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Hi HN. Rauk.us is a game I've been playing around with for a while. Each player submits words to a shared word bank and a random one is chosen every 10 seconds. Chosen words are appended to a "story" that can be tweeted by @Rauk_us when the players vote to #end. Users can't submit the same word more than once, but multiple players can submit the same word to increase the odds of it being chosen. When your word is chosen you get a point. Accounts are generated on first connection and are not shared across devices. This is the public alpha and would love to hear your thoughts!
> Parents are hard to cut off.

You wouldn't be cutting them off. They'd be cutting you off by refusing to use any of the myriad other communications methods.
Thats not entirely accurate. The ADA requires reasonable accommodations, not "the same opportunity". Wether or not making an internal webapp more accessible is reasonable will depend on a lot of other factors.

However, I agree that generally speaking designing your apps to be accessible from the beginning is the right thing to do, and generally results in an easier to use interface for everyone!
Self-defense. Know two other guys who have possibly had their lives (or at any rate, probably hospital visits) saved in street fights and muggings. There are also countless juniors who have been able to fend off bullies. It's also exercise, which has extensive and proven benefits. It also has huge benefits in terms of bone strength and density. So yes, I would say real-world application.

Is it recreational in some way? Sure. But again, it has real benefits, while I don't see any in riding a toy stick (aside from enjoyment gained).
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> The reality is that these chips will run at 95 degrees for decades.

Not if the keyboard breaks first :)
Why do Election 2020’s male candidates get better coverage than women?
It's not just about protecting sensitive information. It's about a litany of other reasons. Censorship, integrity, protect against tampering/malware campaigns, etc. These articles explain it better than I can.

https://www.troyhunt.com/heres-why-your-static-website-needs...

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/52856/why-do-we...
Also a significant reason why healthcare is particularly expensive in the US.
now i know why it makes me type that every time :D guess i never wondered. thanks!
The comments here sound like they are from Android users who go on about how great Android is because they can spend hours tweaking their phones and rooting them and side loading them. LOL. "made to do what you like". Dudes, just get Windows 10 and install WSL and tweak away.
> Personally I would be hard pressed to bother contributing to a project not on GitHub at this point.

Though I wonder if "homogenous ecosystem" effects/issues could rear their ugly head...just a random thought.
I participated in that discussion, and it was a scummy rewrite of history then. As far as I can tell, they have no relationship to any of the various Apache tribes.
> we just add a delete operator to free memory explicitly and an exception which is thrown if the program dereferences a pointer to freed memory.

Is there any sensible thing to do when this exception is caught, appart from halting the program?
If the answer is "no", why have an exception at all?
> https://www.businessinsider.com/sex-and-politics-at-google-i...

Umm, Google's got just as much politics as Microsoft, arguably more

> Finally, Page laid down the law: "If you keep fighting, we'll be very happy to send you to the competition."

> During the speech, one of the executives who was in the room turned to a friend and whispered:

> "Did he just say, 'zero tolerance for fighting? I've been here for years. All we do is fight."

> As another longtime Google executive put it: "If the princes [are at] war, it's because the king tolerates it."
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Slightly OT, but, did anyone else get echoes of Gogol looking at the paper? :)
No, you get the downvote button once you have 500 karma.
You should have a text box that I can type in, I don't want to always have to prepare a PDF.
Porn is also perfectly legal, yet you can't have a porn app on App Store. Since Apple decided to play moral arbiter, it's perfectly fine to judge them when they allow something like that on their platform.
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There is definitely a place for streaming service with classic and contemporary European cinema. Russian, Czech, Scandinavian, Italian, Spanish etc.
>(c) Absolutely a negative reflection, there are two ugly things going on here. The official wayland libraries use a ownership style that really only makes sense in C imho, and despite the claim that wayland is just a protocol you can't actually not use the official libraries, because the drivers only work with the official libraries.

Not really sure what you're talking about here. Wayland is just a protocol, and a pretty simple one to boot. There also exists a pure Rust implementation of the Wayland protocol:

https://github.com/Smithay/smithay

The problem is that Rust and libwayland, the C implementation of Wayland, don't get along well, and that wlroots is designed to work with libwayland and inherits a lot of those design decisions that make it difficult to deal with in Rust. And to be honest, Rust is special in this regard. Other wlroots bindings exist for Go, Haskell, Common Lisp, OCaml, and Chicken Scheme - and all seem to do fine.

I think this points more to a failing in Rust, in that it's not designed to cope with this particular model well. Since this is a fairly common model, that seems like a big flaw.
This website isn't new, as most comments say. However, I've been using in the past a lot of times and works very very well. In fact, I used a lot the option to add a return stamp so if the other person wants to reply (mostly offices), they don't need to pay anything.
Having a list somewhere like an app or a little notebook is hugely helpful in keeping you accountable every single day. I use a different app but I'll check out everyday.app :)
I know you probably have a better understanding of how vpns work than I do, but the blanket statement that using a VPN makes your connections immune to MITM is not correct.

True, an attacker needs to find some other link between the terminus of your VPN and the target site to MITM, and true, those links are orders of magnitude harder to compromise usually.

But a VPN is not magic pixie dust that you sprinkle on your laptop and now you don't have to worry about security anymore.
> is they used to be legitimately good

I don't think that's true. The history of Facebook and Zuckerberg really makes it hard to make the case that either of them were ever anything approaching ethical or good.
Something big or just further division of economic inequality? I don't see why this is an issue. I was literally eating black cherries for breakfast and stumbled upon this article. A few pounds of frozen cherries is only $10. Foods have never been cheaper for everyone.
None, but if I knew that my great great grandfather/grandmother made a joke in 1913, I'd want to read it. You forget that we'll likely be able to identify lineage if we manage to retain this data.

In the future, there could be actual history classes where students have to trace their own family and read the words of their ancestors.
Other countries can do it because the U.S. doesn't do it: https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/369727-us-drug-prices...

> Although this question is difficult to answer, several studies suggest that the benefit of lower prices today is offset by the forgone value created by drugs that never reach the market. According to one estimate, if the U.S. were to adopt European-level price controls, the reductions in U.S. prices today would result in 0.7 years lower longevity for future cohorts of Americans and Europeans due to fewer new drugs. This would cost Americans more than $50,000 per person when the value of foregone health is valued.

(Author is a professor at Harvard Medical School.)
No they are quite accurate. You are conflating electricity with energy. Energy is much more than just electricity.

Furthermore, when you hear countries like Denmark and Germany talk about x amount of percentage being wind or solar you need to remember a few very very important things.

1) They are talking about what that specific country produces, not what it consumes.
2) What it consumes includes what it imports.
3) Wind and solar only produce electricity which is only part of our energy consumption
4) You also have to factor in the capacity factor which for wind and solar is between 20-40% and nuclear is more or less 100%.

In other words, those high numbers only come from ignoring the entirety of energy needs. The renewable energy sector and its proponents are very disingenuous when they present their "success".
Privacy is a major point of concern along with the fact that friends might use this service submitting photos of people who maybe don’t want this tech used on their likeness.
a related article in recent news:

Och-Ziff reaches $29 million shareholder accord over Africa bribery probes[1]

Michael Cohen is/was lawer of Donald Trump [2]

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-och-ziff-settlement/och-z...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sec-ochziff/sec-bribery-l...
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So given that the costs of production haven't been lowered, why would anybody expect the cost to the consumer to decrease?

Competition.

For many in the US, their cable company had a monopoly on television, so their TV bill was unnaturally high. For a personal anecdote, <streaming video service> + Internet is cheaper than cable + Internet for me. I've seen my cable provider try to win me back with discounts, but the discounts aren't good enough. Is it "cheap" in absolute terms? I don't know where that bar is set. I don't mind what I'm currently paying though.
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You’d think by now PC keyboards would have standardized dedicated gaming keys on the left side.

Retrofitting alphanumerics for game controls is such an ugly, kludgy hack, even if it’s very convenient (especially in games where you can text chat with other players.)

Feels like a carry-over of the PC’s “wannabe”ness as a gaming machine since the 1980s/90s.
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No, I'm not. But there is a real difference between actual social justice and "social justice warriors" that can't engage in objective debate/truth seeking about issues they claim to be so knowledgable about.
For me, one of my biggest hurdles was self direction. Trying to commit to hitting the gym twice a week always floundered even though I was following a relatively well defined course (Starting strength). I go to martial arts classes now and have zero mental overhead besides reviewing what I learned in class. Not great for building up muscle (these types of classes are usually more cardio based vs resistance training) but better than doing nothing.

Same with my language learning. I've always done better with the structure of classes compared to self study. Now I just schedule weekly 1:1 sessions with online tutors and only worry about doing the homework. I then try to practice what I'm learning organically when I run into potential practice situations.

I also find the less free time I have overall to commit to things, the more productive I become, compared to having more free time to execute - I'll otherwise waste a bunch of time on fluff.
Issues with JIRA are mostly seen as you use it for different companies and projects. Everyone sets it up differently. It is like Excel for ticketing. I didnt care much for Trac in comparison but I can appreciate that the UI always remained consistent.
> About three weeks before the cherries are ready to be picked, they are particularly vulnerable to threats that can damage them. One of those threats is water. When it rains, the water sticks to the cherries and can cause them to rot, split, or both. This makes the cherries far less valuable to buyers.

> Cherry growers have long tried to find ways to dry the cherries and prevent the rot/split problems. They put fans on tall poles in their orchards and run blowers up and down the rows. But this isn’t usually effective. Enough rain in those last few weeks can destroy the entire crop.

> Sometime in the past — maybe 10 or 15 years ago? — someone had the idea of using the downwash of helicopters hovering over the cherry trees to blow the branches around and shake the water off the cherries. This was extremely effective and apparently well worth the cost.

> “Cherry drying” by helicopter was born.

I was expecting something like spraying a desiccant. This is so much cooler. But pretty sad in terms of carbon emissions. Can this be done by drone?

Does this explain the whole cheaper class of split cherries you can buy during cherry season in New York, usually from street vendors?
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Couldn't something be sprayed on the cherries to reduce surface tension and inhibit mold/bacteria so the cherries would dry w/o cracking? Then you could spray the fields with a fixed-wing craft. Penetration into the tree foliage might be a hurdle as well as cleaning off whatever you sprayed afterwards. Nonetheless farmers use sprays for almost everything these days.

Using helicopters as dryers seems very kludgy, expensive, and dangerous and little more than a stop-gap measure until something better comes along.

Certainly a robotic mid-sized to large helicopter-like drone designed to primarily hover would be safer and cheaper. It could have long legs (taller than cherry trees) and fans on the side to assist drying and to reduce energy consumption (it could set on the ground during drying and only lift off to change trees). A little fuzzy logic to control positioning and movement and boom - a new product!
How often does a reorganization or "change in priorities" cause management to force healthy and capable employees to take sick leave? Particularly at a company with an unlimited sick leave policy.

It seems to me they're trying to "encourage" these people to leave rather than fire them because that would look like retaliation. Google management isn't in bind, they're using the same playbook that has gotten them into trouble time and again.
People lose their homes during times of financial turmoil all the time, and it's not a happy thing for anyone. It's possible this is all different for farmers, but the simplest explanation is that these farmer-specific explanations are all speculation based on the mythology surrounding farming.

The thing about farmers' suicide rates being uniquely bad has been debunked a bit, although the numbers are undeniably quite bad. It just seems to me a lot of unnecessary speculative baggage is being added onto the whole thing for some reason.
No. Just look at Sweden if you want to see what happens if unions get too much power. It's a doomed country at this point.
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Yep. The London guilds still wield a fair bit of power.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livery_company
Every great idea is obvious in retrospect. The entire history of science is that of one person finding out something that was true which no one else had found before. Your comp sci invention could very well be one of those things!

Best bet is to scaffold your ideas in working code and then see if they are as practical as you think. You might be positively surprised.
Please provide sources to the NDRC case, that's why I asked in the first place about why this isn't collusion. My understanding is limited to the original 2006 case where these companies were in fact charged and fined by Department of Justice, that's not a made up story and I provided the source to that.

Telling me "no proof of collusion" without any source is the same as making stuff up.

Technically, we're in 2019 but that's off the topic.
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This (it looks like to me) is an attempt to pull in the best bits of Dave Cheney's errors package (which I love) into the standard library: https://github.com/pkg/errors

Standardising error unwrapping is a great idea IMHO and I think that this has a lot of merit.

I don't like the `fmt.Errorf("more description: %w", err)` though for several reasons.

Firstly it is a lot more opaque than Dave Cheney's original mechanism errors.Wrap(err, "more description"). You've got to check the format string for a `%w` to see if it is wrapping an error or not.

Secondly why is this really important functionality in `fmt` and not in `error`?

And finally we've been encouraged to write `fmt.Errorf("more description: %v", err)` (note `%v` not `%w`), so I think there will be a lot of unwrapped errors.

...

I'm not sure enough has been thought about the backwards incompatibility. With rclone I try to maintain compatibility with the current go release and a few previous ones so that rclone can remain running with distro go versions and gccgo both of which are a bit behind. For something as common as error handling this will cause lots of libraries to suddenly be no longer usable with anything less than go1.13.

IMHO I think this would be better staying as a non standard library package for the time being while more kinks are worked out.
I don't think that a Facebook marketing effort is a reliable source for such counterarguments.
Personally I don't like this response. The post specifically asks for Open Source software, and the top response is a closed-source service?

I am not making any judgement on the service, just that it is not an appropriate reply for what is being asked here.
Could we do without the derogatory „SJW“ insult? It’s blatantly obvious that it never leads to any discussions of value.

And as far as insults go, it’s an incredibly lazy one. Because there is absolutely no defense against it: the mere advocacy of, for example, anti-discrimination or against AI arms trade will expose you to being called an „SJW“. It’s an insult of last resort, because actually engaging for discrimination or selling drones to child soldiers in Western Africa or whatever would make you look like a deranged crank. Therefore, you use precisely the fact that something is generally recognized as good as an argument against the speaker.

Theoretically, I guess there’s a „no-risk“ accusation included as well (see also: virtue signalling). But apparently, organizing a walk-out and risking your career (see: this article) doesn’t actually qualify as „risk“.
This. I've been a software engineer for twenty years and a union member the whole way through. It's paid off, time and time again, not just for me but for colleagues as well. Solidarity forever.
Isn't this kinda like asking someone who disapproves of the PATRIOT Act "Are you really, actually against stopping terrorist?"
Thanks for this gem. Many +1s for you but it's not easy to know what you are good at. Even you know then roadmap isn't clear.
This seems way better than the other proposals. pkg/errors solved every complaint I had about errors years ago.
Don’t rely on motivation, it is fleeting. Develop and rely on habits and routines.
Think about it, CBD and THC have scientifically demonstrated medical benefits and >60% of American citizens support their legalization but cannabis is still a schedule 1 drug (i.e. NO medical benefit + high potential to abuse) federally, when drugs that can ruin your life due to addiction etc are more legal. I myself am an opiod prescription pain killer survivor and was prescribed Ambien which gave me a psychotic episode that scarred me for life. Am I given a chance to speak up in this process? How? I'm told to keep calling my representatives and vote; and I do do those things. They don't seem to care. America is not a democracy. It's an illusion of one.
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I'm willing to wager the economic positives outweigh the negative for using the heli to dry the cherries.
Berberine is not the same molecule as metformin at all. One is a polycyclic antibiotic and the other is a polyimide glucose Suppressor. Whoever told you they are "equivalent" is crazy.
I feel like too many people don't value how easy it is to signup and cancel these services. As others have mentioned in the comments, I usually rotate my subscriptions quite a bit throughout the year depending what shows are coming out, and that context is huge. Hulu, SlingTV, PS Vue, Netflix, Prime, etc. all make it SUPER easy and hassle free to deactivate/resume all the services on any whim. You can do it all in their interface in minutes. That's such an underrated feature that many forget about. Trying to cancel and resume cable with companies like Comcast is nothing short of a nightmare. They have 0 respect for the user's time, and they always try to hit you with sketchy hidden fees and dark pattern UX's.

I'm personally very happy with this new system of being able to rotate, and juggle services where it makes sense and get the content I want, wherever it is offered. I don't mind putting that burden on myself to manage because it's easy with all the services, and at the end of the day, having no commercials and that freedom to choose is all I every wanted. Not to mention, it's still all cheaper than traditional cable.
The axe extension is very nicely done: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/axe/lhdoppojpmngad...
And as I said. wind and solar are combined currently around 1% of the worlds energy needs projected to be around 3% in 2040. How is that a winning technology by any stretch of your imagination?

You point fingers at others but 3 points back at you.
Weird, to me, that you judge the quality only on the financier. Do you do this the other way -- is their a company that you'll always watch?

If you don't mind, do you generally go with labels rather than attempting to judge goods/services on their innate qualities?

Seems like one could download a list of all Netflix content somehow and filter out their self-financed stuff? Would be a bit clunky.
This is also now being done in South Africa.

In SA, rain in the JHB area is in the summer and in the Cape it's in the winter. So, either you try to plant in an area which harvests before the rain (JHB) or after the rain (the Cape).

In both cases you could end up trying to aim for a period where there is rain that falls overlapping the harvest period.
Of course not. If that were the case, no app would be approved.
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Cable never promised that unless you subscribed to HBO/Showtime, etc, which were always expensive.

Most of the original cable channels always had commercials.
I could be wrong, but I believe the logic behind this is that the law is still paramount and because the person did in fact break the law (in this case a felony crime), they should have to apply for their conviction to be expunged and make the case in court. Because at the end of the day, while we might not consider what they did a big deal now, when they committed the act it was a serious crime.

I also think they want manual reviews because there could be plenty of cases where they only charged the person with possession for personal use but might actually suspect them of worse crimes like intent to distribute or something else like possible gang affiliation. So I don't think they ever really want there to just be a blanket "oh there's no charge of a violent crime so we can wipe it" because they might be wiping the record of a known gang member or serious criminal but didn't have quite enough evidence to charge and convict them on the other offenses.