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https://lcwo.net is also quite a good tool.

Agreed. She always seems to me to be far more interested in herself than in the person she's interviewing. Previously I thought it was runaway narcissism, but I think you may have nailed it in saying she doesn't do her research. Perhaps everything is phrased as "Well when I did this...how does that relate to you", because she didn't prepare and is just vamping. (Good old Hanlon's Razor...)

I'm a former organist myself, went through this some years ago before I got out of the business.

I was always disappointed that there wasn't more efforts like Marty Haugen's Holden Evening Prayer, which really does a good job of keeping the liturgical structure but updating it to use some new instruments and be applicable in some new ways.

I was always supportive of adding new and different music, in fact I spearheaded it in a lot of cases, but the further along we went the more the new music just seemed repetitive and empty. (I can't imagine what it is now, about 9 years since I last played a service.)

You might be interested in a little Linux utility called CopyQ. (https://hluk.github.io/CopyQ/)

Setting up a shortcut to "paste as plain text" is a handy secondary capability. Being able to see/select your last n copied items is very helpful indeed. (Ctrl-Alt-H is my shortcut, and whenever I'm on a system that doesn't have it installed I become sad when that shortcut doesn't work...)

I would suggest that you watch The Expanse. It's possible that perhaps SyFy may have turned over a new leaf somehow.

Yes, definitely some very bad treatments in the past, a terrible reputation that they earned, but something new that breaks from the pattern as well. I'd say it's worth being a tiny bit optimistic about them.

Someone I know works at a company with the same policy.

State reason (by HR department) for not using Uber: risk of being raped.

Apparently not a problem with Lyft though, so that's good news?

Definitely would be interested in an invite. Alternately, some information on where any former what people should be looking for more info.

Any observations you have about their apparent opsec would also be interesting.

Unfortunately when they realize that their opponents are not constrained by logic and reason, it seems to have the effect of convincing the other side to no longer bother with it either.

The left has their own set of "religious" reasoning. It's important that we make the debate about logic and reality vs magical thinking and emotional reasoning. Not only does "us vs. them" just set people off, it really only shuffles the problem around a bit rather than solving it.

This is exactly the problem that SpaceX (And Blue Origin eventually) are trying to solve with re-usability. Think of a SpaceX launch, the "big" part of the rocket is thrown away just minutes into the flight, once it's fuel is expended. There's really no way to shortcut that, you couldn't refuel that part in-flight. Refueling that part after it lands again is much less expensive than building a new one entirely.

Meanwhile the payload on the top is now "in orbit" but operating in a vastly different environment than the larger component, with different engineering constraints, quite likely using different types of fuel.

If you could couple the initial launch vehicle being "cheap and easy" with another system for moving around to different orbits or getting into even higher orbits (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyhook_%28structure%29 or a "space tug" type orbital vehicle) now you have access to high-orbit/cislunar space, and you can start assembling your larger inter-planetary vehicles or space stations there. (Perhaps using a mass driver to move heavy but necessary things like water and other raw materials to the site at this point, but that greatly depends on what the cost-per-pound of launch can get down to, and what resources you can scrape up out of the solar system)

Using a mass driver to launch, if youkeep the G forces down to the levels NASA wants I think you need something like 100 miles of track?

You can build them much shorter, but they could never be used to launch living cargo. My guess would be that we'll see more investment in them once we have a big rocket (BFR/New Armstrong) capable of launching larger habitation units into higher orbits. Once you have more than 10 humans living up there you start having to think about how to supply them, and then a rail gun looks pretty good, but in the meantime we need to be able to lift large (dimension) things as well as humans, and rockets are actually a pretty good choice for that.

It's amazing to me that people don't understand this. Lumping all rocketry together is a rather grave mistake. Yes, it's all hard, yes they all can explode, but the current Blue Origin landings are the equivalent of tossing a dart and hitting a bullseye across the room, while the current SpaceX landings are tossing a dart, hitting a bullseye in the next room, where the board is strapped to a dog standing on a skateboard, and in the meantime having your dart deploy a second smaller dart that has it's own bullseye to hit. They're just not comparable at all.

I'm a fan of any company that wants to get people off this rock cheaply and safely, but Blue Origin has a long way to go to achieve what SpaceX is doing. I can't wait to see that thing fly though. :-D

Given that the "gameplay"/code of the game itself also implies either utter incompetence or intentional attempts to mislead the audience, I find myself unsurprised by this. :-)

A police sniper would very likely not be authorized to kill a barricaded shooter who wasn't actively in the process of threatening a civilian or officer. "Imminent threat" is an important standard.

If they had time to rig up an IED to the robot, and drive the sucker in there, use the camera to make sure he didn't have any hostages (they did that right?), and THEN detonate the bomb, it doesn't sound like the threat was all that imminent.

Tear gas, flashbangs, water cannons, a nice safe armored vehicle... All appropriate (ish) police tools.

IEDs: rather less so.

For those interested see also http://www.aredn.org/

In the state of Oregon votes are handled 100% vote-by-mail. I've never heard any complaints from them about voter coercion or other issues caused by not physically stepping into a voting booth.

If there are any issues caused by this in Oregon, or other locales that use vote-by-mail, how come these articles never bring them up? I can only surmise that vote-by-mail seems to work pretty well so far, so what's the rationale for being against it?

Not quite true though... Piwik, by default, includes EasyList, which has the following block rule:

/piwik.$domain=~piwik.org,script

This will block your self-hosted piwik.js file, unless you perform some redirection trickery.

I wear a kilt. "Dress implies sissy" seems like a personal problem rather than a factual statement. And if you're going to attack anyone for an icon then you should also be going after anyone who puts the typical "pants vs. skirts" bathroom signs up. At some point icons are just icons, and you shouldn't define yourself based on the stereotypes the world uses to make communication clearer for all of us.

You don't see me complaining that the men's bathroom implies I should be wearing pants. I find it handy to be able to easily tell which door to go through.

Not to diminish the content of the article in any way, but I couldn't help but be amused when I read the headline and thought "Oh god, stuck on a two dimensional plane, how horrible!"

Indeed there are. Bad habits like drinking, smoking, drugs, teenage pregnancy, and how to assault teachers in the parking lot.

These were all extremely common things in the school district where I grew up, which is why my parents, (and the parents of many others in the area) chose to homeschool their children. I never learned those things by "just being among other people" and I think I'm better for it. (My state-required yearly standardized testing scores growing up, that I started college at 16, and the leadership positions in social organizations I’ve held most of my life seem to bear this out.)

Being "around people" is not exclusive to public school kids, nor is it some sort of magical indicator for life success. In addition, homeschooling isn’t exclusively the domain of religious zealotry and terrible people. There are plenty of us who you've met who are perefectly "normal", and may even lack some of the usual bad habits. Please update your stereotype database. :-)

Okay, I'm gonna take a huge karma hit for this, but I had flashbacks to slashdot mentality here:

"But I wear a kilt you insensitive clod!"

The writing style of this post is pretty fun. Sometimes bringing highly technical science down to "sorting out this extra crap (that you don't care about)" level of accessibility is a good way to give people an overview of a concept they may not otherwise have the time to dig in to.

I love this concept, I already think about maps this way in my head, I'd love a way to externalize it!

Unfortunately though I don't want it on game center, I want it in some sort of open exportable data that I can access, perhaps make a widget for my website out of, or update from other devices.

Our 4 year old dishwasher was just recalled because it has, apparently, a habit of catching on fire unexpectedly.

"Perfected" is a tricky word. :-D

It's because you're using 10.5, last of the great OS-X's. Performance requirements went up in 10.6 and WAY up in 10.7. I have an old MBPro running 10.5 and it consistently feels faster (and is provably far more stable) than my new model work machine running 10.7

I always assumed this was because in the Star Trek universe people were freed from a lot of the drudgery by the systems, and used the time to go do the interesting things that they wanted to do.

I suppose it's because I see reddit and facebook as a weird form of escapism from reality. I know that when I don't have any pressing issues I'm much more likely to sit down and read. reddit/hn is for when I need a quick "don't think about work" break, never for when I have the whole weekend stretching out in front of me.

The utopian dream of Star Trek is a never-ending weekend where _you_ get to decide what's important without being overly concerned that you'll starve to death on Monday.

Upvoted for "truculent".

A much more balanced approach to the issue, well done. I would have liked to see a little more discussion about the web vs. not-web topic as I don't think it quite hits the point that "web is just a UI" as hard as it could.

But it at least gets the discussion going. "Atwood's law" is almost a straw man. Just because the UI is written in javascript doesn't mean the entire stack is going to be.

A short article, but the point it makes is absolutely true. As an email tech support provider my #1 tool in defusing the anger at a situation is responding in a "real" way, often like what's shown in this article.

In 18 months of supporting 40k+ users I've yet to receive a single negative comment about it.

While I'm 100% behind this, no questions asked, couldn't have said it better myself, Canonical has one huge disadvantage going for them if they were to try and create the best damn development platform out there: Hardware.

I do agree though, and I do hope Canonical takes this advice and succeeds at it. They're possibly one of the only groups both big enough and organized enough to pull it off and do it well.