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He explicitly said that experience does matter. It's just that it was a well known argument so he wouldn't bother retreading it. So, I'm not sure what your point is.

I tried both this and Sketchup for a home modelling project. I ended up paying for Sketchup because it was so much easier to use. I did not need the degree of control you can get with FreeCAD, so it was just wasted time and energy.

"I think about it like even numbers. There’s an unlimited number of even numbers but obviously they’re limited, right? Because 3s and 7s aren’t in there. Language is like that. There’s an unlimited number of possible things we can say, of sentence structures, but not anything can be a sentence structure. So you’re absolutely right. Language is unlimited, but it’s unlimited in a limited way."

This is such a tantalizing idea, but there doesn't seem to be anyway to extend it beyond "we don't know what it would be like to think with a different language paradigm, but it would probably be different." I want to know how human thoughts are shaped and constrained by human language.

Wow, I see you have already thought about this exact question a great deal. This was a clear and compelling answer.

Your pitch deck is impressive. Good luck!

This reminds of Energy Vault [1], which is based on the same principle, just above ground. Doing this above ground seems to make a lot more sense when you consider all of the additional costs associated with digging and maintain massive shafts. I am not clear why the underground approach is at all appealing. Can anyone explain?

[1] https://energyvault.com/

You really ought to read I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream. The author has already thought of basically the same thing and written a rather compelling yet disturbing short story about. In 1967, no less.

Yes, I live in Oslo.

Ouch, that is really rough. I hope your severance was enough to carry you through until you can find something new. My partner is in petro-adjacent company* and they have a full hiring freeze. We are wondering when the layoffs are coming. Good luck.

*technically, they have an industry agnostic service, but something like 90% of their customers are oil companies, so...

Since you are Norwegian, and presumably working for a Norwegian company, I am curious how such a layoff was possible. Was it an actual layoff or are you permittert?

My first thought was how ridiculously out of touch with the economic reality of the 99% this author was. Even if you love an artist and are willing to spend some amount of money to support them, that amount is not going to be anywhere near 1k. This author is deeply ensconced in her elite Bay Area bubble. It is embarrassing, tbh.

I have never worked or applied for FANG. But, I have worked with several ex-FANGers. So, my only advice is: Just don't be that person that wears your Google (or whatever) jacket for the next 5 years. It sends strange signals to your coworkers.

She looks down her nose at "science fiction" and claims that her work is "speculative fiction" instead. It is a pretentious, pedantic distinction and, as a lifelong scifi fan, it makes me deeply ambivalent to anything she produces. Even if it is good science fiction.

It says "Pay for what you generate" Do they mean "Get paid for what you generate"? Or am I missing something really fundamental here?

I love fancy coffee, lattes especially. When I was younger, an explicit goal of mine was to become financially secure enough that I could afford a latte a day without sweating it. I used it as a yardstick for success and also knew that it would make me happy.

And, you know what? I was right. I have a good job and drink a latte a day now. It brings me immense pleasure every single time. Even after years of doing it, my daily latte remains a source of joy. I will probably do it the rest of my life, circumstances willing.

None of this is the point though! The point is that economic growth has stagnated while fixed costs have risen. Quibbling over this is ridiculous. The author is absolutely right. In the big picture, $5/day is not what should matter. If income equality was not so absurd and fixed costs not so out of control, everyone would be able to afford it.

Until those systemic injustices are resolved, we are just fighting over crumbs here. It's time for major tax reform. Or revolution. That's what we should be focusing on, not critisizing people for taking care of themselves in our nightmare of a society.

If you are having trouble wrapping your head around WASM (it is a bit funny -- almost but not quite analogous to several more familiar paradigms), I highly recommend this series of posts: https://hacks.mozilla.org/category/code-cartoons/a-cartoon-i...

I live in Oslo and have similar mobility issues (Ehlers Danlos syndrome). I am not classified as disabled, but it is hard for me to walk long distances or stay standing for more than about 30 minutes in general. Luckily, almost everywhere I want to go is less than half a kilometer from the nearest bus/tram/metro stop. If I really need to, I can still take a taxi to anywhere in the city center.

All that being said, Oslo is NOT a good city to live in if you need a wheelchair or crutches (which I do, with unfortunate regularity). 500 meters might as well be 100 kilometers if you are on crutches in the winter. Even if where you are going is right next to a train stop, the stops are not very accessible (long ramps way out of the way etc). The curbs do not consistently have ramps at crosswalks. The sidewalks are often covered in ice in the winter. There are stairs everywhere. Even with a car and being able to park near your destination, you still dealt with these issues.

So, I guess my point is, Oslo making the city center mostly car free is not what makes it unfriendly for people with mobility issues. Taking public transportation is still better than parking and walking wherever. But it still sucks if you have crutches.

I think this is a bit of a false dichotomy. There are plenty of "truly" interesting software engineering jobs, no CS required. There is a lot that goes into designing a good CRUD app (yes, I said it). There are many trade offs, different basic architectures to choose from, different libraries, different design patterns -- all which have pros and cons to be weighed, based on the needs of the project (I speak as someone who makes spends a lot of time doing native Android CRUD work).

It really annoys me when people say "oh that stuff is so trivial, you need to be doing low level C++ optimization or whatever to be doing anything truly interesting or important." It's "Revenge of the Nerds"-type BS. But the truth is that jobs that "only require programming skills" can certainly be interesting if you take it seriously, and treat your craft with the respect it deserves.

Well, it really depends on the kind of battery.

I don't understand why these utilities are not creating a centralized battery in the form of, for example, pumped water. Use excess energy in the day to pump the water up, and let it down when the current energy demand exceeds standard production rates.

Pumped water is not the only possibility either, there are plenty of alternatives which are not terrible for the environment. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_storage

Culture flows from the top. Peter Thiel apparently views women's suffrage and poor people as "tough for libertarians [like him]". Can we talk about, well, how problematic it is that a company that has information on just about everyone (and all the power this yields) is lead by someone like this?

> As Thiel’s wealth has grown, he’s gotten more strident. In a 2009 essay for the Cato Institute, he railed against taxes, ­government, women, poor people, and society’s acquiescence to the inevitability of death. (Thiel doesn’t accept death as inexorable.) He wrote that he’d reached some radical conclusions: “Most importantly, I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.” The 1920s was the last time one could feel “genuinely optimistic” about American democracy, he said; since then, “the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women—two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians—have rendered the notion of ‘capitalist democracy’ into an oxymoron.”

I like this idea. But... you really need to put up more content or content preview so users know what they are getting before signing up.

"More than just America's environment and human health is at stake. "Low-paying jobs, like hog slaughtering and breeding, will remain in places like Duplin County, but the higher-paid executive and marketing jobs will be lost," says Usha Haley, a professor at West Virginia University who has studied the Chinese takeover of American agricultural assets for a decade. "

So... exactly like how many products are designed and managed in the US, but manufactured in Chinese factories? Globalization goes both ways, especially since we seem to be competing in a race to the bottom, with looser and looser environmental and labor laws.

Yes. As others said, it could be a mechanical fuse. However, engineered obsolescence is a real possibility. A friend of mine had a product manufactured in China. He said the factory he partnered with asked him straight-up "Where do you want the weak part? When do you want it to break?" So, I guess it is pretty standard practice to do this (admitted anecdote here, but still)

My friend has one and I got to try it a couple weeks ago. The writing experience is as fantastic as the article describes. But, the rendering of screens is slow and you have to look at bizarro artifacts for a second or two before a new screen is shown. This is... not great. But, I am guessing this can be improved on in future versions. I am waiting for a better/cheaper model to come out, but fully intend to get one when it does.

edit: clarity

Colorado has a similar problem, with their "tax payer bill of rights". I hope other states considering such a measure in the future will learn the lesson of Oklahoma and Colorado.

It is roughly 5.4% of exports http://atlas.media.mit.edu/en/profile/country/nor/#Exports

Does not compare to oil I guess, but I would not call it chickenfeed. It probably does get oversized media attention though, which is why this has so much domestic support.

I live in Norway. There has been pressure for some time on the government to do this because of the salmon exports. Fishing is not as big as oil, but it is still an important part of the economy here. Losing China as a customer meant bad news for a lot of folks in the fishing industry here. Also, since Norway is trying (unsuccessfully so far, but still they are trying) to lessen dependence on oil, this loss mattered even more than you might think at first glance.

Not saying that caving to normalize relations was "right," but it definitely had quite a bit of domestic support here.

The Industrial Revolution -- and all of the CO2 put in the atmosphere since then - was basically "climate engineering". It was unintended, unplanned climate engineering, but that is what it was. We took a stick and poked at the climate system enough to cause measurable shifts in it (climate change).

Many of the solutions being proposed are simply more thoughtful forms of climate engineering, designed with a better understanding of the system's inputs and outputs.

The law of unintended consequences will play a big part here, because the climate is a terrifyingly complex system. But, at this point, it is reasonable to make assertions about big picture inputs and outputs (eg., more/less CO2 = warmer/cooler global temperatures).

So, climate engineering is something that has been going on for a very long time, even if it was not called that. It will continue being a thing, albeit hopefully in a much more directed and thoughtful way.

This guy started with a hypothesis and then set out to prove it by looking for evidence. He then said the evidence was missing (hacked off) but his hypothesis was still true. Really, it is not very persuasive.

I used this as a resource when I was studying geometric modelling, since your page was way more understandable than our course notes (http://www.uio.no/studier/emner/matnat/math/MAT-INF4160/h15/...). It definitely helped with my comprehension and passing the course. So, thank you!

Feature request: please expand the spline section or make a similar, separate primer on splines.

Does anyone know if they will be doing this again? We found out about it too late to do try and apply. I looked through the FAQ on the website, but did not see anything about whether this was a one-off or if they would do it again.

Well, it isn't Tizen https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/samsung-tizen-ope...