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From TFA

>Impacts to our technology from a G3 storm are usually minimal. However, a G3 storm has the potential to drive the aurora further away from its normal polar residence, and if other factors come together, the aurora might be seen over portions of Pennsylvania, Iowa, to northern Oregon.

>Yes, but now the roads carry more people. You can't fix congestion, but you can make it so the roads can sustain the local population, even if they're traveling at 20mph during rush hour.

Yeah and then the city grows and you are back to square one, with insufficient road capacity to support everyone driving.

Widening roads is a bandaid fix, treating the symptoms and not the cause.

The real solution is to treat the root cause by making it easier for people to not drive.

>if traffic is a problem then streets should be expanded

Quite the opposite. Traffic will expand like a gas to meet the available capacity. You can only make the roads so wide, but never will it be wide enough to abate traffic congestion.

If traffic is a problem it's time to make driving less attractive by building bike lanes, subways/light rail/monorail, and investing in transit.

Not when you're on a scooter, I would think.

Having been to both (but not having driven a scooter in Atlanta) I'd suggest scooting around Paris is very different than scooting around Atlanta.

>Shockingly, most food delivery people don’t use cars…

Depending on geographic location, no doubt. Can you imagine risking your life on a scooter weaving through idiots in their lifted pickups in any American metro?

I don't know what that means.

Seems to me the solution to that problem is to fix the problems with American schools that produce such illiterate citizens, rather than continue dumbing everything down.

>Outlook(web) does atrocious top-quoting rendering it useless for mailing lists.

The weirdly aggressive way people talk about top vs bottom quoting is probably one of the things turning new users away from mailing lists.

>Is your goal to (try to) teach people new words, or to communicate your points?

Fancy words exist for a reason, and it's that their semantics are different from other words. Sometimes using a fancy word is the correct choice, and sometimes a more common word will do.

Synonyms don't actually mean the same thing as each other.

If I'm reading a text in French and I come across a word I don't know, I look it up. It's my second language after all. I certainly don't expect French authors to dumb anything down for me.

>I wonder how it measures up to Julia

In what way?

Julia is of course an entire language ecosystem whereas lisp-stat is a collection of packages mostly maintained by a single dude.

I believe it was the engineering school of the University of Waterloo that had (still has?) a giant pipe wrench called the Rigid Tool as their mascot.

>We also don't want to foster a "chemicals are bad" attitude more than it already exists.

I dunno, I kinda think we do want to foster that.

I use gluten free cast iron orbital sander for maximum smug.

I just used an orbital sander on mine. It does scrambled eggs no probt.

>Who are these beginner devs?

Hi, I was one at one point. I'm an aerospace engineer, not a software guy. I merely dabble in coding and as such I don't know how to implement a quadtree or what Dijkstra's Algorithm is for. I've been coding off and on in some capacity since the early 2000s. I learned what closures were a year or two ago.

Not everyone who slings code has a comp sci/software eng degree.

>Absolutely not. If you've actually done the research that leads the knowledge gatekeeper to ask these, these questions are easy for you to answer.

Depending on the specifics of the question being asked, sure, I agree.

But speaking only for myself, I abhor playing silly coy games of cat and mouse. I only come to chat rooms as a third/last resort exactly because so often you can't get a direct answer without satisfying somebody's ego first. It's basically hazing.

I've got a thousand things to do and it would be more expedient for both asker and giver if the response to "How do I do X?" was a simple "via Y".

Right, as if my "How do I do X?" wasn't merely illustrative.

Standard HN pedantry pls go.

>Chat room helpers often will try and lead you to discover the right answer yourself. It may feel frustrating, but play their game and you will learn. This is the discussion level of the pyramid.

I fucking hate this so much. You spend hours trawling through Google search results and finally decide the answer isn't out there. Stack overflow is caustic so you don't want to ask there. Hop on IRC and ask "how do I do X?" and now you have to deal with a bunch of "well what happens if you do <tangentially-related-thing>?"

Fucking answer the question or don't offer yourself as a helper.

This has been my experience as well.

When I worked in military SAR, interruptions in service provision (i.e. aircraft breaking down, or lack of crews, etc.) very quickly attracted attention of some very senior brass.

The people who couldn't give simple answers to direct questions, who couldn't articulate a coherent plan to get back in business, were the ones who floundered.

US Treasury rates

I really like emacs and use it whenever I can. I wish the community of emacs users and contributors was larger, but emacs is so clunky out of the box it's really hard to onboard new people.

Good grief. It's blatantly obvious that what's being discussed is "always online 3rd syncthing peer as a service".

The United States is not, strictly speaking, a democracy. The people don't make decisions. They elect people who make decisions, thus it is a republic.

Not sure how old you are but the internet of today is not the same as it was when I was growing up.

National Security Letters or their equivalent in other jurisdictions render the "no business incentive" argument to be moot.

A libertarian paradise is a corporate dystopia.

A Hacker News town would be awful. A bloated mess of JavaScript powered "smart" things connected to a surveillance capitalism advertising dystopia.

Tomatoes crossed the Atlantic during the Spanish conquest, so the Italians had several hundred years to adapt to tomatoes.

I've tried a lot of different solutions and none really work for me.

In the end, I went back to pencil and paper. Not pen, but pencil. I buy good quality notebooks like the Midori MD Paper A5, and good quality pencils like the Mars Lumograph.

I use the most minimal "system" possible which is a pared-back version of Bullet Journaling with all the dumb stuff removed.

Because I can't write nearly as fast as I can type it forces me to paraphrase, and I feel like the cognitive processing therein increases retention.

As an added benefit, it's trivial to incorporate diagrams, arrows and stuff to show logical links, etc.

I just go cold turkey every few months when my caffeine tolerance gets out of hand.