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>I don't assume that for one minute. I work in a job where there is literally nobody else in the company with my expertise.

So, I've been there, and... the thing that makes me chuckle is that a few years later, in part because I thought the boss was such an idiot, I started my own company with my own employees.

The funny thing was, I found myself, at times, getting into the same sort of arguments with my employee, only on the other side. There are... other factors in play, when you are looking at things from a organizational or business perspective.
Frankly they are both super heavy these days, I'd pick mac over windows given the choice but i'd pick linux or a BSD over either of them for the lightweight factor and actually having control of my computer in the most basic way.
I wonder what would happen if I gave my =@[mydomain.tld] (mydomain is not my domain :)). I have such an address, but haven't tried to actively give it to anyone outside of people who hit my website. Probably a major confusion.

There are a lot of funny looking e-mail addresses one can create by crafting a local part with acceptable symbols, or by using quotes. Say:

{+}@abc.tld
!@abc.tld
?@abc.tld
{|@abc.tld
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Clipboard control in terminals... yet.... not a single mention of OSC 52.

<_<

Then they are using /tmp to facilitate IPC... What a horrible thing.
It's an investment fund. China can invest as it wants to.
People down vote because the sun is out, or their coffee is cold. You're free to find an article disappointing. Maybe someone would prefer you elaborate. Maybe someone else down votes for a wall of text. Votes are noise, focus more on comments and dialog; if any.
Were you paid for the translations? I'm interested in learning more about technical translations as part-time work.

I've translated some articles from Russian to English, though I don't know Russian and instead relied on Google Translate combined with domain knowledge for phrases translated incorrectly.
So far I've used Chrome extension "HN current page search" which finds both HN and Reddit discussions regarding the page you happen to be on (only if you click the extension does it check).

On the other hand once Delicious closed down I've settled in for https://raindrop.io/
It was satire--the point is that that is a certain style of parenting taken to its conclusion.
I've been using mylastname.name for a while. Works fine, not well known but easy enough to spell out without getting too many double takes.
It's a bit odd that you criticize the author for not considering biological/evolutionary factors when you can't come up with any too. Isn't it possible then that these factors (if indeed they exist) don't provide convincing enough evidence to merit being written about in the article? It seems the burden is on you to demonstrate that your criticism is justified and that the article has a glaring omission. Otherwise, what is your basis for criticism? How can you criticize an article for a deficiency that hasn't been established as being one that exists?
Again, if this is the norm in America -- it only became so recently. Not early enough for the generation of kids raised under this norm to turn thirty. I just turned forty and for both me and my younger sister, hanging out with kids from the neighborhood spontaneously was routine for us.
How do you deal with making plans with someone, only to be stood up?
Quick script, to show some example numbers on how this could happen (assumes she worked for 75 years, that her salary kept up with annual rate of inflation and she always invested 10%, and a very high annual rate of return of 10%) [1].

[1] https://gist.github.com/wjn0/67641a83d61e2fe74f8729f65fe4bdb...
In my experience the equivalent option in Firefox works quite well.
"To my mind though, the question is not how to get 1% of readers to pay an exorbitant price, but how to get say 20% of your readers to pay you a cheaper price. It’s not about exclusion, but about participation."

A noble idea, but one not founded in much reality. The fact is, generally when you price lower, you don't get much more uptake in sales in a model like this.
In Germany, I witnessed a multi-family household. A married couple bought the house. Then they had kids, but they divorced amicably yet continued to live in the same house. Then each of them found a new partner who also started living in the same house. Now they are like friends, with 3 couples living together, and 5 kids in the house. It's hard for me to imagine living like that, the stress that would take, but they seem to be happy with the arrangement and they hang out together and take care of each other's kids. That might be a better model for society in the future. Not necessarily marrying, but living in a close community with your friends. It is interesting to think about the logistics and social changes that need to happen for this to work, though.
> And unlike many new TLDs, like .io, ...

FWIW all two-letter domains are country codes (ccTLD). .io has been around since 1997 :-)
I'm sure there are but that has nothing to do with my point.

Anyway, I personally never use facebook because it is not something I find interesting. Do I feel pride in that fact? No I don't because I have an equally harmful relationship with reddit and hackernews. I always have to laugh when I see people state as a point of pride how they have deleted their facebook accounts on different social networks. If anything I think reddit and hackernews could be worse because I'm ingesting unfiltered opinions from random strangers.
I have made plenty of friends after the age of 30. The problem is that is is hard work. New friendships consume more time than old friends.

The ratio of people actively befriending me, is lower than people I befriend. Maybe 3:1 Making me think most people don't put much effort into making friends.

My advice would be:

1. Networking is not making friends. If you want to leverage someone, it's a business relationship not a friendship.

2. People who befriend you might not be the kind of person you would choose to be your friend, but they obviously like you enough to make an effort so give them a chance and reciprocate. People probably try to befriend you but you don't even notice.

3. Let bad or superficial friendships go and concentrate on making good ones. I have loads of really close friends, but keep my Facebook friend count (relatively) low.

4. If a friend is having a problem, help them. This is how you move past the superficial friendship. Prove you are worthy of being a friend.

5. Never screw a friend over. See rule #1. If you intend to play a zero sum game with a friend, be willing to lose that friend. (I do business with good friends, but only if I know I will never be in a position to have to choose between my wealth/happiness and theirs). Also always be honest. Friendship requires trust.

6. Make an effort. Ask people out for a drink or a coffee. Invite them over for dinner. It's hugely time consuming. This week I am running out of time with friends wanting to hang out and friends who need help. But it's worth it.

7. Join clubs, organizations and/or religious institutions. Not just one. Friends of mine had good success with dance classes.

8. One close friend is worth hundreds of superficial friendships.
More or less, yeah. Most of the language-aware optimization in ghc happens in an intermediate form that still carries the types, and then ultimately it spits out code that just has side effects as a result of evaluation like every other language.

The code you sketch out above is basically the Writer Monad, which exists in the libraries, and does see use, but it's not IO -- as I mentioned above the semantics of IO don't entirely just fall out of the monadic structure.

But I find the computed-imperative-program description lends itself to thinking about IO values as values in a way that thinking about them as type system goop to tame side effects doesn't; for example, the program:

import Data.List (intersperse)
import Control.Concurrent (threadDelay)

main = sequence_ $ intersperse (threadDelay 1000000) (map print [1..])

will print out the natural numbers, one per second until you kill it. It works by constructing a (lazily evaluated) list of actions to perform, which alternately print out a number or wait for one second. sequence_ has type [IO a] -> IO (), and it just performs each action in the list in sequence (its type is actually a bit more general than this, but..).

This kind of code is really weird to think about from the "tamed side-effects" model, but very natural from the "computing a script" model.
Here's a direct link to the dragon 2 abort test video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07Pm8ZY0XJI
The spring time activity for the kids in the neighborhood here has been hitting snow piles with sticks.

Now that the snow is gone one of them switched to hitting pieces of wood with a croquet mallet.

The kids are alright.
I... I'm not sure if you're trolling us. If you're being serious, then yes, it is a personality thing.
The chance of heads being 3:1 is the maximum likelihood estimate, which indeed is the best we can do if we don't know anything else. But usually we do have an idea of reasonable values.
Yeah, I think that gasoline will just evaporate on a rag. the spontaneous combustion requires something like linseed oil that generates a lot of heat when drying(exothermic) and left alone on a rag.
It started in the 80s with the Jacob Wetterling [1] kidnapping and things like the McMartin preschool trial [2]. Stranger danger, fear of crime (it was much higher in the 80s than now) and whatnot has lead parents being overly afraid to let their kids roam.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Wetterling

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMartin_preschool_trial
Why should it work that way? You get the updates based on the assumption you are a subscriber, and you get the fallback license based on the assumption that you made a one off purchase at the date of purchase. It's logical the way it works.
Good idea.

I hope you find users for it, but I wouldn't know where to start looking. Maybe people who are already liveblogging.

There are also these public Slack channels from open-source projects and whatever. Maybe these people will be interested in having a public channel instead of asking every single visitor to create an account and possibly spam the network.

On the Stellar (the crypto-network) public Slack channel, for example, they were having a lot of problems with scammers and thinking about making the channel private, that would make it inaccessible for any interested casual visitor, a problem that your tool could solve.
I find it interesting that we are trying to quantify friendship and understand it with distribution charts like in that blog post. Like it is some kind of lost art.
I'm with you. I've ended up using GitHub for anything public and Gitlab for anything private recently and it works well for me. I've considered running Gitea/Gogs on a machine at home or a VPS but could never justify the additional effort for it.
I have a catch-all email inbox at surname.com for any nonexistent inbox, so I could totally give away throwaway one use addresses like teledildonics6000@surname.com
Hah! I did one that involved that puzzle just a few hours ago. Was it in Chicago?
You sys-prepped a copy of Windows 10 enterprise to install them via AppX provisioning and then uninstalled them after the fact? Why..? I read this complaint a lot, and while valid for "Pro," it is a little odd for Enterprise since at that scale you are likely provisioning your app store apps anyway.

This sounds a little harsh, but the most likely cause of this issue is your SysAdmin not knowing how to manage Windows. If you don't provision the image at all, you'll wind up with a copy of Pro with a few more enterprise features. If you want to slim it down, you'll need to do so.
This site is quite broken in Safari, with the "related articles" bar drifting up as you scroll down.
"Clip show" episodes have been a cheap trick used by TV fiction for ages. Now they are doing it on the news? I guess it was inevitable that someone would eventually put the concepts together.
Been a constant headache, I use a me@asad.co as my email. Have had to explain, far too many times, that it's co not com. There was one case of important official email being sent to asad.com which took weeks to clear up.
I give out my school email more often now.
Was about to post the same! Brave has some pretty cool upgrades incoming as well!
That's true. So why is it that 7 was so much more stable? Certainly at first I could say that it's just because 7 has been around for eons and 10 is brand new, but it's been out for years now and we're still seeing things break (anecdotally, r/sysadmin was emphatically not happy with the last couple of updates). Is it this thing where they've declared 10 to be the last version and so what we're seeing is major updates that would have been 11, 12, etc. including all the growing pains of a new release? Is it because Microsoft decided to throw out their entire QA division? I'm happy to agree that Microsoft has an extraordinary large problem space across which they try to maintain stability, but that doesn't seem to explain why they would have gotten worse at it.
The driver problem is the only good reason to stick with windows (over pretty much any OS that isn't windows due to their hardware monopoly), but if you accept and overcome that issue (by luck, a lot of work, or preemptively buying the right hardware), then you get a system that doesn't randomly break and control you. It's worth it.
Humorously written, but the situation is no different on OS X these days. I could not update to high Sierra and the new filesystem and after trying, it required a complete os x install which takes about six hours after starting using time machine. The only thing that's better on os x is that Apple finally seems to have stopped trying to push high Sierra on users, after even aggressively downloading it without permission. It's really rather depressing that the state of desktop operating system is thus. That includes all desktop Linux distros I've tried also unless one gets a lucky combination of hardware (aka Linux distros run like shit on Apple hardware if they even run at all).
Indeed, and I run my own business on the side. I've also been in management. I have a very close relationship with many of the managers, so they are pretty open with me about their thought processes and the issues that they face.

And they face the same arguments with the managers above them, and so forth... "So, naturalists observe a flea..."
For someone who hates regulation... Something entertainment that isn't even a matter of psychological manipulation... needs regulation? Does that mean this guy only wants to regulate things which don't actively reinforce social structures?

Or is this actually bait?
It doesn't for the simple reason that they provide updates for the entire year. Surely those updates aren't provided for free. They are provided for purchase you made in advance for a year. If I cancel midway I should be entitled for all the updates till the end of the period. Unless those updates were free and not part of the sale. In which case, the licensee should still get those updates anyways for the period. You look at it either way it still doesn't make any sense. Or, they should return the update fee they charged for the year during the sale on pro-rata basis.

Also, how would you account for it? You can't retrospectively change the nature of purchase from subscription to a one-off sale! That would be audit hell for their accountant.
Jeff and I had an issue once... https://github.com/stickfigure/blog/wiki/Beware-cutesy-two-l...
I have now downvoted you because you criticize the article for not "even" doing a thing without even believing the thing is reasonable to do. It is not a fair criticism; in fact it is perhaps the exemplar of an unfair criticism.
Just one data point: when I recently launched a site selling custom physical products, in the first day I got 2 orders but like 10 emails from people wanting me to join various growth hacking/starup communities or list my product on their product listing sites (presumably paying to get featured). Super scuzzy.
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Because I like hosting the stuff myself, and I don't need anyone's approval or their 'community' bullshit, I'm free to do as I wish.

Just as I like having CVS, so I can take a stock Darwin 0.3 instance and sync code without having to spend a week plus trying to build the infrastructure to just talk to some external company who may either ban me or fold at any moment. If there is any kind of change I want, I can make it myself. It's called FREEDOM, which I'm always amazed that in the era or virtualization and cheap hosting so many would rather surrender the freedom to do their own thing.
It really makes me wonder: Isn't using contractors super inefficient? Why do companies, when they could do it in house, use them?
Could this be any more vague? It looks almost like a paywall system judging by the mockup images. I'm also really put off by the giant banner asking for outlets to contact him for interviews - why not do a press release?
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10% isn't a very high annual rate, it's probably almost exactly what the stock market returned over that period.
Yes — a different and more elaborate scenario, really. I suppose I was just thinking of ways machines embedded in your brain can go wrong.
> "It's not hard. Try harder."

> For real?

Of course!

I'll add in the subtext:

It's not hard compared to other common activities adults do a decent job of.

Try harder because it takes time and effort to make friends but not an unreasonable amount.
I bought a copy of Office 2016 when it came out, it has now lasted me 2 years and I paid about the same as 2 years worth of Office 365. I intend to keep using it until it is no longer supported at all and I am sure I will have saved quite a bit of money for effectively the same product.
No actually, there is value in instant messaging, and I admit I wasn't exactly enthusiastic about it at first... if you are available it's very productive having instant communication, very short back and forth without assumptions (strangely having it less immediate than a phone call and more more than an email _is_ advantageous, it brings clarity, forcing you to think more before putting responses into words, but immedite enough to not encouraging monologue and digressions at the same time).

If you aren't available, you can just collect little messages - better still the person who sent them can edit and refine their messages after they realise you aren't immediately available - you can't really do any of that with email.

What I still don't quite get though, is why anyone should be paying for this.
Tesla is cool. But as a contractor, effectively working for Tesla, I'd probably also call it that.
The role of biological and evolutionary factors in human behaviour in general is well established enough that it's a glaring omission to ignore it's possible role in questions of human behaviour. That's why it's ok to criticise a case like this on principal.

It's like ignoring the possibility economic factors in trying to explain some feature of society.

It should not be necessary to propose specific possible factors to make such a criticism.

Since so many people seem to want a possible account, there might be an evolutionary advantage to gaining friends leading up to and during prime reproductive years, advantages that are lesser as you transition past those ages.

Just like our brains are more receptive to learning languages when we're younger our younger brains may be more receptive to developing friendships. Note that I've said right from the start that such details could be factors in an explanation, not that they would be the whole explanation.
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Really? I've been using a domain name that is my name for years. I've never had a single problem or anyone question on.
> Is there any fundamental reason why no tool offers a federated alternative to GitHub?

There are tools like Gerrit and Phabricator. Also, projects like git and the linux kernel use mailing lists to handle things like issues, releases and pull requests/patch sets.
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This can become problematic when an OS update breaks the perpetual fallback license software. As a developer, you can tell the customer that they have to upgrade the software (for a fee) because they upgraded their OS, but customers aren't happy about this either.
Agreed on the sentiment though. Refreshing to read something with "just the interesting stuff" and less window dressing.
Wish the US government would do the same thing!
I'll give that a shot, that should work, theoretically. I don't really know all the ins and outs of the new secure boot stuff on windows, would have to read up on that. But theoretically that should work.
I’ve been tempted to acquire a email address for a TLD that has it’s own MX record. Most software doesn’t understand that addresses like postmaster@ai are well formed.

See https://serverfault.com/questions/154991/why-do-some-tld-hav...
I think the elephant in the room for making new friends over 30, is stagnation in one's daily routine caused by one's job.

I don't think anything changed dramatically in the last 60 or so years on this point, even with the development of social media; by the time you're 30, you're basically done making friends.

The article glossed over it, but in your childhood and teens, you're surrounded by a new group of people every 5 or so years, and just through sheer quantity, you're likely to make at least a few friends. Throw on team sports, extracurriculars, clubs, and the ease of introductions in a school environment, and it's almost impossible not to make a few friends all the way into your late 20s.

Somewhere around when you turn 25 or so, though, without substantial effort, things stabilize. If you were going to leave your home, you probably did, and you're settled in. You and your old friends start to marry and have kids, and both of these occupy your free time (and theirs). You may have bought a house or found a job you want to settle into for a while, with plans to stick around for several years.

For at least 8 hours of your day, you are at work, interacting with people in an environment toxic for creating trusting friendships (You're competing for the same roles, titles, bonuses, etc.), and worse, these people you're competing with are almost always the exact same people, so if you're not really friends with any of them immediately, that's basically never going to change.

With the remaining time in your evenings, you'll also settle into a routine. You won't be playing sports anymore, and if you have hobbies, you'll generally be doing them with the same small consistent set of people in your area, assuming you do them with others at all.

So, in short, if your 8-hour workday isn't a time to make friends, and you're not interacting with people in a way that leads to making friends in your 8-hour evenings, when the hell do you expect to be making your friends over 30, during your 8-hours asleep?
Saving $5000 per year for 75 years compounded annually at 6.2% would net you a little over $8M. An unremarkable return on an unremarkable savings rate.
We are not- fired usually though. Ones contract is simply not renewed or ended ahead of time.

I always thought of us contractors as stateless mercenaries, and you cant expatriat (aka fire) a stateless mercenary.

Also regarding the useless middle management Elon mentions- thats the beauty of sub-contracting.

The poor fool at the end of the chain usually has to do the managment work and projekt-management too.
My dad, who still uses Windows, sent me this pic of his Windows upgrade trials and tribulations:

https://i.imgur.com/MwWenDA.png

He still hasn't been able to upgrade. I live hundreds of miles away and can't attempt to help him troubleshoot it in person.