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Aside from the fact that the SQLite CoC does not use the language "you must", none of those statements bother me.

I think the SQLite's author is just trying to make a statement of "hey, there's us Christians out here, and this is actually what we believe in[1]".

1. Let's just avoid the reality that there are many people who call themselves Christians who don't follow those rules, and do many horrible things. Those people exist in virtually every demographic.
Protesting is a pretty fundamental right and societal value in America though. Cracking down on protests is, in my view, just as authoritarian as what the universities are accused of.
It was lazada.com.my - an alibaba subsidiary.
I live in the Bay Area in a warmer microclimate. We've got widows, sizable orb weavers, and supposedly tarantulas (although I've never seen one and have my doubts). I've twice been bitten by something while either under my house or in my basically wild yard and gotten nasty infection. One bite was on my elbow and become necrotic. It was treated only with antibiotics. It now looks like I took a bullet. The other was on my neck and required surgery. Although I had some mild symptoms suggestiong a black widow bite, they were also symptoms of infection, so the doctor concluded it was not a widow that bit me. Anything that can pierce the skin can give you a nasty infection.
It might be the first time in the history of Human Civilization that we have the opportunity to standardize the communication pipeline on a global scale. English is not perfect, but it's the standard we have. It's like coding conventions, the exact choice doesn't really matter, consistency is the important trait.

I wish we could forget about where the language is coming from and focus on where we are going. Do we want a future where everyone can understand each other? I do. I don't want some great ideas to be hidden for centuries because their author happened to speak a language no one bothered translating from.

Let's standardize on English, teach it everywhere to every child, call it a solved problem and move on.

(disclaimer: I am a French native speaker living in France).
> or stop adding resource-intensive features or feature gate them or whatever

That's not what's at issue here though. The update was literally along the lines of "if (old phone) then { set_cpu_throttle_threshold(lower); }".

Now the intentions were good, even if paternalistic in that the newer features were more demanding on older devices and throttling in theory was supposed to provide a better user experience with the device under high demand--freezing for 5s instead of crashing and rebooting. But still it was literally a patch to make old devices run slower, which regardless of intention should not be allowed.
New Facebook Messenger Looks Like Skype
For a disturbingly plausible sketch of what that kind of thinking grows into, see Tom Scott's short "Oversight".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIuf1V1FhpY
My favorite competitive Tetris mode is the Co-op mode in the Tengen NES version. It's fun to cooperate, but it's extremely fun and challenging to aim for maximum personal score while impeding the other player. There's no immediate way of avoiding players ahead from killing the game so when I play it with friends I rely on good faith that our first goal is to survive together, before counting points of “who contributed most to that survival”. If there was a way of integrating that in the scoring/gameplay it might help make that game mode more mainstream. Afaik it is barely known, let alone played, and I highly suggest trying it out with your friends.

edit:

https://youtu.be/JPPEKVUlY9w this is an example video.

Maybe if the game was a RTF (“first to 1M points”) it might avoid players from aiming to kill the game early.
While turning a blind eye to the massive exploitation that occurs all around the world which allows them to pull in 6 figs.
A few things here. First, as a consumer I might hold them to that expectation, but that is not the same as the law holding them to it. Second, it's a bit backwards to use Microsoft as an example of not sunsetting old versions or having newer versions that are slower or don't work [as well] on older machines. Third, this is about locked down software environments by hardware manufacturers, a completely different situation from software manufacturers providing the freedom to run on lots of hardware.
I'm trying to decide which is worse....
What happens is occasionally you get news about some poor soul with multiple amputations because of necrotic tissue, and people assume "must've been a brown recluse" because it's a suitable scapegoat.

And of course, the fear of the brown recluse is that they don't really look like anything. We all think we can recognize a black widow, but a brown recluse just looks like a typical house spider.

That said, I'm suspicious a bit about comments how spiders never bite you. Last year suddenly the yellow sac spiders in the neighborhood got aggressive - I have no idea why, they're normally harmless house spiders all over my area, but I and a friend of mine both got bit by them completely out of the blue without warning. Spider just walked on and chomped. He told me he'd heard from others similar stories recently... I assumed it was some kind of distemper infection or something seasonal since normally they're harmless.

It stung like hell and left my arm sore for a week.
Since the Tor browser uses a version of Firefox, I don't see this as unrelated. https://blog.torproject.org/tor-heart-firefox
Thanks! It's kind of a blog [1] that mostly consists of me writing down various things that I think about, that I try to format in a presentable way.

I write everything in a notes app called Notion, and it happens to provide zero-effort publishing in a relatively nice way (although a semi-major pain point for me is that it doesn't really provide nice features for the reader, e.g. RSS subscription, or public comments).

[1] https://www.notion.so/eff0rtfu11-39e0544567de4a1887b2614e84c... (I've also added a link to the bottom of that post.)
I know it sounds terrible, but it's honestly a rare thing. We never found one on our bed, ever. The first time I know of one being in our bed was that night.

I've spoken a lot with the Entomology department at a well-known university to try and learn as much as possible about these spiders. From what I've learned, Brown Recluse spiders actually have a hard time biting people (physically and mentally). They need encouragement - such as a life threatening situation - to even want to bite us. Even then, I've been told that they have physical trouble biting us hard enough to break through much skin and need help in that department as well (i.e. rolling/stepping onto one where the added force assists them in biting deeper).

The experience cost me about a half-tube of hydrocortisone cream but thats really it.
> This use of data seems reasonable

Really? What if someone who bought this "smart thermometer" no longer wants to share this information? What if this data concerns a child? What if, somewhere in the future, this business gets into financial problems, or gets bought, and decides to stretch its morals a bit and sell this data non-anonymously?

I think this is a very slippery slope. It seems reasonable now, until it's not.
Option (4): give the user a choice to opt into the new features.

A checkbox isn't that hard.
Because that inherently means pushing a shitty experience onto your users.
VR does seem like the logical next device frontier for Apple, but Oculus really has a significant early-mover advantage. I don't agree that it's exactly a mistake to have bought Oculus, but I do think we're still 5-10 years out from mass adoption (which also makes it a great time to get involved as a tech person and claim your niche!)
Simpler possibility: they're donating to whatever candidate supports a piece of legislation favorable to them as an enterprise regardless of party affiliation because that's how rent seeking and regulatory capture works?
Its more then that... It's not even inmutable, not really. There are some things, like privaCy of access, that can be mutated by manipulating Java class objects.

That said, maybe the difference here is how often the janky metaprogramming of classes interferes with day to day peogramming; a java programmer might have never seen this stuff, moreso then a ruby one?
Not at all, 4chan has* quite a few very smart people who for various reasons might not have "made it" in life. This type of thing used to be called "weaponized autism" or "autism" on site. This usage of autism really means something closer to "extreme obsession".

* or at least had. I think that a lot of people left the site over the last few years as the site changed quite dramatically.
>> Every language has grammar rules. They are in the minds of speakers of the language — including, for English, me. The fact that they weren't decided by an official edict doesn't mean these rules are a trivial matter; demanding people change their grammar rules is an affront.

It's an interesting observation. Speakers of a language often (always?) have a strong feeling of what is right and wrong in the language, and this feeling is not usually formally justified. People just know how to speak right- and hearing an incorrect expression feels jarring.

Stallman has touched on something deep here, and although his insistence to pick at it is probably part and parcel of his personality, it is not an unreasonable insistence. Unusual use of pronouns is likely to make many people feel uncomfortable.
> keep location services off

Google doesn't even respect thoses settings so you're screwed anyway.
We're doing agile in a mechanical engineering firm. A multiyear project. The first thing we'll deliver will be two years from now.

I struggle to put into words why this is such a bad idea because its so blatantly obvious.

Imagine designing and building the golden gate bridge as an agile process.
Isn't there also a thing about being trackable because you block everything out? Like it makes you unique and identifiable compared to the normal heard who don't block anything?
As a kid, we once visited a cabin and my mom sat down on the toilet and was surprised by a spider. Ever since then, I always check for spiders under the seat before I'll sit. If I had had to use an outhouse, I probably would have squated over the seat like they squat in some countries...
I'll admit I'd be very interested in a data broker system that would capture my data and sell it to interested parties that I then can profit on. The amount of data each person generates grows and grows per year, even a small dollar amount would be beneficial I think.
Or perhaps I'm posting from a phone which is prone to changing my words on occasion. Please remember to abide by the hn guidelines.

And no, your belief is based on what you learned is correct grammar. Authors and scholars have disagreed about singular they since the time of Shakespeare and English, having no central authority, has allowed singular they since the middle ages.

Singular they was only "outlawed" in the 1800s, with the reasoning was that he could stand in for they in all cases, because one should never mix a plural pronoun with a singular antecedent. This forgot that "you" is also plural, or at least was originally.

The OED and Merriam-Webster both recognize singular they, as do the Chicago manual of style, the wapo style guide, and the associated press stylebook. It is accepted and correct grammar.
I live in the U.S. but I'm working remotely with a mainly U.K. based team that's doing "agile". The way they do it, at the end of a sprint all your tests have to pass, but it's normal for the trunk (yes we're using SVN) to be totally broken until then. That's all a sprint means to them, a block of time when it's okay for things to be broken.

I think this company got into it's current predicament by buying a ticket tracker that uses the word "agile" and never learning anything about it beyond the words in the tracker. Needless to say, the current process isn't working very well.
This is pretty much what you're asking for: https://www.nokia.com/en_int/phones/nokia-8110-4g

It runs KaiOS, which is a fork of Firefox OS IIRC. It's basically a dumb phone, but with some critical "smart" features like wifi hotspot, contacts/calendar sync, etc. It was a breath of fresh air for me.
Oddly enough, even here in Oregon there's a persistent myth that we have those things.
Yes, I did that as well my ThinkPads but my accuracy with the TrackPoint isn't as great as with the Apple Magic Trackpad 2. Forget the multitouch; that alone makes it worthwhile (on a side note, vertical mouse scrolling however might be interesting against RSI). Although if you primary use keybinds it isn't that important I do find it important whilst browsing the web. Which is probably why I got into the AMT2.

I use a HHKB and AMT2. Both can be used wired and wireless. I don't need the device near me; both of these can be used remotely.
So, would it be illegal to buy a large number of these thermometers and put them in a water bath at 105 degrees?
> I don't know why you'd want to disguise yourself as the opposite gender unless you could pull off the voice, your cover would be blown almost immediately.

Only if you speak. The solution then, if this were for some reason necessary, is "don't speak."
Anyone remember "Good Will Hunting"?
> When you visit a free website or use a free service I get the “your the product” mantra, but for products I buy and put in my home... no.

Are you old enough to have bought or subscribed to physical newspapers or magazines? We were the product back then too.
You also don't know that you're not being tailed by a PI, that your neighbors are not focusing a mic on your home, or that your dentist isn't on the lizard-peoples' payroll.

However, we all make certain risk tradeoffs based on numerous things, including proxy signals. For instance, I would be intensely surprised to find out my downstairs neighbor was recoding me, based on multiple years of interactions. Likewise, I find the signal Apple sends ("We need a US-based GDPR") about privacy rather more compelling than the signal Amazon sends ("scour the mic for hints about product we can shift").

I mean, sure, while both $huge_bank and your hypothetical deadbeat relative might both steal your money, I bet I know which one you choose to to leave your money with.
One use case: I often use Midnight Commander via ssh to my file server. If I move a file on my local machine via NFSv4, it will still pull all the data to my box and back out to the file server.

Command line file managers are nice because when I move a file, it's all done on the remote box (and hence, faster).
Sincerely, with rampant hacking by nation state actors and uninspired pragmatism winning ground, I would definitely be interested in an article on "The Nation State considered harmful". Unfortunately that's not what the title was about.
" Each of your complaints is because of a well-designed compromise (app quality/safety; preventing abrupt phone shutdown; removing a common failure point). You may disagree with the compromises, sure."

You should add "making more money" to the factors that went into this "well designed" approach. For example I don't see how not adding a MicroSD slot is nothing other than a method of forcing people into buying phones with larger internal storage (and making more money for Apple).
Especially in a Wall Street environment hyper-focused on 3-6 month results over anything else. It's very hard for companies to plan long term if the only thing the market seems to care about is how they did last quarter of a year. It's an interesting Gordian knot that businesses seem to have tied themselves into where companies still have expectations to exist for multiple generations, but all the performance indicators used to analyze them are so strongly focused on the immediate short term.
> That's not what's at issue here though. The update was literally along the lines of "if (old phone) then { set_cpu_throttle_threshold(lower); }".

If that's true, it reduces my fear. I know that's true wrt Apple's batteries. But what I read for the OS updates is that they suggested/shipped newer software they knew would degrade the performance as opposed to intentionally degrading it.

As for intentions, while they may have been good (I think it's just easier maintenance to keep one running stable branch), if they were that consumer friendly they would have been more open to the user about the harms of upgrading.
This is considerably better than the way I put it! Thanks!
A camera with an SD card is hardly revolutionary stuff.
If it's petty, then by definition it's petty for either direction to fight about it. You can't dismiss something as unimportant then try to start an argument about it.

If it's really petty, it doesn't matter so stop talking about it. If it's not petty then OK, it's reasonable for him to spend the time to have an opinion, so go argue against that.
EFF Recommends Measures to Limit Abuse of EU's Proposed “Upload Filters”
I work at a startup that is using AI to reduce emissions in industrial and data center contexts. I like the big sky approach of this post but so much savings / reduction is an execution question.

We are hiring so DM me if you would like to learn more!
> Why was this article hidden from the front page? A similar satellite journalism article from the BBC about a killing in west Africa was allowed on the front page a few weeks ago.

Because it's about China, and information about Chinese human rights abuses is apparently considered "nationalistic flamebait."

Also, I speculate that giving articles like this prominence is bad for Y Combinator's business: it operates a startup incubator in China: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17820654 https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-china-qi-lu/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17763426

It's also worth noting that China human rights stories are censored in a way that gives the mods some deniability: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18185123 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17634964
If someday it may happen, that a victim must be found,
i got a little list,
of society offenders, who might as well be under ground.

God how is wish there was a rollback-button on android. Out of this steaming hot mess, that destroyed UX, those unnecessary features and horrific, shoehorned crap. Imagine, if you could even go further back to vanilla. Bye,bye bixbye, byebye horric camera controll, farewell, ruined app-selection screen.

If it was possible, i would publicly display the rejection rate of updates, just to show- how BAD those updates are. How unnecessary, how much User-work regarding learning is thrown away, how annoying the little extra-steps are, to tripple around those brilliant marketing features.

They had it coming, from orbit high, and certainly not out of a clear sky.

And no, they can not take the usual hostages of device security and bugfixes, to hold the users for ransom- and hope for stockholm to set in.
Also try disabling all retention on your Google account.
Four weeks ago my team changed from not-really-scrum-we're-just-pretending some some sort of kanban-like process, which was the first real change after I stuck an item on the wall during a retro which just said "Are we doing Scrum? Should we be?"

Today we had a retro in which we talked about how things are going, and we're all more comfortable with how the process fits our actual workflow, and how it's opened up some other changes that have really helped us with getting useful stuff done, delivered and in the hands of people who appreciate it.

And this came from within the team, entirely, with the support of our team lead.

It's not perfect, but it's good, and we feel able to change things. That's why the other changes happened - because we were reminded that we have the power to change things, and the company actually genuinely believes that. There are some things we can't change, or not so easily, because they cross team boundaries or require money to be spent that we can't convince someone to authorise, but we have more freedom within the team than we had believed that we had. Largely I think because most of us are fairly new to the company and had long ago forgotten the idea of self-organising agile teams because the very concept was a joke most other places we've worked.

I suspect we'll change things in the future, and we do have some concerns at the moment about how we split up big bits of work like implementing a completely new system component into cards of a suitable size and self-containedness and various other issues around definitions of done, but we'll work it out. For now, we're apparently more productive, we certainly feel more productive, and we're all happier because we don't have the entirely artificial pressure to ship something every sprint. That's not how the software we maintain works, and not how it should work either. We just ship stuff when it's ready, because that's what makes us and our stakeholders happy.

What Fowler's describing is something I've seen so many times. Scrum-adherence is in itself something of a cult in some places, and it's done without any mindfulness for why you choose certain processes, the purpose of certain things and whether Scrum was a good choice for you or not.

And I think honestly that's most people's experience of "agile" software development, because people have turned it into an industry of its own and with that comes the books, the rules, the certifications, and the legions of people who read a bit about it and decided that'd be great and it'd tick the trendy "agile" box without having to disrupt the company too much.

Bleergh.

Oh and something else my current employer does that I've seen literally nowhere else? A no-blame culture.

We actually have one.

I wish everyone could try it.
This might be a ghost discussion. I have worked in scientific publishing for quite some time and have seen citations in the form of:

* personal correspondence

* emails

* facebook profile pages

and my personal highlight

* google search queries (I kid you not)

All of these citations actually occured in scientific journals. I assume Nicolas Bourbaki was also cited several times, without anyone caring about "academically correct" citation rules.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Bourbaki
Ah I forgot about that. It would certainly be a good idea to include it if available. Do you know if it is necessary for a unique id? I've never browsed any of the boards with user hashes.
> "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya" is a 14-episode anime adaptation which aired in 2006.

The first version to be correctly. They later added another 14 episodes, but instead of calling it a new season, they mixed in the new episodes between the old episodes and rebroadcasted it as one complete series.

As a special "joke", they also had a timeloop-story spanning multiple episodes, with each episodes telling the same story with slight changes in the story, and individual art-style, meaniung each episodes was produced new not just recycled from the first episode. The "joke" with this story was, that of the 14 new episodes, the timeloop-story filled 8(!) episodes and went under the funny name "Endless Eight". I think someone was fired himself for this.
Sure, the ergonomics are different. One is a statically compiled language and one is dynamic. But it's still an object.