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Microsoft makes money with backwards compatibility

That's a good way of putting it, and it gets to a key difference between open source and proprietary software.

In the open source world where a million eyes make all bugs shallow, developer hours are thought of as free. So if you change something it's no big deal because all the developers using your thing can simply change their code to accommodate it. It doesn't matter how many devs or how many hours, since the total cost all works out to zero.

In the proprietary world, devs value their time in dollars. The reason they're using your thing is because it's saving them time. They paid good money because that's what your thing does. Save time. Get them shipped. As a vendor, you're smart enough to realize that if you introduce a change that stops saving your customers time or, worse, costs them time or, god forbid, un-ships their product, they'll do their own mental math and drop you for somebody who understands what they're selling.

In the end, all we're talking about here is the end product of this disconnect in mindset.
For me Brave has incentive problems too. They are aiming to replace the adtech market, but I'd rather a browser was made by someone seeking to abolish rather than replace that broken incentive space.
actually on the accerlation lane on the german autobahn there is no requirement for a zipper. (https://dejure.org/gesetze/StVO/18.html (3))

The ruling was also applied inside the OLG Köln: 24.10.2005 - 16 U 24/05) but there are other courts that ruled like that.

(The same ruling applies to "Bundesstraßen")
True, but what is meant by the term here is "first poet that we have evidence for existing" -- there are tablets of this Sumerian priestess/poet Enheduana.
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Another Mastodon instance hosted in Germany with the same copypasted left-leaning AUP[] from all the other Mastodon instances. What's the reason for this to exist when all Mastodon instances are linked to each other and this instance has the same ruleset and is hosted in the same country than the rest of instances? Or maybe I'm misunderstanding the way Mastodon works and instances are not linked?

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Well said. Exactly what I thought but more eloquent than I'd have responded.
It's relevant information, because not everyone uses the same postprocessing pipeline as you do (or even any at all)
Microsoft survived something, something big, and still is
The beef I have with journalism is that every time they write on a topic I have good knowledge of, I find their coverage to be lame and lacking depth. Which leads me to a more generalized assumption that this is probably true for any given subject, except perhaps politics. Most notable example I can think of is how the media covers A.I. issues. I don't expect newspapers to have book quality analysis but at the very least I expect some kind of integrity. If I have to wonder every time whether the journalist knows what he/she's talking about then I'd rather not read them at all.
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I use it all the time. I love it. (for reference, 30-yo programmer in NH with photography hobby. Most of my friends are not programmers.)

It's the best way to share art and life updates. Totally better than Facebook for keeping up with friends and seeing what people are doing, seeing their new art, etc.

FB and twitter have too much "noise" in the form of memes and shared articles, so my friends don't write original stuff for me to read/us to discuss like they used to on those platforms. So Instagram has taken the place of the social network where people actually share stuff about their lives/art/experiences/etc, and that's what I want to see.
Actually, there is a surprising amount of crossdressing in Heinlein's work.
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As an uneducated ignoramus, I'm somewhat ashamed to admit I only recently discovered JSTOR Daily (https://daily.jstor.org/). Marrying current events / open policy debates / political trends to hard research is really doing it for me lately.

Surface level "on the ground" reporting of who farted 15 seconds ago in the White House has its use, certainly. But I much prefer to read a thoughtful piece on the frequency at which people have historically farted in the White House. That way I can contrast it with the behaviors of the current ruling party. It can also be supplemented with analysis into how society's view on White House farts has evolved in tandem with the so-and-so Revolution or the such-and-such cultural shift. All of this being sourced from research steeped in hard evidence.

Aside from JSTOR Daily, what other recommendations can people provide for this kind of quality journalism?
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At some point additional wealth stops buying you significant comfort, but starts buying you significant power.

And to be honest, I think the area where that happens is a problem. I'm fine with people enjoying a life of comfort, I'm not so fine with people buying significant over others, over the society in which we live, simply because they have more money. It's a danger to democracy.
> Don't read that then. Read sources you believe are important to you and deliver information that is important.

Yes, but also make an offer to read sources that provide a different point of view from your own. There should be smart people who you disagree with. Find those people.
Analysis: Why the UK's CO2 emissions have fallen 38% since 1990
When I was a kid, the first times I saw a rainbow was in a cartoon like Fantasia, or with crayons or other drawings, where it was drawn with stripes. Then, when I finally saw a real rainbow (as a young child), it looked like a smooth gradient! But nowadays, I see stripes.
Amazon Web Services is experimenting with per-user pricing with WorkLink
So it’s dead, then? At least those are not the signs of a healthy operation that just made a rectifiable mistake. Combined with the length of downtime, sounds really bad...
> That's just not true. There are plenty of companies that self-host highly scaling infrastructure. Twitter being just one of those companies. They've only recently started thinking about using the cloud, opted for Google, and that's only to run some of their analytics infrastructure.

Twitter is both unusually big and unusually unprofitable. You're unlikely to be as big as them, and even if you were I wouldn't assume they've made the best decisions.

> All that aside, I can point you in the direction of plenty of sysadmins who wouldn't work for major cloud providers for all the money in the world, either for moral or ethical reasons; or they're just not interested in that kind of problem; or even just that they don't want to deal with the frequently toxic burn-out environments that you hear about there.

It's best to work somewhere you're appreciated (both financially and for job-satisfaction reasons), and it's harder to be appreciated in an organization where you're a cost center than one where you're part of the primary business. There are good and bad companies in every field, and good and bad departments in every big company, but the odds are more in your favour when you go into a company that does what you do.
Israeli rabbinate courts accused of using DNA testing to prove Jewishness
You can be informed without following news. Often reading books/articles produced some time after an event gives a more nuanced and in-depth analysis.
It reminds me of this lecture from Albert Bartlett: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY&feature=list_oth...

Eventually, any kind of growth is limited in a closed system, so it makes sense that it will be the dawn of capitalism, provided we don't escape in space before.

But I'm surprised, almost disapointed, that we need to reach this extreem. I was expecting injustice, greed, health issues and the ponzi scheme aspect of our economic system to be the kicker. It never happened.
Such a legend - for an easy intro definitely the short stories in Birthday of the World are worth a read
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Wow where is this place where drivers are courteous? It is the polar opposite in the UK, many drivers are selfish, aggressive and ignorant, especially around London & South East.
News literacy is a critical problem today, moreso than ever before.

It may seem as though I glossed over that, but my larger point is people need to understand what news is and means first.

A bubble is inevitable in either event, finite time ensures that.
Since so many languages use # for comments, we could even have a special comment that finds the interpreter for you! If only we had something like that.
Ok, I'll bite. Nazi's now used kindness to interrogate? BS. I refer to something from 1941, not modern: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/worldwar2/theat...

Klaus Barbie:
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/Holocaust/barbie.html

"Threats, coerces, and looses temper". "It was a beast, not a man,".

I guess there was an outlier who used kindness, but considering 6 million people lost plus another 5 million+ from the war I believe that the majority of Nazi interrogators were brutal and viscous.

Nazi's were (and still are) brutal evil people.
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This just needs to ditch all of the command line stuff and explain the patch concept up-front. This was the most useful line:

> if we unrecord a patch with dependencies all its dependencies are unrecorded as well.

Up until that point I had been thinking "but what happens with patches that depend on each other", and I don't think they really explain that ever on the Pijul website.

But it doesn't go far enough - how is the dependency automatically tracked for example?
Not everyone is a programmer! I've had plenty of times when I was getting messages on my phone that mostly required informing/connecting the right people/departments. If I hadn't done it stuff would have eventually gotten done, but a lot later & with more misunderstandings and miscommunications.
This has a name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect

Although I think it bears saying that journalists really might be doing a better job of reporting on the politics that is their own main interest than on the science stories which are far outside their own interest and expertise, and which they may well regard as lower priority for accuracy.
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HN is NOT a good filter though it's better than some. Judging by the person's statement, he is around 18 years old. For all I know, so are you. And so are 80% of anonymous "news" sources posted here.

Anonymous postings on the internet, no matter where, are the worst thing that has happened to civilization since anonymous reports to the police of wrongdoings of a neighbor.
I saw developers introducing breaking changes, then finding projects depending on them and submitting patches. So they really have good intentions and spend more their volunteer open source energy than necessary. And when the other project can not review and merge their patch (no maintainers) they get disappointed.

So please, just keep the old function name. It will be cheaper for you and for everyone.
AFAIK the basic merge algorithm for both Git and SVN is 3-way diff. Pijul instead uses commutative patches and a more complex merge algorithm.
This reflects top 1% of income yet I'm not sure this is the best metric. It's much easier to measure income than wealth....many of those in the top 1% of income are probably not in the top 1% in terms of wealth.
That sounds pretty pleasurable.

IIRC that second six months is the true classical definition of a life of leisure.
Because of the structure of the EU, the process of creating new laws is extremely vulnerable to lobbying. Parliament can only vote down laws, which can only be proposed by unelected officials.

So the leverage that the average EU voter has is only applicable at one very narrow point in the process (the vote to approve), while lobbyists can always buy influence with the lawmakers all they way through the process.

And this is the result. Though it does have to be said that the same process came up with the GDPR and that was a decent (and necessary) piece of legislation.

I do wonder why FAANG aren't more active lobbying the EU, though
I don't care if a person uses a drug, as it doesn't affect my health. But tobacco smokers directly effect me. I'm a very slow CYP1A1 metabolizer, which means that my lungs are not able to detoxificate smoke / air pollution like most people, and it effects me probably much more than you.

Also if smoking is generally prohibited somewhere, I can go there to speak with the person to stop smoking, and that's enough for me, I wouldn't care if people did it _inside_ their own home.
I'm a bit confused by OP here - I didn't at all have that impression. I thought it was fairly clear from the start what the gender of the main protagonist was. Perhaps I misread...
>The ones who do care more than that

"Like Tesla?"

>tend to be absolutely awful.

Exactly.
A little less sceptical but still I wonder about the same thing. If all are connected, why care for which server I connect to? Are there filters between each server? Is my data only hosted in this server and goes down with it when the server hoster decides he invested enough into his hobby?
Indeed, and it differs from Git in the same way as Darcs differs from Git: the basic block of history/code is not a commit, but a (commutative) patch.
I don't disagree, but the time that passes limits your ability to respond in the present.

Don't eschew current news because it's slight, because it's invite, because it's simplistic in form. That's the point.
You have just stated that your source of news is comedians who were doing standup routines in nightclubs before their current TV gig and, in fact, still do comedy at night clubs (John Oliver for one).

That's OK. A lot of people aren't aware of that. You can fix that.
Mastodon is the currently most hippest open source alternative to Twitter. Don't know many of the details tho.
Use a GUI.
Any kind of concentrated power is a danger to democracy, but you can't setup any system that can counter that, because it will just concentrate somewhere else.

The only way to avoid this problem is for the people to actively, on their day to day live, think and act toward the society they want to co-create. Power to the people implies responsability for the people.

And we are nowhere near that. People don't want the responsability. They have enough on their plate already with their personnal life issues. They don't want to have to choose every day what to buy, what to read, what to watch. They don't want to include the entire what they think society should be in the process of choosing education, home or a job.

So they vote to delegate the power and responsability once in a while and call the resulting oligarchy a democracy. Semantics is way easier than implementing the real solution.
That video looks intriguing, I'll check it out!

I just wanted to add though, that I think you should never stop writing and adding to the conversation. As a species, we know what we consider to be a lot of stuff. But really, we objectively have no freaking clue about much of anything. Take any subject, ask "why?" enough times, and you'll reach a dead end. In most cases, you'll reach that dead end surprisingly fast.

Rehashing knowledge may not be "useful" to us as a collective, but if it eventually leads to you (or someone reading your work) discovering a fresh new insight, then it was absolutely worth it.

Another example. There's a lot of art that is being produced, TODAY, that is incredibly fresh. The kind of stuff that is taking advantage of the exciting new mediums we've got at our disposal, encouraging a whole new generation of people to challenge themselves and others. I'm sure if a lot of those creatives had really stepped back and assessed the landscape of what's been done before, they would have resolved that "it's all been done" and they shouldn't even bother.
any link to projects ?
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Kindness and caring is probably more effective than anything else, no matter what you want to achieve. And ethically way superior.

It is however of course considered devious to use it with any ulterior motive in mind - especially when directed against the interests of the object of kindness.

Warfare characteristically leaves many ingrained moral truths in the dust.
Came here to post the link to manna. Thanks for doing that.

It's important to emphasize that while it seems like our economy is beyond human control, it is a human constructuon and the rules can be changed. They were changed in the late 1800s in the USA by populists and they can be changed again. Not easily, to be sure. But possible.
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What constitutes a European website ? As long as you are not accepting local currency and don't have a registered company in Europe, are you still affected by this ?
Archlinux but I want to switch to Void Linux. Tried it a last year and it was awesome but the packages are too few for my licking. Giving it a couple more years before going back again
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actually german highway's/motorway's don't have a zipper ruling for the acceleration lane. on a highway the highway/motorway traffic always has priority.
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Try deploying changes to google cloud loadbalancers. Updated within a few seconds, but changes will take seversl minutes to be applied. The first time i was scratching my head why my changes don‘t work as expected...
It amazes me how in America the cabinet style table saw is still favoured above the European Slider. I own a European slider, and it allows me to have my hands further away from the blade, it allows for easier support of the workpiece...

In my opinion it's just way safer, especially if you keep the safety guard in tact.

The other culture difference I've noticed with American furniture makers is that they use the table saw for many more operations than we europeans do. For making rabbets, we generally use a shaper. Shapers can be daunting machines, but used with the safety equipment they come with they can be a blessing to work with. Things like kickback if you try to create a rabbet are prevented.

It just feels strange to see that difference between these two continents, maybe OSHA is just way more lenient, or the idea of the importance of employee safety is something totally different..
What is the upgrade process like for existing applications built on the Electron framework? Is it well documented and a first consideration or are you thrown to the wind? Will 4 be able to move to 5 or are we talking about rewrites?
Yup, agree. I think we need the long term view to decide, and I think that we need a big range of perspectives to decide. Unfortunately the people who get the money from it tend to have the loudest voice. Even quite a lot of those might reflect that their lives would be better spent doing other things than standing on the tube or arguing about spreadsheets.
> An uninformed populace is a malleable one.

A overreacting population is even more malleable.

>This isn't news, it's opinion. Don't read this.

>Be a discerning news consumer.

Media, even big mainstream media, is very flexible regarding the distinction between news and opinion; the latest big example being the maga-kids and how people were rewriting the same articles over and over on debunked facts.

I am not saying to stop following the news, but more than reading trusted sources you should mostly distrust most news. In this context I like how Tim Pool describe how too many journalist are in a twitter bubble.
There is literally no reason why they have to pick between the 2. It's one system that can do both depending on the situation. Some countries/areas will care more about the cold temp regen and some other markets will care more about 4wd or the 0-60 performance. The great thing about EVs is that you can just redirect power to whatever you need at any given time.
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> Contrarily to what we hear sometimes, Pijul is not a rewrite of darcs in Rust. The theory is different, and the algorithms have a different complexity. Then of course, Rust was chosen to gain an extra performance factor, but rewriting darcs in Rust would be a lot of work for really minor improvements (darcs is already really good, and Haskell is a great language).

From [0]. It's possible that they did branch from darcs, but it seems unlikely given that quote.

[0]: https://pijul.org/model/
The 2 principles of anonu apply here:

1. Moderation in all things

2. The devil is in the details. There's a bit more nuance to the situation.

Your attention is yours. What happens in the media, Facebook, etc... Is an attempt to take your attention. For the most part your allocation is spent where the biggest dopamine hit can come from. If you start valuing your attention based more on an ROI calculation where your return is "did I learn something useful from a balanced source that can help form my world view?" Then you quickly start to cut out the BS.

Here are my tips for high ROI consumption:

Read long form articles about a subject. Skip over them if needed so a as not to waste time.

Call BS early. Poorly written books or articles should be nixed immediately.

Avoid the sugar: low ROI stuff like Instagram, Facebook, Reddit
Stop. Enjoy life.
It's great. News polarizes people and gives them anxiety. It's stuff out of your control.
Spend time improving yourself and your life.
Hacker News, stop posting political crap.
> Put your site in California that should be enough

What if you want the strong(er) privacy protections of the EU?
Yes, which misses the point: Darcs does not mention any features that Git lacks, and lets its differences remain as largely invisible and irrelevant from the perspective of the user.
Theses are the same law makers who passed Net Neutrality too and laughed at Brexit.
> I do wonder why FAANG aren't more active lobbying the EU, though

They are quite active. I.e. Google is said to have spent 30+ millions on lobbying about the copyright reform. Facebook is lobbying too: https://www.politico.eu/article/inside-story-facebook-fight-... (although not necessarily as one would think from their public statements, it seems like they're quite happy to tout how effective upload filters are when it seems like they can use that as an argument to avoid other rules)