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> ...which we use as a precursor chemical to make cheap synthetic carbon neutral natural gas in our Terraformer.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/terraform

> to alter the environment of (a celestial body) in order to make capable of supporting terrestrial life forms.

The abuse of English continues.

It's like calling it a "Car", or "Computer", these words have specific, concrete meanings. If you want to have a 'cool' name for your product fine, but not an already existing concept you bastardise to use in your name.

Totally agree. I've watched that channel for a long time, and while he's always come across as arrogant, this video pushed me to unsubscribe.

You couldn't be more wrong. Getting people excited about possible technological advnacements is exactly the kind of thing we should be doing, we used to do this, in the 50s up until the 90s the prospect of the future was exciting.

What is the medias representation of the future now? A burning shithole, no future. It's depressing and not true. I enjoyed the few days of excitement, I want us to go back to having an optimistic outlook on the future of humanity.

> However, as we show in a new research paper in Science, these animals do something amazing that has long been overlooked: they dig wells — or “ass holes”.

Unnecessarily childish

Never has your username been so accurate as to who you are.

I agree with the other comments, you sound mentally unwell.

I often think this about Ring / permanent surveillance that exists now. Nobody can even be free in front of their own house without the threat of something ludicrous happening to you and then it being on public record until the end of the internet. It's absolutely wild to me.

DS9's first episode has a space alien organism living inside a permanent wormhole and it speaks to you through mind visions, exists at all points in time and can read your mind, put you in your own memories, etc. That happens in the first episode, the whole Star Trek universe is full of absolute fantasy.

Q, anyone?

Thanks for the recommendation, I didn't know such a thing existed

Listen, you enjoy anime, that's fine, I grew up on Guyver, Dragonball, Trigun, Ghost in the Shell, there's plenty of great anime out there.

You seem very defensive.

If you have images of anime girls (especially young looking) as your wallpaper... People think you are weird. Nobody is telling this to your face because they don't want to offend you, but they are judging you, and I am too.

If you don't... what's the deal? Why are you defending it so much?

Trying to defend it by insinuating I am predjudiced against a group of people (because all Japanese people like anime??? I've lived there, they do not.) in some way is a facile defense.

The kind of people I see with a fascination of anime girls are exactly the kind of people I expect to have one.

It is creepy, and everyone thinks you are creepy.

There is an overwhelming amount of superfluous text in this article.

The author's solution:

> Rather than allowing a user to set their own password, passwords can be issued in exactly the same way as API keys are now: a high-entropy password is randomly generated by the issuing website, and the user is shown the password once only and asked to record it. If the password is lost, a new password must be generated using the same process. The user cannot choose their password, but can get a new randomly generated one in the event of compromise. The password essentially becomes indistinguishable from an API key.

Labour are even more in favour of this than the tories are. Lib Dems, too. No mainstream party in the UK values your privacy.

Thanks! I know it may seem obvious to people clued up on this stuff but it's basically a dark art to me. I appreciate the comment

You're assuming I'm not a hobbyist programmer (I am). Or that I don't take into account future requirements (I do). That I only care about a passable level of software (I am a big proponent of software craftsmanship... see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36586248#36587807, and also my original comment talked about maintainability...)

In a hobbyist mentality, go wild! Do whatever makes you happy. In a professional, business environment I want to deliver outcomes first, my personal happiness comes from delivering those outcomes so it matters less on the technical choice.

Been doing this for 13 years, professionally and I see the same thing in the UK. I want to work for a company that doesn't think engineers are "lesser".

We have PhD's in computer science, I have worked with people who have made significant contributions to the tooling of modern languages, and yet a manager who spends most of their time on eBay, Twitter or giving the same talk on "psychological safety" for the 15th time gets lauded? I don't get it.

I'm not a bucket crab, I don't want to drag people down, I just want the same opportunities people in other disciplines get (in the same industry!!)

> In the UK, the preoccupations of the “elite” – by which I mean the people, left and right, in politics, government and media whose views shape those of the country – are with things like Net Zero (above all), inequality, obesity, delivering Brexit, regulating Big Tech, data ethics and privacy, cutting immigration, gender and racial pay gaps, and other priorities that are either unrelated to, or diametrically opposed to, making the country richer.

A programming language is a tool to get to the desired outcome. The 'best' programming language is one that allows me to get to my desired outcome the quickest, with the fewest bugs and highest maintainability.

For me (and, I would argue, for pretty much everyone), that would probably be whatever programming language I am most familiar with. Unless the language has huge barriers compared to another one I am somewhat familiar but less familiar with.

I wish the dogmatic hate on JS would stop, it was boring 10 years ago, it's still boring.

> We this that if JPM rises higher than XLF then it will soon revert and trade lower shortly. Likewise, if JPM falls lower than XLF then we think it will soon trade higher.

Why?

What else is there except reward or punishment?

You're rewarded for doing something with something extrinsic (nice food, money, new toy) or intrinsic (doing the thing makes it rewarding), or punished with something extrinsic (jail, fine) for doing bad things, or intrinsic (guilt, social exclusion).

Incentives and disincentives rule society, learning to harness habits and incentives has helped me improve my life remarkably

If you've figured out something else, I'm sure I'm not the only one curious!

starting? auto-generated blogspam has been around for at least a decade, it's just worse now.

Completely disagree. I want something that works, and works well. UX is not about being pretty, it's about being functional.

That isn't what (most) UX designers do these days, it's all about fancy animations

> I also find it bizarre that so many people feel precious about the code.

Would you find it bizarre that a joiner feels precious about not just the cabinet they made (value), but how they made it? The joints they used, the process they went through, the wood (i.e., the code)?

A plumber, electrician, architect, designer, programmer -- we take pride in our skills.

Craftmanship is a virtue, not a vice.

Is this how you walk around talking to people? Get off your pedastal, mate. It comes across as rude, take a day off. Nobody needs to be informed about your "PSA".

Who hasn't had had someone close to us die?

All of the inclusivity movements that have happened in my workplace have involved hiring people unfit to do their job. I don't care what your background is, I care what you bring to the table.

The issue around unfettered inclusivity is that it enables grifters to gain positions of power based purely on superficial elements that they possess.

The original meaning of diversity was "diversity of thought" -- it has been co-opted to mean something totally different.

Terrible advice. Abitrary rules (make 10 folders!) is just utterly bonkers for everyone except a small subset of people who could categorise their life in this way.

It really grates on me when people offer solutions that work for them, as if they will work for everyone.

No.

I agree, these mental maps you have to create is adding extra mental overhead, which apparently the author aims to reduce... odd.

Then there would be no evidence, which would mean the court case would be thrown out / one-sided. Instead they settled for a large amount of money. Does that not make you raise your eyebrows?

Oh wow, thanks for this. I bought TA (& TA:Kingdoms) a while back but it wouldn't run on my machine

They're all the politician class. Labour don't represent the lower classes any better than the tories imo.