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This article has some questionable word choices.

"We contacted SpaceX to get its take on ESA's antics, but nothing has yet emerged from Musk's media orifice"

"In 2018, the boffins keeping track of things"

Is this considered professional journalism nowadays?
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When do micro-optimizations matter in scientific computing?
This is the normal style of The Register.
you can pretty much take their wealth and still not pay the negative spending in some countries. in the US the tax system is very progressive with a large swath of the population have little to no federal tax.

That’s only true if you believe in the fairy tale that Social Security and Medicare taxes (around 15% between you and your employer) are held in a separate account and the money doesn’t go into the general fund with all other tax revenues.
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No, witnesses should never be believed. Especially not if you have a bunch of witnesses that tell you the same story. Sounds unintuitive, but it's true. And we know this for at least a hundred years, already. If anyone is interested in further reading on this, I recommend "Mass Psychology" by Gustave Le Bon.
They were doing de-orbit testing on that satellite, "Starlink 44" [0]

[0] https://www.technologyreview.com/f/614250/one-of-spacexs-sta...
bitcoin! /s
"[...]but nothing has yet emerged from Musk's media orifice."

Typo or colorful word choice?
> No closed source mesh networking can be secure. However good user experience it has. They are no different than using WhatsApp. Indeed in that respect at least Signal is better.

> I am not sure why protestors did not adopt the open source serval mesh project apk and ios app.

Because they don't share your value system, and chose a better user experience over a more secure system.

I want free software to win, which is perhaps a more extreme value system than yours (if you understand the difference between free software and open source software). But it strikes me as a bit naive to assume that free software will win on superior ideology alone. It's no coincidence that free software is winning in areas where it provides the best user experience (server OS-es, browsers) and losing in areas where it provides a worse user experience (user OS-es, most web applications).
That's just the Register. Check out some of their other articles, they pretty much have the same kind of jokes.
Yeah, spending even more time in cramped quarters, exactly what I want to do with my hypothetical extra vacation time.
Investor: Why would I invest into more productivity gains for poor people that can't afford my products?
I might be biased since I live in a country famous for its amount of bureaucracy (Switzerland).

But yes, at my current employer, I believe no one would do that just based on an email and a phone call. But then I dare say that faking Swiss German is an order of magnitude harder than faking English.
This isn't exactly correct. The Federal Reserve sets the fed funds rate which has all kinds of effects on the lending rates (aka: bonds) and pricing models throughout the financial system.
INCEPTION !!!
And anyone that sent in patches benefited from it. What's your point?

Cloud providers are now barred from using new MongoDB versions.

Is that fair? Well, the developers (a company) made a choice. They want the revenue from the support/monitoring business, AWS is eating their lunch. So either they completely change their business or try to somehow stop AWS et al. from doing that.

Since MongoDB just recently released 4.x with distributed transactions, it made sense to do the license change thing. Otherwise no one would care (and anyone stuck on AWS would just continue to use whatever 3.x compatible AWS provided).

And still, it's likely that AWS will continue to offer their non-feature-parity fork for quite some time.

So, in that sense anyone who cares or cared for AGPL MongoDB tech should have advocated for this license change a lot sooner.
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>If it had been SQL it would have been easy to drop in another database.

Hahaha. No.

If anything, migrating from something like Mongo might possibly be easier. Because it's non-relational, you probably have very little business logic in your database layer.

Unlike with Sql.

And even though Sql has a standard syntax, beyond vanilla CRUD queries, there are many differences. Even if 2 engines support the same synatx, the idiomatic way of doing something will differ.

(For example, cursors in Sql Server is extremely slow, whereas its a perfectly acceptable way of doing list operations in Postgres)
Just provide 3-phase power. The load is nearly constant, and lots of equipment already handles it fine, e.g. motors much prefer 3 phases even at low power, due to this constant power/symmetry.
The comment you're replying to mentions that Postgres can do JSON.
This is misinformation that ignores the findings on gut biomes (and how they affect both our body and brain), how different foods affect insulin sensitivity, psychology, and other factors like effort and convenience. IF isn't "just" a way to curb hunger.
That seems like a risky strategy. The gamble would be that the government loses loan "revenue" in the short-term and makes up with business taxes. Is that a good gamble in weak or service-oriented economies? What are all the risk factors there?
> How long does nightly stuff usually take to get into the final release?

You can try it out now. Open a terminal:

$ brew cask install firefox-developer-edition

$ cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/Firefox/Profiles

$ ls -l

(Determine which directory is your current profile directory. It should be recently modified and end with
.default-release. $ cp -R this directory to .dev-edition-default and start Firefox Developer Edition.)

Then in about:config put gfx.compositor.glcontext.opaque to true.

I have to say that with a lot of tabs Tree Tab Style is still taking up a lot of cycles. Up to the point it (nearly) hangs. At such point, I switch to Sideberry which does not, use OneTab, and start from there. Perhaps setting browser.tabs.20FpsThrobber to true solves this. Trying that out now.
A Waze spokesman, oblivious to the irony,
reflexively sneered that “a group of neighbors can’t game the system.”

[Ryu] told constituents that Waze would designate a liaison to work with the city, and then the company stopped returning calls.

Krekorian’s office reached out to Waze and the operators of similar apps and got “a complete stonewall,” he says.

Why the pseudonyms? “They all fear legal liability in case of a bigger accident or traffic situation,” suggested one Level 1 editor, who tried to obtain the email and contact information of a higher-level editor to no avail.

The time for "partnering" with arrogant/dismissive/evasive app companies is over. Municipalities and state governments have been dealing with this problem for 5+ years. Why is it taking so long to legislate?
This view is, forgive me, amazingly wrong.

The absence of a pension is a Ponzi scheme, because the only source of funds for people no longer working is that of people currently working.

The "pensions were supposed to" should be reframed- pensions "would have fully taken care of people...." had they been properly defended rather than attacked and dismantled.

That pensions still exist, that they have been funded even to 35%, after the unrelenting assault on them by private capital, is an incredible achievement. The equivalent funding level for alternatives to pensions is something like 10%- taking real estate into consideration. Without real estate, the funding level is probably less than 1%.

It is a difficult, difficult problem to organize humans to fund the future at scale. Pensions were/are an incredible success, even if that success is partial and insufficient.
Each year I purchase a half-share in a CSA[1], which means that each Thursday from May to October I go to a local farm and pick up a wealth of fresh vegetables. By the next Wednesday, some of the vegetables are visibly starting to deteriorate, and that's with refrigeration. Most of the time I finish all my vegetables during the week, but if I didn't refrigerate, I'd be throwing away a lot of food.

Perhaps I'm conforming to a cult of prosperity. Or perhaps I'm supporting local business, helping the environment by reducing food transportation, eating healthily, eating good food, and meeting local people with similar interests.

I think there's a tendency people have, especially prevalent on Hacker News, to do something unusual and cool, and then assume everyone else isn't doing it because they're stupid/conformist/etc. It's great to do something off the beaten path, but don't go that extra step and start making assumptions about people.

I'll also add that in the past, I've lived in some poor neighborhoods, and even very poor people who certainly aren't in any "cult of prosperity" in the US usually have refrigerators. I think this has more to do with the cost savings associated with buying bulk food than to do with any "cult of prosperity".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community-supported_agricultur...
> Would be nice if they could just accept direct DC input.

The thing is, lots of appliances do accept DC input (most electronics and probably all inverter-based stuff like washing machines and aircos). If only there was a standard for DC they could adhere to. Then they could add yet another adhesive to proudly proclaim the feat.
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There are GPS tools specifically for trucks, which are aware of width and height restrictions... try one of those next time.
In The Netherlands:

- Pensions are already "squeezed" (people get less pension than they originally were told they would)

- The age you can retire was alway 65, now it's 67 and growing with life expectancy (every year of life expectancy = 8 months later retirement)

- Pension funds want/lobby for more lenient rules so they need to have less cash on hand...not sure if they'll get it
99% of websites do not need anything beyond HTTP/1.1.
They probably infer your vehicle type from acceleration data
Sure, but that situation has no bearing on reality if one looks at the actual numbers.
Virtue signaling is what pretend heroes do. 100%
Even without stored procedures, its not easy.

To really take advantage of a database engine, you will probably end up using engine-specific idioms.

Postgres and Sql Server support recursive CTEs. MySql probably doesn't?

Sql Server supports cursors but is dog slow and generally not recommended for any sort of large scale operations.

Isolation levels and locking are really important as well. Do all engines even support the same isolation levels?
Google maps re-routes around traffic on the fly and has done so for many years. It shows you the option and then you have to tap to confirm.
30 minutes from the centre of Melbourne doesn't get you all very far by public transport (or by car most of the time either). It's pretty sprawling.
Ah, I see what they meant now.
It certainly can be a hobby, but so can any other Linux distribution. I've been using Arch for years, and the amount of tinkering I do is pretty close to none.

The most difficult part is the install, which really isn't that bad if you read the installation guide. My first install took about 2 hours, and now it takes ~20 minutes. When you install, you basically do the following:

1. Configure internet access (netctl is pretty simple)
2. Set up mirrors (if you're lazy, just enable the kernel.org ones, they're the most consistent)
3. Mount partition(s) - need to create them manually too; cfdisk is great
4. Install base packages
5. chroot - basic configuration (hostname, locale, etc)
6. Install/configure grub
7. Reboot
8. Install everything else, may take a few reboots to make sure everything comes up as expected

In my recent installs, I install the desktop environment (and drivers) and enable it before rebooting, so when it comes up, it's ready to go. The important thing to remember when coming from something like Ubuntu is that you need to enable services through systemd manually.

What I really appreciate about Arch is that I really haven't had to touch it since I got it configured. I run updates every week or so and check archlinux.org first to make sure there are no weird steps required to do an update (usually deleting a file on the filesystem or upgrading a dependency first or something due to a package change). I haven't had any significant breakage, though I have had to roll back the kernel once or twice in the last couple years (Arch keeps one backup kernel by default). Make sure to always reboot when the kernel gets upgraded and you'll be fine. Also, the issues I've had are because the nvidia driver didn't get updated with the kernel, so if you have AMD or Intel graphics, this likely won't happen to you.

I've tried a few different distributions (Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE), and honestly Arch has been the least finicky once installed. I hate release-based distributions since doing a release upgrade tends to break things.
Penchant? It's why they get out of bed in the morning.
These "NIMBY" people always make me laught.

if you dont want to have a ton of traffic dont buy a house on a major road.

There is a street on the subdivision i live in with the same issue. it is the main entry point to the subdivision. people bought houses there, then fought the city for years over traffic?

they put up stop signs, speed bumps, etc.

they wanted the lower house prices associated with living on main roads, but then tried to redirect traffic elsewhere?
I disagree. All that these types of articles do is attempt to shift responsibility and blame from the people actually capable of doing something about it to a vague and distant "bad actor" elsewhere: the irresponsible consumer, who is somehow expected to deconvolute foreign supply chains, as well as stay abreast of the environmental happenings in the entire world.

The truth is, whether we like it or not, the only people capable of effectively tracking and addressing the responsibility of Brazil's economy and ecology are people living in Brazil.

And this isn't some excuse I've invented for myself. I buy 100% of my groceries from a farmers co-op where everything is sourced within about 500 miles or so. But the fact of the matter is, Brazil needs to do a better job and address their own problems, regardless of the world economy, and this is just an attempt to shift blame. Every single environmental regulation that has been passed, in any country in the world, 1st or 3rd world, occurred at financial loss to that country. Brazil is no exception.
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Yep, I thought it was broken. Maybe a "randomize" button instead that you can press to randomize all variables would work better.
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Or we can offer a nicer alternative to flying, for example, actual trains like every other country.
I am guessing he meant Pi-hole [1], a DNS blackhole for advertisement. You use it as your DNS server on iOS and it will block ads on any application.

There are also people running public instances around the web, like me [2], so you don’t have to install and manage your own.

You could also go with AdGuard DNS [3] or nextdns [4].

[1] https://pi-hole.net/

[2] E-mail me at root@jamespond.co for beta access

[3] https://adguard.com/en/adguard-dns/overview.html

[4] https://nextdns.io/
Also not easy.

We tried to do a migration from Sql Server to Postgres.

Even went as far as building a parser/compiler to transform Sql. Certain things are just too difficult to handle.

1. Sql Server supports arbitrary sql statements in queries. Postgres does not.

2. Data types are not the same.

3. Feature sets at the 'interface edge' between the client library and the engine differ. For example, Sql Server queries can return an arbitrary number of results.

It's true that Mongo uses a custom language, but with Mongo - you are unlikely to have any significant business logic in your data layer.

Also their API surface is relatively simple.

For example, FoundationDB has a layer that mimics the Mongo API. Amazon has one as well.
Would blogs such as Donald Knuth's be acceptable? I know his is probably way less than 100K but it looks like all the websites listed are services and news publications rather than actual personal websites.
airplanes will refuel when they land, satellites have limited propellant, so it really is a game of chicken or dare!
Thank you so much for the feedback. Absolutely appreciate it!

You are spot on with your feature requests and assumptions. I had the clickable tag feature in mind but the others are new and really valuable!

Also a good point with the feedback chatbox. I did get some feedback but in contrast to how annoying/prominent it actually is I will adjust it. I checked some sessions on hotjar and basically everyones first action is to dismiss the chatbox. I guess it makes much more sense on dedicated locations.
Except that you've still got to construct an object (because that's how constructors work), you're just signalling that it's an unusable one.

Let's say your object is going to contain another object that wraps a file, but constructing that file wrapper fails because the file doesn't exist. You are forced to construct your object, so you are forced to have something to put there. Maybe it's a dummy, maybe you can 'null it in some way', but it's immediately not as ergonomic. You also then have to either rely on the caller to not use the failed constructed object, or put a check in every method call checking for 'valid'.
I think the parent is referring to MongoDB's hosted db-as-a-service offering. They make their money from that and they are being beaten by large cloud providers also offering the same thing at less cost.
Any Links / docs discussing that? I didn’t find anything about this in a bit of searching.
"I would have expected more concern"
From the public? Everyone carries a phone, pretty much everyone is on Facebook. Given a yes/no box to tick you're going to get a lot of "yes" to "do you think you should have freedom from being tracked", but given a choice of what hardware/software to use people are going to pick the ones which everyone else is using, so that they can contact them. Next to nobody is going to stop at 4g because 5g has a higher granularity of location awareness.
Not eating meat is reasonable for people in most first world countries. It would be harder to boycott Brazilian products though.
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You are making a switch here. The person above said the "good life" while you are addressing "happiness." They are not the same and are often opposed, unless you're a hedonist, I suppose. In fact, you can be very happy if you ignore the fact that climate change is happening and block it out of your mind.
Agreed that they could be different. Whether they are or aren't, I think it's a huge win to re-emit today's carbon tomorrow than 80 million year old carbon tomorrow, regardless of where it's emitted.
But it is working as intended. The point of open source is that I can do whatever I want with the source code — no ifs, ands or buts.

Your mug analogy isn’t great. Mugs are finite in number and cost money to produce, whereas software is infinitely and freely distributable. Google running a managed MongoDB service doesn’t directly impact Mongo’s bottom line.

Furthermore, Mongo’s own managed service almost certainly runs Linux in its infrastructure. Google is one of the largest contributors to the Linux kernel, whereas Mongo makes no notable contributions. Why is it okay for Mongo to profit off Google’s open source labor without compensating them, but not vice versa?
Thanks for all of those examples.

The Zhongshan scripts are beautiful indeed.

However, the major difference that I perceive between the Cultural Revolution (CR) and most of your examples is that in the case of the CR, we're talking about millions of people deliberately destroying stuff out of a mix of spite, arrogance, and folly. Whereas, bar the presence of evidence to the contrary, I would assume some of the artifacts you mentioned were simply lost to entropy. The ancient Chinese lacked the technology/know-how/capability to preserve those things. Circumstances may have forced them to abandon some of those artifacts. They probably did their best, in carving those things in relatively durable material like bronze and marble.

The only comparable example among those that you listed would be the burning of books and burying of scholars. (I know the burying of scholars is disputed.) But even then, it was mostly an idea that probably only very few people believed was good. The other people who cooperated (by turning in hiding scholars and hidden scrolls to the authority) probably did it out of fear for punishment.
You cannot blame SO. That class has always existed, instead in earlier times they copied the code off Usenet or something.
It's funny that you mention libpng. That is one of those libraries that is developed so conservatively that I'd actually trust it to provide the features a binary that I ship relies on. I rarely (if ever) needed the more obscure things like 16 bit per channels or ICC profiles.
While of course this problem exists, SO didn’t create them, but maybe enabled them at most. What created them was a big cycle starting with the internet leading to digital transformation and new business creation, which led to demand for new programmers, which led to college enrollment demand, and parents pushing their kids into a lucrative field. Lots of variables of course, but some (or many) of those recent college grads only passed due to rote memorization despite their inability to grasp basic concepts like abstraction.

So what if SO helped someone to get to the resume phase who perhaps shouldn’t be there? There’s only one way for them to figure that out, and it’s experience. Give them some constructive criticism and move on.
Haha, right? I understand if someone genuinely enjoys configuration.

But gosh I just need my machine to get up and going so I can make some money and then go back to living.
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Canary Mail [1] comes to mind. They also offer PGP encryption support.

[1] https://canarymail.io/
To do anything, requires interaction with a protein, which in turn is expressed by a gene.
So, they were playing chicken? And Starlink won?
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That is probably 60%-70% of the solution, especially when you consider in the US the leading causes of climate change (Transpo and Electricty usage add up to nearly 60%) is driven quite directly by sprawl.
People have been making these sort of doom and gloom predictions for decades, whether about debt, inflation, or bubbles, and given their poor track record can be safely discarded.

For every event like the 2008 they get right, they get a 50 or more predictions wrong.
You still wouldn’t want to, especially if your house is fairly large. DC transmission line losses are actually pretty big over distances you might think are short.
I've been using Arch with Nvidia, and it took ~2hrs my first time installing Arch and ~30min my most recent time (different machines), and once it's installed, I only mess with it if I need some software package, and that's usually just pacman -S package.

By the time I've installed everything I want, I bet I've spent less time getting Arch set up than the Windows install that comes with my computer (tracking down software on Windows sucks, on Arch pacman gets it done quickly).

If you're using Nvidia, most distributions (except Free Software zealots like Debian and Fedora) include their proprietary driver in the repositories, and honestly nouveau is quite good for most things. If you have the choice, go for AMD cards and they'll work much better out of the box.