I'm not sure if English isn't your first language, but many words have several meanings. For example "providing utility" means "to provide something of use" per this[1] definition:
Utility, or usefulness, is the (perceived) ability
of something to satisfy needs or wants.
Maybe I'm the only one, but is anyone else impressed about the amount of populated areas in the country? It makes me wonder how long we have until we start shoving each other into the oceans.
A long time. Even the populated areas could be a lot more dense, and we wouldn't have people pushing each other into the oceans.
Hong Kong has a density of 6,620 people per square km. If the US was that dense, we could fit the entire population (317 million) in about 48,000 square km (the US has close to 10 million square km)
Of course, we probably couldn't have that many people living in that dense an area. But we do have a long way to go before we are pushing each other into the ocean.
Hong Kong's population density is actually even more impressive than that when you consider that large swaths of the land are either mountains or protected areas that developers are unable to build on. Many areas in the city are an order or magnitude or more higher - Mong Kok, for instance, has a population density up around 130,000 people per km/sq.
The chart only shows presence or absence of human settlement. Just because there are people there doesn't mean there are a lot of people there. Outside of big urban areas like SF, LA, NYC, and Chicago, the US isn't a particularly crowded place. I was born in Shanghai, China and went back to visit family about 4 years ago. I also lived in Manhattan for 3.5 years. Times Square cannot even compare to the absolute crush of humanity at Shanghai's Nanjing Street. Believe me, the US won't be filling up anytime soon.
Just have to point out that the population density is hard thing to talk about in the U.S. because the reality is that NYC is far more dense that any other city. We talk about a few cities as though they are equals when in reality it's NYC and then a giant dropoff to everyone else.
Also there's a perception of a few places as being the "big cities" even though population has changed a lot over the years. Perception hasn't changed. So even though SF is definitely dense, there are other places that are equally dense, like Miami, Philadelphia, and Louisville that people don't really think of that way. And then there are emerging big cities (but not necessarily dense) like San Antonio that people perceive as being small.
Western china is also sparsely populated. Heck, much of even eastern f china is mountainous and not suited to dense population. That there are people at all in these mountain villages is quite amazing. Anyways, the us and china are quite similar in the whole. Just china has many more people.
We'll fight each other over fresh water supplies long before we're shoving each other into the sea.
The looming water crisis is a particularly big problem in California, Arizona, and parts of the Southwest. Interestingly, farmland irrigation accounts for a bigger drain on water than almost all of the nearby cities combined.
Growing crops with desalinated water costs more for the energy to produce the water than the price of the crops grown. That's why desalinated water tends to only be used for domestic supply. The real problem is energy price.
not sure what your project structure looks like, but you can always run lint separately (like in the gradle example) and then use --xml <lin-output.xml>
Then it will use the already existing lint output to remove the resources
In the bad old days before ubiquitous color bitmapped displays, people used monochrome monitors that often used green on black or amber on black. More likely than not, jwz's color scheme is a homage to that.
I really don't get why there is so much complaining about this every time someone posts a link to jwz's blog. Personally, I don't find it difficult to read at all. If anything, I prefer light text on dark background.
I use homebrew terminal colors and I still find it painful to read the type on Jamie's blog. Font choice is a big part of it. I also turn down the opacity to soften terminal.
Yes, I always interpreted introvert vs extrovert as being about where we get our energy from.... introverts get energy from being alone, while extroverts get energy from being with people.
Aye ! Susain Cain describes the distinction quite well[0].
Introvert/Extrovert describes how social intelligence relates to energy increase and decrease. Introverts are more rapidly exhausted in using their social intelligence, whereas extroverts are more rapidly refreshed when deploying their social intelligence. The "way we feel" about social encounters is a symptom of (and thus a correlation with) the rise and fall of energy as we are part of the scene — where typically when we are losing energy, we're less inclined to view the situation positively (social anxiety then is engendered), largely do to our own lack of introspection and the effects of our poor participation/adjustment.
It's more costly for introverts to engage socially, and so the rewards (take aways) are strictly only harder to perceive.
It seems to me that PHP is pushing the built-in webserver to allow for accessibility, or "plug-and-play" if you will. Instead of having to go through having a LAMP setup everywhere you go, you can test code on the fly.
