Yeah - IDK why it never makes it to these lists. R too. Matlab being 2D matrix first/default gets it right for me there. IK matrices trivially translate to arrays, still: find 2D to be extra expressive on human level, for zero price paid. I get it it's all the same to the cpu. 2D rows-columns rectangle of data being the simplest data structure both necessary and sufficient covering a 1) matrix 2) spreadsheet 3) SQL table 4) directed graph of nodes and edges. (in the past I've read someplace that lists are for pie eaters, but wouldn't know myself
Octave covers all the Matlab functionality I need, not sure if it runs in a browser. I mean if you have the source code for something there must be some way to get it to run in a browser these days, right?
of course it runs in a browser - pretty much everything you can build using clang will run on the web. including linux kernel and llvm itself.
to hell with peanuts: i'm pretty sure someone must even built cpython interpreter to wasm target, why not. there is no limit of what can be achieved by a group of motivated people with zero sense of direction.
k, however, makes quite a bit of sense on the web - also on your phone. and time to prompt is going to be MUCH faster than python and octave. and i mean their native builds :)
It would be helpful to provide some citations and evidence around the claim “ most lived at subsistence levels with starvation always at their doorstep”. There is an increasing amount of evidence that this was not the case.
Crazy! Imagine if human beings did not have to worry about losing access to healthcare for themselves and their children because their company went bankrupt or they got laid off. So Crazy!
The craziest thing to me is paying less even accounting for insurance for simple seasonal illnesses. Do I have strep? Go to hospital and pay $400 to find out yes/no and then get prescription covered by insurance at opaquely priced pharmacy of your choice. Go to private practice pay $25 and get yes/no and then you can freelance prescription.
Flame retardants were introduced into everything because of CA and Federal laws requiring items to smolder and not catch fire. While I don't believe flame retardants should be as prevalent as they are today, I also think its unfair to say they don't prevent house fires. They absolutely have done some saving but I don't think across the entire population its a net positive. These rules were originally put into place because of a number of high profile cases where kids died, the biggest vector were beds, people smoked and dropped the butt on their mattress and poof.
That rule in CA is in the right direction, glad they are helping right some of the wrong they did but it is still in everything. I think its more helpful to paint the accurate historical picture as opposed to yours which is using hyperbole to generate a reaction.
“”” Flame retardants were widely adopted in the 1970s, when in-home smoking was more prevalent and electronics frequently overheated. New research, however, shows that flame retardants are not very effective at slowing or preventing fires. “””
Is that supposed to prove something? That site is all fluff.
I am not here defending flame retardants, I absolutely believe they don't provide a net positive to the population. Your lack of information and hyperbole is what I am after. These were not "scams". Your SF website does a good job of leaving out California’s TB117 which is one of the pivotal laws that created widespread adoption of retardants in items. There were also some prior Federal laws but TB117 is seen as one of pivotal ones.
Now, I don't know the history behind the chemical manufacturers and if they were behind the fear mongering but there absolutely were tragic cases that moved the nation to implement these laws. It was not just a "scam" that gets added to everything.
I think they could be called a scam. Having flame retardent in our bedding by law, all so smokers could smoke in bed safely, feels like some sort of regulatory capture to me.
They should make flame-retardent bedware and non-flame-retwrdent bedware, and should be legally obligated to disclose every flame-retarded chemical and daily expected daily exposure levels on the tags and box.
Well things have gotten better in the past 20yrs but there is a long way to go. Childrens sleepware is the notable item that still contains retardants and at least there is mandatory tagging for when its present.
when I have done readings before I honestly could not find note of regulatory capture but sometimes these things get muddied with history. Saying its a scam is just hyperbole. Most of the laws on the book are tied in time to some fairly large (100+ person) fire death events. There is a reason those laws were created and we were still in a period of time where chemicals could solve all problems.
Flame retardant bedware is called "the bedware your great grandparents had".
Problem is, in capitalism's endless march towards ... well, who knows what, precisely ... companies began to make bedware out of synthetic fabric because it was (a) cheaper to make (b) allowing lower retail prices and potentially (c) higher profit margins. There's also some sense in which synthetic fabrics can be longer lived than non-synthetics.
Once this stuff was out in people's lives, we realized that there was (at least) one downside: these fabrics also ignite much more easily than non-synthetics, and when they do, they generate flame which spreads a fire even more rapidly.
One option would have been to just ban any fabrics that ignite more easily than (say) cotton. That would have been cast by some as a move against the interests of lower income people (not necessarily incorrectly).
Another option would have been to just leave things alone, and let the people who choose to buy synthetic bedware sans flame retardants deal with the consequences themselves. Alas, that's not actually how our society works. When your neighbor's house goes up in flames because of their bedding choices, you still want your fire department to show up and get things under control, lest you lose your home too.
So .. we set standards for how much and what types of flame retardants were acceptable (standards that are subject to and have been changed over time), and let people continue to buy synthetic bedware (and furniture and clothes and ....) all of which contribute to the fuel load should a fire break out.
I am a firefighter (II), and the increase in the speed with which homes can now be fully engulfed because of the decline in the low of low-flammable materials and the rise of synthetics is utterly terrifying.
I am unlikely to use a black plastic spatula more than 12.5 times more often, daily, for enough days in a row for this to really be a risk I need to worry about. Having said that, the next time I need to buy a spatula I'll probably buy one made of something else.
You left out the part where Haiti was destabilized and crushed by colonial debt. And I don’t think that lack of fish is what’s keeping the tourists away. But hey, weren’t we talking about Denmark ?
So is that relevant because it means that cutting down all the trees want their fault, or because it provides an alternate explanation for what mechanism is causing the soil to else?
And obviously the connection to Denmark is meant to be that a lack of trees causes problems so replacing things with trees must be good. Even if there hasn't been news about those problems happening there.
The “welfare queen single moms” criticism is a shallow critique of government assistance programs overall and doesn’t move the analysis forward in an evidence backed manner. This is an old Republican USA talking point.
Also arguing that government support reduces the strength of family networks really needs some serious citation to back it up.
A more likely danger is that a non swimmer is drowning and grabs onto another child and drags them underwater or tries to climb on top of them. This is a known danger and is a standard part of lifeguard training in the US. Drowning persons can be very dangerous to other people and to rescuers. So a drowning child can definitely endanger other kids.
