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Some people believe, instead of having social housing in ££££ areas with long waiting lists, we should have social housing in ££ areas with short waiting lists.

And councils have finite budgets so every £ extra spent paying someone's rent is a £ that isn't spent on supporting and caring for the elderly and the disabled and the mentally ill / funding schools / running buses / maintaining cycle paths and parks and play areas and libraries.

Unfortunately there are a number of disadvantages to this:

1. Making affordable housing a condition of planning permission doesn't cost the council anything, whereas houses built in other councils' areas would have to be paid for.

2. The vast majority of social housing users have jobs and loved ones. If someone has to buy a car to get to work, or can no longer get babysitting from their parents while they work, or moves somewhere with lower wages, such a move makes them poorer.

3. Many of the jobs these people are doing need doing anyway, so they'll have to be replaced - possibly with someone with a longer/more expensive commute. Some people have a certain cynicism about capitalism, and are sceptical as to whether these jobs' wages will rise at all, let alone rise enough to cover a more expensive commute.

4. Regeneration often involves demolishing homes poor people live in. As some minorities are richer than others, regeneration that sends poor people out of a city is also regeneration that sends certain minorities out of the city. Some people feel this has shades of "ethnic cleansing".
Another Brautigan library! "It doesn't make any difference where a book is placed because nobody ever checks them out and nobody ever comes here to read them. This is not that kind of library. This is another kind of library." [1]

[1] http://www.thebrautiganlibrary.org/about.html
I only use keyboards with QMK firmware these days. It's much easier to flash a new layout to my keyboard than it is to keep messing around with OS settings for keyboards.
Never switching back to something that isn’t Ergo 4000 or Ergo 4000 shaped if they ever stop making them.

Nothing is as comfortable for me and I’ve tried a few, so remapping caps is still useful to me.
> Most of the roughly $650 million payment would go toward compensating consumers for costs associated with the breach

4,48$ per person.

That ought to undo the damage of all your most personal information being public.
I fully respect your choice :)

As a hopefully interesting comparison, for me the right choice is a logical layout that is decoupled from the physical layout. And a Russian physical layout keyboard from Apple. And an US software layout.

(I'm Icelandic and don't speak or write Russian. Not yet at least.)

The Russian keyboard has all the programming symbols in the right places, a two-story enter key, and has the key between left-shift and Z. And gorgeous Cyrillic symbols on each key, in addition to the English-layout keys. Then my fingers sit on something beautiful that they know.

Russian layout: https://store.storeimages.cdn-apple.com/4982/as-images.apple...

US layout: https://store.storeimages.cdn-apple.com/4982/as-images.apple...

And I love the crisp action that Apple's keyboards have today. – I appreciate that some don't like the feel. That's why we need a rainbow of variety!

Then I remap things in software. I personally remap Caps Lock to Ctrl and keep Esc where it is.
"Racist" and "Nazi" are headed the same way. This frustrates the hell out of me as these are both terms that should be used for the highest level of condemnation, not something to just smear your political opponents.
Also see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/ctrl...
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I bind it to Scroll Lock, which I absolutely never use. That way I have a conveniently reachable key to use for whatever I need atm.
Papertrail gem in Ruby on rails. If that doesn’t exist for your platform, just roll your own little table with logging for who did what when. This is so easy to do, why pay thousands per year for some third party to do it and at the same time siphon off possibly sensitive data as a side effect?
I’m not familiar with the branch of synesthesia that detects similarity as electrical impulses, but you’re welcome to email the mods and ask them to delete my post and give you the karma. I don’t know if they’ll do so or not but I certainly have no investment in the integer (as my most recent post shows).
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It might be worth 0.10$ to an advertiser, but that's not the damage you have if that data goes public, which the settlement is supposed to value.
I use vim, so esc is one of the most important keys. But I use esc in most apps very frequently. I don’t use Caps Lock at all.
Absolutely agree. So many times I’ve seen developers instantly dismiss unfamiliar code as ugly and poorly written when it’s qualitatively very similar to their own, underneath some cosmetic details.
Telecom satellites in geostationary orbit will remain there on a geological time scale. Human civilization could knock itself down to a bronze age level of technology and rediscover spaceflight long before the orbits of any of them decay.

Some weigh as much as 6500 kg. Including a 100 gram library for PR purposes by a private satellite owner wouldn't be too hard. It's a lot less exotic than saying "the surface of the moon", however.
The main arguments are that a circle is defined by its radius, not its diameter, and that in most cases when you reference Pi in mathematics/engineering you actually use 2Pi.

From the horse's mouth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hhjsSN-AiU
Actually, php with docker is really nice and simpler compared to the old "install Apache/nginx to your server" method. Upgrading is easy, just pull new images and restart the containers. Horizontal scaling is also a lot easier using stuff like glusterfs as volume driver. It even easier if your app is modern and don't need ability to self-modify source code as you don't need fancy volume driver.

If you decide to drop dockerized setup in the future, I imagine it should be easy to do so as all you need is move the source code to the new host, is it not?
Hi! Author of Uncap here. I am glad to know that you find it useful. Putting the executable in the startup folder is how I use this tool too.
If you run a web service and want to proactively expire breached passwords, you need to have full list of plain-text passwords to hash them with algorithm you are using (and use the same salt if you are doing that too).
From the article:

"In the last two years (2018 and 2019) — and funded purely by a few donations from friends and our own team — we have sent 4 backups to space.

One is orbiting the Sun for at least 30 million years, in the glove compartment of Elon Musk’s red Tesla.
One is orbiting the Earth on a satellite.
One is now on the Moon for up to 5 billion years.
And one was sent to space and returned to Earth and will go in a museum."
They are not leaving the Play Store, are they?
> The biggest hurdle for fusion power is, ultimately, how to deal with the neutrons. These particles are electrically neutral and their trajectories are unaffected by electromagnetic fields.

Layman here, but surely they must interact or bond with something? Perhaps to produce something else that could be used.
If that’s the case, then Google’s next move should be to get rid of the “compatibility modes” in the next version of the OS.
How is a pharmacist supposed to know if an opioid is legitimate or not? Anyone can claim to have a pain issue and if the opioid isn’t mixed with other problematic medicines, what other indication does a pharmacist have that the doctor is dealing drugs?
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I'd be interested in a quantitative analysis of the power usage. Are you documenting the refurb anywhere?

https://www.thegeoexchange.org/fridge-power-consumption/inde... - shows a saving of two-thirds by replacing a 20yo fridge with a mid-range model (they say they could have saved about 80% power use with a more expensive model).
I hate to be Reddit here, and I hope this train will be duly downvoted, but:

Maybe the real alien life was the friends we made along the way?
In the last couple of years the US has shown the world that it is a highly segregated country where missteps of rich people largely go unpunished, the administration can be openly corrupt and that conflicts of interest are part of the modus operandi. So what Boeing does is par for the course.
1) is it a rounding error? There are a lot of doctors, every one of them making a lot of money. I don’t know but every doctor making a lot more every year has got to add up.

2) Doctors are overtrained. This is by design, to keep salaries high. Nothing about their job demands the salary they command other than the artificial scarcity imposed by regulation.

How about: streamline the process of becoming a doctor; remove 4 year degree requirement, lower cost of med school or make it free. This has the benefit of both improving care (more doctors/patient) and making care cheaper (fewer ludicrous salaries).

Absolutely I believe doctor pay is a big part of the racket on the hospitals end. A fair amount of it goes to the higher education racket via student loans, but I guess that is a different problem.
Nice, how is linus support (regarding extra scrollwheel, buttons..)
This isn’t about doctors making mistakes, this is about doctors intentionally prescribing opioids to people who want them just to get high. How is a pharmacist supposed to know who has legitimate pain versus those who don’t? That conversation happens between the patient and the doctor.

The only way you would know is do you had a system wide view and could see which doctors are prescribing abnormally high amounts of opioids, not something in the purview of a pharmacy.
> (I think even 2-3% fee is too much for doing basically nothing, but that is another discussion).

My guess is that the play store fee works more like a tax on a closed ecosystem than a price for a service. For example, when the government needs to pay for a more expansive healthcare bill, they may decide it makes more economic sense (or is more politically viable) to raise the additional funding through a tax that doesn't go back to most of the people who receive the benefits. So maybe they raise capital gains taxes, etc.

Likewise, while Google is an ads company, and running Android does benefit them some in that regard (e.g. ecosystem lockin), they're not running it as a charity. Android being given away for free, and many phones being subsidized, both benefit a lot of people, and because Google has more or less complete control of the market, they've decided the best way to pay for it is to tax the Play store, instead of charging those people for the benefit.

They important thing I'm trying to point out here is that they could do it differently - they could charge for Android, or require subscriptions to use more of their services, but they've decided the best way to monetize is through the store. In this case, the question of whether the fee is "reasonable" for what Google provides to app developers isn't quite as significant as it would be were Google simply providing a product on the free market.

But in this case I suspect you're both right, anyway, and this likely has more to do with data collection.
From the article: "A woman psychoanalyst wrote me a very intelligent letter in which she said that “in the last analysis, desires always go far beyond the object of desire.” The fact is that I’ve had everything I desired, but the “far beyond” which is included in the desire itself is not attained when the desire has been fulfilled."

I took "being" to include being somehow immersed in the "far beyond" once the desired lifestyle is met. Like realising you're in a dream without eventually waking up.
Some users do want people to be able to connect to them directly though, hence Universal Plug and Play (UPnP), which can open ports on your router. You may disagree with the wisdom of automating the port forwarding process for people who don't understand networking concepts but there are people that do want other people to be able to connect to them directly, even if you don't.

Generalizing that one use case will suits everybody, fits about as well as one-size-fits-all clothing. Which never fits right.
but they are still paying the Apple store fee, aren't they?
I still don't get it. We have a keyboard with an Esc key and a Caps Lock key. Why would I remove Caps Lock and use it as another Esc key?
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> a more interesting question would be how to map caps lock to ctrl (or something else) on hold, and esc on tap, across platforms.

Definitely agree. I'm a big fan of that behavior. It would be nice to have a single project that supports it cross-platform. At the moment, I'm doing:

On linux, https://github.com/alols/xcape .

On OSX, https://github.com/tekezo/Karabiner-Elements after some setup.

Not sure about windows. Maybe there's some AHK script out there for it?
I think it's more productive to not care about the formatting. Allow redundant, pointless spaces that serve only to keep things out of alignment. Once it doesn't matter if the code is pretty - or if the autoformatter has been run - you just read the content.
Things like these and the Voyager probes etc. always make me wonder:

What is the likelihood of discovering something that small among the vast empty scales of space?

If another species had sent something the size of the Voyager probes into our solar system, or even crashed it into our moon, or Mars, or even into the oceans of this very planet, what are the odds of us stumbling upon it?
yes including C. C is a horrible language but it was the best choice back then. Now we have Rust though. Choosing any other language then Rust to greenfield an OS at this point is stupid.
XKCD's rendition: https://xkcd.com/195/

I feel it's slightly more readable, if out of date.
Animations at 5:00 and 6:00, explanation at 1:00.
Progress on the triple product :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawson_criterion

has gone up faster than Moore's Law :

https://i.imgur.com/BN0pz.png

The problem is that the next device costs a lot more because it has to be much bigger, that is unless you have much stronger magnetic fields. The cube of magnetic field is proportional to the energy gain in a Tokomak. See this video at at 46 minutes to get the equation, watch more to understand why people are now doing this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0KuAx1COEk

Tokomak Energy and Commonwealth Fusion Systems among others are looking at smaller reactors that use High Temperature Superconductors.
Try pressing esc every few seconds for 8-12hrs a day like a vim developer does and you'll know.
The problem with ASP/PHP (or at least, the one we are addressing here) always mixing presentational logic with business logic. Something you still shouldn't do, and React doesn't advocate doing so at all.
Google certainly aren't doing nothing - 30% includes hosting, bandwidth, patching, some amount of marketing, payments, fraud. Whether it's worth 30% is a different discussion, but to say they provide no value is just sily.
As with all debt, it's not necessarily bad to incur technical debt. You just need to know how to leverage the borrowed funds to turn an even greater profit so that you can pay your debt back later and still come out ahead.
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> It's not like using them will make you forgot the basic commands, movements, etc, to use vim in some unknown remote machine.

No, but time I spend setting up and tweaking a custom environment is time I could be spending internalizing the tools that exist everywhere and work well after the learning curve.

Since working on a foreign machine usually only happens when something’s broken, it’s already a stressful situation— my tools not behaving the way I expect won’t help matters.
Empires corrupt incentives- you dont have to compete, if your buddy in government can "force" your contract into external markets you own.

This "shield" hides the lack of risk taking away from the general public - after all the buisness seems to boom - meanwhile the actual wealth creators & innovators go soft or go elsewhere.

In the final phase, when there is actual resistance/competition to those shody practices, the thin fassade crumbles inwards, reavling nothing but corruption and accumulated incompetence.
Yeah, the market will act on its own when the news is both powerful enough and outside the market’s perception of the central bank’s expectations; i.e. the Fed is “stabilizing” which reduces competition and efficiency.

Moreover, it’s inequitable. The economic instability is what allow upward mobility. The Fed’s stability goal equates to a goal of preserving entrenched wealth from competitive pressures.
Well, yes, they interact with most things, by colliding with their atomic nuclei, thereby turning their atoms into radioactive isotopes, and generally destroying any object or living matter in their path.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_radiation
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So let's say that council housing blocks were demolished and the land sold to a private developer to make profit off building some regenerations scheme with fewer homes but more luxury ones.

The people that lived there before gets their community destroyed through compulsory purchase orders.

And then they get out into a place that is is designed to show them their inferior place in the world.

Their community has been taken over by the rich moving in and they need to leave because they didn't have the ability to buy when prices were low.

All this is reminding them is that they are peasants and if they don't want to be treated like that then they should leave the city because they don't have the means to live there.

To be honest your attitude just makes it seem moral for the poor to attack the rich. Like burn down the luxury development that stole your home and put a label around your neck shouting that you're poor.

And I'm saying that in the living room of my privately owned flat in a housing development that's currently constructing social housing that will have a poor door, at least according to the plans.
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I've used https://whimsical.com/ (no affiliation) to do mind maps, which is a GUI tool, and it supports doing arbitrary lines/arrows, but it's not super happy with doing that.

GraphViz will go from text to whatever tree-ish graphical representation you want, but naturally there is some time investment required, especially if you want pretty output.
Dumb question: so is this about trading that the large banks arrange for their clients and get commission on? And if so, how is this problem different from MGM, Wynn, Aria complaining that Las Vegas is having a couple of slow months?

Why do we need the banks for the trading anyway? Aren't there ways to handle it with technology rather than paying whatever fees the cartels want?

Maybe I am a little bit cynical in general about this stuff.
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The only exemplar I can recall right now still living is Merritt Roe Smith, historian of technology. Do you know of more?
+1. I too use a custom keyboard with QMK firmware. In addition to mapping Caps Lock to Esc, I also map holding down of Caps Lock to Ctrl.
It would be nice to find a store where you can actually try the keyboards before to buy. I am using a Microsoft keyboard since 10 years and unable to accomodate with anything else, already wasted money for around 10 more keyboards with no luck. They are good as gift only, but everybody is bored already on my keyboard gift surprises :)
It’s much harder to side load apps on an iPhone.
I'm guessing your employer or your gf walked away with a good chunk of what you had.
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I don't understand it either. I have mapped caps lock to some command launcher/window switcher, which spares me pressing two keys.. Esc is even on the same side as the keyboard..

Rofi: https://github.com/davatorium/rofi
That's right! It would be interesting to see how torrented series statistics correlate with online streaming prices. My feeling is that as Netflix-like services become more expensive and/or fragmented, piracy picks up. Don't have any numbers to back this up with though.
Not just anyone, but everyone can file a claim to the car. In case several claims are made for the same car, the claimant that gets to purchase the car is picked at random.
Do you actually think that you're being intelligent by saying this?

In reality immigrants separated into ghettos of affordable housing because they are generally poorer and don't have the means to get a roof over their head.

The very idea of these mixed housing developments is to not have these style of ghettos.

London is a very different city to your typical American city in that there's a lot of mixing of poor and rich areas.

Of course when there's a block of homes just for poor people in a rich area, since they're less likely to vote, the elected officials don't give a damn about them.

Like this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenfell_Tower
I'm not so sure. She does specifically mention that one earlier as a convention she doesn't care about or follow and does seem to wrestle with her own knowledge that the things she does care about are basically pointless, but still takes them seriously.

English is so confusing you can easily read too much into it (eg. was she intentionally playing with the dual meanings of abysmal (terrible vs deep)? I don't think so, but couldn't swear to it.
You are so right regarding the communication challenge. But rising to that challenge can be immensely rewarding, both on a personal level and for growing a vision for the emerging software. Big ups indeed to Kent for writing about stuff like this, but also to all you folk who thought it was worthy reading and commenting on.
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A crisis is "a time of intense difficulty, trouble, or danger", with the implication that the status quo is unsustainable. Yet AI research is making huge strides. Some people may wish that the demographics of the field be different, but there is no "crisis".
snowplow looks like $1500/month with no realtime until the $5000/month plan?

https://snowplowanalytics.com/pricing/
I haven't implemented PASETO but I was thinking about adding support for another language. If I were to implement it, I would just use libsodium for most of the cryptographic primitives whenever possible since the reference PASETO implementation uses it as well as most of the other language implementations too (Except for the Go version).

PASETO does seem like a cryptographic secure alternative that addresses the pitfalls of the JOSE standard and has most of the mitigations mentioned in this blog-post (No cryptographic-algorithm agility) and it supports the same functionalities of JWT/JWE and JWS. So I am convinced on getting that standardized, but it also needs XChaCha20-Poly1305 AEAD to be standardized too [0].

Fernet was also around as being a secure alternative, but it has been mostly replaced by Branca [1] and PASETO.v2.

[0] - https://github.com/bikeshedders/xchacha-rfc

[1] - https://branca.io
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There will be a viable alternative the day advertisement is gone.

There will be thousands of startups rushing to fill the gap.
We will not be pushed around! We will revolt, but only if it's easy!
Any ideas for solutions?
I would be fine with paying them the amount they get from the advertisement they show me.

Force banks to accept micro-payments (In 2019, for God's sake! That's not rocket science! That's a database transaction!) and I'd be fine with it.
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