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No joke, just finished watching HyperNormalisation[1].

The most depressing part to me is that Adam Curtis isn't off on an easily dismissed tangent in this documentary, he's essentially cross cut the last 40 years into a 3 hour cliff notes guide to some of the darker corners of postmodern philosophy.

Specifically, Baudrillard. His 2002 essay, The Violence of the Global[2] has some interesting food for thought:

>We believe that the ideal purpose of any value is to become universal. But we do not really assess the deadly danger that such a quest presents. Far from being an uplifting move, it is instead a downward trend toward a zero degree in all values. In the Enlightenment, universalization was viewed as unlimited growth and forward progress. Today, by contrast, universalization exists by default and is expressed as a forward escape, which aims to reach the most minimally common value. This is precisely the fate of human rights, democracy, and liberty today. Their expansion is in reality their weakest expression.

HyperNormalism is bleak and offers no solutions for course correcting international affairs, and there's the rub: universal solutions may not exist.

For me, my mind's left reeling by the complexity of the times, leaving me at a loss for how to integrate information from sources like Baudrillard into my worldview guiding day-to-day behavior. My typical response is a hyperlocal focus on the people around me in meatspace and trying to at least get the basics right like the golden rule.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fny99f8amM

[2]http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=385
But people like to pay for convenience, and this is convenient. You pay a monthly fee to receive a predetermined project, all the parts necessary to build it, an entire walk through equipped with videos/photo, and customer support.

Sure the price is inflated (for someone with the know-how) but for people interested in learning electronics, the all-in-one-delivered-monthly is a great sell until you grow out of it.
The "CSS Frameworks" like Bootstrap, Foundation, etc. tend to be very opinionated and therefore, for some aspects, difficult to customize. The production sites on which I've worked generally want to project their own unique identity and not look like the "million other Bootstrap sites on the internet." It often ends up being harder to override the BS/Foundation/etc. styles than simply creating a framework from scratch.

Also, as others have noted, the large frameworks tend to be ... well ... large. That can definitely drag down performance if you're forcing a bunch of CSS into a browser that isn't actually needed by the site.
Australia would count for tips as an "optional extra" (for food service. I don't think I've ever tipped anyone else in Aus)
First, and mostly irrelevant, is a definition thing: a fossil resource comes from organic decay. Oil and coal mostly come from ancient prehistoric forests. As far as we know, you can't find these outside earth and even the most optimistic projections do not expect oil to last more than one more century (pessimistic projections are surprised it did not stop yesterday. Without shale oil we would be past peak oil.)

It has an important consequence: coal and oil can only be found on a relatively thin layer of the earth, its outer crust. Uranium on the other hand can be found outside the earth (we have found some of the moon for instance and it is a mineral: all planets are expected to have some) and inside the mantle. Actually, the deeper we go, the more we expect to find. It is believed that the heat of earth's center is partly caused by fission reactions.

Second, it is not scarce like oil is. Known reserves may seem small but mineral resources tend to plateau at ~80 years of global consumption as it is usually not profitable to do exploration at a higher pace than that, so the actual reserves are probably much more and likely very extensible as we improve our boring techniques. It is pretty realistic to say we have several centuries of regular uranium for the most common fissile reaction used in power plants.

Third, we have mastered more than one nuclear reaction for energy production. And by that, I mean that we have demonstrated their use on industrial scale: we know how to use plutonium and uranium-238, an isotope of uranium that is 100 times more common than the one we use in regular power plants. Huge plants using these have been built and operated. They are a bit more complicated and expensive, but they work.

With these known and industrialized tech, and only accounting currently known and profitable reserve, you reach an amount of reserve that has to be counted in tens of millennia. And that is not counting reactions that we know work from experimental reactors, or more futuristic prospects like nuclear fusion.
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Looking forward to adopting new technologies in 2017.
Especially TypeScript will probably be great addition. Our large AngularJS and NodeJS projects would definitely benefit from that!
Where is the discussion?
I feel like we're talking past each other :). Building rustup with and for musl isn't the problem. Needing glibc for the binaries downloaded by rustup is. So this is more about toolchain and target binaries for linux being libc-agnostic which is easiest to achieve by musl-static-linking them which requires upstream support. As a first step a second set of musl-dynlink, parallel to glibc-dynlink, binaries would suffice.

Speaking of Debian, one has to be careful in how stuff is built for the result to run on Debian, Fedora, Arch, Suse, which is another reason to simplify things with musl since it already bundles third party C code anyway. So far rustup doesn't suffer from that, but if it ever were to dynlink ncurses or another core Linux lib, it would have the same issue as GHC's bindists. It doesn't and that's great!
He'll lose his job in a month, when a distracted and overworked manager finally decides he's had enough. But since he only wanted that job for a couple of months, he doesn't care about it.

But a tip is something he's going to get here and now. Much better for immediate motivation.
Link goes to review republished from 2012 on Salon:

http://www.salon.com/2012/10/03/eugenides_on_denis_johnson_b...

Paris Review links to subscriber only story. So, alternative sources:

http://public.wsu.edu/~bryanfry/Johnson,%20Car%20Crash.pdf

https://professormarissa.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/denisjo...
I doubt there will be much changed in terms of core functionality and use, so yes just go ahead and learn whatever is available currently.
Are these places you refer to self service? If so tipping isn't really in play in most cases.
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A stepping stone to the unemployment of half the families in my small town. Yet, so long as narcissist STEM technocrats have money for their coffee shops the world will continue blindly "progressing".
It's not really the same thing unless you're thinking of a different bonus than I am. The bonuses I get are typically a couple times a year after a long slog through a difficult or time sensitive part of a project.

A server gets their tips probably about once an hour or so and the amount from one customer may differ with essentially the same service for another customer. Esentially random and arbitrary.
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I've just given it a hammering today and while I'd love to love it, DT is not going to give the LR team sleepless nights. It feels quick, but the interface lacks the silky refinement and there's a lack of coherence in the workflow. Plus the correction effects work poorly, such as shadow correction which affects regions outside shadows in one direction, not all shadows in another. The workflow coherence is based on the old Adobe RAW flow, which meant that all controls were to be applied from the top down in the order, starting with white balance and moving down. That coherence was diluted somewhat in newer versions of LR, but it is still good.

I too am shackled to OS X by LR, but I am a very demanding, heavy user of LR.
Many countries already have these laws on the books, so you can see how it plays out in the rest of the world. In the case of your phone it's pretty unlikely you will not know the code.
In Germany it's somewhat "optional", as the tip is supposed to represent how happy you've been with the service and there's legislature in place that specifically states that tips are not supposed to be part of the wage. But that also depends on the service you are using.
A small tip can also go a long way of making you a preferred customer: At my favorite Thai place I sometimes round up what I pay by 50 cent, in return I get a free serving of spring rolls (worth 2,50€) with every order, making the 50 cent investment a rather good deal ;)
Keep in mind that Hickey worked on all those things over a period of several decades starting in the era of C++ and Common Lisp...and that the recent database was a project he did after Clojure was success. The reason to keep that in mind is that in between there were almost certainly many crumby projects and death marches. Part of consulting is 'paying dues' in the form of getting projects done solely for the purpose of getting paid and then moving on to whatever the next paying gig happens to be.

Another way of putting it is that Rails came out of a consultancy.

Good luck.
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What is the cost of this? What if the first image does not download from the web server in time? It seems like it will halt the page rendering until it gets the correct sequence.

Personally, it makes sense to have the page loading, even if it is out of order and not ideal. It indicates to the user something is happening and the user tends to be more patient.
It is very interesting. I don't want to intrude on their thread, but if others here vouch for this technique I'll politely ask them to look into the following:

- https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/docker-containers-on-the-desk...

- http://boot2docker.io/

...has anyone here ever used this approach with nix apps that need to run on Windows "natively"? Writing a powershell script to silently install boot2docker with this special docker image wouldn't be too difficult. The DarkTable folks don't seem interesting in maintaining Win builds so this may be the perfect workaround.

NOTE: I realize that `File > Open Image` may be non-trivial, but surely there's a way to mount a host<->guest folder (e.g.: When using the application, the workspace is located in `C:\Users\$whoami\Documents\DarkTable\.jpg`)
Tags should be simple to transfer, but actual image corrections do not move over. That's the real issue, a decade of corrections being lost :)
Ask HN: I failed at my startup, what's next?
For a long time, I've been the only person working on my startup; and I've now lost all confidence.

We decided to build a a solution much like PagerDuty but then rapidly expanded the scope to include features from cloud-resource utilization, web-performance budgets etc. [mistake 1 of many.]

Initially we built monolith web application, for demos and initial few users, but held up on the release arguing redesign, scalability, and loosely coupled services. [mistake 2 of many.]

After almost an year I'm no where., product is a pile of mess I cant get myself to work on.

I bike or run upto 20miles, to blow off steam but still find it hard to move on. How do people recover from such clusterfks?
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I've had similar experiences with embedded PCs. I keep a copy of FreeDOS handy for just such situations.
Finding the setup to be more than a small bump. Running this on Mac Sierra, and running into resolver issues everywhere. Latest was using stack setup with a specific resolver, and having the version it installed be the wrong one (at least, according to the stack documents).

Just a bit frustrating.
It varies. Sometimes there is service; sometimes you order at the counter and they bring your food over. Anyway, I always tip, because I want them to remember me in a good way - which works perfectly.

BTW, one full meal in such places around me usually costs around $5-10. With a typical salary of a senior engineer outside of SF, it's still quite an affordable option.
Resources, especially outside of a gravity well, and a new Frontier Thesis.
Spain. It is common to "round it off" as a tip around here, but not mandatory in any way. Examples:

You get a beer somewhere, it's 1.75€ and you round it off to 2€. That's a reasonable tip that says "service has been fine, thanks.".

You get dinner somewhere, it's 57.25€ and you round it to 60€. Same thing as above.

You get dinner somewhere, it's 57.25€ and you pay exactly that amount. The message is "the price was fair enough for what I got". Nobody will look badly at you.

You get dinner somewhere, it's 57.25€ and you pay 70€. The message is "you have been wonderful hosts, thank you VERY much".

Also, tips are not just for the service, but for the entire experience. You tip if you want to compliment the service, but also/alternatively because you want to compliment the food, or the ambient, or whatever.
TSA seems like a government make-work project.
I think needing to use such operators is already indicative of inadequate tools to express structure.

And if I did need to use something as complex as `cadadar` frequently for some reason, I'd much rather give it a name (and a type) that expresses what I'm actually doing with it.
Perfect indeed! That last paragraph!
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I don't know. Luke brings "balance" by killing all known dark side users; only light side users exist now, and no one knows how it's going to play in the future (we merely see the celebration through the galaxy, not how things evolve in the years after).

There is no balance at the end, only one side is winning.
Article might need a 2014-tag.
As a New Yorker, I honestly don't know what you're talking about. Tips are flat-out refused at the no-tip restaurants. And the idea that your tip was tracked in a database and that you actually got better service the next time because of it is entirely in your mind, I'm sorry.

There's actually a tremendous amount of research on incentives, and they don't always result in the behavior you'd think.
when can we go there to junk it up
This article was as much about human population growth, however unstated, as it was about cheetah population decline.

If you want to see animal populations growing, look at rats, roaches, cows, and others that benefit from our lifestyles.

If you want cheetahs and other animals not to go extinct, recognize that our growth models fundamentally conflict with them. The carrying capacity of the earth for humans is higher without cheetahs than with them.
Not that there's necessarily anything wrong with make-work; but surely it could be accomplished without an accompanying make-miserable?
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Since when did ycombinator become a place for job search?
Israel has 4 times the population density of California. The water shortage is because California is growing fruits and nuts for the whole country, not because of the population living there.
Indeed they should! I'd like to have a good pointer that I can glue to my keyboard and use leaned back.

I'd also like to configure what the gestures mean; there's no way to make three finger tap act like middle click. I use a Surface Pro 4. Microsoft has been very heavy handed about insisting you gesture only the way they want you to gesture. I really don't need a gesture to launch an already-disabled Cortana.
I find it difficult to believe that the bureaucrats that came up with this couldn't recognize the gaping hole and inconvenience that TSA PreCheck is. This could be interpreted as some acknowledgement of the security theater they're putting on, indicative of poor management/internal lack of faith at the TSA, or some combination of both.

As an aside - I've never had the opportunity to rant about this before - the Dane County Regional Airport is laid out in such a way that there are two escalators that go up to the security checkpoints on the upper level, one on each side of the ticketing counters. One is TSA PreCheck, the other is not (yes, entirely 1/2 of the locations they have available are TSA PreCheck, and there are always lines at the other side). The signage is very poor and many, many people end up going to the PreCheck side, get turned away, and then need to walk 10 minutes to the other side of the airport to go through the regular lane. Of course this could be avoided if you enroll in that program, but for people who travel by plane infrequently, the cost/benefit ratio just isn't there.
My broader point is that a dam which requires constant grouting seems like a pretty bad idea.
Statistically, death is not the danger. I can't think of a single case where a heavily relied-on project caused major issues from a handful of deaths.

On the other hand, developers losing will… The loss of Gmane, for instance, caused major link breakage for months.
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Because it's exactly the same thing.

A bonus is paid to you by your company (evaluated by your boss) and is more like profit sharing.

A tip is paid directly by the customer. The customer has no way of knowing if you are being paid a living wage or not. They have different incentives if they are a regular or not. The waiter at a busy restaurant will see hundreds of customers a day, but the customer may only interact with this waiter once. The waiter understands the house systems and knows how to maximize tipping. These are all ways that the waiter has an information advantage and can wield it against the customer. Maximizing tipping and providing good service to everyone are seldom the same thing.

People like to think that tipping puts the customer in power but it really just sets up the customer to be gamed. This aspect doesn't exist when we're talking about bonuses with your employer.
I concur.

A no tip restaurant would NEVER take your tip. How the hell would they divy up the 10 bucks if top you give them among the entire staff?

Best case scenario the waiter pocketed it.
I signed up for TSA PreCheck recently and have taken 3 trips with it so far, all to different locations. One thing that has stood out to me is that the security agents that check IDs REALLY check ID's. There's a notable difference in the length of time and scrutiny they put into it, and some even asked follow up questions like where I was born and where I was going, which just about never happens in regular security.

It made me think that they were maybe taking advantage of the lower volume and lower stress environment and using behavior based analysis like the Israeli's (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/20/israels-risk-base...)
Holy shit. I've been looking for something like this for half a decade.
Boot2Docker is not for this purpose. Silently installing a VM on a Windows PC is a very bad idea. If the user is not proficient enough to know about and configure the VM, then what happens if

- B2D installs a Virtualbox instance, but Hyper-V is on. VBox can't run besides Hyper-V.

- How do you configure the resource usage for the VM?Something like Darktable requires a lot of resources

- How do you manage shared folders? VBox shared folder performance is really bad compared to native

- Do you install an X server as well?

Anyway -- it's just a bad idea.
>The employer is in a much better position to assess staff performance than customers... And it's not the customers job.

I disagree, after all it's the waiter who interacts with the customer most, while the employer mostly can only watch from afar or has other (better) things to do.

In that regard a 5% difference on the tip won't do much at all. If the waiter expects to get tipped anyway, regardless of how bad the service was, then he's far more likely to give bad service and just get 5% less tip.

But if getting any tip at all depends on the quality of service, then waiters at least have to try to deliver some decent service, instead of just doing an half-arsed job and getting their "guaranteed", although somewhat smaller, tip.
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Blow the project off until you can't stand it anymore. and you need to work on something. then work on generating landing pages for free trials of your new project. so, you can get users when you start. you can focus your landing page on the one main benefit and a few features the really wants.
Potential acts of terror stopped at the checkpoint by the TSA since 2001:
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I would say it definitely contributes to "decision fatigue".
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I run OSX in VM just for RAW Photo Processor, which in my opinion the best RAW converter out there developed by photographers for photographers. http://www.raw-photo-processor.com/RPP/Overview.html
Just write the total. No need to calculate the difference - leaving it blank works fine 100% of the time.
They're already out there, such as in the Dell XPS 13. IIRC some of the features work better with libinput.
> Tips are flat-out refused at the no-tip restaurants

From experience, they are not. I don't typically carry cash, and actually draw it to test this hypothesis every time I visit no-tip restaurants. The first time I do it, I am usually reminded I am at a no-tip restaurant. After I insist on the excellence of the service the tip is always accepted.

> the idea that your tip was tracked in a database

Database? It's just a server, bartender, maître d', restaurant owner, et cetera remembering your name and face.
You cannot use Flexbox if you are targeting the enterprise market, since they are often stuck on old versions of IE due to slow moving and draconian IT departments.
Finger trees are an example of a truly elegant functional data structure that can be used for just about everything. The problem is they don't match the memory model of real hardware so for all of their elegance and theoretical performance in reality they're too slow to be useful.
Cheetahs don't live in forests, though I think your point still stands.
To be accurate, we did go to the moon and do the other things.

The other things at the time happened to be ensuring people weren't lynched for the color of their skin and ensuring Vietnam didn't fall to communism on the current administration's watch.
I totally agree that there is a tremendous amount of variance in what people actually tip (in the case of the valet, it can literally depend on the amount and denominations of the cash in one's pocket), but I think it does matter in tail cases, and I would hazard that the providers of the service know this as well...at least providing incentive not to be awful or to be excellent (for those so inclined)
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Any consideration of tipping has to take into account the fact that it lets owners shift risk to their employees (since more of a slow night will come out of their pockets instead of the owner's) -- especially when laws specifying that employers have to make up the difference if a wage with tips is less than minimum wage are poorly enforced.
> Best case scenario the waiter pocketed it.

Perhaps. But the waiter still manages, the next time I come, to speed up my wait, have the chef (or owner, if he or she were in) drop by the table, et cetera. From what I can tell, in conversations with them, they each appreciate the gesture.

I will admit my observations are co-mingled with regularity.
There's a fine line between it being possibile and probable.