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> But most federal agencies are simply too large and bureaucratic for individuals to push their own political agendas.

I think I agree with you, both in principle and from similar anecdotes I have from friends & colleagues in the area.

The leadership piece to which you allude worries me, but also the idea that to have a successful non-partisan government office you need to invest a lot of tax dollars to make it SO big & bureaucratic that any individual can't have significant impact makes me a tad nervous from a perspective of favoring smaller government.

Therefore, if the trade-off is between massive, expensive government office that can have some non-zero probability of corruption OR relying on the responsibility of States & Representatives from those States to hire consultants / experts / research the issues, I'd opt for the latter.
I think you’re replying to the wrong account?

I’m confused what rules my comment breaks.
They mention this in the paper:

> Such a craft
accelerating at a constant 1000 g for half of the trip and decelerating at the same rate for the remaining
half would reach the Alpha Centuri system within 5 days’ ship time due to the fact that it would have been traveling at relativistic speeds for most of the trip. However, for those of us on Earth, the trip would take over four years.
> The four that you know may not have attracted RMS' attention

so he can control himself.

He doesn't just throw himself at every woman that comes around.

Just like the rest of us...

> It's up to the alleged victims to go public

Fact is, I don't think they even exist.

Not because victims do no exist in general, but because at worse RMS has been weird or inappropriate, but dangerous, threatening, scary or violent?

It never happened.

I'm sure.
I've never been into twitter either. There's a lot of content there though, I'll visit the site from time to time if another site links to it, but that's pretty much it.

Politics on twitter is just a shouting match. Most tech related things are just kind of link-sharing (sometimes people post lengthy bits of tech info, I can't understand why). Twitter does seem to be a decent venue for breaking sports news, but that news usually finds its way elsewhere quickly.
What would you think of spam? Isn't that clearly an attention debit? I would say that all replies, wanted and unwanted, take at least a small amount of attention. And if the fraction of useful to not useful replies decreases, that's the SNR going to crap.
Does Svelte have a prebuilt set of components like ant.design?
Ask HN: What are you using for your logging and metrics needs?
What are you using for your logging and metrics needs?
who signed that budget?
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You can now generate self-hostable static blogs right from your DEV content
> war monger

war mongers become war mongers one drone at the time.
It's kind of nice in a way because sources like FB groups are becoming qualitatively easier to trust. Some of my Facebook groups easily rival the best communities / forums I've used for the last decade. So really, in that case no, I don't want to see the 5-10 laughter reactions on a post about a new theory or niche product that is untested. I'm simply there because news about the theory is available from a community I trust (I do trust the membership overall, if not individually).
If you do prevent the revolving door, you virtually guarantee yourself to exclude some of the most qualified and experienced people as you introduce an adverse selection process.
The issue I found with the raw SQL approach was receiving back flat results. I made PureORM[0] to do only and exactly that: map flat data to correctly nested business objects.

It is called "pure-orm" both because it is _purely_ an ORM (no query builder api), as well as because it returns _pure_ business objects (instead of db-aware objects).

[0] https://github.com/craigmichaelmartin/pure-orm
"Convergence, viral marketing. We're going guerilla, we're taking it to the streets while keeping an eye on the street. Wall Street. I don't want to reinvent the wheel, but it is what it is. Renting short-term office space just became fun".
If you want to play semantics then let’s say exceptionally lucky instead.
On FreeBSD 11.x and 12.x (and older ones) the currently by default remains the old (not ZFS on Linux) ZFS implementation that has lots of FreeBSD additions like TRIM that was lacked on Linux.

FreeBSD forked ZFS on Linux GitHub repo and now its called ZFS on FreeBSD. You can try it already by installing these two ports:

- sysutils/zol

- sysutils/openzfs-kmod

Regards,
vermaden
That video is horrifying
This is what hard work and success means to me:

To the extent that you are attempting to manifest your potential, and directing your aim such that you are successful in raising the bar through a meta-goal - i.e. attempting to orient yourself through a range set of goals with the overall meta-goal being life itself.

Once you have actually determined that you want things to be better, you can then proceed to direct your actions and judgements appropriately. Perform a regular evaluation period where you can determine whether: a) your goals are in fact what you should be aiming at, b) whether your actions are appropriately working in your favor, and c) whether you are making the correct judgements. This process of evaluation is truth telling in itself.
Iambic pentameter never made any sense to me when I was in high school English, or really at any time since. My brain locks up trying to figure out what in the hell the difference actually is between the syllables in an iamb. It's probably not helpful that the dialect of English that I grew up with had some very parochial regional quirks, and most of the material that was trotted out as examples came from Elizabethan English, which would be somewhat incomprehensible spoken to most people today anyway. Long/short, stressed/unstressed, accented/unaccented, none of these descriptions illuminates much, at least for me.

When I had to write some sonnets in pentameter, I had to find some web pages that diagrammed out what the "proper" structure of words was, so I could pick out synonyms that might work...
I applied to be a rampie for Buffalo Airways but competition was too fierce and I missed out....
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I think FreeBSD still offers a more cohesive (and native) out of the box ZFS experience. For example, you do not need to worry about kernel upgrades/DKMS going sideways and breaking ZFS.
Yes, this weekly subscription model for games even to just remove ads has become annoying. Thankfully you can just subscribe to AdGuard Pro for $3/year (yes, it's that cheap) and set it to use AdGuard DNS - this blocks ads in mobile games nicely.
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Now imagine something like this with an integrated Navi GPU. That would be killer.
I have some sympathy with this view. My main concern is that business will always try and fill the vacuum. Who would you rather is informing politicians on climate change, the oil companies or government scientists?
Is "propaganda" a clear line?
isn't this the purpose of FFRDCs like Mitre?
NTSB apparently need better employees for making such a recommendation... (ie: it is not ok for 1/2 of the pilots to not be 100% in control of their plane)
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> Would it be worse to say that I don’t consider myself to have ever worked particularly hard in life?

> It comes easily, I’m just smart (enough) and lazy.

I think the key thing that people object to in the "hard work" arguments (which is also present in your "it comes easily, I'm just smart" assertion) is the (perhaps unintentional) implication that one has complete control of the outcomes one experiences. Diminishing the role of beneficial circumstances beyond one's control comes across as saying that people who are less fortunate must deserve it in some sense because there can't possibly be factors beyond their control that contributed to their misfortune.

None of this is to say that the hypothetical people who state the value of their "hard work" _didn't_ work hard, or that you're _not_ smart! It's just important to recognize that there likely were some beneficial factors along the way that if you hadn't encountered, you might be one of the less fortunate people yourself.
A black hole shredded a star, and NASA caught the space event on video
ZFS being available since 2005 ...

BTRFS is developed since 2007 ...

... and Red Hat decides to reimplement this kind of pooled storage filesystem again with XFS on LVM now called Stratis ... not very bright.
Nagios, and not by choice.
No, the power consumed is equal. The capacitance doesn't stop charging at time tao as you imply, it continues to charge until it reaches the final driving voltage, which is why integrating to infinity is a (very) much closer approximation
She didn't.
How does Github clearly have the tools to prevent copyright infringement from happening?

If you're saying they are the entity in the best position to identify infringement, I would agree, but what tools does Github already have in place to do that?
"FreeBSD is migrating to ZoL"

This is correct - and good news - but there should be a reality check involved with regard to timelines ...

ZoL code is most likely not going to be part of any 12-RELEASE distributions, which means that:

IF you only run -RELEASE in production (a good policy) AND if you do not put a x.0 release into production (historically, a good policy) then you are 2-3 years away from running this ZoL code:

http://freebsd.1045724.x6.nabble.com/How-many-quot-productio...

As it stands now, our customers want encryption and raw send which we provide to them using ZoL, on 12, in ports form, in a VM.

This is how people zfs-send encrypted snapshots to rsync.net.

Our base ZFS platform, however, will most likely not run a ZFS version that doesn't come with a -RELEASE version of FreeBSD with a x.0 version number. Not a big deal when everyone is using borg and restic anyway, but I digress...
I would imagine the engine would be fairly inert if it's not activated until in orbit.

I could see issues if the craft all of a sudden loses its orbit with an radioactive engine burning up in the atmosphere spewing radiation (although I'm sure we get bombarded with way more from the sun potentially?)

Maybe if during launch something goes catastrophically wrong and blows up mid-air like a bomb of sorts?
I would recommend getting a good anthology like Palgrave's or the Arthur Quiller-Couch, or for Americans Robert Penn Warren and working through them.
> 5. 5. The flight computer system and MCAS was implemented problematically, relying on one input because the expected control authority was very low, and then when that was not changed the system was not re-architected.

I like your approach: Pilot's failures caused the crash, and Boeing made an honest mistake. And you seem to think it would have been fine flying in the US. You do realise plane crashes and industrial accidents do happen in the US?

A safe system assumes they are operated by humans who are not infallible, and should not go up in flames from minor issues. Otherwise we must conclude Chernobyl reactor was a perfectly fine design.
It's perfectly fine if your most pressing issue with large bundle sizes/slow performance.

If your most pressing issue is removing bugs from managing state, you will pass it by.
The federal government has plenty of bursty offices. The census bureau hires like crazy each decade for temporary jobs. There are government advisory positions that academics take for a summer or just go to DC for a week every four months. These things are not impossible.
You're mixing the permissions system of the OS with the app store. They are independent from one another.

> I’m not going to go on some strange website and enter my card to download every piece of software and neither are most people. The App Store brings you customers that you would never have.

The fact that open application ecosystems exist and thrive proves your assertion wrong.
Was it controversial statements of Stallman’s that made you stop working with him, or was it because you feel he’s difficult to work with?

Unless I’ve misinterpreted the situation, it seems like he was forced to resign due to the former rather than the latter. And if the official reason is unrelated to the actual reason, that’s a rather poor case of governance.

If someone has been disliked due to poor interpersonal skills for years, it’s very weak when a politically-sensitive pretext is required to actually get rid of them. Better to take the fight head-on, and accept the outcome.
"Physical access owns"

You can make it inconvenient (for both users and attackers) but there is simply no escaping eventually someone with physical access will get in.
>it's become sports for people who don't like sports

I like this description. I think it really does capture the mentality of most politics type people.

I do wish it could somehow better communicate the intensity of the politics mentality. Because it's not just, say, Michigan wanting to beat Ohio State. Because in sports fans of both teams realize, deep down, that this has to be done on the field. By contrast, the political types don't have these sorts of limits. If you're perceived to not be on their side, they'll kill you while you're shopping at walmart or playing bingo at church or something.

For the politics type people, it's not just what happens "on the field", so to speak, it's a more all encompassing "sports" fanaticism.
Wow congrats Pete for interviewing him! i just read the article! Well put. I share this with my friends back in Singapore.
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That looks like a pretty cool project. I wonder how much work it would be to integrate with https://www.atdatabases.org/ to get the proper protection from SQL Injection.
A lot of places I have worked at would love this to show a KPI in a simple manner, and they didn't care about the time axis and this type of slide was common:

KPI #13

2018: 124
2019: 125 (A BIGGER NUMBER THAN 2018, YAY!)
Word is born.
> "The massive amount of energy produced by these reactors could be used to sustain human outposts on other worlds and cut the travel time to Mars in half.

>“Many space exploration problems require that high-density power be available at all times, and there is a class of such problems for which nuclear power is the preferred—if not the only— option,”

It seems that nuclear reactors has more utility than simple power to weight ratio.
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To my read and mind, there was no denial of that subjective experience, merely an attempt to frame a useful question around it.

All of science is based upon shareable ideas, many testable. They may have begun as vague notions bouncing inchoate through our consciousness (or subconsciousness, etc., yada, so forth) but at some point they became expressible, then, eventually, measurable.

If we want to study consciousness, whatever it/they is/are, then first we need to agree to useful operational definitions, things we can tease apart observationally, reason about, form hypotheses, then eventually theories.

If one accepts that all human experience are fundamentally based on biology (since our meat seems to be all we have, at least until some extra-corporeal notion such as the soul is itself capable of being measured, analyzed, and reasoned about), then, fundamentally, our individual subjective experiences are based on what would likely be common chemistry and biology.

So back to the original comment: Is consciousness a real state? We identify it as such, but perhaps it is several, perhaps many, cooperative or even competitive microstates, if you will, all of which together give us the experience of consciousness, but which are inaccessible to us...

...just as the perception of individual hues and saturations within our eyes are inaccessible, since they reach "us" after considerable backend processing (literally, since visual processing is largely occipital).

If we are going to make progress on understanding consciousness, we first need to set it aside and ask "what is going on?" at various levels, then, eventually, draw a complete picture from those dots....
> devising wage theft schemes

Expand?
Ha! this will be their excuse when they remove likes from people they don't agree with (ie: conservatives).
I was going to counter-argue that hey maybe "7 years' worth of tweets" was only like a hundred tweets but no, there's more than a thousand. And since I doubt Calvin read every one, it was probably a fishing expedition for key words.
I've considered responding to this question 3 or 4 times, but every time I try, I bump up against the nebulous spetrum of spectrums of knowledge from which we get the terms "junior" and "senior."

My early work experience was not remote, but my most significant work journey in my life has been entirely remote and it started 6 months after I graduated college.

We have to stop thinking about individual experience in absolutes.

Ultimately what matters is whether you can provide the right value at the right time for the right person or group of people.

If you're totally inexperienced, as in, you haven't participated in industry at all, then your success as a remote employee is going to depend highly on how thoughtful the hiring organization is - and I would say that still goes for more experienced people as well.
I still think we should try to be nice. At a minimum. She got downvoted again? Let's try to be more welcoming.
Ok, so I misjudged the post I answered to as equating "harassment" = "sexual harassment" (which there is no real indication for except for the "I'll kill myself"-episode which many also would not consider sexual harassment and which really depends on the circumstance 40a back...)? Also I'd really like to know how a bad joke ("if he's hitting on you, say you are a vi user") is indication of abusive/inappropriate behavior without producing a single real case of such?

Somehow the definition of harassment used by a wide variety of people seems to be "I don't like his opinion" if I judge from the linked twitter post... If it goes forward this way I could picture people rallying in front of libraries and burning a lot of books. Would someone please enlighten me how "Lolita" is any less worse than RMS-ramblings?

That then also explains paragraph 3, since when you "step up" claiming you got harassed and it turns out you just disagree with the offendees opinion/behavior at large, you are harassed again by people disagreeing with you... This is kind of brain-dead but apparently a certain kind of reality happening on this planet called "earth"...
>Boeing’s response to the accidents was to blame the pilots, there is precedent for this word in this situation.

Your cite says Boeing said:

>The actions of the pilots played a role in the chain of events that caused the crashes

Which isn't blaming them and is factually correct in both crashes. The Lion Air pilots didn't disable electric trim and the Ethiopian air ones turned it back on. Those actions played a role in the crashes. Whether that makes the pilots responsible and at fault for the crash is a separate question.

>If you want to fix the problem, you must know what the problem is.

And, again, the problem (among other problems) was that the designer of the aircraft made assumptions about pilots that were incorrect.
You cannot really assume such thing in a situation like flying when the consequences of your assumption is loss of life potentially.
Nightvision makes it kinda Hollywoody -

https://www.bild.de/regional/frankfurt/frankfurt-aktuell/sie...
The method I used to organized my almost 2k bookmarks
> Oh great, so now people have to do just one more step to get the same dopamine rush.

Friction is useful. Sure, this doesn't solve for some hypothetical influencer types or advertisers getting count data. For the hypothetical teenager who is apparently being made mentally unwell by social media, this probably precludes their putting forth the effort.

Then again I think back to all of those "See Who Viewed Your Page" malware ads from back in my day, and wonder if this isn't one viral app away from being useless.

Who the fuck knows? At least it's an attempt. They can go back to the drawing board if this fails.
Why do you see this effort as not "legitimate"?
You're comparing the TCO of a new electric car to a used gasoline car. We all know that used cars have a lower TCO than new ones in general. Nobody is going to crush a perfectly operational two year old gasoline car just because of higher gas prices (though that would obviously cause it to suffer higher depreciation due to the loss in resale value).

The real question is, as the old cars become unreliable and age out of service, how does the TCO compare as between the new cars that will replace them?
When has that ever been the coloquial definition of a nerd?
The smallest government possible without collapsing into anarchy is preferable. So any government agency getting the axe is good news.
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This is the person who based a big chunk of her career on being a Native American, when she obviously was not. Note this article from 1996 where Harvard brags about her as a diversity hire. It seems very doubtful she would gotten the much coveted spot if she was honest.

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1996/10/22/survey-diversi...

You could say this is OT or old news, but someone who will lie about such a basic thing for such a long time is not someone who should be listened to. They're someone who will say anything to be elected or to move up to that next position of power.
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Politics about any specific country or group aside, this would be a win for Twitter. Extra engagement from both sides. People who write crazy things return to moderate comments. People that comment write more comments because old comments are hidden. After comments are hidden, someone will probably start their own tweet about how that other tweet is full of garbage.

It's just more gasoline for twitter's business model: Drive engagement through flamewars.
I've heard that people have done this with twitter accounts; make a new account that's private, tweet random stuff. Once one of them comes true, say, "bart simpson becomes president in 2020", delete all your other tweets, rename the account to something like "bartsimpson2020", and then publicize the account.

You now have a timestamped thing from before it happens that verifies you made the claim long ago, but you've destroyed the evidence that it was effectively random.
The executive branch already has technological experts to lean on. Obama was never particularly interested in giving up leverage the executive branch had over Congress, especially when his party wasn't in control there for most of his presidency.
It wasn't too hard to pull off this trick with Touch ID devices - you put your finger on the home button and before it goes back to the home screen it authenticates the purchase with your fingerprint. Apple has put some measures in place to prevent this from happening, or at least notify you immediately about the purchase if you leave the app before it's completed.

Since the iPhone X with Face ID, you have to double tap the side button to authorize a purchase, so it's not so easy anymore.

Fortunately, you can get a refund within 14 days, no questions asked, by going to reportaproblem.apple.com and choosing "I would like to cancel this purchase".

If you're outside the EU or it's been longer than 14 days, you can try the "I would like to request a refund" option - you will be either refunded automatically or it will be sent to Apple support for review and they'll get back to you within 48 hours. I've actually had luck with refunding an app and an IAP even when someone manually reviewed it, but YMMV.
Most of the nerds I know - including myself - wear the label with a hint of pride. I've never thought of it as a pejorative, and I don't know anyone who has.

Of all the hills to die on, I say let this one pass.
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