cliffy

Camera rigs exist for this exact reason.

There's a 0% chance of a successful colony, by any definition of successful, on Mars in the next century. If we, as a species, cannot avoid destroying the climate that birthed us over millions of years we have exactly 0% chance of surviving one that is completely inhospitable to life.

I was just following orders!

He doesn't make a good point. I'd rather have people of high moral character responsible for enforcing the law.

This speech by Colonel Jessep is meant to be revealing of his true thoughts and character. Jessep rationalizes the evil and immoral acts he commits or orders because he's "protecting" the rest of society. He lied to cover up his own malfeasance. A soldier died under his command, murdered, as a direct consequence of illegal orders he gave.

How do you completely twist the plot of this movie to arrive at the conclusion that Colonel Jessep's worldview is one to be admired instead of reviled?

What is there to stop beyond the horrible energy consumption and scams?

Bitcoin doesn't do anything useful at all. It's a net negative for the earth and the public at large.

So... what happens when the person who originally deployed everything eventually leaves or gets hit by a bus? Hey, it's six months later and you need to redeploy everything again.

You need some automation or a really good how-to document, and hopefully both. It won't save you all the pain of learning how the deployment works but it will save you a lot of time and effort.

Anyone done TOTP port-knocking to open an SSH listen port with just the originator white-listed for a short window?

This seems strange, aren't the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines built using the exact same mRNA sequence?

Even if your bodies are pretty similar, you still don't know if your vitamin D levels will follow the pattern that his did. If you're messing with vitamin D supplements you should talk to a doctor and/or get your blood tested.

Saying you missed out on Bitcoin is like saying you missed out on a giant ponzi scheme.

This hasn't even been peer reviewed yet. Don't expect that you, the average HN reader, knows better than reviewers with relevant backgrounds.

No, because it's absurdly stupid.

Your comment reads like satire. I see no rebuttal of the points made.

Maybe a better thesis would be that cryptocurrencies provide a net-negative value to society.

"R0 is not a biological constant for a pathogen as it is also affected by other factors such as environmental conditions and the behaviour of the infected population." [0]

If we hold R0 down long enough through change of behavior then we can absolutely flatten the curve.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_reproduction_number

Of course you're some newly created sock-puppet account too afraid to post under your real handle.

COVID-19 will absolutely cause the death of millions in the US alone if proper steps aren't taken to reduce R0. If not from the disease itself, then from hospitals being completely overloaded.

Edit: Let's be real: lockdown/isolation is going to have to persist for at least a month or more to have a real chance of preventing the spread to most of the population in the US. 2 weeks is not going to cut it.

Should we prioritize the survival of human beings over corporations?

The problem is PHP calling an ordered map an array. Array in pretty much every other language means a sequence indexed by integers.

Ideally the maintainers of PHP would rename it and deprecate the use of `array()` over a long period of time.

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that experts in `Y` have fine-tuned cortical representations of `domain(Y)`.

Apparently the original experimenters who identified learned helplessness seem to now think they got it backwards: Learned helplessness is actually the default behavior of mammals, and we need to learn how to overcome the default state.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4920136/

Personally, I learned most programming topics through individual effort. Pair programming can be great if the participants have a similar skill level while having nonoverlapping areas of expertise.

But pair programming with one experienced developer and someone who knows nothing is essentially tutoring.

You seem to be exhibiting signs of learned helplessness. You can absolutely learn how to automate something, if you try.

If you want normal, boring work to do why are you complaining about having nothing to do? The most normal, boring work of all.

I've been in this situation in that our team had a stated goal, but it became obvious our manager was doing jack shit to enable us to accomplish the goal, and no one gave a fuck if I or the team was doing anything. In fact, the organization we found ourselves in seemed to be actively opposed to what we were trying to achieve. It's extremely toxic to your mental health and detrimental to your career long-term if you stay put.

I treated it as a paid job-search opportunity and put in my two weeks as soon as I got a good offer.

If you don't have that option, try to find anything you can build that would improve the lives of your coworkers and get them to use it. Put it on your resume and start looking.

Find someone that looks like they do repetitive work a lot and sell them on reducing their workload through automation.

Marriage has legal consequences. Many of which don't exist for unmarried couples. Some of the legalities will make some people think twice before getting a divorce/leaving.

I think that is more than enough to support the claim of: 'a little harder to leave'.

Raising kids is hard enough with two dedicated parents. Marriage at least comes with the promise of staying together in the long term. Makes it a little harder for one partner to just leave.

I have two kids. The idea of raising them by myself seems nearly impossible. Maybe it's doable if you're already independently wealthy or can heavily rely on nearby family or both. Still doesn't sound as healthy as having two dedicated parents.

I vividly remember recess going away after 6th grade and it bummed me out hard. It's usually replaced by PE or some organized sport, which felt strictly worse in overall enjoyment.

Probably: Lock-in to Google's proprietary walled garden. Probably loaded with school spy-ware too.

Unfortunately a lot of parents won't care, and the school system won't give them a choice either. However, it leads to shit like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbins_v._Lower_Merion_School...

The ideal is BYOD. If all you really need is a web browser, then let parents and kids decide what to use together.

If you really give a shit about cheating use analog quizzes/tests. It's not perfect, but the old ways are easier to police.

I think there's an argument to be made that a public university should be putting content like this online for free anyway.

Networking with people who manage/hire for distributed teams is really helpful.

Also having a good reputations with other engineers who also work remotely, they'll get you in places you wouldn't have heard of otherwise.