My point is that plastic comes from oil stored in the ground. There is nothing wrong with taking oil out of the ground, turning it into plastic, and then putting the plastic back in the ground. "Recycled" plastic packaging is much worse. Oil is taken out of ground and turned in to plastic, which is then shipped to south east Asia or Africa for recycling, Most of the plastic can't economically be recycled and ends up in the ocean due to poor sanitation standards, and then finally you get your recycled plastic packaging after the recycled plastic is shipped back to you.
I don't understand people's aversion to landfills. Perhaps it's because people intuitively understand that dumping garbage is not sustainable indefinitely, i.e. Earth will eventually run out of room. However, there is currently plenty of space for landfills. I think more things should go into landfills. Don't try to recycle plastic, just make sure it securely ends up in a landfill without ending up in the ocean and lock it away forever. That seems great. Why you'd want to take a perfectly stable thing and combust it, potentially leaking toxins into the atmosphere and environment, is beyond me.
I believe the hypersonic missile launched in Ukraine was a standard ballistic missile launched from an airplane and is really nothing that advanced (the article mentions this technology was invented in the 80s). Hypersonic glide vehicles are more of a question mark. Russia claims to have them, but their ability to reliably deploy them is unknown as they’ve never been used outside of tests. The U.S. is working on its own HGV, which should be superior in many ways. This attempt at achieving superiority is also what’s leading to the lag as more technical problems need to be worked through.
Heat is energy, so I find it surprising that it can't be harnessed. Is it really not possible to take some of the energy out of a system and use it for something?
Desiring choice isn’t elitist. Early web adopters were passionate and willing to put in more work. Nothing wrong with that, and nothing wrong with liking simple default settings either.
Why are you assuming that Engels and Lenin made the "correct appraisal?" To me, these examples illustrate that they both used fiction inappropriately. Just because Engels and Lenin are notable humans doesn't make them infallible.
Imagine you were having a discussion with someone about some topic, and your discussion partner said:
> I have learned more from [some novelist] than from all the professed historians, economists, and statisticians [who study the topic].
Would you really consider that a well-reasoned opinion?
Many Unreal games released around the time of the original GoW did look very similar though. I think it was the lighting. Two examples: Bioshock and Batman Arkham Asylum.
It’s disturbing that historical fiction, especially television, is so often used as evidence of some type of historical precedent. Regardless of the subject’s accuracy, television shows are ultimately written to evoke an emotional response which can’t help but color the viewers perception of the historical events. For instance, in Downton Abbey, part of the drama involves the relationship between the staff and the nobility. The focus on this specific type of relationship may make the viewer believe it was more or less prominent than in reality.
Another very common case in TypeScript (and other languages) is union types. Other languages have constructs for checking the underlying type of a union type directly, but typescript is smart enough to figure it out based off of the properties of the constituent types and what you've checked so far in your code.
e.g.
interface A { type: 'a' }
interface B { type: 'b' }
type C = A | B;
const c: C = ...;
if (c.type === 'a') { /* c is of type A here */ }
I think crypto is consistent with his view. He regrets building something that lets massive corporations control culture, and he pines for the past where discussion took place in decentralized forums. He views crypto as a solution to this problem. If someone sees a problem and tries to fix it, then that is not worthy of scorn.
I'm not even sure many women want someone else to take care of their kids after giving birth. I'm a man. I took many months of paternity leave after our child was born so my wife could return to work. My wife enjoys her work, but definitely less so after giving birth. She was totally fine to work until midnight before giving birth. Now, she wants to clock out as early as possible to maximize the amount of time she has to spend with our daughter. I've since returned to work and feel the same way. Hanging out with your child is fun and special, and it's not something you can buy with more money or status. The bond between a mother and child is also very powerful on a hormonal level. One thing I found surprising was how direct and physical the hormonal bond is shortly after birth. For instance, the uterus enlarges to hold the baby, and is still large right after birth. When a mother breast feeds, her body releases oxytocin (aka the love hormone). Oxytocin causes the uterus to contract. Literally within seconds of breastfeeding, a mother can feel physical changes occurring in her body. Pretty wild.
Of course, the above is just my anecdotal experience and doesn't apply to everyone.
Whether or not it's Turing-complete is not all that important. The important part is whether or not Turing-completeness is required for what is being created. In the case of HTML and CSS, Turing-completeness is almost always not a requirement.
Creating something Turing-incomplete is not the same thing as using something not Turing-incomplete. For instance, the people who created Houdini are programmers. The people who use Houdini are not. I can program a dishwasher using a FSA, but that doesn’t make people who use dishwashers programmers.
Are node-based VPLs like Houdini Turing-complete? I've only used Grasshopper, but the sense I got was that it was not Turing-complete. If they're not Turing-complete, then I don't think "programming" is the right word. Computer-aided design would be more appropriate.
You don't need to lie, but you also don't need to disclose every single thing to your new employer. If you had a short stint at a company, just leave it off. If they ask, just say you took some personal time to figure out what you wanted to do next. I think that's a totally valid description of trying a new job that didn't work out. I know a lot of people who have taken years off for fun. No one questioned it.
I met a couple early on in the pandemic who were waiting for the housing market to cool down before trying to buy a place. Prices have appreciated over 20% since they. From talking to my parents' generation, it seems like real estate seemed super expensive back then as well. I've come to the conclusion that real estate is always in such high demand that it always seems super expensive.
There are generally three levels of people involved in a business:
1) The lowest level are the rank-and-file employees. These are individual contributors and middle management. These are the youngest employees given their lack of experience. Because they're the youngest, they've grown up with the most opportunities for traditionally unrepresented groups and thus are the most diverse group.
2) The second level is upper management. These people are older than the low-level employees and are slightly less diverse.
3) The last level, the board level, is largely made up of corporate retirees and are thus the oldest group. Given the lack of opportunity this generation experienced if you weren't part of a specific demographic, it's no surprise the board level is not diverse. The duties of a board member require experience in running a corporation and corporate governance. There just isn't a diverse set of people to draw from due to the average age of qualified people looking to be board members.
I like this quote because it doesn't make any sense. It's obvious that not everyone operates with the same level of ability. Some have more ability than others, which necessarily means some are below average. Stating that "average ability is a human right" doesn't change the mathematical reality.