Isn’t atmospheric loss on the scale of millions of years? If we were capable of giving mars an atmosphere, surely we’d be capable of topping that atmosphere off when needed?

So, even if maybe the terraforming and colony project has a life span of a few million years…that’s still longer that’s humanity has existed.

You’re correct. Moreover a magnetic field is not needed for a planet to have an atmosphere. For example Venus has no magnetic field, and it has a very thick atmosphere, even though it gets 4 times the solar flux as Mars.

If I understand right, the equivalent in python wouldn't be

    r = urllib.request.urlopen(url).read()
    d = literal_eval(r.decode())

But rather:

    r = urllib.request.urlopen(url).read()
    logging.info(r.content)

Wouldn't that be pretty insane if the those two code fragments were functionally equivalent?

I think Wikipedia draws a good distinction here: culinary and botanical. So, banana is NOT berry in a culinary sense, and a strawberry is. Even if, botanically it’s the opposite.

I think it’s an important distinction because people using the term “berry” almost always are using it in a culinary context and not a botanical context.

No one wants a pie with fresh “aggregate accessory fruits”, just as much as no one would think it’s correct to call an eggplant tomato pie a dessert with “fresh berries”.

Donald Trump is behind Truth, which could conceivably make it or it’s service providers targets.

Donald Trump is mostly politically irrelevant outside the GOP at this point. Certainly not relevant enough to warrant going to the lengths of attacking the service's e-mail provider's ISP to attack a service affiliated with him. That's an incredibly contrived but also resource-intensive attack with a very limited effect.

I think the implication is that salary is paid regardless of employment, as long as the non compete is enforced.

So if I quit McDonald’s they have to either keep paying me or release me from the non-compete and allow me to work at Burger King.

I think it’s totally fair.

I think:

You’re not catching covid in situations where you’d typically wear a mask (regardless of masking), rather where you typical don’t wear a mask, like from family member.

I’m not really saying I agree, but I think that is the context.

This is not true. The prevailing opinion is that backups do not need to be modified and that it’s enough to delete at restore time (and to of course not process the data again).

More like: uber has two contracts, one between the themselves and the driver and one between themselves and the rider.

If a driver is refusing rides based on race, then that is Uber’s problem. If they then want to pursue legal action against the driver, that should be entirely between Uber and the driver.

If the solution to homebrews handling of major versions is to not use homebrew, I think it indicates there are issues.

I think it should work like almost Linux distros where the major version is fixed for a release lifecycle, and any other installations require modification. So say brew install postgresql should always install 12, and if you want something else you have to add the version modifier.

This is a side point but the docker suggestion is far cleaner if you work on multiple apps as you can easily configure and run multiple versions with Dockerfiles and compose files to be exactly right for each app, with only the plugins the specific app needs, data stored in a custom location for each app, and the ability to turn off postgres for an app. System postgres installs and upgrades are a needles pain for development.

But I agree that's nothing to do with brew conversation.

Not just different apps but having multiple working environments for the same app - very useful when you wreck the db on a feature branch and need to jump to another to fix a bug etc.

You don’t have to use the exclusion, and in a lot of cases it’s not really beneficial.

The other option is to pay the difference in taxes, so if you were taxed at 50% in the country of residence, and the tax bill in the US would have been 45%, you’ll get the 5% back as tax credits towards future US tax obligations.

If you’re working in most European nations you’ll probably be paying more in tax than you would in the US.