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Every producer is dependent on high prices of their product, whether they sell oil or apples. It is just property of some products that it takes time to scale production up after it was scaled down. It is also difficult to scale production of apples, because, you know, once you shut it down it takes multiple years to grow them again, but this does not imply any particular problem with the producer.

Now, when it comes to setting up the prices, which would normally be called anti-competitive, the rules do not apply when you are large and important enough. We also kind of grandfathered in the situation, it's been running for over half a century now.

If these were coalition of almost anything else, there would definitely be an outcry.

People do need to be reminded that the way the world works is whole lot different from idealistic notions. The rules we set are not and cannot be objective, they are just an optimization from constant blundering through reality.
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I agree it is neat.

My experience tells me it is a sign of too much ambiguity and gaps that will bite you later though. See Markdown for example.
Negative indexing (along with the related syntax for slicing) is one of the most usefull python features. Numpy and pandas thrive on it.

Just learn the language, python is already one of the easiest languages out there.
How can it work when you yourself admit that its corrupt?
It's not me, it's the IETF, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Engineering_Task_Forc....

QUIC is a standard, it will be stabilised in time.

TCP can't be improved on much at this point, and there are some pretty massive flaws in it that QUIC solves.

TCP isn't going away any time soon, or being "replaced" by QUIC, but for certain applications QUIC is going to be a massive improvement, albeit and an increased complexity and application size cost.

There are over 10 implementations of QUIC at this point in time, you don't have to go with Google's approach, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUIC#Source_code.
OSS code here: https://github.com/cris691/servedata
big head + big nose + glasses + big beard = masks don’t fit

This is by far the best DIY instruction I’ve found. Debating tracking down a sewing machine and learning something useful.

The headphones are interesting too. Nice work.
I think this touches on a general point which the author misses.

If you are already viewed as an alpha intellect in the group (or say you are viewed as one of the best software engineers in your company), then you have the luxury of being able to be modest and in fact expressing such modesty will even enhance your reputation among your peers.

If you are somewhat insecure about your abilities or if your reputation is unestablished or you are not particularly recognised, then admitting ignorance in front of your peers is unlikely to enhance your reputation or feeling of self-worth.

When I hear those at the top-of-the-hierarchy - whether in a management structure or in "technical ability" structure - being modest about their abilities or admitting ignorance, it often comes across as insincere to me.
> I don't know about any research supporting this (see what I did there) but in my experience the best performing teams provide a safe space

The term in organisational behaviour is "psychological safety" and it comes up probably in the first couple hours of your manager training at any competently run company in 2020. Hell, it's in Steven Covey's 7 Habits.

As you're saying, it's the bedrock of promoting actionable feedback and exceeding zero-sum behaviors.
I don’t disagree with you. What are some historical instances of this that I can read up on?
> Higher level tooling doesn't prioritize this. AFAIK neither Gitlab nor Github have an actual option in their CI implementations for "test every commit before allowing merge". And both of those are everywhere.

Of course not, because that would be silly.

Nobody cares when code was committed, because that’s not when bugs are introduced into working software.

Bugs are introduced when a branch full of commits is merged into working software. How could it be any other way? Your CI should be testing “what would happen if I merged this”, not “did every commit in `dest...source` pass checks too”.

If you want your history to consist only of working commits that are green, then squash when merging. GitHub and GitLab (and bitbucket) all support the ability to enforce this as a policy on a repo.
Nice, I hope these Nokia phones make a comeback. I miss the long battery life.
If jira has permissions setup incorrectly, then it really can be worth moving on.

I haven't seen any blocker-level issues with confluence, aside from just being crappy to use, but looking really good.
Less when starting a video, but while in the call user mute/off the video. Green light stays on every time and I wonder if feed is still streaming to the server.
Ah yes the three-finger drag is still hidden away in accessibility. It is one of the few options I enable there, such a great option I am kind of surprised it isn't the default as once you use it it becomes so natural.
The 1% seems to be the death rate for the infected when there is healthcare available (i.e., not overloaded).

I'm not a member of a cult, but I would much rather have a 1% chance of dying than spend my life in a police-state. That's my personal preference (and yes, I am an old fart, so I have skin in this game).
It is a pity iPhones are tied to Apple and iOS (mostly - see the recent news about Android on an iPhone 8) without the possibility of escape which many Android devices offer. For iPhone to be an alternative to Android in this respect it would need a few extra features:

- the possibility to install your own distribution, whether that be alternative versions of iOS or a totally different OS

- expandable storage, preferably with a boot option

- an official method to side-load software outside of the 'walled garden'

- either more extensive access to the innards of iOS or root, this to allow e.g. a true firewall (with ingress and egress blocking), a system-wide network blocker ('adblock' et al), etc.

- the possibility to run interpreters and compilers

- a real browser choice, not just a shell around Safari

In short, the possibility to have a less restrictive system.

Since I don't see Apple opening up in this way unless they're forced to by law or by declining sales I don't see myself buying any of their products in the near future.
>> I myself will go to the streets to fight.

No you won't. Everyone says this shit and nobody means it.

Slippery slopes do exist. Governments don't walk back programs.
> Which basically implies that people should be responsible for fixing the sht others do instead of their own, which is completely insane

So we can't fix it. More so we shouldn't fix it because its 'the sht others do'

> You basically said "if you don't like it why don't you go fix it".

That is exactly what i am saying.

> But what you said is just a pervasive form of the "man up (and fix my shit if you don't like it)" of social responsibility debate.

I am not saying that. You are saying that its the only choice we have (because why would we want to fix it).

> Sorry if you are not actually trying to troll, but it really looks like it to me.

Same comes to my mind.
The coolest part of this article imo is the binrec operator. Do other languages have something similar?
QUIC is built on UDP, not sure if you were aware based on your 3rd paragraph?

> One concern about the move from TCP to UDP is that TCP is widely adopted and many of the "middle-boxes" in the internet infrastructure are tuned for TCP and rate-limit or even block UDP. Google carried out a number of exploratory experiments to characterize this and found that only a small number of connections were blocked in this manner.[3] This led to the use of a rapid fallback-to-TCP system; Chromium's network stack opens both a QUIC and traditional TCP connection at the same time, which allows it to fallback with zero latency.[17]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUIC#Characteristics
I'd guess that most startups have less than 6 months of cash regardless of a pandemic happening or not.

Of course, blaming the pandemic for layoffs is an opportune thing to do.

For most (actual) startups (Lyft is not a startup) this should be an excellent time to execute or to pivot, but most certainly to thrive.
I have a problem with how service files are good, except when you don't get them right on the first try and it's difficult to debug (unless I've missed something obvious). More generally, I find that systemd is difficult to observe and thus debug. To debug an ancient init.d script, you'd just run it with "sh -x" rather that sh, and you would have a trace of what the script is doing.

If your service file is a tad more complicated, then you quickly discover that there's a scripting language masquerading behind key/value entries.

I have a hard time wrapping my head around dbus being the core component used for coordination among systemd components. dbus wasn't built for this use case, and having PID1 depend on a well behaved dbus for proper system operation sounds insane. systemd adds a lot of features, which means additional complexity. My understanding so far is that the tooling is not there yet to manage this complexity.

Another gripe I have with systemd is that it does parallel service start introduces non determinism at boot. Which means your setup could work very well most of time, but fail miserably 1 time out of 10. Not exactly what you'd want if you are rebooting a remote server for example. s6 [1] init doesn't appear to have this problem.

[1] https://skarnet.org/software/s6/
Yes but you’re clearly making some sort of argument by authority and I think that works both ways. I just don’t see any reason to hold firm beliefs either way on such a trivial issue unless someone has a citation that I’m missing that proves one form increases comprehension or productivity, or reduces bugs.
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Yeah, and apparently one of the more interesting consequences of this is that people don't necessarily have detectable flu virus anymore once they're hospitalized with pneumonia because it's the bacteria allowed in by the now-gone flu infection that's killing them.
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A question to other firefox users.
Do you disable the private browsing to read this article?
You want a debugger.

http://p3rl.org/rxrx

rxrx -e'"abcde" =~ /abe/'

Demo: https://blog-cloudflare-com-assets.storage.googleapis.com/20...

http://p3rl.org/re#'debug'-mode

perl -Mre=debug -e'"abcde" =~ /abe/'

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https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2348694/how-do-you-debug...
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That may be so, but clearly the previous comment was referring to an idealized version of Gandhi to soften and explain the first sentence.

If people need a translation: "Why did you fight for independence if you throw your freedoms away now?"
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A related passage from Socrates' Apology: "Although I do not suppose that either of us knows anything really beautiful and good, I am better off than he is – for he knows nothing, and thinks that he knows. I neither know nor think that I know." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_that_I_know_nothing
This is a very well researched and referenced investigation into the origins of CoV-SARS-2 virus and the activities of Shi Zhengli and her associates.

https://greatgameindia.com/covid19-files-scientific-investig...
Thanks for your response.

3. I agree its not justified to say all authorities by their nature are untrustworthy, and that was an escalation of rhetoric. But I would say this though, that “authorities” (in scare quotes) are untrustworthy if they are claiming to be authorities but don’t have any merit. So in some sense, we ought to be sceptical of anyone who claims to be an authority.

I didn’t read this as a conspiracy. There are many incentives at play, probably too many things to grasp and points like 4 that come out of nowhere (may have some significance, but didn’t fit into the argument well).

Theses doctors aren’t the poster child for democracy. I don’t think anyone’s claiming they are. Personally I think they were just in the right place at the right time to become a part of this censorship war.

Overall I think your criticisms are fair.
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Given the size of the iPhone gaming industry, I think Apple is making Apple-money from gaming hardware.
> Sections of the society are hostile towards medical and police personnel.

> About getting beaten or made to do situps, in my view, a far lesser punishment rather than charging and going the legal route. Than would be draconian.

I wonder why they are hostile? Could it maybe be because their civil liberties get massively infringed on a regular basis?
The Dell XPS developer edition is a great little laptop, however, my issue with it was that it only came in 13" size. My ex-collegue had one and played around with it for a bit, it was great except for the screen size.

The announcement regarding Lenovo's upcoming ThinkPad laptops coming with Fedora pre-installed came a literally 1 or 2 days after I'd already ordered the P1 Gen 2, which according to Canonical is certified[0] to run Linux correctly, and it's the reason I went for that. Regardless, the next generation would have left me without a laptop for the job.

[0] https://certification.ubuntu.com/hardware/201908-27280
Greed. It's just that.
> The elephant in the room ... Opec controlled the prices.

This reads like nonsense gleaned from "news" sources and regurgitate to appear like you know what you are talking about.

> This is also where the word oligarchy comes from.

Nope. Nice try though.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/oligarchy

> Price fluctuations like we've seen in the past decade ranging from negative to above 100$ per barrel means it's a highly risky investment as you simply can't know if you get back your money.

Oil has always been volatile. The boom and bust cycles have been with oil since oil was discovered.

https://www.macrotrends.net/1369/crude-oil-price-history-cha...

> IMHO that's actually good news and will force people to look at alternative technologies and accelerate the agenda on e.g. switching to electrical vehicles, battery technology, alternative energy etc.

If you are going to push "green" energy propaganda at least try to make sense. Are you seriously contending that record low oil prices is going to help anyone switch to "alternative energy"? I thought record high prices were supposed to do that? When there is so much dirt cheap oil, why would anyone switch? Do you see how absurd your assertion is?
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"The power of admitting ignorance", or, the folly of refusing to learn something you don't know. I dunno. It seems self-evident. The issue here is ego. Self-awareness. Humility.
If you compared children in Japan to children in some poor country that doesn’t eat much fish, would the strongest correlation likely be fish consumption?
For a moment thought here you were plotting 3 years of data collected every 150ms - wow! What you have here still very nice. I had to work with display/charting interval data in past and having it load quickly is very nice especially when toggling new dataset intervals.
> They are also planning an e pass feature which will be required to board a flight/metro. Chinese level dystopian shit in the works.

From Bill Gates notes [0]:
"Eventually we will have some digital certificates to show who has recovered or been tested recently or when we have a vaccine who has received it."

IMO most (if not all) of steps being taken by India have been guided by world experts opinion on tackling this pandemic and it's too early to be panic about such measures.
Let this virus problem be gone and we can then talk if government continues to keep such tracking in-place

Btw, Indian legal system is no joke when it comes to higher courts - often courts have struck down laws not according to the fundamental spirit of the constitution. In a landmark judgement in August, 2017, India's Supreme Court Upholds Right to Privacy as a Fundamental Right [1]:

> The right to privacy is protected as an intrinsic part of the right to life and personal liberty under Article 21 and as a part of the freedoms guaranteed by Part III of the Constitution.

0: https://www.gatesnotes.com/Health/A-coronavirus-AMA

1: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/08/indias-supreme-court-u...
We basically have had a bubble in restaurants.

Based on Yelp and google we have about 29 Indian restaurants here and 25 craft beer breweries.

There is not a big Indian population here. I love Indian food but 29 restaurants is absurd.

10 years ago we didn't even have ten Indian restaurants and no craft breweries.

I wouldn't doubt whenever you have a really long business cycle expansion you end up with far too many restaurants open.
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Fantastically illustrated once again, ncase if you're reading this, you're one of my internet heroes.

The 'masks protect others from you, and wont protect you from others' illustration is very useful, too.
While this is a very nice simulation and explanation it has a serious flaw: It assumes a fixed CFR, IFR, and hospitalisation rate. This doesn't seem to be case as evidenced by the large differences between the countries with different response curves.

The inability to change the parameters is a major problem with the simulation and invalidates a number of conclusions at the end.

What we can observe so far is that CFR is heavily skewed towards the old and frail with significant co-morbidities. Most likely there is another, not yet fully identified, medical cofactor that makes this virus particularly difficult for a very small number of people of any age. Outside of those groups the virus doesn't seem to be very symptomatic for the majority of infected people. Note that symptomatic in the medical sense and common usage is not the same. The latter having a way higher subjective threshold.

The simulation should also account for the "weak tree" effect in that the majority of the susceptible will succumb to it on the first contact. In the following years the number of susceptible will be much lower and only go up with the remaining people going into ill health and becoming susceptible, if they haven't developed any immunity from the previous encounters.

A simulation to draw real conclusions from must have an adjustable IFR, CFR, the corresponding hospitalisation rates, and the age and health distribution of the population for a region to be modelled.
After seeing years / decade of such things about PHP, welcome to our world.
At some point, systemd introduced a RemainAfterExit= option, which killed all user started programs when the user logged out. IIRC, this is because of some misbehaving gnome application that wouldn't quit properly.

Of course, since this hack solved the gnome bug, it was enabled by default by many, thus breaking applications like screen and tmux.

What should have been done is fix the issue in whatever offending application. Certainly not at systemd level. Because in that case, you need to do some insane things (IMO), like link tmux with libsystemd [1].

[1] https://github.com/tmux/tmux/issues/428nk
See my research thread at https://twitter.com/GeoffreyHuntley/status/12561244277810626... into the Australian contact tracing application. Pay close attention to the problems people are having when signing up and registering. Lack to response from the Government has been highly frustrating. Leadership is parroting amount of downloads as success but let's be honest it's a vanity metric if people are having signup issues (and they really are)
Baseband processors already operate independently with its own operating system and often have greater access than the application processor. Simple firmware update is all it takes right now to have it not turn itself off. CIA actively uses this capability on select targets, as per Snowden leaks, even when the phone is “off.”
Red-flagging misinformation could slow the spread of fake news on social media
When I have very complex logic I like to give each step its own variable. It makes it read like English.

To be honest I only actually only do this when Im working on old code and find myself trying to remember how something works.
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Hi, a co-founder here.

I’ve been in the situation when you, as a software vendor you’re being swamped with tons of customer feedback on your products and you don’t have an effective yet efficient system to process it, keep track of it, and also being able to close the feedback loop.

I didn’t find anything that would help us with that and I stated thinking on how that product would look like. I’ve been nurturing this idea for about a year. Then I found my cofounder and CTO and the work began.

We’ve been building a service that helps SaaS business to collect multi channel customer feedback and have a single place to process it. Once processed, it could be attaches to features or ideas inside the system.

A significant channel for feedback can be your public roadmap that will also demonstrate your progress to your prospects and your customer base

If you use CRM and Development tools like Salesforce and Jira, it can show you features’ worth based on the ACV from CRM for the account, a contact of which has shared their feedback.

When you’re ready to publish a release with a new feature, you can can notify every contract that has requested it.

While conducting user research and collecting feedback we realized that we see a strong demand from larger companies than we initially thought.

We hope that we can help product organizations focus on the actual work and companies to save resources on building things nobody wants.

We’ve received support from this community before and thanks to you feedback we’ve been able to work on this project.
At this time any feedback is very welcome and if you would like to use our service we’ll make it free for you (upd: not the free plan of course).
> > - a mobile phone number - location and bluetooth, always on - name,profession

> The mobile number part concerns me. Government wants to use it as a way to contact people but the potential for abuse is there.

As opposed to all the above mentioned data that is already there with every government in the world for years. Do you really think that the government doesn't have your mobile no, name and profession? It's on your tax data for god's sake. And any government can already track your location with existing cell infrastructure with enough precision to term you an enemy of the state and whisk you away.

The potential for abuse is there in everything. Everything. Technology used to make fertilizers by Fritz Haber was used to make explosives. Fire can be used to give warmth as well as burn witches at the stake. So should we just all die and be done with it all to stop the abuse of anything?

> They are also planning an e pass feature which will be required to board a flight/metro. Chinese level dystopian shit in the works.

Even without the pandemic, boarding flights and travel was already dystopian across the world. So no changes there really.

> To top it all off, non compliance is a criminal offence. FYI the law enforcement, legal system is a complete joke in India.

And it is better in the US, UK or Europe? How many years did Nixon get? How many did Clinton get for his sexual assault? What happened to Epstien? What about Sir Jimmy Saville? What about Guantanamo Bay? What about.... you get the point, right?

Predicting the future is hard. If there is a dictatorship after this has been dealt with, the people can and will rise to stop any abuses of power. After all, India has a lot of experience with revolutions - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emergency_(India)