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Gee, I hardly ever have trouble finding what I'm looking for. I guess topics vary in search ease! And I'm sure this will become easier with experience, as you learn the capabilities/commands/methods/attributes of the languages & libraries. What are some specific examples?

I made a startpage that makes searching much easier and faster. There's a text entry field, then buttons for: 5 other search engines, and for Google: search, search in previous year, verbatim, image, large image, video, >20 mins video, Google books, Google scholar, then buttons for wikipedia, LaTeX, IMDb etc (that add those words to a google search) - i.e. add buttons for your most-used search terms. Also I have buttons for searching within youtube and LibGen. Then after unsuccessfully searching, just go Back to the startpage with the search terms still there. Before that I used to have to type what I was searching for multiple times, e.g. searching for obscure books/movies. For JS you could have 1-button searching within your favourite docs/sites. Or just hyperlinks to online manuals. There's a lot of buttons, but colour-coded and grouped it's not confusing - grey = add words to text field (also "clear field", "put quotes around", "filetype:pdf" etc), blue = google search e.g wikipedia, image; red = youtube searches, yellow = LibGen searches, white = video/book sites, black = torrent sites. For the sites with just one search button I have their logo as the button, etc. Good luck! (p.s. Also I learnt a lot about JS & CSS making the startpage!)
You imply people in the countryside own the means of producing food, but the consolidation of agriculture tells a different story.
Here's one: https://www.jneurosci.org/content/25/38/8593

Abstract:

Nicotine is the major neuroactive compound of tobacco, which has, by itself, weak reinforcing properties. It is known that levels of the enzymes monoamine oxidase A (MAO-A) and MAO-B are reduced in the platelets and brains of smokers and that substances, other than nicotine, present in tobacco smoke have MAO-inhibitory activities. Here, we report that inhibition of MAO dramatically and specifically increases the motivation to self-administer nicotine in rats. These effects were more prominent in rats selected for high responsiveness to novelty than in rats with low responsiveness to novelty. The results suggest that the inhibition of MAO activity by compounds present in tobacco smoke may combine with nicotine to produce the intense reinforcing properties of cigarette smoking that lead to addiction.
This looks pretty slick, will have to see which parts/ideas we should copy for https://mybinder.org. Which is an open-source project that lets you do something very similar, mostly based around people wanting to share notebooks. Colab but with automatically detected environment/build instructions.
That's not an argument against the Electoral College per se, but rather an argument against letting states allocate all of their Electoral College votes to the winner of the popular vote. This particular problem could be solved by forcing all states to apportion their Electoral College votes based on the distribution of the popular vote.
> "Tyranny of the minority" gets this issue exactly backwards. The problem the Electoral College was designed to mitigate is a tyranny of the majority.

The point they're making is that while it was designed to prevent a tyranny of the majority, it goes too far and results in a tyranny of the minority.

> Why do any of these concerns need Federal intervention to solve? Why can't LAC and Arkansas and Nevada manage their own affairs? I understand rare emergencies like natural disasters require pooling national resources, but everyone talks now as if no locality at all can survive from day to day without Federal benefits.

No one mentioned federal benefits. We are talking about the relative voting power of a voter in one area versus another in the presidential election. Let's not get distracted here.
The Senate alone has the power to confirm every judge in the entire judicial branch. The House has absolutely no say in any of that.
No, the two are analogous. The point is that more funding doesn't result in proving a point. You can spend all the money you want on this condition which doesn't exist, but more money won't suddenly turn this hallucination into reality.

Also: Disagreeing with you does not constitute breaking guidelines.
I don't know how many people care about the ban, per se, but Valve's strategy here is an extremely bad and pointless one.

Was Valve technically within their rights to ban this researcher? Sure. Was it a move that advanced Valve's interests in any way? Obviously not.
> The big issue I see with the government getting involved in tech is that they don't know what they really want, they don't know how to filter out bullshit/upsells, and they'll frequently overpay for things they don't need and underpay for things that would be very helpful.

These are good points (as were your original ones). Thanks for the thoughtful reply—I’m just trying to push back slightly on the “government/contractors are all incompetent” narrative where I see it, since I don’t think that’s the root of the problem (the DMV area is the most highly education region of the US, as one counterpoint). Discussion around incentive structures is a lot more productive.

I didn’t give very specific examples with grants, but I just wanted to draw attention to that as an often overlooked and major source of government spending. The federal grants process does have multiple stages of project performance monitoring/evaluation, though that process itself could be made more efficient. Also, sometimes grants do directly support software projects with public benefits. Just as a single example, Stanford DeepDive (now Snorkel) is a system for knowledge base construction that has been used to fight human trafficking, among other things: http://deepdive.stanford.edu/showcase/apps
rural territories still have the senate to balance things out.

counter-point is that the political stake is currently being taken away from people who live in large states, and is thus negatively affecting the most amount of people possible.
Thanks for your explanation, I think it helps me to understand what’s happening a little better.

But how can I reconcile what you’ve said with articles like this?:

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/15/bankrate-65-percent-of-ameri...
That's fair. We have a set of rules, and the rationale for many of them is gone. Therefore... what?

Throw them all out? If so, replace them with what? Worse: How do you get everyone to agree on what to replace them with?

As it turns out, there's a mechanism for getting everyone to agree, and to prevent changes that everyone does not agree with (for certain values of "everyone"): Amend the Constitution.
I I stalled it on my Debian machine this morning. The daemon was not started by default.
I like your first idea of splitting the bounty. I think its unlikely employees of HackerOne or the relevant company would risk their job for a small share in a bug bounty.
States were added by acts of Congress. It logically follows the same can be done in reverse.

But it needs to be on agreed upon and mostly amicable terms, or the state(s) desiring to leave will be unable to get the necessary votes.

The southern states trying to take their slavery and go home knew this for decades before, so they didn't even bother.
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it invalidates all voters. Overvotes are a thing. You can have 90% of CA vote against a candidate and it won't mean anything more than 51% voting against.

So roughly half of the votes in all non competitive states do not count.
Yep evilterran linked to the study I was thinking about.
Python extras are pretty much equivalent to cargo "features": https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/manifest.html#the-...

The article mentions a few places that use cargo "features" for exactly that sort of thing.
It would be somewhat balanced if there wasn't a cap on the number of representatives and there was 1 rep per N population. But that's not the case. So even in the House there is an imbalance.
Sure they are, in modern times. If there's an overwhelming majority that wants independence, a state will eventually secede. In a democratic or even a hybrid system, a country's politics, laws and constitution eventually change to adapt to overwhelming wishes of the majority.
This also has nothing to do with Flash specifically, rather as you said Adobe's policy. It could have been any software but especially for Flash.

Flash was just such a unique special target, ala PDFs and Microsoft word, there were few wide open targets from which a hacker could predictably get the user to open (whether embedded or not) on a targets machine. So it was particularly sensitive to vulnerabilities by design, where a much broader security perspective was clearly needed than most software.
oh interesting, i never seem to find mine to equilibriate over time; they generally get zero engagement. i honestly did not realize that people really put that much import into proper capitalization; i figured most people understand that, given the heavy market share of mobile users, that most of the time, all lowercase text is more often an intentional choice and not necessarily one made of intellectual laziness.

as for the wall of text thing, that certainly makes sense to me. i always have a tendency to write those, and i could understand why others would find them cumbersome to parse. all in all, good advice, and i highly thank you for sharing it with me. i suppose i may have to rethink how i present myself here, esp wrt the whole orthography of my posts :)
>Place the mushroom in natural light (e.g. on a windowsill) for about an hour before you're about to cook them. The natural light will help raise the level of vitamin D in the mushrooms.

Or you could just stand in front of the window yourself for an hour... :)
Use polymorphism sparingly

I think it is a little ironic that he speaks of performance culture but simutaneously advises to use dynamic dispatch and avoid polymorphism. I can see the justification in non-critical code paths, but serialisation is a pretty important part of most networked software nowadays so I do not think that smaller binaries and faster compilation times (better developer experience) justifies a performance hit in the form of dynamic dispatch through crates like miniserde.
Even with Epstein's light sentence, I'd be open to Ito saying he believed Epstein had served his time and been rehabilitated.

But Ito doesn't even try to use that defense in his apology, because it would make explicit that he knowingly took money from a sex-offender. So instead he doesn't mention Epstein's conviction at all, uses some weasel language to make it sound like he was unaware of it without explicitly saying so, and tries to make it sound like he (Ito) was just a victim of circumstances.

It's a pretty impressive non-apology apology, since he makes a big show of apologizing for something, but not the actual thing most people find troubling about his behavior.
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Why is something like feature checking not used for software dependencies like libraries as well?
Yet the public didn't know that with legal certainty before 2019. He was convicted of soliciting an underage prostitute, not child rape. Morally those might be equivalent but legally they're not, as evidenced by his light sentence.

It's the 20/20 hindsight that bugs me.
Swinging it to Hillary would also have elected someone deeply unfit for the office.

I agree that last election was the perfect scenario for the EC to do its job. But who should it have elected instead? And, could it have actually done so without touching off a civil war? (Not a rhetorical one, not a metaphorical one - a real live shooting live rounds, dead bodies piling up, state against state and brother against brother civil war.)
High population density = more people, more voters. Yes, I think thier opinion should count more than the less people, less voters of the rest of the state.

Land doesn't (shouldn't) vote.

> too bad, the city folk are in charge now.

You mean democracy? You mean 1 person 1 vote? You mean the majority? This is what you have a problem with? Go ahead and state that view, but let's be honest about what you are saying.

You think somehow people should be punished for population density. That their votes should be worth less, person for person, than a rural vote.

Why.
> "Tyranny of the minority" gets this issue exactly backwards. The problem the Electoral College was designed to mitigate is a tyranny of the majority.

States have representation, done universally by popular vote within those states for their representatives in Congress. (if you know any states that are an exception, feel free to add). Most of the country, and the world, experiences elections by popular vote except for a single particular position.

The Electoral College is only for the appointment of 1 person for the office of the President. It is an aberration. Even when looking at the President's ability to appoint people, many other popular vote elected representatives have the ability to appoint people too.

This aberration was from a time when the non-slave population of the United States was 1 million people, completely coastal (although those states had widely different boundaries back then which stretched deep into Appalachia), and in some of those states only the land owners could vote.

The purpose of the Electoral College was a compromise, not part of the grand wisdom and design. A compromise that has been merely tolerable and now has been stretched to its limits.

The democracy we exported throughout the whole world for the next 200 years looked at our older iteration and said "no, we'll patch that".

US Electoral College has reached its peak of tolerance, and the inability to amend it is maintained by the states that are the very reason why the electoral college is intolerable.
I'd like to know how these numbers compare to Amazon's early years. Amazon also took forever before it made a profit. As the article points out, Tesla has been expanding enormously. As long as there is demand for their cars (and it seems there is), I don't see why it would start making a profit once the company focuses on profit rather than expansion.
I think this is both a dumb move and unconstitutional.

Present day politics aside, allowing for pure demographic voting in this day and age is even more dangerous than it was in the early days of the republic.

States and regions have different needs that need to be considered in the governance of the nation. You can already see warning signs, the Democratic Party platform has been so brain dead, they even managed to marginalize union voters. Kansas and Wisconsin were progressive strongholds.

Changing the way we count isn’t a fix for that issue — fixing how candidates and parties approach the people is. A more productive approach would be to reduce the carnival nature of the election process... candidates shouldn’t be picked based on their ability to shuck and jive in Iowa and New Hampshire.

Direct popular vote is basically a beacon for reactionary politics. It’s easy to churn out old people to vote.
The rural areas have much less representation

Isn’t this literally not true?
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TortoiseHG is really cool

I used to use it all the time on linux.

Unfortunately the OpenSUSE update also removed it. Completely, it is not even listed in the package management anymore.

No one wants to maintain non-mainstream software
Everybody makes mistakes, lets see if they can learn from theirs. I haven't heard that they keep making this same mistake (but I could be wrong.)
In Russia you need to show an ID (internal passport) to receive a ballot and put a signature into the voters registry. So duplicate voting is possible only with the help of election staff (usually in such case a person has something in their passport, or says a code word that gives a hint that he should receive a ballot without checking his name against the registry).
> All too often, it's used to excuse systemic failings and avoid investigating the deeper causes of safety incidents.

Completely agree. But I don't think avoiding the term "operator error" (or human error, pilot error, medical error, whatever) is the solution to that way of thinking.

Instead, I think we need to keep repeating that humans, no matter how experienced, careful, knowledgable or well-meaning, are going to make mistakes. The job of system designers is to find ways to make systems robust in the face of those mistakes, and to help make it easier for humans to do the right thing.

Checklists are one powerful tool there, for example. Another one is making systems that behave like people's mental models predict. I wrote about that idea here: http://brooker.co.za/blog/2019/08/12/kind-wicked.html
Rust bloat is a serious issue that is not being taken seriously I think. I
raised the issue about platform size in June:

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/61978

and its actually gotten worse since then, significantly worse. In the 2 months
since then the installer has increased from 203 MB to 299 MB. Also
unbelieveably, Rust has failed to address package balkanization which I would
say has ruined the Node community. A popular package is "cargo-edit", which
currently pulls in 239 other crates:

https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/2179#issuecomment-...
A hypothetical situation;

An amendment is proposed on the floor of the House to change the formula in a bill for how funding is allocated.

The amendment presents a pro-urban allocation which provides a greater share of funding for larger cities compared to a baseline per-capita allocation.

Urban center representatives stand up and argue how their cities need a higher reimbursement rate because the issue at hand is costlier to fix or more prevalent in their environment.

Rural representatives stand up and argue they need the baseline funding to run an effective program.

A vote is taken, and 54% of votes approve the amendment, urban center reps effectively pooling their votes to enact the funding paradigm that most benefited their constituents.

——

The moral of the story is that it’s a lot more complicated than 1 person 1 vote.

Often times policies may benefit a rural area over and urban environment or vice versa. One type of community benefiting and the expense of another. Cities already carry a massive voting advantage, because, that’s where most people live!

When bills pass on a majority vote, urban already wins over rural every time. The rural areas maybe can form blocks to help push otherwise divided city reps one way or another, but policy debate is already dominated by urban voters, despite the claim of urban votes “counting less”. The simple math belies the reality that urban center reps vote for pro-urban national policies and the rural states with 1 rep sit on the sidelines.

The last place these votes matter, even in the slightest, is in the EC in a closely contested election, and in the Senate. Frankly I’m not convinced more populism is any benefit, or that cities are particularly hurting from a lack of representation.
To my understanding, KDB+'s license explicitly forbids benchmarking:

"1.3 Kdb+ On Demand Software Performance. End User shall not distribute or otherwise make available to any third party any report regarding the performance of the Kdb+ On Demand Software, Kdb+ On Demand Software benchmarks or any information from such a report unless End User receives the express, prior written consent of Kx to disseminate such report or information."
> the only thing that really gives rural territories any stake

Whatever percentage of the population they make up, that's the stake they'll get (and the amount of accountability the politicians will have to them). What's wrong with that?

I guess when we're talking about actual campaign tours there might be some neglect that happens because of the logistics of physical travel. Although I have to question the real benefit of those visits to the citizens. They benefit the politicians themselves, but they aren't exactly a vital source of information in a world with the internet.
Firebombing would also fail to intimidate the Japanese command. They knew what firebombing was and were prepared for it. But not for nuclear bombs. Nuclear ordnance was the only reason the Emperor Hirohito cited for the surrender.
Communication is good but the control of the communication and the media is in the coasts. All the media organisations and all the social networks are sitting in the coasts and run by people with a certain political agendas. I am actually amazed how relevant the idea of electoral college is even today. It gives people with no voice the power they deserve as it did 200 years ago.
My experience is pretty similar to yours. I'm a pretty good looking guy and I'm in great physical shape but I feel like two completely different people irl vs. online dating.

IRL, I feel pretty marketable even in America. Girls aren't googly-eyed or anything, but I feel pretty confident in my ability to at least secure a date.

But when I go on online dating apps? I might as well be Sloth from the Goonies. This only applies to America btw - in Asian countries it's a completely different story.
Doesn't each wasm module get its own isolated memory? If so, then you could only shoot your own sensitive foot.
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make? For every person there is a level of energy input below which they will lose weight. Genetics plays a role but even in extreme cases the impact is no more than a few hundred kcal/day.

Being considerate is great, but making excuses and pretending that the laws of thermodynamics don't apply doesn't help anyone.
The few government related times I had to use it since I have the current one: once to have the adress updated after changing my main residence, once to get a passport, three times when voting.

The last time I had to deal with the police they just asked for my drivers license. Evil dystopian government keeping track of people who drive past red lights. Even in the U.S. you can't escape that.
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Honest question: how realistic is it for small states like Wyoming to secede from US if this system changes. I strongly suspect the probability is close to impossible.
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