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My exasperated comment isn't meant to deny that products like these don't exist, it's more of a recrimination of those companies (and they are far too many, with it becoming steadily more habitual among them all the time) which simply can't keep themselves from squeezing and grubbing and pawing at our personal information for the sake of every last drop of monetization taken to disgusting levels of disrespect even for paying customers. All of it justified by cliche boilerplate nonsense about "caring for your' privacy" while they cram as much of the opposite down your throat as possible.

I don't care that maybe, just maybe, company X doesn't sell my personal information as a user of theirs to third parties (though I steadily doubt more and more about the claims of any company promising that it doesn't, and then there are also unintentional data leaks of things they supposedly don't keep stored) I also want goddam company X itself to not pry into my life so much just because I use a fucking pair of headphones or a blender, or a refrigerator or any number of other products that are being designed more often by the day to track everything you do with them and feed it all back to their creators. The sheer arrogance of the whole trend deserves much more criticism than it gets.
A helmet without padding can protect against low energy penetrating impacts; think BBs or similar. They do this by spreading the impact point out over the entire head; preventing penetration or fracture.

But for pure G forces, you’re right. A helmet with no padding is effectively similar to not having a helmet at all.
> They work offline. At least, as much as I use mine it still functions, there may be more advanced features.

Not sure if "tracking an activity" only is really considered "working offline". Customization of the devices is a major functionality of GARMIN products and ONLY works with a "Connect connection". Even changing the watch face is not possible, sometimes the watch tries to "verify Connect IQ Apps" which is not possible and you have to restart the watch, to detail just two major nuisances.
Not even mentioning people who bought a GARMIN device since the outage started and did not know about it - they are currently proud owners of expensive paperweights and dust collectors. Look out for many pre-owned GARMIN products on eBay in the coming days and weeks!
Does that include dividends?
Jet fuel is closer to diesel than to gasoline the activation energy for jet fuel is much higher than for hydrogen, its molecules are larger so it can be contained safer and with less chance of leaks. So the answer is yes, it very likely is much more dangerous than jet fuel.
Yeah I have no idea how it got to -2, but maybe it was my tone. I was even trying to not call out any specific post or debate any single issue.

The thing about academia is it's full of people who love talking about ways to make it better, and rotate into positions of power where they can change things after a few years.

The solutions are complex, require convincing many different stakeholders (even if they're amenable to the change), nailing lots of detail to make it work right. Because peoples lives and careers are on the line. Reputations of entire fields, the way medical discoveries happen, billions of dollars of taxpayer money, major institutions, etc. are not things you want to hack and discover that whoops, you just incentivized the wrong thing and set back cancer research for a decade.
My European take on this: while upper class salaries might be 2-3x above middle-class salaries they don’t afford you a lifestyle that would be unrecognizable to a middle-class family. Maybe a nicer neighborhood, maybe more long-distance traveling, a good restaurant from time to time. But you’re certainly not removed from the idea that even a smaller loss in income has a direct impact on your lifestyle. So the upper class is as afraid of a loss in income as the middle class. And while middle class jobs are often union protected and have a stable market of supply and demand, upper class jobs are often highly specialized and a transition might not be as easy after having lost a job
DDG is not a UI over Bing

https://help.duckduckgo.com/results/sources/?redir=1
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I did the same, went without a phone for a few weeks (getting repaired/replaced) and it taught me a lot about how much I was overusing it. The most important change was turning off nearly all notifications (interruptions), but I've slid back into other bad habits like mobile reddit/HN since.

I've toyed with the idea of going back to a dedicated MP3 player for music and audio books, they should be cheaper and smaller than the last time I had one and with actual buttons they have a superior user interface (phones are versatile but a bit shit at everything). After that I could probably ditch a smart phone entirely.
I’ve said this above but I don’t think this is an incompatible view with what the article says. But the predominant attitude is that everyone just ought to move to the suburbs eventually because it’s just “obviously” so much better, with the bigger living space and the lower density. We’re seeing this attitude pop up with COVID-19 once again.

For me, I so heavily despise the experience of being in a car for even half an hour. So unless I find a neighborhood where everything is nearby or maybe I can bike everywhere (not so easy in the US!) none of these supposed quality-of-life improvements will outweigh the downside for me.

(And yes, I have owned a car and used it for day-to-day stuff. I universally hated every single moment I sat in that car.)
Steam has a long history of refusing to comply with ACL.

It was a convenient excuse for them to say "Not our problem, contact the publisher" and the publisher being all "We didn't sell it to you, Steam did".

I've tried getting refunds for clearly broken games, but Steam gave their usual b.s response.

After the ACCC win, Steam came back with a "Sorry you played it for more htan 2 hours". Which for a whole bunch of games is barely getting started.
You'd figure they and a broken clock would be right twice a day (unless it's an electronic clock so broken means it's not showing anything...) Also, read this about Robinhood: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23894228
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What do you mean? Are those the names of those disputed islands in the South China Sea? Are you implying this is Chinese propaganda? If the above is true then it certainly looks like it.
Both the DB admins and the attackers should both feel guilt. However, if the attackers simply assigned randomly-generated passwords to all of the accounts, then no data would be lost and the DB admins would still have their DBs temporarily become inaccessible while they figured out how to force-reset their passwords. If you're going to go for disruption, I think the suggested lockout gives a much better ratio of good being done to potential damage being done.
Lately I find myself inserting "site:reddit.com" at the end of my Google searches. Most of the stuff that shows up by default is pure garbage that is riddled with ads and doesn't answer my question quickly.
who want ... and many deeply-nested complex class hierarchies

Are there really people aiming for that, as a goal? Or is it rather just the result of large-scale software? And/or if it's really complex, then perhaps that's just the result of suboptimal design, not the intent?
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For this reason I keep running my email server[1] even if it take some time and increase my attack surface.

In my humble opinion, leaving email to mega-corp alone can be a freedom risk, even if a small one.

[1] https://gioorgi.com/2020/mail-server-checks/
Believe so. Used Yahoo Finance[1]. Adjusted close price adjusted for both dividends and splits.

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/MSFT/history/
I recently set up a new HTPC/server/NAS for the living room. It runs FTP, SMB/NFS shares, a DLNA server and a few other assorted things, and a Btrfs RAID1 storage pool. For HTPC duties, I just use the standard KDE desktop in openSUSE and SMPlayer/mpv with some tweaks (I'm not a huge fan of how Kodi works).

As is, right now sitting at the KDE desktop with default settings, total memory usage is 613MB.

This myth that KDE is bloated and heavy really needs to die out. It may have been true in the early KDE4 versions, but that's a long time ago.
Haha, I've tried to teach myself a few times, but only when I was locked out myself. Always ended up just calling a locksmith.
Already happening, at least for rentals. We got a massive ranch in Sonoma for 10% the usual price and made a coliving for founders there (btw, hit me up if interested to join)
Again though you seem unaware of what is being claimed. It wasn't just eyewitness testimony.
Well, what I was suggesting was a way that you can do this even if you are not using the twtxt.net software; after writing to your twtxt.txt file you could use curl to notify a twtxt.net instance or any other server that implements this same protocol for notification. (The reason being so that registries that collect everyone's messages together need not keep checking for new messages. Of course, this would be fully optional, as not everyone is going to use the notification protocol.)
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Personally, I reckon that applies at least as much (if not more) to the devs installing random software packages onto internet connected and un-firewalled servers - as it does to database developers who document clearly that their software is not intended and is actively unsafe to install on directly internet connected servers...

Cave ne recipiens donum...
It takes about a year for changes in the market to fully hit real estate fund valuations, even when they mark-to-market on a quarterly basis. The thing is, nobody is selling so recent transactions that are used for valuation aren't impacted yet. In the short run you can account for lost rent under short term delinquency.
While they do have a crawler (DuckDuckBot) they primarily rely on other search engines the main ones being Bing and Yandex.

The fact that they return different results doesn’t mean much, firstly the bing API and web search return slightly different results especially if you use some of the extended parameters, secondly it doesn’t mean that they return results without additional post processing since they can have their own weighting/pageranking algorithms, filters etc. on top of Bing.

DDG isn’t just a UI for Bing but their results rely on Bing.
Not mentioned in the article or in the comments so far, but Neeva has raised $37.5m in funding[0]. I'm curious how that money will be spent, if they're not actually spending it on building a new search engine. Is it going to be mostly spent on buying the results in from Bing, and/or on advertising their new ad-free search, and/or something else?

[0] https://tech.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/startups/7649...
A down market is a problem for people with 401ks or etf only if they’re close to or in retirement. It’s not an issue for most people between 20 and 60.
Either your colleagues were very misinformed, or this was a slight misunderstanding on your part: Terraform IS cloud agnostic, but not in the way you understood.

Instead, it allows you to use the same tool and management model for resources on any of the 3 big cloud providers, about a 100 assorted SaaS providers, and most importantly, wire them together (e.g. create a Mailgun configuration, and set up its verification DNS records on AWS), all in code, and in the same workflow.
Can't scroll past the initial video in Firefox either. Seriously, don't fuck with scrolling.
+1 For mailcow !

A simple `docker-compose up -d` does the job. Then you just have to configure your records (SPF, MX, DMARC, ...) and it's all set.

A really nice work from the mailcow's team !
Related: Axel Erlandson's Tree Circus. A Swedish immigrant who made amazing treeforms in Santa Cruz CA. Rescued in the 1980s. For example: https://www.core77.com/posts/27264/More-Crooked-Forests-Axel...
well, yeah when those helmets were worn by knights in the middle ages, but many helmets nowadays have to withstand g-forces to do their job.

If English was like Italian there might be a specific word for a non g-force withstanding helmet and otherwise.
The English country dance tradition in the USA evolved into contradance (corruption of "country dance"). It diverged in the 18th century when English country dances were almost entirely longways dances, so there are only a few squares formations left, almost vestigial. Then in English the whole explosion when the quadrille arrived from France and began hybridizing with English country dance happened, and then the waltz... Meanwhile in the USA, contradance continued on without that influence. Though they later picked up the waltz, and a contradance today conventionally ends each half of the dance with a waltz, the first of which you conventionally dance with someone not your significant other and the second you dance with your significant other if you have one.

Contradance is where I tend to start totally new dancers. The community tends to be extremely welcoming. Most dances have an expectation that experienced dancers will spend at least part of the evening dancing with newcomers and trying to get them up to speed and comfortable. Once they've got the sense of weight and motion, then you can drag them off to swing, ballroom, or whatever else, but it really is an incredibly effective setting for instilling some fundamentals and confidence.

It's also interesting because you can go from Virginia to Washington state and walk into a contradance and wonder if you traveled at all.
That is true, and I actually think the default length may be slightly short even for microblogging in some cases (although I would define a limit in bytes (and perhaps also character cells) instead of characters; if you need multibyte characters then you can probably write what you need in less characters anyways). This is true in other software dealing with twtxt format too, not only twtxt.net.

For full blogs, long notices, full discussions, etc, I think NNTP is much better, so I would continue to use that. But for microblogging, NNTP seems rather excessive to me, so twtxt can be used for microblogging can be good; the format of twtxt is simple and is reasonable and look like good for making a timeline of short messages written by one person (that is what is microblogging anyways, isn't it?).
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While it's true that there are more bars and restaurants and opera houses in huge cities, there are still many bars and restaurants everywhere, it was never about bars and restaurants. Just because that's somewhere young people occasionally go and spend some of their income on doesn't mean it's the most important thing, or even the 10th most important thing.

Obviously the most valuable part of a city is its demographics. Especially young college educated people, and in really big metropolises, the ones with the hottest real estate markets, of single college educated people between 20-40.

To keep this focused, the day trading is mostly caused by returns. That's not saying much. It's pretty crazy how much the retail trader has been outer-performing some classes of professionals though, especially in the last quarter. [1] It isn't on like, having a sophisticated market thesis obviously.

It's just this huge, persistent, ugly refutation of the finance professional. Index investing was the vanguard not the main force; retail trading is the main force.

[1] https://www.barrons.com/articles/retail-traders-are-beating-...
The other thing is that with many sports there were massive "improvements" in tech, especially regarding speed, meaning that what was a "safe" sport until maybe 50-60 years ago is now putting human bodies to and over limits they have not yet evolved to endure.

And to top it all off, doping has also gone off the rails with no one having any idea about the long-term effects of the stuff athletes are taking - especially regarding cross effects between medications, shoddy manufacturing leading to contaminations and other such issues.
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Might be very immature of me but attacks like this still make me crack up as if I was still a teen in YouGotPwned web times.
Surprised that having a big garden is dismissed as a superficial benefit. My intuition based on personal experience would be that the freedom to potter about in a garden every day (well, local climate permitting) would be a reliable source of regular positive experiences. But maybe that's more the difference between a garden and no garden, and the size of the garden matters less than I assume?
I’m not arguing all laws are patronizing. Some things have potential harms that are hidden, I think fda and food safety regulations are good ideas. Some things require specific knowledge to do safely, like driving a car.

But regulating something where the sole requirement to access it is to just have more money, is ridiculous. If trading options is so dangerous, requiring a license might make sense. Requiring that you just be rich to do it makes no sense.
I notice that the padlocks generally have laminated steel bodies, and are not solid brass. Presumably the procedure is to remove the rivets in the body, separate the laminations and feed each one in separately, then reassemble everything inside?
Ok, good it was close
I worked at Atlassian and have a high degree of trust in their production accounts.
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Same here. From basic questions to daily struggles, I go to reddit. Maybe I can relate more to the opinions of common people than the so called expert advice in the websites.
What point were you making? That in your personal bubble, beyond which you don't care to look, everything is fine, so it's fine and you vote accordingly, whatever that means?

Or that most people who are happy will not compplain, i.e. refuting a straw man, since nobody said they would?
Curious to know why you think so? ECS is a managed service. If Swarm was a managed service on AWS, I'd agree with you here but that's not the case.

Swarm is still brilliant for running multi-node deployments.
- bangs (put g! or !g anywhere in your query to search on Google, !gem searches on rubygems etc)

- searching via POST requests (so that your searches are not saved in browser history)

- I heard many people like DDG's browser for iOS, as a dedicated incognito browser
>EDIT: apparently they’re shipping with plasma as the DE? Yeah that’s going to be slow.

KDE Plasma feels snappy even on a Core 2 Duo with Intel graphics, in my experience.

This myth of KDE as some kind of bloated lumbering beast really needs to die out. Install KDE Neon or openSUSE and give it a spin. You'll be surprised.
I'm amazed at how much detailed investigations into just this single game have been. From the glitches, to how the game works internally, and now neat little facts like this make it such a cool little game.
I understand that this is standard practice by now, but this is one of those cases where I can't help but feel the language design team strayed too far from the original spirit of python. Now there's yet another possible interpretation of an asterisk: multiplication; splatting; exponentiation; declaring variadic arguments; and now declaring that all subsequently declared arguments are to be keyword-only. And I understand that it sort-of relates to declaring variadic arguments, but it certainly isn't declaring variadic arguments, and in my opinion reusing the same token in the same syntactic construct for two wildly different purposes is destined to cause confusion. For evidence, see the other replies: people don't know about this and can't easily tell what it does. This runs counter to the Zen: "Readability counts", "Explicit is better than implicit", "Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules.", etc.

I think JavaScript got this right where the semantic resolution steps of arguments pretty closely follow the steps for assignment, which means once someone understands the basic idea of object destructuring they get named arguments for free, in the form of destructured object parameters:

const foo = (positionalArg1, {namedArg1, namedArg2 = 'foo'}) => { ... }
foo(1, {namedArg: 'bar'})
// resolved same as
const [positionalArg1, {namedArg, namedArg2 = 'foo'}] = [1, {namedArg: 'bar'}]
That's nonsense. We can assess risks and determine the probability of injuries and the severity of them, and issue bans accordingly. "If we ban X then W, Y and Z are next" is just fearmongering. There's no reason why we can't ban something without banning other things that are much less dangerous.

Most "slippery slope" arguments are so obviously fallacious I'm surprised people still try to use them.
What? You have a much higher chance of making money buying a stock than you do of winning the lottery.

If you’re talking about “Most of the time”, most of the time you will lose the lottery, but make money on buying a stock, on average at the overall rate of return of the market as a whole.
I really wish the archive.is / CloudFlare standoff would get resolved.
They typically have a person's different social media account links and work history. Isn't that personal data?
Zweig on 1920's hyperinflationary germany (he covers the austrian experience in a different chapter):

https://ia601609.us.archive.org/21/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.1...

p.238 "Messenger boys established foreign exchange businesses and speculated in currencies of all lands. Towering over all of them was the gigantic figure of the super-profiteer Stinnes. Expanding his credit and exploiting the mark, he bought whatever was for sale, coal mines and ships, factories and stocks, castles and country estates, actually for nothing because every payment, every promise became equal to naught. Soon a quarter of Germany was in his hands and, perversely, the masses, who in Germany always become intoxicated at a success that they can see with their eyes, cheered him as a genius. The unemployed stood around by the thousands and shook their fists at the profiteers and foreigners in their luxurious cars who bought whole rows of streets like a box of matches ; everyone who could read and write traded, speculated and profited and had a secret sense that they were deceiving themselves and were being deceived by a hidden force which brought about this chaos deliberately in order to liberate the State from its debts and obligations."

FWIW the guy who brings and empties my skips was giving me tips on Covid medication stocks last week...
Both toaruos.org and ponyos.org are on the same server; seems my little DO droplet couldn't take the traffic.
> See, Google's business model won't allow it to compete with Neeva. It can't get rid of ads because ads are its whole business.

That may sound great, but it's just not true. Everybody working at a company that pays for gsuite knows this. Gmail in gsuite is not part of the ad-financed services. Instead, you pay. Google could any day offer the same thing to consumers with search. Pay some fee every month, opt out of ads. Facebook could do the same thing, btw. Boom, there goes the "novelty" of Neeva's business model.

Now comes the question why don't Google, FB etc have such offerings yet. Many people would choose them. My guess is that they would need to have quite steep pricing, if they would want to 100% compensate for lack of ad income for each user who pays instead. Nobody would want to pay FB 50 USD every month just to see their uncle's Trump propaganda. That would be quite the eye opener about how much each user is really worth to FB or Google in money terms.

Maybe services like Neeva create a market though and push FB and Google to at least consider it.