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Highkey why I decided to move out of my parent's place after almost 2 years of a similar 4-hour commute day. I had no life, no friends, and it actually drove my relationship at the time into the shitter.

Doesn't help that rent in my metro area ain't cheap but I was able to score a relatively cheap apartment that makes my commute 35-40 mins each way. I suppose since I work remote I'm not getting my money's worth but this is still a better way for me to live.

My dad did this commute for around 11 years, got laid off, got a job a half hour drive away and his QoL is drastically improved. If housing were more accessible where jobs were (or if public infrastructure was improved to drastically increase throughput/efficiency) we would probably be much happier- we'd probably be even happier if we just bit the bullet and went as remote as possible or chose 4 day workweeks, and to be quite honest it's probably easier at a macro level to force that kind of change than to figure out a way to fit more sardines into electric cars in tubes.
Unless it is a Spanish style courtyard house in which case the yard may be entirely contained in the house.
Or (twice as difficult)^2 which is 4x for difficulty 1, but in general 4(prior difficulty squared)x as difficult.
>survive ejection, survive space, actually hit a target, survive injection,

Billions of Bacteria's have billions of chances.

>and be compatible with the new environment

Water from 0-98C
We can biohack our way to a vaccine candidate or multiple vaccine candidates. Biohackers have a lot less restrictions so they can work faster and take more risks, if they hit upon something good it just needs larger scale testing and it can be deployed. These will be great starting points of the vaccines currently in human trials fail. I'm sure some bigger BioTech company would happily buy up the IP.
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I don't think there is a good way to measure this, but if we settle for TIOBE, Delphi seems to be in decline. [1]

I also don't know how much money Embarcadero makes off of RAD Studio licenses, but I wonder if the cost of new developers choosing languages whose primary and most popular tooling is completely free and doesn't require payment/registration to get a license threatens the income stream that is the license sale for the IDE.

I wonder if they'd be better off making the IDE free (ideally, of course, open source, but I don't see that happening) so that the barrier to entry into Delphi development was lowered.

This is of course assuming they make money off of Delphi in multiple other ways (professional libraries?) that this could boost. If they only make money off the IDE, then this would not be possible. I don't know if this is the case, however if it is, it could mean that the Delphi ecosystem is what's slowing the language down which would be an intricate situation to get out of for the Delphi language and its community.

I don't particularly like Delphi, but I know there is a lot of legacy systems (and even some new ones) depending on it, so it would be a shame to see it fold completely in the coming decade. Perhaps the community should come together and "get with the times" in a way that makes the Delphi ecosystem as approachable as it is for other languages (like .NET, JavaScript, Rust and others - no licenses for any primary and most popular tooling there)

[1]: https://insights.dice.com/2020/03/06/delphi-programming-lang...
> And that bet paid off for us.

You don't know that, since you don't know that you have Covid-19, nor do you know that your zinc consumption had anything to do with whether or not you had it, or recovery from it.
I'd say Amazon's "flagship product" is its platform, not so much its delivery. You might call it a platform+delivery-logistics vertical. Regardless, their ownership of the dominant platform for ecommerce does put third-party vendors (and possibly consumers) at a disadvantage.
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I think it's great that projects hold off on calling a release "1.0.0"--they're signaling to users that value stability like you that they're not ready for you yet.
GPL would be perfect if it had "and, you are not allowed to exercise any other permissions granted to for this work except for ones granted by this licence, even if you have separately received it or guaranteed by any higher authority, nor is the copyright holder allowed to grant such additional permissions to other such users." instead of "but it does not invalidate such permission if you have separately received it.".
very interesting.
would you recommend any books about this subjecT?
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They are "solid" in the context of hackintosh community (not to mention non-Intel hackintoshes are considered to be less solid and more risky even by the community). I would dare to say they are not solid in the understanding and expectations of anyone else, and I'm saying that from a perspective of hackintosh user, one of the most recommended "golden builds" with components carefully selected to be as close to real Mac as possible.

And it is still full of issues, intermittent, persistent, every OS update is a stress, every Clover/drivers update is a stress and risk and so on. Yet, for a hackintosh, it is solid.

I wouldn't recommend it to anyone and I regret spending money on it ;)
What, then, do you consider "poor" or "unuseful"?
To be honest Nintendo is just as bad at naming their consoles but for some reason get a lot less hate (outside of Wii U)

Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Nintendo 64, GameCube, Wii, Wii U, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch Lite

or the handheld ones

Game Boy, Game Boy Pocket, Game Boy Light, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advanced, Game Boy Advanced SP, Game Boy Advanced Micro, Nintendo DS, Nintendo DS Lite, Nintendo DSi, Nintendo DSi XL
Your Songsling project seems really interesting but not fully understanding how it works. Are you generating a site+server and uploading it to the "linked" domains? Is "linking" asking for some kind of upload/write access to their host?

https://songsling.studio/
Professional photographer here who does portraits and product. I’d say not “dead,” just very different.

We’ve taken a hit, yes, but mostly amongst the problematic clients who say things like “you shot this in 2 hours, why do I need to pay a whole day rate?” They go and shoot their stuff with a phone, it looks like garbage but in some way they can’t quite articulate but it’s good enough, and we’re happy to not have to deal with them any longer.

There is another segment, that of the client who bought a consumer crop-sensor DSLR and a white box off of Amazon and told us “hey sorry but anyone can do this now.” Or they picked up a cheap strobe kit and a lens that the blogs said had “creamy bokeh” and they can’t figure out what they’re doing wrong. Generally we see them slink back in a month or so later and quietly hire us back. This is very common.

Is the future scary? Yes. Am I sure I’ll be able to work as studio photographer forever? Nope. But as with anything, doing one’s homework and having a commitment to quality while paying attention to what’s happening in the photo world can keep you successful for the time being. The points addressed in the article are good ones and I try to stay up on all of it, but there are plenty of companies who still pay good money for photography don’t have access to the level of digital rendering that he’s talking about. They have a small product and a couple grand and they need a well-done photo in two days.

And yes, you can bang out something with a phone and an app or two, but it’s not “there” yet. Is it a privilege to hire a professional photographer for your headshot rather than something someone did on a phone? Of course. I’ve also shot plenty of headshots pro bono for aspiring folks who have a dream and work their asses off and can’t seem to get there, whether or not I was already set up for a paid shoot. My friends mostly do this as well.
>Delicious turning into Twitter or Reddit would have been a real loss.

I don't mean to suggest it would have been similar to them culturally, or that it would have evolved into a copy of reddit or twitter. It would have still been delicious, in the sense that it would always be a booking service (as long as they never went all in with Delicious Stacks, which I think nobody remembers except me). I also don't doubt that, at some point, it probably would sell it's soul and lose whatever signature personality it had according to the main users. But it would have remained useful, grown, and been one of the main places everybody goes.

Even with the loses you identify, it was an invaluable asset that could have kept Yahoo relevant.
Jonas Salk tried his polio vaccine on himself and his children. This is very much in the same vein.
Exactly. Returning from orbit is "easy", you just go into a free-return trajectory and don't even do much of a burn at Mars, if any at all.

Getting a sample from the surface basically means you need to do a deceleration burn to get into orbit, and then the reverse after grabbing the sample (which itself must be accelerated to orbital speed). No small thing.
You might enjoy New Orleans, where three topics of conversation which are always acceptable are: the meal we just had, the meal we're having, and the meal we're going to have.
Disagree. It makes zero sense for Twitter to make it harder for them to poach Google employees.
There was an attempt of making the drops merge more naturally, but it was affecting the refraction effect, which I deemed was more important.

It should be solvable though, I just couldn't get the values right at the time.

(Also thanks!)
This was sadly so much more immersive when the music and sound were available, but the creator removed them due to bandwidth costs. The sounds are still available if you're willing to decompile the ios app and do some spelunking in the Wayback machine; the code isn't all that hard to follow to get audio reenabled
When I read Pulsar I think Apache Pulsar.
I wonder how do you actually make it catch fire when you need it to combust
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> Any other interpretation has no basis in law or reality.

Err, if you say something, the government also protects you from other citizens attacking you physically, not just the government. They often fail, but there's no hint of "if you say something and somebody is upset, they're free to punch you".
As I originally said, there are multiple scenarios at play here - one old and one new. I acknowledge both, and did so before you stalked me here from the HCQ thread.

> Imagine a scenario ... would you be supportive of or against the protesters?

I would be supportive of their expression of rights, but not of brandishing weapons and attacking the building. You see, I'm not the one conflating issues here. There are both peaceful and non-peaceful protesters out there right now. I don't lump them all together. There's no excuse for forcible detention, without due process or accountability, of people who were personally unarmed, doing no wrong, and far from the scene of anyone else doing wrong. When that's happening, it's a legitimate reason for people to be careful of what they say even if there are other scenarios in play as well.
Oil is denominated in bbl, pizza is done in inches. I don't make the rules.
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I think the most obvious example I would add to this list you are thinking of would be livejournal. I also had a handful of SoundCloud-like medium scale music sites that I went to, like Purevolume.

I also remember this as a time when Google didn't yet have a reputation for abandoning everything they touched, so you could get inspired by, say, Google Knol or Google Wave. I had hope that Google Reader might grow into something, and the was a fraction of a second where we all wanted to believe in Google Plus.
To get access to the Hadoop cluster you also needed special permissions and to go through a committee. At Facebook, access was given to all technical and non-technical (after an afternoon of training) people.
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Where are you getting the $176mm figure?
They have more 13-14 yr olds in the US than Facebook or Instagram; that was announced at their conference a month ago. Almost everyone under the age of 18 I know has it, idk about usage compared to apps like tiktok though.
Yeah, as it stands, I wouldn't call this "generative". It is just a nice looking symmetrical drawing demo. I think I played with a similar toy in 1987 or so on a Mac Plus.
This is false, there are plenty of failed YC companies. Just search around you'll find lots of "Our Incredible Journey" type posts. Yes they have an advantage but are not immune to anything...
The part we aren’t discussing is that he understands that some people can have the disease for months. He is 65 and probably doesn’t want to damage his body. Why take any risk this early in our understanding? A year from now we’re going to know so much more about Coronavirus.

“ reported that as many as one-third of patients who test positive for covid-19 but are never hospitalized battle symptoms for weeks or even months after contracting the virus. “I think that people are highly underestimating this disease,” Church says.“
Much better thought out than any I have performed in on either side. Thank you for sharing, this would be a good template for others who need one to follow (which many do). You also hiring?
I use burnermail.io
Very nicely done. It even works fine in IE11!
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Why not https://www.reddit.com/r/HighStakesSpaceX/
200,000 years later: nuhumans "wooah, I just discovered that there are all these hydrocarbons buried in the ground. These would just be perfect for this industrial revolution we are having"
Kurrent: 500 years of German handwriting (2015)
Even if we consider the two funding amounts equal for the sake of comparison (which is a real stretch), crewed Dragon has already delivered while the recent Starliner test flight was riddled with defects.
> they shouldn't work more then 4 hours on it

So you're saying spending 3 and a half hours on the assignment is fine. It's not.

Take-home assignments have little to no value for the candidate, they're only feasible if you are jobless or in college. The last thing I want to do in my spare time is to stay focusing on a bogus problem that may end up discarded.
That's because the clinical trials aren't studying hydroxychloroquine in conjunction with azithromycin, which is where the effect is noticable. They have to actually study the thing that was indicated to work, if they're going to show it doesn't work.
I think there is quite a large overlap in audience - quite a few of the readers here will have PhDs in physics in a way that few internets forums will.
> AI and tech team evaluated by NSA

Suppose that PRC considers to open the GFW but with the same requirements (AI and tech team evaluated by MSS). Would that be acceptable?
But that's not related to free speech as much as it is to assault being illegal in general.
There's a lot of lore about Church. He has reportedly done things like drink nutrient broth from a lab vendor for a year. He also said he was homeless for 6 months. So, if these legends are true, and if he really did not leave his house for half a year, I attribute it to him being weird, and not to him being afraid.
But I don't really agree. If you are a small team solving a small part of a larger problem and you have done a good job of defining your external interfaces, you can make decisions about how to solve your subproblem quickly and independently. Also, process/culture decisions (e.g. code style, automated tooling, code review standards, update cadence, etc) become easier because you only need to come up with a solution that makes ~10 people happy instead of a solution that serves the needs of 100+ people.
The employee was taking off days without taking vacation to work on hobbies without telling HR or Management. He was just not showing up. This happened with many employees all the time.
I believe mercury (as thimerosal) is used as a preservative, not an adjuvant. An adjuvant is something added to stimulate the immune response.
The article clearly establishes that the medical research community is aware of the potential link between blood and feet issues. From the article:

Recently, there’s been speculation that some of COVID-19’s seemingly disparate symptoms may stem from trouble in the blood. Blood clots, for example, are showing up in cases of COVID-19 frequently enough for clinicians to take notice. “There’s something unique about the coagulation system in these patients,” says nephrologist Kathleen Liu, MD ’99, PhD ’97, MAS ’07, a UCSF professor of medicine. In caring for COVID-19 patients on dialysis machines, she’s been surprised to see blood clots block dialysis tubes more than usual. Clotted tubes are common, she says, “but this is extreme.”

That may be because, as growing evidence suggests, SARS-CoV-2 can infect cells in the walls of blood vessels that help regulate blood flow and coagulation, or clotting. If true, this behavior could explain some of the virus’s weirder (and rarer) manifestations, such as heart attacks, strokes, and even “COVID toes.”
The internet was, and still is, in it's infancy.

You can be frustrated with internet mobs all you want. I am as well. I've had people I care about cancelled over nothing.

But let's not deny reality. The world and the internet is VASTLY more connected, in the mainstream sense, than it was 10 or 30 years ago. My grandma is on Facebook and my employer pays top dollar to curate their businesses' online presence.

The internet has never been a more dangerous place to share your real opinions with your real name attached, and people need to recognize this. There's no reason to believe it's going to get better from here, and there's all the reason to believe it's going to get worse.
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Schema is something you work with everyday so that is fair. Even if the particular schema is for a made up problem it's fairly close to reality.
My reckless prediction: When Apple releases their first Apple Silicon Macs at the end of the year, one of them will be a rack-mount server.
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'Software Development Languages' vs. 'Programming Languages'
I have recently become aware of the difference between a 'Software Development Language' and a 'Programming Language'. This post is the first of a series that describes this difference and analyses a few languages through this lens. Next week I'll analyse Rust, Haskell the week after that, and we'll see what comes after.
Full thread:

Talks abt ban on Tiktok subsiding a bit because Tiktok in talks with General Atlantic and Sequoia to sell to a US shell company. US demanding that Tiktok technical staff be completely changed, AI algorithm be based in the US ...

US want both TikTok staff and the algorithm to be verified by a US technical committee which includes the NSA. US threaten to put TikTok on entity list that would prevent it frm run on Android or OS phone if it doesn’t sell to a US company.

The implication is that for any Chinese app with a lot of users abroad, US will now demand the code and the models or they will kill the app.

Some Chinese tech leaders nows think China needs a tech Manhattan project to build its own IT stack from scratch. It will be hard but can be done if China really tries esp when forced to the wall by US.

Some people are pretty sure US will sabotage any Chinese attempt to go it alone. Many in China believed US intelligence agencies behind 2015 XcodeGhost malware attacks on China to test whether they could screw w China’s software “supply chain” also a warning to Chinese.
> Especially for younger people who are tired of the social behavior that's formed on IG.

Eternal September: what has happened to Instagram will also happen to TikTok.

Additionally there is the very real risk that TikTok will be seen by governments as what it is: Chinese spyware. India has already banned it, I hope that the rest of the world follows suit.
The voluntary (not violently coerced) nature of transactions is an indispensable part of capitalism. Adam Smith emphasized this voluntary aspect in the Wealth of Nations, which criticized Mercantilism.

This is like the game conservatives play where they say “considering race in solving problems is itself racist.” You can define terms however you want, but if you choose a definition that doesn’t actually match what other people are using, you’re engaged in demagoguery, not debate.
I just bought the iPad app! This is a great software!
I'm more surprised this is actually moving forward. I thought the usual play is to delay things for as long as necessary until people lose interest and find a new target.

If they stalled until the election would there still be interest from lawmakers on this topic? Or is it topical for the moment because of China and Covid?
That... sounds good? Like, good for everybody involved?

This plan won't work if management doesn't agree that you're solving a valuable problem, and also won't work if other companies don't view the problem you're solving as valuable.
Totally open data is likely a non-starter, but they could be forced to interoperate with other suppliers of comparable services under an open standard. There's no inherent reason why Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc. couldn't all be Fediverse instances, with shared feeds at least for publicly-broadcasted activities (as opposed to the private data that CA was collecting).
He is also known for doing ridiculous things to his body in the name of science...
Actually it goes up your nose.
TL; did read, and it was worth it, but for those who find it too long the takeaway was captured by this quote:

"It’s in activists’ interests to destroy their own causes by focusing on the most controversial cases and principles, the ones that muddy the waters and make people oppose them out of spite. And it’s in the media’s interest to help them and egg them on."
I had the Delicious Firefox plugin until that stopped working. I've been meaning to go through the Firefox sqlite databases and try to export all my old bookmarks/tags that were synced. I can grep references to delicious in there, so they might still exist.

I've poked around in the tables a little bit but haven't done any deep dives. I'm pretty sure I didn't opt in during the transfer and also I don't have access to the e-mail address I used on delicious, so my data, on that old service I'm sure is long gone.
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> Yes laws exist for a reason, but I dont need a law to tell me stealing and murder is bad.

What? Those two concerns are practically the reason laws were invented. Government is absolutely about coordinated action derived from the will of people on behalf of the people. Your can't solve everything with boycotts. "Complaining" as you put it is literally the voice of people: advocacy for both government action and rallying people's concerns.

I'm not sure what any of this has to do with not "being and adult".
All experiments with ideologically driven cancel-culture we've had in the time since WW2 point to silence being the answer. You might be able to open up in a very private setting, but East Germany showed enough evidence that there will be spies even in your closest circle who will report on you.

If you need to tell somebody how you really feel, write a letter to yourself and then burn it. Otherwise, just smile, repeat the party line, and carry on.
Thanks for catching my typo. Fixed now.

I guess the grass is always greener? And I come from a humanities background, so the information-organizing and communication uses of computer interest me the most. I can see someone from a more math-focused background preferring "computer" instead.