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> And directly quoting the information has been endangered by modern copyright directives.

I guess paraphrasing or summarising hasn’t been prohibited.

> will aggressive takedown policies have forced a shift?

Shifting to prarphrasing or to summarising doesn’t sound too bad.
Going from Java to Kotlin
On this subject you can dive into the story of the missing "Doctor Who" TV serials.

Some tape of master's were infamously reused to store other contents. Beside the whole archive problem come from the reusable nature and scarcity of the chosen storage. I think I've read something about reusing paper as well in medieval time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who_missing_episodes
The German system might have problems but also comes with upsides, e.g. mandatory 24 hour ride coverage in the more rural areas as a condition of cab licenses, training, ... I mean, is there anything stopping Uber from going for cab licenses and giving their employees the protection our laws dictate?

That might not fit their business model and the regular cab model might be bad but I'm not convinced that the Uber/pseudo ride share alternative is all roses either. It certainly can't be the solution to just replace badly behaving incumbents with some cheap startup that doesn't even employ their drivers.
Note to self: buy any CBD oil other than this one.
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Sorry for cross interfering with this post timeline ;)
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>Why can’t the taxi companies compete by building an app that provides the booking part?

Yes, why can't they ? Turns out building apps users will use is not a commodity that can be bought off the shelf.
When I ran my recruiting business, we told people they were awesome, but not the kind of awesome we need right now. Sometimes I would offer personal feedback that was "off the record" if I felt they really needed to hear it.

I had a one candidate come thru who wasn't a fit. But on top of that, his clothes were filthy and his resume had a bunch of typos in it. I told him after the interview that we wouldn't be hiring for skills match reasons, but also offered the feedback on his appearance. He wrote me a letter a couple years later thanking me for the advice, which I guess he hadn't realized was holding him back.

Another time a hiring manager told me that a candidates mullet haircut was too unappealing. I decided to pass that feedback tactfully to the candidate after buying him a beer. Mullet guy actually ended up interviewing me for a job years later, and brought that up. He said his job prospects got much better after he got a haircut and thanked me for the feedback.

While I think giving no feedback is good advice in general, I think it's fine to tactfully offer feedback to a candidate if they really need to hear it. No one is going to try justifying the ketchup stain on their shirt. Haircuts might be more sensitive, but I was fairly confident mullet dude wasn't rocking business-in-the-front-party-in-the-back style for religious or cultural reasons.
I made an android app that implements isomorphic note layouts. They can be divided to hexagonal tiling (harmonic table layout, Wicki-Hayden layout, Janko) and rectangular tiling (bass/violin/mandolin fretboard).

The app does not allow choosing between those layouts, because customization stands in way of creativity. You can still customize anything by modifying code and have it interpreted on phone without re-compiling anything. To recreate Janko, you would modify hexpad.lua and set NE interval to 1 and N interval to -1. Here's the code https://github.com/jmiskovic/hexpress

The appeal of isomorphic lauyout is that everything you learn (intervals, scales & modes, chords, progressions, riffs) can be applied across all keys. Some musical patterns become more obvious and learning becomes less tedious. Another nice benefit is that such layouts are mostly two-dimensional, so they make good use of small screens.
This is terrible news. Taxi drivers, at least in Munich, are just horrible. They're always unfriendly, and their driving is very aggressive, more often than not accompanied by swearing, and just overall uncomfortable. Cars also aren't as clean as the uber ones.

I avoid it at any cost, even when they're free, for example when public transportation has issues they offer free taxis to the affected passengers. I always opt out for walking, renting a bike, if it's close, or paying for an uber if it's a longer distance, rather than driving for free with the taxi.

The only advantage taxis had over uber is that there's more of them, and during some larger events such as Oktoberfest uber was always fully booked.

The regulation needs to be relaxed so that uber, and others, can compete based on their service - not some other rules and weird laws like the one mentioned in the article "that hired cars have to return to a rental firm’s main office after carrying out a ride,"
I just built a 6 row Janko keyboard as a retrofit for an existing keyboard or piano. It was a lot of work to make a layout that can be used that way and that is mechanically simple and reliable. The Janko layout makes playing the piano as easy as playing the guitar, everything transposes with ease and patterns have to be memorized only once.

That said, the piano/keyboard world is super conservative and people have literally invested a lifetime in the familiar layout so even if a Janko keyboard would be better on all measurable dimensions (and it isn't, though there really are a lot of advantages) it is an uphill battle to get any appreciable mind/market share.

See also: Dvorak and driving on the left hand side of the road, imperial versus metric and more of those irrational and yet immovable discussions.
Where are immigrants and the night economy workers being discriminated in German taxis?
AFAIK they've been allowed and disallowed and re-allowed under contracts with the payment networks over the years; currently I think at least in the US they're allowed, but regardless, I'm not aware of them having been illegal.
Check out Zig if you’re looking for a C replacement with a go style defer. It also interops about as well with C as C does.
> Why can’t the taxi companies compete by building an app that provides the booking part?

They have. The ruling is completely arbitrary.
With a side of hummus?
I've been a part of doing this dance a few times, and I gotta admit it's a lot of fun. Just remember to get your entire team on board before you start!
They can. Uber added nothing to market other than an app, which everyone was doing for every potential business at the time anyways.

Their differentiators though were primarily the crazy amount of VC money they were willing to lose and the fact that they had absolutely no qualms about trampling about each and every law they could. To the point that they would break laws that they didn't even need to.

But asking for forgiveness when you have a ton of VC money is obviously better than not messing up in the first place.

Only good thing is thst, I hope, the market is seeing through these criminals (at best).
They do have an app, it's called "FreeNow" and works OK imo. The main reason Taxi companies are complaining is that there are different sets of rules for Taxi companies (that are supposed to operate in the public interest) and rental companies with drivers (which are not). E.g. Taxis have to wait at designated parking spots and are not allowed to drive around between rides.

I don't necessarily agree with their arguments, but I also don't think Uber should get a "free ride".
> but I wish it had an RGB led for each key

You only need an LED per column and you could simply put two strips on there, one along the top and another along the bottom.

I also have a Chromatone, it got held up in customs for over 6 months but it finally arrived a few weeks ago but I have not yet had the time to put significant hours into learning to play it. But even the little bit that I did do was very intuitive.
Seems like a fair price to me. Will propably buy it if the time comes.

Somehow I hesitate to pay subscription based models, although I understand why this model exists.
I would love to see improvements to the GCS code I have, but I tested with many different sizes and Golomb-Rice parameters... I was not able to reduce the size overhead in any way. Maybe you can help? There are two implementations, one is Java: https://github.com/FastFilter/fastfilter_java/blob/master/sr...
and the other is C++: https://github.com/FastFilter/fastfilter_cpp/blob/master/src...
I wanted to create something like this ~10 years ago when I got into fitness! In fact, a few years later I decided to get serious about it and found out that this had launched and gave up on the idea.

Obviously, it seems super useful as a starting point.
In order to be a real meal planning option however you'd have to optimize for micro-nutrients in the long term, and I'm pretty sure this isn't covered.
Exactly. I've personally never had a positive experience with the German Taxi services. The drivers are extremely rude, they get mad if you need change or use credit cards, and they're usually 20-30% more expensive. No thanks.

I'll be sticking with the private alternatives like Über, Sixt Ride, etc.
> Don't require me to choose between Male/Female. Let me leave that blank if I'd prefer.

Given this is probably used to calculate Basic metabolic rate, what would you suggest for blank, the average?

Serious question, I don't mean to offend. But does it not make sense in these cases to put the responsibility with you. As in you would at least know biologically if you fall closer to male or female for the purpose of BMR calculation.
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Taxi companies do have apps "free now" (formerly "mytaxi") and "taxi.eu" that majority of them use. The functionality is more or less the same as with uber.

https://apps.apple.com/de/app/free-now-mytaxi/id357852748?l=...

https://apps.apple.com/de/app/taxi-eu/id465315934
many people signed up for driving for uber for the flexible hours. this is a feature not a bug.
You are expecting market behavior in business that for decades was pure monopoly. We all know the answers to those questions.

In open market, taxi business in its current form would be dead long time ago. But not if you gave state-guaranteed monopoly on a service that many people simply need and have few other options.
Ignoring for a moment the fact that they hard coded an expiration date:

This serves as a good reminder of why it’s a bad idea to set expiration dates at the end of a year, where lots of people are on leave for the holidays (this notice came out only 2 days ago). Instead try sometime less complicated, like mid March or Sept.
> With digital technology this became much much harder and costly for them, because it often means cobbling together the last working tape players

I think something might be getting lost in translation. Could she have meant “electronic” rather than “digital” (which to me suggests digital media such as DVD etc)

This whole anecdote makes more sense to me with this substitution.
"European Union"
I love when functional programming is explained via languages like JavaScript - it's very approachable. Even the detour into Elm was very understandable.
1. I am not in your state.

2. Is Bitcoin money?
When the Guardian closes its own comments section (usually when they are heavily pushing opinion without evidence) you can usually comment on Twitter.
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The regulation needs to be relaxed so that uber, and others, can compete based on their service

Or, you know, Uber respecting regulation and adhere to it?

But that, of course, would completely kill their business model, which essentially is not really a cab service, but regulation arbitrage. At least until the law cracks down on them.
Not really a serious advice but there it is: if you can fix some of it with some light photoshopping, do it.

Plenty of women do it too and for many of them it's not at all light.

Think of it as polishing your CV by omitting some embarrassing stuff and putting forwards the things you want. Your goal shouldn't be to be 100% honest when writing your profile/CV. Just to make it enticing enough to get your foot in the door.
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the technical problems? of course. the cultural problems that caused the problem in the first place?
That's not entirely true.

It's true that it's not as easy to work with a contractor living in Germany, as in the rest of the world, but it's doable.

There are ways to set-up your contractor business which allows you to do that! It's not even that hard.

For the employer there's an easy way to find out if they can work with someone which is called "Statusfeststellungsverfahren".

...and AFAIU all of the risk is on the side of the contractor, when she's doing business with an international company. It's up to the contractor to take care of everything tax/pension etc. related properly.
There's a taxi company in my city (EU, but not Germany) which doesn't go mad or cry for govt help, and instead provides experience very similar to Uber with its app, runs "full scale" licensed taxis and their prices are very close (and frequently lower) than Uber's. So that I prefer using their service, as they can drive on the bus lanes and in the old town.

What do they do wrong?
It's not their documentation that is bad, it's the architecture. Too many layers, and things glued together. Where you need to make additional abstractions just to make sense of it all, ending up with a million LOC just to copy something from A to B.

For example integrating support for Google Drive took months, where I ended up using a third party solution, and users are met with a big red warning about my app now being unknown. And the file system is laggy. Compared to integrating Dropbox which took three days and just works. Google Drive probably have thousands of pages of documentation. While Dropbox have one or two.
In Germany, averybody can get a taxi permit - there are no artificial limits - and there are plenty of immigrants running their own taxi business. Some discrimination of immigrants exists, but it has little to do with taxis in particular. And taxi service is fine - I use it once or twice a month on average.
The S3 storage price they get is interesting.

They must have used the “WEAREPARTOWNEDBYJEFFBEZOS” discount code.
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I'm sorry but the Keto family of diets has been the mainstream mantra for the last decade.

It also fails so many people because the supposed satiety mechanism only seems to work shorttime for most practitioners.

Most, if not nearly all, fail to match satiety in line with reduced caloric need as they go through the initial weight-loss phase. Even worse, most experience a habituatiuon and start increasing the amount of (low-carb/high fat) energy intake, negating the initial benefits and reverting to a state of over-consumption and stored energy surplus.
This is like the Cambridge Analytica scandal: people allowed 3rd party apps to access their data and then they complain when, eh, they had their data.

Solution? Facebook closed the API. And now people complain that Facebook is a silo and they hold onto your data and they don't allow 3rd party apps to access it.
That's why they moved to Scala instead
Zuckerberg: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard

Zuckerberg: Just ask.

Zuckerberg: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS

[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?

Zuckerberg: People just submitted it.

Zuckerberg: I don't know why.

Zuckerberg: They "trust me"

Zuckerberg: Dumb fucks.

https://www.businessinsider.com/well-these-new-zuckerberg-im...
I think we should raise a glass to Mad Mike Magee and what he has wrought, First at El Reg, then at The Inquirer.

I used to bump into him quite a lot in the 80s when we both worked at VNU. Really nice guy, but - as a young journo - also quite scary :)
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Not really. With a little bit of effort, it’s quite possible to make websites that work on mobile devices as well a desktops.
>Heck, with the cost of storage so low, recording every webpage you ever visit in searchable format is also very realistic.

I tend to do that, I also save a lot of scientific papers, ebooks and personal notes. I've found that doing so does not help me at all. The main problem I have is that when I need to look something up (an article, a book, a bit of info) I reach for google first, usually end up finding the answer and go to save it, only to find that I had already found the answer beforehand (and perhaps already made clarifying notes to go along with it) and then forgot about it.

This, and not dead links, is the fundamental problem with bookmarks for me. Not only bookmarks, it extends to my physical notes and pretty much everything I do. If I haven't actively worked on something for a couple of months, I forget all about it and when I come back to it I usually have to start from scratch until I (hopefully) refresh my memory. Some of it is also usually outdated information.

I think this is a big, unsolved problem and I'm not even sure how to go about starting to solve it. I can envision some form of AI-powered research assistant, but only in abstract terms. I can't envision how it would actually work to make my life better or easier. It would need to be something that would help blur the line between things I know and things that are on my computer somehow. If I think of my brain like it has RAM and cache, things I'm working on right now are in the cache and things I've worked on recently or work on a lot are in RAM, but what's for me lacking is a way to easily move knowledge from my brain-RAM to long term storage and then move that knowledge back into working memory faster than I can do so now. I'm not even talking about brain uploading or mind-machine interfaces, but just something that can remind me of things I already know but forgot about faster than I can do so by myself.

I am convinced that figuring out how to do this will lead to the next leap in technological development speed and efficiency. Not quite the singularity that transhumanists like to talk about, but a substantial advancement.
Do you have any proof to support your statement that it was orchestrated by Nation Indian Congress(INC). Don't try to spread fake information.
Here's an article regarding the capture of workers of ruling party (BJP), pelting stones on trains, to give protest a violent turn.https://www.telegraphindia.com/states/west-bengal/stone-gang...

Atrocities on minorities are also happening in other border country, like in China (Uyghur), Myanmar(Rohingya), Pakistan(Ahmdiyas). Why is govt not including them in this act?

Also, Home Minister of India, Amit Shah himself said on national tv that CAA will be followed by NRC, and in NRC every citizen will have to prove their citizenship. Don't quote CAA without NRC. And if any person failed to submit any proof of their citizenship, they will be declared illegal migrants and detained in detention camps. It happened in Assam where 1.9 million people (1 million Hindus, .7 million Muslims) were declared illegal.

CAA along with NRC is an anti-poor, anti-muslim law. Students and people across India are protesting against it right now.
The certificates on the Cisco WLC only lasted 10 years, you have to upgrade the WLC and all the access points to a new version that includes a command to turn off the certificate check. If you want to upgrade an AP after that date you need to set back the clock first, so much fun
I'd be happy with FreeNow instead of Uber, if it was available outside of large cities. Many taxi drivers still refuse to sign up for FreeNow. I spoke to one taxi driver and asked her why she wouldn't use FreeNow and she mentioned something about the fees being too high. Of course, she only accepted cash, too. I was just glad that I wasn't getting yelled at for paying with a 50 Euro note.
Interesting idea! Elias-Fano monotone sequences unfortunately do need a bit more space than just a list of Rice codes. What is possible, without having to increase the space usage, is to re-arrange the Rice codes in each bucket, so that all variable parts come first, and the fixed parts at the end. That way, lookup speed would be much, much faster for large buckets. We used this for RecSplit: https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.06416 I will try that out for GCS as well!
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I think we will simply have to assume it will continue. That is, if anything will continue, archive.org and similar projects whose primary goal is to preserve and prevail are easily the prime candidates.
It's Something He CRAVES More than love, more than money, even more than sex
I think if someone lacks the awareness that hard-coding expiration dates is not a good idea, expecting them to think to this level is a bit much... :|
> giving their employees the protection our laws dictate?

> some cheap startup that doesn't even employ their drivers.

the world has changed decades ago. i think it's time for your laws to change as well.

overall your comment reminds me of this:

“When behavior runs into poor design, behavior always, and I mean always, wins.” —@asymco
How to develop a serverless app with OpenFaaS and Okteto
I understand why it works this way and I wouldn't know how to do it better; it was more of a general critique of the bridging approach, I guess, and hence a reluctance from my side to call it nice.
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> If you tour one there are rooms they won't let you in.

I mean, I'd kind of expect not to be allowed in everywhere in such a facility for many reasons. You can't go anywhere you want in all kinds of public infrastructure (water treatment plants, power plants, etc.).
I think it has a value for technically less literate people.
Internet Piracy in South Africa: The Conditions and Consequences
You should read about “mental poker”.
A good idea if you want your personal relationships poisoned.
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>easily exported

Have you actually looked at such an xml: https://gist.github.com/evernotegists/6116886

Exported sure, it's all there. But importing that into your new favorite notes application is not going to be trivial, especially not for regular users.

That's why I've decided to stick mostly to regular files in a filesystem.
Sounds like too much sugars/simple carbs for my breakfast taste. The rest of the content (fat, protein, fiber) seem rather OK.
The things I’d put in a personal journal are certainly not what I put online.
Making a JSON Prettifier in Pure JavaScript
Taxi drivers have an incentive to scam you, uber drivers have an incentive to deliver you asap. Taxi companies around the world refuse to give a price before starting the ride. Everything about the current model is flawed.
As someone who doesn't live in your city, if I were to visit, I'd rather not install another app, create another account, and sort out payment (including capturing receipts for corporate expense claims).

Uber has the advantage of being ubiquitous among a certain class of travellers - this obviously is not an insurmountable advantage, but it does mean I naturally tend towards using Uber when travelling unless there's a particularly compelling local alternative.

Everything else about your taxi service sounds good, and I'd be more than happy to use them, I'm just lazy. (And from other comments, I see that there's taxi company apps like FreeNow which seem to be gaining regional market share?)
> It is no surprise that the Taxi companies are mad, because they are unable to compete under the current set of rules.

They're mad because it ruins their monopoly. Taxis are ridiculously expensive in Germany, also known to use tricks to charge you extra. I would never consider ordering a taxi here.