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> I have thought about this. Padding works when the text in a cell is not too long. When cell texts are arbitrary long, "padding" doesn't make sense any more.

I do understand your point but you could also argue that's when you need padding the most because it becomes infinitely harder to visually parse the raw text.

I like your idea for giving people the option though.

> Document Node is not just a pure Markdown editor, it has a beautiful HTML5 preview area, where you can see your tables in a perfect format.

Document Node is a nicely polished product but it's worth remembering that the point of markdown is that it's still readable without needing a viewer that supports rich formatting. For example it should be just as readable in the terminal as it is in a HTML5 container (this is one of the reasons I don't really like tables in markdown but that ship has already sailed). Unfortunately not everyone will be using Document Node to view their markdown.
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in comparison to what comes out of some webpack things I've looked at, yes it looks more readable. Offhand I don't agree with all their undefined lets there, but not a big issue either.
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As a CEO and business owner, I spend a lot of time every day to stay updated about the status of communication with my clients. The thing is, the more your company grows with managers and clients, the more time and effort it takes to stay in the loop. Being cc’d to everything creates too much noise, and if your clients use Whatsapp or other messengers it’s almost impossible to stay in control.

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The cruise ships send millions of dollars of US tourists' money every year to countries in the US sphere of influence that they would otherwise never fly and visit.

It's not a bailout for the cruise industry. It's a bailout for nearly every island nation in this hemisphere. We keep the tourism money flowing and they'll keep flowing exported raw materials and food.
Bailing them out is OK, but it should be through the government buying equity in those companies (essentially partial or complete nationalization).
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Funny how the left-wing Yanis Varoufakis probably agrees with that statement. But yeah, why don't you far right anyone who disagrees with the mainstream.
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> All I know is, the fonts (in ROM) in the original IBM-PC, or the Apple ][, or the C-64, or the Atari 800, or any other of the 64K computers of the 1980's -- never had a security issue with their (ROM bitmap) fonts.

Seriously? Do you know of ANY security issue with Arial? The problems come with external fonts, not those built into the system - regardless of their representation.

> I'm listening...

You do realize that you're proposing "let's strip (useful) functionality". Remove all external media other than punched cards, and you stopped the spread of malware - computer viruses were never a problem back then. But a cure that's worse than the disease is not a solution.

> Not all font-renderer/language experts, here, are we? Neither am I.

That's the point. A little humility would suggest that there are font renderer & language experts out there, and that obvious solutions like yours would have crossed their minds. Don't "challenge naysayers to come with a better solution" - know that better solutions exists (e.g. fonts could be represented as vector drawings/ fixed set of curves, with much less loss of functionality than your proposal; and pretty much zero security risk. So better solution do exist. It's just that they wouldn't be good enough.)
Really? You telling me he was not trolling me? Look up his comments, he's definitely not without "no knowledge of Windows".

Perhaps I should stop giving good advice and help here in comments, as I tried with my comments, and just do what seems to be the norm instead, namely use throwaway accounts and just messing with people instead.
Maybe the contrarian view but quite bullish on AirBnb (obviously not short term). This situation sucks but there is a glimmer of light which assuming the world finds a vaccine and anti-viral treatment:

1. Globally people are on lockdown and once done are going to realize that black swans can happen anytime and thus will travel more as never know when you can't. Travel will bounce back hard (business travel maybe not as much)
2. Due to loss of jobs/income: More folks will need to securitize their fix assets meaning house for additional income which means more inventory for Airbnb
3. Hotels will be devastated as due to fix cost had to pare down impairing service, locations, etc. thus net positive for Airbnb
4. Remote work will take off: Ppl will want to explore other locations as remote work becomes more prominent. They can launch an ancillary business that attacks WeWork.
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Hey, what about the Werbot solution - werbot.com?
Now it is very relevant.
I’ve been looking to switch to it. What’s bad about it?
I'm not the writer of the post, but what I understand is that Svelte is a super-leaky abstraction mostly because the compiler's output is unpredictable.

JSX (that most React-esque libraries use) is basically a syntactic sugar for function calls with objects - so the output is fully predictable.

One of Svelte's selling points was that it abstracts complex state management by compiling JS down into DOM API calls - but that abstraction is leaky and it's hard to debug why something's not working when it's expected to be.
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Airlines also pollute and dodge taxes. But love them or hate them, it's hard to argue that airlines don't play a critical role. The broader economy would suffer badly if they were to fail.

Cruise ships, however, do not. They are purely recreational and the economy would not fall apart if they were to go. They also share some of the blame for spreading Covid-19 in the first place!
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That got a good laugh out of me. Very org-mode-user of you to call Babel "Jupyter notebook on steroids". Anyone else would take one look and say "wtf are you talking about?"
Are you kidding? It's at some point understandable when looking a minute at it, but this only a small hello world app. How will you be able to understand the generated code with a few dozen components and much more logic?
They target hobbyists (like me) so if they mark things up, it’s worth it IMO. The value add-on they provide is that they have s curated selection of items, everything you buy from them has associated tutorials which help you incorporate them into your projects.
Soap and detergents are denser and therefore easier and cheaper to transport. So then thanks for the supporting point I guess.
The article missed another point: they're competing with US based tourism. Every person who chose to go on a cruise didn't visit a US city and spend money there.
That's only true if you believe that there isn't some fundamental part of this business that is profitable and market forces won't eventually lead to new cruise companies popping back up in the future
Your links are broken, here is the correct one for Firefox:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/curb-your-con...
In times of crisis, that's not what we care about, we care about uninterrupted supply chain.

Yes, I agree the system should not be that fragile, but for now it is.
Here's the thing though. I don't pick up food or shake hands or touch the doorknob or keyboard with my anus.

I agree that a bidet can get you cleaner. But if you are using your bare hand to clean with, you are getting a cleaner rear at the expense of a dirtier hand. No matter how well you wash.
But they are "the enemy of the people" figuratively speaking. They lie _all the time_, they're routinely caught and called out, and they continue to lie. The only two journalists that I know of who point out this sorry state of affairs are Matt Taibbi and Glenn Greenwald. Neither is a fan of Trump in the least. Everyone else is perfectly OK with it. Far fewer people trust the press than the president.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/08/18/rasmussen...

They are supposed to inform. Instead, most of the time, they push disinformation to fit a predefined agenda. Jeff Zucker literally tells CNN talking heads what to say in his 9AM meeting. This is not "free press". This is a fucking disgrace, and it is actively harmful to "the people", especially when there's a crisis.

Let me give you an example: https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/23/health/arizona-coronavirus-ch.... Unless you read the article carefully, you will get the impression that the man medicated himself with the actual chloroquine pills. This is NOT what happened: he ate god damn aquarium cleaner by the spoonful.

The front page of CNN is FULL of this bullshit. Literally all of the liberal outlets reprint these stories _knowing_ they are fake or misleading (just serarch Google for "chloroquine" and see for yourself, today - it'll be full of the same dude who ingested aquarium cleaner). And that's before we even mention lying by omission, which also happens all the time.
How do you think the final step of DOM updates are done in any other libraries if not via DOM API calls?
Tourists from cruise ships destroy nice vacactions.

Many hundreds of people come on the streets in groups, go throught the streets loudly and fast to take photos, than go back to the ship.

People who really go to these places and spend money for staying and try to blend in to have a peaceful vacation can't.
Got any links to resources around making one of these things? Sounds like an interesting project.
This is due to Firefox bugs like this: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/2835
Carnival Cruises is headquartered in Miami. They register their ships in other countries for various reasons. One of which is taxes. But the company itself is based in the US.
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The cruise industry is one of the most polluting and damaging industries in the world. It ruins cities worldwide. Their ships are petri-dishes for disease, spreading it directly into our vital cities. They are blocking perfect vistas of the sea. They are ruining local sea life and are spreading non-native species. Their exhaust fumes are extremely detrimental to local air quality in cities. The swarms of tourists are detrimental to local hotels and restaurants, since the swarms only buy souvenirs but lack incentive to spend big money on dining.

And all of that without paying taxes.

Let them go bust. Almost nobody is missing them.
I've long since stopped caring why people do that, I just fix it so their programs work :-)
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> will still have its payload disperse over a wide area and is utterly horrific to deal with. As the article notes, the 1995 sarin attack in Japan injured over 1,000 people.

In closed spaces. In closed spaces, chemical weapons are pretty effective, cf. "gas chamber", but in open spaces they are much less deadly.
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Git is removed from the latest maven and openjdk Docker images
It turns out that the docker-library has changed the base-image of openjdk:12 and above to an oraclelinux that is lacking tools such as GIT.
In turn the latest official maven images depends on the latest openjdk and therefore lacks git.

docker run -it maven:3.6.3 git
Unable to find image 'maven:3.6.3' locally
3.6.3: Pulling from library/maven
Digest: sha256:db9e541333a9dd00a50a515a53c5111b0def215ba84d46540a8489e0958f2038
Status: Downloaded newer image for maven:3.6.3
/usr/local/bin/mvn-entrypoint.sh: line 50: exec: git: not found

Many of us still use maven for building Java projects and much of the CI/CD sphere is using docker images to run our pipelines which includes cloning, maven releases and so forth.

The image maintainers of maven are open to adding git given that it has enough issue votes. So, if you want to still be able to run git operations in your maven images, let's vote!

https://github.com/carlossg/docker-maven/issues/110
“Equivalent” is also a matter of perspective. For a terrorist, procuring the necessary explosives to injure 1000 people may be harder than procuring the equivalent sarin gas. For a state, the calculus changes, as do goals. Storage, transportation, safety (states are much less likely to be willing to have their own soldiers die than terror cells), all those concerns can tip the balance, especially for a strong state with a modern army.
Hang in there brother. I live in Spain and we are all scared. In my job there are people suffering from anxiety and stress because of this situation.

Try to establish a routine. Exercise and opening the blinds is helping me to cope with isolation.

Also, limit your news consumption. Newspapers and other mass-media lives on the fears of consumers.
Venice a prime example of this problem.
In case anyone is not aware, the planned relief for companies in the private sector is in the form of loans, not cash giveaways
Well, React diffs the VDOM and decides what elements to update on runtime; Svelte decides the elements to update on compile time. That's the difference (and the meaning of 'compiling JS down into DOM API calls').
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Indeed, there's a bustling maritime law industry in the state of Florida that would die if the cruise industry were to fail or leave.
All those undefined lets are part of how Svelte components are constructed, and it can’t be done in any other way across the board. It may not be how you’d write such things manually, but for compiler output it’s sane. For simple cases like that one, the create (c) lifecycle method could essentially be shifted up into the let statements, but for some more complex cases that couldn’t be done, and if hydration is enabled it definitely can’t be done, because those variables can then be filled in one of two ways, creating (c) new nodes or claiming (l) existing nodes.
Thanks for sharing, that sounds quite nice. Always interesting to see what kind of new programming ideas are being worked on.
My understanding is that the solids are separated from the liquids and in the case of the MWRD of Chicago [0], air dried before being put to reuse.

The point is TP just becomes part of the solids and there's no need to separate it from the rest of the solids, it's complementary being derived from trees.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Water_Reclamation...
> Bailing them out is OK, but it should be through the government buying equity in those companies (essentially partial or complete nationalization).

Additionally, I think the government should be buying equity at a steep discount - something reasonable but not disastrous like 67%.
Hi, saw this thread and wanted to jump in. It's a good question not answered in the 20-minute ArsTechnica video: since Shadowman was born out of the necessity of being squeezed for memory on the Apple II, how was I then able to add guards, skeletons, and a Vizier?

To refresh my own memory (which is more than 48K, but often foggy), I checked my journal. Part of the answer is in this entry from 11/20/1988:

"...Put in footsteps, and improved the chomping jaws. But the real breakthrough this week was invisible: I moved a bunch of stuff around so the main game code can use the auxiliary language card. Basically, I've just freed up an extra 12K. That gives me some breathing room I'll sorely need if I'm going to put in all this sword fighting."

And a few months later, on 2/16/89:
"A lot of heavy work, most of it invisible, but which will make it much easier for me to implement the enemy guards in their flowing robes and turbans."

The journal doesn't give more technical detail than that (if I'd imagined anyone would be interested in this stuff 30 years later, I'd have written more!) but the code is on github, so anyone who's motivated enough should be able to reconstruct how the final code uses the auxiliary memory. In my recollection (foggy, as warned -- it's been a while), the "auxiliary language card" was an extra 16K of RAM that Apple had squeezed into the latest generation of Apple II computers, but that was difficult to use because it wasn't contiguous with the rest of RAM. I seem to recall it shared addresses already used by the main memory, so you had to flip between which part you were using. In November '88, seeing how much Shadowman and swordfighting and Shadowman improved the game motivated me to invest the time to rewrite/strategically relocate a bunch of existing code to free up 12K that I could use to implement enemies.

As for the multiple enemies, I'm pretty sure that each level contained exactly one enemy, whose shape table was packaged with the level load. The floppy disk access (very quick, thanks to Roland Gustafsson's magical 18-sector routines) when the level was loaded would swap out the previous level's enemy with the new one. That's why you'll notice that the levels containing the "special enemies" (skeleton, Jaffar, and the Fat Guard) had no normal guards in the rest of the level -- they couldn't.

Hope this helps. Thanks for your interest!
I'm starting to see the point of a whole food plant based diet.
Welcome to having to actually parent your children. It’s actually a difficult job that you can’t pawn off on a low-paid intern.
there is no such thing as traditional medicine, if it actually worked it would just be called medicine.
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Your comment seems like the statement of someone with an axe to grind rather and lacks factual evidence.
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I think with some preparation he could have taken it a bit further, the hanging up came too fast.
And municipalities let them come because volume, volume, volume. Those tourist destinations cater to them more than they cater to you.
Possibly the worst time in recent history to launch a product aimed at restaurants. I imagine it's too expensive for individual use?

Having worked for a company which did POS systems for the hospitality market, I feel that your best investment of marketing effort is to find a chain or franchise to hook up with. Small businesses require most "touch" and have least money.
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So, here's the thing. I have a Physics degree, and I am now (well, whenever coronavirus let us get out again) finishing my masters degree in Automation and Control. I've had Data Structures courses, but, due to some changes in the curriculum, I couldnt attend any databases course.
So, I would like to invest my free time due to the quarantine, to learn about databases.
But, I don't know what should I study, so I'd be grateful, if you could point me in the right direction (technologies, courses etc)

Thanks in advance :)

And keep safe people
You may not understand what "random sample of the overall population" means if you would expect every single person in the sample to be healthy enough to travel on a cruise. Almost 1% of the population in the US has Alzheimer disease or other dementias, for example.
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Of all the really bad things that can be said about cruise ships you have chosen one that is 100% identical with airlines. Moreover, it has a certain air of "gatekeeping" that is fairly ridiculous.

It is impossible to "blend" somewhere in vacation. You have to live many years somewhere to blend. You are exactly like the cruise ship tourists if you stay for a few weeks.
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I will add your startup today :D

Mind sharing links to your HN/IH/PH posts/interviews?
Also if you would like, I would be thrilled to interview you on your view of having an open startup, let me know what you think :)

Thanks!!
That's true. I misunderstood the original question.
There are different kinds of bail outs.

The US bail outs that bought the bad stuff from the banks and slowly sold them off as the market allowed made a nominal profit.

(TARP recovered funds totalling $441.7 billion from $426.4 billion invested, earning a $15.3 billion profit or an annualized rate of return of 0.6% and perhaps a loss when adjusted for inflation.)

The other kind is what the central bank does, basically quantitative easing, just providing low interest loans to financial institutions - and basically to the government too (by buying US Treasury bonds on the open market). And then it becomes the banks' job to determine who to give loans to, and if they make bad calls eventually they will lose a lot of equity, so there market forces usually help separating the worse from the less bad.
Not really it means they spent time on a boat not a plane. If anything a boat to some nearby island beats flying to somewhere geographically remote because the money will be less likely to flow back via tourists visiting from the opposite direction.
As a banking strategist, neobanks are what we're mostly concerned with vs regular challenger banks. The primary reason is the disintermediation from the customer through a particular service. Customer touchpoints for purchases and services are far more frequent than reviewing your finances and with more automation, banks/financial services are being pushed further into the background, which means the data that we receive to learn about customers becomes worse and worse.
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Better idea. They want a bailout? Sure. Turn all your ships to hospital ships for the next year. You won't miss them anyway.

One of these ships is basically a 10 floor high city block that can sustain itself off grid for over two weeks. Surely we have a good use for that.