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It's interesting to think about. For instance, how much space do we need per capita? If we were to pack everyone together giving each a 2ft by 2ft space, the current population would take up the space of a large county or two. That's rather fascinating to think about because it isn't a large amount of space. Obviously it isn't sustainable, but our physical size is small. But then you start factoring in food, shelter, water, mental well-being, etc... It would just be interesting to find out how much space we really need per capita thinking along those lines.

I mean expendable in the sense that as an employee you can just be thrown away if the market dips. Sure, you can maybe find more work, but you probably would have to uproot (not everyone lives in SV) and that's not easy with kids. My parents did that and it sucked; 8 different schools from elementary to high school.

The carrying capacity of the Earth is closed to 1 billion people...

Where does this come? Is it referenced in the books you mention? I just have never heard this before.

Wait until January 2021.

But on a serious note, even though my SO and I are doing very well economically (both engineers), it's still weighs heavy the thought of having a child with how expendable engineers are these days.

If I were a burglar and wanted to do some casing, this would be a legit way to do it.

This is great! Well, except for the fact it hijacks my back button and my local map is out of date by at least 6 months.

But, I love that this is open.

So is Google's own podcast app similarly banned? This is really quite pathetic.

A pity the author didn't provide you with a more professionally polished version you could add to your github and call your own.

Citation?

It might get tricky when you have home grown terrorists walking around with long guns shouting that it violates some right they think they have to not wear them.

You probably know this, but for others, onion (and other veggies) freeze well. I'll usually chop up most of the bag and put all of it in freezer bags and freeze laying flat (breaking them up during the freezing process to they stay loose). It is then easy to pour out half cup or whatever the recipe calls for.

... recommend to a business focused founder for them to grok the hacker mindset.

From 1000 ft, what's different between the two? It's all about solving problems.

The business focused founder sees a problem, a business/market opportunity. He/She needs to figure out how to solve it, how to come up with a way to satisfy that market. If a product exists, how do they get that product into the hands of the customer. If the product doesn't exist, how to get it into existence and then get it into the hands of the customer.

The hacker/developer/whatever sees a problem and He/She tries to develop a product that satisfies that problem based on the requirements they're either given or suss out themselves. The hacker mindset is an insatiable need for knowledge. How to do a thing. How to make a thing. How did others make a thing. Don't business people think that way, also? Probably one big difference might be that the hacker mindset shares knowledge. Business people are more protective of it. (Generally)

An asset register is how companies keep track of their assets. Any software license, computer, monitor, keyboard, copy machine, etc. the company claims as an asset is tracked in the register.

I don't know, I find "Linux Containers" to be sufficiently generic as Linux has native support for them. LXD/LXC, Docker, etc, are simply tools built upon that.

The US needs to invest in alternate modes of high speed travel. We need more options than just the airline industry.

Edit: Hmm... I guess not. Wow.

Copyright does not protect recipes. It does more likely than not protect the images being scraped, though.

There is markup specifically for recipes. I wonder why it isn't more often used.

EDIT: Yes, the article mentions it, but doesn't give a clue why it isn't more prevalent.

People keep asking "how do we fix policing in America?!" Maybe start by following common sense guidelines written in 1829 that still apply today.

Stop training them like they're going to war and train them to "server and protect" instead.

The National Guard can come in if they're needed. Police don't need to handle that.

The optimist in me hopes to see people demand universal healthcare, social housing, food benefits, and more so that everyone at least has a baseline level of stability.

I doubt this will happen because one half believes this is all a hoax perpetrated by the other half.

What are some good ways to isolate that server from the rest of your LAN?

... I suspect this is a problem of your telecom provider not having adequate infrastructure or having a bad configuration for handling many connections to a few nodes.

Which they'll likely do for their 5G network as well because, well, telecoms do the minimum possible.

I have a Mac, but I also have a Linux machine. I go back and forth depending.

On a related note, what are some decent external touch pads? I would love to have one to give my mouse hand a break sometimes while at my desktop.

Do you?

I worked retail for a dozen or so years after HS, before, and later during, getting my eng deg. The bad apples (so to speak) were rare. People showed up, worked, went home just fine.

On the other hand, in the 15 years I've been a professional developer, I've seen people spend all their time looking for their next gig and doing the programming challenges necessary to get that gig. I've seen people skirt IT rules so they could access sites they shouldn't at work. I've seen people throw absolute 3 year old style tantrums because they were asked to fix bugs. People routinely show up late to meeting. All things low-skilled workers would get fired for but is somehow acceptable in our "bro" culture.

It isn't an issue with the skill necessary for the environment. It's the people. And it doesn't matter if they're making minimum wage or 150K.

Why?

I've been hosting my mail with Zoho for a couple years and I've not had any issues with them.

Also, store bought bread today lasts a lot longer than store bought bread from when I was growing up. I can't imagine the chemical concoction that allows for this...

waiting for the weevils to move in...

Hatch. If you get weevils, they were already there just waiting to hatch.

I have never run a warehouse,

You don't know...

... but I suspect that many of the strange seeming rules are in place because people otherwise try to exploit the system (like getting paid for smoking on the toilet for hours on end). It may seem inhumane, but perhaps it makes it possible to give people jobs who don't deserve automatic trust. Such people exist, unfortunately.

... but you're assuming low wage workers cannot be trusted and therefore treated humanely.

I think these biases are the issue being discussed.

Of course it does. It lives in your frameworks and libraries. It lives in your container classes and threading routines. It lives in that bit of code at the core of your business rules that people are scared of.

If you write anything, even "hello, world", complexity lives somewhere! Just the complexity of the print function path all the way to the hardware would baffle some.