Absolutely not. They are not broadly experts, and they are not making these decisions after careful consideration, as evidenced by their continual acts of stupidity and basic errors and cutting things despite having no idea what it is they are cutting. Musk got in an argument with someone who said DOGE cut funding for a cancer treatment program, and Musk was calling the person a liar, and the person provided evidence and Musk admitted it was an accident. They are a clown car of idiots who vastly overestimate their own knowledge and underestimate how much good the government actually does. They think they can just slash and burn and there will be no negative consequences because they think the government is worthless.
Most of the code in most programs is not the part that is doing the I/O. It's doing stuff on a set of values to transform them. It gets values from somewhere, does stuff using those values, and then outputs some values. The complicated part is not the transfer of the final byte sequence to whatever I/O interface they go to, the core behavior of the program is the stuff that happens before that.
The code is written the same way it is logically structured. `let` takes 1+ arguments: a set of symbol bindings to values, and 0 or more additional statements which can use those symbols. In the example you are replying to, `bar-x` and `quux-y` are symbols whose values are set to the result of `(bar x)` and `(quux y)`. After the binding statement, additional statements can follow. If the bindings aren't kept together in a `[]` or `()` you can't tell them apart from the code within the `let`.
When I search 'dc plane crash' in Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo I don't get results buried under ads. When I search 'air conditioner for sale' I do get ads at the top of each of those, but that's more okay because I am looking for things to buy. And it's easy to look past the ads to get to sites like home depot or other traditional retailers that come up not just because they purchased ad space.
To be clear that YouTube video is not really a critique of Richard Feynman, especially not his scientific career, it's a critique of people who knew him writing books and making content using his name and making money off it as if it came directly from him. It also critiques some of his behavior around interactions with students or telling what amounts to tall tales or standup comedy jokes and then other people taking it as gospel. Richard Feynman did not write the book "Surely you're joking, Mr Feynman". And some of the content in that book seems like it may greatly exaggerated or even be completely fabricated. And Feynman was not alive to see much of what was published in his name or using his name.
Yeah both the UK and US are notorious for NIMBYism. People filing lawsuits as like a hobby, because they want to stop all development. In these countries it's far to easy for a small group of complainers to grind the entire system to a halt and burn endless amounts of time and money. It seems particularly bad in the anglosphere.
I think this is one of the crazier ones. It's just canola oil! It's the same as spreading that much canola oil on the surface, the spray is mainly convenient because it spreads it out evenly for you without you needing to contact the surface. But Pam gets to put "0g fat" and "For Fat Free Cooking" on the side of all their cans.
For everything that isn't social security, medicare, or the military, continued federal support requires explicitly convincing enough members of Congress that it is important so that they will campaign in their committees for even basic inflation-level funding increases to be included in the next budget. National Park Service has a backlog of billions of dollars in maintenance it knows it needs to do across the US, but Congress won't give them the money to do it. They'll toss $18 billion to Israel though even while Israeli politicians and the Israeli public and Israeli lobbying groups in the US criticizes the US for not being generous or supportive enough and gets involved in domestic US politics. We need a serious talk about the strings our very generous foreign aid needs to come attached to.
Is 5.6 million a lot? Where are they located? There are 127 million "households" in the US. And 258 million adults. I know there are unmarried/non-partner adults currently sharing living space who would prefer to acquire their own residence, so that 127 million number wants to go up. Seems like the issue is not enough housing in desirable places. And not enough desirable places, so the demand gets concentrated excessively into the small number of nice, convenient places.
Build more trams and subway and regional rail lines. Upzone and pedestrian-orient more areas around transit. People want to live in places like this but they cannot because the few places that do exist like this have such high demand and prices are high.
How much does it cost to argue in court that a particular entity is an abuser though? Someone has to be willing to cover those costs up front, otherwise people will just keep settling if they don't want to go through that process.
The US Supreme Court's decision was that there was not grounds for them to interfere in the case, because the state courts had already provided sufficient due process. They made no official ruling about guilt or capital punishment.
There are no IQ tests that measure IQ through genetics though. They are all measuring it by asking knowledge questions that the subject answers. There aren't many people that claim IQ isn't measuring anything. Just that it is not a measurement of genetics, as some people do insist that it is.
Having the order matter and matching the first `true` branch makes for more readable and less-wordy if statements. Otherwise when you have two conditions which have any overlap, such as A and B, for the A branch you need to add `and not B` and for the B branch you need to add `and not A`. This can create very long expressions. Having them evaluate in order and only match the first true one makes this unnecessary.
Yeah I think window half/quarter screen snapping (with keyboard shortcuts, which XFCE has) fills all the benefit of a tiling wm I want, without the constraints and with the flexibility of a floating wm.
And I do heavily use tiles/panels in programs like Terminator and iTerm2 because it's helpful in a terminal context.
This is an interesting idea for a feature, that I think I would like too. I like to save things to maybe look at later and a TTL would manage automatically dropping them from bookmarks in case I never actually want to look at it later.
It's possible that you are biased towards dowsing and thus not a good control for the experiment. You want dowsing to work and thus try harder when dowsing than when not.
Sobriety tests are notorious for being very subjective and not having well defined criteria and cops failing people even if they aren't drunk. The subjectivity in the test is a feature that allows cops to justify their arrests or uses of force.
Obviously once you hit a certain point of drunkness obviously maybe a test like walking in a line can demonstrate something useful. But so would a breathalyzer. The false positives is the problem because they're being used to illegitimately subject innocent people to criminal charges.
In an era where mass media basically didn't exist, most people couldn't read, and information about how these things work could not easily spread, it might have been easier to convince people that a fake test was really what you were claiming it was. If people could google it they would instantly find out it was fake.
That was a pretty accurate presentation of how polygraph machine testing works. The machine isn't doing anything useful in terms of determining if what is being said is true or not.
I don't think this is right. Placebo effect definitely exists for conditions that are largely influenced by mental perception. The common example is pain. You can reduce people's perception of pain by deploying the placebo effect, e.g. giving them sugar pills that you convince them will reduce their pain. It extends to other similar conditions which are not generally (or possible to be) measured directly, but rather based on a patient's self-reported scoring. Like "on on a scale of 1-10 how would you rate your experience of this condition". Placebo effect can work for that. But not for other more tangible conditions.
If the interviewee's behavior is not indicative of truth then the test serves no purpose other than allowing the interviewer or whoever commissioned the test (like a prosecutor or employer) to invalidly convince other people that the interviewee was lying
AltTab and Rectangle bring productivity on macOS up to an acceptable level. I assume anyone using macOS without them is in a constant state of frustration.
That's a terrible user experience. I don't remember that happening when I used Firefox through .deb files or the Arch AUR packages. I don't want it actually updating in the background. I'm fine with it checking for updates and even pre-staging the update files for the next time I restart the browser. Swapping out the app files underneath a running browser process in the background, so no new content can be opened, sucks.
Maybe I didn't use the .deb files and just used the .tar.gz. I could see that. I know I used .deb files for Chrome but I can't recall for Firefox, now that I'm thinking about it maybe I did just use the .tar.gz. I remember having to create and edit .desktop files for it. Seems counterintuitive to have a better update experience through a manually managed .tar.gz unzipped directory than through a package file actually meant to be managed through a more formal package manager.
Yeah I just don't care really. I have noisy dev branches, force pushing rebases from an upstream branch, and usually just squash merge and throw the history away when merging back to master. I've never come across a situation where I needed a preserved, fine-grained commit history for every dev branch after they've already been put in working order and merged to master. I guess I just don't use commit histories very much after the fact, like months later trying to find what original commit changeset a line of code was changed in. It's never mattered.