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I understand the importance of diversity, inclusivity and equal-opportunities etc.. But this looks quite bad on her part. Some of her comments are in fact racist. BTW, I'm a brown guy!

An Elon looking humanoid might be living there acclimatising and studying the place before the actual landing party arrives.

I think I found the following one a few weeks ago. Working my way through it. I'm usually a Vim user on Linux.

https://karthinks.com/software/batteries-included-with-emacs...

I can't help but look at this thing with nothing but cynicism. While `surfsvammel` has given one scenario where it could be useful in a positive way, I think the negative aspects of this far outweighs the positives.

It's been pointed out that Hydrogen fuel cell is less energy efficient in its current form. It's true and it'll probably needs a lot more research before it's viable and is competitive against battery powered cars.

hahaha. They're absolute gold!

I agree with this.

I think in a way it's good that we didn't do that in the sixties. Nuclear reactors are a lot more advanced and safer these days. Probably never too late to get onto it.

I'm all for renewable power and environmentally sustainable technologies. This includes Solar, Beach, Wind power and Nuclear power. Preferably Hydrogen fuel cell cars over battery powered cars (purely for less batter and less toxic material to recycle and also logistically more feasible for long distance driving). We Australians need to raise awareness about its effectiveness. The new compact fusion reactor designs from the UK are quite exciting. It can power entire Australia and create a lot of jobs. It's sad that we aren't doing enough in that space.

This is really exciting. I wish we had nuclear power here in Australia. I know I might get downvoted for this comment. But with advancement in technology and large amount nuclear fuel (Uranium deposit) available, it's a great choice.

1. Vast swathes of uninhabited land can absorb some of the risks/fears associated with a nuclear accident. With technology like this, the risks are even lower. 2. It's lot cleaner than coal and natural gas, which are still the primary sources of our electricity. 3. There will be a huge demand for electric cars in the near future drawing massive amount power from the grid. Nuclear power would be a lot cheaper and enable us to truely go green.

Of course the coal companies won't like that. I can't see any reason why don't have nuclear energy. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Actually, you're correct. The only reason I can think of is curiosity. Beyond that it has very little importance, to me personally. That's why I may never do it. But it definitely looks fun. I don't know about Haskell but I'm more interested in F#. Some of my colleagues have worked on Haskell in the academia.

Cheers mate.

Thanks mate. :)

hahaha.. Thank you for comment. Yes, I actually signed up for a course on Udemy and did some F# after a few lessons on SML from Dan Grossman on Coursera. My company has bet big on .net and our products have been developed on .Net. So that's another reason to learn F# for me. I find it quite interesting and am surprised that it doesn't have as much adoption as Python or R!

I did a few lessons on Standard ML from it on Coursera. It's brilliant. Thank you.

Yes, of course. Glad you're enjoying programming in it. I'd love to learn it for fun if I didn't have any time constraints. Dabbling in a bit of StandardML and F# at the moment. Just to get a basic understanding of functional programming. I'm a data analyst, not a developer. So as you can guess, I write Python and SQL mostly. These languages are quite different from what I'm used to.

Thank you. I did not know that. I thought Racket was a superset of Scheme with a lot of batteries included.

Thank you kind stranger. I actually chose to learn a bit of StandardML to understand functional programming, but every now and then when I see a post like this I get tempted to try Racket as well. I've got a copy of SICP on my desk and I've barely read 30 pages. Someday, I will.

Is SICP the best way to learn Racket?

https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/full-text/...

I'm fascinated by Racket-lang team's constant updates. It feels like there is always some activity in that space. Does anyone know about any companies where it's used in production environments? Is it particularly good for certain use cases? Thank you.

Reminds me of this Veritasium episode.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1_OpWiyijU

Perfect timing. Thanks for posting this. I recently bought a Microbit V2 and Raspberry Pi Pico with a few sensors and a breadboard. Excited to play with these. Thanks to everyone who've suggested informative sources as well. Cheers.

To each to their own. It's quite evident that the author simply dislikes MacOS. Many of these problems if these can be labelled as such, aren't really serious issues for the majority of users. And in some cases it seems that the author is used to other operating systems and hasn't spent enough time on MacOS or isn't inclined to learn the differences.

> I know you're going to be tempted to reply with "you're using it wrong" - but I'm not. This is how I like to use my computer.

This part of the closing statement simply baffles me. I use both Linux and a Mac and I like both. In fact MacOS has spoilt me in many ways and I get frustrated when things don't work as nicely on Linux. But I still like both.

I tried with phrases like "I don't like minorities." and somehow I'm still not an asshole! Now the server seems to be down.

South Africans need to be introduced to Vegemite!

How does one get access to the direct URL to such a file?

I can understand the author's reasoning. I guess one can get quite fatigued from constantly being connected! I don't do most of the things the author has listed too. I use computers for work and studies and watch stuff on youtube. I don't have any smart devices at home and I don't think I ever will. But I still like computers! :D

What I don't get is the constant need to share everything on the Internet. I've stopped using every social network. I'm on Reddit and on this platform just to know what's happening in the tech world. I don't even read much news these days.

Absolutely. They were the pioneers in open sourcing so much knowledge. I'm doing a course on EDX from MIT and there are deadlines for homework assignments. It's quite hard. But one can learn the concepts from the OCW course if they're not interested in a certificate.

> There is very little room given for exploration

you literally took words out of my mouth or keystrokes out of my fingers!

> if I tried deriving my own method the person correcting it wouldn't understand and I would be penalized for it.

This has happened to me in the programming classes in the uni.

It sounds like an honest conversation. I agree with you on the first point. The Indian education system is quite good to enable kids to focus on getting a job. It's a bit too focussed on how to get good grades, which ultimately results in a rat race. Not saying that competition is bad but I never enjoyed or actually learned anything even after completing 16 years of education there include a bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering.

I haven't studied anything in Australian unis yet. I might do that in future. But I've seen some of my friend's kids studying in public schools here and am envious. I wish my school days were like that. Schools here are not focussed on exams at all, rather they encourage students to explain things that they're learning to other students. They've presentations on the concepts they learn, do practical tasks, do a variety of creative crafts and last but not the least encouraged to do sports and music as well. Now, can I blame my country of birth India for it? Of course not. India was quite poor economically and my schools barely had doors and windows, let alone desks. BWT, this was back in 1999. Teachers barely cared and most of them were abusive and beat the shit out of us. I can only wish that I had better opportunities but I can't go back in time. My MIT programme is quite hard as the home work assignments force me to think. They're never tediously long to work out. Based on the feedback I've gotten from my colleagues, Australian unis are a mixed bag. It all depends on the programme you choose. Some unis have very good engineering programmes, whereas some are more research focussed. But most of them have very good infrastructure.

Lastly, I agree with on the last point. I've been in the industry since 16 years and have met my fair share of incompetent people. To be honest I've been incompetent at some skills at every job I've worked at.

But when I talked about those incompetent people, I was talking about people who weren't even willing to learn and sometimes even pulled rank to threaten their subordinates into making poor decisions. Nobody here claimed that the Australian system or any other system for that matter is without sin! Every system has flaws and as long as we're willing to accept that, there is still scope for improvement.