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Where TFA goes from talking about punch cards to 35mm film with audio track to 4:3 film and CRT aspect ratios, there's a disconnect: there's nothing to tie film/TV aspect ratios to punch cards. TFA then tries to construct a tie from:

> Fascinatingly, the early versions of the ECMA-48 standard specify that this standard isn’t solely meant for displays, specifying that “examples of devices conforming to this concept are: an alpha-numeric display device, a printer or a microfilm output device.”

TFA should know that terminals evolved to be a keyboard + printer before they evolved to be a keyboard + CRT. I'm not sure that there's any link between paper size and CRT size. Most likely the only connection would be number of columns (of fixed-width text), but not lines.

My guess is that in the end there's no connection between punch cards and terminals being 80x25, much less between Civil War Demand Notes and terminals being 80x25. 80x25 was just convenient for all the independent reasons TFA lists. Any similarity to punch cards was almost certainly coincidental, and perhaps convenient.
the first sentient lifeform I have seen here today! yay!
thank you. you bring me hope.
More context: https://judaism.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5193/stack-...

However I’m not familiar with the situation.
Between Texas and California?
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> ...says a guy from a country that basically created the Mexican cartels out of thin air via the War on (some) Drugs.

Drugs are illegal in far more countries than the US.
I lived in LA for a while and knew a few very liberal friends that moved to Austin because of the cheaper cost of living, for what its worth.
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I'm confused at the assumption that you can prevent serious organized criminals from having access to strong cryptography simply by backdooring common communications apps.

The genie is out of the bottle: Powerful criminal enterprises will have no difficulty hiring people to build overlay tools that they can run inside their backdoored comms that will provide adequate (at least, if not effectively unbreakable) cryptography.

Even if we ignore the considerable first amendment barriers and there were an effort to outright outlaw strong crypto, steganography has become very strong and even if not quite sufficient finding out your comms were being monitored via a use of crypto charge is way better than having the attacker learn all your info.

In light of this, I find it difficult to see the goverment's position as seeking to widen infrastructure for the wholesale surveillance of the general public with claims of terrorist groups as a dishonest cover for the demands.

The old adage "If guns are outlawed, then only outlaws will have guns"-- has serious limits owing to the nature of guns as physical objects. The sentiment applies a million fold for cryptography, which is fundamentally a collection of ideas with a zero marginal cost of reproduction or execution, mass-less, volume-less, capable of being distributed around the world in a fraction of a second and implausible to silence even with great leap forward mass murder.

Actions to block access to encryption would severely degrade the security and privacy of the general public, on this point I agree with the author. But would it prevent pedophiles and terrorist from having access to encryption? Not likely.

Would pedophiles and terrorists occasionally screw up and use insecure means... sure, but they already do that today.
It would be overkill to move from 32 bits of Unix timestamps to 64 bit signed ints just for this application.

But it might be a good idea in general, and then it would solve this issue as a side effect.
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Rent and real estate prices influencing gas prices are also a large part due to the CA/SF gov...

Texas builds way more buildings and makes much better use of space. Not to mention the additional costs of running the business and employing people, which are also added to all of their supply chains. It adds up.

I remember moving to SF and being shocked I was getting taxed the same rate as living in Toronto, but that doesnt include health care or nearly as much benefits as Canada. Canada gets a lot of heat from Americans for being 'socialist' but there's plenty of counter examples, Toronto builds 100x more buildings than SF, our corporate tax is way lower than US, our ratio of economic immigrants:family migration is significantly higher, our banks/governments have been more fiscally conservative, etc. Plus Canada ranks higher on economic freedom index than America (8th vs 17th): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_of_Economic_Freedom

I hope this perception that the US is a market economy starts to change. A state-by-state distinction is much better. California is always the leading example of this change and the best signal of where the US is heading, as other US states seem to copy California for some reason.
In what way is cracking a password hash an invasion of privacy? The act itself is completely harmless and legal; it is only a problem if you use said password to actually access the person's systems.

It is also part of the hacker culture to test other people's security in a white-hat manner. This is a good thing.

If my password were weak enough to be cracked in this way, I'd certainly prefer someone do it and tell me to change my password rather than use it for their own gain.

As for off-color, name-calling is generally frowned upon even if you have a point. If you disagree, it's best to keep your tone neutral
I am getting racially and politically charged content suggested on youtube and don't have any interest on it. Maybe there is some more extreme content I could not find, but this stuff is going to me without me wanting it.
I was just about to complain about the missing video link. Thanks!
Sorry, I didn't mean that as a criticism, and your message was pretty clear. I just thought that some people (possibly me, if I hadn't already read the book) might be unnecessarily put off by that final phrase.
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The commit message doesn't encode the timeline in neither git nor svn, and no-one complains.

So why do you expect the git hash to encode the timeline?

Git encodes the timeline in the parent/child relationship of commits (and/or the date stamps). Trying to look for the timeline information in the hashes is going to be futile, that's not where it's supposed to be found.

For documents that get send back and forth via email, amongst more than 2 participants, git's DAG is actually a better representation than a linear timeline.

(But yes, if you don't like that, you can set up git to reject commits with more than one parent to enforce a linear history.)
These days I was thinking about San Francisco and wondering how it had come to that. There’s so much demand, so many people want to move to SF, yet its population has barely moved in the last decade. Why is that?

If anything had gone right, SF should be a HK-like dystopian city filled with electronics and high-tech.

But instead we have a horizontally limited place, that is filled with homeless and restricts new advances like shared kick scooters.

It’s sad.
I don't understand why city centers would be outcompeted, and this sort of legislation seems rather heavy-handed not just from an American perspective. In the country I live in, the same grocery chains have mostly smaller (with some larger) stores in urban centers and mostly larger (but less frequent) stores outside these areas. I can get most common items at any of the stores near me, and if looking for a less common item I can go to a larger store in my city which will almost always have it. This means that I'm connected by public transit to both small and large stores, neither of which need cars or massive parking lots.
> California high gas price might have more things to do with location, affordability, and demand than what people are willing to attribute to it.

Not buying this. It'd been widely reported that California has different requirements for fuel than most of the rest of the states, so, there's probably a bit extra that goes into refinery costs in addition to your calculation.
I'm not saying they have it, I'm guessing they'll need to. There's already some pretty complicated networking code in steam as it is - if steam adds cloud gaming to the mix, the infrastructure complexity is going to jump significantly.

If cloud gaming becomes something more than a dream, Valve is going to suffer hugely if the don't have a viable competitive offering.

Anyway, ignore me - I'm not sleeping too well today but now, and my brain's a bit melty.
Your story is an inspiration. There seems to be a ton of opportunity in the devtools and RPA spaces. Thanks.
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Not agreeing with the ever increasing surveillance (nor this proposal), but, I don't think the 90% stat was gathered that way. When I saw the press conference [0], I got the impression that the 90% came from failed attempts at "hemlig avlyssning av elektronisk kommunikation" (secret surveillance of electronic communication). That's basically a network tap gathering data, SMS or phone calls.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TILOlZRga6U
You're basically describing the past 10 years of medical mystery for me, especially this:

"unrefreshing sleep, always feeling under-oxygenated/undernourished even when having a very healthy diet, a constant sense feeling "tired and wired", or "spinning the wheels"; i.e., at-once feeling exhausted, but also like your body/mind is working at full speed, but not being able to get much forward momentum in life."

Completely, utterly on point. Thank you!
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"Because an 80 char wide Emacs window starts wrapping at 79."

https://www.reddit.com/r/learnpython/comments/1h2eug/pep_8_w...
Downvoted; the author clearly doesn't have much problem with not be seen as Japanese, he has a problem with being seen as a human being one should not sit next to.
i do not understand the use case but im not too much in contact with big ugly excels nor SQL.

Is this for copying some poor visually formatted excel and have a clear view of it in your solution ?
And homeless are everywhere.
I wasn't claiming the $2 was gas tax. Policy is more than just the gas tax.

Policy drives up "Distribution Costs". If it is hard to operate a fuel tanker trucking company in California, the cost of distribution will be higher. Truckers are regulated, trucks are regulated, tankers are specifically regulated, flammable liquid is even more regulated, there are normal business taxes to be paid, there are random fees to operate, and so much more. Policy makes the cost go up.

It is similar with "Marketing Costs". Simply operating a business in a highly regulated state is difficult. The ad agency will cost more, the places to advertise will charge more, and so on.

Refinery costs are much higher. California demands a special unique California formulation of gasoline. Even with California being a large state, this is a low-volume product. It's also a premium product. Actually running any sort of refinery under California law looks like a nightmare, and I'm sort of surprised that it is still a viable business in the state.

In the rich neighborhoods, the cost of land and property tax for a gas station is high. That ends up in the price.
Sure, but that’s a problem way down the stack, a problem for language designers, not application developers.
My sample size is small but a company that raised 40 million and the CEO is considering leaving sv because his wife need to make rent with a roommate is not a great sign of the real estate. Sv isn't special. People are going to other tech hubs which are sprouting like crazy. Sv was when it made products. But sass can be done anywhere.

People are leaving sv and housing prices are the reason. It's going to lead to brain drain. Why bother with that congested hell hole when you can live anywhere else and cut your cost of living by 50 percent. Your average founder is 30 and they are not into partying. Sv is for 20 year olds
I don't think this breaks your usage. Assuming those links/buttons sends the user to Amazon/Paypal, then the cookies will be 1st party.
Thanks! Not something I would have naturally gravitated to, but I think I might enjoy them.
Safe deposit boxes aren’t safe: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/busi...
These days, companies much larger than one person can shut down overnight, without warning. It happens.

Frankly, barring some accident, I'm betting the solo company is more motivated to keep things running than the larger company that might sell out to a larger rival and allow their service to be shut down or changed negatively (with little or no warning to customers).
Props to you for walking the walk, then. thumbs up
What makes you think 4chan volunteers don't have mental health problems "regular people do"?
It’s a national issue and SF is a symptom. Instead of pushing for healthcare, housing, more aids, and so on, people are just blaming it on mental health.
I'm so curious about what your app does I can almost die!

Good for you though, living the dream.
I have no visual imagination at all, but loved Invisible Cities. Just wanted to mention this so other non-imagers don't discard this wonderful book :)
For everyone who finds this story confusing, I'll try a recap:

The password file on UNIX systems from 1969 right up till the 1990s were readable by everyone on the system. However, the passwords were one-way encrypted or "hashed". For the password a user typed such as "p/q2-q4!", the password file contained a hash such as "ZghOT0eRm4U9s". It used to be a rite of passage of every aspiring UNIX systems programmer to write a cracking program to discover some of the passwords on their system -- typically by encrypting a dictionary of words to see if any matched up with the hashed values in password file. If everyone picked good passwords, this was futile. But on any large UNIX system, many users selected dictionary words so this attack was often successful.

Recently someone unearthed the password file from one of the original systems on which UNIX and C were developed. Naturally it's great fun to discover the original passwords of all the UNIX luminaries such as Ken Thompson (his strong password being a chess move "p/q2-q4!"), Dennis Ritchie (password "dmac" -- anyone know what that might mean?), Brian Kernighan (an easy to type keyboard pattern "/.,/.,"), Steve Bourne, inventor of the Bourne shell, didn't seem to care and chose obvious password "bourne", and more here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21209594.

One lone password from the original list, Bill Joy's password, was still uncracked. Bill Joy is the co-founder of Sun Microsystems, author of vi, and a key developer of BSD UNIX. He apparently picked the best password. This latest news says that Bill Joy's password has now been cracked, that it uses a control character in place of a letter, it is otherwise all lowercase letters, and is a chess related term (as Ken Thompson's was also chess related). An an example, his password could be chess-related word "c^Astlng", where the ^A is control-A (but it isn't -- I checked). But the actual password has not been revealed "because of the outpouring of negativity about these disclosures, [the discoverer is] reluctant to post the actual password without [Bill Joy's] consent".
Thanks! Cosmicomics rings a bell as something I'd considered reading but never got around to, and those mini-synopses on the Wikipedia page are pretty enticing.
Wow, what an incredibly hard to debug hack. I fear the day I’ll walk into this. Thanks for making me aware.
In all seriousness, the profs cant just invent grades that don't exist. Verbal "awesome work from X everybody read it" is for that purpose.

This is not some kind of overreach of bureaucracy.
> Plato terminals had a custom keyboard

Every terminal and personal computer had a custom keyboard back then.
I do this all the time with bash. I run a python script, and try to ctrl+c the output of it while it's still running. My brain refuses to learn right click.
Yes, and that in absolute terms people in Romania pay more than people in the US.

A comparable price in US would probably be closer to $15. I don't know how to compute this with some public purchasing power parity numbers but I would be curious.
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Nah, this is for sure a form symmetric multithreading (or hyper-threading, Intel's trademark on the technique). Unlike the Z80's shadow register set and like hyper-threading this scheme keeps an independent program counter around for each of the register groups. Doing a thread switch each cycle is pretty common in simpler SMT designs like the UltraSPARC T series, the PPE on the Cell, and the shader cores on PowerVR GPUs.
Regarding the preemptive rendering, I think it is potentially viable.

What I'm thinking is branch prediction without the ability to roll back.
You'll need to be able to minimise user noticable mistakes, as well as making any corrections minimally distracting.

I'm imagining auto-aim on steroids.
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> Someone submit a pull request to abolish the Senate

Unfortunately, that's basically the one amendment that the Constitution says is illegal to make. (Ignoring parts of the Constitution that are no longer in force.)

That said, you could first make an amendment making it legal to abolish the Senate, then make a second amendment actually abolishing the Senate. But obviously that may make things a lot harder.

> ranked choice popular vote

Note: I would advise against use of the term "ranked choice voting". This term is often used to mean IRV, effectively implying that IRV is the only way to hold a vote based on ranked choices. It isn't, and it isn't a particularly good voting method either (it's non-monotonic)! I'd suggest naming the specific voting method you mean if you have one in mind, or using another term -- an ordinal voting method, if that's what you mean, or maybe just anything other than FPTP, or maybe just anything satisfying a particular criterion such as being cloneproof...
In practice, Common Law jurisdictions and Civil Law Jurisdictions are not so different these days. (Democratic) legislation is an intruder to Common Law. And on the other hand, Civil Law systems give some at least informal weight to precedence.

I don't quibble with your description of the idealized versions.

See also http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Legal%20Systems/LegalSystemsCo... for some alternative systems of law.
I'm sure there are "startup CEOs" in that situation. I doubt there are many whose firms have office space and employees.

In my experience, the serial startup execs mostly don't live in the city. In the 90s, I knew several who also had an apartment near the office, but that's much less common now that the sort of place they'd want is going for $8K/mo.
Yeah, makes sense that it's based on actual wiretapping attempts.
Why are cross site cookies allowed at all? Wouldn’t it make more sense to just disable them entirely?
Size is somewhat overrated with respect of safety. If you crash at high speeds, the safety of the car will little help you, unless you get the impact speed down to below 60kp/h.

The BMW 1 series and of course the best-selling VW Golf are both quite a bit smaller than a Model 3, still set up to 5 and also driven at high speeds exceeding 200kp/h over here. So there would be some market for a more compact Tesla.

But I think Tesla has currently enough on their plate and enough upcoming models, going into smaller (and cheaper) models will make sense only when they have perfectioned their manufacturing chain as the margins will be smaller.
Your conflating fees charged to Merchants (by processors) and rewards offered to Card Holders (by issuers).

While often the same bank performs, or is a partial owner involved in, both processing and issuing, the percentages you quote are largely disjoint.

> I'm reading that Visa typically charges 2.3% to merchants ...

The Discount Rate[0] a Merchant pays varies significantly based on the line-of-business, charge-backs, processing contract, and a bunch of other things.

> ... at least on average 1% of each transaction goes to cardholder bonuses ...

Again, issuer costs have no bearing on Merchant fees nor the profitability of processors.

0 - https://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/glossary/term-d...
I guess people have forgotten about the year 2k problem, where nuclear power-plants where to explode, nuclear missiles was to fire, the world would end, because the year would be reset from 99 to 00. A lot of resources was put to fix it. And when the millennium finally changed, nothing really happened.

That said, I cringe every time I see a date problem presented in a work interview or challenge. Like how to calculate the first Monday in a set year. Because I have done exactly that, professionally. And as the years went by - edge case over edge case showed up, making me rewrite the formula. So dates are non-trivial.
You probably know there are leap years, but did you also know there are leap seconds ? So beware of that when you implement that time critical database redundancy and replication system.
> Texans have noticed that people arrive from California, and then start voting to turn Texas into California

Its only a matter of time before people just ignore the idea from 13 east coast colonies trying to avoid population centers driving policy unilaterally and continent wide.

One ideology lives in sparsely populated counties and only barely has consensus in even those counties (usually just slightly more than 50%). Whereas the other ideology simply does have the numbers and if a tiny fraction of them could stand living in the middle of nowhere for 18 months they could vote the entire country their way forever.
In Denmark back in the 90s it was pretty normal to give kids (and often adults) nitrous as a sedative at dentists. I had it a dozen of times as a kid, but only once did I hallucinate anything.

I was awake and fully aware every time, but the one time my dentist voice was very boomy and reverberating and everything was black except for some animals and shapes I saw in multiple rows scrolling left and right and I remember thinking that my dentist was a big frog.

I don't know why that one time was so weird out of all the other regular ones, but I know I was still awake and I was addressed and I could reply, but I was still tripping my balls off.
California has programs provide grants and financing for low income drivers to by new and used EV's (and hybrids as well).

https://cleanvehiclegrants.org/
Let's hope they do that before they power up their gear. Ouch.

The mobile radar and HF guys have lots of tricks like this, but also spend lots of time hammering spikes with a sledgehammer.
The actual writing of the words is usually outsourced.

Quite a few people are involved in that. Clerks, lobbyists, lawyers, etc.

Even the reading of the laws that lawmakers vote on is outsourced. (Ie lawmakers often don't read what they vote on.)
Well, you could make it such that in event of a fire, the external cage would drop down low enough to facilitate evacuation into a designated fenced up area.