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This isn't capitalism. Capitalism would mean that instead of culling these animals, The farms would be able to butcher and sell the resources to people nearby and far.

But instead, They're prohibited from doing so by hundreds if not thousands of laws.

This is more like Corporate-Capitalism, or Crony-Capitalism, or I don't even know. But it's not just Capitalism.
> poor ecosystem of libraries - few gems, most other half-baked

Definitely no longer an issue for Common Lisp. Quicklisp is da bomb.

> Dependency management limitations with quicklisp

Never had any issues. It Just Works for me.

> have to restart the server every 20 days because of some memory leak [3]

You can get memory leaks in any language. You're much less likely to have a leak in a GCd language than a non-GCd language. But seriously, if you can't easily restart your server whenever it's needed, you have bigger problems.

> hack to tune GC [5]

I've run CL in production for many different applications. I've never had to tune a GC.
That’s not entirely clear, actually. Like the other comment says, the CFAA has been used to criminalize violations of EULAs in the past and the courts have been split on that idea: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/02/violating-terms-use-is...

Violating a EULA shouldn’t be a crime but it’s not always that clear cut.
Sadly, there is one reason you might want to take a team of highly experienced developers and hamstring them with Scrum: not all highly experienced developers can or will stay focused on getting the product out the door.

I've run into situations recently where the work that nobody wants to do never gets done. Even experienced engineers fall into the trap of only wanting to work on interesting features and nobody wants to do the "needs to be done" shit work.

The deadline rapidly approaches, the senior engineers are working on whatever they want to work on and it's the dev lead who stays up late and gets done what needs to be done before the deadline. Lather, rinse and repeat for a few releases and you realize why even good managers fall to the temptation of micromanagement.
I would have said the more ambulance chasing legal queries and plumbers 15 years ago when I did a bit of AdWords plumbing keywords in London where £45 to £50 quid
>>the most obvious one I can think of is customers either pretending they didn't break their device by modding it when they in fact did or not even pretending and instead trying to cancel the company for having this policy because they feel entitled to support even if they venture on their own path and are warned beforehand it's a territory outside official support.<<

That would be my guess. The device is $1300 now. If faced with losing that much money my guess is most people would try to return it to TE and say it just failed.
Great, I think you came up with the simplest solution: Uber should make whatever single digit percentage of total drivers that comprise their Uber Black drivers FTEs.
Has the FIX spec been free and open for a long time? I was going to create my own FIX engine a couple years back but for some reason I remember having to pay for the spec and it wasn't cheap.
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A large company would never manage to switch to a competitor in one quarter. And they try any hard, it most likely means their getting a cashback under the table for the new contract, or other perk of the sort, the feature is just an excuse.
That's a common source of misunderstanding between Americans and Germans.

We Germans usually only call the cabinet ministers and the chancellor (the executive branch – not the legislative branch!) "government", and depending on the issue, also the civil service.

You call the whole "state thing" "government".
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Given the efforts of you and others in this thread, it’s apparent that it isn’t “almost everyone else”.
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And the buyers aren’t scumbags. If someone buys real estate dirt and won’t sell to you for pennies 10 years later, do you suck thumb and whine?

Does this sound kind of scummy to you? Does espousing the virtues of this manifestation of hyper-capitalist profiteering leave you friendless and wondering about your breath? Despite all of that, not a fan of the communist solution? Consider alternatives!

"EVERYBODY WORKS BUT THE VACANT LOT"

I paid $3600 for this lot and will hold 'till I get $6000. The profit is unearned increment made possible by the presence of this community and enterprise of its people. I take the profit without earning it. For the remedy read "HENRY GEORGE"

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47de-036a-a3d9...

Some random billboard sign written by some random guy two centuries ago citing some other random economist that you've never heard of really not enough for you?

How about the Pope? An older one, but still the Pope, nonetheless:

Everyone knows that the Fathers of the Church laid down the duty of the rich toward the poor in no uncertain terms. As St. Ambrose put it: "You are not making a gift of what is yours to the poor man, but you are giving him back what is his. You have been appropriating things that are meant to be for the common use of everyone. The earth belongs to everyone, not to the rich." These words indicate that the right to private property is not absolute and unconditional.

(1967)

http://www.vatican.va/content/paul-vi/en/encyclicals/documen...

Read about Georgism today:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism
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I miss not having new release songs.
I'm not sure whether it's capitalism at fault here, or not. For example, the EU is far from a communist utopia but so far I haven't heard anything about farm animals being culled over here. That's certainly not because we lack industrial farming. I don't pretend to understand how industrial farming processes work and I wouldn't be surprised if the same news surfaces about the EU soon, but so far that's not been on the radar. So it's still possible that two capitalist economies can manage their resources in different ways.

To be honest I think we should also challenge the assumption that capitalism is incompatible with sustainable production. For example, wikipedia tells me that "Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit". I think most people living in the West today would not consider private ownership and operation of the means of production to be directly responsible for, e.g. the destruction of the environment, or atrocities like the currently discussed cull of farm animals in the US. Different processes seem to be at play here. But I don't exactly have the knowledge to discuss this issue at depth.

Edit: I'm 100% with you on the exasperation with the situation, whaterver caused it. It makes me want to pull my hair out just to think about it. People are starving and animals are being culled instead of being slaughtered to feed them. Because profit margins. That is the absolute pinnacle of stupidity.
I'm still waiting for the day when advertisers realise they've been sinking millions and millions of dollars into a garbage industry.
Think of all the industries tied up into advertising, and how basic ad-money is to keeping on the lights of the modern internet! Google, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, it's all ad-money, where will it all go if the ad-money dries up?
Can you give an example where this matters -- i.e. it's useful and allowed to move between native threads but not between well-known points -- given that the identity of the carrier thread cannot leak to the virtual thread?
Probably trying to combine data across all their online properties YouTube and pinterest and so on.
If you allow user generated input it is fine to allow <center>, <b> or <i>
> We haven't crossed any magical boundary today that we hadn't crossed 229 years ago when the bill of rights was ratified.

You mean, when black people were still considered non-human? I don't think the bill of rights, nor the people that wrote it, gets to stand on its own laurels. There's plenty of room to debate the problems with the Constitution as it stands today.

> If you want to fully prevent violence from ever occurring by censoring speech, you're welcome to live in a communist country.

I'm not sure what to do with an HN poster that conflates the economic theory of Communism with the authoritarian plutocracies of China and north Korea.

Oh hoh if you wanna live in a capitalist country like Russia, where the secret police can disappear you for speaking out against the democratically elected president, maybe you should just move there!

See how ridiculous that sounds?
Plus as far as their advertising goes (which I still think is pretty grey ethically to block ads and then show your own) its still privacy focused. If you opt into ads, you get OS notifications and they dont build some kind of profile of your behavior on their server. They send your client a list of ads, and your client knows which ads to show you, all targeting is local. Destroy your client, destroy the profile they have build of you. It might not be great, but they are clearly looking at advertising different than the rest of the marketing tech landscape, so kudos.

Theyve somewhat gone back to the juno/netzero/kmartbluelight internet model. If you did want to be subjected to ads, at least they are in a consistent place in the user interface, and not all over random pages breaking performance and scroll.

If I were forced to choose between two ads types, id pick Braves before the modern webs. Their product is like ad supported shareware. (The rest of the tipping and bat economy notwithstanding.)
I was reading Carl Sagan’s “Dragons of Eden” years ago and realized that while humans may have intellect, emotionally we’re very similar to other animals. Then I had the thought: when it comes to being slaughtered, what’s worse; having an intellect, or having emotion? I know that if I were subjected to confinement and ultimately slaughter, it would be my emotional response — not my intellect — which would define my experience.

The universe eats itself and I’m not really qualified to make a moral judgement on killing animals for food — I’m particularly loathe to make black and white judgements. But, I’m able to eat a mostly vegan diet, and so that’s what I do.
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I'm personally quite excited about this. Been experimenting with WSL2 on my desktop lately, trying to figure out if I could port over my existing dev workflow from Mac. One stumbling block I had was that I've been writing servers in Kotlin lately, using IntellIJ, which is more or less the only game in town for writing Kotlin.

I wanted to run my app (and tests) in WSL, so I could closer-match my production Linux environments (and continue using all the bash scripts and ad-hoc CLI calls I had in my project), but if I wanted to run in IntelliJ on Windows, this would be tricky: IntelliJ doesn't support the WSL2 virtual file system, so I couldn't leave my files "in Linux," which means I'd have to run my server using the mounted C:\ drive in WSL, which is much slower. More importantly, I'd have to duplicate all my dependencies between Windows and Linux just to get the IDE working correctly, and couldn't e.g. use the IntellIJ test runner to run tests under Linux.

So... I just grabbed an X Server[1], installed XFCE in Ubuntu, installed IntelliJ, and then just started running it through that. And it works flawlessly as an app! I use the floating window mode in X410 so it just looks like any other Windows app (I mean, it's already a Java desktop app, so it's not exactly platform-native to begin with).

The only issues I had were clearly just with the X Server integration: sometimes, when I had other windows open over IntellIJ, tooltips would still start showing up in IntelliJ from whatever was underneath my mouse, sometimes right click menus just mysteriously stopped working until I restarted the server, etc. The latter was particularly annoying since you can't restart the server without restarting the app, but was infrequent enough I was okay living with it.

That said: I am hopeful that this new Windows integration will perform better and with fewer bugs than the X server implementations out there right now. The fact that it will support GPU integration makes me think it must be doing more than just a traditional X server - in fact, doesn't that require Wayland? Curious how this is implemented under the hood.

[1] I'm using https://x410.dev/ but there's a decent amount of options. This one is paid, but at least is on sale right now.
Seriously. wiki.js was easy to setup, simple to run, and actually works on mobile devices. Markdown files are published to an external git repository.

I am happy with wiki.js. It's much less maintenance than Dokuwiki.
> must not include the special characters # & + or space.

This annoys me the most, my password contains some of those characters.

Why is this even a restriction or is just poorly developed code?
Silly human! One does not simply center in CSS.
Regardless of how & where the NYT tracks me — what really pisses me off is that i still have to use an ad blocker as a fully paying customer to hide all those Rolex and one-more-upgrade ads.
I think when it became part of MoMA's permanent collection it really solidified a special place for itself.
Industrial nitrogen is incredibly cheap as it's basically a high-volume byproduct of the production of other industrial gases.

(When you need to extract Argon, you have about 100x as much N2 and O2 as a by-product.)
I live in a rural area and also pay $80/mo for internet. This gets me a 160 KB/s unmetered connection, which has been the best available for about a decade, unless I want to spend a lot of money or suffer cripling bandwidth caps. Millions of dollars have been awarded each year during this time to deploy rural broadband in the state. Areas serviced by small, local ISPs have fiber to the door, but unfortunately, I'm serviced by a big, nationwide ISP thata just sucks up all that money and never delivers. I can hardly wait for Starlink or one of the proposed competing satellite constellations to come online.
"Thank you for your offer. We are not looking to sell any portion of the company at this time. However, in order to further align our interests, after your successful onboarding with the beta release we are willing to consider offering a commission to your sales team for new customers."
b and i are back though, but a little different ;)

> The b element represents a span of text to which attention is being drawn for utilitarian purposes without conveying any extra importance and with no implication of an alternate voice or mood, such as key words in a document abstract, product names in a review, actionable words in interactive text-driven software, or an article lede.

and

> The i element represents a span of text in an alternate voice or mood, or otherwise offset from the normal prose in a manner indicating a different quality of text, such as a taxonomic designation, a technical term, an idiomatic phrase from another language, transliteration, a thought, or a ship name in Western texts.

[0]: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#the-b-element

[1]: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#the-i-element
I wonder if this is connected to Chrome's recent announcement of blocking heavy ads.

https://blog.chromium.org/2020/05/resource-heavy-ads-in-chro...
" I find that 2147481343 seems to do the trick. This number doesn't make any sense to me. I suggest the customer try this number. The customer replies back: it works with google.com, but it does not work with other domains."

My extrapolation: I find a potential fix: don't test it, don't understand it, and send it to customer.

How is this acceptable?
Mostly off-topic here, but it seems like the best place to get an answer: several years ago in my lab at Georgia Tech, a technician I worked with said he had a friend who invented a device for doing celestial navigation, but that it 1) worked in the daytime somehow and 2) used digital technology so that it was more precise than a sextant / traditional celestial navigation.

The technician was prone to a bit of exaggeration, so I'm not 100% sure that this is real, but I'd love to find out more if so.
I apologize that my tone came across as dismissive. Chapter 24 of my paper copy of On Lisp does contain a "sketch of [Prolog's] implementation". I can certainly see the value in Lisp and the culture of bottom-up programming (there's a reason I own a physical copy of the book).

I shouldn't have brought up logic and statically-typed programming as specific examples; my point was more that it's misguided to consider the "power continuum" as one-dimensional, where languages lower on the continuum are "dumb" and languages higher on the continuum are "weird". As you said, a language with good types is not necessarily more or less powerful than a highly dynamic language.
Yes, I think this is the correct answer. There are so many factors. And absolutely not a fan of the current government, but I reccognise that they are trying to work in very very difficult circumstance.
That's actually strangely high for HN, I get 7.6 MB in Firefox.
> There are exactly the same reasons in Go to want asynchronous calls

Which isn’t the comparison I’m replying to here. Calling an asynchronous function with “await” forces it to behave synchronously. You would only do such a thing if you were operating in a framework or language with colored functions.

> in C# or Java or even C++ you can chose between using that OR asynchronous code with futures.

Java, C#, and C++ have channels?
Nope, it's the other way around: https://electrek.co/2018/04/14/tesla-battery-degradation-dat...
I'm in the market for a bigger house. Schibsted knows. Google still seems to have no idea.
They messed up the HTML and made two links there: "https://github.com/coresemi/gnss-" incorrectly links to https://github.com/c, while "baseband" correctly links to https://github.com/coresemi/gnss-baseband.
> My present laptop has the touchpad removed by pliers.

Under which circumstances is disabling it on a software level insufficient?
Korg have been excellent at this in recent years.
Walmart bought Jet for two reasons

(1) Walmart's Global eCommerce big re-write was an expensive mess. About a billion over budget and two three years behind timeline promises. There was leadership churn and they needed a new CEO of that business unit - Marc Lore made sense. Prior to Lore the CEOs (and CTO for that matter) were not technical at all.

(2) They wanted to make some changes that would make the eCommerce business unprofitable for a long time - something shareholders would not be happy about. Buying a business and allowing Marc Lore to make those decisions was, in a way, some nice sleight of hand.

The acquisition blindsided the eCommerce CTO. DD was done out of Bentonville and was rumored to be partially done by a SVP at Google.

The tensions between the profitable brick-and-mortar business and eCommerce _grew_ after the Jet.com acquisition. It ultimately led to Greg Foran resigning in protest to how much money was being tipped down the drain trying to compete with Amazon (that is massively subsidized by AWS).

Walmart make their fair share of mistakes. They have had periods of incompetence at scale in some areas. But they aren't afraid of making tough and interesting decisions. That I can respect. If you think running or working for a startup is hard, try thinking through re-orgs and strategic re-alignments at the scale of Walmart.
You’ve named three very different projects with very different goals and mostly separate developer sets. I can’t imagine a plausible scenario in which they would - or even could - join together, and it almost certainly would not make the resulting project move any faster than the separate ones do.
As other people have alluded it is called processing as killing is one portion. We processed 100 chickens a month ago at my neighbor's house. The first step is to put two small slits in the artery on their neck while they hang upside down in a traffic cone; easy process as they don't fight or try to get out. Next, you put the dead chicken in hot water (temperature needs to be specific to not cook them), then the de-feather machine, then you cut the head/neck and feet off, then clean all the insides out, then they sit in ice water for a day or so before you package them. We don't sell them, we do this for ourselves and pack our freezers with the meat.

I haven't done larger animals from the killing but have butchered large cuts of meat. It is a time-consuming process while being physically tiring.
But it's always 30'C and plantains and mangos hang from trees! Why worry!?
The LKML message described in the post is here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/12/19/482
Did you read the next sentence? "I continue my investigation."
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If you white list them, they’re going to generate a tracking profile on you (probably tied to your name and credit card company).

Presumably, they’ll directly sell this information to third parties. Even if not, they’ll indirectly share the information.

Given that, how many people would actually whitelist them?
Don't get me wrong, but are you associated with the project or Microsoft?
That timing coincided with two pretty big unrelated things. Walmart had been rebuilding their backend systems on this monolithic system called Pangaea that was several years late and drained most of the resources of the engineering org during that period. They finally started emerging from the hole around the end of 2016 and could actually focus on the customer and building the business.

Walmart Grocery had just started taking off. By 2017 it had become a 10 figure business- and by some analysis it was concluded that online grocery sales only eat away at in-store grocery sales by a tiny amount, so this was wholly attributed to e-commerce.

And then there was the direct bolt-on of Jet's revenue streams into the e-commerce results of Walmart as a whole, as well as a lot of other acquisitions. I am not saying Lore didn't have a hand in their growth, but the stage was set well for him.
Depends on area but I did an evening class at my local community college on the CCNA - this is a real Cisco course and very hands on with real hardware.
>> the lesson in 2020 should be that technology is inseparable from geopolitics.

I cannot agree more. If we learn one thing this year this is it.
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That is illogical. That's like saying: I chopped someone's arm off so the only humane thing is to shoot them. Maybe don't do the terrible thing in the first place (breeding them to be slaughtered), and you won't have this issue.
This article focuses on micropayments for consumers for something like movies or news subscriptions. But what about micropayments for something like micro work. Platforms like Amazon Mechanical Turk, Fiver, etc all build their own minimum wallet systems (must have $5 or more to cash out). I feel like the ability to pay small amounts to do work in parallel would be huge but remains fractured and clunky until this micropayments future matures
Though I'm a meat-eater, I upvoted this for the unvarnished truth it contains.
There has to be _someone_ who wants to be the high-quality seller. Even Newegg went down the eBay path. I understand it's profitable, but surely being a very successful #2 is OK too?