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> Does https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk/pull/4531 look any better? O:-)

Hey that's actually kinda sexy ! I'm not looking specifically for IRC-style <timestamp/nick/message>, I do like it when it takes a bit more space for the user, but I find this rendering nice to the eyes.

In the quote though, why is the user cast away on the right ? Would be more consistent to put it right next to the timestamp of the quoted text

Also, the nick is chopped at the end without any indicator that it is (like a [...] at the end or something)

All nitpicking, I know, I'll try this as soon as it lands because I already like it :)

> https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/6417 is the bug to upvote :)

I'm following it closely ! I can't wait to experiment around that, Matrix.org can be and needs to be much more than just a messaging protocol, there's everything needed to get rid of centralized silos of (micro-)blogging, status- or photo-based social networks, ...

BTW thank you for doing this and thank you for leading it all the way to it is today and to where it's gonna be tomorrow, there's a reason protocols fail or succeed and it's often not in the technical intricacies but definitely in the leadership that spearheads its spread. Matrix seems to be the one that has the biggest momentum for now :)
You are at the limits of my understanding- in my simple example, the entity that took the company private is only on the hook for the principal, but these deals can be super complicated- multiple layers of companies transfering or lending money to each, and PE companies can be both a lender and an owner through these arrangements.
Change Request == MONEY, and all prior deadlines extended. How much depends on the complexity required to perform the change... and figuring that out is a billable item too (please submit change requests in bulk to save).
Just because you don't like the candidate it doesn't mean that nobody else does.
I went out to grab a burger last night and there was a huge line of Uber Eats drivers and they were waiting for what seemed like a long time especially considering how little they're paid.

Is there any reason why an OSS Uber competitor wouldn't be tractable? Drivers and passengers can pay a small booking fee which would go towards maintaining server costs. Client app can be really bare bones and I believe people would be willing to use it if it's way cheaper. So many scammy people talking about decentralized computing but this seems like a low hanging fruit which gives gig workers their autonomy back.

Same question for all gig worker apps.
I, for one, would like us to stop experimenting with re-inventing the wheel. We had functional cities for centuries now. We can make adjustments to match the century, but I do not think it is helpful to revamp the way we have lived until now to satisfy this odd new personality that pervades the web that needs to change UI every so often to feel relevant.

Geez. I feel old now.
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Would love to see the code.
> Food delivery existed before “tech companies”

Per-company delivery is not sustainable for anything else than Pizza and a few other fast food places. There was no centralized system like food deliveries. Also, not only is it keeping restaurants alive, it is also providing jobs to many drivers.

> You do know society existed before the year 2000, yes?

Yes, I remember having to pull out my paper map to go anywhere, having to go to video stores to get VHS tapes and not being able to go anywhere without a car. So much more freedom!
Private insurance profit margins are, on average, about 5%. Reducing healthcare costs by 5% doesn't get you very far.
Please post the code.
Interesting... could that mean the focus of the NHSX app is the central authorities "assessing the network" to develop epidemiological models, rather than providing a notification service to users that doesn't give out false positives?

There's fear of people trolling this service by maliciously marking themselves positive, potentially forcing others to self-isolate repeatedly, perhaps without pay.
You are talking about US vs EU and compare US to Germany.
Supplying the power to the satellite, and getting the heat out. The RF amps are at most 50 % efficient, so you are dissipating 1/2 the input power as heat.
Even in 2007 when I was starting to cut my teeth on larger web traffic there was a lot of discussion around serving 10k concurrent connections. I remember being blown away by a graph showing high throughput at 70k concurrent by a YAWS server, and started following Erlang as a result.
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Okay and???
You've provided anecdotal benefits. You've neglected to mention the costs.

The benefit/cost ratio is what makes this conversation worth having.
It's javascript, just view-source on the page.
If you want to go to the next page (screen) of code, isn’t the keyboard just as comfortable? If you want to go down until you find the thing you’re looking for, wouldn’t a search using the keyboard be potentially more comfortable?
> Does https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk/pull/4531 look any better? O:-)

Substantially better than the default Riot layout. I hope this gets merged and I get to switch to this soon.

That said, I'd still like a more compact version of the same that further reduces the spacing/padding to make more information fit on a single screen.
I run r/CitizenPlanners which is a forum for folks who are doing community development work without being full-time paid government workers, basically. I'm looking over your site a bit and I'm wondering if this is anything potentially useful to part-time people of that sort, who may be low-level volunteers or who may run a small, local non-profit or be a part-time elected official.

Any thoughts? Suggestions? Blog posts or points of entry you could point me to that might help me package this as useful info for my audience?
What kind of help are you looking for?
You can break your contract too by declaring bankruptcy and screwing over the debtors.

Your debt might not be real or moral but you still legally have to pay it so what does that change.
Alright, so it looks like the conclusion of this discussion is Sagan is not quite correct, there are plenty of situations where arguments from authority are indeed valid, if the authority is conferred by the consensus of experts in the subject. One is only justified in dissenting from the authority of experts if one has spent 10-15 years diving deep into the subject to become an expert themselves.

I assume another area where dissent from authority is justified is when experts make claims outside their realm of expertise, since they themselves have not fulfilled the requirement to become an authority in the field.

This also brings up the question as to what makes an expert. Is someone a self appointed expert? Or, if a group appoints themselves as experts, if they've studied a subject enough? Or, is expertise validated empirically by making predictions that are correct more often than those made by non experts?

If a body of labelled experts make predictions which consistently are incorrect, are they experts? Do they retain their authority conferred by being a group of experts?

What we really need is a consensus of experts in expertise and authority :)
Assuming you are right, the metric of capability could still work as a pass/fail filter, and if IQ tests were just that the discussions would be way less controversial.

The problem is when you have a whole lot of either naive or malicious people trying to drive this hammer into any and every thing, trying to draw crazy correlations from IQ: drug abuse, income, life expectancy, social status...

> This is different from my understood definition of racism which manifest as: "I will not hire you because you belong to race X".

Yeah, it would be crazy to hear that from a hiring manager saying that nowadays. But put the veil of science and suddenly it is easy to consistently choose the White with an IQ of 107 over the Hispanic with "only" 98, even though both of them are perfectly capable of doing the job - or to get a plant with 100 new workers and end up with a bias to White/Asian due to a test where they score "statistically higher" but that is completely irrelevant for actual job performance.
Agree, browser-based front-ends make so much sense today - conceivably including one for emacs (which can work in the client-server mode anyway).
Hadabot: Implement, debug ROS2 odometry with VSCode running in a web browser
All I've taken away from this is Valentino is more expensive in 2020 than it should be. By nature of you even being physically close enough to a Neiman Marcus in 1995, chances are you were of higher income than the rest of the country. They're still located in mostly more wealthy areas of the country.
Maybe you can have one residence which is excluded, but for people who own dozens of condos, anything past the first one can be checked more thoroughly?
cool, what is the difference w/ wetransfer?
account deleted. bye bye.
Do you really think novice devs work on Dart at Google?
There is an obvious causal chain there. Companies in non-monopoly markets have to price competitively or lose customers. If unions are actually getting anything for their workers then they would be extracting more from the company than companies with non-union workers, but companies in competitive markets don't have thick margins to pay the difference with so they would have to raise prices, which makes them uncompetitive.

This is not an argument in favor of monopolies, however, because unions can extract more from a monopoly but so can capitalists, and it all comes at the expense of the consumer, which is also you. It's better to make $2 and spend $2 than to make $3 and then have to spend $4 just to get the same stuff.
Well - the user is using the device with a part that I created. If the user doesn't want to participate in enhancing the product, we need to go the old school way of enhancing products: Research. We need to conduct studies, do testing with test persons, etc.
This can be done, sure. But then your off-the-shelf app won't be available for 99 cents or for free, but cost more like 19.99 USD.

Might help streamlining the market, so I‘m open for that.
Really?

Without context it is impossible to say what 80% translates into. However, with context it will be absolutely clear what max(80%, 200px) is. It will be the greater of those two values. If you want to wish it to be the least of those two values then go ahead and wish.

Alternatively, feel free to try it out at:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/max

Up until this very moment I have given you the benefit of the doubt. Do you even understand what 80% means? I'm beginning to suspect that min() and max() are the least of your issues if the concept of the CSS percentage datatype has you baffled.
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The problem is, there's no way to disassociate the two flaws with this:

1: people see "government app wants your location"

2: the government possibly using that location access at a later time

I don't want to accept location on a government app, and the UK has some history with facial recognition cameras and other privacy invasive laws. So there's no way for me to know this location is only for them to use BT LE and they won't make an API call to getLocation and uploadLocationToServer. I assume once you grant location permission even for BT LE purposes it can be (ab)used in some other way.

They've made their own bed with their actions, public confidence might not trust an app like this with a permission like that.
I'd also say that the limited range is a nice way to force people to take breaks on long journeys. My guess would be that this decreases the accident rate of electric vehicles a bit.
> Maybe it should be funded with tax-dollars then.

That's kinda what they were going after.
Comparing the ladies' t-shirts you can get at Gap or even their more-expensive sibling Banana Republic with ones I bought in the late 90s is amazing. I’m still wearing two old ones around the house, occasionally having to restitch a section of the bottom hems, but I’ve not been able to find any ribbed cotton fabric women's tops that come close to the thickness and durability in the past 10-15 years. The old Gap shirt I’m wearing right now was made in the Philippines around 1996 - I wore it in my school picture that year!

I even have an Old Navy t-shirt from around 2000 that is far sturdier than any current men’s t-shirts (which are still usually sturdier fabric than women’s), and by that point, they were already the discount sibling to Gap.
If “real engineering” worked the way you described, we would test planes by filling them full of passengers and flying them around the world.

We don’t. We built wind tunnel models, we taxi them around at higher and higher speeds, we put them in machines that wiggle the wings at high loads. The first flight is a little hop and then right back down. Months later there might be a big ceremony with VIPs where the new plane takes a lap around the airport as it’s “first flight”.

And there are mistakes song the way, giant ones that add years to the schedule and tiny ones that engineers argue over even telling their boss about.

Sure there’s planning and experience, just like she knew to use epoll and not select, and that Linux can handle thousands of threads per process. But there’s no magic to it, just lots and lots of human attention and testing along the way.
I was very excited about first reports on Android. I was young, starting to earn my first money, and I wanted to spend that money by getting myself my first, awesome, Linux-powered smartphone by Google - a company I heard only good things about.

Fortunately, I've decided to go with Openmoko instead back then. I'm so glad I did.
C10k problem is now C10M, from wikipedia:

> By the early 2010s millions of connections on a single commodity 1U server became possible: over 2 million connections (WhatsApp, 24 cores, using Erlang on FreeBSD), 10–12 million connections (MigratoryData, 12 cores, using Java on Linux).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C10k_problem
Unless I'm reading something wrong that has nothing to do with what I'm talking about.
I think 1920x1080 is the perfect native resolution for 14", without scaling. It's a bit small on first look but you're closer to laptop screen than you're to a real monitor, so that turns out just fine for me.
Read the NCSC paper on the design. Malicious attacks by both trolls and APTs are considered and accounted for. It's an incredibly interesting design.

I wouldn't say it's better/worse than Apple/Google, but it did have the advantage of not building policy into the design. If the A/G policy is wrong/not enough, the whole thing delivers little value.
Contact from a third party collector? Sure, don't respond. But if you're being summoned by the court under threat of a default judgment then you should probably show up or don't be surprised about the outcome.
Composition-dependent thermodynamics of intracellular phase separation
This is the same taking points that have been and will be repeated ad infinitum. There's no actual analysis, just "facts" with no evidence, just some thin veneer of appeal to authority, as usual.

I'm not stating an opinion on the efficacy of the half assed lockdown, I'm just stating that opinion articles like this are less than useless, they actively spread opinions and guessing as facts.
Well, there's this...

https://imgur.com/t/zoom/Itbzkby
i thought about this recently too. the technological complexities are not trivial, but they're dwarfed by the operational, marketing, and regulatory ones. for instance, who handles crimes like assault or theft between the various parties? who sets up payments and issues refunds?

i'd love to organize/contribute to something like this, but it has some serious hurdles to think through.
There's nothing about the Matrix protocol that makes it better for one or the other though; it's a pretty general messaging protocol. Riot looks more like Slack, yes, but there are other clients that look more like SMS apps, e.g.: https://dittochat.org/
That optional GPG/PGP private key storage was also re-hidden (and almost but not quite removed) functionality by Keybase over the course of the application's life as they moved away from using traditional GPG/PGP-style keys to a more complicated but more secure system based on device-specific keys (and chains/webs of those keys and their derivatives), around when you needed another device to onboard the next device rather than just needing to sign in with username/password.
It's complicated.

1) "Single payer" is not the only way to deliver universal healthcare. Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands, Singapore all have thriving multi-payer systems. In Switzerland and the Netherlands, ALL insurance is private. In Singapore, while the government covers catastrophic care, 70% of total health expenditures are private.

2) The biggest problem in the US is that healthcare is just more expensive, and American insurers end up having to pay more. An example: doctors in America earn more (PPP adjusted) than in any other country. MRI's in America cost more (even on the Medicare fee schedule) than almost any other country. A lot of this is actually caused by a series of well-intentioned policies passed over the last half century.

3) In the US, for-profit insurance profit margins are a pretty meagre 5%, which doesn't really make a dent in costs. Also, some of the biggest insurance providers are non-profits (Blue Cross Blue Shield, Kaiser)

4) Medicare fee schedules aren't that much better, in fact the part of Medicare that's actually working the best is Medicare Part C (Medicare Advantage), which relies on private payers.

Source: I work at a claims adjuster
Estimates are never good enough, when asked you're supposed to tell them two weeks before their guess. I recollect one project with a hard deadline. This landed in my lap during a worthless business trip while I had a fairly serious cold. I had about five weeks, all on my lonesome. It was critical. I had no time and no energy but tackle it I did.

I had precisely one meeting with the person who issued the project, during which he made various Agile noises. This taught me something I would later come to expect about those sounds: I met with the stakeholders precisely zero times before delivery, despite my repeated asks. I worked evenings and I worked weekends to deliver something on time that was perhaps a little better than expected.

And crickets. For five long months, nothing. I asked tentatively and was told I got paid whether or not it was in use.

So this strangled two values for me: Deadlines, certainly. If I hear a deadline, I evaluate from where it came. If it is a nonsense deadline, I lose respect. False urgency is just a way of life with some people. Additionally, the "getting paid whether or not something was used" is an excellent way to develop apathy in an employee, it destroys the value of engagement.

Sometimes real dates exist, and I'm all for that. Floods can be expected. But too often dates are picked out of a hat.
i'm a major vim users (10+ years now), and honestly? i don't care about spacemacs. emacs and vim are philosophically too different to be together.

i tried spacemacs and it was like trying to fit a square peg on a round hole -- it just doesn't work properly.
Ah, I see! I agree. That paragraph is an excerpt from the website (as I was on my phone and didn't feel like summarizing the full theory).

On a macro level i.e. comparing people with vastly different circumstances/experiences/variables it does seem questionable, but on an individual level the change can be quite profound, going from a self-defeating to a more open/growth oriented mindset.

Also reminds me of one of my favorite quotes, by Henry Ford:

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”
A security researcher in Twitter was looking into it the other day, and found the app isn't obfuscated (they were able to decompile it "cleanly").

I'm not saying that guarantees no skullduggery is afoot, but it goes a long way - at least in it's current form, at that point in time.
Among technologists, the two most divisive aspects of Signal are that it requires phone numbers, and that it isn't (and likely won't ever be) federated --- that is, you can't run your own Signal server and be accessible to people using ordinary Signal clients.

Matrix doesn't use phone numbers, and is federated (that's what makes Matrix interesting), so it's naturally the "antidote" suggestion on threads when people bring up these aspects of Signal.

The fact is that they're not really comparable projects; they have different audiences and different goals. People have an innate narrative bias that constant hunts for horse races to spectate, and so you'll see a lot of "Signal vs. Matrix" arguments, but it's an artifact, not anything substantive.
What is stress load testing then? Most large companies do perform something to this....

Most large companies do some stress load testing first for any new system. Then they release to few percent of the users (less than 10%) and gradually increase to the rest of the userbase.

I worked at Spotify, when Tidal was launched. They had failed to do proper capacity testing, and the service failed under the load the first week and it showed. But most mature large company tend to be really good on this.

It is remarkable how many tech companies have managed to stay mostly up with very few outages, given this whole pandemic situation, where everybody is online.

I'd say working in large scale deployment is proper engineering .... creating a simple webpage, maybe not. Deploying that webpage to millions of users, it is.

Also, don't forget that bridges have been made since the dawn of time, while tech and the internet are very very young in human terms.
Well first off, we don't touch Kubernetes, so probably not a product we're looking at either way.
There's truth to that - we do not feel the need to 'upgrade' Mozart's or Titian's works, they feel just as interesting as they did when they were created (if not even more; and I am not talking about a "purely historical interest").
https://watch.mhzchoice.com/beck

I really miss MHz from when I lived in DC and it was carried by the local cable station.

You can also signup for MHz through Amazon, too.
You could argue that Matrix does protect metadata if you run your own server - and in extremis, one way of running your own server and protect metadata is to go P2P and embed it into your client (which is one thing we're currently working on).

That said, there are some other pretty big differences between Matrix & Signal; the biggest one is probably that Matrix is an open standard and open network, encouraging 3rd party clients, servers, bridges, bots etc - optimising both for freedom/liberty as well as encryption. Signal optimises for privacy at all costs and doesn't allow 3rd party clients or services. See https://matrix.org/blog/2020/01/02/on-privacy-versus-freedom for more.
AMD GPU drivers are still suspect. I LOL’d at this commit [1] before reverting it in my local branch and thinking glad I went with Intel.

[1] https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/6385a5fd1b8a67c051b...
Yes! that's the idea, or at least what we've worked to achieve
The Amiga line had several high-end, workstation-like models (2000, 3000, 4000) that would've been used for software development, among other things. The 3000 and 4000 also had versions in a tower-case form factor (i.e. like a modern PC, not a 1980s "pizza box") and there was an option to get the Amiga 3000 with a proprietary Unix operating system.
THANKS! This actually clears things up better than the other comments. Is there a list of these things somewhere so I can learn more?