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THe taxi regulation were terrible and created a terrible environment. It's California lawmakers fault for clearly seeing the writing on the walls and instead of lowering regulations trying to raise them. What kind of backwards person does that.
Even storing offset or timezone might not be enough if what you really want is some future date and time at a particular location. Timezones do change, including the regions they cover.

Still, for things that have already happended, storing them as a UTC timestmp is almost always the correct thing to do.
> Why though?

Probably because we assume that when he wants a job he can get one, and one that pays for all the time of as well, at the drop of a hat. But it's not so for someone without in demand skills.
But would he be a credible steward of gay employees if he doesn't even think they should engage in marriage, and by extension forge families? Credibility is the job of the CEO, including moral credibility.

Having a vision which encompasses society and life is part of the responsibility of a company which has been granted license to operate in society. What is Brandan Eich's vision of gay family life? One that should be banned by law, a cause which is serious enough to warrant his financial contribution? His actions as a man of experienced wisdom says Yes.
> "Rust has procedural macros that can replicate anything C++ templates can do"

This is an entirely false statement. Wishful thinking makes a poor substitute for knowledge. Promoting wishful thinking against facts does all readers a disservice.
Please tell me you have git LFS configured to handle this.
Still, it would be a lot of people: 50 to 83% [1], and more importantly, it has to be evenly distributed. It would be pointless to have developed countries safe while the rest of the world is in chaos. We're a global economy after all.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immunity#Mechanics
The article is pretty interesting and I learned quite a few things, but it looks like the author is knowingly not answering the issue they raise by themselves.

In my opinion, the most important thing distros does that is incompatible with how rust currently works, is handling security/bug updates.

The one libjpeg.so for everyone is meant to fix libjpeg flaws for everyone. And it has many security flaws. And it has many users. There is no denying the way this is done by distros is good.

Now, to pick author's code, one of its dependency is a CSS parsing, which is prone to flaws. (Maybe not /security/ flaws, but still) The question is, how is the distro supposed to handle that?

I know rust has tooling for that, but it seems to me that with the perfect version match crate build system, every dependency will happily break API. So let's say author no longer has time to develop rust librsvg, and cssparser crate has a major flaw, which is fixed only in a new API rewrite branch, then what? Distro are supposed to fix that themselves? Sounds like much more work for them.
> a perfectly sound reason

Please, do elaborate.

Because I'm yet to hear a sensible reason for Brexit that doesn't end up with general pearl-clutching about soverignity or can stand up to any sort of logical argument.
The Finnish school system is nice, until you wanna go to college/university.

I think higher education in Finland isn't anything special, if you actually want a quality education you'll have to go abroad (like the actually successful people do here anyway). Even the arguably best schools aren't that good. People mostly coast through them once they get in and just want the piece of paper at the end. Good parties though.

Years later in the work force they'll wake up and see they barely make more money then an electrician with their fancy degree because of the insane tax policies here. What's the point of having a nice degree if you're still gonna have a moderately low salary compared to other European countries?
Sometime I should compare the transcript[1] with Goebbels' recorded speech[2].

> "Die europäischen Mächte stehen hier vor ihrer entscheidenden Lebensfrage. Das Abendland ist in Gefahr. Ob ihre Regierungen und ihre Intelligenzschichten das einsehen wollen oder nicht, ist dabei gänzlich unerheblich."

> "Eine zweitausendjährige Aufbauarbeit der abendländischen Menschheit ist in Gefahr."

> "Die neutralen europäischen Staaten besitzen weder das Potential noch die militärischen Machtmittel noch die geistige Einstellung ihrer Völker, um dem Bolschewismus auch nur den geringsten Widerstand entgegenzusetzen."

> "Die Welt hat also nicht die Wahl zwischen einem in seine alte Zersplitterung zurückfallenden und einem unter der Achsenführung sich neu ordnenden Europa, sondern nur die zwischen einem unter dem militärischen Schutz der Achse stehenden und einem bolschewistischen Europa."

The poem was supposed to indicate that, just as Nazis viewed their struggle as benevolently protecting all the "superior races" (with theirs, coincidentally, on top, no matter what the protectees thought of the matter), Yevtushenko sees no reason to stand with antisemites, no matter that they may approve of his own ancestry.

If pigs tell dogs the sheep are inferior to dogs, should the dogs keep the sheep in line, or should they reflect on how pigs probably view dogs?

("alternately arrogant and servile" is another tell for totalitarians. Free people neither boss around nor suck up.)

[1] https://www.1000dokumente.de/index.html?c=dokument_de&dokume...

[2] https://archive.org/details/JosephGoebbels-Sportpalastrede
From the top of my head:

- captures creativity into a centralized proprietary platform on which creators have no control

- modal dialogs nagging you to create an account when you just want to read an article

- uniform, soulless, dull visual design

- heavy pages loaded with JavaScript that don't add any value for the reader
As dumb as the hyperloop projects may be, I think it's dwarfed by all the other money spending elsewhere. We can just look at it from afar and enjoy the mythbuster-XL show
> So how does Ubuntu differentiate itself, in 2020?

1. Using the most popular distro is an advantage

2. Polish. The little details add up over time. I tried switching to Mint and had various small problems that I didn't have on stock Ubuntu.
Containers (and containerish systems like flatpak) still have portable dependencies that are equivalent to "system" libraries in this context.
> Expertise is orthogonal to scientific truth.

Expertise is the result of successful scientific seeking.
One feature of totalitarism is suppression of dissenting political views. Somehow modern democracy (de)evolved from "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" to current cancel culture.
I don't think we're anywhere near a future where "ls" will be run in a container.
This is false, immunity is strong and long-lasting. The news is trying to sell papers. A vaccine is also an attenuated version of the virus so if becoming immune from the virus doesn't last long it won't last long from a vaccine.
> The schooling system, with its grades, signed slips, and whatnot, is set up through extrinsic motivation to teach obedience, conformity, and smothering the intrinsic drive so necessary for the creative work we will expect from the children later in life.

We finish 50 million kids in school each year.

100's of millions have been through the US system alone over it's history.

If this was simply true then I feel like there'd be some evidence by now.

Yes we can do better schooling for some kids, and yes there are certainly improvements, but after 100's of year of doing it, it's not going to be a country wide system of let kids just have more freedom.

The best improvement we know of is cohorts matter. Which is a zero sum game.
She's a victim of Nobel Disease and said stupid things out of her field. How is that controversial?
Kibo only grepped the newsgroups he subscribed to, and didn’t have a full UseNet pipe running all groups through grep (unless I misremember the history there).

The problem isn’t full-text search of a forum you’ve already signed up for.
Oh how cool, I thought I was the only one trying to mess with scammy sites when I find them. Although I can see that I could improve my methods, since I usually write a short user script which spams the forms with data from faker.js and let the open tab sit pinned in my browser for a week or so.
> I don't care what these people read in to the data - lockdowns are hurting everyone's mental health and making people act strangely.

This sounds like partisan pseudoscience.
We only need to vaccinate high risk people. Under 50 crowd does not need a vaccination.
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I would just teach people how to use github. lol.
It’s mostly images too, and the bugs are fairly straightforward to understand.
This was only part 1. I suppose in the next one she might. I hope she also covers recommended dosage and absorption.
West way of life is expensive that is why we have to grind at a desk job.

What do we pay for with that grind: low violent crime rates, good roads so lower amount of traffic deaths, better health care.

Being poor or sick in Latin America or Africa sucks.
Have you tried iWork?
Are these studies just showing that vitamin D is a good predictor of income (because race is a good predictor of income)? Now that the US is starting to have conversations about racial inequality, every time I see a hackernews or reddit post on vitamin D I am asking myself that question.

I have read several studies that link low income to higher mortality rates across several different diseases. [0]

And several other studies that link education levels (which are inherently linked to childhood wealth levels) to worse mortality rates as well.[1]

There is a link between lower vitamin d levels and skin color, with an obvious plausible explanation ( Melanin lowers skins ability to produce vitamin D).[2]

In the U.S. at least there is a strong link between income, education levels, and skin color. [3]

While I am hopeful that ongoing research will help us understand the mechanisms by which vitamin-D operates, I really worry that it is somehow a very well dressed red-herring. One one hand a promised panacea: vitamin d supplements, the other a complex economic and political problem that barely anyone can comprehend or are even willing to engage with.

One of the more damning studies shows that vitamin d supplementation is good enough to remove your deficiency, it has reproduced really poorly on any of the other correlated health effects.[4]

Are there any studies that someone can link that would alleviate my concerns? When these kind of population health studies are conducted (I am in no way familiar with how they are actually done), how are factors like income inequality and education level generally controlled for?

And an interesting article that may or may not be valid that kind of got me on the road of becoming a vitamin D skeptic:
https://www.outsideonline.com/2380751/sunscreen-sun-exposure...

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4866586/
[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4435622/
[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5946242/
[3] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
[4] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1809944
yeah, I also liked this guide. Would love more articles about probabilities (but i always loved this topic :)), there's only one exception: the "3 door problem" (Monty Hall problem). In my opinion the general misconception about this problem does not stem from a misunderstanding of probabilites but a misconception about the moderator (who plays by his own rules [as a bad actor] - which is often not really discussed although it changes the whole game).
Well, I would read an article about it by this author anyway ;)
> The optimized and stripped library in rust was about 8 times the size of the C version. While 9MB is not a lot by itself, if a significant portion of libraries decide they want to switch to rust that would explode disk usage!

The underlying issue is that even though the standard library is statically linked, Rust does not make it easy to compile "custom" builds of the standard library as part of your project - which leaves you with all sorts of excess code bloat in the final build. You can solve this, but it requires unofficial tools such as "xargo" and the like. Once this is addressed, Rust should become genuinely competitive with C/C++ (wrt. binary size).

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23496107 for the details.
From a security point of view, you shouldn't be using unmaintained libraries anyway, no? And if librsvg is maintained, then all the distro has to do is package the latest version.
Windows does provide two cross language stable ABIs, CLR CLS and COM/UWP.

Mainframes also provide cross language stable ABIs, so called language environments.
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No idea, but thanks.
Rusts good support for option and result types might help here.
Yes? But oh wait, they are useful (so were the nazis, some thought...)
Wouldn't it be sufficient to vaccinate people in the high-risk groups?
This has nothing to do with cancel culture, and everything to do with being a bad leader.

> Somehow modern democracy (de)evolved from "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" to current cancel culture.

Brendan has a right to express his opinion. Mozilla has a right to fire him for it. There's nothing totalitarian here.
They tested with four speakers and ran additional tests with one speaker. Results are consistent across the speakers. Consider also that they are measuring the relative filtration of different masks, not the absolute filtration.
I live in Gent, Belgium, which has more bike traffic than car traffic on any given day. Biking here is treated as a way of life. I've been spoken to for biking without a mask, even though I was not in a heavily populated area (I was riding along a canal outside of the city, and was accosted by a police officer riding in the opposite direction).

But even so, so what? The mask isn't going to let me ride as vigorously as I normally would, but I can still get out into nature and enjoy some exercise and new scenery.
Hope you wife is doing well. How have the long-term effects been for her, and on the relationship, if you don't mind my asking? Any noticeable shifts in mood and behavior?
...just give each person a way...

That option works poorly against targeted harassment or brigading.
Yes, every crate using a different versions of their dependencies involves a lot more work for distros, especially when a crate uses a -sys crate (e.g. libgit2-sys) and libgit2-sys does an API break. Now every crate that uses libgit2-sys in the repo manually needs its dependencies updated, which is a rather time consuming process (especially if the bindings in libgit2-sys are only built against some random git version).
I posted a message saying we should support Mozilla. I have read through this thread and now I am doubting the leadership of Mozilla. In particular, I am annoyed that I ever donated to Mozilla when the execs are taking home MILLIONS. Is there any browser to support or use that is not run by millionaires?
I am also not sure how long it lasts but I fail to see why it will matter whether you got the immunity from a vaccine or the normal way.

And let's say everybody get vaccine in 2 weeks period of time, if the immunity doesn't last at least few years what's the point of this mass vaccination then.
Not sure what is meant by pure, probably another way of marketing to Rust aficionados. It uses crates which still rely on unsafe ‘C’ code to interact with operating system for interacting with files and file related OS calls.

It will be nice instead of proclaiming Rust as “C” replacement it should have positioned as “A language complementing C/C++ to write safe code”.

Recently Servo project is abandoned by Mozilla for which Rust is a primary language.

Now need to see, if Rust can fulfils it’s primary objective to write Firefox in Rust, it looks more remote now. So it will take much longer for Rust to become as ubiquitous and important as Go language for systems programming. Probably Microsoft and others might pick to write some core new systems in Rust, instead of just rewriting same working C/C++ code in Rust for marketing purposes.
> What's the point of having a nice degree if you're still gonna have a moderately low salary compared to other European countries?

Interesting comment in a thread about intrinsic and extrinsic motivation...
In Intel, basically one.
It should be opt-in AND unvaccinated ppl should never face consequences in the future.
As a child my four and half foot yew bow with only 40 pound draw put arrows through targets. Mind you my target wasn't an official one, it was painted on the bottom of a drawer taken from a chest of drawers. Still, that was several millimetres of plywood. So I don't think I would have fancied being shot wearing linen armour!
Every finite problem is decidable in linear time because you can hardcode the solution.
But sometimes it is! To many, however, it can be difficult to know when.
> But if you know you have more memory than you need, further reducing allocation is arguably a waste of your time.

This is absolutely not true. Just because you have enough memory does not mean that wasted memory couldn't be better used - e.g. for disk cache or to run more tasks.
Leisure != time outside of work. If you're commuting, if you're too exhausted to get off the couch, if you're on-call and worrying about interruptions, then you're not truly at leisure.
Insect antennae, various mouthparts (mandibles, maxillae, etc.), and posterior pointy bits (cerci) are, in embryological development, modified legs. The primordial insect bodyplan is a tube segmented into 10-11 parts, each of which carries a pair of legs. In existing insects, segments may have fused and their legs may be highly specialized. The insect head, for example, is the first several segments fused together. Insect embryology is a source of endless entertainment.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthropod_head_problem
Thanks for spelling this out. When I read the post I was actually wondering if there isn't a fundamental trade-off between fast and safe. A hypervisor's basic function is to add the minimum number of CPU cycles to emulate a real machine, its memory and its devices. Using safe operations, which would add a lot of cycles to do checks, would make QEMU a worse hypervisor.
You need fancy lenses to do UV photography.

From wikipedia: "For UV photography it is necessary to use specially developed lenses having elements made from fused quartz or quartz and fluorite."

Veritasium has a video using a special UV setup, it's pretty cool - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9K6gjR07Po
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org
Another aspect, beyond potential differences in pesticides or pesticide application methods might be Air pollution.

Europe has very small footprint compared to the US but proportionally a very high PM2.5 particle concentration and NO2 concentrations (specially Northern Europe) in particular around major port trading hubs and petro-chemical facilities, the market share of Diesel engines in Europe is also a major NO2 contributor.

The US is heavily industrialized but sites are actually much more spread out and most of the pollution above recommended levels is concentrated on the East coast of the US.

If the air pollution aspect is a factor in insect population than it would follow that we would see huge insect population losses in large parts of China and Southeast Asia but I don't have data that supports or denies this?
By changes in the compiler I could kind of understand it like that... but changes in spec?
While this is all fun and games, I am curious if DOSing someone else’s server, even if it’s being used to run a phishing scam, is legal.
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Are we forgetting that Mozilla was a non-profit and that the Corporation was spun off relatively recently to allegedly better support the non-profit's Foundation's mission? In the sense of that mission, all those interested in a decentralized, open web are stakeholders.

If Mozilla is turning around to be a simple, ordinary business, that is quite the shark jump and will in turn lead to a large loss in advocacy. I have no interest in supporting a company just looking to make a quick buck if I'm not compensated.
I read it as OP saying that illiteracy rate would be even higher if not this system.

It’d be great to solve internal motivation issue. It’s damn hard though. Forcing some of them to learn in other ways is better than nothing while we come up with a solution for the core issue.
As others have said, the issue is with C style memory issues.

Rust not only gives you safety and correctness, but gives you often speed as a bonus over C. There is a real benefit towards rewriting everything written in C in a language/tool system like Rust.

There is still a place for other languages, especially ones that use a garbage collector. Rust would make that garbage collector a lot safer.
Great article but am unable to figure out on which site one has to create an account to be able to login to comment on the article. A pop-up box prompts me to login, but doesn't specify where to register if I'm not already having an ID...
I think ada can be good contender for C replacement
I see that you have not coded in assembly language.
Yep. I am a fairly intelligent person (your typical coder) from a family that valued education. I was nevertheless never internally driven to do anything. I played a bit with computers when I was a child - BASIC and assembler on C-64, then a little bit of AMOS and computer graphics on Amiga etc. - but it was never any sustained effort that led to anything - I was mostly just satisfying my own curiosity, which didn't run that deep. Instead, I spent the majority of my time playing games (video and otherwise), hanging out with friends, watching TV and reading books. If I wasn't forced to go to school, I think I'd just do more of those things (certainly that's what I did during vacation time). I think what the highly internally driven people cannot understand is that they're the minority and majority of people is more like me.
This is an improvement in my opinion. Normally banks only need a small % of the loan in deposits (see fractional-reserve banking), with BTC we see a bank asking you to have more than 3 times the amount of your loan in collateral.

What's the result of this? For the loaner and borrower, less loans and more careful allocation of resources. For society as a whole, a smaller but more robust banking system not dependent on bogus money.
W/o over thinking it, Mozilla is in a death spiral, from which it can't escape. It's just a matter of time.

With overthinking though, there is some hope left but you really need to stretch your beliefs.
How come it is suddenly accepted to share passwords, something we were always told to keep to ourselves only, with internet companies, in cleartext? Times sure are changing.
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When you are not allowed to hold an opinion because it goes against the current SJW-held one-true-way and fired from a job you are otherwise excelling at (much more so than Baker does now), I would call that a SJW-witchhunt.

You are free to hold your opinion though. That's a value I hold, unlike the SJW-crowd.

Anyhow, my to not distract too much from the point at hand, my claim was that Mozilla had been increasingly politicized, and Eich's firing was a clearly in line with that.
This has surprising similarities with data science theory: multi-armed bandit with a decreasing-epsilon strategy (children) or an epsilon-first strategy (adults).
I am all for this. Thank you.