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Richard Stallman was never on VA Linux's board.

Eric Raymond was.

Gruber is quoting a third-party letter which appears to be unreliable.
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> The one thing that's missing in the browser right now is an SQL database. I haven't found a way to run SQL in the browser.

Actually, there's a way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_SQL_Database (see https://caniuse.com/#search=websql for browser support)

You can see a live example with SheetJS here: https://sheetjs.com/sexql/

Unfortunately, Web SQL Database has been deprecated in favour of IndexedDB, which in my opinion is no real replacement because it's a NoSQL database that's nowhere near as powerful in terms of the queries you can run with it.

However, the deprecation is understandable from a browser vendor's point of view. Maintaining and developing a browser is difficult enough as it is. Having to maintain an RDBMS adds a lot of complexity on top of that for what's probably a marginal use case for most users.

That said, it might be possible to integrate SQLite by using browser extensions. That of course depends on the users' willingness to install a browser extension in order to run your software builder.
> China? Russia? US?

I have a suspicion that none of them would want to be the "guilty" party that kept polluting.

Right now, of the three, the US is still the biggest per-capita polluter by far (about 2x more than China).

China is already adopting greener policies, so there is a good chance it will never overtake the US on that metric.

I do think that the US (or Russia, who aren't too far behind them) will eventually follow either China, or one of the European countries leading by example.

Let me preempt something here: I posted a similar comment some time ago, and the response to that was "but total CO2!" - which is a demonstrably absurd way to measure a countries progress on that front. Let's not get into that again.
I've built the MVP without using code on Carrd.co in combination with Checkoutpage.co to handle the payments and collect the customer data.
I wonder if there is a market for a appliance company to have easy to repair products with easy to source spares that could be done by a competent DIYer
I have to replace a fridge freezer that I inherited as it occasionally leaks/defrosts, I've already out €200+ into it with a repair engineer to replace a motor but I don't want to spend more in case it doesn't work and I have to spend €1000 on a new one anyway.

When I was a teenager my dad got me to replace one of the old rotary switches on a washing machine with a second hand spare he got, if I recall correctly there were 30+ wires and I had to label them all, it worked and I was so satisfied.
Now it would be a new PCB and would be difficult to source.

Definitely think there would be a market even if the initial cost was higher.
"no worries" has proven surprisingly reliable for me. So far, as an American, I've used it on 5 continents in probably three dozen languages (only one of which I know well) and nobody yet has misunderstood it.
I doubt he was the sole cause of someone leaving CSAIL or CS, but I've met plenty of women who were discouraged from CS by constant "weird dudes leering at my chest" or "constantly asking me for dates" etc. Based on the tales of his behavior the balance of probabilities are Not Good that he hasn't been at least partially responsible for some people deciding "well, maybe CS isn't for me".
Yes, but you're allowed to reject the reference letter you received if you do not like it and ask for a better one. Otherwise your ex employer might get a call from your lawyers.

Reference letters have no value anymore other than proving you worked somewhere.

You can leetcode an engineer to weed out the fakers but you can't leetmanage a manager so the bad ones slip in much easier.
A lie by omission can be used to convince the public of things that aren't true just the same as more direct methods of spreading false information.
The right to repair isn't really about every individual repairing their own stuff themselves. It's about those individuals being able to ask their friends for help, or to bring the broken device to a local repair shop. That is, a manufacturer-unaffiliated repair shop. In this way, it's a fight for a more competitive, more free, and more distributed market.
Agreed, but a check mark confirms it for me.
Another good reason to stop using Google and use alternative search engines.
For sure, apes are very intelligent. I've seen a few clips where orphaned apes have recognised humans years after they last met. I've also seen a case where an orangutang was spotted using a 'spear' to catch fish.
Isn't it strange that any and all seemingly pro-Brexit posts here are being downvoted.

What you posted is factually correct. From observation, HN has turned into just another Slashdot, unfortunately. I came here to escape from Slashdot's obvious liberal-biased bubble, but the infestation has happened here too. No doubt this post will be downvoted into oblivion as well, including the other replie(s) I've made on this topic. :(
Oh my I had no idea!
Plugging a mate's blog or not, this is much more interesting and informative than '<screenshot> omg the world is so corrupt' & some guy tweeting speculation.
Which makes isglass such a great word.
> yet I've managed to found "goto" statements (the "jump out of this function to some weird place in code" type) in the wild.

I might just add that this is not wrong and actually expected in some places. Linux uses it. It helps with some error handling situations.

But yeah with the other points I agree.
Since a few comments mention the superiority of "real books", maybe those with that opinion see Instagram as downgrading the reading experience.

For some perspective, keep in mind that many famous novels were originally magazine or newspaper installments.[0]

Therefore, reading works like Dumas' "Count of Monte Cristo", Dostoevsky's "Crime & Punishment", or Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina" -- in consolidated book form -- is the incorrect method of reading their words. And the correct way to read Charles Dickens is in partial installments to stop at the cliffhanger and then wait a month to resume the story.

Or maybe, the Instagram'ing of novels can be seen as harmless re-serializing of books.

An aside about what "reading" really is...

Some think that listening to the words of a book (e.g. Audible) instead of seeing the words with eyeballs is also not really reading. Does this also mean that blind people are never really "reading" unless their fingers are touching braille?

But the reverse can be true. We're consuming "The Iliad" incorrectly if reading it as a book since it was originally orally transmitted instead of written down.

For some, the physical medium defines what reading is. I don't agree with that but it's clear some really have rigid opinions about how the authors' words are supposed to enter our brains.

EDIT ADD: similar bite-sized reading behavior on smartphones in China explained by a16z Connie Chan. It's not too different from Charles Dickens serializations in the 19th century. Deeplink about China's mobile book economy at 6m25s: https://youtu.be/78pLIj4xeVs?t=6m25s

[0] https://booksonthewall.com/blog/serial-novel-a-brief-history...
> What's stopping them (or being commandeered) to serve you modified javascript which sends them your password, or this being done via an unsanitised email viewed via their web UI?

Thinking about this more, the threat model here was an insider. This is something that Tutanota wouldn't be able to prevent with its advertised services given the same situation.
I did not say the things are perfect or even good in Germany. I said they just seems to be better for those Italian engineers. To be honest, USA is an exception - the rest of the world is not on that level, maybe, only London, Zürich can compare.In other places you have to search hard and be lucky.

I do not like the state of German software industry and IT. Salary limits, preferring interns and juniors, lack of management and of organisational competence and culture in Berlin startups, avoidance of any risk, focusing on low risk boring stuff like web apps for fintech, adtech, travel, delivery, plain copy-pasting of businesses. So called flat structures in startups that are in fact just a mess. Founders who think they are new Steve Jobs, they do not listen to any advice and micromanage. There are a lot of problems, but there are a few good places and benefits as well.

My personal story is that I have 12+ years of experience, 5+ of them in leadership position with different ratio of tech / management. I still code and learn. A year ago I left a startup where I led engineering due to the reasons similar to what I mentioned above. I checked the market - I could not find or join anything interesting with a good impact and pay in Berlin. (I cannot relo for the next couple years - house, baby, etc.). I switched to contracting - now as a data tech lead for a large company. Good pay, no bullshit, I am not a part of management hierarchy, no strings attached, I can focus on doing my job. I hope to be able to land more contracts and eventually start my business - I have tech and management experience, but, unfortunately, no connections with domain specialists for good ideas.

Some of my friends left for US actually - for better pay and more technical job.
Is there evidence of this happening though?

It just seems like this is a screenshot with some comments on it, and a lot of assumptions.
So you don’t believe that you can use facts to mislead people, nor that you can mislead people without presenting anything as fact?

If you report a story, using only the facts that support your narrative, and omitting only the facts that don’t support it, have you lied? Have you reported propaganda?

What if you report a story, without reporting anything as a fact? What if you report “anonymous sources claim ___”, or “___ is being criticised for ___”, or “a verified document describes ___”. None of those reports involve any facts at all, nor any verifiable fictions.

What if you simply disagree on what the facts are?

What if you intentionally misinterpret something, in an effort to debunk it. If I make a mostly true statement, but use an obvious hyperbole, or get a minor detail wrong, am I “just using the English language as intended”, or “just spreading false information”.

> What do you think of the Media Bias Chart?

I think if you tasked 50 different research teams with producing their own chart with the methods they deemed best, that you’d get 50 different charts.

> It seems to me that we have always had the ability to verify whether a given statement is factual or counterfactual

We have always had the ability to enforce authority on others. That doesn’t mean we have had any success in creating authorities to be the arbiter of truth. In fact, we have a long history as a species of failing miserably at doing that.

Easily verifiable outright lies in the media do happen, but the cases where this is so black and white are incredibly uncommon, and that’s not what these systems are trying to deal with. I mean, recently “conspiracy theories” have become a target for moderation. Do you know what a conspiracy theory actually is? It’s any theory that two or more people conspired to do something. How much recent news reporting would fit that definition?

Any system that attempts to strip people of their right to critical though (which is what this is) is doomed to fail in the exact same way that every such system implemented throughout history has.
"The 13th is more likely to fall on a Friday than any other day of the week" != "the 13th is likely a Friday"
Hum, don't want to name companies, but I know that management in some of the companies you mentioned are really shitty.
wait what? I (not OP mind you) have been concerned with the environment since before Greta was even born. You just got a convenient face that happened to be at the right time in the right place to blame now.
Is he buying adwords?
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Northward shift of the agricultural climate zone under global climate change
Are there instructions on this anywhere? I get really annoyed at the MDM from my work email, which I can just get through the browser, but without it set up, I can't get work calendar notifications, which I do actually need.
We did a partial migration to c++ in a previous iteration!
Yeah, to US or to Switzerland - the top destination if you want to stay in German-speaking area.
I actually never though of that and had a good laugh reading your comment.
I had to pass a medical with an eye test for the job so I presume I was safe.
Eyesight is a complicated thing, I have one eye much worse than the other, can read the monitor fine with my right eye and not at all with my left eye.
I can use a monitor OK for an hour or two with no glasses but after that I get a headache.
My right eye defiantly compensates for my left.
I'm on the same team as you - that's why I can't really work remotely - but let's acknowledge that it's a personal preference. People are different, much more than we can usually imagine. You can't tell another person, whom you really don't know that well, what she can or cannot do; and different projects require different people and different models of communication.
I must mention Amos Wenger https://amos.me who strated writing recently but have a really nice prose and great touch of pedagogy which make post really enjoyable and personally I learn things very well in his posts !
For 300.000 people it is... kinda useful.
And the books are shared via the highlight function of Instagram. It's like stories, but they aren't deleted after 24h. They stay in your profile and can be watched again and again until you delete them.
Thanks, it's always interesting to hear responses from people who strongly disagree with what I've said.

The only point I'd make in reply is that I work in a fairly highly regulated industry, and I am accountable for the code that makes it to production and its downstream impacts. That means, like it or not, I have to understand everything that is going out (or have enormous trust in the people who are doing it). In that environment, things that break the mold or impose a high rate of change, especially unexpectedly, are very very expensive. For example, they can put huge deployment blocks on code that is pending review. We had critical code delayed by a month from reaching production because it was woven into one of these changes by this person, but the size of the change set was so huge just reviewing and testing it was a significant amount of work Then another time he actually caused a production outage by refactoring some code so that it used a list as a default for an argument in a python function (which we should have caught, but didn't, partly because there were so many changes in what he shipped).

Maybe I suck at software, but for lots of reasons (beyond just software skills) I'm the one given the responsibility for this and therefore yes, the process to some extent revolves around my limitations as a human being to understand the changes going out.
The regulations are stupid in the first place. Instead of energy rating why not just have energy use directly?! Similar to how refrigerators have noise levels directly in dB, not in some imaginary regulatory unit.

In addition, many people hate highly-energy-efficient washing machines, as the washing cycles takes hours... efficient in energy, but inefficient in human life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie
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It's pretty much a wash. The reason wheels are bigger is for better handling as well as space for larger disc brakes. The combined total weight of brake disc, tire, hub and rim is roughly a constant due to the use of lighter materials.
It depends on how their fund is structured. Based on what I have read the minimum life of their LPs is 12 years. At the scale it operates, and considering from whom it raises money it does not make much sense to structure it as a typical VC fund.
Not really (at least, not via DDG). Just like Google, it now frequently ignores or changes key words unless you quote them, and sometimes seems to ignore quoted words, as Google seems to. Both search engines have become quite frustrating (I primarily use DDG, and falling back on Google is hit and miss).
Agreed.

It's the reason #16238 for instituting a carbon tax, and all those reasons are essentially the same: internalizing externalities. If, after accounting for full environmental impact, it turns out that replacing is still cheaper than repairing, then all is fine because the price correctly signals that it is better. In reality though, I'd expect that under carbon taxing, repair would be the better choice.
Fair point. Looks like I read the wrong newspapers!

Anyway... BREAKING: this particular ex-model's just had her laptop stolen while she was in the UK... containing 6 years of emails, documents, photos and personal who-knows-what from the time when she was reportedly giving technology lessons to our now Prime Minister.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7522877/Jennifer-Ar...
That looks really cool, but unless employers are paying $10pcm seems steep to me, considering it's more than the underlying tools (which are potentially all used at free tier).

Have you considered pricing by #integrations connected?
The problem right there is that China will increase their pollution just by raising their living standards to the Western levels. So if they don't play ball, the whole game is over.

In my understanding China doesn't care about the climate as much as about the air their people have to breath. Their environmental policies seem to be targeted exclusively at public health issues, and then only the more serious ones.

The bigger, necessary solutions are not implemented anywhere, yet. Those countries who do not participate will leap ahead in industrial development, while those who do may not be able to slow climate change enough.
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Did you promote/share it somewhere? How did the customer find you?
While I agree that this is strictly worse than current document and eBook formats meant for computers, this inarguably not much worse than physical books. We couldn't have copied quotes or table of contents in a physical book.
100 bits per hour * 10,000 devices = 278 bits per second. That’s significantly less than the equivalent of a single cellphone per apartment building.
When you figure out how to articulate it, you'll have the perfect description for what it feels like to watch a Henry Rollins comedy set on YouTube.
And to add to that, when I've been in Shenzhen, China, I saw lots of recycling of smartphone parts. I've managed to replace my cracked S4 screen and a broken camera for a small fraction of the part price, on the spot in 10 minutes, on the condition that they get to keep the broken part - because what they're doing is taking the part further apart, repairing or replacing the broken component, and then using it to repair someone else's phone.
Has problems when your staff spend a lot of time mobile though. Our staff have laptops and are quite often travelling on trains, aeroplanes, in offices and hotels where their guest WiFi is borked. While the laptops have a 4G chip, and connectivity is improving year by year, it is still not feasible to rely on remote desktop only for our use case. Local desktop and offline file sync is still the only way to go here.
This is a very simplistic and probably wrong assumption in my opinion. Let's counter it with California: It has Silicon Valley, the world-leading IT hub and it is not a cold place by any measure.

This argument is thrown a lot around the Mediterranean and I think it is the same argument that gets thrown to explain your mediocrity (Not getting a good job/wage, must be the immigrants!).

What the article is highlighting here is productivity. Productivity should be higher in Souther Europe exactly for the reasons you mentioned: There is less snow, more sunlight, less rain, less cold, less illness, and generally less troubles with the geography/weather.
In the uk, we had e.g. the ten hours act

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factories_Act_1847
>the 2 RTL-SDR's needed to capture both the 929MHz and 931MHz bands.

A single R820T can do about 2.56MHz bandwidth, which is enough to handle both bands simultaneously.
> If a student can do it in their heads, then the work is too easy! ... Simply increase the complexity of the problem

This website is a resources for teachers of "gifted and talented" students - but, in my experience, this strategy absolutely will not work in a more general setting.

It's often the case that students aren't writing down the steps because they don't understand what the steps are and don't know how to formulate the steps as individual components (and may be answering the questions in unexpected ways!)

Making the questions harder will often make things worse, on its own, because the student will get stuck and demotivated and hard-questions-for-the-sake-of-being-hard will seem pointless to them.

I do use this as a strategy but only when I'm confident that the student has a very good understanding of what's going on.

If they're not writing down the steps, it's more often that they are demonstrating that they don't have a good enough level of understanding to do this. (This also applies to "gifted and talented" students)
> "How to tell an over-confident student they still have a lot to learn?"

Make them try to explain what they understood to their peers.
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I'm not saying he's not racist/colonialist. You only have to read his article about 'flag-waving piccaninnies... tribal warriors will all break out in watermelon smiles to see the big white chief...' https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3571742/If.... Or his argument that Obama hated the UK because he was Kenyan and had an 'ancestral dislike of the British empire'. Or any of the other dozens examples.

I'm just saying that if he's as smart as people claim, if the whole bumbling idiot is a calculated act, then there's not much to benefit from idiotically reciting that poem, it's not like there's some vast constituency in the British public who love The Road to Mandalay. It's an obscure reference, most British people have never heard of the poem... He seemed genuinely surprised that he shouldn't recite the poem.

I think the bumbling idiot thing is genuine. That doesn't also exclude him from being a nasty vindictive racist colonialist.
I only shared it on my personal social media (not a big reach) and created a profile for it on Indie hackers. Unfortunately, I can't see how the first customer found me.
Large blocks of text are intimidating

That said, running these images through any basic image compression utility will probably cut down the size by 50-70%
house salad?
Yeah because everyone with a brain is being accused of being a Gulen terrorist, or knows someone who is being accused.

The downfall of the justice system as Erdogan makes himself a dictator causes everyone who can to vote with their feet. This especially includes foreign investors who were responsible for a large part of the economic rise of Turkey in the last decade - when investors cannot be sure that the government will randomly imprison their workers, they retract their investment.

Erdogan really sets up Turkey for doom.
If his aim is to come across as a lovable bumbling fool then he's failing, he comes across as a malicious pompous ass who will happily wreck his country for minimal personal gain.
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I've borrowed it from someone else (who was actually educated in Oxford, but not Eton), wish it were my own though.