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I think a common conflation is seeing "making something future proof" as "making it more generic".

IMO, good future-proof design is about putting in place good components and system boundaries.

Those components and boundaries can be highly specialised and have as few options as possible - it's much easier to make a system boundary more complex than to make it simpler. So start as simple as possible!

Now, with those boundaries, you can easily write tests, and iterate on the different parts of the system. Bad code in one component doesn't "infect" bad code in another part of the system.

Most "balls of mess" systems that I have seen came down to not having clear boundaries between components of the system, rather than being too generic or not generic enough.
On the one hand, the extreme level of backward compatibility is pretty great - it’s very rare that software stops working just because you upgrade Windows. In a business setting that is absolutely crucial, particularly given that there are so many companies in the world using software and databases that were written 15-20 years ago.

On the other hand, all of this weight has to go somewhere and that’s a pretty large part of why even fresh Windows installs have such a significant footprint. It might not be obvious on a typical desktop PC, but on many low-end tablets and laptops, it can eat a large amount of the already-restrictive storage space. I wouldn’t be surprised to find that this is a part of why Windows struggles to maintain popularity in the tablet space outside of the Surface line, and the Surfaces aren’t exactly entry-level.

I think it’s fine for things like this to be optional - given that fax isn’t widely used in a lot of the world, it seems like a strange thing to install by default.
"provide funds for (a project or activity or the person carrying it out)."

So does a subscription or purchase. So not sure what you are trying to imply with this.

He gives access to stuff if you pay him money, with a promise of more stuff in the future. This just sounds like an subscription to me.

While I do agree there is a disconnect between open source dev payment and business, I don't think mislabeling a subscription as a donation does anyone any good.
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> From what I heard, about half the deaths are people under 55. The individual risk is still higher the older you are, but plenty of young people have died from this.

You are incorrect. COVID is largely a disease that affects the elderly and those with pre-existing conditions. Here are the actual numbers from England (England only, not to be confused with the overall UK):

- All COVID deaths, age 0-59: 2,210

- All COVID deaths, age 60+: 25,721

And of those 2,210 people under 60 who died, only 261 didn't have known pre-existing conditions.

Also, the older age groups are actually smaller populations than the younger age groups. So the death rate is even higher than the raw numbers suggest.

If you define "young" as anyone under 40, the difference is even more stark:

- All COVID deaths, age 0-39: 224

- All COVID deaths, age 0-39, no pre-existing condition: 36

Note: Obviously the young and healthy should still avoid exposure to avoid infecting others and also because there is of course always some risk of both death and long-term damage.
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I don't think London Underground release that level of information. Thameslink does[1], Overground should too.

https://www.opentraintimes.com/maps/signalling/tlk_core
I think the "creates 200 jobs" usage is completely fair here. The thing is due to be operational in 2022, so that's two years of work for 200 people, and the ongoing operation jobs will be "a few dozen", not 5-10. The article makes all this clear.

More broadly, infrastructure jobs are still jobs, even if they only last a few years instead of indefinitely. The average tenure of a software engineer at a big tech company is less than that; is it fair to say they don't have jobs? It's not like we're ever going to run out of projects to improve the world, so these 200 workers will hopefully finish this job and move onto the next "job-creating project".
That's the key here, there is absolutely a market for the Segwey product, it's just not the one the Segwey company was aiming for.
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I love all this P2P software being built, but it seems like if your peer to peer is just static html and friends. You are as much P2P as github pages.
No need of the "if true", it's studied.

Changing it in entire societies will take time, but there is talk about "growth mindset" vs "fixed mindset".
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Applications on Linux also do that often when they are released in binary form (especially closed source software) outside of some repository, they just use a shell script to add the current directory (or a subdirectory) to the library search path before starting the executable.
That's pretty damn shady. The half-arsed attempt to dress it up as a security matter "harvest people's login details" makes it even worse.
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They said they lost the source code pre-release, but managed to reconstruct most of it. Given that it was released and that there have been many patches, I think the source code is fine.

I think the only thing they really lost are the hi-def assets from which the lower-def ingame assets were created.
I always felt that this diluted the sarcasm and was a bit like explaining a joke
True, but then the multiple for C# is either nonsense or a false comparison of going between near identical languages or of writing code of very different quality and utility.

There are plenty of cases where a broken notebook is about as good as a spreadsheet, and languages suited/typical to that use have a psychological victory that results in apples to oranges comparisons.
> My spouse and I both work in a hospital. She got covid and so did one of our two siblings. Neither of them had any symptoms (spouse is in her 50's, our sibling is twenty plus.) I never got it nor did our other sibling. I also don't have antibodies. Go figure... it makes no sense to me.

I know it's anecdotal but it's interesting that your spouse contracted the virus but you did not. I'm assuming you live together. But then again I imagine it is quite common for one person in a household to catch a cold whilst everybody remains unaffected...I'm not equating covid-19 to the common cold. It came to mind as something that appears to spread in the same way.
no one I asked knows anyone who was infected

I had this same experience early on, but now I get a reasonable hit rate asking people. I personally know about four people who had it, and probably about 10% of people I talk to know a similar number of people. More like 80% know somebody who knows somebody, but that data is less reliable.
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I think the knife metaphor here might be a bit understated.

It's more like a self guiding missile. It's meant to hurt, so that makes NSO pretty dodgy.
As an additional thought: it would be useful if such a service could be applied retroactively to historical software concerns as well.

This would provide the community with more of an ability to maintain and improve the existing software that we all rely on to be robust, effective and secure.

For example, if a software project had decided to introduce component X at some point in the past, a platform like this could identify that (and the historical reasons for the selection) as a blocker for necessary changes to support a subset of the current user community.

That could lead to a task list for the changes required to rectify the architecture, and discussions about the subsequent tradeoffs involved in those changes - and so the process could continue, iteratively.
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JFYI SeekTable already has a connector for ClickHouse :) it works over native binary protocol (with connection-level compression). Since you have control over SQL query and SQL expressions used for dimensions/measures ClickHouse SQL-dialect is not a problem.
On my old Dell xps 14 laptop, the function button was close to the arrow keys, making it very convenient to use one-handed. I actually preferred it to a separate home button, because, in a text box, I often want to jump to the start/end of a line and then move a word or two inward -- do-able using control+arrows. It was almost as good as vim, although of course I had to take my hand off the home row.
I would think "high fantasy" to be defined as "tolkienesque" (great evil to defeat and save the world).

But there's a ton of fantasy where the other important tropes of Tolkien (great lost past, the dark empire, all good on one side and all bad on the other, the pure heroes) is missing. The first that come to mind are "the wheel of time" and "the chronicles of Thomas covenant".

Also if you move from high fantasy there's a ton more interesting stuff, imvho :)
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Why do people always conflate legality and morality. A wedding guest might not be doing anything illegal eating/taking so much food/drinks that there is nothing left for anyone else, but I'm pretty certain many would make the decision to not invite them again, even without giving them a trial.

If we talk about its legal, whose laws should we even apply?
Unfortunately Blizzard has a history of shutting down open source projects of implementations of their IP, I would be surprised if they don't go after this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratagus
This is certainly an interesting thought. Ivan Zhao of Notion had some similar thoughts on design. That the early pioneers of computing were able to develop a large amount of amazing insights not just due to the greenfield nature but also because they were less focused on the business aspects.
Most of it is not very good.

The aesthetic reason is that it's all form and no content. The difference between a real Mondrian and a generative pseudo-Mondrian is that the real Mondrian is the result of a long process of metaphor and abstraction, while the generative pseudo-Mondrian is a superficial mimic of the result which misses key details in the original and all of the history of the process.

It doesn't have to express some deep truth about the world, but it should express something more interesting than "Look I made a sort-of geometric thing with code."

The philosophical reason is because it's rooted in modernist abstraction, and that's more than a century old now. So mostly it's formulaically repeating an aesthetic based on weightless disembodied abstract repetition that hasn't changed for more than a hundred years. The fact that it's doing it with code and not with something else doesn't rescue it.

The visual result is that it's often stiff, unsurprising, stale, and repetitive. Occasionally you get people who take it to the next level and show real mastery by doing something rich and surprising with it - I'm a fan of Raven Kwok for example, and Jared Tarbell was ahead of the game before he moved on to start Etsy - but they spend months working on their projects. Most people just dabble superficially and never get past the "I made a sort-of geometric thing with code" stage.

tl;dr Most often it's an excuse for yet more hobby coding made by people who are interested in code, but not really interested in art at all.
For me the giveaway is that the level of hyperbolic content doesn’t match the level of textual content. It reads like subtle spam to me.
It's bad for rep, but it's also a great business card.
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Next step could be recognizing and generalizing shapes (human, car, house), deformation/movement models (rigging, inverse kinematics) and decompositing textures into layers (skin, clothes). You would keep common shape/movement/texture atlas in the base codec. As you wrote, the process of recording as a reverse game engine.
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No, in case of organizations whose raison d'être is doing something morally repugnant for you, it's okay to apply summary judgement.
> White men are the largest demographic of the US

That is super unlikely, considering that women are born slightly more often then males and women live longer.
Does anyone know why they switched from C# to Go?
> If you are under 40 your risk of dying seems to be very very low.

Based on the figures you provided I make that close to 0.7%. It is low but I wouldn't describe it as very very low :-)
If you have a service or website you can (and should) do it dynamically with a service. I have seen Flagr [0] used to great effect here. As always you have to strip out flags when the features are permanent.

0 - https://checkr.github.io/flagr/#/
I think Erlang's mnesia was the earliest implementation of STM.
What sucks about the tags on GitHub is that there is no way of controlling who can create them. Ideally I would love to see a flow similar to the one for PRs. You could then require approval of other team members and also run GitHub actions that could for example verify the tag format and ensure correct format of the tag message.
I think that's because America made quite a few enemies in the process of policing the world. Israel is much tougher on inbound travelers for the same reason.

If America didn't police the world, China would, and we would still have Soviet Union, and probably Taiwan would not be on the map.
The keyword in your response is "knowingly." Simply being a member of one group or another doesn't imply that you know everything going on.
Well, well. It's harder and harder every day to argue with the legal opinion offered by former SCOTUS justice Kennedy, which seemed hilariously corrupt at the time, that corporations are effectively people.

A defining trait of an awful lot of people is that they accuse what they're guilty of.

In this case, Facebook accusing other websites of trademark violations is the very definition of hypocrisy. Facebook in particular, but Twitter as well, are absolutely littered with t-shirt vendors selling other people's logos and brand names, logarithmically generated with ad data.

If you fill out your movies, music, and books "likes" as they tell you to do, within 2 days tops you'll be able to buy a Pink Floyd t-shirt from virtually anyone on the planet... except Roger Waters or David Gilmour.

The fact that Facebook refuses all search indexes makes policing Facebook's infringement on the copyrights of others impossible. At least with Napster any musician could log in and see how many users were giving their content away for free. Not so on Facebook, you can't ever know how many pirated logos of yours that Facebook sold.
Yes, exactly. it's sufficiently identifying to solve the discriminatory treatment the parent pointed out
I have my main email in the whois records for my website and I haven't noticed any increase of spam before and after. Perhaps the level of spam is proportionate to the popularity/traffic of your site?
I use both home and end constantly while coding. Writing text not so much, but it still does happen. Sure, you could do without, but...
No, because the "flatten the curve" crowd believed that the virus was in early stages; the lockdown was to prevent uncontrolled spreading.

The virus looks super lethal when deaths are starting to pile up when only a tiny percentage of the country was believed to have been exposed. But in reality the virus had almost peaked by the time people started to panic, which made all those lockdown or flatten the curve measures pointless.
You should read UKLG's Earthsea. They are objectively quite simple books (targeted at teens) but they are fantastic.

As a side note in my opinion this series is an example of how the current phase of thinking someone has to be of a group to understand the group is wrong. The female author brilliantly captures a young male's journey towards a strong, compassionate, brave and very masculine manhood with all the mistakes along the way. As I grew up (and indeed still grow up) I often reflect on what Ged would do at different phases of his growth. So essentially the female UKLG is guiding me in my life. (Or maybe men and women are even more similar than I'm accounting for and a young woman's journey is just that similar to a man's).
> Whilst we could adopt Multihash here, it's much more complex than we need (famous last words?!?).

So OP has the option of adopting an existing (and clear) spec, with existing libraries (and and existing governance structure) and because of what feels like a not-invented-here mentality (yeah well, I can't imagine needing this complexity), OP has decided to develop a new standard, without an existing spec, without existing libraries and without existing governance structure.

All these ideas in online data sharing, semantics and interoperability are great, but I think people underestimate how much effort it actually is to create a good standard, a good spec, and how exponentially more effort it takes to keep such a standard in a shape that's working for more people.

The extensibility for OP's identifier is extremely narrow. Just look at how many hash functions and properties are currently already supported by the IPFS content id: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXec1jjwzxWJoNbxQF5KffL8q6hFXm9QwUGaa3...

OP's choice of hash function is even in there.

There is a reason why IPFS is already at a second version of the spec. It is because they were using the first version and found them lacking in their use cases. Every new standard is doomed to make similar mistakes unless they explicitly account for them in their design.
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You should never design for the future use case. You don't know what the future will be. You should only design for the current use case you have today and deploy. When the future comes, you return to the code that you wrote and update it to fit the new needs.
I think he's trying to defend TSA's racial profiling, but well, in the eyes of the average TSA agent, aren't "all brown people are the same"? And to them, the "brown people" are the terrorists?

The current trend is for rightwing, white supremacy/incel extremism, so TSA racial profiling is dangerous because they might accidentally let a Nazi with guns on a plane, but grandparent commenter is not wrong, that the TSA are myopic...
Home and end are most useful for me when I'm writing or programming, so both of my hands are on the keyboard anyway. I think I actually find these key combos more useful than a dedicated home or end button, as I'd have to move my hands a lot further for those.
Obviously bodies of text bigger than 5GB exist. I was talking about static compressor dictionaries, which are tiny. Hence mentioning Brotli’s 122KB dictionary. Static dictionaries are an optimization to improve the compression of very small text files — they aren’t useful for compressing large files, because once you have lots of data you can build a more efficient dictionary at compression time and include it in the compressed stream.
For a while I went through a phase of importing Bach midi files into ableton, exporting the audio to a track, then using ableton's "convert to midi" function to turn it back into midi, and then using a variety of soft-synths to replay the incorrect, but hauntingly familiar music. GBV, WTC and organ works were always fun. Favourite synths for replay would be Crystal, and Arturia's CS80V.

Add some long modulation envelopes and fiddle with the mod matrix for pseudo humanism ;-)
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Unironically, this is one of the simpler setups for a multi-node WP setup I have seen, and I have set up prod WP many times. Anyone with associate level knowledge of AWS can do this. There is a reason there are entire companies (pantheon) dedicated to hosting Wordpress for you: doing it with speed, resiliency and redundancy is hard.
Have you ever interviewed applicants for software jobs? I think at least 9/10 applicants often have no idea how to code. They can write down some JavaScript, but don't know why.
You really need to cite sources to backup your claim regarding the other Nightingales being pretty full. I am struggling to find sources to prove they were used at all.

However, you do have an extremely valid point about what was going on with the care homes. The hospitals were vacated of 'bed blockers' at the same time as the Nightingale facilities were being built, so the old people were sent to their care homes and not to a Nightingale.

Exeter Nightingale going to open soon:

https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/exeters-nightingal...

So that one has not been pretty full. It has been absolutely empty.

Bristol:

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/bristols-nig...

Pretty Full?

Nope, just opened, no patients yet.

Moving to Wales:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-53082404

They had 17 field hospitals open up. A health economist from Swansea University said that, in hindsight, spending £166m on 46 patients was "not a good use of limited resources".

Although not technically 'Nightingale' you get the idea.

Northern Ireland?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-52651725

The Nightingale in Belfast peaked with 30 patients, before being mothballed.

I suspect that every Nightingale has a similar story.
the idea of a 'Promising Bikeshare Company' is a myth, such thing never existed. https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2018/03/bike-share-oversup... Its all a big VC scam.
Wow that button is like a portal straight to hell, well done I guess. Most soul destroying thing I have yet encountered.
Is a wasm runtime complex to write? Not with jit or anything fancy, is it at the level of making a GB emulator or a llvm backend ?
> Even with more than a million people still running the app, just 68 people who had become infected with coronavirus reported their symptoms to the app, resulting in 205 warnings being sent to other users....

205 warned users out of more than million users doesn't strike me as very efficient.
Some ccTLDs even make it impossible to use privacy protection the last time I read about the matter, like for example the .in ccTLD.

The next logical step will be to link whois records with your national digital ID. It will probably happen eventually, as most govts and corporations seem determined to destroy privacy while providing a thin illusion of it.
Mmm, I meant don't take it like electric scooter. I have not tried but failure mode compound with speed would kill. Official version advertises as casual [1], should be extreme [2]. At least wear palms protection - it is a weak point.

And for example kick scooter is not that safe. Inline skates on the same speed gives much more control. Bicycle is yet safer.

I like the idea - should be fun to ride, I do not like product placement.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNqOU4jx62I

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys3ivCUxIvY
I've found the Fanboy Annoyance List to be pretty effective vs the sort of GDPR cookie acceptance things you see in your blocked version: https://easylist.to/easylist/fanboy-annoyance.txt
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Gandalf "dying", fighting demons in the underworld, and returning as "Gandalf the White" is also a pretty clear parallel though. But arguably Tolkien is a better writer so it doesn't seem so on-the-nose.
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Somewhere between 25 and 50% globally based on your audience.