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> I thought one of the big selling points for this was the ability to move the homedirectory from one device to another via usb or hdd?

I've been able to do this for decades, just copy the files. Why would I want systemd for that?

systemd has already made my textual log files binary and only accessible with their own viewer. Now it's going to apply its philosophy to my home directory too?
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Of course it does involve frequency, "again" can either mean something that's happening very often OR something that stopped happening and started again.

It's a matter of corporate strategy and has nothing to do with each worker.
The whole thread has been rearranged according to doctrine.

When the thread was active, a critical comment was on top the entire time. No one can tell me this is happening without a coordinated effort.
If you would like some concise details about the virus and its risks, I would watch all the videos produced by this doctor. [1] I am not too concerned for myself, as I keep my immune system very strong. I am concerned for others that I care about that spent time around smokers, as they and elderly are at the highest risk. Read up on ACE2 as this is a big part of the risk to smokers. [2]

In my opinion, the best you can do is to not stress over the bits you can not control (rumors, numbers, etc). Stress will weaken your immune system. You can also reduce the load on your immune system by eating healthy (remove sugar, carbs) and getting exercise when you can. Get plenty of real vitamin C from green leafy vegetables, zinc, I'm sure you know all of this. If you have loved ones that smoke, try to get them to at least temporarily use the patch or nicotine gum for a while.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT3_A1bf9pU

[2] - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2798380/
I agree, but the argument is also bullshit. You've changed the [noun] specifically to create an example where disposal is onerous. If disposal is not onerous, it looks quite a bit different. Are we so inflexible in our thought that we require a strict rule to be applied all cases, without the bit of common sense that says: "If you created a massive burden on me, it's your responsibility. If you created a negligible burden on me, who gives a shit?"

If they delivered, instead of two tons of mulch, a single unit of scotch tape, would you still give a shit about whose responsibility disposal is?

We can go ahead and treat these cases as distinct, because they're distinct. You recognize that implicitly, which is why you made your example two tons of mulch, and not 2 ounces of plastic.
I dread the web we will get if Firefox dies. Could you imagine the only major browser being created by the largest advertiser?
Apple goes further, and doesn't allow you to install any non-Apple browser on iOS, so...

99% of people do. not. care. about any of the telemetry and tracking hijinks that get us here feather-white. They just want a computer that works, and that they can run Office and video games on. Windows is still the best option there.
> function composition

Yes! But more broadly about composition in general.

Also datatype composition. Building DSLs that allow you to compose small constructs into larger ones preserving the same type so you can compose even further. Maybe even inhibiting some algebraic properties so you can reason about your compositions. About identity, reflexivity, associativity, transitivity etc.

So many real world problems can be tackled this way and getting this right can make you so extraordinarily productive!
No, just the particular fads, e.g., the one that drove the change to the non-rhoticity of RP, didn't exist in 15th century Britain.

That the current accent is driven by a particular fad aimed at highlighting upper class status doesn't imply that class distinctions are novel, just the particular effort to demarcate them (which wasn't durable, obviously, as RP isn't exclusive to the upper classes.)
I was at a meeting with people that were doing signal processing in "embedded" environments. They said the patch slowed them down a lot. They got better performance and more determanism even, by pinning processes to cores using prior knowledge.
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That has nothing to do with anything I said.
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Or large payments are approved democratically.
>That is discriminatory to suggest that one country's accent is more acceptable than another's.

In the abstract sense, maybe. But it still isn't a good look. If I call the support and hear someone from India, my first impression is that they outsourced it to the lowest bidder. If I call the support and hear someone from Germany, my first impression is that it's a German living in America for whatever reason.

You may not like it, but that's how it is. You can either make your customers happy or be politically correct. "Indian tech support" has the reputation it does for a reason, and it's foolish to tarnish your brand with it.

>Because in the US that is literally what the Americans with Disabilities Act requires: https://www.dol.gov/odep/topics/Accommodations.htm

Right, but what's the business case here? If it's only "the potential fines exceed the potential gain," it seems like there are much easier ways to go at it. For example, screening out disabled people early in the hiring process.
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This has been done in various forms for a very long time. Winamp visualizations were common back in the day. Look at Touch Designer if you want to see one of the ways large concert panels are driven.
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Why Firefox? Chrome has a bigger market share to take. Edge is built on Chromium now so it should be a more familiar environment for Chrome users. Microsoft is in a position to compete with many of the integration features that make Chrome appealing to many users. Surely it makes more sense to target Chrome than Firefox.
No, the title asks a popular question and, like, the first sentence of the article directly addresses why the popular question isn't actually the right question to ask.
Your average server mobo fits in your average kitchen trash can. In this instance, it seems like he made all the trouble for himself.

Yes, Amazon has the responsibility of return and disposal. But where disposal is a completely trivial "drop it in the trash can, forget it exists," let's not pretend that this ia Amazon doing him some kind of massive disservice.
> Spotify isn’t doing anything to podcasts. An audio program that doesn’t publish an RSS feed that I can subscribe to in my podcast player of choice

This seems like the kind of thing that can flip very suddenly.

For Spotify users, who are already used to streaming everything, listening to podcasts through Spotify might offer a fair amount of convenience. For podcasters looking to monetize, Spotify can offer something special: The ability to get paid for your work directly, without having to deal with hawking mail order razor blades, which I imagine can feel degrading to some creators, or take on the extra work of maintaining an attractive set of Patreon incentives. It might be that the only missing ingredient is a critical mass of Spotify users to give the first few podcasters reason to feel confident taking the plunge.

Maybe they don't even need to get anyone to jump in feet first. I could see a more prolific podcaster such as Aaron Mahnke perhaps being willing to give it a shot with one of his projects. But a few initial successes might be all it takes to kick off a chain reaction. Sort of like how, at the party we were hosting last night, it seemed like people were settling in for the night, but, once the first person left, our house was empty within 20 minutes.
In English: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samplesort
We are developing a "thrivable" payscale that rewards each of the following:

- relevant prior experience (before joining the coop)
- longevity (aka seniority)
- dependent care responsibilities
- membership (a small raise once you become a member)

The prior experience piece is determined with a points system, designed to take as much of the self-advocacy (with all of its race/gender/class pitfalls) out of the process as possible.

The system also includes annual cost of living adjustments.
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> and do it in a totally different accent from the original

Take William Blake's The Tyger:

Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

How are we to know how the word "symmetry" was supposed to be pronounced by Blake? No-one has recorded his pronunciation. Did it rhyme with the word "eye" (as such words must have done several centuries prior) or was it a completely "eye-rhyme" (and not very good at that, either), intended to be seen as a rhyme, but not pronounced as such?
I think the reason for resources like this, in spite of the time commitments, is the financial constraints of returning to school at an older age when you may have: mortgage/rent, carried CC/LOC debt, kids, car payments, etc etc.
Will this end up with Max Headroom's blipverts?
Apple isn't without their own problems: https://imgur.com/a/PFRlJMB

Not as egregious as what MS is doing, but I set my default browser away from Safari on purpose, thanks.
In 15th century England, the class distinction would be between speaking French or speaking English, not between different dialects of English.
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A large number of premium, cable-exclusive channels were at one point. Broadcast channels weren't, but that wasn't a disadvantage, and those premium channels brought a lot to the table.

https://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/26/arts/will-cable-tv-be-inv...
I came here to discuss this. It probably doesn't need to be said, but the brains behind this marketing don't understand their users... assuming they are actually targeting Firefox.

My guess would be that Firefox users mostly consist of people that know enough to not use Chrome or a Microsoft browser. And an ad won't change that. Chrome is the new IE as far as the default that everyone uses, so it would make sense if they targeted them.

"Get the same browsing experience with better integration with Windows." (That's probably not true, but this is advertising, which never stopped anyone.)
I can agree with JSON being inappropriate in some circumstances but YAML is a super ergonomic config format.

It gives you lots of niceties when you editing a file by hand and then you can just output a JSON object if you're generating the config with code.

It's my favorite thing ever to do something like:

- name: Configure $service.
copy:
dest: /path/to/config.yml
content: >-
---
{{ config_obj | to_nice_json }}

in Ansible.
> Just make them wait as long as it needs

Yup[1], or explain to/convince them they don't actually need the feature, or use the money paid by happy customers to pay someone to implement it, or conclude that demand is so strong that it's worth raising capital to serve them sooner.

Operating a business is doing that over and over, hundreds of times, for years.

Especially for a bootstrapped business, the need to do that will actually _increase_ during the business's lifetime - and that's if you're fortunate. When you no longer need to tell even more prospective customers "No," that's an early sign that you're serving almost the whole market and that growth (and the chance to solve neat problems) will slow down.

If you're succeeding, lots of prospective customers will always want something you don't have. There will always be larger companies that could - and you believe should - easily invest more in your field than your whole business spends.

Here's a personal example. I ran a log management service that had no graphing/visualization service - for 5 years. It launched way back in 2012 (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110609005940/en/Clo...). If you'd asked me then whether it wouldn't get native graphing until 2017 (https://blog.papertrailapp.com/lightning-search/), I'd have said you were crazy - maybe even that it wasn't possible to exist that long without it. In those 5 years, I probably addressed that topic 500 times. Sometimes I explained why it wasn't necessary to solve the prospective customer's problem, sometimes I stated that my product wasn't a good fit, sometimes I tried to reduce the need for that feature (like by supporting external graphing services, which was a small enough amount of work that our tiny team could implement a great version: https://blog.papertrailapp.com/new-search-alerts-dashboard/).

But… our choices were sound and they worked out (though I assume there were >1 viable paths, not just the route we took). We had tons of demand for the problem we solved well, a very tiny team, and kept doing what I wrote in the first paragraph. You don't need to be able to solve all the problems for all the people, or even most of the problems for most of the people. You definitely don't need to be able to see the future. As long as you know precisely what customers want, why they want it, and how they value it ("We're paying someone to do this by hand and it's expensive and buggy" vs. "It would be cool if…"), and are constantly talking about and adapting to that information, the rest tends to work out.

37signals is the extreme version (100:1 no:yes?), but every other bootstrapped product business and many funded ones all do the same thing.

The way to get better at resource allocation is to do it over and over. Even if your first few products fail, there's always a next time - and it's easier when a failure takes 6 months and not 3 years :-)

[1]: https://signalvnoise.com/posts/1050-ask-37signals-how-do-you..., https://rework.fm/say-no/
SamBam nailed it. For us, any large expenses must be approved by consensus of the whole group. For larger coops, they would need approval of a democratically elected and recallable board of directors.
NASA is doing the same things as SpaceX at a tremendously inflated cost. NASA has also managed to kill something like 20 astronauts - it's hard to say that's a "proven" record.

The anti-Musk bias and astroturfing is getting really boring.
Have you ever noticed that once you pierce the walls of "big corp", you find a command economy that's driven dictatorially from the c-suite? Capitalism and "free" markets are great for everyone else. Dictatorship is de rigueur inside the company.
Could coops constitute, at least, a partial solution to ageism? Many of the US commenters have expressed their frustration and experiences in this regard, perhaps cooperatives can serve as a good quality alternative. Perhaps the problem is that it seems a model that fits more with consulting than with a product company.
Stupidity might be the symptom, but the root cause is almost always malice - in this case systemic corruption and malicious negligence.
> Maybe some [programmers] are just "left-handed"...

This is very insightful, and I'll try to remember it the next time I'm tempted to get in a debate about "the right way" with someone...
If you click through my link above (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21676600) my process went like:

1. Search for a blog I follow

2. Look at the snippet for the blog's homepage

3. Figure out how long ago the page must have been crawled to get such an old snippet

I only tried a few, but they were months to years out of date.
> The summary description matches the current correct code. So it could not possibly match any incorrect code.

Incorrect. Here's the summary reproduced (in case susam edits again):

>>> There are 500 doors numbered 1, 2, ..., 500. All doors are closed initially. In iteration k, we toggle the states of doors k, 2k, ..., floor(500/k) * k where k runs from 1 to 500

Note the "floor(500/k)" statement. That matched the original code fragment (and what is still sitting in a terminal on my laptop):

>>> [k**2 for k in range(1, int(500**0.5))]

but not the new one which includes a +1. int(…) is floor. int(…)+1 isn't, and it's wrong: It works for 500, but not for other values. math.ceil would have been more correct, but it might've been more obvious that it doesn't match the "summary".

> (if it really existed).

Let me make sure I understand what you mean here: You actually think it more likely that my two implementations, written in a comment [1] with a lower timestamp than [2], and the perl6 implementation on the linked article all include 484 as part of the valid result, and yet my comment [2] that calls on this value specifically, was somehow meant to indicate that 484 is not part of the valid result?

Ha.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22288534

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22288554
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Firefox PiP needs a few additions - first of all show subs, second allow me to change the shortcut position in videos - sometimes next/prev arrows are on top of the element, making it impossible to click :/
Somewhat related: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/durab...
Anyone know how this compares to swift and its protocols etc?
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We are about to roll out a blog! Check https://sassafras.coop in a month or two...
Google is free - ads are expected. Microsoft is a paid product. Completely different situations.
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"we’ve been a branch plant economy since the 1960s."

Wherever you want to draw the line - R&D investment, industrial complexity, and product sophistication have been going down for the last 30 years and the major turning point was NAFTA, large scale migration, and the more globally oriented policies. Most it seemed pretty rational at the time (much of it still does) but now that we see the results, it's time to take a more nuanced approach.
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This is a common recurring argument I see regarding human flight.

You say it's worthless for humans to leave Earth. I believe, in the long term, it is critical. And I agree it is a bit of a "stunt" in that exploration has been a human endeavor for thousands of years. It inspires new generations of scientists, and ideally provides a sense of shared national/global pride.
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There is an ongoing concentration of power - as seen on many other networks too. This is a worrying sign.
FWIW, Microsoft did add tracking prevention tools much like Firefox and Safari have. So they did add the common browser feature Google refuses to integrate. Privacy-minded people who insist on using Chrome should switch to Edge over Chrome.

But I refuse to contribute to the Chromium monoculture.
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I've been here for a while lurking, it's only now that I decided to make an account.

Thank you for your reply. I think it might be best to agree to disagree, yes. Your characterization is accurate - if women are to be homemakers, a divorcee does indeed lack a place in this world. This is unfortunate, but I believe the alternatives to be worse.

I think your point about the feminists is entirely valid. Unfortunately, that's how it is in politics. You're either for or against something. You're either in support of homemakers, in which case it's in your best interests to argue that it ought to be the only option, or you're in opposition to them, in which case you ought to argue it should be illegal, and that no woman would make the choice of her own volition.
YAML is probably the least ergonomic configuration format available. [1] Even XML would be preferable, as at least most XML parsers are interchangable.

[1] https://www.arp242.net/yaml-config.html
In my mind a "market systems" implicitly includes prices which means there would then be profit and loss. I could imagine a market of 100% barter and no generally accepted currency but I do not think that is what most people mean when they use the term "market systems."

There is a lot I'm unaware of, possibly market systems without prices is one of those things?
Sure, accents are partly markers of social status, but it's quite wrong to ascribe the diversity of accents in Britain to this. There was never a period where everyone in Britain spoke with the same accent.
Technically, there is no "British accent". There are many accents. Even people who grew up in different parts of London have different accents.
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If you are talking about speaking French as a first language, this is false, except possibly in relation to the upper reaches of the aristocracy. If you are talking about speaking French as a second language, then this continued to be a marker of class for a long time afterwards.

In a highly class-conscious society where the vast majority of people spoke English as their first language, it seems fairly unlikely that accent would have had no connotation of social status.

It thus seems hard to believe that the development of the modern diversity of English dialects would have been spurred by some sudden need to mark class distinctions.
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As a typical online customer, I have typical online customer problems (late delivery, more rarely wrong item). I agree that Amazon has rightly optimized to handle the problems that their customers typically have. I'm not sure how that relates to this thread on local humans vs overseas humans vs text automation of responses though.
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"The roughly 5-minute clip shows Ms. Pelosi repeatedly ripping his speech in between snippets of him paying tribute to the airman, Charles McGee, as well as other guests he had invited to the State of the Union, including military families. In fact, Ms. Pelosi ripped a copy of Mr. Trump’s speech immediately after his address to Congress on Tuesday."

I never thought the clip indicating the timing of the ripping. This is a very weird interpretation.
You're right.

The mentioned likelihood would be for 8.4 times in a row:

3:1000 → 1:333⅓

P = 1 / (1 + 333⅓)

n = |log(1/334⅓)|

n ≈ 8.3851
Do HAM radio operators write scripts, pay people to appear, generally...put on entertainment? I’m genuinely asking. I thought HAM radio was mostly chatting, or occasionally broadcasting useful info during a disaster.

Also: note that restricting entertainment to that which is provided for free is a big restriction.
Good post bro. +1
When did Americans develop an accent unique from all accents on the British Isles?
Gotta make sure to clarify if she's single or married.
You have a pendrive containing your encrypted home directory and you can plug this drive in to a machine that doesn't a priori have your user account info and log in to your account without administrative privilege.

This could genuinely be a viable lightweight alternative to LDAP/IPA in offices that hotdesk. Just sign the user's drive once and they can plug-in to any workstation.
Hm. Interesting. I mean, I'm biased, but I believe it could.

An analogy I'm trying with friends is that a worker co-op is less like a company that does a specific thing, and more like a ship that sails where it's members wish it to go. It might present as a solid "WE ARE A COMPANY THAT DOES X", but it only does that so long as that serves its members. If the destination doesn't serve the crew, they create a new destination, they don't necessarily ditch crew members.

Also, the crew doesn't worry about the ship sailing away without them :)
People just like to use whatever's trendy. If this was 2 decades ago, it would be XML files.