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Dozens of dollars? More like hundreds or thousands.

But to your point, is all entertainment fungible? I don't think its really comparable. Magic is a competitive, fun game to play with lots of strategy and community behind it. This isn't to say that a $2 Steam game doesn't have those, but people play Magic specifically because it is Magic, not because it is generic entertainment.
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I like Clojure a lot. I'm sure it would be a great language for configuring and extending an editor (I should know, I've written basically the same plugin for Vim [0] and DrRacket [1]).

However, one thing I don't like is JVM for CLI software. I even downloaded the jar to see if the startup is as slow as I expect (it is). I wonder if running this as ClojureScript on Node.js or compiling with GraalVM could speed things up.

OTOH when I started playing around with lisps I considered switching to Emacs for a while. I didn't because I was put off with the trouble of learning a completely new interface, the slow startup and the high resource usage. But I guess I'd still rather learn Emacs than some new quite unknown editor.

[0]: https://gitlab.com/code-stats/code-stats-vim

[1]: https://github.com/dancek/code-stats-drracket
This seems to be exactly what I was looking for a couple of months ago. I gave up when all the alternatives were either bad or too slow.
So you're just going to run some command without knowing what it does, just because it looks right?
From what I understand rrweb is not introducing or hijacking any browser functionality -- it's just using what's there. Whatever boundaries are being crossed should be considered already crossed, because firms that want this data don't have to work that hard to get it (or they can just buy some off the shelf tool).

If the privacy implications make us uncomfortable we might want to start not sharing this kind of information from browsers by default (this seems unlikely) or at least introducing some sort of browser-level controls. Unfortunately, this represents a lot of work and worries about breaking backwards compatibility contrasted with very little gain for browsers that don't pride themselves on being good for privacy(Chrome).
ha ha ha ha ha! Long ago companies figured out to pay by the "work unit", and unless you are working 50% to 100% more then your paid time you are under performing and at risk of being fired.
There is also Orgzly [1], an Android app for working with orgmode files.

[1] https://github.com/orgzly/orgzly-android
> Wtf is going on in California.

Forreal. As someone in Canada watching the weed thing play out, my prediction is that Cali would legalize and then utterly dominate.

Like the medical and recreational stuff is there, the weather is great for growing stuff, including weed, and with 40 million people -- more than all of Canada -- there is a huge base of investment capital and consumers to pull from.

Why isn't California DOMINATING the global weed trade?
> if two of these are equal then in general you can't determine that they are in finite time.

This is arguably a problem with floating point as well. Two computations F and G which ought to produce the same result can end up differing because of rounding errors. So equality testing is not advisable to do over floating point. Also, inequality of real numbers is still semi-decidable, which is useful.

People keep bringing up these problems around not being able to compute discontinuous functions, but those problems still manifest themselves over the floating point numbers, in the sense that a small rounding error in the input can drastically affect the output. This obviously isn't a problem over the rational numbers, but a lot of operations like square-root are not possible over the rational numbers.
>If "conservation of complexity" were universally true then ANY compression would be impossible.

No it wouldn't. The complexity of a pattern can usually be conserved while reducing its length, but for each pattern there is a limit. This is the entire concept behind the Kolmogorov complexity of a system and any patterns that cannot be reduced any further without removing complexity are at their limit already.

This is also related to the idea that you cannot have a universal compression algorithm.
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> Pork fat is healthier than kale

Human infant eyes are healthier than raisins.
Not just that, I also just don't understand the point.

" a small C library which implements high-level concepts available in Clos, Objc"

Well, Objective-C is "a small C library" which implements the high-level concepts available in Objective-C. Mostly. At some point, the creators found out that they needed a "compiler" to gather up and unique selectors, and at that point adding a small amount of syntactic sugar was easy and useful.

An object is a struct with pointer to a class as its firs element. (A class is another struct, it is also an object) And 'id' is a pointer to such an object.

A selector (SEL) is a uniqued C-String.

A method is a C function that takes an object and a selector as its first arguments:

-hi:there {
}

is roughly the same as

id hi( id self, SEL _cmd, id there ) {

}

(The naming is slightly different)

Sending a message is calling the function objc_msgSend(). And if you don't like the syntactic additions, just call objc_msgSend() yourself.

Those who don't understand Objective-C are doomed to reinvent it?
I like the Signo 0.5 mm pens; its ink dries quickly enough for left-handed use.

My only annoyance is that when they are near-empty, the lines get spotty and inconsistent instead of turning brighter/weaker.
I'm not sure what to say, just do the right thing and be more practical than dogmatic I guess? There are situations where it's better not to install an abstraction. There are situations where an abstraction fits super well and is well understood by your dev team.
And Swiss-Chard beats pork-fat.
Uh, well, for starters, you've got this blazing, uncontrolled discharge of energy, and it's just dumping tons of heat, untraviolet light and irregular magnetic force and radio transmission in all directions.

So there's a lot of waste and noisy interference being unloaded in all directions. In fact, it's so wasteful that it's dumping audible noise for miles beyond even the limits of its kinetic heat. Why waste that much energy? It's obviously costly to produce, no?

We don't even have a report on how much of the grid's juice went up in smoke. Certainly more than one hour of a 100 watt lightbulb. Maybe a megawatt hour? Maybe one hundred megawatt hours? An hour's worth of one hundred million lightbulbs? Not impossible.

And then, of course, there's the fact that night time is a good thing. All vertebrates sleep. All plants need a night cycle, for the dark phase of photosynthesis.

Sure, the city is this unnatural human social landscape, but, uh... I think the novelty of a constant high intensity electrical arc's discharge will wear off in about a week or less, for pretty much everybody, and nobody would want to live near it.
"Without a static type system I would have simply lost a handle on the complexity of the project."

A hardcore Clojure developer will probably tell you that Spec is, in some sense, even better than having a static type system. I haven't used Spec, so I can not say. But I do find, when I'm writing Clojure code, I write pre-conditions on every function, so every function has a contract. This goes a bit beyond what you can get from static type checking, in the sense that I'm testing all of my assumptions, including key names in maps, or at least, this is less work.

There is also the advantage of testing against real world data, instead of mock data. I've had the problem, when using Java, that all the unit tests passed, but the app died in the real world, because the real world data (perhaps from a 3rd party API) was different from our mock data. In such a case you need run time contracts to help find the problem, and static types offer no help (depends on the project really, but the more your app interacts with 3rd parties, the less useful static types are).

I'm not proposing this as The One True Way, but I would propose this as the Really Easy Way to write sane code. I don't have to think about it. It's like writing a comment for the function, but it gets enforced and can not possibly go out of date without giving an error. It documents everything the function is expecting.

An example:

(defn push-sentence
[current-database-connection permanent-id map-of-sentence]
{:pre [
(not (nil? permanent-id))
(not (nil? map-of-sentence))
(map? map-of-sentence)
(:sentence map-of-sentence)
(:belongs-to map-of-sentence)
]}
(mc/update
current-database-connection
"reports"
{:permanent-id permanent-id}
{operators/$push {:sentences map-of-sentence}}
{:upsert true}))

(defn push-transcript-processed
[current-database-connection transcript]
{:pre [
(not (nil? transcript))
(map? transcript)
(:permanent-id transcript)
]}
(mc/update
current-database-connection
"reports"
{:permanent-id (:permanent-id transcript)}
{operators/$set {:processed :true}}
{:upsert true}))

This also gives me good error messages which makes debugging easy. For instance, if this fails:

(not (nil? map-of-sentence))

I get an error about it being nil, whereas if this fails:

(:belongs-to map-of-sentence)

I get an error about the missing key. This helps me narrow down the errors very fast.

I keep the functions short, which feels natural in Clojure.

Again, this isnt' the One True Way. Realy Clojure programmers will tell you to use Spec, or maybe Typed Clojure.

But I will say, heavy use of pre-conditions gives me the right balance between the contract enforcement I want, while still giving me the flexibility of a dynamic language. I like Java, but often the verbose quality of a static typed language is just not something I need.
Even though I do agree that the total recording of sessions is not nice, such tools can be extremely important during early stage testing with your web app's UX. Especially for solo founders who don't have colleagues to tell them that they can't figure out how to use your app :)

Nice way would be to do some recording for a week or so. Get any sessions that obviously were quite long and the user didn't achieve anything. Go through them and try improving UX so the user won't get stuck there the next time.
A resource I found really helpful was a fantastic classroom-setting lecture series Introduction to Cryptography by Christof Paar[0] .

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aHkqB2-46k
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> If you wanted to test your cyber weapons, I’d imagine you wouldn’t want to draw too much attention to yourself by testing them simultaneously.

True, but that assumes this would be a test rather than an actual attack. There are motives where substantial but non-crippling disruption could be the goal.
As a Brit it's interesting to see how the default American response to anything out of the ordinary seems to be "we must be under attack!"

I don't mean this as any kind of criticism - I guess it's just a cultural difference. For example we had someone shut down the second busiest airport in our country last week by flying a drone around and the assumption here (by the man on the street and the media in general) was "idiot with a new toy" rather than "terrorist attack".
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There was this article posted a while ago that used a Stern-Brocot tree and/or floats for ordering: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16635440

It doesn't work in the pathological case though as any float has a fixed number of bits, and I see the article has been amended with a note.
As a player I would care because now I'm at a disadvantage unless I also give in and use counterfeit cards. At that point there is no point in any buying any real cards!
And chili powder beats lettuce, which beats rainbow trout.

Honestly, I have no idea what to make of this. Do I need to eat all 100 foods to get a perfect balance? Or only the top handful? Or are there some magical combinations?

If the study answered any of those questions, the presentation of the article as a top-100 really undermined the point.
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I agree. Driving is essentially an arms race with how people drive large vehicles.
It's not needed, IMO, if you disable password auth and only allow ssh from white listed IPs. This has eliminated ssh login attempts for me.
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There is a story in the Jobs biography where Jobs refused to give any stock options to one of the techs that had worked with them at the start. Wozniak then made up for it from his own stock. That together with the fact that Jobs lied to Wozniak about the amount of money they made from a contract shows to me that Jobs was always a greedy bastard. Wozniak on the other hand was extremely egalitarian.
Using a standard lined notebook, I just counted out lines and number of pages. So, if I had a notebook with a hundred sheets (200 pages) and 26 lines per page, I need to set aside four pages at the start of the notebook to have a different page entry on each line.
I've checked my own archive and they haven't embedded any tracking pixels. Don't spread nonsense.
Indeed, I would suspect that real hitmen usually aren’t full time hitmen as an occupation. In the case of the highend examples you mention, they’re probably ex special forces or spies for that country that usually don’t get asked to do that, but do some other jobs for their paymasters. And most “hitmen” are probably actually from extremely poor countries and live and work in gangs doing all the usual gang illegal stuff in addition to doing hits (for relatively low sums).

I think dark web hitmen are entirely scams, but I suppose if we can literally buy heroin or crystal meth online from the dark web, it’s not entirely naive to think aprori that hits could also be purchased. The reason they’re not is probably that it’s actuslly extremely difficult to regularly perform hits in the West, and probably not a great business model to scale on the dark web for the average Joe who wants to pay only a few grand for a hit.
You are probably right in the straight forward example. I'm sure most of the schemes below are legal though.

-"packed in Italy"

-Add herbs and seasoning to the can.

-Process it to pasata.

-Add lots of Italian branding, Italian head office address with "made in EU"
You can resale the physical cards to recoup some of the cost.

MtG has survived far longer than any $2 Steam game.
Oh, that would be doing it wrong. Of course it would be presented as locally written journalism, local experts or "concerned citizens" etc.

I'm not saying it's happening, but I certainly see the potential profitability in it.
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Agreed.

One of my pet peeves is JS projects. I am not sure why but the front-end developers refuse to add any comments at all. This trend, oddly enough, started with ES6. Pre-ES6, JSDoc style comments at least, were quite common.

Just because some popular Javascript project doesn't have comments doesn't mean yours shouldn't. Straight-forward code may not need comments but most of these projects definitely need to explain why or how are things supposed to work or why things are done a certain way.
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Very cool. So much better than loading youtube videos. Would be great if there is a way to annotate parts of it. Apologies if it is a feature creep :(
The other thing to remember is that these systems change over time. I'm a productivity nerd - I constantly change what I do and what works for me, because at different times in my life (say every ~2 years) I stumble across a system that works better for the next period. There is no magic bullet.
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The most expensive cards like the Lotus aren't legal in most formats. A format is like a league with specific rules.

The Vintage/type 1 format does allow lotuses, in quantities of one. Most non-wizards Vintage tournaments allow a set number of proxy cards, usually around 7-10 because of the Power Nine (Lotus and eight other ridiculous cards).

For most players the issue is recurring costs of new decks from rotation/metagame, or buying landbases if they play Modern/Legacy. Reprinting issues aren't limited to reserved cards.
Not only can you not always distinguish them from each other, but they are very far from being mutually exclusive. Which is somewhere else that Hanlon's razor falls down. It sets them up as being options to choose between, which is obviously a very bad model.

To be honest, when I first heard Hanlon's razor, I immediately wondered what nefarious stuff Hanlon had been up to that he wanted to deflect attention away from.

Is a bit like the old aphorism 'You can't cheat an honest man', which is of most use to con artists trying to put honest people at ease before then cheating them.

edit - also you are misrepresenting Hanlon's razor. It is not an argument that says that stupidity is merely more likely, rather it says - "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity".
300 GTS ie the one you need a full licence for
> Around the same time, Weight said, armed men held up a freight train en route to South Africa, decoupled the carriages containing cobalt, and towed them away on a separate getaway train.

Just... how did the thieves get a getaway train? I can understand trucks, that one is common, but an unauthorized train on the network, that should not be possible? Or was the rail dispatcher bribed?
There are a few projects out there trying to do this as community driven efforts or by extracting examples automatically from the existing man pages (or a mix of the two).

https://tldr.sh/ and http://bropages.org/ spring to mind, and I know there are others that I'm not immediately remembering ATM, both of which have web interfaces or can be installed as local command-line tools.
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> Upload the WordPress files to the desired location on your web server

Yes, this is how you'd generally install /anything/ on a server. Whether it's Java/Ruby/Go/etc. You copy/install the files where they need to go so that the server can execute them. Sometimes an installer will do this for you (ie, `go get`), but sometimes you have to do it yourself even then, just because you have a non-standard install.

> there is still a ton of existing PHP apps which rely on being able to modify their own code.

Yes, WordPress is very stateful. It's pretty annoying. However, simply revoking write permissions to the filesystem is pretty straightforward. This (generally) will keep you amazingly safe from most simple exploits. Running WordPress in a stateless way is not that difficult.
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I run Haiku in a VM. Can I upgrade it from within Haiku or do I have to nuke what I have and start over? I haven't done a lot of customization but enough to make it a pain to do over.
Well I checked mine and it hits fbcdn.net so I guess it’s you trying to cover it up for some reason. Brand new account too, not suspicious at all.
3x is the norm for short term it contracts in the UK - ok if its a year you could go lower.
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The videotaped visit has all the elements of a con game... (barrels full of gravel are a lot easier to load) as does the insurance payout. What happened and the way the article is written make it fairly clear that the whole Cobalt market from Africa to the LME is grey at best.
I was wondering about the @ thing. There is a strange account that keeps @ my account name and a few other people in my field whose names I recognize. I would like to be able to disable that.
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Have you not heard of AB testing?

It's certainly possible that one of the biggest arms of surveillance culture can AB test people on what they do with their exported FB profile.
Obviously they wouldn't do so under their own names, but through Macedonian troll factories, opaquely funded think tanks, Russia Today interviews, twitter bots, and so on.
She'll hold onto it until it's convenient to expose, just like she did with the Blasey-Ford allegations.
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What happened is corporations ate all of those temp jobs and put themselves in between as a middleman to eat 50%+ of your salary for essentially being a job finding company, making it even cheaper and easier for the company hiring. You also have multiple lines of management. I see an abundance of software engineer contractor jobs for $17/hr in Seattle.

If these paid good, they'd be great. but they aren't paid good anymore.
For others who didn't get the 86 reference: apparently US standard graves are 8 feet long and 6 feet deep. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/86_(term)
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But... we are in the middle of a government shutdown, aren't we? And the stock market is also going bonkers just this last few days. Those are facts, and today this is another one. That's not cherry picking. That's not comprehensive or exhaustive fact-checking either. But they are sure facts!
I would argue that a Nissan Leaf would be overall safer than a Crown Victoria.

First of all, the 2nd generation (2018/2019) Nissan Leaf seems to have a comparable weight as the Crown Victoria. From the data I've been looking at online, it's around 25% less weight than the CV, but definitely more than a Versa. Also, this weight is likely better distributed throughout the car instead of being concentrated in one place.

Another factor to consider is that the CV is an older vehicle (did they stop making them in 2012?), and in general newer cars are safer due to strong materials and safety features/design.

Also, the likelihood of a fire during an accident is greatly reduced (although still non-zero, as demonstrated by Tesla).
What is a database then? They've existed for close to 40 years now.