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You can't go to the park, because it's too crowded, because people are gathering there to enact change.

I'm sorry, I simply disagree as to the role of public space in a free society -- them occupying the park is the LEAST objectionable thing about this.
While The Stranger is obviously pretty left-wing, KOMO, KIRO and MyNorthWest are pretty right-wing, actually. KOMO in particular did the Seattle is Dying[1] documentary that was ultimately pro law-enforcement (framing the homelessness debate largely as a problem with judges not sentencing detained criminals, leading to a reduction in arrests as police felt they were useless). Jason Rantz[2] gets a fair bit of publicity out here as well for his conservative coverage of this stuff.

Now I'd say your statement about "extremely biased and partisan" is accurate, but the implication was that it's exclusively in a pro-protestor sense, and that's really not the case.

I say this as someone who lives on the political fringes and generally disagrees with both sides of the partisanship.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpAi70WWBlw
[2] https://mynorthwest.com/category/jason-rantz/?
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I bought a RCA Cambio 12.2 tablet last summer for something to play with ($220). It has decent specs (Celeron N4000, 64GB storage, 12" display at 1920x1200) except for the 2GB RAM handicaps it greatly for Windows 10 usage. I put Debian on it and I've been working on getting drivers for everything. If I can get all the drivers I need, it'll be a pretty sweet little tablet.
Was going to post the same thing. I wonder how the two compare.

Pricing-wise, seems like Twilio has higher fixed but lower usage costs:

https://www.twilio.com/docs/iot/supersim

| Starting at $2 per active Super SIM per month.

| Data Usage - Starting at $0.10 / MB.

https://hologram.io/pricing/

| $1 per device per month + $0.38 / MB.

Of course these prices depend on device volume. Twilio may be able to offer lower costs because of their scale, but perhaps Hologram can provide a better user experience because this is the only thing they do.
Are there any geo areas where ATT+TMO/Sprint (combined due to merger) isn't at parity with VZ?
Indeed, it is a very valuable resource for beginners to jump into shaders, but for those that already know the basics there are several good books focusing on shading languages, and NVidia has a couple of free ones available on their site.

Even the outdated book about Cg language has good content regarding shading in general.

But if Patricio ever puts it in an actual book, I would gladly buy it.
I mean, before Steam this was basically the state of gaming. No community, limited features, spotty performance. This is just teething issues. There is no reason a platform like Stadia can't work in the future as these things get better.

And, in terms of downloading gigs from afar, you're already doing that, but instead of being able to play games while downloading you have to wait to download 60gb of COD updates, consume your entire PS4 drive with a single game. And while that is happening, you're just sitting there not using your PS4 because opening another application pauses the download.

We are starting to see more cross platform support for games between PS4, XBO, and PC. But older games won't ever support cross platform between Windows, OSX, and *Nix. A browser port could easily change that.

> Why does "the web" try to recreate existing technologies and operating systems?

It's the same trend we've had since basically the dawn of computers. We move things into deeper abstraction layers. Why is this an issue in your opinion? Isn't more options better? Isn't ideal to adapt old concepts to new implementations? At the very least does it not provide potential educational value?
Only a deeply racist mind could think of slavery when seeing the word master used in a computer programming environment.
Who is still using Perl? Any good war stories?
Today I dug up some old Perl scripts I wrote about 11 years ago. I cobbled together a program to find duplicate mp3 files, where the sound is the same but the metadata may differ. It got me to think. Anybody out there still maintaining Perl?
It's even more interesting when you can infer why its broken. Let's take the NVMe controller in the MacBook Pro 2016 and later for example: That controller is not properly detected by Linux and needs a quirk [1] to be identified by its PCI device id instead.

Why is that? Well, Linux usually detects NVMe devices based on their PCI class. The class for NVMe devices is 0x010802. So guess what the Apple controller provides as class id: 0x018002. If you have to compare the ids twice to notice what's different, you're not alone. My guess is that this subtle difference is just a human error made by an Apple engineer, which wasn't caught during QA and macOS simply works around it as well or doesn't use PCI class anyway.

So for the same reason software isn't perfect, hardware (or the firmware powering that hardware) is neither.

[1]: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/b791d1bdf9212d944d749...

[2]: https://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-nvme/2017-Februa...
Native Elements – HTML elements with CSS superpowers
It is a customizable plug-n-play library for your site which helps you easily styling all the available HTML elements using CSS custom properties, classes, attributes, or whatever you want in less than 7 kB.
I would say it’s still fundamentally different from overwatch in that players who prefer CS-style may not like Overwatch but would like Valorant.

Overwatch is much more abilities-heavy while Valorant is still more aiming heavy.
Apologies if this is a dumb question - can I use this on a person phone for consumer use cases (voice/text/data)?
>Again, the reality on the ground is one of union monopolies. Union power derives from its collective bargaining power - so separate unions always end up merging and union bosses always end up as major power brokers, accountable to no one.

This is the case for many corporations, leading to corporate mergers too, accountable to no one. That's why we have mechanisms to deal with it. Some mergers must be approved by the government. Sometimes companies are split up. We just need to apply the same regulations around anticompetitive behavior and monopolies to unions, so that we can have unions while keeping them from being all encompassing.
I personally don't prefer it, but the significant battery life increase makes it worth it.
From my personal (limited) research and observations. I am in no way an expert.

Unions originally seem to have made a very positive impact on the working conditions of workers. Just think of the horrible situation of steel workers (and others) during the start of the industrial revolution. Workers organized to make a change and improve their lot.

Fast forward a few decades: Unions seem to have become self-sustained entities whose incentive have switched from helping workers, to sustaining the union's economic interests. They also sometimes help some workers, but it's not free.

There is a very well known case in Quebec, Canada. It's the Gaspesia debacle:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rob-comme...

"Work on the mill conversion began in the spring of 2002. From the beginning, the project -- established as a limited partnership 50 per cent owned by the Fonds de solidarité with the SGF and Tembec each holding 25-per-cent stakes -- was plagued by delays and mismanagement. The FTQ was accused of blocking workers affiliated with other unions from getting construction jobs on the site. Contractors complained that workers were paid for eight-hour days, but put in only three hours of productive labour."

This is only the tip of the Iceberg, and illustrates why there seems a negative perception of unions.
As a black person, speaking just for myself, I really do not get the issue around semantics like this. The word "Master" is not synonymous with any race and so does not make me (or anyone I know) uncomfortable. The concept of masters (and slaves) exist and are useful metaphors for naming similar phenomenon. I would much rather focus on issues that make people truly less comfortable in technology, like hiring or sponsoring practices in organizations. If there truly are (black) people offended by this nomenclature, I would not oppose changing it but I honestly don't know any.
> three different "works" from three different "artists" on display - all of them were plain, white canvases.

> In that sense, plain white canvas in a museum is actually pretty original.
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Oh no, we can take mexicans in of course, we just should't have open borders. I would hope that, when the US took in Jewish scientists, there was a mechanism in place to make sure they didn't take nazis disguised as jewish scientists.
Like i said, if the first thing that comes to your mind is slavery when seeing the word master in a computer programming environment, you're the racist.
I think it's because "async" has been overloaded. The post isn't about what I thought it would be upon seeing the title.

I was thinking this would be about using multiprocessing to fire off two or more background tasks, then handle the results together once they all completed. If the background tasks had a large enough duration, then yeah, doing them in parallel would overcome the overhead of creating the processes and the overall time would be reduced (it would be "faster"). I thought this post would be a "measure everything!" one, after they realized for their workload they didn't overcome that overhead and async wasn't faster.

Upon what the post was about, my response was more like "...duh".
It has, in the sense that it trending toward web scraping itself is not per se illegal, even if the site has terms of service that says you won't do it.

That's orthogonal to the question of whether or not in any particular case it is copyright infringement.
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Hi there, Matt Jackson from Twilio here. I’m the Product Manager for Super SIM. With Super SIM you can configure a data limit for your SIMs as a guardrail against potential runaway applications. You can set this to a value as low as 1MB. If you know that your use case doesn’t require a lot of data, such as occasionally sending a little bit of JSON with some sensor readings, you can set this to a low number to keep your costs down in case something does go awry.
I've always thought it would be fun to make experimental hardware devices with this type of technology. An example:

Build a solar-powered device that you stick up in a tree in a forested patch near an urban center where kids go and have bush parties/bonfires/etc. The device would include a text-to-speech synthesizer. It's dormant most of the time, but designed to activate when people are around it at night. As the "admin", you get a notification when it turns on and can receive some low-res video/audio from the scene, and you can send it messages that are read aloud using the TTS synth.

I imagine it would be quite disconcerting if you were smoking pot in the woods and suddenly a voice in the trees started talking to you.
Is there a proposed roadmap for basic / default solution of HA Postgres? It seems MySQl has this well covered and Postgres continue to think it is not a core part of their DB and relies on third party. ( Not suggesting that is necessary a bad thing )
Classic definition wise guilds had a legal monopoly or regulation over a certain trade occupations including the quality and the maximium supply through control of pipelines of licensing and training.

Historically they were a often a feudal "link" of control for administration. They meet with the head haberdasher to discuss carrots and sticks of taxation and licensing so they pay willingly and let them shout about unlicensed competitors instead of trying to chase down every last haberdasher to tax.

Unions are more "if you piss off every affiliated habberdasher in the city they refuse to make hats until their demands are met".
"have seen low single-digit increases in their percentage of Black employees, according to a CNBC analysis of the annual disclosures. Amazonshows a higher increase, but those numbers include warehouse and delivery workers."

Have they looked into why? Maybe overall, they just aren't getting enough black applicants with the correct skill sets.

We should be striving for equal opportunity not equal outcomes.
So there's no reason to use binary commands when using something like socket.io?
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No, you are missing the point. Without a gun there is nothing keeping you safe aside from a cop's whims. If someone wanted to walk into your house/office and kill you, a cop would (1) stop them, (2) choose not to stop them and not get punished for it, or (3) not get to you in time to be of any help. Defending yourself is the fourth option you exercise with your right to self-defense. If you really think that cops are bad, arrange your life so that your life doesn't depend on their whims. I live in a state where at least two thirds of people own guns (usually multiple guns) and the crime rate is very low.
> IMHO I've never heard one of these stories where I thought Facebook was doing the right thing. Not once.

It's almost like the media is pushing some kind of narrative here against an entity they compete with.
My home office is the only place I really feel the benefit of Philips Hue bulbs. Being able to fine-tune and change the white color temperature throughout the day (and night) is fantastic.

Personally, I prefer indirect light. So I have light strips which illuminate the wall behind my monitor , and a few other bulbs directed at the ceiling which reflect light back down.
1.5% of the U.S. population is still over 4 million people, that's a huge market.
I don't think that heavier = better at tablet UI; yes, GNOME3 went that direction, but so did matchbox.
I'm in 100% agreement on the perverse incentives of private prisons; however it's worth noting that similar incentives exist for prison guard unions, even for publicly managed prisons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Correctional_Peace_...

Abolishing private prisons is a good start, but we need much more drastic reform to the prison-industrial complex and failed "tough on crime" policies, particular in the realms of drug policy, community investment, and mental health.
I was going to write sth similar -- that if a writing assignment seems pointless from a student's point of view, and s/he thinks the study time is better spent in other ways, maybe coding a software program instead,

Then to some extent I could sympathize with those who plagiarize. ... If it's to save time for something more on topic they think.

But if it's a writing class, then, no! Or writing about history or society etc
This is a “cache-invalidation/naming things” problem :)
Databases have been slowly shifting to other terms for a while now. I.e. consensus algorithms typically speak about "leader election", replication systems use "primary"/"replica", ...
Besides that it's trendy on hackernews to make fun of designers they are an important part of every commercial product. As an designer it is really hard to contribute to oss the whole environment is just so hostile for non devs.
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I just watched this entire thing. I'd never heard of Lex before.

It's pretty funny for the interviewer to say "agree to disagree" or "well, no" when he's clearly not the expert of the two.
A large amount of cruft and performance issues in the C++ standard library remain because the committee is too afraid of breaking ABI compatibility, so it's not so much as a "no" as "oh no." Even MSVC hasn't broken ABI in a bit.
It's easy to do, too. Just make boring software. C# is fine. SQL server is fine. A monolith is fine. That's it. (Replace with your favorite language.)
Would love to chat, contact info is at the bottom of the website, or you can email me directly (email address is in my profile).
If CNN was as partisan as MSNBC, maybe.
Wikipedia demonstrates that an authoritarian governance model is more functional than essentially anarchy. But that does not mean we should settle for it. Wikipedia is known for its restrictive culture. A lot of good information does not make it past the guards. We can probably do better.
Yeah, they don't need a ton of help there. Biden's response is to shoot them in the legs, not the chest! The entire Democratic establishment seems completely unable of taking a moral stance for fear it would offend somebody.
If reform worked it would have already worked.
> Rust would possibly not do so well if it wasn't for Mozilla support.

And especially Mozilla's intense passion for open-sourcing everything. I think it was a good catalyst to get it into the hands of as many people as possible.
Not a real test.

No response time simulation...

Learn what async code does for you.
> I'll probably create email newsletters soon for the people that are not on Telegram.

Why not a website? It seems like that's what everyone is asking for.
Perhaps the theory is that the children born to criminals will likely be criminals as well, thus by preventing those children from being born there will be long-term cost savings?

On the other hand, I have a hard time seeing someone being both that diabolical and long-term in mindset.
An RSS feed would be cool.
Most of the subscription based saas products make easy money on inactive users who are okay losing money for prospect on using the tool in near future.

Even though that is easy money, saas companies should offer "inactive account maintenance" fees rather than full subscription fees, when the user starts using it, they could charge them full. This is win-win situation where user gets to keep the account for smaller fees and companies can retain more customers.

ProsperStack like tools can offer these by default.
Uopeople is the best that has ever happened to me as a person . At the institution , I am exposed to quality education and highly qualified instructors whose tutoring has affected me positively bringing about academic excellence . The institution's curriculum is up to date .

I have no regret studying at the University.
Ubuntu looks... fine? In my experience Gnome 3 has been a relatively polished and coherent user experience, perhaps more so in some ways than Windows.
which often advocate for a mixture of extreme social individualism and a radical redefinition of social groups

Additionally, they advocate mixing together people who have little in common, to obtain diversity. That's not conducive to sense of community either, as Robert Putnam's research showed[1].

[1] - https://www.puttingourdifferencestowork.com/pdf/j.1467-9477....
Aren't parole boards and the justice system in general involved in the process of releasing people from prison? Its the State that ultimately decides when a prisoner is allowed out.

> They're just incentivized to release them ASAP

And the only way to do that is to show the parole board that a person is worth paroling, e.g. by rehabilitating them.
First of all: If Stig did it, there would have to have been more than one person involved in the murder. There's not a snowball's chance in hell that Stig could know Palme was passing by otherwise. And there's no way he could have killed Palme on the spur of the moment. (Too many reason to go into here.)

It all falls down on this simple fact. What an amazing embarrassment for the Swedish investigators.

Now, if there was more than one person involved (a conspiracy), does anyone really believe the other(s) would let Stig keep on drawing attention to himself? He would be dead in short order.
IATA Estimates Airlines Set to Lose $84B in 2020
I worked the whole time and at times too hard. I've been employed in some capacity or another since I was 17.

As I was approaching 30 I made a career change to tech. I did work too hard during this period because I was working full time and also spending all of my free time teaching myself new skills. Honestly it was a dark period because I wasn't sure if there was a light at the end of the tunnel in terms of breaking into tech and I was very unhappy with my job at the time. I studied on the bus. I studied after work. I studied on the weekends. It was like working two full time jobs.

I got lucky and was able to get a job as a software engineer. I spent the first year working too hard. I reported for my regular hours and then worked every night babysitting upgrades because I felt like I had to prove something or pay something back for the opportunity.

Overall, I think I took myself too seriously in my 20s. I'm glad I put the effort in because it was worth it in a way. But my perspective changed when people close to me started get old, sick, or both and passed away.

My perspective changed and I don't take myself as seriously anymore. However, I still struggle with feeling like my time is going to waste. Sometimes I have hard time relaxing and doing something for fun like video games because it isn't contributing to my personal development. I guess I'm still figuring that out.
Same with Telnyx:

https://telnyx.com/products/wireless
Totally agree. I should have said "add sufficient annotations to distinguish shared references from mutable references", and "occassionally need to splatter confusing lifetime annotations all over the place".

EDIT: What's really relevant is that you can look at a Rust type, and tell whether it's shared, mutable, or owned; this is what Rust's borrow checker derives its power from. Likewise, Haskell's type system derives its (equally amazing) powers from the fact that you can look at a Haskell function's type signature, and tell what kinds of side effects it has. (Sometimes people think that Haskell functions don't have side effects in the sense that they never mutate anything. This is wrong; Haskell has mutable arrays in its standard library. Rather, it's that all side effects are reflected in a function's type signature.)
https://hackage.haskell.org/package/array-0.5.4.0/docs/Data-...

I write Rust code for work, and we have a large codebase. We manage it pretty well, but there are definitely still innocuous looking changes that require adding lifetime annotations all over the place to avoid confusing error messages.

Rust is my favorite language by far (I get the impression you like it too and are defending it). I think the costs of its borrow checker are worth it, but they are significant costs.
Right, because police rarely break the law?
I'd be interested in this if it weren't for the screen resolution. I've long since found that 150ppi is the dividing line for me with tablets where I can't ignore the pixel grid anymore.
Yeah, that's exactly what we were seeing. Retention with customer success programs is helpful, but many small companies just don't have the resources for it. We're hoping to provide something that can make an impactful dent on churn in an almost entirely automated way.
The C++ they teach in universities is either just C, or putting Java spin on C (C-with-classes). I've never seen a decent "modern C++" class taught in universities.
So put in a provision in the tech union charter that allows anyone, unionized or not, to move monitors. Problem solved.
Ukraine scientists see signs of hope after Chernobyl fires
> I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races, [applause]-that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. - Abraham Lincoln

I find my understanding of US history changing pretty dramatically recently. How do we confront long-held beliefs around many of the largest figures in our history without devolving into a partisan debate?