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His philosophy is crazy and most people consider it either laughable or offensive, but he was supposed to be giving technical talk about Urbit, so I don't see a reason why his philosophy should matter in that.
I email myself sometimes. But most of these emails get lost in the clutter.

What would you expect this product (or the email provider) to do for such cases?
Just pointing out you are a faggot.
Thank you for publishing this example, it looks great. I noticed that it works with Heroku, would you be open to trying it on OpenFaaS Cloud using the free Community Cluster?

It should be easier to use than Heroku and you can encrypt your API keys using SealedSecrets too.

Reach out? alex@openfaas.com

https://github.com/openfaas/community-cluster/tree/master/do...
He was also an anti-imperialist and protested eg the US occupation of Philippines. (These writings aren’t well known). I’d like to think if he was alive today he’d be a dissident.
There’s a lot of ifs and predictions here.

How many deaths would be prevented by automatically citing a vehicle for breaking traffic laws? This is a much cheaper and simpler option than an SDC.

SDCs can be programmed to obey laws, I never said they couldn’t. However a software system will not reach the same level of reasoning a human brain can in our lifetimes. Compute capacity isn’t even close yet. So again, an SDC / Software System / AI is no replacement for a human brain.

We have driver assist technology now. No company in the world is going to keep a human driver on the books when they can be replaced by a machine. History is there as proof. It’s not a question of if they will be replaced, it’s how long it will take to make the technology robust enough.

They don’t make the news because death is a normal, acceptable thing for us. People die, accidents happen. Covering every person that dies would not at all be time efficient.

There’s also something to be said for darwinism here, but I’m not going to get into that.
Yes, though the notation approach is worth following if you cannot use the type system (lang doesn't support it, or incurs unacceptable performance or complexity overhead).

But yeah, zero cost compiler magic is the reason Rust is so good.
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I don't understand why this isn't causing him serious problems travelling.

I'm also surprised this isn't a more widely recognised phenomenon, because whilst there are very few first names ending mr, there are quite a few more ending miss or ms.
Or rather, was. At the time one could either:

- write a sax event based parser that scaled but was low level

- use a DOM parser with a fairly convoluted API. The combination of attributes and children makes for wordy accessors.

Both YAML and JSON provide formats that more readily deserialize into native map / list / string / number types which at the time was quite convenient.
At least with mysql, and probably with postgres as well, you can temporarily turn off foreign key checks for a set of statements. So you can still get the benefits of foreign key constraints by default but when they do more harm than good you can turn them off. With the added benefit that turning off FK constraints screams "I am doing something unusual and dangerous - this requires extra caution."
Not the parent poster, but probably in a similar boat because I would be ok listening to "a quality presentation by Sarah Mei" even though I am considered a member of a group I have a creeping suspicion they would be quite happy to send to the "showers" if only the political climate allowed them to - and I'm very glad it doesn't! - and already had a number of relations get hounded out of society by their associates.

(Yes to the Hitler question too.)
Sure, but I was using labor laws as an example to show that there exists precedent to discriminate based on company size.

Further, GP also claims that “being a monopoly” is the only scenario in which size matters, but monopoly power is not about overall company size — it’s about market dominance. You can be a (relatively) small company and still exert complete dominance in a market, and engage in anti-competitive behavior that will attract regulatory scrutiny.
Fight Club is a little more "interesting" though, split personalties, plot twists and of course fighting is always more adaptable to screen than a man rolling a dice.

I think if they did it it may be pretty different from the book.
> I don't really see that as Apple trying to kill web technology as much as them just not profiting off it. Apple doesn't make any money from the "web," they make it from their platforms which aren't HTML/JS/CSS.

While true, this was also the reasoning behind Microsoft's treatment of Internet Explorer which caused web tech to get stuck for a decade. I think we were all glad those times were over.
Once I worked at a place where ooh support accidentally pasted an entire maint guide into putty (right click paste is not a good idea) on a prod oracle server, it was fine until the lines in the doc which read:

Dbfile1 -> /path/to/dbfile1
...
Etc

Which needless to say hosed the entire box... over Christmas...

And this is why they don’t use putty anymore ;)
If you want to support multiple platforms this is the way to go. I don't see a problem with it.

We have the freedom to use different package managers. It comes, likes everything else, with it's own drawbacks.
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We need legislation. Google is too powerful.
That may be the wrong question to ask. The question we might want to ask: do patents incentivize innovations or not? In what way they do and in what they don't.
The crash you are describing is a manufacturer issue, sounds like a driver preventing proper sleep. Not an excuse, just pointing out.

Also I wouldn't call think pad carbon cheapish
> Most of time it can be just the desire to feel of the speed.

Or to not pass out out of boredom (most my friends state this as reason as well). Modern cars, especially the slightly better class ones, make hardly or no sound and do the max speed (120-130km/h in EU depending on the country) without noticing it at all if you don't stare at the instruments. I personally do not enjoy driving at all (and never have), so I want to go from a->b, not 'enjoy the experience'; I find it a boring and wasteful chore (which is why I prefer the train or mtr, but that's not available or possible or affordable everywhere, like in where I live, the only transport is hiking (which I prefer, but not always practical) or by car...). Unfortunately my place will one of the last places where self driving cars will become available (bad, erratically winding roads with many unexpected obstacles after it rains).
Not the original commenter, but I too would avoid participating in any event where I need to share so many personal details to other people who are neither close friends nor family.
And it's just as stupid-sounding when it comes from somebody who has training and skills. Stupider-sounding, even.

It's not like theoretical physicists have a perfect track record. Prior to modern thermodynamics, there were so many failed attempts to explain heat. Remember caloric? Phlogiston? The ultraviolet catastrophe? There have been periods of time where physics advances rapidly, and periods of time where there are long stalls and no good ideas.

Additionally, it's pretty common for a theoretical idea to turn out to be extremely practical, just in a way that wasn't obvious at first. In the past 300 years, we've gone from complex numbers being "imaginary" to being standard components of quantum mechanics. While people of Cardano's time might say that square roots of real numbers aren't real, we today understand that QM requires complex amplitudes instead of classical probabilities.

It's easy to point to where people can find interesting stuff to study. Einstein's work stemmed from noting that existing models of physics did not completely predict the solar system's behavior. Similarly, when we look at what these string theorists are aiming at, they turn out to have very reasonable idiosyncratic observations that they are trying to explain. They're examining the vacuum catastrophe, they're examining the Big Bang, they're examining quantum electronics. These are the places where our theories aren't able to explain every observation coherently; these are where we need new explanations.
I remember someone curling a Heroku CLI install script and upon inspection, it would have tried to install a specific version of Ruby too instead of just the client. Since then I always glance through the script first
Good thing illumos implemented the CoC a few weeks ago, we wouldn't want anyone to miss out on the cancel culture!

https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/developer/T89a037970789a...
Germany is also among the most congested country in europe. It is a pain to drive there, as the germans are constantly rebuilding their roads, generating endless trafic jams. A8 karlsruhe- munich has never had a day without road works in 30 years.
I find british motorway better, the best being french motorway, but you have to pay quite a lot to drive them
Parkinson's Law: Work expands to fill available time
Looking at your Dockerfile, wouldn't a multi-stage build be more efficient? https://github.com/staab/esv/blob/master/Dockerfile

https://docs.docker.com/develop/develop-images/multistage-bu...
Why 202 bytes? Wouldn’t 101 [ characters suffice?
The problem here should be obvious. The author does not know the definition of patent trolling. Patent trolls buy the patents they enforce. They do not make them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_troll
"and the poor suffer what they must"
How can I access that?
Facebook gave Tinder and other dating apps special access to user data
"curl gopher://gopher.black/1/bible/Jonah/jonah-1.txt"

"echo -n /bible/Jonah/jonah-1.txt | nc gopher.black 70"

Very cool ^
The checker framework (https://checkerframework.org/) can make the compiler understand about stuff like this without introducing additional types in Java.

I have never tried it myself, maybe someone with experience can chime in?
In some areas Apple's documentation is dismal to the point of being ridiculously useless. Like this (from CoreAudio):

mWordClockTime

The word clock time.

And nothing else on that page apart from that it's UInt64. And it's been like this for years if not decades already. Nothing's changed since the APIs were also bridged and the documentation re-written for Swift. I doubt it's the intent (to keep the developers in the dark with regard to CoreAudio? unlikely), just neglect. Apple, otherwise one of the few companies that pays attention to details and have unlimited resources for this type of tasks, what's their problem really?
It makes owning your email address (including the domain name part) crucial.

It's time people separated the hosting of email from the interface (the address).
that's how I read that. this experiment specifically gave a choice to study which penalty is more popular, which is probably inversely related to its effectiveness.
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I have an apostrophe in my name and it causes allll sorts of issues like this. (Think Bobby Tables). To the point where I’m pretty convinced that the internet is going to wipe out apostrophes from people’s actual names. In fact I just omitted it in my most recent drivers license.
Looks like they are trying to use AI for automation and it's screwed up. Again. And it will and must happen again and again to get better.

Actually they call this stressful work and actively explicitly are working towards not getting workers to do this work for their own benefit if you believe HR and the mental health supporters of this policy.

I forget the actual term it's something like "Mental Health Ops'.

Why should Google make their contactors suffer digging through video chat when they can get an AI to do it for them? This is literally their policy, it's not satire.
Here's one counterargument:

Psychological pain per se doesn't seem like a good enough reason to decide that a child should not exist - because that pain takes all sorts of forms. And it's so npredictable. Children of parents who don't abandon them are often painfully hurt for many reasons. And some children whose parents cannot be with them are not particularly wounded by it. Otherwise think of all the children of military personnel, who only see their parent occasionally. Many grow up fine. Is it reckless to allow military personnel to breed?

Here's another counterargument:

Perhaps it would be ultimately reckless to reduce diversity in the gene pool (or meme pool) by only allowing people who are a good fit for current society's ever-varying codes to pass on their genes.

(That's a variation on the "are you sure it's healthy for humans if only rich people breed" argument.)

I tend to think the attraction-and-breeding instinct is best treated with great respect and allowed to proceed if the people involved want to do it, as though it carries some kind of evolutionary wisdom greater than our small-minded culture. Like one of those "meta" rules of the game; if they're in love, let them be, even if they're judged criminals. I suspect that the enormous variation in how children turn out confirms this, especially when outcomes over multiple generations are tracked, but I'm no sociologist so I don't know.
UK police forces have an option to offer drivers who speed a speed awareness training course. This costs money but less than the fine and insurance rise from the points. A friend of mine did one after being caught at 33mph in a 30mph zone. (The police never used to pull you over for that sort of error but with automated speed cameras it is cheap to detect.)
The impact assessment indicates that it reduced repeat offending compared to fines. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-speed-aw...
I like the idea but I think it would have a legal problem in the US. My understanding is that when you get a speeding ticket it is actually a court summons where most people just plead guilty and pay the fine. If the punishment is instead immediate without an opportunity to go to court I can see it as a violation of due process. I’m not a lawyer though.
But type is a machine-readable way to say what a variable does or is. A compiler can certainly know a name from a password if its type support is versatile enough and you use separate types for them. Or, for example, for things like "unchecked C string", "valid UTF-8 C string", "NKFD-normalized UTF-8 C string", etc. A separate type for password may be a jolly good idea with a logging system you can dump any data to; you certainly wouldn't want it to log passwords.

Using prefixes is a poor man's type system, a loose convention to be enforced by humans, while with types it would be a machine-readable and enforceable requirement.
Google does something similar: https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/docs
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If typing is the bottleneck you aren’t a programmer you are an assembly line worker.
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Yeah, sometimes they get funny ideas from toons. I've found out I can 'defuse' those situations by joining the narrative and then going full on Roahl Dahl and suggesting something outrageous, which in turn puts the kid into a mode where they figure things out on a more philosophical level. I actually say things like "Yeah, the princess has a nice castle. I'm sure her father sure enslaved lots of people to build it" and they go like "that's horrible! No, um, let me think... I'm sure it was built by paid professionals!" Etc. Kids don't get damaged if you insert a little bit of cognitive wiggle room to their favourite narratives :)
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the problem is mainly that the script is executed without leaving a trace. if you downloaded the script then executed it, you would have something to inspect in case something goes wrong.

it's too easy, and people with very scarce knowledge could develop a habit of doing this without asking questions and not even leaving any trace for a senior to inspect in case of a problem happening
The English have pleny of jokes about their own motorways, but the also have a symphony for the M1.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0009qyz
I wish lawmakers instead of spending time on misguided cookie banner laws, spent more time on things like this.

Behavior like this is completely unacceptable, it is equivalent to store owner throwing you out because he thought your hair are red.

People whose accounts are being suspended without warning, without explanation, and without a way to appeal, like in this case, should be able to sue the company for a large sum of money, so that company knows that breaching contracts is not a good thing.

The job of government is to help people establish contracts between themselves, and to help keeping the explicit and implicit terms of the contract. The random suspension of account is likely a more serious breach of contract than selling private data to third parties.
Just a note, the speed awareness course is not available in Scotland.
It exists in Perl. So I figure it can be implemented in any language.
> There is no fundamental difference between curl .. | sh versus cloning a repo and building it from source.

Not true: when you clone a repo with signed commits, you have forensic evidence that the repo signer provided the code you ran, while when you use curl you have … just the code itself.

That's not a lot, but it's not nothing.
Pet rats ("fancy rats") were largely separated fron the wild gene pool about 150 years ago. They can live to three years or more, and are quite prone to benign tumours.

(source: wife used to be a fancy-rat breeder)
I agree although I'm using the older "Teeline fast" book.

I want my writing to be faster while taking notes in meetings and slightly obufiscated if I drop my journal somewhere, it still needs to be interpreted by me years or possibly decades down the road, or by my successors after I'm gone.

That means that I needed to use teeline over Gregg or Pitman because the ladder are designed for quickly transcribing while you know the subject matter, and that's if you really approach those shorthand notes taken after decades can be extremely difficult to interpret back to English words.

Teeline is grounded in the English letters themselves and so as long as you're consistent with your rules and or consistently inconsistent with your house rules, then someone who learns to interpret a few of your words can slowly but surely unearth all of your words.
I'm sure a choice could be given of "physically present yourself at court" or "wait for 45 minutes now".
Don’t you have to report that you’ve attended the course nowadays and Insurers generally increase the premium by the same amount as if you had points?
It’s rare for a patent (or airplane) to change hands for literally $1.

It’s common for them to change hands for “$1 plus other valuable consideration” to mask the true price. Sometimes that “OVC” might be 999,999 other dollars for example.
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Plenty of installation scripts ask for root.
The sole running nuclear plant-building project in France is Flamanville... and a disaster.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamanville_Nuclear_Power_Plan...
Let's ban these spammers for life from ever creating another google account and when they can't, let's turn them into the very bots that judged them so on every other site using recaptcha3.
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Constant news about Google banning accounts for various mistakes, small or large, reminds me of a certain country's social credit system. When will they start banning people that have any kind of contact with accounts in bad standing? Will they start denying purchases on Google Pay depending on how well behaved the account is?
DJ Delorie (of DJGPP game) used to complain about similar broken systems
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Do case sensitive file systems still break Adobe software?
> Over the past five years alone, the Energiewende has cost Germany €32 billion ($36 billion) annually...

The reason why this is so expensive for Germany is the political decision to subsidise renewable energy generation by guaranteeing energy purchase prices for 20 years via the EEG law. This led to a lot of the non-competitive inefficient early-gen solar and wind being installed in Germany, which will continue to receive subsidies for another 5-10 years; for new generation being installed, the subsidies reduce every year.

One of the intended effects was that the solar and wind industries had income that they could invest in research to improving the cost and efficiency of solar and wind generation. IIRC an article that I'm sadly unable to find now claimed that this accelerated the development such that today's very competitive costs would only be achieved 6-7 years later if there had never been an EEG, which I find a remarkable achievement. Of course if you're installing solar or wind in your country today you'll benefit from these improvements.

> Der Spiegel cites a recent estimate that it would cost Germany “€3.4 trillion ($3.8 trillion),” or seven times more than it spent from 2000 to 2019, to increase solar and wind three to five-fold by 2050.

Assuming this is the article you mean:

https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-failure-...

What the article actually says:

According to ESYS, [...] by 2050, the costs would add up to 2 to 3.4 trillion euros, depending on the scenario. Other forecasts fluctuate between 500 million and about 2 trillion euros.

I'm thinking 500 million has to be a typo and should be 500 billion; still that's quite a range of estimates.
And as a counter example - the most widely used platform for mobile games is Unity and most Unity games implement their important stuff in fully-managed C# (which has among many other performance issues a fairly intrusive garbage collector).

Yeah there's a move away from C# towards a Burst-compiled unmanaged subset but it hasn't happened yet. And yes - Unity itself is C++ but all your game code is still in Mono/C# and calling in to the engine doesn't make all that go away. There's still plenty of tight loops in managed code.

In short - a lot of mobile game developers seem happy to sacrifice bare metal performance if they get something back in return.
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We usually do a short retreat once per year. It starts around 9 am on a Friday, when we drive with a bus to our destination (usually 2 or 3h drive), and we come back on Saturday about 3 pm. All of that is "fun time"/team building. Of course that's a bit lamer than the topic, but since many of us have kids (I don't) they have a more realistic chance of attending. And for most them usually works out (but were quite small with ~50ppl).

My SO's employer went to Mallorca to party for a week when the company was smaller (200ppl?). I like our approach much more.
There are many pets that aren't domesticated like fish, snakes, tarantulas.

That's not to say that Tasmanian devils are docile enough to be that kind of pet, though.
> … a dice … a dice … a dice

It’s a die! I guess I shouldn't be stunned that the Grauniad makes this sort of error, but … sheesh.
Which is why its baffling to me that lots of people who are deadly afraid of government tyranny are completely ok with privately owned tyranny (even monopolistic kinds)