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"I'd argue that pirating games that aren't available anywhere should not be illegal. "

The only reason that I can see that this would be illegal would be due to copyrights.

I don't think they're arguing that the original author/publisher shouldn't recieve attribution and credit for the original work.

If someone was originally selling a product openly, and they now no longer choose to do so - then they're effectively abandoning their interest in those copyrights. Sharing those abandoned items shouldn't be illegal.
If a company like Facebook offered paid support, the press would rush to denounce them for it.

It would also probably generate more support scams.
"The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life" — Erving Goffman (1959). Timeless. https://www.amazon.com/Presentation-Self-Everyday-Life/dp/03...
Electric AWD camping trailer self-drives over pavement and muddy trail
When saving the planet spoils the charm of historic houses
Requiring companies to obey the law? How rude. No-one is actually forcing them to sell this stuff, you know. If they want to sell it, they’ll have to follow the rules.
This appears to be focused on post-15th century America and England; I was talking about world history, where each of these drinks' use predates Western social interpretations. But you're right that economic status often dictated social behavior, and so different things were drank by different social strata, but often because that's just what a person of that social class would do. Tea was originally treated as a very high social strata drink, but by the 18th century nearly all colonial americans were drinking it, up until the revolution supplanted it with alternatives like coffee.

Cities and towns have often historically been located next to rivers not only for transportation, but for agriculture, to remove waste, and for people to drink it. In order to have a "city" you have to solve the transportation of waste, which involves getting in water, and evidence for this goes back well before 3,000BC. The locations for cities were often chosen for good water quality, or avoided due to poor water quality. If water wasn't nearby, they'd pipe it in, and it they couldn't do that, they'd dig wells, often hundreds of em. In Rome, access to water completely transformed the idea of a city and built the biggest one in history up to that point. Cities often had not only public wells, but also fountains specifically for both drinking and hand-washing.

Some famous cities in history had poor access to water, and as they grew they suffered due to a lack of sanitation and clean water. But that has nothing to do with who drank what or for what purpose. All societies have drank different things for different reasons, but almost never due to an inability to get drinking water.

Even today, remote villages that are barely touched by modern man don't boil water or drink alcohol or tea. They just drink straight-up water, and 100,000 years of evolution has proved the idea that we figured out how not to die from it.
> He's saying it is a property cryptographic hash functions must have that they are constant time, constant power.

It's a little unclear whether rurban was saying that they must have this property, or merely that they do have it. But that is neither here nor there because...

> each round of Blake3 is constant-time

That is not the same thing as the entire algorithm being constant-time.

This whole thread has turned into a horrible mess.

Yes, all else being equal, constant time/power is nice to have. But the only circumstance under which it is necessary is if you are processing secret data in a situation where an adversary can potentially observe side channels. But this is true for any algorithm, not just hashes. Furthermore, most common application of hashing a secret is password hashing, and there is is much more important that the hash be expensive than that it be constant time and power.

But Blake3 is not a password hash. It can be used as a component of a password hash, and there its constant-round time becomes a useful property. But to emphasize this in the context in which rurban's comment appears is at best badly misleading.
Because the more of their rights you take away the less incentive they have to create?
That was awesome! Good job SpaceX!
I can watch every launch live from my desk in glorious HD with multiple camera views, telemetry, and expert commentary. It costs nothing to watch. This is freaking amazing.
Cord-Cutting Millennials Are Just Like Their Parents
Almost every android app I use is from the f-droid store, due to being on a unrootable phone so no ROMing for me. I love it, but it isn't perfect so it's nice to see work still being done on it.
I just came to say that the first paragraph of that article is so cringe-worthy I had to post... Terrible, argh...

But amazing result.
For brands selling on Amazon (not Amazon owned) warranty registration is one of the best ways of getting the customer on your list - as Amazon does not share customer's email addresses with their vendors
Probably, but it seems like it would run into diminishing returns except on the longest articles, because AFAIK the articles in wikitext are provided alphabetically, and consecutive articles may have little or nothing to do with each other, rendering the very wide window pointless.
Superb: beautifully written and unputdownable.
Some of those techniques will make the whole experience slow compared to the current network request filters and dns blockers.

And that will probably be blocked or severely locked down by your most popular browser, chrome.

I don't need to give advertisers data myself when someone else I know can. I really doubt it is easy to throw off chrome monopoly at this stage. I presume we will see a chilling effect before anything moves like IE.
That's a miserable story. I have used the Consumer Guarantees Act here numerous times, perhaps a couple per year. I have never been to a tribunal ever and am not aware of anyone who has, that is not a normal experience.
The World’s 2,153 Billionaires Are Richer Than 4.6B People, Says Oxfam
Comment I read decades ago was analog gauges impart meaning that digital ones don't. The context was analog fuel gauges for aircraft. 120 gals of fuel in a P51 means you have around two hours for flight time left. 120 gallons in B17 means you have half an hour.
It's sad, because sometimes you read articles about a small town's main revenue source being a speed trap. Municipal governments have not gotten the historic funding they've enjoyed from state and federal government over years of being routinely slashed by a political party that enjoys slashing routinely when in power.

So you end up with broke college kids using their student loan money to ultimately pay for trash pickup or other critical city services that were previously paid for by taxation and higher levels of government.
That's a circular argument if the parent asks "why should the creator have that right?"
A sitemap simply tells you what pages exist, not what's on those pages.

Systems such as lunr.js are closer in spirit to a site-oriented search index, though that's not how they're presently positioned, but instead offer JS-based, client-implemented site search for otherwise static websites.

https://lunrjs.com
"All The King's Men," Robert Penn Warren's fictionalized treatment of Huey Long, is magnificent.
Dear everyone crapping on Ruby (and esp. Rails) in this thread (and every other time this comes up),

If you don't like Ruby or Rails, that's okay!

No, really. You can use something else. You won't hurt our feelings! Programming languages and their frameworks can actually be a preference, not a moral issue.

We're here because we like it, and it's totally cool that you don't! Please use what you love; we are, and we know how powerful that can be.

Cheers,
— Every Ruby Developer
An AI crawler is needed.
What a phenomenal article. It's shocking how entitled people get about 100% free software. Some really emotionally intelligent insights here.
Great post, just keep doing what you're doing! I, for one, have a ton of respect for the work that you do and the projects that you've created. I've never been the steward of a super popular project, but I can imagine it must be demanding.
The old two wrongs make a right defense. I have a feeling this will be as successful in court as it was against my mom when I was 6 years old.
I believe you're mistaken, as I don't recall that happening and can't find any documentation of that occurring. Perhaps you were thinking of the gab.ai fediverse event?

https://f-droid.org/en/2019/07/16/statement.html
Most car radio software from the 90s and 2000s are very reliable. Most software bugs come from change, and since embedded system stuff doesn't really change after delivery, it stays fairly reliable. I estimate 2010s basic software is fine too.

And wiring harnesses / solder points being secure is an issue with normal car dials, buttons, gauges, engine / emissions control chips and more for quite a long time. I think you have to go back to the 80s or even 70s to get non-electronic gauges in mass market cars. The entire wiring point stuff is mostly a solved point. Yes some VW cars and other less reliable manufacturers do have solder or microswitches go bad after 20 years, but I'm fairly certain it isn't much of an issue in makes like toyota. And by that time in 20 years, some chinese manufacturer has made a clone part for $30 and it's mostly a non issue.
This is something i can relate to in a big way. For me, the two things that helped are Bodybuilding and Boxing. While both have been mentioned here already, i honestly can't overstate how good both of them are in building up your self esteem and belief in yourself.

Bodybuilding is amazing because you literally get to watch this visible transformation happening in front of your eyes. You see the weight climb, you feel parts of your body grow and strengthen, you feel better and better each day. It's an amazing thing.

Boxing too works wonders because it really teaches you to rely on yourself and to think on the fly. You learn to think fast, adapt, rely on your training and to always be looking for an opening. It works wonders on your mental state and physical fitness (just be careful which gym's you go to).

TL;DR, do both, or any of the number of awesome choices people have recommended like BJJ, or any other competitive sport. You'll notice the change and thank yourself for it.
Correct. RR doesn't make cars anymore, it's only just a badge. Also, RR is dominating the marine propulsion sector, these engines are some of the largest in the world!
In such situations I take solace in knowing the assembly generated by the compiler will at least have the same styling.

At the end of the day it's just text on the screen.
Are those items sold in Europe too ?
By law there is a two years long warranty on item sold in EU, no matter what
I found this a while ago, after reading the guidelines and wanting to hear the opinions of others on it. Interestingly, the reason I found out about them to begin with was George Hotz during an interview going something like "I thought MISRA guidelines were stupid but then I actually read them and like, these are by really smart people, man!"

I just pulled it up and here's what he said in the interview ad verbatim:

"All of this code is Open Source, readable, and I believe now it's all MISRA C-compliant, too."

Interviewer cuts in: "What's that mean?"

"Um, MISRA is like the automotive coding standard. At first I—you know, I've come to respect—I've been reading, like, the standards lately, and I've come to respect them, they're actually written by very smart people!"

[The interviewer says something irrelevant to the point here that I don't feel like typing up and that Hotz didn't seem to agree with and that I don't really agree with.]

"MISRA's written by, like, computer scientists. And you can tell by the language they use—you can tell by the language they use, they talk about like whether certain, uh, conditions in MISRA are decidable or undecidable, and I and I and I...you mean like the halting problem? And, yes! Alright, you've earned my respect, I will read carefully what you have to say, and we want to make our code compliant with that."

He obviously worded his praise a bit strangely, but a standard written well enough to tame someone like George Hotz is fairly alluring. I was probably as surprised as he was when I found out how good they were. They set the bar so high that very little matches it as far as technical writing goes.
This really piqued my interest, and so I took a look closer into the examples used:

1. Website examples: Twitter.com, Etsy.com, and Spotify.com signup forms don't use any off-white.

2. The visual examples provided are apples to oranges. Removing an input field and adding more padding were the factors that made the 'right-side examples' more visually appealing
...mostly known for being a ufologist

I remember a book he wrote, something about "Magonia". Not sure he considered UFOs "real" but more of a collective psyche phenomenon. Actually he collected a lot of ancient stories from previous centuries: fairy tales, Mother Mary visions, strange happenings of 1800s and befor 1950... it was very entertaining.
I never read Gene Wolfe or Riddley so not commenting directly on them.

But I wonder if this type of "puzzle box" interface to a plot line actually produces a false catharsis that makes what is otherwise a crappy plot seem a lot better than it actually is...

I'd rather have a story be narrated in utter clarity and be enamored with it rather then be given a puzzle and have to piece together the plot only to have my bias for the story be affected by the catharsis of solving the puzzles. Maybe the puzzles themselves are what make the story worthwhile.

Either way, I'm interested in the given opinions and opinions on this story despite the "puzzles." If Riddley or Gene Wolfe laid out their stories with crystal clarity, how good would it be?
Commodore 64 wooden version (Turkish)
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Trump built miles of wall on the mexican border for less than $4 billion.

Democrats want to spend $119 billion on a wall that probably won't do anything useful.
How about the danger of three corporations being responsible for liquidity in 30% of these shares.

What happens if one of these companies goes down, and with it, a need to liquidate 8% of Apple in a single day?
Which is great, so it would be good to translate that to public commentary with metric too :)

Also, surprised to find so many downvotes here. I suppose some still oppose the metrication effort and want to prolong the usage of imperial units, but are too embarrassed to admit it.
> Given F-Droid opposes free speech, why do they try and think CCC is part of their culture.

Given that free speech absolutism is linked to fascism, which both F-Droid and CCC oppose, why shouldn't they think that?
This sentiment is so often expressed, nobody challenges it as not making sense. Who redefined "paying" as meaning cash payment?

If you are a supplier of eyeballs, you are purchasing stuff in exchange for eyeballs. You are purchasing things, so you are a customer. Also, when you pay for an Android phone, you are a paying customer of Google, with cash, credit, or whatever. Lots of other things, but those are the first that come to mind.
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Most amazon private label stuff is disposable, low cost, I-don't-need-a-warranty stuff.

They compete directly against no-brand or unknown-brand chinese imports.

Seriously, who cares about a warranty on a $6 thing? As long as it works when you get it, it will probably continue working.

Amazonbasics cables or camera tripod DOA? Amazon will ship you a replacement and you can send back the broken one.

By the way, all the amazon label clothing comes in bag already set up to repackage and return.
You asked if it could "impact" the stock which is commonly understood as meaning a downward impact. Even setting aside the fact that they are different companies, I don't see how a successful demonstration could do that, no. If anything, if you want to make it about Musk and not the specific companies, it should give people more confidence in Musk since it went exactly as planned.
And especially that world. “Literally” has also meant “figuratively” for over 150 years [https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/misuse-of-lite...]

I used to argue the other way too, then one day on a whim I looked it up. I was surprised.
> They threatened to close in NYC if they had to support gay partner's benefits in the city.

FYI, while true as a historical matter (this was done in 2010 according to a google search), I believe this is outdated. https://www.wsj.com/articles/progressives-ambush-the-salvati... notes in 2019: ‘Yet the organization says it doesn’t consider sexual orientation in hiring and now provides “the same benefits to opposite-sex and same-sex couples.”’

They are a church as you note and I’m not sure what their doctrine for their followers is. On the other hand, isn’t it anti-religious bias to attack someone for donating to a church? In US law, religion is protected on the same level as any other protected characteristic (sex, race, etc.) due to the long history of discrimination against minority religions for their political or moral views.

In general attacking CFA for donating to a mainstream christian church seems only a step away from demanding that followers of Christianity who attend or donate to their churches must be fired from their jobs or otherwise discriminated against...
I don't want support for 99 dollars a year. I'd be happy with $1 a minute or whatever. It's fine to discourage 99% of the support calls normal companies get. Just have something for extreme situations.
This also seems to be true in theory regarding torrents but not in practice.
Having been addicted to caffeine and nicotine I found the migranes were equivalent, only with nicotine it would be every 30 minutes after injesting rather than 5 hours.

In both cases they were gone after about a week or two, but I could see how it would be difficult for people who have an easy time smoking (low vs high sin taxes, happen to be at places where you can smoke all the time like your own car and home vs. a restrictive apartment and public transit, whether or not your friends also smoke all the time). My addiction was only for about 2-3 years, too, not half a lifetime like with some people.
I think there’s plenty of nuance here. Taking your position consistently, would you be comfortable referring to any christian X as “anti-gay X” or any muslim Y as “anti-women Y”? I think the label would be out of place in most cases, and needlessly divisive.
I used this, and you had that kind of power over the machine only in the low-end architectures, Z80, 6502 and on the enterprise, on IBM mainframes, to breakpoint and stop and look at what the processors was doing. Of course, you still can do the same thing on mainframes, but we are forgetting that in the end, on our X64 machines, that we are all running machine code.
"The Five-Day Course in Thinking" — Edward de Bono (1967). Great challenging fun.https://www.amazon.com/Five-Day-Course-Thinking-Edward-1967-...
I think, from direct personal experience, you might get the best results from really focusing on making yourself better, and this will to some extent make you feel better.

Develop skills to a new level, really figure out if you live according to an ethical system you believe in, keep seeing how much you can accomplish in the direction of goals YOU find meaningful.

Again from personal experience you could try reading a bunch of Jordan Peterson, and maybe try his self authoring course.

His insight in to these topics has been very helpful to me.

I also have gotten a metric ton of great results from exercise. Either lifting weights and/or a skill based exercise (like martial arts or whatever) in these domains you get the mental health benefits of exercise, and the psychological benefits of measurable increase in capacity over time.

I also have gotten amazing results from meditating, specifically the Waking Up app by Sam Harris, which has helped me see my thoughts a little more dispassionately, so I can start to see how they affect me.

I have gotten good insight from the work of Scott Adams, I think it was “how to fail at almost everything and still win big” which presents his moist robot framing for how to help yourself feel differently.

Also 7 Habits of Highly Effective people by I think Steven Covey.

Also How to Win Friends and Influence People which is an old and amazing book that reframe interpersonal interaction, which influenced my self esteem dramatically.

Feel free to message me directly if you want more tailored opinions to your situation.
Opera reportedly has predatory loan apps with interest rates of up to 876%
The app is decoupled such that the frontend can run separately from the intensive processes. I have the app running on a free Heroku dyno right now and it's running great even serving up to 100 concurrent users.
Rust Survey 2018 Results
> Avoid using solid gray text fields because users tend to perceive them as disabled or inactive.

Any darker color than the background could be perceived as disabled as well. All the given examples with a box darker than the background looked disabled to me. The ones with a darker background and white text boxes looked fine though.
NZ law doesn’t require return to manufacturer, it requires the seller to accept the return. NZ law also makes minimum warranty requirements so brand new goods can’t be sold “without warranty”.

Amazon tries to claim that it’s a “market place” and doesn’t actually sell things itself, but all that matters in NZ is who you have given your payment info to.
I've often thought one approach, though one I wouldn't necessarily want to be the standard paradigm, would be exclusivity based on usefulness.

So for example duckduckgo is still trying to use various providers to emulate essentially "early google without the modern google privacy violations", but when I start to think about many of the most successful company-netizens, one thing that stands out is early day exclusivity has a major appeal.

So I imagine a search engine that is only crawling the most useful websites and blogs and works on a whitelist basis. Instead of trying to order search results to push bad results down, just don't include them at all or give them a chance to taint the results. It would have more overhead, and would take a certain amount of time to make sure it was catching non-major websites that are still full of good info ... but once that was done it would probably be one of the best search panes in existence. I have also thought to streamline this, and I know it's cliche, but surely there could be some ml analysis applied to figuring out which sites are SEO gaming or click-baiting regurgitators and weed them out.

Just something I've been mulling over for a while now.
Yeah, I like how all the other other failed/failing companies have done likewise (/sarcasm)
In the example given[1] the fields look like they are disabled. I probably wouldn't even try to type into them, I'd just assume that something was broken.

[1]: https://uxmovement.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/off-white-...
Cool! Is it really easy to use?
Liberating the Precolonial History of Africa
The link directly to my Github repo received attention, but a post that is to the live instance has yet to receive any significant attention. The two things are separate, one is a source code that hypothetically does something, the other is a legitimate file-hosting platform.