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The problem is lack of investment in the infrastructure. And that damage to customers or economies is not a concern compared to lawsuits damaging the bottom-line.

In particular, if you only take into account the revenue made on a given day vs the likelihood of a lawsuit and nowhere is economic damage accounted for, then you will turn the power off a lot more often and a lot more widely than you should.

Also, since SoCal Edison is geographically adjacent to the DWP but Edison is investor owned while DWP is municipal owned, I believe you are adding support to my point.
Which big assumptions would those be?

Mine go the opposite way: I assume that when I see a dog or a cat or a rat or a ferret or a pig (all with brain and body structure completely analogous to my own) show an emotion or performing an act I can immediately relate to, their internal state is fairly much as my own would be in similar circumstances.

Claiming myself and my kin to be qualitatively entirely different from every other living species, now that is an assumption I wouldn't be comfortable to make.
One of strengths and at the same weaknesses of Nix is that it is not very opinionated. That means there are many ways of doing the same thing. I'm wondering how were you backporting a new package.

For example pgbouncer version that was used was a bit older than I wanted, I was easily able to update the derivation and also enable c-ares name resolution by overriding the derivation like this:

pgbouncer = pkgs.pgbouncer.overrideAttrs (oldAttrs: rec {
name = "pgbouncer-${version}";
version = "1.11.0";

src = pkgs.fetchurl {
url = "https://pgbouncer.github.io/downloads/files/${version}/${name}.tar.gz";
sha256 = "0w3y53kwnkcm9fmf28zbjvqk6ivfic5f2k3nflvca1i8iaj2z044";
};

buildInputs = with pkgs; oldAttrs.buildInputs ++ [ pkg-config c-ares ];
});
Do you have any examples of useful devices?
Throwaway account for obvious reasons, but this email I did not receive this email and I am an Apple employee in Cupertino.

Some of the language used doesn’t sound correct, it sounds very specific mentioning reports - normally these emails are general.

Again I never received this email, so if it was sent it was not company wide
Ask your dr about hydroxyzine. It's an anti-anxiety medication but is useful as a long term sleep aid in higher doses.

No pills ever worked for my insomnia but hydroxyzine made me much more comfortable while trying to sleep.
Happens to me all the time. I sit up in bed and think "oh that's how I can solve that" or "I should refactor this code this way", etc.
There are parts of the US where electricity is cheap, and a few parts of California where unleaded premium fuel is at or near $4.99 per gallon. The pricing doesn't make much sense to me.
I’m in a similar boat. I keep really wanting to like Linux; I give it a try, and then get annoyed that for some reason my terminal process is causing my browser UI to lock, or some such nonsense. Sometimes it’s just that there’s no dictator keeping all the keyboard shortcuts relatively consistent between applications. Then I’ll fantasize for a little bit about OpenBSD or FreeBSD, sigh, and go back to using macOS.

I like futzing around with my operating system, but I expect my changes to make things overall worse for the general user, because I have weird preferences. The OS should not be doing the weird preferences.

Sometimes I wonder about Linux users who say you can’t customize macOS. In my experience, it’s a lot of the same kinds of customization potential and rooting around in the system...updating the OS may totally mess up your configuration, but the same is true of updates in the Linux or BSD world.
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This is very good advice, thank you. I've known about sleep cycles for a long time and indeed, I do follow such patterns — my sleep, as little as I get, seems perfectly normal from a clinical standpoint.

I just have the hardest time waking up at the desired time — just as difficult for me as falling asleep. I don't do well with too-short nights either, when my body decides to sleep it's largely best I let it sleep for as long as it needs (rarely more than 12h, it's weird how I clock 8-9 hours without an alarm most of the time like anyone 'normal').

However I've never tried correlating sleep time with wake time in terms of full cycles, and I'm pretty sure I could. I'll definitely try! Thanks again, so much.
The single most overlooked aspect of this is how many Chinese are employed as part of Apple’s supply chain. It is not in CCP interest to destroy millions of Chinese citizens’ incomes.
> I have no idea why this shutdown was initiated.

Because Jeffrey Skilling just got out of prison and he wants to hold California’s energy ransom for payment to a random bitcoin address
Are ISAs patented or copyrighted?
Any plans to make gpu passthrough officially supported for your laptops?
Only when used with another fault charger, which basically are extinct now.
Ahem! The whole topic was 'The myth of inevitable technological progress' where i latched on somewhere and ranted about online banking via smartphones, and then it went sidewards into different areas of need/applicability and whatnot.

Let me put it another way. Aside from the orwellian aspects of voluntarily carrying a bug with one all the times, the dumb feature phones lasted about a week on one charge with maybe 30 minutes to one and a half hour daily phone and/or texting usage, depending on the model and sufficient for most use cases. Got that? ONE WEEK! (and no fucking updates!)

Let's take another gadget, wristwatches. One just had them, and put them on, or off, usually not caring about battery, or winding them up, because they either wind themselves up if mechanical, or last anywhere from one to two years with one battery. And then some years, or even decades more, maybe exchanging the wristband, or a scratched glass. Got that? ONE TO TWO YEARS! (and no fucking updates!)

What else? Music players after Walk-/Discman where you SIDELOADED (OMFG!) media from whereever you saw fit, not necessarily bound to some online store/streaming service, which invalidates yor media/playlist if the business shuts down for whichever reasons. Usable playtimes up to a week on one charge within reasonable usages, maybe one to two hours daily. Sansa Clip/Zip/Plus f.e. Got that? ONE WEEK! (and no fucking updates!)

There probably is more, but i can't remember right now, or didn't use it to begin with.

Now one can argue that all these functions and MUCH MORE (like digital photography) have been consolidated into smartphones, but this also comes with more hassles.

1.) They usually last only a day on one charge if used as advertised.

2.) After about two years the devices are obsolete, at least for their advertised uses.

3.) They are obviously insecure, because why else do

4.) They come with updates, which often crap makes?

5.) They are expensive

6.) They come with

[1] http://www.androiddocs.com/google/play-services/id.html

if they are running any form of Android.

7.) If they are not running Android they are even more expensive, or irrelevant, at least currently.

8.) If you care about privacy, security, cost, sustainability you shun that crap and live happily ever after :-)

Seen like this, anything relying on smartphones simply makes no sense at all, if only for the inconvenience of the need to be charged daily. Which is no progress, but a downgrade.

Don't even get me started about the 'internet of (crappy) things', 'cyberphysical systems', 'smart assistants', and so on.

Anyways. I'm seeing it fitting to call it Android, because its users mutate to puppets which are yanked this and that way by all sorts of algorithmic strings. To use other devices opens other cans of worms, if only used to access the same crap the androids do.

Good Night. :-)

Edit: spacing/spelling
For me personally the productivity would just plummet.

Everyone uses Javascript, no-one uses Clojurescript. That statement in itself is one of the most powerful reasons to pick one framework over the other.
When I worked there under SJ, the Mac OS org (then under Betrand Serlet), it was sort of open amongst the org itself. It was really easy to walk to someone's office and strike up an interesting conversation. Many late nights were spent working through collaborative problems. Or randomly, I had a friend who would pop by my office and spend hours explaining how he figured out some complex Javascript compiler bug of the day.

It always felt like we were in a mission to ship Mac OS together. What Apple did do back then was create these special versions of the OS that had a few key hidden/secret products that SJ was going to demo, like iTunes or iPhoto. So while I could install the latest internal developer build of the OS, it would have a feature or two missing. You would then get radars that mentioned the code-name and explained a bug that you had to fix for the feature, but you had to fix the bug blinded and send the bug back to verify. (Radars could never be closed until the original creator verified them) The secrecy didn't really get in the way and it made for an interesting culture.

Then it all started to change when Forstall was promoted to VP of the iPhone effort. He took what was probably meant to be a short term secret launch team culture and expanded it to create this massive secret island in the company. The program office and by extension, the original founding engineers were all promoted to management that expanded on the secret culture. I think if management meant to open the culture back up to the same level as Mac OS in 2009, they would have been burned by Samsung and Palm WebOS making exact copies of the software coming out at the time. So the hyper locked down culture persisted and SJ passed away. Then Forstall was fired and Federighi was promoted to replace him and merge both the Mac OS and iOS orgs finally killing off any of the remaining openness that once existed.

Then came all the ridiculous tools such as checking someone's security clearance when you had a meeting with them. [Apple Confidential] :-P
Power outages don't usually last this long.
Thor’s way account for obvious reasons.

I am an Apple employee (Cupertino) and I did not receive this email.

It also reads different than other Tim emails, which never mention specific things such as credible reports and the language seems off.

I also did not here any colleagues mention such an email, and usually it pops up for everyone at the same time and it becomes a topic.

This email pastebin is a fake
Apple is pulling an app that's available online as a web site. Google assists the Chinese military in developing AI to round up muslims for organ harvesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqWVH38jtQo

Apple is responding to a threat from China, whereas Google is actively assisting the Chinese. Just thought you'd like to know that.
I’d Would have liked to finish school. Startups rarely pay off and it’s incredibly difficult to find the time and space to dedicate to learning something really deeply and well later in life. On the other hand there is an entire other calculus regarding the debt load you are taking on but I’d value the upside (options etc) of the startup at 0 when doing that math.
Oh boy, the university I'm attending right now has lectures starting at 8am, which is earlier than usual for my country, and ca. 36 hours of lectures per week.
This means that you usually go 8am/6pm in uni multiple days a week, then you obviously have your assignments and catching up on the lectures to do, and all the random stuff that comes with living alone (laundry, grocery, cooking, cleaning, etc.) - this means that you quite literally get to the point where you either study or start skipping sleep.
I complained to my faculty and the administration because it is quite full of studies that show that sleep deprivation leads to depression, lower performance, etc. And got various responses out of them:
- a couple of professors told me that they don't care and if you want to succeed in university you have to sleep less than normal
- some admin staff told me that the university doesn't have enough space for everyone, hence they have to start earlier in the morning to gain an additional lecture slot during the day (nevermind the fact that this slot is from 12 to 2pm and is always used for lunch break).

This shit really makes me furious, if not even universities which should be run by people that rely on hard data to make their decisions can come to the conclusion that starting the day early either means fucking up the long term health of their students or having people skip lectures altogether, I don't know if anyone ever will.

Sorry for any mistakes in my post, for context it's 6:30am and I'm getting ready for a lecture (riding on 5 hours of sleep for a few days in a row now)
That's no longer true. Most poor people are unable to meet current enlistment standards. The military now recruits mainly from the middle classes.
I have absolutely no idea what this readme is even talking about

https://github.com/Day8/re-frame
I tried and failed to get going with OpenBSD. I want to slowly dip my toes into the water of a BSD. Is there a way to have a turn-key system that I can immediately start working on as I do on macOS, and gradually become more familiar with the OS?

I guess what I’m saying is, there are systems that you can buy where the manufacturer has preinstalled Ubuntu and you have a high expectation of the hardware getting out of the way. I want that for FreeBSD or OpenBSD?
Even with the revelations from Snowden, the public doesn’t seem to care.
The standard workaround is to send short messages using UDP and long ones using TCP.
You are talking about 5 to 8 days of power outage...With one day notice. Science labs are usually NOT part of disaster recovery plans as they are R&D.
I wouldn't say it's as emotional as a middle finger. Businesses manage risk in different ways, and one of the types of risk is legal risk. Based on new information that this risk is MUCH larger than they had previously accounted for, they are now making adjustments for it.

They can't afford another lawsuit like that one. They couldn't afford the one that already happened. So they are taking steps to prevent it.
I want a laptop where the all of the design files are open source. It would be worth a serious premium in addition to the premium I would pay for the open POWER system. The few we have now are maxed out at 4GB. Someone is going to do it...
What exactly is "your experience"? You've ridden two subway systems and attributed their failures to not using your pet economic structure, and watched a fictional movie from 1952?
I don't know about you, but my flash drives, camera, and microphone are all usb-c. It sounds like you have either not upgraded your devices in a while, or bought devices with out-of-date connectors. It's pretty easy to avoid out-of-date non- usb-c accessories these days.
It's not clear to me that these outages are due to maintenance issues rather than due to an extremely conservative risk posture because it looks like PG&E will be held accountable for grid-started fires even where maintenance wasn't an issue. E.g. PG&E's current filing for bankruptcy protection was triggered by the Tubb's fire, which Cal Fire's investigation concluded wasn't even caused by PG&E.

If anything the social machine that appears to be broken is how we're apportioning liability. Electrical grids, even well maintained ones, sometimes throw a bit of sparks or start small fires. No amount of tree trimming is going to prevent fires if strong winds blow dry flammable brush across high tension lines.

You can find zillions of videos on the internet of power lines going down and sparking small fires... but in California if a line goes down in the wrong place and in the wrong weather it causes tens of billions of dollars in damages.

It's not clear to me that its economically possible operate an electrical utility under the risk that the smallest spark could result in being responsible for billions in damages.
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> I don't know all the tax rules

Generally, in almost every country, you need to declare your income, including that from abroad.

Claiming that knowing that is in any way equivalent to knowing all the tax rules is massively disingenuous.
I believe J. Biafra wrote a song or two you might want to look into
>A nation is a stable community of people, formed on the basis of a common language, territory, history, ethnicity, or psychological make-up manifested in a common culture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation

I studied these topics at a university level. A nation is not a legal entity. Sovereignty is a legal property, and it can be applied to nations.
Good thing the people building bridges and airplanes are Professional Engineers and everyone can call themselves anything they want except for P. Eng.
Honest question: why do you consider System76 to be building new roads by using locked hardware and offering partial open source firmware for it? Wouldn't the new roads kudos be more appropriately given to all of the folks that made real open hardware happen (RISC-V, OpenPOWER, etc.) years before this partly-open-source system announcement went out?

In my mind the RISC-V folks especially were real trailblazers in this space -- they took massive risks when no one, and I mean no one, was doing open source CPUs beyond soft cores. IBM focused more on open firmware, then eventually opened their ISA, but x86 vendors have had no such forward vision in their history -- the x86 vendors have followed in this space, not led, for well over a decade, and indeed both sides of the x86 duopoly (Intel and AMD) are both separately on record as having stated their goal is to take control away from the machine owner in whatever manner they need to in order to fulfill their DRM contracts.

Even with this laptop announcement, if I'm honest, more following is being demonstrated -- the coreboot user community had open source firmware ARM laptops (Chromebooks) available quite a long time ago, why weren't those hailed as building new roads when they appeared? Does anyone really think we would have reached a point where an x86 vendor would be trying to advertise even partly open source firmware without the pioneering efforts of the competing, truly open architectures?
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Of course.

If Zuck wanted to, he could sway any world election by at least 3%-5% without sacrificing plausible deniability. Larry & Sergey truly wanted to, they could do even more.

Naval Ravikant has spoken about this topic.
Ever considered emailing Tim Cook?

Don’t throw your managers under the bus, stay optimistic, anchor your message in whole company success. You might be surprised at the impact you can have & the replies you’ll get.

Here’s a formula you can try...

Hi Tim,

At <company presentation> you talked about <goal>, which I’m excited about!

I/we’ve been experimenting with <new approach>. We’ve seen <results>. What other teams should I/we collaborate with to help Apple get to <Tim’s goal> faster?
Redis handle all request serially, because of that it is much simpler to be correct and doesn't have to worry as much about distributed gotchas.

Because redis handles all requests serially you need to be very careful if the redis cluster is shared between different apps. You want to share the cluster among apps with similar usage patterns.
We would love to, maybe in a few months as we stabilize the changes.

One challenge is that bpf upstreaming is much harder. We had to add support for relocations, spilling, multiple return values, and a few other things that might not be needed by the C bpf folks.
Why is the BS posted here?
I agree that municipalities should be given latitude to attempt to replace statewide utilities. But they should have some quality standards -- you would not want a rinky dink WISP with an invisible privacy record managing the internet access for schoolchildren.
Exactly, the question we should all be asking is how it got to this point. I reckon you'll find a lot to blame with both the utilities and state government, and the existing incentives for both.

However, to your point about LADWP, I think you're making an overeager classification. It's not a matter of being "geographic adjacent", but being liable for the infrastructure that would start wildfires in at-risk regions. Take a look at the difference in coverage areas of Californias utilities: https://ww2.energy.ca.gov/maps/serviceareas/Electric_Service...

edit: it is tangential to this issue, but LADWP does not have a very glamorous history, either.
And the plural of “der Zettel” is “die Zettel”.
Which ones? I've used 5 different brands, and all of them could.
>Is this really the best move?

No. The best form of protest against their actions would be for Blizzards' customers to remove their profit from them.

Question : is 'freedom of speech' an action point objective somewhere? It's rare that I hear it used defensively so often, and the past few days have been non-stop "Oh, you like freedom of speech? then you must like (X bad thing it allows for/causes.).

Is this some kind of coordinated strategy? It feels like one.
It's amazing that the guy is referring to Luhmann's zettelkasten and went on to implement it and did not stumble upon an existing implementation: http://zettelkasten.danielluedecke.de/en/
On a related note, I wear a fitbit and if I sleep from say 12-8, you'd think this would be 8 hours of sleep (as recommended) but I usually have about 1 hour awake or restless (according to the fitbit). So fitbit says I got 7 hours of sleep.

The question is do these studies account for this supposed awakeness that seems to be part of everyone's night of sleep? Surely nobody that reads them thinks they need 8+1 hours when the study says 8 hours is good...
I Just Got Permanently Banned from China Because I Liked a South Park Tweet
I recall Rene Ritchie saying that Apple introduced a new scheduler that they have used privately since Mojave (could be related to the BGTaskScheduler, but I'm uncertain).

I just remember thinking, oh crap, now I need to learn a new scheduler.
It’s what you suspected. It uses host a as a proxy. It downloads from host b to host a and uploads from host a to host c.
Have you created an account solely for the purpose of defending the CCP? I ask because your account was created today, and the only comments you've made are pro-CCP.

e: It appears someone has flagged my comment. While it wasn't directly responding to the statement by OP, I can't help but think that this may have been done in bad faith.
Am I the only one so utterly confused by this article?
I have no idea what the author is on about. It seems very interesting though (am I stupid? Or is it just the writing style? Is there some context I'm missing?).
I don't think I've ever seen a USB C flashdrive in my life
My university is not a top tier research university like UC Berkeley by any means, but our co-generation plant is able to power the whole campus in the case of a power cut. Even when the central plant gets knocked out (a squirrel did that last year), individual buildings have backup generators. The building where I work has three of them and all of our -80s are on back up power or could be quickly shifted over. That is several layers of redundancy. We have done a lot of planning for events like this. I'm a little surprised that a more research focused (and less resource starved) institution like Berkeley wasn't more prepared.
I drive buses for a living. Believe me, when reversing some 15 meter monster into a parking slot, I trust and use my mirrors more than I do the very fancy rear-view camera.

A mirror I have a lifetime experience worth of knowing what is, no perceivable extra layer of processing required. A camera, not quite so, although of course it's a nice enough extra to have.
How do they have shareholders?
I have used lessons from the Art of War for playing competitive games.