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I'm a Mac user with a strong preference for the superior and consistent kind of UI that great Mac apps are known for, but I use VS Code.

It's UI polish is nowhere near the level of something like BBEdit — which I still do use for some text-related tasks, e.g. formatting weirdly encoded CSV files or something like that — but VS Code also provides real and valuable features that no native Mac programming editor does.

For me, the TypeScript integration, auto-complete, in-editor as-you-type linting, and highly functional project-wide features like "jump to definition" and "find all references" provide me with real utility that no "real" Mac app has.

To get those features, I'd have to be looking at something like Webstorm, which is a huge bloated Java behemoth, with an even more alien UI and even worse performance.

I would totally pay $100 for a nice fully-native fully-Mac editor that did everything VS Code does, but there isn't one.
In case this doesn't quite click for people, this is about tomorrow's lunar eclipse.

Fun factoids:

Eclipses typically occur in pairs, one solar and one lunar. They occur two weeks apart. (Sometimes there is a third one.)

Eclipses occur every six months, but most are partial. Total eclipses are much less common.

Photos taken during a total solar eclipse proved Einstein's Theory of Relativity and helped make him famous overnight.
It matters if they’re selling a dollar for 90c and calling it successful. In this case, they’ve explicitly stated they’re profitable.
Apperently a big issue with "gamers", which should not be confused with game addiction, is that kids use it to sooth their mental problems. If you have ADHD it's a effective way of getting something to do all the time with short bursts of dopamine. If you have social problems you can hide behind a screen with something you are familiar with.If you feel really unwell, like dealing with thr death of a relative, it's easy to play longer.

To find out how healthy the relationship with gaming is, other factors are used instead, like do the person shower, eat and don't start the day by playing instantly? There are currently science being done on this right now, I should find this.

Some kids are more prone to "get stuck" also, opening the door to an investigation into autism/asberger.

In the end kids kinda find their own way and go out and play and get bored behind a screen. Alcohol addiction and video game addiction does not work in the same way.
Are there any soil biologists around on who can comment on the viability of this? Because as far as I understand, the land under permafrost in Russia is pretty much tundra and in Greenland, it's gravel. So it would take centuries to make it tillable compared to the timescale of decades we have before current breadbaskets lose the production capacity.
Not at all useful, needs to be fired from the air, from a specific outdated French jet weapon system that essentially nobody uses any more. Speculation was that maybe Libya would have a use for it. And yes, its target needs to be painted with a radar for the entire flight.

30kg of high explosive could be useful to a generic terrorist but it's unlikely that the missile itself would have been used.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/28976/italian-cops-rai...
> There is a caveat to this conclusion: if our universe is a simulation, there is no reason that the laws of physics should apply outside it. In the words of Zohar Ringel, the lead author of the paper, “Who knows what are the computing capabilities of whatever simulates us?”
It's because of all the outdoor defecation, thank you poojets!
Scam artists. Happy 50Y Moon Landing anniversary. LOL!!!
Fake news. They fought for the Ukrainians
I think the fuel and the explosive in it are individually useful/ valuable. The missile itself is a semi-active radar guided air to air missile and I doubt these guys had the resources to use it is originally intended to.
> no light falls on it any more

If that were the case, we would not see the Moon during a lunar eclipse. Earth's atmosphere bends light, so some at the red end of the spectrum still reaches it.

And Sun still shines the same during lunar eclipse too. Only those under the shadow of the Earth see the difference. It is just that Earth's shadow is big enough to cover the Moon and that's it. Neither eclipse is more or less "real" than the other one.
I think if you point it out to them with a correct translation from the Italian police site they will correct it. Also, they're not the only one who made that mistake. The independent said the same thing. It would be interesting to know where the original mistranslation originated from.
I listen at 0.8x, especially when listening to fiction. Reading is certainly much faster, but I tend to enjoy more while listening to soothing, meandering speech by the voice actor.
Cash machines don’t often dispense 50s though, so unless they’re going into a branch they would never encounter one.

I know people who get out their cash for the month from a branch and do get 50s.
I’ve heard this a lot. I always listen at normal 1x speed and that usually seems plenty fast as my mind gets busy with visualizing the scenes and characters and filling in bits of detail and whatnot for realism. I wonder if folks who speed it up have their minds similarly engaged or if they’re just having a much lesser experience. To me it’d be like trying to watch a movie on fast forward.
I watch YouTube (and downloaded) videos at 1.75+ playback, because I _think_ that some videos are slowed down before being published.

I'm not sure why this is done - whether it is to make the video easier to follow for non-native speakers, or to give a more 'authoritative' feel (slower speech = more confidence etc?), but I find such videos unbearable to watch at x1 speed.

So for me it's not about rushing and not enjoying the experience. It's about listening to it at a speed which is bearable: and hence enjoyable.
I disagree that it's as simple as just blaming the parents. As a technical community it is easy for us to assert that there are probably optional restrictions somewhere but many parents who are not technically-minded will not necessarily make that connection. Manufacturers/vendors of these devices simply don't do a good job of advertising to parents about these risks and the options available to restrict them.

iOS, as an example, does have the ability to disable in-app purchases using the "Content & Privacy Restrictions" settings, but unless you dig through the device settings and found them (under "Screen Time" no less) then you would not know that those options exist. Given the obscure naming reducing the chance of them ever being found, they had might as well not exist.

Apple could do things to improve this. They could clearly ask about parental controls up-front during the device initial setup, they could clearly place them at the top-level of the Settings app and label them "Parental Controls", they could even include a bit of paper in the box or some printed text on the packaging that explains where to find those options.

They do none of those things.
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It says "first" automatic spam call blocking, but T-mobile has had that for years? What gives?
Then Nazism is truly tragic, for those that follow it are the most prone to rejecting others. It seems so trivial, and yet we fall short.
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So you can call code that's not annotated with borrow checking annotations from code that is ?
I wouldn’t say its the phone company’s fault directly but did they even try to contact your friend in any way to let them know that their bill is now 2, 3, 4 or even 5 times bigger than usual?
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How did you block outgoing connections without breaking web browsing?
Some of us read as slowly if not slower than we speak.

Also, different audio systems read at different speed. Have you tried pocket at 2 or 2.5 x? Still too slow?
It depends on the player.

Audible's 3x is intelligible even for a non-native speaker like me. Smart Audiobook Player's 3x is atrocious.
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Exactly. Whenever I want to start another book, I look for it in Blinkist and read a summary if available. Many a times reading a summary ahead of time whets my appetite when I actually read the book.
That relies on the front fork being at an angle, though, doesn't it? If they made it straight down (which is the obvious choice) or pointing backwards, it would be much, much harder to ride.
Obviously you're completely missing the point and I feel sad that you're so far off that I don't even know what to say in order to explain it to you.
> And it is very easy and intuitive to set up too, so it isn't like it is hidden behind millions of menus and dark patterns.

Disagree on the basis that neither "Screen Time" nor "Content & Privacy Restrictions" are terms that imply having anything to do with spending money.

They could have a top-level settings item called "Parental Controls" and they choose not to.
I read a lot of audiobooks on YouTube recently. Fascinating how a service so public can be so full of copyright violations. I guess I know now why upload filters are the new big thing.
And even Google translate:

> The investigations had begun about a year ago when the police headquarters in Turin, coordinated by the Central Directorate of Prevention Police, had monitored some people linked to political movements of the ultra right and who had fought in the Ukrainian region of Donbass against the separatists.

Wouldn't one expect at least that as part of fact checking?

Edit: Damn, so perhaps the poliziadistato.it article got it wrong. At least, according to Wikipedia.[0]

> Forza Nuova leader Roberto Fiore was once closely allied with the Ukrainian far-right Svoboda party, but following the beginning of the War in Donbass, Forza Nuova and Fiore "made a considerable shift to the pro-Russian camp." According to the Political Capital Institute, a Hungarian think tank, Forza Nuova is one of a number of Russian-backed radical right political parties in Europe.

But the supporting cites are from 2014-2015, so who knows?

0) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Force_(Italy)
In my experience people like this think in terms of tools they can use. They read an article about some shiny new thing and watch a conference talk about it and think "wow thats cool, what can I use it for?". Often times their shiny new tech will actually solve a problem, but it might be far from the best solution and it might bring a whole host of other problems.

IMO the key to reason about things like this is to ask "What problem are we solving?", clearly identify it, then brainstorm a list of potential solutions (including whatever shiny new toys this dev wants to use), then run through each solution and list the pros and cons.

Also, try not to start out hostile to the shiny new tech, let the proponent of it do all the talking, just ask questions but don't argue against it, save that for the very last minute. Otherwise it could go a bit sour if you are both clearly on opposing "teams". Finally, try asking the question "what are the downsides of this new technology?".

There was an excellent article published here in the last 6 months about developing in the "problem space" it was about exactly this kind of situation. I just wish I could find a link for it but I can't. Maybe somebody else remembers the title of this article?
Italian here, in the news they said it looks like the rocket was empty. So explosive was probably removed to be used by itself.
I hate saying this, but it comes from a place of privilege. If you've never not had a job, you think just banning bad jobs will mean everyone has a good job. If you've been unemployed, you know you'd rather have a job and have it reformed through continuous work than be unemployed.

The problem, though, is that there are people who have never not had jobs who nonetheless have opinions on what the baseline job should be. Since they've never had to choose between food and a shitty job, they assume that they can solve the problem by just mandating jobs not be shitty.
From what I understand this handles only authentication and provides tokens that may be used for additional (undefined APIs).

What bugs me about this (and all the oAuth implementations out there) is that you never just want authentication. You also want to know things about the user (username, name, email, avatar, etc) - but to get this you have to implement a plethora of APIs for the various services, because they are all different. I wish fetching profile info would be part of the standard.
Pretty sure the people building calculators in Minecraft are on a CS level where the Barrier of Entry is no problem.
So it wasn’t hacked, it just had an exploitable end point, that was exploited?
And what about Palantir and its spy software ? Guy also supported Trump. Seems to be nothing but cashing in on the nationalism wave.
I find OsmAnd is generally a decent alterative to Google Maps, and actually it has better mapping of walking routes. Google Maps is better for transit directions and finding businesses - I haven't found good alternatives there yet.
How dangerous is one of these things without the surrounding targeting system? And how useful would this be to a foreign government that somehow doesn't have access to other air-to-air missiles?

It seems to me like a bit of a sensationalist headline, and the more dangerous weapons are actually the small arms.
I sure did: it's due to changing the code but not using the correct macro definitions and compiler options from what I could see (I'm on a mobile telephone, on vacation, so lots of the log is cut off). But you also have to realize that Solaris 10 is much older than illumos and I'm telling you that the build breaks on both.

I actually patched that and got past it, half a year ago. The build broke somewhere else after that and it was in Lisp so I had no idea how to fix it. This breakage is just a simple endianess "pre-flight check". SBCL's problems are much more serious then this: they broke it but good.
I moved on to audiobooks from podcasts. I had a hard time developing a podcast habit (mostly around comprehension), but once I got a hang of it and started enjoying the experience, audiobooks were a logical next step.
It's got into a point where I just assume Google would do x thing against my privacy if it can.

What I do to keep Chrome but ditch Google's anti-features is lockdown requests to Google domains with Little Snitch by Chrome.

I believe you could do something similar with LuLu by ObjectiveSee if you don't want to pay for Little Snitch.
A simpler explanation is both devices have location services on, or are on the same WiFi network (same SSID).
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I guess it came from the origin of the main suspect Fabio Del Bergiolo. He was was a candidate for Forza Nuova in 2010. FN is a pro-Kremlin far-right party.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Force_(Italy)
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Chains and gears are especially not simple
You can't just throw around the word treason. More than Google Fb should be investigated.
Though, sheepishly, trying to listen to audiobooks on Youtube is why I ended up paying for Youtube at one point: so I could turn my phone screen off while listening. Maybe Youtube knows this. ;)
The difference is that with LBA you can determine if the program will end or not, as you can check all of the finite states it can have.
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>I started with a book I read already some time ago so it wouldn't be such a big deal if I miss something.

This is where I’m at in learning a second language. The audiobook will keep marching onwards, so I won’t get road blocked by things I don’t know yet. Because I already know the story, it’s never longer than a minute or so before I manage to catch the plot thread again. It’s also been helpful to read along with the printed book as the audiobook is running.
What caught my eye in this article was this sentence:

"This is a founding idea of chaos theory, whose advocates sometimes say Lorenz helped dispel the Newtonian idea of a wholly predictable universe."

Maybe someone more well-versed in physics than myself can comment: is it really so that 'metaphysical determinism' (so to say) is specific to Newtonian physics, and so, that it's no longer the state of the art in our understanding of nature? In other words, is there no room for Laplace's demon beyond classical mechanics? That would take the concept of the nature of 'randomness' beyond what I so far understood it to be.
The question is, how did it get so far? If you are leading the project, those decisions wouldn't go by you quietly.

Generally, when making a choice, try to establish a process of evaluating technology. This requires your co-workers to bring arguments other than "it's new and shiny".

We've done this in our company for all major decisions in our tech and tooling stack and in the end, it gets buy-in from all parties (or "disagree and commit", which I quite agree with).
It might be a typical American level of ignorance of geography and foreign politics. A wrong assumption of Ukrainian separatists in a Russian land is an obvious mistake to make.
What ethical concerns do you see?
> I _think_ that some videos are slowed down before being published

It's to stretch the videos that are just under 10 minutes to longer than 10 minutes so they can add mid-roll ads.
This is true in the UK as well. Unfortunately there are new online bookies every week.

The government also set a maximum amount of 4 video game slots machines per store, causing the number of stores to go up by 3 or 4x meaning that after self excluding from one place, you will still walk past many others as you go about your routine. Thankfully this is now being rolled back, as they have set a maximum stake that means most of these stores will have to close down.
I'd argue it's the parents responsibility to educate themselves in this regard. Again, this isn't new news. If you can make a purchase on the device, your child can make that purchase too. Certainly, the OS can flag more warnings during the setup of the device etc. but I doubt the people getting into this situation will pay any more attention than they've evidently done so far (which is to say very little)
This does not seem to be correct, Forza Nuova seems indeed to be supporting the (Russian backed) separatists. According to the Wikipedia article (with sources) [0], the party used to be allied with neo-fascist Svoboda but switched sides during the Donbass conflict and is in return also backed by Russia.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Force_(Italy)#Presence_out...
This is one of my favourite websites. It has so much interesting and just odd stuff.
It can, with the big caveat that it only works well if you don't cross a function boundary.
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I have been working with a younger colleague doing just this. Résumé driven dev.
Every week in the daily meeting, he just feeds us with an unknown API that no one had ever hear of.
In the first week I was impressed but over time, I discovered painfully he did not know, almost all the time, the thing he was talking about.
Usually I actually tried these new API but discovered latter, whenever I blocked on a technical aspect, that he had never actually used it.This shocked me...

7 month later we do our daily meeting, but no one really cares when his turn is on and he talks about a 'wonderfull new API' that 'do the job better... because we know he doesn't know what he is talking about.
His resume is a wonderfull resume, but I discovered recently he had been working in my company as... à salesman.
This clicked in my head, : resume driven dev is like salesman resume : Shines allright but don't expect to deliver.
Gambling requires you to win something of value. Pinball machines only give you free games and are not giving something of value. However some countries like the Netherlands have a definition that includes many of these video games.
I tried looking specifically for details on biological shielding. How do you prevent the crew from getting fried?
Make him famous overnight... eclipse... haha, good one. Oh, sorry. ;-)
I have attempted following Ghuloum's paper, too. One difference is I wanted to make it as self-contained as possible and didn't want to depend on a C compiler or binutils. So I wrote a simple assembler. Here it is, all in Clojure:

https://github.com/nathell/lithium

It's dormant – I was stuck on implementing environments around step 7 of 24 – but someday I will return to it and make progress.
There’s lots of recordings around from decades ago, but not much is produced for broadcast now. Sometimes, you find a “full cast” audiobook, where every character has a different reader; That was my first introduction to both Dune and Game of Thrones
Fetching profile information isn’t part of it because it lets people do it in the way that they feel most comfortable. Conventionally, though, you can pull the useful bits by fetching their h-card https://indieweb.org/h-card as noted here https://indieweb.org/IndieAuth#Where_do_I_get_user_informati...

https://v2.jacky.wtf/post/482a99db-4650-48df-910a-b162b828d2...
Very nice! I wrote a library (not long ago) for stackless recursion in Clojure, which uses core.async and the go macro to automatically turn recursive calls into defunctionalized continuations - no (structural) refactoring required! [1]

It's not as fast as a plain iterative version would be, though, and the article gave me some ideas to experiment with.

[1] https://github.com/divs1210/xodarap/
> I'm going to lose considerable respect for them

Hahaha.. as if the bank account was that full to begin with
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Really enjoyed reading your reflection, well written, engaging and great message. Thanks Dr Duncan.
This is true but in the absence of a method to internalize externalities it is worse to subsidize those who can maximally externalize their costs. I don't think that the inadequate legal system that allows people to externalize their costs to me is a sufficient deterrent to violations of the no harm principle.

Any system that does not internalize costs explicitly subsidizes those actions that greatest externalize. I'm not good with that. It's not a free market. You don't get to sell my property rights just because the law isn't good enough to recognize that which is inherently mine.
For me audiobooks are a way more relaxing alternative to podcasts in that they strip away the need to choose what to listen to for several times as long and, usually, once I'm in the mood to listen to one I can stay in that mood for a long time.

Listening to Robert Caro's gigantic history books a couple of years ago war an extremely pleasant experience. Literally a month or two of no podcasts at all and just this pair of extremely deep well written biographies.
There is a good chance you might just end up as another Ignaz Semmelweis. The idea that washing hands would help against illnesses did not agree with the state of medical science.
Can't "indipendentisti" mean in favor of Ukraine's independence to Russia?
Russia is selling itself as a counter to liberal, internationalist hegemony in the form of the EU. Ukraine wants to join the EU and is economically supported by the EU and broke away from Russia's political sphere over it, and the alt right hates the EU political project. This makes Russia and the European alt right natural allies.
It's a reason against failsafes that only work against a RUD.

It doesn't mean there are no failsafes against RUDs or to protect the crew and equipment in case a RUD occurs.