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Starship is cool but it ain’t magic. They haven’t changed the rocket equation. It’s still going to be extraordinarily expensive to ship stuff to mars.
> It was reporting by British media, politicians, celebrities and ordinary citizens that put pressure on the apartheid government to end apartheid

Not just British, it was a global effort and a global boycott. The British government of the time wasn't a supporter of Mandela.

> I am sure Hitler was going to prefer that other countries don't report on what was happening so that he can continue to eliminate all German Jews.

The Holocaust was barely reported at the time. Much of the details were only discovered by horrified Allied troops that overran the camps. Internment and the other racial discriminatory laws were reported; and the wave of Jewish refugees was, along with the high levels of opposition to taking in refugees.

Some of those have very striking parallels today.
> Is there an example of any we have already passed?

Reading about nature before humans or where humans settle shows that what passes as nature today is nothing like it used to be. That we are mostly ignorant of it doesn't change that we've passed many tipping points. Each extinction, for example, is irreversible and everyone here knows we're causing more than ever.

I recommend The World Without Us by Alan Weisman (audiobook free on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8z6vsg1OH8) and The Once and Future World by J. B. MacKinnon http://www.jbmackinnon.com/index.html. I recorded a video essay on Once and Future World: http://joshuaspodek.com/your-daily-environment-009-the-once-....

We've crossed tipping point after tipping point. We just don't know what we've lost.
He has to open the case to use it, no? Quoting from the article:

> "I also added cooling vents- the internal Pi 4 has a fan on it, but it needed vents too- so if you look close you can see vents above the connector panel and above the display."
And thanks to it they decided on a language that is barely workable outside Apple's eco-system, instead of more mature alternatives.

I don't have big hopes for the project.
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Regarding performance, there is a really interesting discussion started by Martin Děcký: we spent decades optimizing hardware for monolithic kernels - maybe we could optimize it for microkernels to gain performance.

Not sure if anything happened there after the FOSDEM talk.

https://archive.fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/hardware_soft...

https://archive.fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/hardware_soft...
Oh yeah, wow. Having bug reports come with a replayable & inspectable recording of the user's session would be an absolute game changer. We approximate this now with telemetry tools that allow you to see what the user was doing (sort of), but this would be 100x better.
I never really understood the hate for the gig economy. If the gig economy is gone, the majority of the people getting gigs and making extra cash will be making a cool $0.
WinHlp32.exe "All Windows help information is available online. The Windows Help Viewer is no longer supported in Windows 10"

Wow, that's the end of an era. I suppose that also means all WIN32 API documentation is no longer available offline.
How much would it cost society as a whole if WikiPedia switched away form .org? Think of all the printed links, now defunct. Think of the value of that domain to an occupant with less scruples, once left behind. The confused people who will find themselves on a WikiPedia-esque, ad and scam ridden copy.

And that’s just WikiPedia.

This is a shitshow of historic proportions for the internet as a whole. It will be remembered as a landmark in the ever metastasising cancer of monetisation that is suffocating the World Wide Web from within.
Why could the Internet Society not have been the one raising prices by 10% ad infinitum. Need capital? Borrow it and pledge .org as security. There’s basically unlimited funds available in this manner because the .org cashflow stream is as reliable as anything.

How naive indeed. What a shame.
You can have highly motivated people get themselves killed.
Just because burning the ships produced motivation doesn't mean you'll have victory
That is part of the problem but not the biggest one

Twitter is filled with controversy because most of the "news" people that fan the flames use Twitter has their primary message platform, This is why twitter is talked about more than Reddit, or Facebook or any others. The activists that pretend they are journalists are all on twitter, all talking to each other, and rage baiting the mobs
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This essay is also great if you like this kind of thing: https://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/bignumbers.html
It's an experiment really. I probably should have included the origin story somewhere...

I was driving across the U.S. listening to an audio book about American History. Each chapter the author would mention influential books of the time. I was really impacted by the chapter on slavery and really wanted to read Uncle Tom's Cabin. Whilst I've got through plenty of classics, with a job and family, I thought it was unlikely I'd sit down and read it cover-to-cover.

As I thought about it more, I realized that even though I have a Kindle, I rarely read it, but I always read my email on the bus on the way to work. So... what if I just received a page per day? The whole site is basically an experiment to answer that question. I'm enjoying it so far, and now I'll find out if others do too!

So far I'm finding you actually do have enough context to keep track of things. Maybe not get hooked (but there's also a 'request another page' link in the email for those days with bad traffic)

:)
It's a way to give children a more equal start, even if they come from poor families. Right now there's clearly a two-tier education system structured in a way that poor kids have very limited access to better schools. Equal opportunities.
Lifetime member. It’s a great community and really great having a network of people to meetup with while travelling. There’s often impromptu meetups organized on there in the popular nomad destinations like Bali or Chiang Mai. I’ve met a bunch of great people on their over the last two years.
What kinds of positions are you interviewing for, and what was the #1 thing the companies you interviewed with wanted in a hire?
Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe one of the advantages of macOS is that the GPU can use the system ram for deep learning. Which makes it possible to use cheaper GPUs. One of the reasons I'm looking forward to better AMD Tensorflow support.
The author should read the mars trilogy. Its omission here is glaring.
Wow, this is the kind of guy running the internet... he just sold out all the non-profits of the world. Jesus.

If you read carefully -- despite the title, he works hard to obscure it -- the "why" is he just wants the money.

His argument about why it's OK -- "Trust me, Ethos is totally trustworthy" -- is absurd and incoherent.

First of all, the point and purpose of private equity is to make money. To misconstrue the issue as distrust of private equity is backwards. I trust them 100% -- to fulfill their purpose to make money. They will extract money from this investment as effectively and efficiently as they can. Raising prices quickly is just one thing they might do, by the way. If they can find an opportunity to make a nice and quick profit that devastates .org they won't hesitate to take take it if it meets their current investment goals.
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I've used a similar concept about 10 years ago if anyone remembers Wicket[0], and personally really liked it. The challenge was the UI and state were all server side and difficult to keep memory usage down. I'd be interested in how this model works now that client side UI and state are much more capable.

[0] https://wicket.apache.org/
Not that I've ever seen. That's the weird part of the original accusation, climate deniers are, almost as a rule, people with degrees in unrelated fields (often education ironically). This "climate advisor" of the original article is a Physics Professor specializing in atomic physics, optics and spectroscopy.

Accusing climate researchers of skewing their results for funding makes no sense when they are ALL on the same side of the argument and that you could make hay in the current adminstration by being on the other side.

Occams razor would lead us to the conclusing that the evidence really is super overwhelming ...
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I believe that it's useful to have capitalistic motivations to motivate people to perform. You should be able to start a business and get outsized returns if you take risks and succeed. However, I also believe in equal opportunities, and giving kids a more equal start.
Remember these were and are offered as part of a fundraising effort to be able to develop the phones. So I think those prices are targeted at people who want to make a serious donation to the cause as well as getting the hardware.
Because you rent domain names. You don't buy them and they are not your property.

So it's correct to say registrars lease domain names to registrants.
Absolutely, and this was before the Pi had built-in Wifi. The norms you have to comply for are immediately a lot stricter as your device falls into a different category (telecommunications devices).
I didn't see addressed in the article, what about the ground? What keeps air from leaking out through porous sand and rock?
Andy Ngo was recently suspended by Twitter for making what seemed a fair comment, too.
Yeah, the idea that you would take a private equity firm "at their word" and not require it in writing is laughable.
Indeed. The pagination algorithm is terribly naive. It's 2000 chars x the page you're up to. Breaking on a sentence or paragraph would be better. v1.1!

Feedback includes:

- Some books are terrible for this, such as ones with lots of footnotes! A page of footnotes is no fun
- Some feature requests for things like only sending a page if you 'ack' the page you've read
- Some folks like it
Everyone is really doing this. GAAP allows for this. Making value out of hot air. Generating paper profits through re-valuation of assets, especially intangible assets or where there is no mark-to-market.

Softbank had been a little bit more creative then usual (arranging large loans to founders to lead another round of financing) I must admit.

At some point the music stops and then you have a quarter or two of really funny quarterly reports where everyone is taking all skeletons in the closet and repricing them down "due to unpredictable external factors like recession in Botswana or extreme solar activity". And then the game continues.
I'm not really a hardware guy (just a hobbyist), but I've worked with a few. As far as I can tell it's typically a mix of things, largely related to managing unique difficulties of hardware bringup and treating software development as part of the hardware product development cycle instead of really having its own planning/management authority. For example:

- Doing a hard fork of the software stack for every product family/generation/platform, because it's assumed up front that hardware differences/bugs and changes in product definition will require non-portable changes throughout the stack (e.g. things like GUI element sizes and line lengths are often hardcoded to fit the layout to a particular screen, various GPIO pins/buttons/LEDs/connectors change identity/significance, hardware gains/loses capabilities needed for a feature so UI elements related to that feature need to be added/removed/altered)

- Expecting the vast majority of development effort to be on shipping new products because already-shipping products are "in the can" and the big deals have already been closed

- Management belief that hardware is hard and software is easy (which is arguably sometimes rational from the perspective of managing product-dooming risks)

- Upstream vendors wasting developers' time with shenanigans around stuff like documentation (oh, you wanted the real manual that actually says what the registers do?) and firmware (some vendors apparently forget to mention that there is firmware until you ask your SE/FAE why something isn't working)

- Uncertainty around whether a given problem ought to be fixed in hardware or software
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As someone who has been on it on 4 years, I believe it is probably the most indispensable tool for any frequent traveller.

Being able to talk to people in realtime who are living in, or have been living in the places you are interested in visiting provides a value I haven't really seen elsewhere.

Ask a question on virtually any topic and you will get either an answer or direction on where to find an answer. Visas, budget travel, restaurants, relationships, cat appreciation, travel/tech gear... you name it.

Just a lot of genuinely funny and insightful people in the community that certainly help to make the nomad life feel less lonely.
I'm an avid reader of Chomsky. He often gets his sources from financial and foreign policy publications. I think I remember him writing something to the effect of: the best source of truthful journalism is in the finance and foreign policy publications, the reason being that those publications help powerful people form their opinions and make decisions, and none of the powerful people would be subscribing to publications that do a shitty job and that compromise the powerful people's decisions. So those publications are necessarily honest, the articles they publish would often be devoid of emotion or moral judgement (e.g. a "member of the communist party" would be just that, not a "commie"), they would even openly admit about, for instance, how some policy protects the interests of certain circles of powerful people.

I can't remember where exactly I've read that and what the exact wordings were though.
I work for a company that sales anti-spam and this is absolutely true. It is an unending battle between spammers and the people building the filters. We are also constantly getting RBL'ed by groups including Google and Symantec who know who we are as we have had business agreements with them in the past.
Got mine yesterday, posted a top-level comment. It's definitely at a prototype stage, but the hardware seems awesome and high-quality, looking forward to more apps being developed!
A great pity that Poptels (Worker Coop) bid did not succeed over the internet society.

I worked for one of the other bidders for .org as did Ivan Pope.

Don't suppose Billg or some altruistic rich people want to fund us to get the Band back on the road :-)

Only Half Joking I am sure that Ivan And some of the Poptel team would be up for it
> There is not rational reason to like survival. To love our children, to do what we call good.

Of course there is and very well described in evolutionary science
welcome to the web 2.0

cooming soon: web assemply web 3.0
which (I fear) might feel a lot like flash web pages from the early 00s. I hope I'm wrong.
Strike two for Seattle tiny houses
Workfare. I agree it provides employment but it also bids up salaries. Moreover, anti-unicorns like WeWork make it more difficult for real startups motivated by survival and profit.
Thanks for taking the time to come up with that. :p

My first job was at a supermarket. There was a big sign on the door saying "NO NEWSPAPERS". Memories.
I work in this space, and this study is getting a lot of attention. At the end of the day, colleges don't care. They have their pell eligibility quotas, their ethnicity ratio considerations, net tuition revenue requirements, etc etc.

Their objective is to maximize their reputation - if they find students with lower SAT scores from poorer neighborhoods become more successful in their careers and donate more money/become notable figures/contribute more to academic research, that's who they will admit (given the profitability with financial aid and federal incentives).

Colleges aren't going to change anything based on this study, however it does enrage the wealthy white families and rally the poor black ones with the topic of racial/financial adversity, so it's bound to get a lot of attention.
> while Java, JavaScript and .net require recompiling, repackaging and deployment.

Not to be a pedantic curmudgeon... actually, precisely to be a pedantic curmudegon... javascript does not require any of that.

The byzantine and asinine ecosystem that has sprouted like a cancer around javascript when SV and Node noticed the language and its profit potential, fueled by hype and unnecessary complexity? Yes. But the ecosystem is not the language.

Javascript itself is exactly like PHP in this regard - you edit a file, upload to the server, refresh the browser.

Everything else is unnecessary. Useful? Maybe. Bullshit? Probably. But not necessary.
Right. This guy was appointed to ISOC by IETF, unfortunately this year, so his term lasts until 2022. However there are 4 board members whose term is up in 2020 [1], one appointed by the IETF. According to BCP77 [2] The IETF will choose its appointee in January. Nominations for candidates for all 4 positions apparently close next week, Dec 6 [3] so anyone who has the time and interest to scrutinise the nominees (or even propose new ones) needs to act on this pretty soon.

[1] https://www.internetsociety.org/board-of-trustees/
[2] https://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp77
[3] https://www.internetsociety.org/board-of-trustees/elections/...
Yes, this.

I don't get how anyone actually cares about a top level domain. There are so many. Pick another.
But that is making everyone equally poor, not equally rich, in the same vein of thinking as the government in "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut. People become wealthier and better off by helping each other and inventing new things with the freedom to explore, not by fiat of law or force. The kind of force and compulsion you are talking about will lead to equality of poverty. The first step on that road is the loss of everyone's freedom of choice.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron
I thought the reward neurotransmitter was dopamine. Aren't endorphins for pain?
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There are apps for reading books. I like the random part and yeah you could make it pretty slick to convert to paid only if there's a decent level of engagement.
PHP doesn't really want to do the web server part. PHP provides a request based (stateless or "Serverless before there was serverless") container for script execution and leaves the server part to some other program. Doing proper HTTP serving involves many things others have already done and where others will inovate. Dealing with security (SSL/TLS certificates and ciphers), virtual hosts, access permissions, HTTP protocol versions and so on is lots of work PHP developer leave to experts at Apache, nginx or whatever comes next.

Sure - one could do what many folks in other environments are doing: node.js or go developers often implement a simple API endpoint and use a reverse proxy (nginx or something) in front of it for interacting with the outside world, but fpm is the more specialized protocol for that.

Then again PHP is driven by people contributing. If some folks contribute according infrastructure and push for it I could be proven wrong. :)
IMO, putting "Ethos" in the name of your private equity firm makes it a little bit too obvious that you don't want people to realize that you care about nothing but money.
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Yup. Looks exactly like it. SOAP is not that different either.

Add: my PTSD from a few months with DCOM is acting up :)
Its not cheap you have to commit to very high up times with massive redundancy eg survive continent failure
If you are a customer you can file a support ticket and our Support Engineers can help troubleshoot. One of our mandates is "performance is a feature" and we want to better understand what's happening in the wild.

If not, and you are interested, we built a tool we use called "fast-stats": https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/support/toolbox/fast-stats

it might be able to pinpoint what controllers are slow for your own curiosity.
Even in JS, the Meteor framework was basically created to implement this.

Except they actually implement things like validation, because as much as one may want to unify both environments, the reality is that exposing all your methods to the outside world may have some pitfalls, to put it mildly.
> Put the download buttons on the front page to increase conversions

Conversions are visitors turned into paying customers; since there is nothing offered for pay, the site has no conversions no matter what it does.

Well, unless you count donations, but you need to move the donate link, not the download link, to improve that.

> Make a mobile version, especially for tablets.

Maintaining an additional version is an additional cost. Since, again, this is a free offering with no monetization besides donations, and no obvious aspirations in that direction, suggesting additional costs are taken on seems entitled, or, at best, badly confused.

> combined with sites like Wayfair, IKEA, and Overstock.com, you can have a design --> purchase pipeline which is both convenient for consumers and beneficial for you via referral revenue.

Is there anything on the site indicating that the creator has any interest in building a marketing platform for retail outlets instead of free non-commercial tool?
If the headache of dealing with PGP is greater than the headache of dealing with a hacker and dodging google targeted ads, it's not remotely illogical to choose the latter.
I had to disable AdGuard to display it.
I think that you’re correct and what is happening is that, in our era of extreme inequality, pyramid schemes are being forced farther up the food chain.

It used to be that you could make a pretty penny soaking the lower classes directly with things like MLMs. But as their wealth was hollowed out by globalization and the Great Recession, you have to shift your predation upward to things like their pension funds, sovereign wealth, etc. While the people managing these resources can sometimes be more savvy than your average sucker signing up to a pyramid scheme, it’s very easy to pull one over on them with stories about “technological innovation” (counter to logic or evidence of profitability) because this is the grand, wishful story of our era.
Hi! You should take a look at https://mjml.io/ (not a service I am associated with, simply one of the easiest to use) and make a responsive email template for your service. If you have a contact somewhere, I'd be willing to help you out with that if you need assistance.
it is quite the reverse: multicore systems means that shared memory monoliths need to be fast and a lot of transistors are spent to make sure that they are. There is a reason that multicore cpus do not look like networked machines.

Cache coherency is optimistic, message passing is pessimistic.
hopefully my son will grow up with none of this cultural and sociological baggage

It might be worth considering that you are simply replacing it with other baggage that will seem equally antiquated eventually.
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I was thinking more parents working two jobs with inflexible schedules, but yes that too.
Good to see that backers are starting to receive theirs. I know there was some previous controversy over them only shipping to Purism employees.
Extremely featureful debuggers such as this one tend to require a great deal of code that is hardware-specific, in addition to being OS-specific. I assume MacOS was targeted first because it's the platform with the greatest degree of hardware uniformity. I fully expect Linux support to materialize someday, but with the caveat that I expect it will only (officially) work with the most popular hardware.
Both this and JSLinux don't implement X86, right?