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Daily reminder that Rust uses Discord, a closed source piece of software with draconian privacy and data retention terms.

Steve Klabnik will predictably reply to me saying that it was the decision of the community and blah blah, but the Mozilla Corporation should not have allowed it.
Buoyant forces in the Martian atmosphere would be teeny tiny no? I don’t think blimps would work very well.

You could maybe get some sort of inflatable lifting body to work at high speeds though.
In short, no.

Severance is built in to contractual employment agreements up front. Being a temp employee limits your options.

You have a great opportunity if you choose to see it that way. Experience at Cisco ( no matter your quality of experience at Cisco ) will likely have changed your prospects. You might be surprised to find hiring managers and recruiters who would say that this is a hard time of year to find people to hire.

So, What type of work are you looking for?
While in Japan, the TVs would often turn on the moment you entered the room. This was fine, as I would mute them or turn them off. At one hotel, I managed to bug one out such that volume didn't work anymore. No worries, I'll just turn it off. Except when I went to turn it off, it crashed the TV app and it automatically restarted. All the wires were integrated so they couldn't be tampered with and the unit had no real buttons. I thought I was going to have to sleep with the same four very excitable adverts on rotation blasting into my ears!

Mercifully, pressing the TV Source button triggered a different app that didn't crash when I pressed the off button, and in what must be the software engineering achievement of the decade, the off button turned off the screen.
I don't find much info about this hack on google, can you provide some sources on this so that I can assess the response ?
The hospital I work at is currently installing a wander guard system. Due to cost it is only installed on units where patients with dementia etc are admitted. However, patients from any unit can wander (intentional or not). We, unfortunately, have had 2 patients wander off the premises and die in the last few years and therefore have a heightened sense of it's importance.
I also rely on youtube. If I knew then what I knew now I would have been more diligent in recording what he said.
Plenty of stars got burned out in Charlie Chaplin's era
Weapons don't have be sophisticated to be used as weapons. Even physical bombs don't have be sophisticated to be bombs.

"It wasn't an armed robbery, it was just unsophisticated criminal behavior that happened to involve a gun."
Yes. Recently moved to a high PM 2.5 area, running ionizers in the bedroom and the rest of the house improves things immensely. This is exactly how it feels.
You can do it on the desktop app, via the add a stop feature. If you add a stop and then enter a search term ("coffee shops"), you'll see matching results along your route. (IIRC it doesn't show you the added travel time like the mobile app does, though. Maybe that's what you're referring to?)
The 10-Minute React Native Transition
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probably not much because you don't need to decompress them, just keep in volatile memory

How do you plan to obtain I-frames without decompressing them?
Dave, site's down. ;)

For real though, I don't have much to add to what you're saying here, but I did want to say "thank you" for your work; I literally can't guess at the hours of enjoyment I've gotten over the years from Gamespot/GB. And, personally, I've always low-key had an eye on the games and games journalism space and Gamespot/Giant Bomb being what they were and are, while the space changed around it...hit home that while I might've wanted to do what Giant Bomb does, I wouldn't want to do what everybody else does.

I think your analysis is pretty spot-on about the constant shilling; I know a couple creators whose endorsements shouldn't mean squat given what they knew about the products when they endorsed it, I don't even mean the NordVPN stuff. But they need to figure out some way, any way, to actually make money off of this stuff. Patreon is a sorta-answer, but Patreon are kinda pricks and they own your patrons instead of you owning your patrons, so you're stuck there, too. Good times.

I don't know what the next step forward is. Floatplane is interesting...but Floatplane wants to use YouTube as the minor leagues to pull creators, and I genuinely don't know if there's enough organic lead generation to do that in a sustainable way that doesn't just privilege existing voices. I have no idea what comes next there. I've been writing a "Wordpress for podcast networks" web app as of late ('cause Wordpress is not great for podcasts, though people use it) to help people self-host that stuff, but video is expensive.
Try Kanboard https://kanboard.org/

Minimalistic UI that gets out of your way, easy to run in Docker, fast, lightweight. I think it hits all your requirements.
Why should a message subject not end with a period?
Worse than that, there seems to be a risk of losing future income.
Luckily for me the Catholic Church banned cousin marriages and arranged marriages centuries ago. But, yeah, I suppose for people outside of the occident applying for sex on a website as if you are applying for a coding job might be an improvement.
>The thing with Google Maps was that it was actually reasonably good and intuitive on mobile until sometime 5 or 7 years ago when someone (probably a UX designer : ) decided it had to be simplified.

All Google stuff ended up doing this when they started trying to standardize their "design language" across their services. They developed a very annoying habit of hiding every useful function or bit of relevant contextual information inside a poorly marked hamburger menu somewhere. It's extremely annoying from a discoverability perspective and I strongly suspect any UX designers involved lost a lot of arguments for a decision like that to get codified.
Iirc, mission critical aerospace computers have triple redundancy since like ... forever.

So I can't believe the ISS computer doesn't have some sort of redundancy in place to prevent a catastrophe when there's so much money and lives at stake.

But I liked your joke.
Totally agree: https://blog.jgc.org/2013/07/write-good-commit-messages.html
"There are a few things you cannot do. In some areas of Copenhagen you can't pay for parking without an app, I'm told (but I don't drive so I don't know for sure)."

What are the permissions granted to these apps ?

Do they, as I fear, "require" full access to all contacts, all photos, location data ... ?
Versioning is hard. Versioned APIs are very hard. I'm in an especially tricky spot because we've got customers that might refuse to upgrade our product for years and years, if ever.

Two approaches I've taken, with a blogpost worth of thoughts on them:

1. Every version is a whole new database/webserver stack. You shut the oldest one down when the last customer migrates off it. The bloat is real, but it's dead simple and it works.

2. A single database with a webserver that exposes all the versions. The contract is that the database shall not undergo destructive migrations. Only additive migrations. Or if you must, modify schema in a way that you can deterministically generate every previous API's view. Again, discard older versions when the last customer has been migrated off.

I'm sure you can immediately smell some problems with either of these approaches. Sacrifices are definitely made.
Did the previous plumber install a timer on a pipe, ensuring it would leak every 6 weeks?
No, I definitely had upgraded to 1MB by 1992. The AT clone was an old CAD computer my dad's work had gotten rid of in the late 80s.
Your better off with https://snapshooter.io/ imo never let me or my team down
Consistency, better design, fashion, take your pick.
As evidenced by your and the other comments, there's more than one answer to the question. The parent's explanation for knowing if their defensive measures were working were novel to me, so I was curious as to the motivation.
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Yup, Inferno is one of the Plan 9 forks and that looks very close to what I'm imagining. Though it seems to be built on top of android.
Because if you plan to travel far you often want to plan a stop along the way to eat, use the toilet and refill anf maybe rest a bit in some hopefully interesting place.
How can software with no documentation be good?
> "It smells like a deliberate attempt to make us look bad."

This individual is in Norway and so it seems unlikely that he has anything to do with the culture wars in the US. "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." as they say.
But the government can't "fix" that by regulating. Governments trying to regulate things to shield people from the consequences of their own bad decisions doesn't work.
I think a lot of them shoot in blocs they spend 1 or 2 days doing a dozen videos back to back.
>Please link some examples, because I somehow doubt that you referenced them before forming an opinion.

That's because I assumed it was meant to be a hypothetical example--I don't actually have an opinion on the health effects of eating mud.

The point is that one claim is regarding the likelihood of X happening due to Y (in general), and the other claim is about the affirmation that X happened because of Y (in a specific case.) Likelihood is confirmed by scientific articles that employ statistical inference methods such as the ones you have been posting, while the other claim is undemonstrable by the scientific method, so it is commonly supported through further circumstantial/anecdotal evidence, which is what I assumed the other poster asked for.

Anyway, given that most of your comment is posting more scientific articles, we're probably arguing about different things.
Here's the post-mortem writeup: https://matrix.org/blog/2019/05/08/post-mortem-and-remediati...
Indeed, but the few ones that are nominal are making the difference.
Google's paper came out in October, before the fuss about the term supremacy. This post by Aaronson is from today (19th of Dec.). The Nature letter referenced in the post was from the 10th of Dec.
It’s just a bad framework for code reuse.

-No dynamic directives
-Nothing dynamic works with @ContentChildren, making anything that uses it the “last stop” for abstraction.
-DI system makes inheritance/mixins nearly impossible, and without dynamic directives there are situations where the only solution is a massive copy paste job.

I work in the framework every day and spend countless hours shaking my head at cryptic docs any time I try to do any type of abstraction.
Apple Publishes Open Source Version of HomeKit ADK
Personally I see plenty of reasons why independent of industry value.

It is also a more physically oriented job that carries some risk of disease exposure, really shouldn't be worked sick, and some accounts mention an emotional toll and an emphasis on appearance. Individually all aspects aren't unique and some have more severe magnitudes.

Given the income is higher than many other available jobs it could be easy to become dependent upon it for income. A good ethical reason for support is that consent is an ongoing process.
I think this is a case of selective memory. I’m restoring and programming for an old Mac Plus, and it’s anything but blindly fast. Booting, opening an application, hell even dragging a window has visible refresh of the contents behind it. Windows used to take forever to boot (still isn’t that fast), and anything requiring networking was orders of magnitude slower.
We like to talk a lot today about how great it is that we don't see ads. That's kind of lie. They are certainly there and we see them everyday, it's just now embedded in the content itself. The journos can't compete, because the PR firms block access to coverage unless the story is preconceived.

Paul Graham wrote an essay about how everyone should get a PR firm to...let's be honest, lie, about their startups.

Our startup spent its entire marketing budget on PR: at a time when we were assembling our own computers to save money, we were paying a PR firm $16,000 a month. And they were worth it. PR is the news equivalent of search engine optimization; instead of buying ads, which readers ignore, you get yourself inserted directly into the stories.

http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

He leans really hard on the idea that it's not lying, but he doesn't make a great case for it to be anything less. See:

Our greatest PR coup was a two-part one. We estimated, based on some fairly informal math, that there were about 5000 stores on the Web. We got one paper to print this number, which seemed neutral enough. But once this "fact" was out there in print, we could quote it to other publications, and claim that with 1000 users we had 20% of the online store market.
The fact that taking time off is more or less money directly out of your pocket is true of a lot of things including freelancers, the trades, and even certain types of consulting. It's not just an influencer or a "gig economy" thing.

What is a bit different, as you say, is that they're catering to a fickle audience. If they take a month off or ratchet back their workload, a lot of viewers may move on to the next thing.
Once you have enough money, you realize there’s more to life than just money. Philanthropy is a way to help make society better, to give back in ways in which the government is unwilling or unable to fund. For some, it’s a way to get recognition from their peers, but many give anonymously, trying to maintain their privacy.

My view is coming from an American’s perspective. I expect many other countries have less generous philanthropy traditions.

Now, why are Americans such large givers to charity?
Looks like you get charged if you go over the transfer allowance. Is there a way to automatically shut everything down to prevent that from happening? I like to go months without thinking about my server, knowing there's no way for a bot army to come around and ramp up my charges. I realize that's paranoid, but Amazon's competitors give me that option.
No one should care about these so-called influencers (which is a euphemism for 'social manipulators'). They're destroying society with their hypocrisy and shameless promotion of consumerism (not to mention harming the planet peddling products that people don't need). They need to make room for other people, better people. Many of them need mental help, they have no place being role models for anyone else but they're too greedy and selfish to realize it.

The harm they do is huge. Especially some of these influencers who target children and make them feel like crap because their hard working parents can't afford nice toys like in the videos.
Sure, but it could just as easily be a button to clear this information explicitly or it could just be hidden, but not deleted.
A somewhat related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21289827
At an old job, I knew some very idealistic folks who kept pushing semantic web business. "Let's do that everywhere!" As an exercise, I would have them open a browser, visit various sites, and then look at the source. "Go on, check to see if it validates," I would say with an anticipatory grin. Whether hand-crafted HTML or generated by any number of frameworks, many sites can barely manage to close their tags, asking for semantic references is a "just won't happen in practice" thing.

I have also seen a great deal of consultant money, programmer time, sys-admin sweat, and the like focused on these toweringly-designed, completely-unused triple stores, layer upon layer of hot technologies (ever-moving, construction on the tower never ceased) fused together to create a resource-intense monstrosity that, at the end of the day, barely got used. But hey, let's look at that jazz semantic web example one more time.

The most painful part is that I understand the urge to build a gleaming repository for information, where the cool URIs never change; SPARQLing pinnacles, ready to broadcast the Library of Alexandria, glimmer; and the serene manifold of abstract information lies RESTful ... but I have come to understand that the web of today is an endlessly bulldozed mudscape where Someone Very Important has to have that URL top-level yesterday (never mind that they will forget about it tomorrow), of shoddy materials and wildly varying workmanship, and where nobody is listening to your eager endpoints because the commercials are just too loud. I too once labored for information architecture, to have the correct thing in the obvious place, with accurate links and current knowledge, to provide visitors with the knowledge they desired ... but PR preempted all of it to push yet more nice photographs in yet another place: the Web as a technology for distributing images that would once live on glossy pamphlets.

The vision is lovely, but we who have always lived in the castle have walked alone.
Murdering of idiots is beneficial for society! Let's make it legal. We can't stop wars anyway.
I mostly work in AWS. I was recently creating an environment and a deployment mechanism for a fairly simple app that was initially developed in Azure. The client was surprised because the cost estimates previous devs gave him (based on Azure) were a lot lower. I don't know what their Azure architecture was - I had to come up with AWS stuff from scratch. Maybe they omitted certain things like backup, DR, auto scaling etc from their initial estimate or maybe it is worth looking at Azure. It is not the first time I'm hearing something along the lines of "Azure is cheaper".
If we are talking about how intuitive an interface is, I strongly disagree. I remember in the 90s seeing people learn to use a mouse that had never used a mouse before. There's a definite learning curve. A touchscreen with large enough targets and low enough parallax is a different story.
That's a weird system, certainly not the standard way of doing things on a traditional cable TV system.
I appreciated his complaints, but not his solution. Only a programmer would think that going back to keyboards is a good idea.

Most people are happy waiting for a few seconds for their webpage to load, if it means they can do it without learning anything new.

Programming is a profession, and we design software for people who have other interests than software. Many of us would be better off if we got better at empathizing with people who are not like us.
What bugs me about these nostalgic rants is that somehow the convenience of today should be mixed with the frugal interfaces of the past.

So you couldn't be bothered to find a better route planner and defaulted to Google Maps? Which you got for free, instantly available? And now you're unhappy because it doesn't do exactly what you want? Please spend some effort on your tool selection before you spend time ranting. And let's turn this around: Did you at some point in 1990 wish you'd brought a map? How did you resolve that? Google Maps on a pocket computer would have been a marvel back then!
Infeasible or Unfeasible?
a) Thanks for the link, I, too, had heard very little of the fallout and it’s really nice to see all those things together.

b) I really wish sites would stop with this weird presentation style.
"...Upon evaluation, the patient was reported to have a quarter-sized brown necrotic area on the anterior left ankle and burn to the anterior left lower leg. Emergency medical technicians irrigated the area with calcium gluconate and transported him to a burn unit, where he received a calcium gluconate injection. He sustained a small area of full-thickness skin loss requiring excision and debridement with a skin graft. The worker received outpatient burn therapy and returned to part-time work 6 weeks after the injury. A foot paresthesia developed, and the worker received a permanent partial disability payment."

I'm going with "things I won't work with", Alex.
I got mad just yesterday at a new transit system interface with a map. It has moving icons to represent the present locations of buses. I clicked on a single point in the map, and it popped open a big black box of information. So big that it covered the icons of interest. Hmmm. If I could move the box to one side, I could leave it open ... nope, the box won't move.

Bad enough. So I wanted to close the box. That took a minute, because you couldn't just click anywhere inside, you had to click at one single ... and unmarked ... location. Here? Here? Here?
I don't think semver is easily enforceable. Take for example the discussion in this thread about stripe changing the order in which hooks fired, which completely changed the meaning of a null value in the next_payment_attempt field. Just looking at a traditional API schema wouldn't reveal any change, yet this was a major breaking change to some. Maybe you can create an API schema which encompasses the order in which hooks fire, but that still doesn't help if somebody changes the semantics of a field without changing its name or type.
In 1533 Henry VIII decided he wanted to be head of his own church. The first war about that started the next year.

Protestants and Catholics fought for the next five hundred years, including the English Civil War and the Irish Rebellion.

Around 30% of Ireland's population died or emigrated, which is why there are so many Irish-descended people in North America, Australia, and elsewhere.

There has only been peace between the UK and Ireland since 1998, the Good Friday Agreement.

The religious war is directly responsible for a major issue in Brexit.

Either you lived through this or your parents did.
Is it a smart idea to build your own mailing list to decouple your reliance from platform's notification system?
Fair enough. I must have a shitty network. I see 150-200ms pings through LTE with occasional spikes up to 500ms, and any VOIP is both poor quality and we end up talking over each other because of the latency.
Why F1 is help and F5 is refresh
Thanks for the reply. I agree there might be a lot of different approach to to symbolic AI. Probabilistic inductive logic programming sounds interesting but I am not familiar with it. Maybe I should check it out later. I am wondering if it has capability to learning from data.
I have not conducted a survey, but they strike me as reasonably common desires.

On a 4-5 hour road trip, I want to take the kids to see a castle or something somewhere around 1/2 to 3/4 of the way. Even just wanting to have lunch somewhere other than Hilton Park or Newport Pagnell would be such a use case.

I have also wanted it for visiting someone - I'm going to their house, what is my most convenient option for buying some wine and/or flowers on the way?

I have wanted it when I've been away from home and have a big time gap between finishing my planned activities (or having to check out of my hotel) and my train or plane departure. What is the best way to spend a few hours that is anywhere on the route from here to the airport/station.
I rarely see "logic bombs" in the news, but I remember the day the customer called angry on April 1st, complaining that their spreadsheet quit working.

It seemed unlikely to be an April Fool's Day joke, but I knew the code hadn't changed so I couldn't understand why it would quit working. Root cause? The fiscal year in the spreadsheet started in April, which made it the "zeroth" month, which triggered a logic failure due to this being a false value.

It would have made a great hard-to-spot logic bomb... if I had planted it intentionally!
> because the PR firms block access to coverage unless the story is preconceived.

It's called access journalism, and it is far from limited to games. Even major news outlets tow the government line on press releases if they want to stay relevant. It's the way large existing power structures have subjugated and ruined journalism worldwide.
QuestDB adds Influx Line Protocol to ingest time-series data, (much) faster
I'd say the pump capacity and maintenance would be a bigger hurdle than the energy involved.