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>people have been convinced of much more evil and much dumber things by people good at talking.

Sure, but it usually follows this scenario..

People ignore issues, accumulate technical or monetary debt, ignore issues, accumulate debt, ignore issues, accumulate debt, lie cheat and scheme to keep ignoring issues... start to suffer because of historical laziness and avarice... someone comes along and says, "Hey, you can solve all these problem with violence, you know..", then evil shit happens.

People are not really persuaded "out" of being lazy or amoral, generally speaking. They're just given social "permission" to do bad things because of tough times.
On the other hand, our best available information is that Santa Claus has a surprising ability to appear in many locations within a short period of time (at least on one night per year). Also, these are red and Santa Claus is red.
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Not really: anyone can run an IRC bridge, and many people do. The #mozilla_#wherever:matrix.org namespace is the preexisting moznet bridge run by Matrix.org (not Riot.im), but anyone with their own server could also run their own bridge, much like they could run their own bouncer today. There is then additional decentralisation from the fact that the room history is replicated throughout all the participating Matrix servers.
> we have decided to replace IRC with Riot/Matrix, hosted by Modular.IM.

Looking at the pricing on modular.im[1] it starts at $10/month for up to 5 "active users," $73/m for up to 50, on and up..

Though modular's credentials look good, it seems like there'd be scope for some serious price gouging if Matrix had more takeup.

The standard (android) client's default servers are patchy enough to make this worth looking into, IME.

1: https://modular.im/services/matrix-hosting
I disagree. That's what we used to do with a map because we did not have information available at our fingertips.

We would study the map ahead of time, based on the map figure out our plan of action by either making mental notes or notes in notepad, or notes on a map and eventually execute our plan based on the information we have selected.

We no longer need to do that. We can decide "I want to do something around X" , go to X and when we want to do something specific ask maps "Where can I find Y around X"?

Ability to drop pins removed the need to study map to complete most of the tasks. When one stumbles upon something interesting while reading a book, watching a show, scrolling through eater, one can drop a pin on a map so next time that person is in the area the pin is there!
Also, I wonder why Amazon hasn't gotten into the ad platform business? They've gotten into everyone else's business. Isn't that the dream - to host a website on their platform and have it be self-supported via ads and possibly even profitable?
Good publicity for decentralization. If they can get it to work, it shows that it’s possible to run a large instance from a non-central host.
Microsoft did the same to me, the same year. Product owner/manager position.
Woah, todo! is going to come in handy considering the wordiness of unimplemented!. However, weirdly enough, the documentation claims it has been stabilized in 1.39. Why is that?
I'd argue the signatories to that latter are exercising what has become known as "Kolmogorov Complicity," (https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/23/kolmogorov-complicity-...)

The simple question is whether one recognizes the standing of the critics, and the legitimacy and sincerity of their criticism. It's whether the term, as they say in a typically passive voice, "must be contextualized against ongoing issues of neocolonialism," - by whom and why?

If you accept the policing of language based on exogenous criteria, you therefore accept the authority of those police in the material content and direction of the discipline.

However, their criticism isn't about reason, it's about politics, and mistaking the latter for the former was what we will look back on as the fatal naivety of our institutions.
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That's what Google's "My Maps" does. It allows you to mark up a map. I've used it for planning trips frequently to mark places of interest and then used that map to plan my trip using regular ol' Maps for the turn-by-turn.
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(two new employees actually ;P)
> Someone better came along to fill the role and nobody wants to tell a candidate "We found someone better than you".

This is actually the most common feedback i that i get :D
HEVC, VVC, H.264 are also Open Standards, does not mean it is patents free or Royalty free.

While VP8, VP9 arguably isn't as much of of Open Standards, it is not patents free ( Neither is AV1 ) but Royalty Free.
This is why people don't give candidates feedback, FWIW.

It's a bit like arguing with a potential romantic partner who doesn't want to go on a second date: You might win the argument logically, but you're not getting another date unless there was a comical misunderstanding.
Anyone can, few do. At least in terms of what I see on the 20 IRC networks I'm connected to. The only one where people actually tend to run their own Matrix servers is on OFTC with the Freedombox (https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox) people. On Freenode I don't think I have ever seen someone connect from a Matrix server that wasn't riot.im since the creation of the Matrix protocol.
I dual booted into DOS and Windows 3.1 for a long time after I first installed Linux. I would see a similar situation if I used a stock smartphone and had a free phone, I might use them interchangably for years before switching, but it would still be worthwhile.
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Problem: Translation increases probability of error, especially if done by humans.
I'm pretty sure Tom has nothing to do with making trailers. Now I remember why I never go to gizmodo.
IJ was published in 1996 and DFW died in 2008, it was already popular long before he killed himself. And Nirvana was hugely popular after the release of Nevermind in 1991, Kurt died in 1994. What you're saying makes no sense.
The Android app will show you how much each search result along the destination will add to your route. It also shows the gas prices if you're looking for fuel.
It feels telling that Firefox puts their Enhanced Tracking Protection settings pretty close to upfront as possible, and Chrome’s “Block Third Party Cookie” setting is for all intents and purposes to a non-technical user, both buried and off by default.
“better” is too strong: in many cases, structured data is not a problem (and if it is, people will scrape it anyway), but there's simply no business case for spending time on it. Most of the semweb stack had a horrible developer experience — bad documentation, tools, validators, etc. — and rarely had tangible benefit from spending time slogging through it.

The semantic data which has actually been implemented on a wide scale happened because someone could go to their boss and say “Spending time on x will mean better Google ranking” or “Facebook will use their new sharing display for our pages”, and it was orders of magnitude simpler to implement so the time and risk were far more palatable.
> he was the head of HR--she set they policy.

Head of HR don't set these policies unilaterally.
I discovered this by myself - I mean, the search button is right there! I must have been in the middle of a trip & searched for something, which pops up an "Add Stop" button. I think it's pretty discoverable.
Yes, but you lose recency in whatever you're talking about, especially if you consistently upload a daily video that talks about yesterday's events. Even in a gaming video some of the quips and tangents might be temporally relevant. In other words, a two week old video talking about yesterday's impeachment is no longer interesting to viewers because everyone's kneejerk opinions are already settled.
Well, sure it's possible. They don't need to prove it.

But I don't think Mozilla has such a large userbase that it would make any difference.

I like the publicity angle but maybe that's for the future. If Mozilla validates the transition and wants to get more involved with Matrix.org then it'd make sense to own and manage their own stuff.

I like that they are being cautious and not jumping with both feet in.
Assuming you're doing Git based flow branching off of Develop or Master to do changes. Before merging your changes back in do you rebase and cleanup the messages or squash? I feel like every company I work for just does merges everywhere and history is 99% unreadable at this point without filtering out certain things on the log and even then.

Any tips on how you're able to keep things clean for the entire team ? What's your usual workflow? I've read through Martin Flower and a few other blogs on this topic yet have never understood how to avoid "add x", "fix foo".
Be upset when you're being simply entertained. If you see a commercial it's likely entertainment. Be upset when you see a commercial and do something else.

It's not an aesetic desire you're only tired of junk food for your brain. You're tired of being spoon fed predigested pablum. You're not happy with circular stories with characters that never change.

You're interested in yourself and being better. You're interested in your friends and loved ones and their journeys and lessons.
Thanks for the warning, are there any good tools that integrate with pull request checks that can be self hosted?

We self host nearly everything at work except for github. (And it's VERY difficult for me to get anything that costs money approved regardless of price)
I don't think that's true. Oversimplified for example has only been around for like 3 years.

It's certainly true that "people will like this" is a factor in the recommendations, but that seems... correct? It would be pretty silly if Youtube kept pushing indie films people don't want to watch at them.
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Unlike code, law considers intent.
live well != do well . The misquote is telling :)
It should have been a website. Why on earth was it an app? Presumably so it could spy on the other data on your phone.
Feature request:

Make it possible to add the time field in the URL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ychdzz6UEA&t=2m3s
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It’s just a bug. Would you like to file one or would you like me to?
Is there a low-friction way to give Matrix a try? Like a Hacker News channel that you can join with a web client or something?
How does your development cycle look like? For example, you decide you want to add S3 or Redis. So you add it to some yaml, or do it in the amazon console. How do you develop/test/debug the code that would use these services, locally, before pushing that to production?
Do it. I read it about once every year or two. It just keeps getting better, as you find new details you missed the last time.
Using #[non_exhaustive] on enums is going to be general bad practice, just as many in c++ consider ‘default’ switch cases bad practice.

When a new state is added to an enum, we want the code to not compile so that we can fix all the places that need updating.
We have give or take 30M monthly active users.

The instances we use are not the largest (we use 2xls) but we also incorporate spot instances as part of our autoscaling.
Working for a large company at this time. We actually rarely even get contact information for the people we are interviewing, probably intentionally because the feedback cycle for applicants that don't make it seems to be locked down (probably due to potential liabilities). I've asked the team to send follow-up on an occasion or two but it's not clear that it's actually happening.

Knowing this, I'll frequently pivot to feedback mode during the interview itself if they clearly aren't going to make the cut. Not sure if that's allowed or exposing us to liabilities, but it does feel better (unless the person is an asshole or seems like they are very likely to use the feedback as leverage against the decision).
Are people more likely to be lonely in so-called ‘individualistic’ societies?
The only companies who "value work-life balance" are the ones that let you work part-time. It's, IMO, nuts to spend 40 hours a week at work in this day and age, particularly for software engineers who can demand a relatively high average hourly rate. You can't make all the money in the world.
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We've changed the URL to that from https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/927593460642615296.html. The community is divided on which interface it prefers, so we usually break the tie by linking to the original source, which the site guidelines call for anyhow.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
JGroups seems superficially related to lots of the cassandra functions, especially gossip.

Is it masterless, or does it handwave a lot of distribution problems like most java distributed projects by just using Zookeeper?
There are a bunch of very promising native desktop Matrix clients in progress:

https://github.com/Nheko-Reborn/nheko as a Qt telegram-like

https://github.com/quotient-im/Quaternion as a Qt xchat-like

https://github.com/manuroe/messagerie for instance is a SwiftUI client proof-of-concept that should work on macOS as well as iOS

None are as polished as Riot functionalitywise, but we will get there eventually - even more so if people contribute.
and if you spin the argument further, that also describes why AI is overvalued (at least in terms of how hyped it is in reporting): If you have no chance of knowing how the result (e.g. of an algorithm) came to be, how can you trust it? In the long run, you can't.
I think the word piracy was not invented by tech people, but by right holders who wanted to make it look as bad as real piracy. It was an amazing strategy for them.
The slowness can also be because the channel you are trying to watch is not even there.

I'm not sure who all is using it now but I used to work on the setup for Switched Digital Video. If nobody in your neighborhood was watching a certain channel, it would stop getting broadcast. That freed up bandwith for other things like internet. Once you would tune to a channel, a request would go to the head-end, it would quicky figure out if the channel is being broadcast in your area. If not, a request would go to the content delivery system to start feeding it to the QAM and then obtain what frequency the channel was on, and finally relay that back to the settop box which would tune and start the decoding process.

Rather impressive tech but again, this would add a bit more latency to that particular channel switching.
Hey Cliff, I found your Grateful Dead concert mentioned in the book: https://archive.org/details/gd86-06-21.sbd.brame.15406.sbeok...

(for clarification, yes, that's me commenting on that site back in 2013)
I absolutely agree that you should commit early and often, and that short one-liners for those commits are fine. It is when you go to merge that you need to have good messages and there are several ways you can do that, depending on your team's preferences:

* You can rebase and groom your commits into meaningful sets of changes each with good descriptions (how Linux uses git).

* You can squash all the commits, and always just have a single commit for each merge with a detailed description.

* You can keep your full commit history as a record of how the work was actually done (Fossil encourages this philosophy), but always have a detailed merge commit that can stand-alone in describing all the work done in that merge.
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I'm not saying they don't. I'm saying they have a litany of other tools (I've spoken at length with engineers at Facebook about how they do this) that really make those unnecessary. Obviously you know more about how Google does it, and admittedly ads is not my wheelhouse at all. But from what I understand: it's overkill.

If you can point me towards a source that discusses the technical details of how Google tracks its users, I'd be interested in reading it.
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Discussed yesterday as explained here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21835519
“... to prevent the re-emergence of a new rival, either on the territory of the former Soviet Union or elsewhere, that poses a threat on the order of that posed formerly by the Soviet Union. This is a dominant consideration underlying the new regional defense strategy and requires that we endeavor to prevent any hostile power from dominating a region whose resources would, under consolidated control, be sufficient to generate global power.” See Wolfowitz Doctrine
WhatsApp used to be hosted on ~15 bare metal servers serving 100 million concurrent users...
Matrix successfully competes with XMPP. It even features a more fractured mess with a lower number of clients in a shorter time span!
Why work part time your whole life when you can work full time and retire at 40?
I've always asked this question : Can't we make better IRC clients yet, more Slack like, but just works over traditional IRC?
#7 seems to have hints of sunk cost fallacy, but #1-6 really explain how this organically happens for people. They don't go into expecting the outcome to be #7, which would explain the fallacies I was making. Thanks!
Thank you for that perspective. I apologize if it sounded like I am blaming Ruma - just waiting eagerly for its development.
There is no making all the people happy without just changing quick, eh?
potential romantic partners call the people they reject and tell them why they don't like them?

I was asking why gp was doing this ^, seems weird.
While utility and ergonomics can be debated, I'd be surprised if performance of Google Maps in particular has regressed. Google keeps track of latency metrics for every one of its thousands (millions?) of services. If the services involved in Google Maps began to regress in latency, it would have been noticed and addressed. You can be sure that many performance improvements have been implemented, and if you had access to the 2005 and 2019 versions, you would be amazed at how capable and fast today's is compared to then.
Common and preferred shares start to converge as a company approaches IPO. An employees gains are likely to exceed those of VCs in such an event. When companies are acquired and when liquidation preference comes into play is when employees get screwed.
Great to see this project maturing! I love testing out random command line utilities and programs with this. IMO, this is a much nicer tool for evaluating CLI tools then docker containers because its a full VM and behaves a lot more like my laptop then a docker container.
Double Devil's Advocate:

Is not the enforcement of an NDA action done by the government that limits the speech of a person? Is that it is being done on behalf of a private entity enough to clear up the First Amendment implications of this? If so, how far can this be abused?
Yea, I will try some better fillers than just "loading...", and the metatags stuff.

I also might consider serving some other non-game pages statically, like the leaderboard, user profiles, etc.
The same amount that should laugh off "learning" that percentage of black population makes their family more prone to dying of gunshot wounds.
I'll send a PR, one moment.
For many of the people taking their shot, the struggle to pay life's basic expenses and having no marketable skills is the alternative. It's not like most of the people are asking themselves 'do I pursue a career in tech/law/medicine/business or do I take a shot on YouTube?' I'm sure there are some, but I don't think those options are even remotely what the typical content creator is looking at.
Wasn't 64-bit windows 2k/64 itanium-based, not x86-based? If so it would have required supporting existing binaries compiled for a different architecture. My understanding is that the only 16-bit support in 64-bit windows is a few specific loaders for things like 16-bit installers (please correct me if I'm wrong)
You don't need to wait! Visit China today. In all seriousness they are heading this way - you need a WeChat account to do or pay for just about anything, you will soon need face verification to sign in to any internet service, and fingerprint readers on doors are very much a thing.
?? All he's saying is that the cloud market leaders are able to charge more. That is, despite Amazon & Microsoft's & Google's economies of scale, there are much lower cost offerings for ordinary virtual machines and storage, all else being equal.

It has nothing to do with on-prem.
I don't mind updates that are incremental and backwards compatible.

I LOATHE breaking changes. They are almost never actually necessary.
It's not that people want "bad" things. But they're often not very discriminating about quality and, yes, they want quantity. How many people would sign up for an expensive streaming service that only carried a relative handful of critically acclaimed content? (Arguably HBO probably does come closest to this but even they have a lot of filler.)
If you were intending to be a parody of a gun control zealot, unaware of the subject proposing to be regulated as well as what regulation already exist, you have done a wonderful job. AR-15 does not stand for assault rifle 15, and assault rifles are already heavily controlled.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArmaLite_AR-15
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Firearms_Act
There aren't that many cheap used cars. Reliable uses cars hold their value, and resale adds transaction costs (especially when going through a dealer) including the nefarious sales tax that regressively taxes goods on every transfer.
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Let me be clear: I'm okay with NON-business specific challenges. AKA, from a marketing perspective:

How would you position a new SaaS service that allows you to track your children's school performance? (but the hiring company is in SaaS business tools)

Vs. doing work that is directly actionable and can be taken by the business, "How would you update our homepage?"

That's the line now. Not opposed to challenges.
Or one product team is doing fine but another is severely overworked, because the current highest-priority requirements are bearing down on them in particular.
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This is a good idea but I think calm has the connotations of being slow and without a sense of urgency. Most people want some sort of fast-paced and motivated environment but not one that expects them to work crazy hours or will insane expectations
In the scientific literature? It had better not be.
Several years ago I have done consulting for a large travel booking service that advertises on TV.

As strange as it might sound, there's a large artificial delay added between the time the service knows the answer to customer's search and the time the answer is sent to the customer's web browser.

The reason for that delay is that the without it the customers do not believe that the service performed an exhaustive search and do not complete the transaction!
Since english is so massive at this point with its absorption of so many other language subsets, has anyone ever tried to standardize a base vocabulary subset that matches a "bare minimum expression" of another language but selects words for consistent conjugation and pronunciation?
That's the differentiator; I have no problem with that.