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> The answer to that is astonishingly complicated.

It is, and I think we've lost something valuable by having USB, which is pretty complicated, as the dominant interface. However, the Raspberry Pi makes it pretty easy to blink an LED, and it's pretty accessible. Certainly more accessible that a computer was in the era where it was easy to toggle a parallel port pin.
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High-school kids playing football are more likely to die directly or indirectly from playing than they are from being shot.
I'd rather just shut down the schools than give up any more rights. If you haven't noticed, our Federal government is totally out of control and has gone rogue and I don't think it's a very good idea to cede any further power or individual rights to that monster.

The right to bear arms was paid for in blood and not just once. Good men laid down their lives so we could have these rights. That a few kooks will shoot up schools is sad, but it's hardly a reason to let a bunch of asswipe cucks give up what was fought so hard for.
Wow. I definitely read it as “ACLU would use robots to police” and I thought it was just a clumsier way of saying “ACLU to police the use of robots”. I didn’t actually realize police was a noun until your comment.
> at least some form of private health care.

a very tiny proportion of them yes, in the US the whole thing is private
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Without tackling the obesity/sedentary/nutrition problems the healthcare issue will persist.

Similarly the opioid/meth epidemics of the last 2 decades are not (just) healthcare problems.
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Is there any way to do this the other way around and integrate new rust code into non-trivial C project with non-trivial build system?
> That is incorrect. "You will" is not the same as "You are more likely to".

Yes you are right. That's what i meant. thank you.
> People die weeky in most hospitals because doctors and nurses don't wash their hands.

And hospitals and doctors alike do get sued for medical errors and negligence - especially lethal ones. "But I saved 99 other lives" is not really a good argument, it's not a game of points.
Reading between the lines, the cause is alcoholism and drug abuse. If you want to live longer don't drink, smoke, or do drugs. Duh.
PIA was the first, that I was able to find at the time, that had an fully functioning android app for your service. I've used PIA ever since whenever I needed VPN services.

Like every service I use, I plan to take into account what I learn about them and then watch and see what they do.
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I noticed that! Actually pushed me to remove it from my site...
I am not sure about large companies, essentially every small to mid-sized PCB design/manf company in China uses pirated EDA software, primarily Altium Designer, OrCAD and Mentor Graphics. In fact, piracy of sofware is encouraged by the CCP - I won't name the websites, but in order to get a download link you need a WeChat or Baidu account which is ultimately linked to Citizen ID or Passport through phone number (OTP). Yes, I setup a Windows VM to get access to these sites where you need to install a Baidu download manager in your operating system.

There is also specific Chinese forum lingo that is used to thank people who post pirated software ("1st floor", "2nd floor", etc.)
Last night I gave the complete solution in Swift below. Here are the two lines to read the file:

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var text = try String(contentsOf: path!, encoding: .utf8)
The lack of empathy and solidarity is only growing in the U.S. so this problem won’t be solved any time soon.
The point of clear backpacks isn’t to make sure they aren’t carrying guns, it’s to make sure they aren’t carrying drugs or other illicit material, which is a bigger problem and harder to control.
Why do they spend so many words talking about preventing self-harm and suicide? In my experience the school doesn't actually care, so long as they don't off themselves on school grounds. At least when kids died when I was at school, the administration was pitiless towards their siblings' assignments and attendance, and punished them for crying in grief.
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I wonder what will happen with the introduction of the VW ID3. The Up! is now electric-only too.

Here in the UK (Midlands) I see a few Teslas, very few Leafs, even fewer Zoes and the odd i3 (which you can spot from the rubberband-width wheels).

I see charging bays (normally 2 bays) in a car park of 100+ spaces, so I do not think the infrastructure is in place to support electric vehicles, nor the mindset that people would be happy to hang around for 1 hour waiting for their car to charge. They/we are too stuck on the immediate nature of the internal combustion engine and fuel refilling.
You forget Samsung.
I've never understood B2C. Why would anyone go to the trouble of starting a company without $1M in ARR commitments?

To me, that sounds like a death wish, but it worked for all the new high-tech consumer facing companies we read about every day!
I can only speak for myself. But I, and I believe many others, actually prefer a subscription. To be fair. I probably watch more content than the average person. So for me it‘s absolutely worth it. I know and used pretty much every modern pirating technique known to man. While you can get incredibly sophisticated with automation and ease of use. It‘s still not as easy or convenient as Netflix for example.

Also, no Dolby Vision in piracy atm.

Obviously cost is a factor. But more important for me is ease of access and best possible quality. Let‘s take Disney+. In my market it‘s not available yet. I will absolutely pirate The Mandalorian. The fact that it would surprise anyone that it would be a heavily pirated show is laughable. It‘s 2019 and you expect people to wait on a show that‘s available elsewhere? I would pay for it. But they won‘t let me. Their fault for not launching globally .
Speaking of books on hackers, I can recommend Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World. I enjoyed it thoroughly despite the title.

Did you know Beto O'Rourke was a member?
Yes - and I think it's precisely that increase in regulations that the poster which they were replying to was complaining about, given that the 1970s were the last time nuclear seemed affordable enough to build. I've even seen the odd nuclear proponent on here outright advocating that we return to 1970s-era nuclear regulations.
Learn anything, but please don't write about it. There's nothing worse than people who can barely switch a computer on writing 'tutorials' on it.
So, this could also be used to catch the fish?
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It's a very unpopular opinion w.r.t. to America.

Gallup conducts a firearms poll every year, and the closest thing to a total ban question is a total ban on handguns.

"Do you think there should or should not be a law that would ban the possession of handguns, except by the police and other authorized persons?"

should be: 29

should not be: 70

no opinion: 1
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THIS IS NOT OKAY.

We can't have children being used to constant surveillance and accepting this as a part of life. It sets them up for so many problems in the future, where they won't understand the serious implications of constant tracking and surveillance.

And sure, nothing too bad comes out of this stuff right now in most of the world, but have you seen China? The minute a government decides to do so, all that data that's been collected on you your whole life will be used against you to give you a flawed AI-generated social "score" that determines what you can or cannot do, or to determine whether or not you're a "threat" (see: someone who speaks out against wrongdoings) to such a government.
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In [1]: N = 5

In [2]: def skewed():
...: for p in range(2, 2*N - 1):
...: tmin = max(1, p - (N - 1))
...: tmax = min((p + 1) // 2, N - 1)
...: for t in range(tmin, tmax + 1):
...: print("p: {} t: {} | a[{}][{}] = a[{}][{}] + a[{}][{}]".format(
...: p,
...: t,
...: p - t,
...: t,
...: p - t - 1,
...: t,
...: p - t,
...: t - 1,
...: ))

In [3]: def unskewed():
...: for i in range(1, N):
...: for j in range(1, min(i+2, N)):
...: print("i: {} j: {} | a[{}][{}] = a[{}][{}] + a[{}][{}]".format(
...: i,
...: j,
...: i,
...: j,
...: i - 1,
...: j,
...: i,
...: j - 1,
...: ))

In [4]: unskewed()
i: 1 j: 1 | a[1][1] = a[0][1] + a[1][0]
i: 1 j: 2 | a[1][2] = a[0][2] + a[1][1]
i: 2 j: 1 | a[2][1] = a[1][1] + a[2][0]
i: 2 j: 2 | a[2][2] = a[1][2] + a[2][1]
i: 2 j: 3 | a[2][3] = a[1][3] + a[2][2]
i: 3 j: 1 | a[3][1] = a[2][1] + a[3][0]
i: 3 j: 2 | a[3][2] = a[2][2] + a[3][1]
i: 3 j: 3 | a[3][3] = a[2][3] + a[3][2]
i: 3 j: 4 | a[3][4] = a[2][4] + a[3][3]
i: 4 j: 1 | a[4][1] = a[3][1] + a[4][0]
i: 4 j: 2 | a[4][2] = a[3][2] + a[4][1]
i: 4 j: 3 | a[4][3] = a[3][3] + a[4][2]
i: 4 j: 4 | a[4][4] = a[3][4] + a[4][3]

In [5]: skewed()
p: 2 t: 1 | a[1][1] = a[0][1] + a[1][0]
p: 3 t: 1 | a[2][1] = a[1][1] + a[2][0]
p: 3 t: 2 | a[1][2] = a[0][2] + a[1][1]
p: 4 t: 1 | a[3][1] = a[2][1] + a[3][0]
p: 4 t: 2 | a[2][2] = a[1][2] + a[2][1]
p: 5 t: 1 | a[4][1] = a[3][1] + a[4][0]
p: 5 t: 2 | a[3][2] = a[2][2] + a[3][1]
p: 5 t: 3 | a[2][3] = a[1][3] + a[2][2]
p: 6 t: 2 | a[4][2] = a[3][2] + a[4][1]
p: 6 t: 3 | a[3][3] = a[2][3] + a[3][2]
p: 7 t: 3 | a[4][3] = a[3][3] + a[4][2]
p: 7 t: 4 | a[3][4] = a[2][4] + a[3][3]
p: 8 t: 4 | a[4][4] = a[3][4] + a[4][3]

Actually writing it out like that really helped me grok what was going on, personally. If you look at the unskewed function then you can see that for every i there is a value for j that relies on the output from a previous j, e.g. the i: 1 j: 2 iteration uses a[1][1] which is the output from the i: 1 j: 1 iteration. But you can't find a similar example in the skewed function.
"We buy cars and go to mechanics, right? We don't know how to peek inside the engines anymore."

I don't know which world you live in, but it sure isn't mine! Even at the height of working as a senior system engineer / technical architect in the heart of Silicon Valley, I regularly wrenched on my car; I even found a self-wrench shop near the Tesla factory in Fremont. In fact I just wrenched on my car this past weekend. I wrench on all my cars. How could I call myself an engineer without understanding what I use?
Great idea that would be amplified by having the entire surface yellow, orange or some other color that is different from standard sidewalks and roadways, so both pedestrians and vehicle drivers are aware they are in a "crossing zone."
I get that some people don't like this.

But the reality is that schools are a lot more dangerous than they were just 10 years ago.

If our response to that shouldn't be cameras and backpack checks, then what's an appropriate response? (Perhaps the bigger picture political answer is "gun control", but that's not something schools can sit around a wait for to happen)
If it's easier to do it on Unity, the way to go is to improve Godot until it's even easier to use than Unity! :-) And the actual point of using something open like Godot is to raise kids who will internalize the fact that they could make not just their games, but their game engines as well - indeed, that nothing is 'magic' and anything can be thoroughly understood from first principles if one cares enough to do so. Every hacker knows this already, of course - but normies don't, even though that's the most useful lesson that 'hacking' can teach.
IIRC the issue is not that private healthcare exists in first world countries. The major issue is that private healthare is the primary healthcare insurance provider for USA citizens.
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Part of the problem is not just the actual risk, but the perception of risk. People deserve to not feel like they are going to be shot when they show up to an educational institution, and that feeling has been withering away lately
Do you do actual WP development? How many clients do you have? How much Yoast functionality does your plugin cover?

There are certain plugins that deliver so much value that developing and maintaining them yourself is nonsense for most devs out there. Unless your agency manages thousands of plugins and you have some very specific needs, you don't need to re-implement everything from scratch. Even then, it's probably far cheaper and easier to re-use their GPL code as the basis for a less bloated plugin rather.
But who isn't going to wait for their Ryzen when Intel still costs more and is riddled with performance issues.
This is entirely backward from actual security principles.

Any increase in the number of people involved in a security related decision multiplies the chance that bad decisions/compromises will happen.

Cf the definition of compartmentalization.
Yes and no. The Python interpreter/bytecode-VM is not as fast as it could be, because only a few people work on it. PyPy is great, but not drop in. Lack of funding is the proximate cause, of course, but that's just masking the ultimate cause of lack of interest. Because people use Python as a glue, just like PHP, or Node. To do the heavy lifting you have many options. (Even in Python, you can just use Cython, use FFI to call out to anything with A C interface, like Rust, or C++, or C. Many Python packages do exactly that, wrap a battle tested old native lib.)

That said the Python VM is a well optimized beast, it's very dynamic, you can monkey patch anything and everything at runtime on-the-fly. This is of course what makes it hard to speed up, too many things to "check for overloadedness" when doing anything. A JIT could help, but that's a lot of work. (Hence why PyPy took a decade, and the whole Python C API compatibility problem is still there - PyPy can only JIT the Py parts.)

Anyway. With that much dynamic stuff and with the VM and the language already well tuned for concurrent memory safety its 'async' story is great and performant. (Like NodeJS'.)

So Python is great for orchestrating whatever you need to handle requests. And if you want to scale up, just spin up more instances. (Just like with Java, but you don't have to think much about the overhead garbage collection, because CPython uses simple reference counting.)

Finally, my concern with Python was the lack of static typing, which made any large project hard to manage. (And resulted in a lot of boilerplate tests and excessive defensive coding.) But mypy is great, and with that it's a joy to work in Python. (Just like TypeScript made the JS world exponentially much more saner.)
But the Tesla is still extremely expensive compared to most "little" cars in my UK neighbourhood (VW Up!, Toyota Yaris etc.)

I see many secondhand cars here and can't understand how the 100,000 mile warranty on batteries (eg the 100,000 miles quoted by the VW ID3) will ever compete with secondhand combustion engine vehicles. For a VW Golf, a 200,000+ mile limit is "normal". I can't see how the removal of the floor to replace the batteries will ever work in practice, unless we're making all these cars with a short-sighted view of recycling?
Worker pool for compile jobs and simulations. The cost to run this locally and with local storage (over 10g) is cheaper than to do it in the cloud.
They discuss the fact that we are seeing linear gains from exponential investment in several fields (healthcare, semiconductors to name a few). This is a fascinating problem.
Robots are used everywhere already. Everywhere.

This is getting press because it's kind of edgy-looking, involves police, and the ACLU.

It's not a question of if, but when and how. Implementation. The most interesting question to me is how regulation will unfold as robots become ubiquitous in public life.

At least in the United States, I suspect that it will take several rather grotesque disasters before regulatory bodies get seriously involved and get around to passing the 3 Laws.
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Fair point. But I still don't think it's worthwhile to equate "one cable channel (like OXY)" to "one streaming service (like Netflix)".
> Is there a model that can predict the effect?

Yes, the model is called supply and demand. When you increase the quantity supplied, the only way the extra quantity can be sold, is if the price drops. If you increase the quantity supplied without reducing the price, the extra units will never be sold. Why would they... anyone who was willing to pay the previous price, would have already done so and will already have a home in SF/Oakland. The only way to fill the new units is to entice new residents who aren't willing to pay the previous price point.
I found this remarkably refreshing, although as yet my knowledge of her writing is still zero. Any good references, articles books etc, other than the ones mentioned in the article.

Does it strike anyone else that the model of an internet commons is worth exploring? Is reddit for example a kind of commons? Sharing resources, like a field for cows (aka the Boston Commons) is one kind of physical commons, but isn't the internet another?
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Depends on the domain.

For single threaded applications, as fast is the goal. There is potential for it to be faster due to stronger restrictions around pointers.

Multithreaded code is slated to be faster mainly because rust provides safety for patterns that would be difficult to do right in C++ (see servo css handling).

That is to say, you could do the same thing in C++, but getting it right is harder to do.
Right but lets focus on one problem at a time. With more people in the city, you have a bigger tax base, meaning more tax revenue, meaning you can spend more to improve infrastructure like public transit.

The population of SF has only increased by 111K (14%) in the last 20 years. Imagine what we could do with twice as many people contributing tax revenue?
Where did someone assume that the programmer was to blame? How do you find out if the High On Totem Pole Man is to blame if you can't depose the Low On Totem Pole Man? You can't. You are forced to take the High On Totem Pole Man's word for it.
Does this actually help? How come a simple metal detector wasn't enough?
Neither of you are incorrect as it's about preferences, but the real problem is one of balance.

A city needs all kinds of people. Affordability and density needs to be moderated so that there's enough diversity in families and employment to function well. Also some of the most affordable areas in the USA are also the most sparse.
> But the reality is that schools are a lot more dangerous than they were just 10 years ago.

Do you have a source for this?
Being negative doesn't negate that your comment was unnecessary and of no added value to the conversation.
We learned nothing from Robocop... ..sorry I know this is serious
You register as ISP with e.g. RIPE, buy some IP blocks from an ISP in the country you want to pretend to be in, and then announce them via BGP from your actual location.

Due to IPv4 shortage, we're actually seeing a lot of chinese and european companies buying IP addresses in AFRINIC space, from african ISPs, and using them in their own countries.
> Watch out for interviewers who spend a lot of time talking about themselves and their accomplishments.

I've learned recently that this is a very good tell.
That brings to mind literal antiquity with Roman soldiers beinf required to supply their own gear. It was decentralizing in power but to call it equality is a bit misleading given it effectively created a caste barrier to be a soldier by an added constraint of "fit enough to fight AND afford the kit". The alternative was government supplied gear.

Of course the downside of the alternative was that it allowed for a centralizing of power in generals. Proto-generalismo problems ensue.

Which I believe highlights the irony of "equality" and "accessibility" being in opposition. Effectively the fetishized "means of production tied to labor" means by implication everyone is required to own all of their capital for production. Otherwise they cannot start. There are more barriers to entry and the lowest are even more disenfranchised. That is before the organizational logistical problems of supply chains and industrialization let alone what comes after it. It brings to mind the old form letter joke about "your proposed solution for spam won't work".

I don't oppose trying to find a better system, and laud attempts but that doesn't seem workable.
Yeah that's what I led my comment with...
Private health care exists in the UK but the NHS is public, though there are attempts to change this [1] as apparently the US model is considered something to emulate. I definitely wouldn't use the UK as a comparison to the US' private system as the funding models are completely different.

From the outside it seems that government attempts to shape the market (by the measures you mention) seem to work out worse and more expensively than measures to make the market (e.g. NHS). We have this in the UK with the government providing subsidies to buy private houses rather than just build enough public houses. I'd be interested in some economic insight into this if anyone has any.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/nov/08/private-surg...
Yes, and that shell script can't be simply unpacked. It has to run, and when it does, it rewrites paths to libs that the toolchain needs to pull in so that they point to the correct installed locations. In contrast, Buildroot toolchains require that only relative paths match, and do not require that absolute paths are embedded into the binaries and *.so's.
Two thoughts

1) Isn't a developer also making an investment when they build these high as hell micro-apartment apartment buildings?

2) How do you avoid a race to the bottom in terms of housing quality when you allow said micro-apartments? Do we want a culture where the poor are living in barely livable wage slave pods while the rich are living in abundant villas?

I'm all for affordable housing but it seems too nuanced to allow market forces to take care of it. I think the correct solution revolves around government subsidized/funded housing but that's a whole other can of beans.
Sounds like pareto principle in final stages.
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For monolithic web apps, this is almost certainly true (in my experience), but the ability to rapidly turn d/c configurations, and instantly scale to match spot demand has been a game changer (for me)
Maybe it's fracking?
This is another real-world example of why our lack of energy storage is becoming a crisis. Without energy storage, large amounts of wind and solar energy will wreck our power grids. We must build more storage immediately to prevent a climate crisis.

This is why our project, Terrament, is studying this problem and working on a solution. https://www.terramenthq.com/
I miss Macromedia Flash, although not from a security point of view. I think there are a lot of parallels between it and HyperCard. I know several people that learned to program because Flash made it so easy to get a prototype running without programming and you just needed to learn just a dash of programming to make it better. There has been nothing like it since.

I'm not the person to do it, but I wish someone would design Flash2.0.
After the Dallas shooter had already killed several police, and was holding in a position where approaching him would be extremely risky, I don't see why they should bother considering his life.

This has nothing to do with routine police use of force, where you could argue that some police should sometimes take some more risks in balance with the public good.