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> ... then why aren't people on public assistance already doing all these things you imagine?

Because public assistance in the US sucks. It's designed to. It is political tool more than social policy. There's a word of difference between these two things:

1. We as a society value families and children, so stay home and take care of yours, and we'll make sure you have enough resources to meet your needs.
2. Better get a job soon, parasite, your benefits expire next month.

In which of those situations do you feel safe, or free to create? Or to nurture, itself the greatest act of creativity? Is it not enough labor for society to raise a family? Must every mother also constantly be generating profits for someone else?

This is not my direct experience -- I consider myself fortunate -- but I've seen plenty of it. Getting public assistance is humiliating, time-consuming, and uncertain.

Humiliating - asking for public assistance immediately labels you as a problem and a failure, even for many of those tasked with providing assistance.

There are limited resources (artificially limited, because of course we can always afford weapons programs and tax breaks for owners of capital and real estate). The public assistance system is non-trivially optimized to weed out people who don't need it, in order to conserve these resources, and this process can be fraught and combative. "Prove to me that you're a failure" is the message and the context.

Time-consuming - it takes forever. People on public assistance are often assumed to have no jobs. They have to go (usually slowly, on mass transit if they're lucky) from one government office to another, making and keeping appointments weeks or months ahead. They have to do this often while they live in car that provides shelter, but not transportation, since they can't afford gas.

Uncertain - a large portion of the US political apparatus has for decades spent vast energy and resources in reducing public assistance, and in demonizing those who use it ("welfare mothers"). As we speak the US administration is pushing through further reductions, designed (they say) to "push people from welfare to work."

No surprise that people in that context don't feel free or safe enough to create.
I tend to avoid uncontrolled left hand turns into traffic like the plague. I will gladly make 3 right hand turns to avoid the stress...
Hah! Sorry, didn't cross my mind. And thanks for the details.
Atari BASIC
Does it not have the ability to mute navigation?

Apple Maps in CarPlay has this option, and I only ever use it muted. It’s fine even when I don’t know where I’m going, since I just glance at the screen to see the next turn/distance and that’s all I need anyway.
yep, entirely fair statement. What defines tech companies is essentially low marginal cost of production as they scale and a defensible technological advantage.

It's becoming pretty clear that neither Uber nor Netflix have that. Uber's biggest costs are drivers, marketing and regulatory issues which keep piling up. Netflix biggest asset appears to be original content as the platform itself has plenty of competition, and costs for content seem to go up linearly.
> we're changing a buffer counter to a postfix instead of a prefix increment

Maybe I'm missing something, but wasn't that a pointless change? The value of the expression was unused, so post- and pre- are equivalent.
I would not be surprised how quickly things might turn from "mandatory home quarantine strongly recommended" to "mandatory home quarantine enforced by military force". This is China after all. If you decide to stay, be prepared.
Of course you can't blame USB, they didn't make the cable. But if you have a one plus phone, a Huawei phone and a Nintendo switch (3 very common devices) that all claim to use USB, and yet none of the devices chargers are compatible with each other, who do we blame?

At least when my 3ds, Nokia and razr phones had different connectors, I wasn't going to be under the impression they would work with each other
Are there any government whose narrative you trust? It seems to me that never trusting anything a governments because they have once [0] lied is a little extreme. In fact, I'm not sure I can name a country whose government hasn't lied in recent times.

This would then extend to academia as well, since most research is in some way funded by the state.

[0]: I know they have lied more than once. I'm not sure what a more appropriate word would have been.
Forced UBI is theft. You have no right to demand the services of another person.
It’s mostly due to laws that make all police blotters (records of arrests and other incidents) in Florida open to the public immediately (and thus easy for journalists to mine for interesting stories).

Couple that with a huge population and something weird will happen most days.
It would have been good if they also had other oils in the study like olive oil etc... it is still too early to tell and make accurate predictions unfortunately... there are too many hoax studies like the Harvard fat study sponsored by the sugar industry that we have to take all these “studies” with a pinch of salt (pun intended).

“ The article draws on internal documents to show that an industry group called the Sugar Research Foundation wanted to "refute" concerns about sugar's possible role in heart disease. The SRF then sponsored research by Harvard scientists that did just that. The result was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1967, with no disclosure of the sugar industry funding.”

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074...
There are people doing that, there is one or more kernles written in Rust but still even Rust evangelist are not using it daily but demand for people to waste time rewriting in Rust.

A technical reason for GNU/Linux not to use Rust or Go is that C supports a lot more platforms so you can't replace core components at this moment, also I want to remind you that memory safe languages existed before Go and Rust and the only project I am aware to create a safe OS and utilities was Midori by Microsoft.

Firefox and it's dependencies is not yet 100% Rust so I honestly expect a new browser started from scratch in a safe language to be done before Firefox is "ported".
Since the proper API isn't available, the principle of least privilege suggests that abusing a high-privilege, easily abused feature in an unorthodox manner to work around that problem might be a bad idea. Maybe MacOS shouldn't have this "systemwide shortcut" feature until it provides the necessary functionality. Currently that feature appears to be incompatible with the platform's security model; don't undermine that model just to make a hotkey feature work.
I really liked subscribing to the Economist. These days I unfortunately cannot in good conscience take the time to read through it every week. This is where I hope Delayed Gratification can be a substitute.
Men Set Their Own Cites High: Gender and Self-Citation Across Fields&over Time
"The very parent at the park playing on his iPhone while his children run around playing and laughing is the same one, who, when you fast-forward the axis of time, wants those precious moments back."

other brands are available..
That's not how it works. What the lawmakers mean is pretty clear as soon as you go read the documents affixed to the motion. There is no need for more boilerplate.

The 2018 Comission report has this to say on the subject for example :

The study has, in particular, provided the following information and conclusions: even manufacturers of mobile phones which did not sign up to the Memorandum of Understanding appear to have also adopted Micro-USB charging solutions, leading to the indication that almost 100% of data enabled phones sold in Europe in 2013 were compliant with Micro-USB charging solution.; due to the Memorandum of Understanding, it is estimated to have resulted in six to 21 million fewer standalone chargers over the period 2011 to 2013; the increasing prevalence of Micro-USB charging has limited the need to purchase standalone chargers and consequently reduced the use of raw materials than might otherwise have been the case.

Since the previous experience of the Memorandum of Understanding had proven to be successful for the reasons mentioned above, the Commission wished to continue the approach already followed based on a voluntary agreement. Moreover, a voluntary solution could more readily accommodate new technology and innovation compared to a regulatory option. Additionally, a voluntary approach may have had the advantage of having a wider scope, compared to the regulatory option, for example, it may have covered both ends of the charging cable 79 .

However, given the unsatisfactory outcome so far of the progress in the voluntary option, the Commission will shortly launch a study to assess costs and benefits of different options, including the regulatory one.
When can we expect interface and/or ip binding, and possibility to disable roaming?

IMHO roaming should be opt-in iif you specify the remote endpoint.
Never heard "je m'osef" in my whole life :)
I agree this is an important metric and a kind of technical debt that's hard to capture.

How do you discriminate this from RenovateBot or Dependa-Bot? Both of those will not only track the drift but they'll also generate the PR to fix it.
How does it go hand-in-hand? UBI comes from the government, automation comes from businesses. No business is holding back automation waiting for UBI to be implemented.
The failure mode is that rentiers and middlemen will eat up all of the UBI income, leaving most people’s material standard unchanged. Given the state of healthcare and housing in the US, this doesn’t seem an improbable outcome.

I’m sure, by contrast, you could do UBI in a country with robust state housing and healthcare programs, like for example Austria, and avoid these concerns.
The prefix/postfix change is a red herring, that doesn't do anything (since the expression result isn't used). Which means that the security fix is interspersed with code style changes. Maybe there's a reason to do this here, but it's often not considered good practice because it makes it harder to review the code.

AFAICT, the only real changes are in (new) line 411, resetting the cp variable after the loop, and line 416, ignoring write errors. The former is probably the relevant one.
Makes you wonder what the overhead on this was compared to just giving all the bonds an interest rate.

A lot of things we do today in IT feels overly expensively done, but looking at this really makes you appreciate how far we’ve come in terms of efficiency even with modern over engineered solutions.
http://theconversation.com/why-ups-drivers-dont-turn-left-an... (Why UPS drivers don’t turn left and you probably shouldn’t either)
However, for those, tech is an essential part of business, and it is not trivially replicable. (at the scale they operate at least)

Wework not so much it seems
Yes. This thread is blind-leading-the-blind. Threads against C almost always are.

When I was a pentester, out of more than 50 projects I was on, I always found at least a medium-severity bug (a bug which could allow an attacker to pwn the app using nothing but a web browser). Guess how many of those codebases were written in C? Zero.

The smugness is endemic to people outside of security. I was smug too. There are comments I wrote that I cringe at, looking back. Pentesting changes your perspective on things.

C isn't going away. Yes, let's make it safer (by pentesting). No, it's not a mortal sin to write C. I'll find ways to exploit your webapp regardless of the language.
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I read this story not too long ago. It's a pretty amazing story, honestly like something from a movie. Though, it did make me think back to being a kid at that time being hopeful we might win. Get that boardwalk and park place. Now I know it was never possible to win in Canada at that time it does kind of bring this feeling of being cheated. My dad always said conspiratorially that the game was a scam and you could never win. It's funny to think he was right, though not for the reasons he thought.
At this point, small foreign business operating in China will go out of business due to supply chain shutdown and illiquidity. Mid sized businesses will have a huge one time cost/write off moving operations out of China. Large multinationals will move more parts of Chinese supplies to other countries.

China law blog can put it better than I can:
https://www.chinalawblog.com/2020/02/whats-going-to-happen-w...

https://www.chinalawblog.com/2020/01/chinas-coronavirus-and-...
Too late! It's been stolen from him
Yea, this is extremely common in American hip hop for a long time, and some of the turns are also quite breathtaking. Glad to see it in French too
Synonym is the wrong word here. A synonym means another word that means exactly the same thing. So the synonym of a face mask would, by definition, also have to be a literal face mask.

You mean to ask if this is slang for something else.

Which, in this case, it is not. It's a mask over your face which is extremely common in China.
One of the supposed benefits I remember from his original talk on systemd-homed is better handling of encrypted home directories even for a single user workstation.

Even on a single user workstation, having an encrypted root filesystem doesn't do as much good if your laptop is left booted up with the root filesystem unlocked most of the time. Systemd-homed in that scenario is supposed to make it easier to automatically unmount/mount on locking/unlocking the workstation.
Looks like they are on v.5 now:

> ERNIE 5, the latest model, was brought into service in March 2019, and is a quantum random number generator built by ID Quantique. It uses quantum technology to produce random numbers through light, replacing the former 'thermal noise' method. Running at speeds 21,000 times faster than the first ERNIE, it can produce 3 million winners in just 12 minutes each month.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premium_Bond#ERNIE
You could do it like in article, so for every nonempty element in powerset (combinations for each length) of those numbers calculate their lcm and add or subtract amount of multiplies of lcm according to length of element.

So for A, B, C you have (M-number of multipliers) M(lcm(A)) + M(lcm(B)) + M(lcm(C)) - M(lcm(B,C)) - M(lcm(A,C)) - M(lcm(A,B)) + M(lcm(A,B,C))
You really don't want to do that, because the test environment will not be representative of the real environment (unless your production db has fsync=off etc., which can only be justified in very specific cases)
The number of deaths is growing exponentially. As of January 25th, there were 41 deaths total [1]. By January 26th that number had risen to 56 [2]. Now, on February 2nd the number is 304, an increase of 45 over the past 24 hours [3].

More people have died from this virus in the past 24 hours than all of 2019 and the 3 weeks in January prior to the 25th, combined. Now do you see why there is reason for alarm? There were only 1320 confirmed cases just over a week and a half ago, globally. Now the number has increased by 2604 in the past day!

[1] https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/situati...

[2] https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/situati...

[3] https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/situati...
It is a pointless change in that diff yeah.

Perhaps it's meant to match a style guide that recommends preferring postfix operators? Or perhaps it's editing shrapnel from an earlier version of the changelist, that maybe used the result of that statement?
New Intel Microcodes for Windows 10 Released to Fix CPU Bugs
Specifically, OpenBSD's. To give credit where it is due.
Netflix was a tech company. Their web-based logistics was every bit as much tech as Amazon. Their streaming platform was groundbreaking - Video-On-Demand services had existed before, but they brought new scale and techniques to it, at a time when that was still very hard.

But no, Netflix is no longer special there - Their tech is tried and true, the problems are still interesting but well solved. They ceased being a tech player... five years ago?
Is that a lot?
This is incorrect. Neither Cyclone nor ATS had borrow checking. In fact the ATS author at one point dismissed borrow checking as too inflexible.

The borrow checker is actually original, though based on known techniques. Specifically, the original part is that it allows the per-use-site choice of aliasing vs. mutability instead of making the decision globally.
I disagree that it’s almost impossible to win with what is essentially UI and UX challenges.

Part of it is subjective yes but a lot of the field can be measured and ranked in terms of quality and effectiveness.
The Delphi compiler is probably structured similarly to the Rust compiler. They're both classical compiler designs. Rust takes longer to compile for other reasons.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/30/asia/chinese-health-care-...

"Wuhan's Communist Party chief Ma Guoqiang acknowledged that before mid-January, samples had to be sent to the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC) in Beijing. From mid-January, Wuhan was able to test about 300 cases a day"

Think about that one, does this sound like taking it seriously? "test about 300 cases a day" is a good way to doctor the number of infections.
I hope this doesn't sound overly self-promotional, but I have a newsletter with around 1500 subscribers (and a few Patreon supporters) which I started a few years back to address a very personal issue of bookmarking/curation: I realised I was storing tons of links which I never visited and forgot about, but that certain links sort of stuck with me and I kept talking about them, most of which related to data.

So I started sending them out as a curated list of a handful of links per week, alongside a short explanation of why it mattered or a quote.

8 years later, I still sort of remember if I sent something, and I no longer use bookmarks.
There's only 80. Surely it would be trivial to just shoot them?
How long have you been driving? That feeling should go away with some time.
They own a bunch of software companies like meetup and fieldlens. They were making a play to become the Creative Cloud or 365 of both building management and the gig economy workers.

That vision has been clipped now, before we ever saw a chance to see it finish playing out. If part of their valuation was future potential, then I agree they were worth more while trying to be something new, than they are as just a real estate shell.
Let us forget about whether UBI or Negative Income Tax works or not. Let's just say we will implement it by 2025.

Who is to decide the amount of that? How will it be decided when living cost is greatly ( or literally ) dependent on property pricing? Hence different location will have different living cost. Food, as in raw material assuming you cook yourself which is the cheapest option, could varies from state or even countries, but even if there is a 50% difference between the same items, the total amount spent on food will still be minimal. If you are allowed $4 per day and a 50% increase is only $2 increase, or $60 per month difference.

Where as housing prices, rent will differ. Does UBI assumes I am going to live in remotely in small village? I dont have to live in a Citi, but I need somewhere to live while having the opportunities to find a job. And the future is heading towards megacities.

Basically what I am suggesting is, it is sort of pointless to discuss UBI or basic income guarantee without discussing housing. Which is not only the biggest expenses for living, but also the biggest asset class in our economy, and also the biggest problem.

I dont have an answer to those questions, but it just seems every time people discuss UBI or NIT ( Negative Income Tax ) or other BIG ( basic income guarantee ), we tends to ignore housing, or suggest hosting is not what BIG is hoping to solve. That is on the assumption with BIG people could basically live with sufficient food and water without dying if they are without jobs.
bruh, I'm not even sure that's remotely true.

I'd bet my left pinky that people knew this earlier in life than us because our society shields us from our true selves.

Too many distractions to the point it's harmful.
I understand your point. I live right behind a three lane road that has left turn onto a street next to my house. You end up turning left across four lanes of traffic and you can’t always see the far lane. The far lane may not back up due to becoming a turn lane and cars are going faster thanks overall traffic. The city disallows left turns from 3-7pm, but I don’t make that turn if there is a modicum of traffic at any point in time. There is at least one accident a week there as people try to make that turn.
Anytime traffic is red, it would be better for nav apps to reroute to safer turns.
> You want to compare programmers to non programmers.

No I don't. I said technically ambitious startup because I didn't mean a scenario where the group was too clueless to even program something easy. Read my comment assuming the programmers in that startup scenario are average industry programmers. Does your answer change?
The funny thing is that “value added economy-of-scale brand-driven tech-driven real estate” is pretty much just table-stakes real estate. The hotel industry has been doing this for decades and has never seen these kinds of multiples. The weird thing is that SoftBank should have known this years ago.
yes agreed, materially we're off the pit

I'd argue though, that a good life is a balance between human condition and material needs. A kind of optimized frugality.
This is one of the most relatable things I've ever read on this website.
the one I used to have before catalina was Office 2016, I am not sure if my license is compatible with 2019.

I just tried the packagefile from the link, and after installing I am still stuck with MS office 365.

At this point, libreoffice does the job, and I cant be bothered to invest more time to get MS office, 2016 edition 64 bit, or whatever would be applicable in my case, to work like before catalina.

thanks for the tips though.
It could also be used by an "homme de lettre" in a very pompous way.