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futureastronauton Canadian permafrost thaws 70 years earlier than predicted

Are you familiar with photosynthesis?

futureastronauton How Fast can A Single Instance of Redis be?

If you use it as such, of course it is. Filesystem DBs been around forever. What point are you trying to make?

futureastronauton The worst morale-boosting gesture I've experienced

Gving the gift of a romance novel to a non-significant other is strange. Please consider that if the gift is from a man, most women would see it as odd at best, a misguided come-on at worst.

futureastronauton India is drying up

Yes, the Waukesha diversion shows that if a community is patient and wealthy enough, the lakes are for sale. At the risk that we share sources, https://www.amazon.com/Great-Lakes-Water-Wars/dp/159726637X is great and has a chapter on Waukesha.

futureastronauton The worst morale-boosting gesture I've experienced

I worked in a startup eng. org that worked everybody to the bone for several months with a dubious SOA overhaul. The prize was a cheap open bar. At least it looked like an open bar, privately reserved and such. We each got two raffle-style tickets to exchange for drinks, lest us peons get carried away. Three days off? That would've been amazing.

futureastronauton India is drying up

Yes. The map is sensationalist trash. Not to say that global warming won't impact the lakes: The far more likely outcome is depletion, as water diversions considered unthinkable become politically feasible, both within and without the basin. A map like that might as well show the Colorado River shores expanding with sea rise, it would make as much sense (for non-Americans, the Colorado is so heavily diverted to southwestern farms and municipalities that its riverbed is dry, or a trickle, most of the year).

futureastronauton Cats, Rats, A.I., Oh My [video]

There are a bunch of studies showing that pet ownership is beneficial for mental health.

futureastronauton The Man Behind “Fortnite”

How is raw lack of experience different from lack of experience? Greater risk of food poisoning?

futureastronauton Dark Web Drug Sellers Dodge Police Crackdowns

A normal wealthy person, maybe. To many people, an offer like that is a ticket out of poverty.

futureastronauton Dark Web Drug Sellers Dodge Police Crackdowns

There have been "sting operations" where cops offered somebody a ridiculous low price on some drugs, then busted them for going for it. Easy to get caught trafficking several kilos of coke when you paid $100 a kilo. Sounds like entrapment to me though.

futureastronauton Seattle has stopped charging people for personal drug possession

A less pessimistic take is that it would be unprecedented, and we have no idea what would happen.

futureastronauton AWS costs every programmer should know

114 pages? I'll never be able to read all of that!

futureastronauton I didn't get paid, so I open-sourced my client’s project

Another take on this would be to open source components developed, but not the application itself, and be more subtle about the client mess. That's a better way to get some positive marketing out of what would be wasted time.

futureastronauton I didn't get paid, so I open-sourced my client’s project

Agree that it's not the most professional look. However, the sort of client with the concern you mentioned has an NDA, IP agreement, lawyers... I don't think they'll care much.

The greater risk to the contractor is that this advertises that they deal with shitty clients who don't have those things in place. Working with what sound like fly-by-night clients signals that you're not able to be picky about your work.

If I were the contractor here, I'd bury the project and sprinkle some holy water on it, pursue legal action, and get on with my life. I wouldn't draw attention to what is essentially a failed project. It's naive for the contractor to think that everyone will accept his side of the story regarding the project's failure. From a distance, the failed project is more visible than the flaky client.

futureastronauton I didn't get paid, so I open-sourced my client’s project

I much prefer billing by hours/days with clear payment terms in the MSA, and iterative delivery,. Clients understand that if they don't pay, they're not going to get much. Project-based estimates with up-front payment probably is good for clients unfamiliar with software development processes, but I avoid projects like those.

futureastronauton The decline of the family has unleashed an epidemic of loneliness

There's no need to read aggression in my comment or to reply like that. I was simply stating this for readers who might feel self-conscious about being skinny, as I did when I read the comment. Western culture very much shames skinny, healthy men so I thought it was a useful reminder.

futureastronauton The decline of the family has unleashed an epidemic of loneliness

> I go to the gym so she does not have a skinny boyfriend.

PSA, there's nothing wrong with being skinny, and some people prefer a skinny partner.

futureastronauton Soviets say Allied version of D-Day is a 'distortion' of history (1984)

Isn't this common historical knowledge? Sad if not.

futureastronauton Global recession fears grow as factory activity shrinks

Terrific!

futureastronauton The Startup Party Is Over

It's important to notice parallels though. For instance, I have no good, novel startup ideas now, just like in 2003, 2008, and 2011. Oh wait, that's been true every year :(

futureastronauton The Startup Party Is Over

This is seriously demotivating but thankfully lacks any substance.

futureastronauton A Summer from Hell Is Coming to U.S. Airports

It has URL overrides, but the input format is a mystery so I've only effectively used them to whitelist a full domain.

futureastronauton Google – My Location History

> it was in fact a regular 101 ride home

Confused... you make it sound like faulty location history led you to erroneously report your Lyft driver. But that doesn't jive with the tone and thrust of your comment.

futureastronauton A way to do atomic writes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journaling_file_system

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_cache

futureastronauton A Summer from Hell Is Coming to U.S. Airports

It's certainly a setting in Chrome on Android.

futureastronauton Democrats More Positive About Socialism Than Capitalism (2018)

...why are you using "y'all" if you're not American, let alone from the south?

futureastronauton The answer to California's housing crisis is more housing

Since you're race baiting, I'd like to point out that there are plenty of us white guys out here who are not from privileged backgrounds and who have worked very hard to get to where they are. Please stop with the prejudice, for all people.

futureastronauton OECD Says 14% of Jobs Will Disappear in Next 10 Years

While databases are still administered, DBA as a title has largely disappeared over the past 15 years.

futureastronauton Ask HN: What do recruiters look for in a GitHub profile?

Python's list of built-in functions is fairly small https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#built-in-fu... (but to be clear, I wouldn't ding somebody for forgetting about one of them).

futureastronauton Stop Using `rm` in Bash. Use `del`

Thank you, it's painful to see people providing replacements for critical commands like `rm` without understanding basic shell features like aliases.

And just a reminder everybody please don't run random scripts you find on the internet.

P.S. you need a semicolon before the close brace :)