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> Among other things, it effectively mandates mutable logs

It does not. The Right to Erasure is much more restricted than many people seem to realize. If you can articulate an Overriding Legitimate Interest, and find a way to balance that against privacy, then GDPR gives you a pass.

While I don't believe it's been tested in court, the general belief is that the Right to Erasure does not mandate deletion from back-ups. It's generally believed that an acceptable practice is to keep a ledger of "forgotten" accounts off to the side (or their hashes or something), and make sure that your restore-from-backup process deletes those from prod after restore. I know that logs aren't back-ups, but the same idea should apply.

The issue with compelled censorship may have merit, but I haven't seen a concrete example where I agree that happens. Like I said, the Right to Erasure is more restricted than many realize. But, Europe also ranks the importance of speech rights slightly lower than we do in the States, so it's possible that certain Overriding Legitimate Interest arguments wouldn't fly.
Can you expand on what tutorial or steps you took to build your own arcade cabinet? I'd be curious to see pictures or the actual internals. Did you install standard cabinet joysticks and buttons as well?
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I feel like your comment is implying a very specific type of "smart" person...

Perhaps a better way to put it is that smarts without wisdom and/or ethics can cause some serious damage?
In numbers of dead, you're right. In left behind "exclusion zones", it would become untenable.
That's a good point and brings up something I still struggle with - "flow." I'd never heard it put that way but that gives me another tool to help me up my game. Thanks!
"What unites these approaches is a commitment to ensuring broadly distributed power in the workplace."

What ends up happening when you 'distribute power' is that employees that work harder, better, or even just having negotiating skills, loses all of their power to the collective group.

I worked in the auto industry for decades and at union shops, if you wanted a raise, it would go before a committee and everyone in your same position would also have to get the same raise as a collective...regardless of experience or skillset.

It was also ridiculously difficult to get fired (many times it involved a court case). One guy at our company missed 180 days out of the year. He was paid by the union during this entire time and eventually was fired. He took our company to court (represented by a lawyer provided by the union) and when asked why he missed so many days, he gave the excuse that his friend died and he had to go to a funeral. When questioned further, he couldn't even remember the friend that died. Needless to say, he lost his case. This cost the company lots of money in court fees and was just a complete waste of time for everyone involved.

Unions also impede technological advances. The main opposition to Uber are the Taxi unions. They would much rather have expensive cab fares with sub-par service than actually compete in the marketplace.

I once went to a trade show in Vegas where we needed to setup a booth. We were required to pay $1000 for someone to setup one card table and plug in our DSL line (this was many years ago). It took the person 5 minutes. The reason? Unions.

There are countless other examples that I have experienced first-hand, but the bottom line is that it makes everything more expensive and less efficient. We really don't need this in the tech industry.
It would be great if you would respond with more details about the use cases where this type of visualization might not be as helpful, so that the developer could consider them and perhaps improve their offering.
>> It's a speculation vehicle

So is everything else. Investors buy company shares to make a profit; they don't buy the shares for any other reason.

In a world where practically every person only cares about capturing value and almost none of them care about creating value, everything is speculation. Everything is just smoke and mirrors.
That may be due to my echo chamber but I got the feeling everyone I know loath Linkedin.

Partly due to their dark patterns, partly due to it attracts recruiters and therefore a lot more recruiter spam.

But only a quarter or a lot less of people I know stick to their guns and don't use Linkedin.

Most (me included), moan about it, but still, have a fairly updated profile on their site...
We could slice 10% (maybe less) off the military budget and pay for college for everyone, forever. This "who pays" nonsense is just that: nonsense.

I'm sure the Navy would find a way to make do with a mere nine aircraft carriers.

If you're worried about freeloaders getting welfare they don't deserve then slashing the insanely corrupt grifting that goes on every day in DHS/Defense should be your top priority.
Yes, that is fine. I'm obviously not asking for someone to write the next Moby Dick when sending me an email asking for a status update. A short and simple message is totally fine, I just would be prefer that it be (mostly) grammatically correct.
Mesothelioma victims would beg to differ.
> It's not how many people have been harmed, it's how many people could be harmed.

Really? So we should take into account scenarios like 1. Solar installer falls from roof, hits car, dies 2. Car didn't have handbrake on, starts to roll down the driveway, rolling over the toddler playing in the yard, killing her too 3. Rolls into the street, causing a school bus full of children to swerve and hit a LNG tanker, causing a massive explosion killing everybody onboard.

Of course, in reality, we need to take into account realistic failure pathways and plan accordingly. Per such analysis, both solar and nuclear are both very safe.
>If a large enough percentage of people bail on their student loans/medical debt then eventually dozens of predatory banks and "medical billing" companies will go out of business and then we can actually start to change things.

Pretty naive view of the way things work. The more likely outcome is that those in need will be denied service in the future, either medical or financial. Or do you think we should force employees and medical staff to service people who will not pay for said service? How will that work?

I realize the entire situation is a mess, but simply bailing on your obligations to "teach these people a lesson" will backfire. Case in point: you think the bank is hurt by your defaulting your $50,000 in obligations? They have a lien on your personal assets, and the number is insignificant to the size of their balance sheet.
These scans are in my experience always just that: they read the source and match it against a set of common anti-patterns. I was talking about something that would tell me how common commercial screen readers interpret an arbitrary new construct. If you have a specific reference to something else, please send me a link!

Screen readers often cost significant amounts of money, and are not trivial to "just turn on".
What about using writing to sell an idea ?

My friend, who isn't good at interpersonal skills, is trying that.

Can this work for him ? or is the trust created via face-to-face is irreplaceable for convincing others ?
I think it is a fundamental mistake to base human society's agricultural efforts around corn and soybeans. Corn is more efficient at making carbohydrates from sunlight than many other plants [0], but mono-cropping [1] corn loses whatever efficiency might be gained.

Grains are useful because they can be stored for years before they're used. Chickens, pork and other animals are fed grain because it's convenient for mega-businesses that don't have enough kitchen scraps to feed their millions of animals.

Potatoes are much better food for humans (and animals), but they are a living food that have to be used right away, or processed/preserved for later use (dried/frozen/etc).

I have a book somewhere that says the dairy cow is the most efficient means of converting the grass on a rocky slope into human-usable protein.

Agriculture is fundamentally a labor-intensive endeavor. The replacement of the mixed (family) farm with monocrops is a great vulnerability, no matter the cause of unpredictable weather.

Corn-based ethanol is stupid, full-stop. If the corn crop does fail this year, I wonder how much corn can be saved by stopping the ethanol plants. In the future, maybe ethanol could be made from corn that hasn't been used after 7-10 years in storage, or from corn that becomes moldy while being stored.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C4_carbon_fixation#Plants_that...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monocropping#Soil_ecology
Fractint was one of a number of programs that were very popular for a period because they really showed off graphics cards that, for the first time on consumer hardware, could display reasonably high resolution graphics (EGA then VGA).
> taking a loan you have no intention of paying

I'm not sure what sort of people you've run into, but I've never met a single person who ever took any loan out with no intention of paying on it.

The problem is "intention" and "ability" aren't inextricably linked. My brother has defaulted on his loan; he agonizes over it every single day. He has every intention of paying, but he's left with 32$ a month after rent, the cheapest, most basic of utilities, rice, beans, and the occasional leafy green, and health insurance. His apartment was 43 degrees during the winter because he couldn't afford to heat it.

32$ isn't going to pay down his debt, and there's nothing he can currently do to change that. I'm certain he'd LOVE to. There's nothing he wants more than to keep his current standard of living, but make enough money to pay his debt off (edit: and do note that his current standard of living _sucks_).

I find it a bit disconcerting that your mind immediately goes toward intention and doesn't even seem to consider ability. I'm certain there are those who take out loans with no intention to pay on them, but much like the welfare queen propaganda of the 90's, it seems like that specific problem is blown entirely out of proportion of the reality.
I think this is true inside a company, but it is another example of how weird our hiring techniques are. Writing plays basically no part in the hiring process. So for those engineers who have progressed by sharpening that skill, it is jarring to find that the barrier to their next job takes absolutely no account of it. You can spend years impacting or entirely setting the technical direction of a project or entire company through your writing (and verbal communication as well), and then find that all you're asked during your interview for your next job is to solve some made up problem using code on a whiteboard. It's bizarre.
Peter Schiff is just another guy that makes these predictions for marketing, then pretends he's a genius when on finally comes close.

He does this multiple times every week.
There’s a higher, systems-architecture-level equivalent to this, too (which Erlang is also designed to take advantage of, re: the Erlang distribution protocol, and the Mnesia DBMS), and that’s the idea that “durability is replication.”

That is, there’s no semantic difference between “a disk” and “the in-memory heap of another node on the network”, in terms of what fault-tolerance guarantees you get by adding one or the other to your system. Machines can crash? So can disks. Back up to a disk? Back up to another node. Restore from on-disk state? Restore by streaming state from another node.

You can build a DBMS cluster, or even something “ultra-durable” like S3, with clusters of disk servers, sure. Or — providing memory is cheap-enough for your use-case — you can build it with clusters of RAM nodes, with no disks at all (and thus one tenth the maintenance costs.) Power outage wipes the whole cluster? Not if you’ve got a UPS, a generator, and a whole lotta gas (like telecom base-station switches are stocked with.) Or if you’ve got backup nodes — which are also just RAM nodes! — to stream to in another region. (Your system itself doesn’t need to be multi-region distributed; it can treat these nodes the same way a regular persist-to-disk system treats tape backup.)

And, conveniently, it’s not just memory accesses that are faster with such an architecture. If you build your cluster architecture as a set of services where each service isn’t just a single node (or just a load-balanced set of nodes), but rather a “distribution set” of nodes—i.e. one “transaction router” node that multicasts commands to a set of equivalent worker nodes, where the worker nodes all deterministically do the same things in response; then, rather than one master, you have N copies of your node, all of which are equivalent hot-standbys of your “master”! (You don’t have to use them as such; you can route client requests to just one “master” in the distribution set, making the others merely warm standbys.) Compared to streaming replication, where some of your nodes are always “behind” their master, this approach is far less risky in terms of data loss. This isn’t streaming replication; it’s RAID for memory writes!

(And yes, this is the precise use-case that Erlang’s distribution protocol is designed for: nodes in the same “distribution set” working as equivalent, deterministic warm-standby alternatives to one-another, presenting as a single virtual “node” in a larger cluster architecture, almost always connected by a non-partitionable network backplane, like a single top-of-rack network switch. Of course, nobody uses Erlang’s distribution this way other than Ericsson... but that’s because nobody but Ericsson has needs that force them to avoid disks—and avoiding disks entirely isn’t cheap, at least today. Still, it’s important to keep in mind, because the Erldist protocol works best when you hew to this design, and actively fights you when you don’t; and because Mnesia was never designed for anything other than being a memory-to-memory replicated DBMS—and it works great for that!—but it really kind of sucks once you introduce any disk copies to its replication strategy.)
A previous version of the same story says:

- one in philosophy

- one in communications and history

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/26/he-moved-to-a-jungle-in-indi...
> This does not work for sophisticated bots (never met one)

The basic prerogative of a sophisticated bot is to ensure you believe that.

Having written a variety of sophisticated bots - some from pre-existing libraries, others from scratch; for specific websites and for general purpose - I'm reasonably confident most people who think they've never seen a sophisticated bot are mistaken.

I agree with you that anything more sophisticated or bespoke than a mass-spam bot is rare. But rare things happen often to most websites with nontrivial traffic. The types of bots with the most funding and skill behind them are the ones which don't try to spam anything on a website at all.
Forests and sustainable land-use management sequester massive amounts of carbon. Full stop. They're up on the list of recommended actions by the IPCC. We need to be doing it. And landowners aren't going to do it for free; they need to be paid.

Like I said, there is a potential moral hazard with credits – companies think they can offset and continue emitting. Currently this is possible because carbon, in general, is still ridiculously inexpensive. Aggressive carbon taxes are ultimately what's going to bring down emissions.

Once economic constraints are in place, you still need to reduce carbon. And again, forests are one of the best ways to do this.

My problem with the article is that it's flippant towards carbon credits. It's highlighting problems with the current implementation, and using that to make a judgment about the whole idea of carbon credits.

We need a carbon tax, and we need better standards of accountability. These are solvable problems.
The thing is nothing is stopping them from ignoring the treaty and just doing the restoration anyway; no one is going to embargo or declare war on France over medieval architecture
so, what might be ways to visualize the other structural components of an algorithm such that it brings a better understanding of the approach and modeling of an implementation? I would expect it to be very very hard, but something that would be of great benefit if it can be implemented.
Interesting, I was going to ask the opposite. Was LinkedIn ever really a darling? I thought it was dark patterns, stealing contact lists and sending spam since day 1.

Also, for the record, yes, someone actually loathes LinkedIn. They are a spam factory
Supermarkets in Asia Are Now Using Banana Leaves Instead of Plastic Packaging
c 10% imported from France (largely nuclear), Neds and Belgium

UK sourced:
30% gas
22% wind
16% nuclear
14% solar
7.5% biomass

all roughly
https://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/
https://youtu.be/vtIzMaLkCaM has very interesting tips on writing.

tl;dw : you have been taught to write to people(teachers) who are paid to care about your writing.
I'm sorry that you found my comment "completely ridiculous".

On the other hand I admit that it sounded way too negative and I've just amended that to reflect that I have nothing against the tool, just wanted to suggest that it'd be good to consider non-technical people in the future.
> People don’t have children because they want to have sex, they have children when they want to have children.

That's not completely true even in the so-called developed parts of the world.
I recently switched my blog from Medium to custom blog, reason being among other things (such as Policies) it felt slow to load on Medium.

I had a custom domain in Medium before the feature was shutdown for others, so after I manually copied the posts, I used the same URL slug as in the original Medium posts and deleted the medium posts. The SEO didn't get affected, same posts which had most visitors in medium have same number of visitors at my own host.

Perhaps this was the reason Medium removed the support for custom domains, those who didn't have it cannot move the posts to new domain and expect same SEO results.
Is the average American buying a new car or new to them car every 4 years? Last I checked, new car loan terms are 3-5 years.
Can't video at $DAY_JOB but from https://www.radioddity.com/products/xiegu-g90-hf-transceiver I want it. SDR in the car! Before plonking down $500 would wish to know the T/R delay and what the cw keying waveform looks like... Not that driving and working a paddle is a lot of fun
Microcontroller-based system makes Brooklyn fashion show debut
The GDEMU is great and it looks like there are now tons of clones on Amazon and AliExpress.
No one will be able to live in Chernobyl for another 20 thousand years... the author persecutes the director of the show for up playing the severity of the disaster while simultaneous down playing it, fact. The author makes it seem like the disaster at Chernobyl was nothing more than a slight hic-up or a little boo-boo... let me reiterate, no one can live in Chernobyl for another 20 THOUSAND years. There are a LOT of reasons for why (current) nuclear energy productions methods are dangerous, fallout from a total meltdown is 1% of them. It certainly isn't the primary concern. The primary concern is what we do with the by product of a nuclear power plant, the spent fuel. What do we do with it? Shove it into some hole in the ground and write a note to the next 200 generations: "Oh, hey, sorry about poisoning your drinking water with our radioactive waste. We figured you could fix our problems for us if you dont mind!" There is nothing clean about nuclear power plants. Just because we aren't pumping CO2 into the air doesn't make it clean.
It's an analog to what they do on Reddit: ”just looked at your post history and you said ____. OMG”. This is black mirror coming true.
I know, but that's not the point. The point is, that the pain for the non-standard support had to be taken by the proponents of DRM. Now, it is up to the foss crowd.

IOW, it was not about tech issue, but about social issue / blame-shifting.
The last Soviet citizen: The cosmonaut who was left behind in space
That's surprising. BBC BASIC on a 2Mhz 6502 could render 128x256 (a square using fat pixels) in about 6 hours. I've seen a recent optimised 6502 assembly version, also on the BBC Micro, that runs in about a minute.
are you supposed to say urql like "Urkel"?
Lack of website design skills is sadly a chronic illness of the FOSS community.

Mint is super solid though and probably the most approachable beginner distro in 2019. Comes with an easy installer, a choice of desktop environments that are all pretty nice out of the box and familiar and the fact it's based on Ubuntu/Debian makes looking up any problems or looking to customize it a breeze.

If you are looking for a Distro that works out of the box, Mint is pretty good.
Honestly I would happily give them some of my personal information in exchange for their service. The problem is that information in my address book, SMS, call log etc. is not just mine.
Starring Bill Nye and Neil deGrasse Tyson as Bill Nye and Neil deGrasse Tyson.
The comparison to historic disasters caused by the introduction of invasive species can not be understated. Maybe the net positive is good, but there are still negative effects as of yet undiscovered. It would be nice to find a solution with only net positive, but we seem to live in a world of tradeoffs.
>Steel and concrete is notorious for failing to meet even embarrassingly low longevity expectations.

What? Low quality work, yes, as it's true for all other materials and methods. There are steel and concrete buildings that have lasted 100 years so far just fine.
I was just looking for a smaller/simpler graphQL client. But I cannot try this yet as I need SSR (I'd need to remove SSR from my app in order to implement this library)

I hope SSR support is included soon!
Another Step Toward the End of Moore’s Law
> It's for querying records from a database.

The application of the language does not make the language itself great. As we have seen with DSLs that often come bundled with ORMs, there are other languages to query databases with (even if they ultimately compile to SQL), and I would argue that some of them do a lot better job than SQL does for providing a comfortable and cohesive environment for developers to write queries in.

In the imperative language space, we have one hundred and one different languages all trying to make things slightly more comfortable to developers. C, Go, and Rust can all be used to write the same kind of application, more or less, but that does not mean all of those languages are equally great. The same is true of declarative queries. Just because SQL is popular does not mean it is great.

> When you know how to write efficient SQL statements, ORM feels like having a hand tied behind your back.

ORMs and SQL are orthogonal concepts, really. There is no reason an ORM couldn't require you to hand-roll every single SQL statement. An ORM's concern is simply mapping the results of that query into the application's objects. That some ORM implementations also include functionality to build queries for you, often on top of the aforementioned DSLs, to make that mapping require less effort on the developer is, I would argue, largely a result of SQL being a bad language.
Fellow Brazilian here. Many if not most of our energy comes from hydroelectricity. We just had two catastrophic dam failures in the last few years, causing hundreds of deaths. (mining residue dams unrelated to hydroelectricity). The worldwide death toll record for dam failure is in the hundreds of thousands, long ago in China.

The risks of nuclear power are large on themselves, but they have to be compared with the risks of other types of energy.

A rooftop solar panel installer that falls and dies will make the local news if as much.

And don't even get me started on coal.