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In the story the Zahir is a coin so I associated it with zero. That's my interpretation. It can be wider and more philosophical.
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He wasnt "alone". He was getting food somewhere. He had lots of stuff he couldnt make himself. And someone had contact enough to report his location. Id bet he was stealing from locals.
The article says he escaped from prison camp which I assume is a work camp.
I totally get what you're saying. What I was trying to point out is that an image caption saying something like: "This is composite image created using bands x, y and z converted to their approximate color and corrected for albedo variations due to the time and position of the different exposures.", or saying: "This is an artist rendition.", would be great.

I get that there can be discussion of whether or not the processed image data is or isn't an accurate depiction of reality. Sometimes the raw images are good enough to release without any processing. Sometimes the 'raw' image has so much processing and generation of new data done to it to even get to an image (that latest black hole photo being a good example), that it would be disingenuous (at least in my eyes) to call it an 'image acquired using a telescope'. This is indeed a good discussion to have.

My point is however that news sites can't just leave out their image captions and let the public guess about it. That's the worst option. Best would be clear image descriptions, so that at least the public knows what it's looking at. Even if those image captions don't fully convey the complete process of how the image was acquired and processed, but just a short synopsis of the process.
StackExchange needs a sibling forum.

I know forums are in opposition to everything that SE stands for, but for quite a lot of cases the questioner would benefit more from a back-and-forth, or open-ended discussion, and then at the end of the process if it's been refined then turn it into a question. If not, then let the thread auto-close and maybe even expire into deletion.

Also, any SE equivalent needs to understand the power dynamic between questioners and answerers, and what motivates people to put in the huge volunteer effort on which it's built.
If you set "making someone uncomfortable" as the bar for ousting people or even criminal charges, it's clear that this can only lead to trouble. There's a reason that the law against insults considers only the impression of a third party. The "victim" feeling insulted is not enough.
As an active Apple dev with five commercial apps, I agree with the sentiment in the article. I'm ready to leave Apple the moment something better comes along.

Since Steve died, every decision at Apple has been anti-dev and anti-user.

The price/performance of the hardware is awful. Apple is the current tech leader in planned obsolescence. Old hardware is iCloud locked by default with no option to contact the registered owner to tell them that they forgot to unlock it. Now they want to extend that practice to laptops. The developer documentation is universally awful. The version changes in Swift are so drastic and frequent that you can't find solutions for the current version because the Internet is polluted with information about previous versions. They are glacially slow to fix bugs. They have removed basic networking functionality covered in the RFCs. They instantly kill backgrounded apps in a mad race for style over function.

I. Could. Go. On.

TL;dr I hate Apple with a burning passion and only inertia keeps me in the Apple dev world.
Ok, but when you lose your drivers’ license (or your “friend” “borrows” it) you don’t get your license suspended...

Your case would imply there is a confirmation interval... which I don’t think is the case.
Provided the conditions outlined in GP are met, why not?
This is far from an Amazon-specific problem. Glassdoor allows you to pay to remove bad reviews. So does Yelp. I bet G and others do too.

Of course, even easier than paying to remove bad ones is paying to add fake good reviews. Another issue is apps and such annoying you until you submit a review. Leave a bad one? Then they annoy you with more follow up, so you're pressured to leave a good review so they stop bothering you.
> Apologies to those of a sensitive nature for the graphicness (is that a word?) of the headline. However, it is true.

The meaning of this excerpt would be exactly the same if the word "but" were used instead of "however" (which is, I suspect, why it was worded in this clumsy way - to avoid "but"). Are we to conclude that the author doesn't actually give a shit about the "graphicness" of the headline?
FWIW most people have called this a sticky footer since the dawn of Web 2.0. Go back ten years and you’ll find posts describing the sticky footer that should be at the end of the content (if the content goes below the fold) or the bottom of the browser window, if the content doesn’t push the footer there.

I understand the point you’re arguing but at some point the thing something is called becomes it’s name.

If you want a name for your concept I’d call this a fixed-positioned footer which is explicit that it’s position is permanently fixed and won’t change. It also correlates with position: fixed.

tl;dr You’re concept of a sticky footer is different than the rest of the web development community so it’s important to realize that and not correct someone for being correct.
Meat consumption is the number one issue and as someone who likes to consume meat I think that

> It's easier to change ourselves

is a bold statement. Maybe some of us can muster up the will to resist $5 meat packages in the supermarket every single day. I am sure not all and especially not enough people can do that off their own free will.

So what we need is to make meat a luxury item again and ban any and all mass production of meat. It basically amounts to torture anyway and the meat quality is somewhere near garbage.

It would be a lot easier if the meat options in supermarkets were restricted to expensive "organic" meat from animals who lived in acceptable conditions.

Cheap mass produced meat is an incredible ecological killer.

Ok, so there will be people who don't want to lose their meat. I don't want to. But even others will resist that notion. It's not like the production is sustainable so sooner or later it will happen anyways. The question is, how much damage will we produce along the way?
The problem is exhaust and the waste pollutants in it. If you switch to sails for a 10% improvement, wouldn't that mean you are still producing 90% of the waste pollutants and pumping it into the environment?
It seems he does not enjoy being called a thief?
I think Shawshank Redemption showed it pretty well.
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Why do we think the imbalance is bad?
I feel like there is a lot to be said about this. It could be that a large portion of the tech sector is living up to the stereotypical "arrogant/egotistical/know-it-all" label that we get hit with quite often.
> Do you think that's a complete coincidence?

You are right - I was under the impression that was posted earlier, but he posted that immediately after the email thread was "leaked" to Vice. It's no coincidence; I still think that, given his previous as well as ulterior behavior, as well as the timing, that it's a clarification he felt he needed to make (given the public accusations that started pouring). I.e. it still doesn't look to me like a dishonest attempt to save face by hiding his controversial opinions... he reacted too quick with that, while ignoring everything else.
He seemed to prefer his freedom to prison.

I’m not sure why so many people think it’s an equivalent punishment.

Don’t people think that he would’ve been willing to hurt others who crossed his path in order to keep his secret?
What have proposals about a "green new deal" got to do with the Soviet Union?
Except in quite a few workplaces never making mistakes is all, even more important than creating value, especially in industries that don't have to worry about making money.
People with the right connections are getting verified.
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No idea, sorry, I have never used a "modern" display. Yet terminus and the standard bitmap X fonts go to quite large sizes. They are certainly readable even when using ridiculously tiny pixels.
They have painted themselves into a corner with this feature. They cannot call it "partners" because you cannot claim to have a partnership with, say, the US Navy and the President of Iran (both "ticked" in Twitter) nor give them revenue kickbacks, and yet, it's not really an ID verification if you "de-verify" people for their political or commercial stance. AFAIK Twitter is so confused by this conundrum that they just froze the "tick" program (or so they claim).

Of course they could abandon all pretenses and just call it "ticked" accounts without saying what it means at all...
Awesome write-up, Francesco! To add to the success stories, our team's previous startup (Bugsense) was a huge user of Erlang, which allowed to scale to hundreds of thousands of concurrent devices with just a handful of servers [1]. It was a no brainer that we would now use Elixir for our current startup (AgentRisk [2,3]) and we wouldn't have been happier with our choice, especially paired with Phoenix, which is hands-down the best web framework we've ever worked with.

[1] http://www.erlang-factory.com/static/upload/media/1394234889...

[2] https://agentrisk.com

[3] https://blog.agentrisk.com
Even before Rome, these regions were not unknown. The Greeks even fought them, settled there.

One of my personal long term topics[1] to research is how these two hitherto separate schools of thought have influenced each other. The western and the oriental thought may have a common genesis.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Buddhism
Wikipedia and Mozilla were at one time mainly Non-Profits that people volunteered at for the same reason people volunteer at other non-profits, to benefit wider society

Both are turning more and more to be more profit-seeking, (Mozilla more than Wikipedia ) and it is tarnishing their reputations

SE has always been a for-profit business, this makes Volunteering more like Free Labor and less like "doing something good for humanity".

Generally speaking, I do not believe For-Profit business should be allowed to seek Volunteers for their labor, this includes SE, Reddit, etc

If a business model can not pay for labor, then it needs to be a Non-profit Foundation, not a for-profit business
Except that global warming is so out of hand that the 0.3 degree cooling effect means absolutely nothing now. Back in the 1600s, there wasn't much in the ways of industrialization and pollution to warm the planet.
Dunno why people are down voting you, china already does this.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2157883/dron...
The list of resigned mods is here: https://judaism.meta.stackexchange.com/a/5196
you're completely misrepresenting the point.

That leaders should ascribe to societal norms is not always a good outcome. If you want to have revolution, revolutionaries needs to be in place of power/leadership. A society needs to have a mechanism to have such revolutions, or stagnate.
why wouldn't you just use rabbit rpms that depend on the exact correct versions of erlang? aka els-erlang

https://www.erlang-solutions.com/resources/download.html

Linux distros have always been terrible places to find reliable packages.
In Ireland, reforestation is taking place, but they are planting non-native sitka spruce in extremely dense plantations.

The plantations are dead wildlife-wise, and they alter soil chemistry such that native broad leaf trees will not be able to re-colonise.
I’d argue it should be zero. Ruining our oceans is something that cannot be undone, and there is far too much damage that has and is already occurring in acidifying our oceans and the amount of existing toxic materials.

This industry is one of the dirtiest, and least responsible to the world.
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Everlane touts themselves sustainable and ethical but there's a lot of greenwashing in their marketing. See also https://www.eco-stylist.com/we-tested-everlane-and-they-fail...
It is practically "exile"?
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Jeff seems to have a lot of trouble empathising with users, especially when they want something that clashes with whatever he has discovered is the 'right' solution. See blocklists in discourse, why people join unions, &c.
> H&M has caught on like wildfire taking over the market Forever 21 once had. They do a lot of the same, but their clothes are even cheaper (why?)

Because of ruthless exploitation of the poor:

https://edition.cnn.com/2012/11/25/world/asia/bangladesh-fac...
Sorry, but this reads like "the seatbelt and airbag in my car prevent me from fully utilizing my personal property".

For 99,99% of users, notarized apps are a positive. For the 0,01% who need it disabled, press the CTRL button.
To make room for agriculture, yes, but even moreso to produce charcoal for the almost insatiable steel industry, to be used both as a fuel and a carbon source. Once the trees were gone, we moved to coal.
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That's the reason why the statute of limitations exist (at least one of em)
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The very experiences that Feynman recounts have lead to a practice of doing "blind" experiments in particle physics and other places.

You simply do your analysis with some extra, unknown, factor added and once you think you done the best you can, the blinding is removed and you check to see what you measured.
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>This should be a crime

I suspect that a desire to cater to people with "something drastic must be done" attitudes is how we wound up with half baked rules with seemingly obvious loopholes in the first place.

As another commenters pointed out, there are standards for discharge water and these systems presumably meet them. If you think those standards are wrong then take them up with them. The ship owners are acting in rational self interest within the letter of the law here. It's hard to find fault with that.
It's the same if not better compared to the alternative, right? Person isn't bothering society and the state isn't subsidizing their imprisonment. Exiling people kinda sounds like the best option unless you like punishment.
Maybe you frequent a different sample of questions / answers than I do, because by my estimation it's 10% XY-problem and 90% XY-problem-problem.
I think so. It's why I'm getting out of crypto. Too many shady deals shading up the place. It's shady.
You can still eat poultry and fish if you have it. You just can't eat mammals. As someone who's mostly zero-carb, I find it scary too, but it's not a total catastrophe.
Funnily enough, APL is as unambigous as possible when it comes to order of execution. It's _always_ right-to-left

So ∇⍵-2 does ⍵-2 the applies ∇ to it.

Simmilarly (and initially confusing), 2+45-2 evaluates to:
(2+(4(5-2))) = 14

From experience, the simplicity of not having operator precendence is liberating (why do we even need operator precendence in the first place, really?).
This. Climate Crisis is a result of behavior that regards environment as infinite while it is definitely not.

And Climate Crisis is just one of the symptoms. World's ecosystem is a multifaceted, wastly complex, richly interconnected and very reactive structure.

We as species WILL NOT get away with having power of a bulldozer and mind of a dragonfly[1].

A question: Considering human biology and mind, can human species ever collaborate and act together for a logical cause? I have almost lost all my confidence that we have that ability/function. I really would like to hear your perspective on this.

[1]: https://youtu.be/Y0vRupFPw90
Care to share what display you have? I'm in the market for a TV but this interests me more.
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> Are there more details on why they specifically have chosen to move?

From the conversations with the KDE team (they might chime in with more context), the main goals were:

- More accessible infrastructure for contributors

- Code review integration with git

- Streamlined infrastructure and tooling

- Good relationship and open communication channel with upstream (GitLab in this case)

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/issues/53206

> Maybe there were some discussions in some public mailing lists?

I believe there were some other threads as well, but for a start, here is one of the discussions on the kde-devel mailing list:
https://marc.info/?t=155091510600001&r=1&w=2
I've noticed this is particularly common on the Google Play store. Apparently the reason is reviews which go against what most people are reviewing are given a higher priority and more likely to be shown to potential users.

E.g. if an app is getting mostly 5 stars and you give it a 1 star, your rating will be more prominently shown in Google Play.
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Recent change in management discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21062191 was widely interpreted as getting ready for SE to be sold. At this point any sort of bad publicity would be shunned, especially. of the “it’s not a welcoming community” kind.
I wouldn't say it's true for every major city in US, but yes, unfortunately NYC is decaying. NYC is mess you can't compare to Boston or, let's say, Chicago. Current infrastructure is already stretched very thin, but that's one thing, corrupt and incompetent local government deserves it's own story. If residents don't get their shit together and start voting for the change, it will all end badly.
> There is a perpetual tension between those who want SE to be helping everyone, and those who want to curate a helpful resource. ...

This is the core issue and it's really hard to perceive unless you've watched stackexchange sites evolve over the years. There's a sizeable contingent of folks who truly believe in "the mission" of stackexchange and have uncanny strict interpretations of the rules as expressed in the FAQ's. In their minds, it's OK to downvote, close, mark-as-dupe or otherwise harshly dismiss contributions from others, especially new folks, that do not adhere to the strict interpretation of the rules. This is _especially_ evident (and wrong) in sites that feature intrinsically subjective subject matter like Workplace.

The thing is the "curator" people feel really strongly about what they're doing. Obviously, I am on the side of at least trying to help everyone even if that means "the rules" get bent.

Let's not blow this out of proportion. It's NOT "a firing" No one lost their livelihood.
The problem with your line of thinking is that it discourages people from expressing their opinions if they deviate from the opinion of the majority.

If people need to be concerned about having their lives ruined over what they write in an email, or an online forum, can’t you see what kind of chilling effect this has?
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Removing links to other platforms is anti-competitive full stop. Threatening de-verification due to links is even worse.

This is the behavior of monopolists. The FTC and existing anti-trust organizations would do well to return to their jobs and take a look at these practices broadly across the tech industry.
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Imagine believing this.
I agree. NVIDIA is quietly pulling the strings. It’s like how Ethereum is mostly run on AWS. It’s all a scam!
You can pay for it?
SE is a collection of question answering sites, not requirements-gathering sites. The network has a borderline-psychotic devotion to the Q&A format. In that light, just answer the question that was presented. Identifying the "real requirements" is out of scope unless the question itself makes no sense.
One upon a time an evil file might be called 'vader' or 'skynet'. Now harry potter fans are senior enough to decide on project names. I feel old.
Pre smartphone days(1997) but when I was in college I had to get glasses to see the whiteboard at the end of the first year spent looking at monitors and a drafting board for large periods of the day.
I spent my summers lifeguarding on a beach so three months off staring hard into the distance from 10am to 7pm 6 days a week with hardly any screen time.
When returning to college in September I could see the board without glasses for the first 2-3 months but then would revert to needing glasses.
This cycle repeated itself for several years but the time reverting to glasses got shorter each year.
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Well...
An anonymous source, from the internet, which itself had heard of this only through another party.
Dismissing unreliable sources like that is a safe default, no?

But more to the matter at hand, Stallman himself has a story about him smelling on plants, albeit dead: https://stallman.org/articles/texas.html

So, the far more reliable source seems to suggest that, indeed, he doesn't fear plants.
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The fallacy is thinking finding a solution prevents from doing the other solutions. You are just confused.
Spot on. Monica is a fantastic person and was a huge asset to SE. I've continually expected to hear that SE had hired Monica as a Community Manager, as they have over the years done with other well-respected mods.

This is a "You maniacs; you blew it up!" moment. What just happened??
Yup, throw in a few spoonfuls of baking soda, just like a keeping the pH balanced in your hot tub.
It's wanted in all professions; it's absence is tolerated in some more than others.
I think about it in a more general sense. If you look at metacritic, you'll either see the knee-jerk reaction reviews from fan/foe players with 0 information or the "professional" reviews that mostly read as disguised ads.

Long gone are the times of good, researched reviews. Which in my opinion is another face of the deprecation of content value (ie people not paying for high quality researched content).

Same as why news channels now have people panels instead of investigative journalism.

Also the fact that most companies forbid benchmarks... they are incredibly useful tools for comparing products.
The only two projects I know regarding "visual programming" that I think "are on the money" are Mesh Spreadsheet and Hyperfiddle. Luna-lang, even if in theory is great, didn't click with me. Observablehq is also interesting but I don't have a use case for it.

Keep the good work!

edit - some remarks to "get there": it must be/feel fast like native Excel, Sublime Text or at least VS code. In another phase, to be a real "programming editor" it would be great if you could use any programming language you want, not just JS. Clojurescript or Elm/Purescript could be a good start.

edit2 > ways to compress more functionality into the 'boilerplate' included with each sheet. I think the boilerplate should be somehow hidden from the end user.
That is absolutely not true. Current Macbook Pros since 2016 have a whole variety of issues that are dealbreakers for day to day use. There's even a Github repo with checklists and kernel patches.

iMac Generations have been hit or miss depending on the AMD GPU that was included. I also think it'll get only harder from here on out with the T2 chips etc.
If Y actually has an answer - but often enough Y is so convoluted that it just won't work.

Asking the poster about X, and offering a solution Y' which will solve X should at least be attempted.

If the poster insists on Y, then he'll also have to accept the answer "sorry, you can't do it that way, for the following reasons".
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