This headline gave me an aneurysm -- Who is World Miss Covid and why are we crowning women Miss Covid?!

I'm not trying to be that guy but, this is old news. The volcanic eruptions also made the sun "dimmer and cooler" because there was so much volcanic ash in the way that global temperatures were down a 1.5*C, according to the evidence and my best recollection of the digits. It's been extensively researched before, so if they just put together now that the moon disappeared because of the volcanic ash, it was like not being able to add two and two for decades. Other things were probably less visible on account of the atmosphere being densely laden with ash. Like my affection for CowboyNeal.

Your cell phone on vibrate in your pocket will train you to check your phone on interrupts. It'll also train your brain to falsely trigger physical sensations. This brief view into chaos, mixed with something where your arms are constantly being vibrated to steer you and judge distance sounds like some people will be having way too many worker bee dreams. Honestly, I don't think this is an ethical product, but it depends on the duration of exposure and frequency of use. "I can't shake these vibes, man!" Na, I'm sure they're all champions at the big AZMN

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I cannot believe the audacity of these fools. To set one of the greatest nations back so far over the next several decades, how absolutely deplorable. The rest of the world will outpace us in creativity if we neglect to educate our populous. We will become wage slaves to Chinese hedge funds and Arabian gas wells. How is this a delightful future? Why are all these chumps smiling and happy, driving the Arrow of Freedom into the ground? They better pray Righteousness sleeps long, because when she wakes up there is gonna be hell to pay.

It is a legitimate question, whether working on side projects is okay. Personally, my opinion is very strong on this matter, as I do not support wage slavery (being paid an hourly wage to be completely "rented") and therefore I support project/contract compensation when possible. That said, with a project salary it does not matter what your sequence of work is as long as the project is completed. However, with an hourly jojo I think it makes sense that we, as human beings, are going to need to do things that are not mono-task. Otherwise, we will go crazy and miss out on the beauty that is life. Instead, employers need to compensate people far better, and this as a culture can only happen when we share wealth more generously with those who need it. As far as I am concerned, the mental well-being, financial well-being, and health (vision, dental, etc) well-being is what an employer is responsible to help optimize in the life of a human. We provide one another benefit, may we maximize it. If zoning out to work on something tangentially related helps my mind uncontract and be able to view the patterns from a more inclusive and zoomed-out level, with the precision of all them tiny cities on those silicon chips, I totally say go for it. You are a human, not a robot, if you want a robot go hire one. If you want a human being, let them zone out for hours at a time, it is absolutely okay, because in the long run they will be fresher, stronger, more alert, and more tuned-in to what's going on.

(operator arg1 arg2 arg3 arg4 arg5 ....) just makes a lot more sense, but it does take some deliberate training to grok in full. The basic for loop is now map, reduce, filter, etc. So there are some bits to know about when transitioning, but I think FP is great. Currently I use Clojure and appreciate the philosophy behind it just as much as the language and its elegance. LISP dialects tend to be beautiful, once the parens have settled into place...

Facebook needs to improve its own technology before stealing the tech of others. This is clearly IP infringement and is the sort of thing the courts SHOULD be able to handle in 2017. Alas, legal incompetence means "oh you had a cool idea? gone." So yeah, Facebook fack off pls. And pls remove all the bullshit from your own service. Facebook is more botnets than humans at this point. Do you believe that? That's my guess as a man of computational science. Anyhow, SnapChat I hope you make it through, and I hope you are able to hire some lisp programmers to help you overcome even huge teams at lumber mills like facebocks. Okay, much love y'all.

It seems to me that the key lengths cannot be finite for something post-quantum and thus must end up being some sort of (lispy (program)) that is a lazy-sequence (returning specific values only on demand) of all the [infinite] key bits. So your cryptokey is _alive_ *laughs like doctor frankenstein*

Sadly almost all news outlets have become "entertainment news" outlets and it's basically brainwashing and directing conversations to such ephemeral and mundane things that by the looks of it we're going to run out of water and clean air if we don't change our priorities quickly. Quality over quantity

y'all need to put your money in credit unions, stat. and while i'm here in this textarea element, why don't i try and offer some good refutations as to why such a theory is kinda balderdash: + the universe is patterns (?) and freedom is the chucking away and letting go of harming patterns, adopting helpful patterns, and eventually being beyond patternalia + when have we ever successfully run a simulation? are people suggesting that something that is simulated doesn't occur at all, much like yesterday or tomorrow? + we're in space + does the universe really require someone to hit the start button? this is the trouble with people who are around too many buttons or ignition switches, they assume that all things need a person to hit the button. the sunrise don't need no button, foo.

Who said your constitutional rights go away when you're dead?

Slashdot is putting out fire with gasoline again.

Yeah, a lot of experienced coders will say this is not where coding really happens. Say that you want to see someone's work flow in Emacs or how to make a python/django (web framework) website for the first time. This bridges a lot of gaps in knowledge and experience. If I could have simply seen which editors people were using and how they switched between coding and testing and revising, it would have saved me many hours of trial and error. Now, of course, actual "coding" meaning the design and the implementation happen in your mind, but that doesn't mean this isn't a wonderful learning tool. Although, I do find it really funny that they stream the music people are listening to. Sure, maybe it boils down to watching other people google the same stuff I would, but I still think that in the field of coal you'll find a few diamonds in the rough. This might even be a good tool for psychologists because we can clearly see the ability to concentrate on a given task with the omnipresence of the web.