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I’m using a Raspberry Pi with shairport-sync, a SPDIF HAT and a Maestro-50 amplifier (that I got for cheap) and am really happy with it. I even route TV audio through it and have a IR sensor for remote control.
maybe just turn off the upvoting bots
Yes, you can still become a web developer
The Dangers of “Cancel Culture” are Distant and Abstract
This is one of the niches where (S)FTP and batch processing is still alive and kicking.
On that note, there's a few vaccines heading to market in pill form. However many target diseases of the digestive system (like Norovirus[0]). But in general, I do agree that pill stable vaccines would massively subvert the anti-vaxx movement.

[0] https://www.acsh.org/news/2019/09/27/norovirus-vaccine-meets...
>Many people just go through Facebook and create a private event and invite their Facebook friends when they have a birthday gathering nowadays. You will miss out on these if you opt-out completely. I did.

This has been my experience. It's a valid pragmatic argument for staying, and a valid principled argument for opting out.
It’s not scary at all. That’s a routine legal proceeding when the gov tries to break you up.

Don’t you remember the MS antitrust case in the 90s?
A queue if you're lucky!

There's also:

- Hire an intern / "Customer Service Representative" / "Technical Account Specialist" to manually copy data from one service into another

- Dump some file in a directory and hope something is treating that directory like a queue

- Read/write from the same database (/ same table)

Or the classic Unix trajectory of increasingly bad service communication:

- Read/write from the same local socket and (hopefully) same raw memory layouts (i.e. C structs) (because you've just taken your existing serialized process and begun fork()ing workers)

- that, but with some mmap'd region (because the next team of developers doesn't know how to select())

- that, but with a local file (because the next team of developers doesn't know how to mmap())

- that, but with some NFS file (for scaling!)

- that, but with some hadoop fs file (for big data!)

Obviously all of these are at some level an 'application programming interface'. But then, technically so is rowhammering the data you want into the next job.
Thanks. Reverse osmosis removes minerals, which isn't something I want. Personally (this is just my perspective) I operate under the theory we don't fully understand the human body, so don't mess with things too much, removing minerals and then selectively adding some back in is not something I think we are well informed enough to do without possible negative consequences.

I looked for Chromium 6 Water Filter and found plenty of good options. Truly thank you for the recommendation.
Most of the Internet’s economy is a market for attention. HN in particular tends to glorify this as the vast majority of people here make their money from other peoples attention in some respects.
To better understand this organization and its inner workings i highly recommend the book "Overthrow" by Stephen Kinzer.
I guess the issue is many in office workers would rather work from home at least some of the time.
"Thousands Wear Black, Rally to Demand Hong Kong Leader Goes" June 16, 2019 https://www.voanews.com/east-asia/thousands-wear-black-rally...

"Protesters filled Hong Kong International airport two weeks ago. Many wore black, the unofficial uniform of these demonstrations." August 26, 2019 https://www.vox.com/world/2019/8/22/20804294/hong-kong-prote...

"pro-democracy demonstrators gathered, clad in black and wearing masks"
September 14, 2019
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/14/hong-kong-15th...
The “Strong Towns” Book Is Out Today
New technologies add complexity. That always decreases reliability. Replace a robust button or mechanical timer mechanism with a touchscreen and now you have dozens of new components that can cause a failure.
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says "Google Assistant" and "Alexa Built-in".
Yes, the Eben Moglen who is suing another free software organisation for trademark infringement, threatened to sue them for copyright infringement under a ludicrous misreading of the relevant license, threatened to ruin the life of an FSF board member, and who was fired by the FSF for briefing against the FSF's interests while being paid by Oracle.
The justification is that Florida is a swing state, and full of Cuban expats who really, really hate Castro and want the embargo to continue. These expats have the ability to swing Florida's vote, and thus Presidential elections, so both parties have to give them what they want. It's a wonderful example of how the fucked-up Electoral College distorts national policy, since a large majority of Americans overall think the embargo is stupid and should end.
A thoughtful person can have insights that few knows.

but the really hard part is: "and are possible to extract value from"
> All the world has less genetic variation, than that between any two populations in Africa.

I guess this is just a flight of poesy, but it seems like a literally impossible statement.
Zuckerberg reposted this on his personal page.

Frankly I think it makes him look pretty good.
I'd contend that code in places 2 and 3 shouldn't care about the interface except insofar as they violate it (for which they'll get a compile error and be able to fix the problem).

The only place that really cares about the interface is place 1 - where it is used, where it defines a contract for the types passed to a function which they must conform to.

Re your examples, if you want a slice to be used in a read-only manner, pass in a copy of the slice, it's the only way to be sure in future too - those use-sites might be modified later anyway so one check doesn't really help. Interfaces are not intended to limit this sort of use, nor are they a good mechanism to do so. Re the existing implementation, I can't imagine losing track of types such that they'd be a good fit for a given problem, but I wouldn't know about them, interfaces are usually small so it's just a question of one or two functions...

While it's of academic interest to see which types conform to which interface (and people have written little tools to do this), I don't find it's really a limitation in real-world go code, it just doesn't really come up, and I like that interfaces are explicitly one-way, you don't declare them on the implementation side for good reasons.
I deleted FB from my phone about 2 years ago and have not once regretted it. I still stay in touch with my closest friends via phone, text, and the good ole' fashioned physical meetups.

No more fake celebratory comments. No more fake photos. No more fake LIVES portrayed by others (early on, I participated in this).

I must say that one of the best things you can do for your mental health is to delete these social networks off your devices. I've actually gone so far as to block all these sites network-wide via my pi-hole so nobody can mindless scroll through content while in my home.

My quality of life has improved as a result; I can now live in the moment and be grateful for not only where I'm at, but also where I am going (i.e., goal(s)) and what I will learn on the way there.
> I'm usually not a huge fan of the US rolling in and stomping out governments (and installing their own, of course), but this is one faux-dictatorship where it sorely needs to happen.

It's not a faux dictatorship, it's the real deal.

But, the idea of the US “stomping out” the PRC (or even somehow “just” rejecting it from Hong Kong) and installing its own preferred government is downright insane.
Yes events like that, if they happened today would be more impacting - mobile cell towers! Satellites... the potential for disruption is greater.
You can't force democracy upon people that don't want it and aren't ready for it - it ends disastrously. The US tried to do that in the middle east and failed miserably.

The only success story seems to be South Korea, but I would argue they wanted democracy and fought alongside the US for it.
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> if the rebels have support of the population

That's a big if. How many Arab Spring revolutions crumbled under this assumption?

Besides, look at today's political climate - the majority of gun owners are backing the man who is the most authoritarian. You don't have to be worried about a gun owning populace if they're "voting" for you already.
No, but perhaps it is coming from the same organization that thought MCAS was a great idea. After all, such an organization obviously has severe deficiencies with basic systems engineering; what other deficiencies might it have?
I like having the OPTION of going to the office or a coworking space. The problem, at least for me, with offices is the constant interruption that could easily be replaced by Slack messages that I'll deal with once I'm not in the middle of something.
Async/await makes code much nicer. For an example (though this post is old and so is a bit out of date) see here: http://aturon.github.io/tech/2018/04/24/async-borrowing/

That said, async/await produces stuff that implements std::future::Future. The existing async ecosystem was built around the futures crate. Once std future hits stable in the next release, the Futures crate will release a 0.3 version, which has compatibility stuff between the new futures and futures 0.1, so you can technically bridge between the two worlds.

The benefit is basically "you won't make your users use a bridge between your code and the new stuff".
> So thanks for the insults, I guess.

I'm not sure what you found insulting, i was commenting on Wayland itself and the companies that push it. The closest i could think of is the "blame for its state" bit but that was obviously said jokingly as tongue-in-cheek (even with the ":-P" smiley).

Do you see disliking Wayland, disliking the forces that push it and not seeing a point at it existing as insults to yourself?

> treat the FOSS graphics communities with more respect in the future

A "community" isn't a person to be treated with anything, if i'm to treat someone with respect it will be a person, not something vague like a community.

Also disliking a piece of work doesn't mean that i disrespect (or respect) the person who worked on it. I honestly do not know you so i have no reason to disrespect (or respect) nor insult you (something that from my perspective i didn't do). I do know about Wayland and i have many reasons to dislike it, but that dislike doesn't extend to a general dislike or disrespect of you. It is Wayland i dislike, not you.

> There's a lot of people who have years and years of experience solving problems and dealing with this stuff every day, and their opinions hold a lot of merit.

Sure, but there are also a lot of people who can simply be wrong despite their experience, for a variety of reasons. Appeals to authority aren't to be taken at face value. Also in my post above i'm not judging the people who created the work, i'm judging the work and (also) how it i feel is enforced on me despite my will.

Some people might get too attached to their work and feel any attack towards it is an insult to themselves, but to me that does not sound like a reason to not criticize that work - or any work - especially when that works is affecting me.

Also i think that if you feel insulted by people criticizing your work you may not have a good time working as a games developer :-P.
The traditional answer for people wanting to get free load is to run an image-hosting service:

* Accept uploads.

* Push them to S3 / similar.

* Marvel as you have to filter out nasty images.

* Struggling under the load of hotlinked images.

* Start performing rewrites to serve ads.

* Add chat/comments to try to build a community.

* Get more and more slow and ad-heavy over time.

The process repeats every few years.
"President Warren" who's that?
Your company has a hard requirement for a college degree, right?
And if you could keep all your guns safely locked away until then, that would be great.

–thanks, everyone else.
Well, that seems a particularly tricky chart to interpret.

In this case, I haven't read the article the chart was taken from; I don't know what argument the chart is supposed to support. Stripped of that context, it's a pretty confusing chart. It seems the author (of the SciAm article - Cairo) is using the chart to make a point about lying with charts. I don't think that Cairo is publishing his research on obesity and birth-weight - that seems to be Kitahara et al. If that's what's going on, then it's hardly surprising that the chart is hard to read; Cairo chose it to make exactly that point.

And I think he's being unfair to Kitahara et al., implying that they've deliberately contrived that chart to mislead.
You can check out of Hacker News but you can never leave. No seriously, you can’t delete your account.
well do you think that perhaps, setting the voltage and other continental variance requirements aside, that repair manuals for products released in EU will coinside (somewhat) for products in the USA? This could potentially be a game changer for USA repair enthusiasts as we will have SOME form of foundational documentaion to go on when attempting a repair (or at least i hope)

And on a side note: Funny how tractors and agricultural equipment were stricken from USA's right to repair and intellectual property laws.
That's a fine argument, as far as it goes, but in practice it's applied spuriously, unevenly, and unfairly.

One of the principals involved in getting Yarvin deplatformed from Strangeloop, Steve Klabnik, is a communist, supporting an ideology that is directly responsible for the murder of 40 million people, and indirectly responsible for another 70 million. Klabnik has spoken, without political interference, at plenty of conferences.

If we were to apply your argument equally, Nazis and Communists would both be deplatformed. But in practice, they are not.
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Scientists Finally Got Americans to Worry About the Climate
Because attempting to redefine "sexual assault" such that it only applies to cases that involve physical violence is an attempt to reduce the perception of the seriousness of the crime
I think it's possible if it's actually "All _the rest of_ the world has less genetic variation, than that between any two populations in Africa."

I don't know if that's true, but it's true that Africans have more genetic variation than anyone else on Earth.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/30502963/ns/technology_and_science...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4067985/

> most genetic variation in non-African populations is a subset of the variation found in African populations

https://www.ashg.org/education/pdf/geneticvariation.pdf

> Larger Genetic Differences Within Africans Than Between Africans and Eurasians

https://www.genetics.org/content/161/1/269
It seems like much of technology is focused around narcissism. Even the technology ecosystem, with the startups and whatnot, are sort of celebrity technology. I'm not sure that is good or bad for actual technological progress. Given that the fundamental philosophy, math and science this is all based on is still considered lame, then modern technology is largely a distraction from true progress.
It would also be good to spend some time on the defects in those stupid old ideas, to counter the undeserved street cred from being continually banned.
Warranties and insurance are quite different.

Insurance is usually provided by a regulated entity and implicitly backed by the government in the even that the insurer fails. Their regulators also provide redress for consumers against unfair treatment without the need to resort to the courts and the terms usually have to be fair too.

Warranties are typically provided by the vendor who may well be financially unsound and willing to treat a customer less fairly, contain significant legal loopholes and require redress through the courts or perhaps a binding arbitration tribunal.
People like to compare him to Donald Trump, but what I've always read is that unlike Trump he's actually quite intelligent. For better or worse.
If you need Facebook to keep in touch with your friends, they’re not your friends anymore. Accept it and move on.

Why focus on pretending you’re all still in school? Live in the now.
You don’t need haptic feedback, just good feedback. There’s plenty of bits in an audio stream alone to give the brain the control feedback it needs. You’d be surprised how few degrees of freedom we use for grasping.
I guess a more low-tech approach would be to fuel jets with ethanol. Googling a bit now, the U.S. uses about 18 billion gallons/year of jet fuel[1], and produces 17 billion gallons/year of fuel ethanol [2]. The price per gallon is about $1.5 versus $1.94 [3,4]; because jet fuel has 46% higher energy density that means that the cost per Joule would increase by a factor of 1.9.

Obviously this is only a back-of-the-envelope thing, but it seems that even if we switched to renewable fuels using the technology that are available today, ticket prices should about double. Historically, that corresponds to going back to circa-1980 prices[6], which I guess is bad, but not exactly apocalyptic.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=31512
[2] https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=32152
[3] https://markets.businessinsider.com/commodities/ethanol-pric...
[4] https://www.indexmundi.com/commodities/?commodity=jet-fuel
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density
[6] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/02/how-air...
I completely agree with this. Having spent the first half of my professional life without the always on-internet in my pocket, I couldn't agree more. And even now, I have to force myslef to distraction free time to try and read, and it's so much more difficult than it used to be.

In fact, I'm going back to traditional paper books, so that I don't have a simple swipe to distract me. I started digital reading on a Kindle, but don't plan on replacing my 6 year old one. And then I tried transitioning to Kindle on the iPad and my Android phone. Too easy to get distracted.
The Music Towers of the 1960s[1] were pretty intense too

1 - https://news.artnet.com/art-world/taiwan-kinmen-island-sonic...
I actually think it's a very strong equivalence.

Both are self selected descriptors which could be reasonably objected to without denigrating or disrespecting the person specifically.

Removing the ability to engage in thoughtful conversation where parties disagree is a travesty.

I'll be blunt - as a strong atheist, I'm in full agreement with the moderator who posted this. I personally don't agree with his opinions on gender pronouns, but I think his point stands loud and clear: Respectful disagreement is no longer allowed.

I think that is especially poignant given the community he moderates almost certainly aligns with his views.

I believe many of the communities that press these gender issues are broken. Not because I care about "pronouns" but because when disagreement with the majority opinion is IN ITSELF considered an insult worthy of exclusion or derision, there is no longer any apparatus to allow honest discussion.

I have the same opinion of the most restrictive church communities. The mental process is the same - Disagreement is threatening, remove the threat through ostracism and social pressure instead of honest conversation. Fuck that. Fuck that on both sides.
Thanks for the reality check. Phew.