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This is a guide for all the trivial parts of "automating your office" like receiving signals from user over the internet and turning them to electrical signals (rpi and slack make it trivial).

The non-trivial parts are left to the user, like hooking up your "office" to these electrical signals.

Edit: also this was just a school project [0] and not an actual real life use example.

[0] (https://github.com/vitorverasm/slackbot-iot/commit)/98024bd6...
Precisely. The Police are keen to do little "viral" stunts like shooting hoops with kids or buying shoes for homeless guys (ok, fine things to do) ... but when it really comes down to stuff that actually matters - the countless killings and general misery they cause to minorities - they close ranks and put on a united front, and often have the audacity to play the victim.

This is why "ACAB" takes hold. They 100% get behind their shittiest members, effectively taking collective responsibility for them. I am really not sure what else they expect, really.
Sound like you hold it as a truth that civil disobedience is fundamentally immoral, as you can extrapolate a possible hell-scape from it.

But why use the power of imagination, when you can simply read about the pros and cons of civil disobedience
e.g.
Pro - civil rights movement
Con - blowing up trains full of people

Its a complicated issue, and I guarantee the silent majority of readers of this thread embrace that complexity and do not feel comfortable trying to characterize this one way or the other.
Good job, I'm curious why Vuejs ?
We also do a lot of interesting things.
Unfortunately/tragically, before Peter Altmaier (German minister of economics, and a major proponent for Gaia-X) could explain technical details, he fell of the stage and broke his nose. He's ok now, but I still don't know the technical details of Gaia-X. A cursory search brings up only press info about "industry 4.0" and similar nonsense. Given that Gaia-X is positioned to be a cloud service for the public sector in DE (at least) and based on standards, has anyone technical details about Gaia-X to share?
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You'd think it would be `hg id`, but it doesn't work without connection to remote repository and is extremely slow with large repositories with uncommited changes, so it's not the correct answer. --debug option also prints info other than hash and can't be customized.

>Mercurial logs are also easy to customize.

I wanted to customize logging string so that it shows (sequential commit id) - (other stuff), but there's no way to make sequential commit id to line up neatly when it goes from 9 to 10, or from 99 to 100. So making a pretty one-line log is impossible. Maybe it was fixed since then, I wouldn't know.
That's also very similar to how baby birds are fed by their parents.
Look, I am not a layer. I have zero experience about how to redact a sentence or how many witnesses should speak in court. And I am really surprised of how many experts you can find in Catalonia.

But all these expert seem to ignore that these people can appeal their sentences if they don't agree with them. Spain, at difference of authoritarian countries, is subjected to international law. Do you accept these international courts or are they fascists too? Because if the whole world think that what these politicians did was wrong maybe, just maybe, you should consider that there is a possibility that what they did was wrong.

The Spanish government has made many mistakes, and I am very sure they will make many more, no matter who wins the elections. But the Generalitat cannot just take the law into their hands. Everybody knew it would have legal consequences. Most of them can be out early next year. Do you think this an injustice that deserve rioting and burning your city? That is what I would call an stretch.
Sure it is ... the database underlying Access uses JetSQL which has its own fun syntactic quirks

It's also very bad at concurrent users if you do go down the path of dropping it on a network share if it's a normalized schema, since there's no server to cache queries or do optimizations... for strictly data entry against a simple schema you can maybe push it to low 100s of users, but backing up / restoring / rolling out new versions is a nightmare when the frontend and backend are commingled like that. You can deploy different versions of .mdbs if you have an external backend, though I've never seen anyone do so with an Access database backing an Access "UI" project...
It says that this would not be permissible under eminent domain, but as the act happened as part of a strategic decision it is acceptable police behavior.

"It's ok if the police does it" is a fair summary.
How many eggs would each person get to eat per year using that production method? We surely wouldn't be able to keep boiling them, frying them, using them in most baked goods, and so on, because production would drop to a fraction of what it currently is.

I'm vegan, and on my honeymoon we went to a place where hens ran around free in the villages and would crawl underneath bushes to sleep for the night. Even I wouldn't see any ethical problems with humans grabbing unfertilized eggs they found under bushes each morning, but as I said, how many people would that feed?

It's the same as me having much less of a problem with hunting than I do factory farming, because a bullet and instant death, or at least within a couple of minutes, is a much better life for the animal than factory farming. But if we limited meat eating to only that being hunted, people would get to eat a small fraction of the meat they eat today.

Or rather, price would probably be so high that only the most well-off could afford the eggs and meat in that world. If you're in that group you might still get eggs and meat, otherwise not. Still, people who use these two examples as ethical ways of getting eggs and meat must also agree that we would need plant-based alternatives for almost all our current uses.

Also, as of 2013, 98% of hens in the US was in cages, and 2% free-range:

https://www.ciwf.org.uk/media/5235021/Statistics-Laying-hens...

In the EU, it was 60% cage, 25% barn, 12% free-range, and 3% organic. At least for Sweden, free-range can still be indoors, but organic requires access to the outside. So even moving only to current free-range eggs would mean a drastic reduction of consumption.
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We are an open-source company, why not require applicants to create a contribution to our project as a hiring task? And since I don't want this to be free labour, I'd even pay a fixed rate.

I’m curious if you have seen this work, or if you would apply for a position that requires it? What would be your concerns?
You don't need signingkey if you have a GPG key with the same email as your git user.email (I guess that's the majority of cases).
Most of those theories have some implications about lower energy ranges. And pushing up energies is a great way to rule out a lot of them.

(And some of those theories have some large scale cosmological implications too, so better telescopes can rule out more.)

But ... there seems to be a lack of (serious) theories that have easily testable predictions. And this is not surprising, because we also lack easily reproducable but yet unexplained data. (For example the high-energy gamma ray busts are very interesting but we have no idea where do they come from really.)
huh, i just posted before i saw this comment that I never saw anyone plan out their access database like this, kudos
Thanks for clarifying your argument. I disagree though that lack of understanding is what prevents people from lobbying congress themselves. People and even organizations in favor of simplifying the law cannot compete with, eg. intuit's 2.5 million $ lobbying spend in 2018. Why should individual people have to lobby their congress in a democratic system anyway? If you look at polling data on this subject it will show a majority of Americans in favor of tax code simplification. Yet in the past few years we've actually received the opposite.
Would this centralized body extend to regulating bloggers and YouTube personalities? It's tricky to draw a line based on scope - influencers and personalities will grow ever more popular, and conspiracy rabbitholes will only grow more decentralized.

How would you deal with foreign media that violates the laws? You'd either have to permit them - which opens up the country to foreign meddling, since they can and have spread propaganda - or sanction/block them, like Russia and China (and Australia.)

Also, suppose despite your best efforts, Trump still gets into the White House. He's installed loyal yes-men in many departments already - if they defy him, they'll resign under pressure or be fired. He'd easily gut this Ministry of Truth and weaponize it to quash CNN/NYT or even climate scientists.

I'm quite on the left and not averse to regulation or centralization, but it's wishful thinking to assume this "powerful centralized body" is going to do the right thing.

See, for example, the use of corruption taskforces in many countries to purge political rivals or even honest bureaucrats who won't take your bribes. Corruption should be illegal, allegations should be investigated but things can go very wrong and these checks perverted against their intended function.
Yes I upgraded as well. As a designer I haven't faced any problems in my work so far. All the design tools work nicely as before except Adobe products(which I'm not using for a long time now but I read about Adobe tools facing some problem on internet)
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Long term AB testing, where A gets updates and B does not. Pretty standard in the industry.
It's not only about altitude (going to space is easy), it's also about horizontal velocity (staying in space is hard: 8 km/sec is a lot).

I dont recall the exact number, but I think that altitude is 50% of the energy, the other 50% is horizontal velocity. So building a rocket on top of the Everest would save us maybe 5% (10 km vs 100 km altitude), that's not much
Another sign of authoritative police state with absolute power over citizens. We allowed this through the people we elected. Shame.
Yeah I also think the article is a waste of time. Who wrote the petition? Apparently it's not a haunted house anyway but a "mobile experience". After reading the article I don't think I've really learnt any facts apart from something that some people do that other people have a petition against that starts in Tennessee and ends in Alabama, but no-one has got to Alabama?
M72 LAW. I've actually shot a live one during my mandatory time at the military as a practice shot (We destroy our aging stock by making conscripts shoot them as a training exercise).

As a weapon it's the typical shaped charge warhead. It would be really dangerous against any normal non tank vehicle in short ranges. Against a tank it's useless nowadays. But the semi militarized armored cars used by some police forces would be disabled rather easily with one. Not blown up to smithereens, but a hit to the engine space would wreck that or a hit to the passenger compartment would kill some if not all inside.

Not that good against a building. A hand-grenade would do way more harm inside. So it's more of a trophy thing, or a really nasty surprise against SWAT truck assuming the culprit manages to hit with it.

The lax security Australia has towards these is rather hilarious.
Author here. After posting this to reddit I realized that the original title is wrong, and poorly reflects the actual point I'm trying to make. Dependency injection is not dynamic scoping, but the latter can be used to achieve the former. I'm drafting an update to better reflect this. I'm also going to pull out reader monads and env passing into separate sections and give reader monads a better treatment in general.
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Yeah but U2F is more secure (non exportable key, non phishable). With AWS OTP is the only viable option.
Think along the lines of those recipe pages that have 2000 words of backstory that no one cares about but is considered good SEO practice in Googles eyes.
I stick with BBC News, but I balance it out with news from other sources, and somewhere in the middle of it all, is the 'real' story. In so far as the media are prepared to tell it.
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I have a good amount of experience with both winforms and modern web development. I would pick winforms over vanilla html and js. However, I would easily pick vuejs (or any comparable component based web framework) over winforms. Having maintained legacy VB apps with multiple 5000+ line forms, inscrutable multidirectional event chaining, and tangled up business logic and view logic, I've become a huge fan of forced separation of concerns.

The big problem is that there is much more of a learning curve. The first useful software I wrote used VB6 and winforms. Getting started was easy and intuitive, with a gentle learning curve. With virtually no experience, I was making neat things in hours. Within days I was making full applications. That says something about the power of that platform.

To be truly effective with modern web development took me a year or so. That was after years of professional experience.

At this point I can build web applications faster than I can build desktop software, but it took a huge time investment to reach this point, and I had to build multiple tools to make it possible.

I agree that there's a niche that needs filling. I want all the benefits of modern web development, and I want a learning curve like VB6 with Access.
There's an initiative by the "European Federation of Game Archives, Museums and Preservation Projects" to get the Demo Scene on the "UNESCO Cultural Heritage of Humanity" list:

https://efgamp.eu/2019/05/20/efgamp-launches-campaign-to-pro...
The count of managed service providers getting hit with ransomware mounts
Are you against ad blockers too?
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Isn't the 'problem' (for the wider population) that physicists are motivated towards answering the big questions (that's a valid outlay for $billions IMO, just like, say how we spend billions on football/soccer). So effectively what we're doing is allowing that because we know there are positive repercussions that come along with such exploration.

(Also a BSc in TPhys (& maths), fwiw.)
I'm on my phone so it is a bit hard to collect the links as much of what I've seen has been from Twitter but if you go on there and search "NYPD subway" you'll find numerous videos and recent accounts.
> Gravity is very similar to magnetism

The analogy doesn’t help, even ignoring that what we experience day-to-day is more like an electric field and there is a different gravitational analogy for magnetism, AKA gravitomagetism. It’s harder to notice than gravitational time dilation.

> easy via fields

Only for people who find non-Euclidian geometry that mixes time and space and is defined by a bunch of 4x4 tensors to be “easy”.

> [particles bad fields good]

“Particle” is a convenient human-scale name for things, but everything’s fields these days anyway. Even the Higgs.

In fact, GR is field-only — it’s QM which says “by the way, those things you call particles are a certain type of excitation in a field” and “if the gravity field has a particle it must be a massless spin-2 boson, also every massless spin-2 field is indistinguishable from gravity”.

> doesn’t explain dark matter

Doesn’t need to. It says there’s something to look for. GR is “stuff does X”, the observation is “X”, so there must be stuff. We’re can’t see stuff, but GR doesn’t say we have to be able to see it.

> fast rotating magnets

I don’t know what you’re referring to, the closest pattern I am matching your words to is Podkletnov whose work was never reproducible by third parties, and you can bet SpaceX will have tried.

> better gravity field theories out there, but they are lacking experimental verification

Science doesn’t use verification, it uses falsification. When an hypothesis can’t be falsified even in principle it isn’t science; when it can but only in principle, it’s a hypothesis; when it has been tested and the attempt to falsify it results in evidence that persistently doesn’t falsify it to a standard of statistical significance, then it gets published and perhaps elevated to the level of “theory”.
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In polish high schools, Access is still a part of the computer science curriculum (for those who take CS). It doesn't have to be Access specifically, but it is in 99% of cases. You can't really avoid it, as it's required on the Matura exam. I've heard rumors that some teachers even teach the point and click interface instead of SQL.
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When did historians finally strip Sparta of its great image? When Roman Stoics praised Spartans, did they treat them as perfect role models or as a cruel people who had certain qualities to emulate?
> Wouldn't it be great if you would have a powerful centralized body

No. It wouldn’t. When that kind of power (arbiter of truth) is placed in a single point, that point will become the highly contested point of control. Eventually, inevitably, the body would end up turned to some ruthless power of the day, and would serve as the most phenomenal propaganda machine.

“The Ministry of Truth is pleased to announce that bootlace production is up a thousandfold this quarter, due to the heroic efforts of the King. You may now cheer.”

Total decentralisation is the only sane route - you build a bulwark out of billions of human minds, and you build inertia into your system such that emotional volatility led by events or propaganda efforts is smoothed out.

This is basically the concept of democracy and electoral cycles - group consensus on what reality is and how it should be responded to, with a temporal buffer (the election cycle length) to smooth out rash decisions.

Our systems need amendment to better smooth our inherent volatility, which has been provoked by our exponentially growing sphere of information - but this can’t come at the cost of handing control over something as fundamental as the idea of truth to some technocratic committee. That’s how you end up with gulags.

Edit/addendum:

Further musing on temporal smoothing of volatile and labile humanity led me to recall the idea of Concents in Anathem - groups are sequestered away for a year, a decade, a century, or a millennium, and are allowed only at those intervals to interact with the outside world. This monkish dedication to record preservation minimises informatic drift within the group, and provides a continual negative feedback factor to the unstable curve of truth, thus preventing the rewrite of the past, and therefore the present and future.
You realize the suspect was firing at police officers? I am in no way defending the destruction of a home. However, I do realize this is not a situation where a couple of officers can be posted outside the home and wait the situation out. An armed suspect firing out of a home is a clear and present danger to the community.

edited to add quote

Who drives armored cars? People who expect gun-fire. Usually people with some fire-power of their own. -Burn Notice
It's curious how every example you mention refers to colonies. But Catalonia is not a colony.

Also, in every case you mention, there were international support for the secession, while the Catalan independist movement, in spite of its strong efforts, has got almost zero support. By the way, this is the same international community who thinks that Spanish laws are not undemocratic or unjust.
I’d never heard of that but we used to make something similar as kids with an aerosol can, a metal drain and whatever you want to fire, arrange upright like a mortar and with a small fire at the bottom.
bloomberg has an anti-renewables article at least once a week since, I dunno, 1 year or so?

It's ridiculous.
No one hates renewables generally, anywhere, this is largely a propaganda item being pushed by big oil.
Bloomberg should show some leadership instead.

Cue last weeks study in which offshore wind farm development even in only the select windiest stretches of global coastline provide over 30 trillion megawatt hours, aka about 10 trillion more than projected demand for next year or the year after, I forget which.

Cue Mark Carney, governor of Bank of England saying that the companies that don't adapt to the climate crisis fast enough will go bankrupt, as it will cost increasingly more the longer one waits.
He also suggested, vis-a-vis the current state of the global economy and downturn concerns trade war etc, that this is actually the PERFECT time to invest in Green New Deals everywhere, lot's of investment, big projects, now, keep that balloon open and use that momentum to effect the necessary change NOW!
This is an absurd claim. Any charity advocates something, from planting trees to helping the poor.

One would have to have a purposefully obtuse definition of political speech to outlaw ads by charities but allow Shell.
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Do you (always?) realise that need before the product is made?
Your infrequent reminder:

Goodhart’s curse: Every metric that can be tracked gets incentivized and ultimately gamed.

Beware what you choose to measure.
Weird that there seems to be much more debate in US about force feeding geese than force-feeding prisoners. Not that I support either of the practices.
Please respect the people who have to work grueling, repetitive and unpleasant jobs to put food on your table and a roof over your head.
I even had point and click access on "information technology" course on the life sciences faculy on of the biggest polish university ~7 years ago
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Just throw in a few canisters of tear gas and wait for the dude come out. Then open the windows and that's it. How they managed to blow up the house is ... insane.

And it took 19 hours? Why? He was using a handgun. Haven't they heard of suppressive fire? What the hell.
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Sabine's point is that the current approach doesn't work any longer.

> She can't just sit in an ivory tower and stare down the cosmos in a contest until it reveals its secrets.

That is a gross misrepresenation of what she is saying. Did you actually read anything she wrote? She is criticising the notion that you can make progress, sitting in the ivory tower, as you exprss it, and coming up ideas about strings and super symmetries without any experimental data or other validation from reality. But she is also critical to the approach: just throw more money and manpower into even bigger experiments before we even know what to look for and hope something interesting reveals itself.
One would assume that if the damaged caused by the police was justifiable, then the responsibility for damage compensation lies with the criminal suspect in the case - and if they're unable to compensate the homeowner then the remainder should come from the municipality or state's general victims' fund. Does Denver or CO have such a fund?
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