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> Thats more or less prohibitively expensive, because your hiking location would be outside of parking zone most likely, thus you're on the clock the whole time. Not my idea of a relaxing experience.

An extra hour or two doesn't make a lot of difference when you're already booking for a weekend. Of course if you get stuck on a mountain overnight or something then you'd have a penalty charge, but frankly that would be the least of your worries in that case (and it would still be a problem if you had your own car but were worried about e.g. missing a day of work).

Of course hiring a car for a weekend costs a couple of hundred quid, but realistically you're going to do that what, ten times a year at most? You'd end up paying more in fuel, insurance and deprecation on a private car.

> Looks like zipcar is even station bound which makes it worse. You have to get yourself and all the stuff to the station somehow and then take it back from there again when you are done.

The "station" is around the corner at most. Walk 5-10 minutes, collect the zipcar, drive it to your building and load up, and then the same in reverse when you get back.
People have been trying that for 100 years or so. So far it hasn’t worked.
While it's certainly more robust, it still has some issues. For example, I remember reading that because the initial results for the experiment measuring the size of the electron was too low, every experiment afterwards reported slightly bigger sizes until they reached the correct value.

Since they trusted the original result, if their results varied too much they discarded them. Ultimately they redid the experiment until they got something closer, and the only values that ended up getting published were results that were slightly bigger.

Correct me if I am wrong, as I read this story a while ago.
What if the larger story of the industrialization enabled by that trucking warms the planet to the point that humanity goes extinct? Something to at least consider; unintended consequences are still consequences.
Files! I bought an iPad Mini 2019 and loved it - it replaced my iPad 2 which was no longer getting updates and that still works fine as a music player.

But FILES! Gah! What a MESS. With 13.1.x it improved, but I still manage to lose files that I mail to myself from the PC. They go to "My iPad" apparently, but not always. I wanted to use MiniKeepass with a password and a keyfile, but despite following the dev's instructions and some experimentation I just could not get it to find the key file. So it's deleted for now. I hope they fix it soon..
Air travel. Depending on the route, it's down to about $1.30 per minute of flight time.
> Things we take for granted are hard. Dates are hard, text is hard, graphics are even harder. We stand on the shoulders of giants.

More like we stand on piles of broken shit. A lot of "hard" things in programming have very little fundamental complexity. They are hard because at some point in time someone made a compromise that no longer is relevant or makes any sense. It is possible to redesign those things to be simple, but modern developers are conditioned to fight this at every step. The idea that the first thing you should try to do when faced with extraordinary complexity is to bypass it is completely alien to people whose daily jobs consist of continuously banging their heads against convoluted frameworks and deficient APIs.

Time handling is a great example. Until you get into general relativity, time itself is extremely simple and uniform. But human representations of time are extremely convoluted, because historically they are based on astronomy. Here is the kicker: 99.99% of all software has nothing to do with astronomy, and yet people chose to inject those complexities in core structures that track time. (For example, Unix timestamps have leap seconds, which is a source of innumerable bugs and ridiculous convolutions in code to prevent those bugs.)
Probably because the mind is still changing significantly as a teenager. It’s why things like weed and alcohol are a far bigger issue for a 16 year old than a 50 year old when consumed at the same volume.
Flash, ActionScript and the associated IDE were amazing web development tools at the time (in the era of Macromedia) - way ahead of any competitors. No one/nothing has really filled those shoes.
They might have meant mobile-first and not mobile only. Their desktop site is very clearly designed for mobile, the main content does not change at varying screen widths. The sidebar and header do a bit of restyling, but thats about it.
The web wasn't invented until 1989 and not made public until 1991. The precursor of Flash wasn't until a few years later.
The fun part is they are still public if you are the google bot.

Open an incognito window and try going to a linkedin profile. Then try it with google translate: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=af&tl=en&u=htt...

Odds are good you can still view the profile through translate because linkedin thinks you are google.

LinkedIn, Pinterest and others want to be indexed by google, but don't want the content that's indexed to be public. Google is ruining their own service by allowing this to continue.
Amidst this worrying trend of shallow research, begging for petty cred and grants more than knowledge, you have to wonder what has become of ethics, of integrity in science. Globalized academia needs some soul-searching, IMHO.
The difference is that with Flash, you could write once and run it everywhere. This was huge at a time when cross-browser differences were major enough to require something like jQuery.
What’s behind the science denial of anti-GM activists?
In theory they are better, but in practice “what makes them the most money” is often “what is best for the people” and governments and elected officials are often inept or corrupt. This doesn’t apply for every government or corporation on every issue, so we need to be nuanced in who we entrust which issues to. Specifically we want to look at the severity of the issue, the incentives, and the corruption and the competence of the government in question.
It doesn't particularly look like it's having a moment: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore/TIMESERIES/15723666...

Both Haskell and Prolog seem to run on a school-year cycle where search interest peaks a little before the end of the semester. Prolog's cycle is significantly more pronounced, suggesting the interest is indeed purely academic. Whereas Rust has been growing steadily and shows little seasonality.

I'd say it's random chance, given X million programmers and Y million articles there's always somebody who will see a lot of Z topic.

Terminus in particular seems to be an extension of work Gavin did during his postdoc, in particular the Dacura stuff mentioned here: http://aligned-project.eu/open-source-tools/. He deleted the DQS repository for some reason but there's a mirror here: https://github.com/bozicb/dacura-1.
Partly the issue is because of the naming... Like "poor outcomes" and "failed"...

Obviously there would be no awards for the poor outcomes and failed results and we would be back to square one where no one is incentivized to look at them positively.
Thats pretty interesting, you made me take a look at my charging contacts and they're still completely new looking.

I wonder why you experienced that and I didn't - I don't take particularly good care of my AirPods. The only thing I do occasionally is hit them with a paperclip to remove any earwax buildup because they get pretty gross after a few weeks of use.

I mean I'll go for runs in the rain, run in super humid weather, sleep with them in sometimes, and a host of other probably not good ideas and they just keep on working perfect after a year of this 'abuse'.

I would guess however that they weren't corroded in the traditional sense of the word, more likely just covered in a gross film?
I mean personally I go on day-hikes relatively regularly and I just catch the train to my starting point. I appreciate that isn't always possible though.
The parent of this thread explicitly states:

>Note that I'm only asking about city travel, not intercity transportation.

I don't know why these conversations always seem to descend into talking about the suburbs. Urban environments can (and should) reduce car traffic inside them. Talk about leaving the city to go hiking and suburban living (designed specifically around personal car ownership) are not what we're talking about here.
You're accusing me of a bias that does not exist. If you want to live in the country with a different taste of personal freedom, please be my guest. However, it comes with a cost that has been ignored for too long.

Personally, I view a city that is safe from cars as the greater freedom. It means my children can walk to school/friends/store without the very real danger of being killed. Cars are the number one cause of death for children.
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> "If you don't need to drive why would you buy a driverless car?"

Not everybody lives in a city, and even people who do live in a city want to leave the city sometimes. I use my bike whenever I can, but we still own a car.

That said, the less you drive, the more interesting a driverless car might become: we won't be used to driving, so a self-driving car might be safer for us.

And the main reason I prefer to take the train over a car is that I can read in the train. With a driverless car, maybe I can read in the car (though car sickness is also an issue there).
There could be physical businesses who's sole responsibility is to accept applications for banks and verify identity. It probably make sense for TransUnion, and similar to get into this kind of a business - validation of id for submission of forms.

Obviously this would be more expensive for the consumer. I think if we can put a credit-freeze except for such applications in person, there would be people who go for it; I would.
They process and index content inside of PDFs, even ones that haven't been OCR'd by the distributor. It's likely they did similar for Flash.
Microsoft also distributes microcode updates through Windows Update. Although, on a second look, it seems like all the microcode updates they've made available were only security-related (Spectre and co) Intel patches.
It is a bit of the opposite. This guy is closer to arguing in favor of censorship, as opposed to against it.

He thinks freedom is too dangerous, because I'd all the bad things that people do with their freedom.
Narbis “neurofeedback” smart glasses punish distraction by turning opaque
Not sure I know the supreme court well enough to judge their judging

I just try to interpret the laws as they are written with my limited legal experience :)

That said I think I can agree
Metaphor?
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I haven't seen one included with Chrome yet. Safari has reader mode and its amazing.
25% would be a relative bargain - that's better than some people's credit card rates. The screenshot in the article shows a range of 60-225% APR.
People could also replace it all with a free library card.

It isn't like television/video is some kind of necessity for life.
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I know you're making a joke, but thought SVG has been there and working since before Apple outlawed Flash for its battery draining behaviour.
Yes, but sometimes you can break your configuration management in such a way that it can't recover and need a rapid way to fix things or see the state of the world. It's very handy to have a tool ready to go that can assist. Sure, it's very dangerous when operating on an entire fleet, but break glass in an emergency.

It's also rather handy when you want to run ad hoc queries on your machine, e.g. which kernels are out there, is this leftover rpm installed somewhere, etc.

At a past job we had an in-house tool like this that also logged all of the commands anyone had ever ran with it and saved the stdout/stderr output in a webui+cli output. If you suspected somebody did something clowny, you can go look at exactly what they did, when, and what the result was. This logging was very important, imho and tools like it should have it.
> That's what has to change.

Good luck with that. People like living in the suburbs.

It's where I live and when self-driving cars are available I'll move further out of the city.
> ... who will often ignore it.

Which is still not a justification for making public accusations of illegal, perhaps criminal behavior on a project issue tracker or mailing list.

> Are they?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_accusation_of_rape
That is why you have electric bikes to tackle those high hills.

Anyway, young people biking more means that more older people will actually be able to bike, because exercise helps with increasing mobility as we age.
Are platforms like WeChat the future of Internet?
And yet, can you blame him for the negative tone? I'm sure he and his collaborators back then had much higher hopes. And indeed, until the mid-late 90s it seemed like we were getting that open internet. The internet has fostered an epistemological crisis that has recently led to the rise of tyrants in the US and elsewhere. I'd be disappointed too.
I've had a career about half of yours (where does the time go?) and this has been my experience as well. I would have loved to contribute to at least half a dozen projects in the last couple of years.
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> You can always start your own business

How is starting your own business an even remotely viable option for people who are so desperate that they're taking these predatory loans?
Did he take this down since he just committed libel against someone? Complete conjecture. Charles even offers to have a conversation to understand each other....NO NO NO, you disagree with me. Die heretic, Die! I went and looked at Chucks tweets to people that disagreed with him. He was civil and asked for a deeper conversation. The majority of responses were uncivil. That fact along makes me want to side with Charles...but really I don’t side with any of these charlatans.

I would not want to work with Avdi. If you say something that he misconstrues as bad he will ‘cancel’ you. He can go sell his gospel to some other weak minded fool. In fact his books are not even that good...see how easy that was.

How racist is it to not want to promote someone or prefer to promote others based on race/sex? Is that not the very definition of racism/sexism? Screw Avdi, HE is part of the problem, one side of the same coin.
What are you waiting for creating one? Motivate a few scientists to form a credible review comity, fill one paper [1] and voila you have the journal you dreamt about on a recognized and perennial web platform.

This is of course some work, but if you really want it to exists it’s better not to wait for someone else to do it. Also allowing anonymous authors would help I think (to avoid the name being associated with failure).

[1] https://www.openedition.org/15974?file=1

Edit: openedition.org is for humanities, but there probably is alternative for other fields.
WYSIWYG mode, unfortunately, ignores the needs of screen readers and other methods of accessing content. The risk of WYSIWYG tools is they lie to you; not all your users can actually see what you see. And that's to say nothing of the less exotic scenarios like different screen sizes or devices.

... unless you're working in a space allowed to discriminate against users that need assistive access to your content of course, in which case you can spring for the WYSIWYG dream.
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Not true. They may have more cores/higher clocks, but they aren't more performant. Check out the geekbench scores. Huge performance gap.

https://browser.geekbench.com/mobile-benchmarks
My understanding is that no, such classes are uncommon in American high schools these days. I went to a public magnet high school in the 2000s and I can't recall any such class being offered.

As for most financial topics, I don't have much of a mind for it, so I would greatly benefit from a teacher. I need to be taught it, it's very difficult for me to teach myself finance. So I've simply erred on the side of heavily saving so at the very least I have a year or two of buffer.
My favorite piece of Goose Game fanart so far is this one: https://i.redd.it/wbts33d7u6u31.jpg

A bad goose variation on https://i.imgur.com/WPuSziL.jpg

It's a simple and hilarious game. Haven't finished it yet, but strongly recommend to anyone who's on the fence.
That radar is utterly worthless for this sort of application, it has awful angular resolution. It can't tell the difference between a building next to the street and a truck parked in the middle of the street.
Is the question whether it's possible to reduce the cost of living / why the cost of living is so high?

That's largely because the basic necessities of living (housing, clothing, food, transportation) are needed in roughly the same amount by all people, and don't scale with class/income/wealth. I live in a 1-bedroom apartment and eat about three meals a day and wear jeans that cost about $50. I have friends who make an order of magnitude more and less than I do. They don't live in a 10-bedroom or 0.1-bedroom place, respectively. They don't eat 30 or 0.3 meals a day, respectively, and their meal themselves don't cost ten times more or less - maybe there's a factor of two or three. The ones who make ten times more than I do might occasionally buy $500 jeans, but even they won't wear it for everyday use, and the ones who make ten times less generally don't buy $5 jeans either.

So, demand is roughly the same from everyone / doesn't scale very much, and the rich can afford to pay quite a bit more. So a market that has rich people in it will have a higher cost of living.

If you want to stop this, the obvious solution is to prevent income inequality (in all its forms - Paul Graham points out, correctly, that this would require us to rethink the very idea of for-profit unicorns - see https://twitter.com/paulg/status/886953410356011008 and https://twitter.com/paulg/status/645343476662427648). Useful tools include extremely high wealth and income taxes. (And, as someone who by any objective standard makes a lot of money, this is why I'm personally in favor of my own marginal tax bracket being 90% or higher - because it means that people who make even more money than I do can't as trivially outbid me for housing, etc.)
Applied research has always been in fashion. Theoretical is always rare and underfunded. Many books on this subject have been written I recommend "A University for the 21st Century"

People in glass offices run everything in 2019 and the more of an expert you become in your field the more professional managers will feel you are a pest to be silenced/hated/removed.
Okay, poor example on my part.

I've had .exe's show up in Google results. It was a long time ago—so maybe things don't work like that anymore—and it was never common, but I know I've seen it happen. I'm sure Google could look inside the binary for text strings, but I can't imagine they do.

There is perhaps an argument that standalone exe's shouldn't turn up in results for security reasons (how can you possibly verify its safety without some context?), but I liked to think that search results could at least theoretically include any file type at all.
If its free you are (or can be) the product. I dont see this one as an issue so long as its not flooding personal information to Microsoft outside of what you provide them when you register to Azure.
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For Apple, definitely. Jobs' opposition to Flash was rooted in the business case for the App Store and the technical limitations of the first couple of iPhones.

I remember when the first 7" Galaxy Tab came out in late 2010. Jobs mocked its size, saying you'd need to file down your finger to use it, while at the same time working on the iPad Mini, which wouldn't launch until after his death.
What benches are you looking at?

https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/14864886

https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/14865026

https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/14865059

The iPhone chips straight up are faster in practice in virtually every benchmark I've ever seen.

The OnePlus 7 Pro uses the Snapdragon 855+, which is the fastest Android chip I am aware of. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
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>Saying the internet went wrong is like saying the invention of cars went wrong cause we still have car accidents

I don't think that's a fair or apt analogy at all since, in most places around the world, there's still several barriers to entry for using a car - you have to be licensed, you have to be financially able, and you have to live somewhere where it's a benefit to have access to one.

I think the central complaint is not that the internet has been democratized but, conversely, that, much like the United States and several other nations, it's become commercialized rather than democratized which is exactly the opposite of what was the hope for the internet.

I think a more apt summary of the article is that, at the beginning, there was a barrier of entry to the internet that meant that the content was mostly educational, technical, informed, and a bit altruistic. The goal was to propagate knowledge. Now, literally anyone can put their thoughts online, no matter how banal, without any technical skill, education, or barriers and commercial entities have far more capability than the average person to control the flow of information. DMCA requests on YouTube can be abused by huge corporations to protect their profits but individual users have no such ability. This leads to a platform that, unlike its initial intent, is full of low-quality, low-effort information with the exception of content that is meant for sale and consumption.

Unchecked capitalism may have ruined the internet but, hopefully, not past the point of return.
> 90% of the time there are only negative results

That’s an understatement.
Adobe refused to make the flash player work reliable on OSX back in the day. It was Adobe's fault, and anyone that used the web on a Mac in the 2000's can confirm that.
Fun comparisons around a $1.60 minimum wage in 1968:

- An hour of labor would buy ~4.7 gallons of gasoline. If minimum wage had kept pace, it would be $12.32.

- Average home could be bought with ~15k hours of minimum-wage labor (around 8 years). Had minimum wage kept pace, it would be $14.96.

- Average car price was $2,822. Using this as the sole deflator would put an equivalent minimum wage at $20.89 today.

- The average public university tuition + room & board cost $1,143, which could be earned in 714 hours at minimum wage (this could be physically accomplished in a summer of hard work). If minimum wage had kept pace with these fees, it would be $27.28 per hour. (There are not enough clock hours in a summer break, assuming no sleep, to earn enough at minimum wage to pay for a year of the average public university.)
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> Not everyone lives in cycling distance to work, not all are fit enough to cycle regularly

And don't forget lack of showers at workplaces. If there wasn't a shower available where I work I definitely wouldn't bike to work.
As a completely sideways note, mass-gap in physics also refers to the property of some particles that they need a larger-than-zero minimum energy to start existing (their "rest mass"), as opposed to for example photons that can (in principle) get going from any available energy.