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> Any foreigner can be denied entry to a country for any and no reason whatsoever

That's a completely different thing than what happened here. Those are the rules, everyone knows that, and acts accordingly. The biggest problem in the US right now, is that the government isn't being ruled by it's own laws (sort-of). That's what's meant by a "constitutional crisis".

If the US government changed the rules to allow non-citizens to be arrested & held without warrants, then that would a different kind of thing. It would be a little totalitarian, but not a breakdown of the rule of law.

Note, I said sort-of above because the laws are written in such away as to be somewhat vague so that some people claim the government is acting legally.

What about the part of the Python ethos where "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it"

That might be more exponential than polynomial.

Also, the classic issue with tumors, is that they're your own body, and it's hard to selectively target them. Any treatment that hibernates tumor cells is likely hibernate normal cells, and be incompatible with life; unless you get really lucky.

Historically at least, one of the significant jobs of a wingman has been to act as bait. With dogfighting, with cannon fire, fighters are most vulnerable when they're trying to shoot down another plane, because they need to be pointing to their target so they tend to be going in a fairly straight and predictable direction. The idea was the wingman would lure one of the enemies onto their back, and then the their partner would dispatch the relatively easy target. This is one of reasons why fighter aces in WWII had such a lopsided kill count compared to everyone else. In order for this all to work, the pilots have to trust each other, and it was certainly the case that some fighter aces put a higher priority on getting kills than preventing the death of their wingman.

I'm not terribly knowledgeable about these things (and most of it is theoretical anyway because most of this tech is untested), but I suspect that there will be a similar mechanic with modern stealth and beyond-visual-range air warfare, whereby firing missles makes you easier to locate and ultimately target, so having a wingman who's willing to act as target practice while another pilot waits for an enemy to betray their location could be useful.

Yes, but it was coined to promote specific view of Eichmann that he himself tried to cast himself in: that he didn't really like murdering Jews, he was just following orders.

> I don't understand and can't accept why crimes committed while drunk get you a lesser punishment than a crime committed while sober.

Where I'm from, most people who kill other people while driving get off without any punishment at all.

The unwillingness, on all sides of political spectrum, to provide physical and psychological support to former military members in modern democracies is something that completely baffles me.

In Canada, at least, no-one wants to join the military because it's a shit job with shit pay, and what we end up with is a small contingent of volunteers who are either a) highly idealistic or b) excited to commit war crimes, and that is why the Canadian Airborne Regiment is no longer a thing.

Is Microsoft's sub claim unstable?

I think you might have misunderstood the point. Miscellaneous claims like email/preferred_username shouldn't be used to identify 3rd party logins. Apart from not necessarily being unique, they're also vulnerable to change. Changing your email shouldn't make you lose access to all your accounts. The point of the sub claim is that it's it's unique and stable.

It's worth bearing in mind that the people making these policy decisions in 2020 were doing so without any objective knowledge of how the pandemic would actually end up playing out.

Car safety is somewhat different. While the harms of a car-dependent society are subjectively hard to come to terms with, especially for those who have grown accustom to it, it's a lot easier to objectively measure and predict.

The culture is derived from the economics though. Software engineers who value simplicity don't get promoted, or their software is not as successful, because the other engineers who produce complex software produce results that users are attracted to and the cost of that complexity is not so great as to completely ruin it (at least not at first).

On top of that, a little bit of software can be used by a lot of people, but a little bit of building usually can't, so unless you're Gaudí building the Sagrada Família, nobody really wants to spend a couple centuries building a complex building.

Partial indexes are still slower, the database needs to scan the index, and then look for the data, and data is less likely to appear in the same pages.

> The point is that there’s a single standard

There already was single standard. I think your point is that you want there to be a single implementation. You can't really have that at this point without allowing powerful commercial interests to basically have free reign over what code is executed on your computer.

> Also, not sure how the name was picked-up

(Big caveat: this all depends on joining nylon ropes of similar diameters. Different diameters and UHMWPE cord has different rules)

My understanding is that the American's picked it up from the Europeans in the 90's, but then mixed up with the figure-8 knot which is the actual death knot. Some guy on the internet did some tests, and the figure 8 will roll and capsize at about 1-2 kN. Rappel loads are usually a bit under 1 kN, but if you hit enough snags, it could come out and there was a bunch of accidents resulting from that.

The overhand knot, when tied normally will role at about 3-4 kN which is well above a normal amount of force in a rappel. Also, it tightens as it rolls, so with enough tail, you'll be dead from something else before it could be a concern.

Incidentally, the double fisherman has a bad habit of getting stuck, so if you're doing multiple rappels, especially in icy conditions, or in sticky/jagged rocks, it presents a whole different safety problem.

Edit: source https://user.xmission.com/~tmoyer/testing/EDK.html

> Every single study done on it shows that creative staff (including engineers) are more productive working where they are less disturbed, that open-plan offices are the least productive environment, etc.

Do you have any specific sources on hand (preferably a good meta-study)? I've heard this claim a lot, and I'd like it to be true, but I've never seen it sourced. Also, I feel like it could depend a lot on the individual, but anecdote is not data.

And yes, open-plan offices truly suck.

Just write in the style where all your names are like 'folder1/folder2/folder3/folder1Folder2Folder3Thing.ts`.

(to be clear, this is sarcasm, please don't do this!)

> It tells you that it is a credit monitoring service when you call, but it is indeed the password manager service

That actually sounds like it might be a business model (at least in places where the proletariat don't get too uppity). You run a password manager service and calculate data on people's password strengths and the number of duplicated password they use, and then feed this data to some sort of credit check system.

IIRC, Firefox doesn't always give back memory when the machine has free memory. If you start running other high memory processes, then Firefox might dump some memory. The reason for this is 1) there's not much point in freeing memory if it will be unused and 2) switching web pages is something browsers do a lot, and freeing and then reallocating large chunks of memory is a significant performance hit.

So humanity's stupidest form of cultivation strikes again.

I imagine these stats have a lot more to do with the roughness of the water than the temperature. Rough water can be extremely difficult and stressful to stay up in, especially if you're not used to it.

Also, if you get tossed off a boat in the North Sea, chances are that the water is not very calm.

> I have a third party which returns errors ~20% of the time outside of working hours

Then presumably those errors shouldn't be exceptions. Of course, there's a lot of a lot of assumptions behind this:

1. You have control over the code that interfaces with the third party. Otherwise presumably you'd have to write a shim that catches the exception and turns it into an error value, and that's probably not worth the effort.

2. You're work in a language that doesn't type check exceptions (i.e. not Java with checked exceptions) and your language also doesn't have a nicer way of handling errors as a (discriminated) union.

3. Your co-workers will go complete bananas if you start using some sort of result type or [success, value|error] tuple instead of an exception because that's how they've done it for 20 years.

The reason for this is that exceptions in most languages escape the type system and are in general more awkward to catch.

Of course, I'd also disagree with "do not log" in this context, though I might prefer a logging mechanism that allowed me to write queries on it (like recording values in a database).

A lot of what counts as spam these days isn't something like "I search for bicycle reviews and get penis enlargement pills", it's more like "I search for bicycle reviews and get some blog who searched Amazon for the 5 most popular bikes and posted links to them with a little blurb and called it a 'Review'".

These sort of things are easy to spot, but only if you actually have a basic amount of familiarly with the topic. It's hard to spot with "AI" or super-cheap labor.

I think one of the fundamental things that make search work well about 1-2 decades ago was that web sites would link to each other, and that those links could vaguely correlate with reputation. There were link spammers, but there was actually a some decent organic content as well.

What's happened since then is that almost all the normal "people linking to things they like" has gone behind walled gardens (chiefly Facebook), and vast majority of what remains on the open web are SEO spammers.

This is kind of complicated because [u] is a rounded vowel, so it's slightly "labialized" even if it's not preceded by [w].

Additionally, English spelling rules are complete insanity, and if an English speaker sees "uhan" they'd probably pronounce the 'u' as [ju:].

It matters as words are useful for communication only if we can come to some agreement about what they mean.

What you're suggesting is that people accept that the cost of avoiding COVID and "flattening the curve" isn't worth it, and that we just let the curve do its thing. Hopefully the result that it will either become endemic or extinct, but neither of those are certain.

OP never said you can't develop conscientiousness, just that it was almost certainly partially genetic. You can learn to run faster, but some genetic profiles will never make it to the Olympics by just practice.

In English, Wuhan is typically pronounced with a "w" (/wuːhæn/ or /wuːhɑːn/), see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuhan.

Is it not obvious that one person's data being public (and the resulting information asymmetry) is a lot different than everyone's data being public?

> Real estate developers are not some oppressed group, they tend to run local politics in most of the country.

I think the people who run local politics are often the people who own lots of real estate, not necessarily those who build buildings/improvements on it. Often, they're seeking to maintain or improve the value of their existing estate.

Well, I used to think /pol/ was satire, but they managed to start a whole religion (QAnon).