. Older gen people are trained to store bookmarks of everything interesting they find in the web. My mom has a hundred of links to YouTube videos and food recipes. Most I don’t think she will ever willingly see again. And the problem lies there is no AI that can do sorting, categorizing, and presenting the bookmarks she gathers.
You're glossing over the fact that Fukushima happened because the power company never should have been allowed to construct or operate a plant in such a location.

When they were allowed to build the plant, emergency systems were not protected from tsunami damage/flooding. If the infrastructure around emergency cooling had been protected, then none of this would have happened.

When the tsunami happened, both the power company and government appeared to have no emergency action plans or preparedness for the obvious scenario of the emergency cooling system failing.

When they were caught with no plans and an unfolding catastrophe, instead of being open and seeking assistance from anyone they could, they clammed up and hid as much as possible.

It was a disaster predicated on incompetence and arrogance at every step by every organization involved, up to and including the most senior Japanese government officials who sat by and let the TEPCO bungle everything.

So yes, given such a systemic failure - much of it enabled by too-cozy relationships, incompetence, and (likely) corruption - I think it's quite wise to say "well, we're not qualified to do more of this."

Solar and wind don't have anywhere near the operating expenses, supply chain requirements, or dangers nuclear power has. They're highly distributed. And nuclear power is increasingly unreliable due to (cough cough) extreme weather events from climate change, though usually this is more inane stuff like cooling water sources drying up, or becoming too hot, or clogging up from invasive species that are able to survive where they weren't before.
Japan has quite different geology to western europe or USA off their coast where the wind resources are. The only option is floating and that's still very much under development.

Plus offshore wind isn't that cheap. It's still on the order of $5000/kW of net generation for shallow water, and Japan hasn't had a lot of success breaking $8000/kW as yet. Plus their utility solar market is also a bit borked.

There are countless reasons not to build a new nuclear plant, but the costs and risks of using old ones are less than not using them in this case. Especially given that they're also pulling the renewable encouraging levers pretty hard without much success.
There was a technology connection video about that - dishwashers are still good, the tabs are the problem. Use powder and make sure some is available in the first cycle (by putting it outside the container if necessary) and performance will come back.
It's the same after any accident. presumably lessons have been learned, procedures improved and people more vigilant.
The fluorides industry really should take responsibility for this.
They will be less likely to compromise on safety to cut costs?
Clearly someone is paying for additional investments into security. GitHub, that is.
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None of these are in the oceans i believe. Instead they're using a sea that's between UK and mainland europe

It shouldn't be a deal breaker, but doing the same on oceanic water will have it's own challenges with significantly higher wind variance and more flotsam dangers
For those who want to see a teardown, AvE has one on his channel here; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qKp-0h9P18
Bezos may not be able to sell his shares in significant amounts, but he can sure use them for collateral. This is a very basic strategy for the super rich...
Nuclear fission has uniquely long-term risks for mistakes or natural disasters. That doesn’t mean we don’t need to use it but there’s a lot of extra precautions needed around how fuel is refined, transported, used, and disposed of which nothing else has.
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Would that not bring us back to a centralized service that can decide a person is toxic and is globally banned?
I think the woeful Covid response shows how powerful culture is in shaping human behavior.

This is simultaneously terrifying and a source of optimism.
Not sure, but Mountain Lion has to be a downgrade from those other cats, right?
Ok but I'd still rather have a building built with a bunch of useless copper pipes than have the plumbers union annihilated and then have plumbing get gutted as a good paying job and life... and then have plumbing systems everywhere made by people who hate their job and get paid shit?

That sounds like a recipe for a literal shitstorm.
No one has yet figured out how to scale it up.
It's not a shortage of underpayable workers. The workers are still there. The problem is that it's illegal to hire them at all because of minimum wage. They've been priced out of the market and low margin employers can't afford them. Many at the bottom are unable to do anything except beg for help from others if they're not employable at wages that employers are willing to pay.
Everything about Palantir suggests they would be happy to become a software equivalent of Raytheon, exclusively servicing state/military customers with contracts that never expire.
Juicero you mean? That was a great success... /s
It doesn’t have too many upvotes, probably a time-ranking issue. Sorry if it annoyed you, but using profiles implies that all my browsers support them and they are easy to use/maintain. Changing browsers would break other workflows and patterns, which is not worth it for me.
The valuations will be cheap, but they will have gained extremely valuable insights that will hopefully lead to new and better designs? Personally, I think there is more likely to be a period of culls and bankruptcies.
So, you haven't read the rules, and therefore think you can ignore them. If you're lucky, your ISP will continue not bothering to enforce their rules. Personally, I don't like relying on luck.

Again, just because you've been getting away with it doesn't mean the risk of having your account suspended isn't real or worth considering.
>cars are over controlled by computer systems making them brittle and expensive to repair

I've heard this many times while at auto body shops. It seems that it's not the electronic parts cost that is expensive but you have to dissemble much of the car to replace the parts.
I was recently discussing something that involved knowing whether a string consisted of only a single repeated character. Having spent many years in the trenches with Perl, my first thought was /^(.)\1*$|^$/, which is the kind of thing people dismiss as "line noise" because they haven't spent a few minutes learning a language that can easily express what you want. We have this trend now from people who like languages like Go where answering the question "does this string consist of a single repeated character" begins with "I would now like to reserve space for a 64-bit integer which I shall henceforth refer to as 'i'...", and that's considered a virtue.
I keep thinking how modern philosophers of science, who talked about how science is done, would have a field day outlining recent social changes in sciences, with various shifting incentives, pressures from various media, strings attached to sources of financing, and competing interests.
Large coal interests have funded a large, decades long FUD campaign against nuclear via so called "environmental" groups.
Why any central server? This is the thing that seems silly here, especially in a world where e.g. Syncthing exists (which is actually why I ended up looking, for a sec I thought this was a thing that worked via Syncthing)

(I suppose it creates the possible need for people to have their own server/homebox to be running all the time, to which I say, uh, yeah)
Ideally yes. But I work with other engineers who are much less experienced than I am. The other experienced engineers work on different projects.
Even in an environment where somebody is in charge of safety, it's still everyone's responsibility to prevent a safety issue. Anyone can yell stop at anytime. Even better is when the person officially in charge tells everyone those prior two sentences during the safety training/briefing. The worst that can happen in a false callout is a few jokes are made and you might owe a round of beer.
YC was supposed to be small in scale, $100k tops if I remember. That would buy a tiny amount of runway these days, but certainly not Airbnb/Uber levels of subsidized prices that lead to the easy sales.
Have you ever intervened over safety when you weren't in charge?

Many times. Just because there is a biological adult in the room does not mean there is a responsible adult in the room. If something bad is happening anyone may intervene. People will push back or insinuate you did something wrong because they are embarrassed. Ignore all of that and focus on ensuring a process is put in place to mitigate future mishaps.

One should try to be tactful and pull the leader aside unless there is imminent danger. I would be more concerned if our society reaches a point where nobody is willing to step in.
Are you ignoring the billion and a half people that have been lifted out of poverty since the 50s or 60s? We can definitely cooperate to benefit the masses of humankind and we do.
I brought a pickup truck from CA to the northeast and promptly sold it for $2000 more than I bought it for 4 years prior. Inventory issues were part of it but indeed the rust free frame was highly desirable.
Strange, tentacled microbe may resemble ancestor of complex life
Thank you! Yeah, at some point it would be nice to do a little library of sound effects, and there we should definitely have some filters like that.

To be clear, we're not doing anything in the browser (yet). Futhark literate takes a .fut file and generates a markdown file, optionally with some image, video or sound files. So (unlike your language) this is all "offline".

glicol looks cool, thanks for the link!
The mozzarella cheese I use is from Sam's Club. I just checked, and what I use is

"Maker's Mark Part Skim Shredded Mozzarella Cheese (5 lbs.)

$14.67 $2.93/lb"

Soooo, a lot less than $10/pound!

What if anything that Maker's Mark cheese has to do with anything from/in Italy, I don't know!

To have the cheese keep without mold, I keep it frozen. When I'm making a pizza and put on the mozzarella, it is still frozen. Right, when the heat for the cooking starts, still frozen! Works fine! The Teflon sheet lets the top of the pizza and the cheese get hot before burning the bottom of the crust.

In the US, pizza, in all its versions, is a big industry, a significant part of the diet of 300+ million people. BIG!

So, we're not talking a grandmother in a rustic kitchen in the hills of a small, rural town in Italy!!!

I omitted but might include: For applying the heat, I put the cast iron frying pan, covered, on one of the large burners of my 4 burner US electric stove. The burners are, as I recall, from GE or some such -- some big US company anyway. And I've seen them from the same source on other electric stoves. Soooo, if you have an electric stove, there's a good chance you have the same burner elements.

Then for the burner there is a dial. Viewing the dial as a clock face, 12 o'clock is OFF. 1 o'clock is the highest power. 6 o'clock is medium power. For cooking pizza, I use about 8 o'clock and 22 minutes. Then the toppings are hot. The cheese is melted. The crust is cooked with the edges puffy. And the bottom of the crust is browned but not burned. 23 minutes can be too long, burn the bottom crust and have the melted cheese running over the sides of the crust. 20 minutes, maybe the cheese is not yet melted. On your stove, likely you should watch carefully until you have the time and temperature about right!
Wow, indeed, that actually exists just like that…
The "need to win" rhetoric... its an odd way of looking at it. Ukraine territory is invaded. What do you expect them to do.. just surrender? Of course they need to win. It's their home, their land, there is no reason whatsoever why it should become Russian territory.
I don't get this argument at all. Either you ask them and trust the answer to be somewhat useful, or you just don't ask Tesla to tell the police/court what the state was 1-10-30 seconds before the crash?

I might be small-minded, but why would police/courts/insurance companies(?) continue to ask Tesla "did the car or the driver steer?" if it is "obvious" to everyone that when they say "the driver" that it was disconnected a second before the crash?

I'm not saying the Tesla does or does not lie through their teeth about it, just that it seems like the post above and similar ones are framed as if JoeRandomInternetPerson can easily recognize this lie but people who seemingly spend their whole days figuring out who is to blame in traffic accidents haven't cracked this mystery yet?
When I try 'extract audio I get an error. 00478input/myFile.mp4: No such file or directory
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_of_consciousness
I've learned that "a month in the lab saves an hour in the library" usually can be distilled to "A shallow understanding produces complex solutions. A deeper understanding is usually required to create simple solutions."

While the original example of not understanding JOIN might just be a lack of of general knowledge, the later steps are great examples of this, especially if someone else comes along and is told to fix the error.

Making something execute slow code in parallel is pretty easy to do generically. It doesn't require understanding much about the slow code. It's fairly low risk, you probably won't have to tweak tests, there won't be additional side effects. The major risks will be around error handling and it's easy to turn a blind eye to partial success/failure and leave that as a problem for a future team. You can confidently build the parallel for loop, call the task done and move on.

Striving for a deeper understanding requires a lot more effort and a lot more risk. Re-writing the slow code is a lot more risk. All side effects must be accounted for. Tests might have to be re-written. The new implementation might be slower. The new index might confuse the query planner and make unrelated queries slower somehow. It's not just a matter of investing time, it's investing energy/focus and taking on risk. But the result will have comparatively fewer failure modes, it'll be cheaper to operate and less likely to have security implications.

I've been in both spots and while I wish I could say we always went with the deeper understanding that wouldn't be an honest statement. But the framing has been really helpful, especially as I work with other execs in the company to prioritize our limited resources.
Law of Demeter, Gateway Pattern, and Package Maturity in Python
The other common misdirection is saying something can be recycled if you return it to a handful of collection centers. They’re banking on 99% of the users not planning to make an extra trip to keep the cost of those programs down.
The one thing you may get in using your distribution is protection for the case that the rustup.sh website has been temporarily pwned. But I agree that focusing on curl | sh is nonsense.
Took me 10 years but I found two in my life.

I randomly found one in his only appearance at a ruby meetup, giving a presentation that changed my life, opened me to the community where I met a now dear friend who also became my mentor.

I wish I had a suggestion, it seems like it just happened randomly, even though I was searching for ages.
Go outside and count the cars that are older than 15 years. Then go to California and do it. It’s different.
Wow, I used to like midnight commander a lot but moved away from it. Seeing things like that being built relatively easily makes me want to try using this for my personal project! Good work.
What value does this bring to the world?
This is a pointless semantic argument, that it's even correct.
Plus they’re not banning mobile phones or computers, and the best way to get something on fire is to shortcut a Li-ion battery - how much energy does a macbook contain.
Japan has generally always had a very sober attitude in most policy decisions, so this decision to reinvest in nuclear is more important than it seems. If the Japanses are doing it, it means its been thought through and found to be optimal.
Thanks for the advice.

>> Knowing what to want to know seems much harder.

This is so true. I do want to work mostly on distributed systems but every once in a while I get AI envy seeing all the amazing progress being made in the field.
If you're willing to tolerate not owning things when they're new, survivorship bias can be your friend. I especially recommend saying yes whenever an elderly relative / friend offers you a hand-me-down. You'll get things that are no good, to be sure; sometimes trash survives because people have inexplicably taken delicate care of it for decades. But often, you get things of great utility. Wool army blankets from the 1940s. Brace-and-bit drills. Old sets of Encyclopedia Britannica. A flour sifter. A nightstand. A handmade rug. A shearling coat. A sharp machete. Furthermore, accepting these gifts is an act of love; it tells the giver, "it was not in vain that you cared for this thing you can no longer use."
Because nuclear is enormously expensive and has always been subsidized by taxes or ratepayers. Subsidizing nuclear made sense when we were in the first R&D and commercialization phase 60 years ago. The idea to keep shoveling money into that black hole stopped making sense decades ago.

Coal and nuclear are uncompetitive simply from the cost of the steam side. Today you can just about give a steam plant free energy, and it still makes a loss.

Solar or wind does not have this limitation. CCGT gas plants get around it by having a turbine giving raw mechanical power and then utilizing the same awful steam side to get the last percentage points of efficiency at a much smaller required scale.

Coal still gets built where gas infrastructure does not exist, but that's about it.
Sentence 1 and sentence 2 seem to be in a fight. You’ll need to pick one.
cool! something like this for golang?
I did this with my washer for years and kept it running until it was 20 years old. One day it broke again and I knew from experience the part that broke would take hours to fix. At the same time Lowes was having a sale where the fancy new units were on sale and included 5 years of 100% paid for labor and parts maintenance.

The new washer / dryer wash more clothes at once using less detergent and far less electricity. They're also quieter. Like, a LOT quieter. And they text us when they finish which I thought was silly at first but in practice it means we get more loads done per day.

It's been 3 years and we've had to use the Lowes warranty once for a leak. Watching the repairman it seemed like a huge hassle to work on these new machines so I don't see these being fun to own once the 5 year maintenance plan expires.

We donated the old washer / dryer to a pet rescue group so hopefully they're still going.
Yoda Conditionals: Why you should use them
Income is evidence of a person's ability to pay. Credit history is evidence of a person's willingness to pay. I would expect a positive correlation between the two but relying on that correlation seems risky.
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Ugh yeah. That comment, unlike my original one, is full of typos. I typed it out quickly on my phone, and can’t edit anymore.
Chrome adds “early stable” release milestone