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You’re very wrong. The current bslance is about $15 billion Canadian. $190 billion was the non-renewable resource money generated. They only out 30% in, unlike Norway’s 100%, and they stopped adding money in 1987.

Alberts has an estimated population of 4.3 million, so they have about $3500 per person only.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta_Heritage_Savings_Tru...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta (For population stats)
The worst pain in the back side for me with JCL was that the job turnaround time was about 4 hours. So, miss one comma in JCL, and KaPOOF lose 4 hours of work.

I had two solutions:

(1) Walk my deck of cards to a card/printer remote terminal (about 300 yards away from my office) and have it print my card deck, then back at my office stare closely character by character by character at the printout.

(2) When a job did run, rush to copy the crucial JCL cards and KEEP them as something that WORKED.

In those days, the job control card struggles were not just for MVT or MVS but more general. At one meeting of users, a guy stood and said that he wanted the control cards that worked laminated in plastic with a hole in a corner and hung on a chain!!!

My later encounters with the IBM mainframes were via 3270 terminals, VM, Rexx, and with nearly no use of JCL. And in those days I was becoming a happy as a clam Prime customer. Did some good things with some Prime computers.

Then it was on to PC/DOS, OS/2, and Windows 9X, 2000, XP, 7, 10, .NET, SQL Server, the .NET version of Visual Basic (as far as I can tell, just a better flavor of syntactic sugar than C# -- I hate the idosyncratic syntax of C/C# -- wrote it? Yes. Like it, NO!), and soon Windows Server.

Here in the Mid Hudson Valley, IBM is running ads for people who know CICS to rejoin!!
What I find is that most alarm clock apps do not have features like to wake up to radio(FM/streaming), wake up to a preset/randomized playlist or podcasts, gradual increase in alarm volume(android stock app allows a volume ramp up, but its ramping duration is too short).
Papyrus was also very cheap; it also makes for an excellent writing surface. The Romans didn't quite have paper, but they had something functionally equivalent and good enough to run their society.
Yeah, but if others are just bulldozing through a pronunciation, they haven't actually given you the chance to help them with it.

When exchanging the usual pleasantries, it's often the interviewer who is the first one to attempt the name, not the interviewee.

If I were to answer my phone every time, "Hi, this Nguyen, my last name is pronounced pronounced S-- E--- O--- whatever", it would come off as a little odd. And possibly as annoyance or haughtiness on my part.

All this goes to show that the "rules of politeness", themselves, are part of the secret hiring process.
Miami's mistake was in not developing their port to be a more critical piece of infrastructure to the United States. It's just not that important as a port. As a piece of infrastructure in the US portfolio, it's totally expendable. It's just not a New Orleans, or Norfolk, or Galveston/Houston type port.

Not sure what the best way forward for Miami is? Dams and pumps won't help, because they sit on limestone. They could try to recreate Venice, but they already have some fairly serious issues with algae blooms. Shallow canals will definitely not help those issues. I don't know? Maybe there will be some new technique for living with water than comes along, and they can implement that technology?

But you're correct, at the moment, the most reasonable course of action is definitely, "Get the hell out of Dodge."
> It's not about one being better than the other, they both have very useful things to teach.

Did you do a humanities degree and a cs degree? I did a psychology degree then went back to school later to get my cs degree.

The intellectual rigor just isn't there in any humanities classes because most of the students shouldn't be in college at all. Yes, there was a small handful of really smart people in psychology but most of the students were there to party for 4-5 years while their parents paid for it.
I don't necessarily mean this as a criticism of you, because you should spend time how it best suits you, but I feel like there's this meme that watching things is a waste of time. To me, I don't buy it. Certainly some things are a waste of time, but there's also absolutely a lot of excellent things that are entirely worth watching and will better you. I guess I just get annoyed by the, somewhat smug, "I don't watch TV crowd". If that's your jam that's fine, I just don't think it's implicitly a good thing or a bad thing.
Manipulating dials on displays is not good design, whether it's with a mouse or on a touchscreen.
I can’t tell what their motivation is... it cost a lot of money to file 24k patents to now just give away. Toyota isn’t exactly a charity or an “open source” company.
Not all weapons are equal.

Lets say, Facebook/Google/Amazon provides better infrastructure and security services to some community in India than the local municipality can, because it pays more for it, then the community might actually prefer them.

Now the corporation has a foothold, with armed security services, that are more powerful than the state security - and with the will of the people.

Alphabet is dipping it's toe into the water here with Sidewalk labs.

It's not state to state competition like you may be thinking. That's not how this happens. It's a slow creep/encroachment until you realize you're outgunned and the enemy owns the inside of the wire.
A couple of people asked for more details so here's a photo [1] and the Xorg config [2].

[1] http://iam.tj/projects/misc/workstation-6-monitor.jpg
[2] http://iam.tj/projects/misc/xorg.XPS-NVS420-6monitor.conf
I was talking about movable type rather than printing in general. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movable_type

Edit:

And an example in 1920 doesn't really apply to the early days of movable type. There's a big difference between pre and post industrial revolution.

BTW in early 20th century, China entered its own Enlightenment because of shattered state control and those efficient printing machines Western colonials brought in.
To present an equally valid but totally opposite viewpoint:

Digital downloads were ready 20 years ago, and they are still the best choice for consoles and pcs.

Spend your money on games (they've never been cheaper) with the understanding that hey, maybe 40 years from now you won't be able to dig them up. But by then we'll have 40 years of more games, and the current titles will get scooped up into museums, vintage shops, and other platforms.

Or they won't, and you'll lose them forever, which is ok. Accept the impermanence, enjoy the experiences you are having today. Don't let the past be an anchor, find new things that give you joy and play them then set them down.
The "availability window" is manufactured scarcity. Those tapes were physical objects that they couldn't recall once they left the building, but with digital goods they can decide how much of which title to make available in order to manipulate the demand curve.

That's the logic for high-demand titles. The reasoning for not making all the junk available at a fixed cost is the flip side: if users had a giant library of good-but-not-hit content, they'd be less likely to chase around their HBO or Netflix or whatever licenses.
I agree with some of the things about today's digital distribution and the DRM enchilada, my gripe with articles like this is about the title.

I believe if the author talked about DRM, we'd have a better discussion than falling back to VHS vs Betamax in a clickbait article.
People hated Origin pretty bad, but EA stuck to their guns. IMO its a pretty awful experience. And to be honest Steam isn't exactly a great experience either. I noticed they're finally doing a face lift on their storefront soon, perhaps from the competition?
PSnapper: Troubleshoot Linux process and kernel activity by sampling /proc
Well it depends. For example cacti grow all over the place where I am from, even though cacti is not native from there.

People usually harvest the fruits but this document made me question whether the kind of cactus I've always seen walking around is actually edible (and if not, whether edible cacti could be grown as easily as the non-edible one).
Cambridge for example does not require a masters to begin a CS PhD (it doesn't even require your undergraduate degree to be in CS.)

I don't know about other fields, but applications to do a CS PhD in the UK are usually pretty informal. It's a case of finding an advisor and if they want to take you on that's usually basically the only requirement. How they judge that is up to them.
Exactly. I read through this thinking "But... Google basically cloned this about three years ago..."
Blizzard and Origin are reasonably good stores and launchers, and their exclusives are that of the publisher who runs the store.

Epic Store is... Not a quality experience and its exclusives are not solely from the publisher that runs the store.
The problem is lack of buying options. Music has many stores to buy it DRM-free. Video used to be sold on optical disks, but with transition to digital (who buys disks today?), there are no options to buy video DRM-free. The lack is naturally filled by piracy, since media execs don't care to address the market.
Yep. Good audiobooks and podcasts are better for you, anyway.
> Yuck. These are worse than the veggie option. I've tried the impossible burger once; never again. I think it was the smell that was wrong, but am not quite sure. It's the uncanny valley of meat, and I don't like it.

While I don't consume the alternatives all the time I don't find them repulsive either. Both Impossible and Beyond Meat have a compelling product in my personal opinion having eaten meat and been somewhat of a "picky" burger consumer. Then again we all have different pallettes.

I'm curious of what your opinion of the Impossible Whopper at Burger King would be. Back in my younger days I enjoyed a Whopper from time to time and am excited to see how close it comes. Seems to be a rather large investment in fast food these days to validate this path as consumers look for the "healthier" alternatives.
> I guess an advantage of a 'native' feature could be that browsers could offer a button saying 'please pre-load this page!'

I think you are spot-on here. The current JavaScript hacks cause problems, handing the control to the browser is a much better solution.
If true, Facebook is screwed.
> It also has amazing tooling in intelli-j. Code completion, linting, package recognition, all the good stuff.

... and in the free Visual Studio Code, also crossplatform like IntelliJ.

(Nothing against IntelliJ, JetBrains is a cool company with amazing products IMO, I just prefer VSCode myself.)
Almost all of the analysis done in this article falls flat on its' face because London has been excluded.

The UK effectively doesn't exist outside of the South East from the perspective of most individuals with significant wealth or power (central government included).
>The nuclear industry has proven time and time again that it can't be trusted with nuclear technology.

You can count these events on your hands. The same can’t be said for aviation accidents caused by incompetence. Thousands of deaths have been caused by bad management/bad engineering/bad operations/bad pilots and yet we still fly more and more every day.

>Fifth, if you remove all subsidies and include end-to-end clean-up costs, nuke power is actually uneconomic, and becoming more and more so.

Only if you make up arbitrary numbers for cleanup costs. See what happens to solar if you remove all of the subsidies for the panels as well as the required storage batteries as well as the cleanup costs for the mines providing all of the materials and it won’t be “economic” either.
So far I've been able to accurately pronounce every name I've heard. For backstory I speak two languages natively so listening for phonetics is something I do well.

But this precise problem, and that of spelling the name correctly, is why I was named Daniel. Same spelling in English as in Spanish, everyone has some idea of how to pronounce it...etc.
We know how to make nuclear power safe. Nuclear power is safe.

It's not helpful to try to kill the discussion by stroking irrational fears.
My setup for the past 2 years has been a 34” 3440x1440 Dell Curved Widescreen on max height with my 15” Macbook in front.

Combined with MacOS Spaces it’s perfect productivity wise. Extra screens would just be Screen sprawl. Learned something new today ;-)

IDE on the Macbook, browser on the right, 4 terminals on the left. Slack, Messages, Email, Calendar and others are all on a different Spaces screen for minimum distraction.
I met someone recently who buys in bulk from goodwill, Salvation Army etc. to resell.
I've got 2 x 27" portrait monitors, total screen area ~70cm wide x ~60cm tall. Similar sort of area. It's odd, because I actually found even a single 27" landscape monitor rather uncomfortably wide! - but for some reason my current setup has never bothered me, and in fact I'd add a 3rd if my laptop could drive it.

I have one straight ahead of me, and I do have to turn my head a bit to look at the other one, but I don't find it troublesome. I don't really like working that way for long periods (e.g., when writing code in a text editor), but it's fine for command line stuff, and good for documentation.
Rewriting vanilla JS to Typescript isn't that big of a deal though. It would be more like building a house on a budget, then adding some fancy paint, furniture and alarm system.

In my experience, if you spend a few weeks in the "exploratory" phase writing ES6, rewriting to TS won't take more than one or two days.

Nowadays I'm a lot better at Typescript and will use it from the get go, but for someone who is less skilled in it, it might much faster to produce working code first and add types later.
A subset of piracy, when I was a kid for instance, was not about service but clearly a pricing "problem" (the problem being: I was a kid)
That’s too bad, years ago I switched from Android to iPhone and the only thing I missed was Swype. I still miss it. Later Swype became available on iOS but it was never as good as the Android one.

If it’s gone that’s one less reason to switch back to Android.
> what type of carbs?

When I say carbs, I mostly mean grains, potatoes. I know most everything contains at least some, but it's a bit of a colloquialism and hard to avoid. Some occasional beans, oats, etc. I tried eating more of these as part of a diet, and beans were somewhat of a help, but I still didn't feel the same.

> A cup of kale has 6 grams

I hate kale. Everyone pushes it as a superfood, but the texture is disgusting. Also, a recent report showed it had tons of pesticides. I can't help wondering if people eat it out of the same mentality that makes us think medicine should taste bad.

> dietary fiber

I think I put this above, but I ate beans, nuts, some oats, and fruits and veggies. I just had a lot of meat as well (as in, half to three-fifths of my plate). I wasn't on the typical Western-pattern diet by any means.

I honestly believe a plant-based diet just doens't work for everyone. And I will continue eating what works best for me, though I'm always open to trying something that could be better (the entire reason I tried plant-based in the first place).
At least Origin didn't vacuum up exclusives from non-EA publishers. People who hated Origin probably already hated EA, too.

The Steam library update had been years in the making.
Disagree thoroughly.

WRT. communities - no, there really is more to it than "moderation class", just like there's more to HN than pg, dang and sctb. Regular submitters, regular commenters and people voting are what creates a community, what makes visitors go there, what makes one subreddit better than another on the same topic. They're the soul of a subreddit. Despite what the subreddit creator or moderators want, nothing can prevent those regulars from deciding to stay, or to move elsewhere. 'fourstar built a site and wanted to migrate the community by fiat, but people didn't move, and instead reported him.

> it's just not that good of an idea, from a business standpoint. If they redefine success as something other than growth and user retention, maybe they can create a fake kind of success, but this site will not grow users or any of the things a normal startup looks for when launching a product (...)

Here is a thing: nobody in the community cares. The regular posters, commenters and voters don't care about "growth and user retention" beyond "people like it in here". Lurkers and irregular visitors don't care about it either, they're interested in actual content the community curates. Communities like subreddits exist so that people with like interest can exchange thoughts and media about those interests together. That somebody monetizes them indirectly through ads is an artifact of hosted platforms, but nobody will be willing to abandon a perfectly good one just because someone related to the community wants to take this money for themselves instead.

Imagine this: a guy got together some people and started organizing regular open poetry evenings in a coffee shop in the center of a city. The event became successful, grew quite an audience; the coffee shop wanted it there (as it drove foot traffic), so it kind of kept organizing itself. Fast forward couple years, the original organizer suddenly announces that from now on, the meetings will take place in a coffee shop he just opened on the outskirts. How do you think the regular guests and performers would react? I imagine they'd laugh the guy out of a room - it's ridiculous to leave a perfectly good meeting place and move to the middle of nowhere just because one person really really wants to make money off them. I imagine if the guy was telling the guests to go elsewhere next time, the coffee shop itself would step in and kick the guy out.
Have you seen Focals? They seem to be a spiritual successor to glass, though focused more on the form factor (looking like a normal pair of glasses) than matching all the features glass had (as part of the Google ecosystem). North only has a few stores so not many people have actually tried them out.
I think the problem for most people not eating healthier is lack of knowledge in preparation, cooking and storing. Recently I purchased an instant pot and it makes cooking healthy food extremely easy with decreasing prep & cleaning time. I just throw everything into this pot with water, hit a few buttons and wait 30mins to an hour. All goes into containers in the fridge and can be reheated in the microwave. I can make a good week worth of food in a few hours. I'm still trying to perfect different meals since I never used to cook.
Damn brits, stealing our mayors!
> wake up to radio(FM/streaming)

It's probably not feasible from an alarm clock app but rather from a radio app: I have found happiness for this use case with radiodroid (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.programmie...)
You don't need any special rights to rent out physical copies of movies. Video stores, Netflix, Redbox all could just buy disks and tapes from the local market and rent them out directly. Sure, they can make a business deal to get better pricing and cut out the middleman, but this effectively puts a cap on that negotiation because the local market is always a fallback. When streaming deals fail there is no fallback, see Netflix's depleting catalog.

The problem is that the experience of watching a movie at home only shifted a little bit during the transition from physical to streaming, while the legal and licensing framework between the two are so different they are hardly comparable. Copyright holders took great advantage of the change to a new format allowing them to redefine the meaning of licensing so that they have more control and can extract more value.
This is an interesting idea! Although it may be tricky to know when something is 'run', but there are ways to solve that.

A use case we found useful was: while working, I can ping my coworker and say "I'm having some debate over the design of x, can you look at it when you have a chance?" and continue working on x. My coworker can then take a look at what I have even before I am in a state to compile and run.
This is not the same as Netflix and competitors. No one is stopping a steam user from buying from epic store since its an one off purchase , but to watch an amazon exclusive you need an additional subscription.
I'm sorry, what's a "sad" diet?

Edit: found it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAD tells me it's a "standard american diet", which I take to mean big portions of mainly burgers, fries, and sugary drinks.
My guess is that it's a game theory move.

No one wants to be making electric cars until everyone is making electric cars.

Everyone wants to make electric cars, but no one wants to step out in front.

Now that we're seeing Tesla succeed, I suspect the bit is being flipped, and a lot of companies are trying to convince each other that we should all jump into making electric cars now.

Opening up patent libraries lowers the barriers for others. It's grabbing the hand of the kid next to you before you all jump off the dock together to go swimming. It doesn't fundamentally change the nature of the landscape, but it makes it easier to get started.
A cartridge razor is a safety razor.
Kiwi dependency injection library for Dart and Flutter (2018)
The Archetypal Resonance of Classic JRPGs
You can't see the bias if it is your own. If you can't see the bias, then naturally you will assume that argument construction actually matters.
Turn the light's out
when you're leaving.

I want to
watch the car park empty.

It's easy,
when they're strangers.

To wave goodbye.
No reason to be terrified. The difference between now and the past times you're alluding to is that if back then people's freedom was being suppressed, nowadays they're volunteering it away. Want to stay free? Inform yourself from a variety of sources and infer the truth from the consistency of facts being reported. This report is but a supplemental source of input for you to dig in.
I agree. The main reason people are urbanizing is because the types of jobs available are increasingly specialized and thus need to be based in urban areas to find talent. As remote working becomes more and more viable, people will start living where they want. Some will remain in urban areas because they like it. But many will opt for suburban and rural as housing prices are so starkly minimal in comparison.
I think the quote from the article is pretty telling:

"If the number of electrified vehicles accelerates significantly in the next ten years, they will become standard, and we hope to play a role in supporting that process."
Origin was also “not a quality experience” when it first came out, and it was also universally hated by fans of Steam.

So why do you think Epic can’t do the same thing?
Boeing MAX production cut signals long grounding
The issue is that in a place like London inequality rapidly leads to poverty because the income/wealth differentials are so high.

On the ground, at the moment, housing is monopolised by those with decent careers or established wealth.

From scratch?

Someone a few years into a career in a well paid field may be able to afford a flat or house quite far out. A bog standard middle class worker may be able to afford to rent a small flat.

Someone working in the supermarket full time will be sharing a flat or house; someone worse than that (e.g. children of the above, part-time or unemployed) will likely be more than one to a room unless they managed to acquire social housing when it was still available.

Overcrowded housing leads to high stress levels, arguments, kids spending their time on the street, all sorts of nonsense.
What is "the code" in this context? The article masterfully reveals details slowly over time, but I don't want to lean on my own understanding of what that means.