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Chill out people. Get a little more patient and a little less nitpicky about protocol. You’re not that busy or important. None of us are.

This culture of nitpicking text communication styles has been with us for decades and isn’t going away soon. Same on IRC and Prestel before that. And it has always been about providing the enforcers with a sense of power and reinforcing tribalism around those who know the rules and those who need to be forcibly educated.

If it’s good enough for Lionel Richie, it’s good enough for you.
They were pointing out that liability in the case of a car crash could claim approximately all of your assets, where as a comprehensive loss can at most claim the current value of your car.

You have a good point though that if you have essentially no assets to go after liability insurance isn't worth much to you. This is why it is mandated for auto insurance (and why many places have underinsured motorist insurance, also)
I came to the opposite conclusion, very often it's amazing how adaptable and resilient the biological world can be.
The accusation that the police are surveilling union organizers is extremely troubling, and harkens back to the early 20th century when cops killed union organizers. The police should stay out of such political matters; especially if they expect their continued funding to be above political reproach.
Ought to put (2013) in the title?

Previously discussed
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19648415
You aren't protecting against the expected value though, you are protecting against variance.
It's a line from the Simpsons, so I think it was meant as a self-deprecating joke. Though the reference is a little out of nowhere. (I guess there was the episode where The Who played a concert on top of Springfield's garbage dump)
That letter is only about Toutiao, the Chinese subsidiary I talked about.
I currently work at a large company where majority of people will drop a hi/hey/hello.

One of my biggest annoyances.

I have gotten in the habit of just responding "yo" and going back to whatever I was doing.

Could be minutes to an hour before I come back to the chat
> Couch co-op may make a comeback.

This. Local multiplayer has been severely lacking from games since networking got really fast. Most people of my generation who grew up playing things like GoldenEye and Halo locally would buy anything that gave even minimal service to this niche.

My buddy and I stayed up til 2am the other week co-opping "Wild Guns" on his Super NT. Totally out of left field and something I never would have cared for when I had an SNES.
Irony if this was done for political reasons that it was by law enforcement who have a strong union.
As president of the US, it would be hard believing Trump's only ability to make this kind of case is on Facebook.
Have them fly head on, looking out the nose, like a bob racer. Place the radar somewhere else.
I just do something else while they type like that and will get back to the chat whenever I remember.
Yeah Caltech is specialized enough that I could see it being an exception.

To expand on my previous point it’s not that all majors are unfailable - I knew plenty of kids that failed out of STEM and switched to some more generic liberal arts major anyone can pass.

At Caltech that’s probably not an option.
I was talking to someone about a related topic a couple weeks ago, how the brain "fudges" with the experience of time to compensate for the latency of perception. But I couldn't remember what it was called.

Thanks to the link above, I found the exact phrase: neural antedating/backdating. Ah, it's nice to have resolved that question.
Aside from what user graeme said, there are plausible reports that epic tried to contract with samsung or huawei or some fairly sizable android hardware maker to put their app store, or at least fortnight, on the phone directly, and google then informed the hardware maker that they'd block the google play store from those devices if they did that.

But it does highlight the problem here.

Let's say I take epic at their word, that this is not okay (and I'm tempted, this whole judge jury and executioner thing is ridiculous. Apple has now said that they regret that they can no longer spend time with Epic on making sure the Unreal engine runs well on mac hardware. That is so close to 'nice house you got there. Would be a real shame if something happened to it' it makes the hairs on my neck crawl).

What then? Sideloading with security measures is something google has but that's according to epic not good enough (and I'm again tempted to agree).

But clearly some free for all fiesta is no good for the users. And I don't think governments, certainly no the US government and probably not the EU either, are capable of defining the playing field, this stuff is too complicated.

So... what then?

I would hope that Apple (and Google) realize that this fight has only users, and the name of the game is to walk the line so that nobody is pissed enough that you end up with exactly what just happened. And it looks like apple has decided they like the hole they are in, as it sure looks like they are frantically digging.
I dont expect an immediate reply, just within reasonable time. I i've made the experience that a question you ask upfront simply gets ignored and then forgotten.
Maybe Congress could get off its ass and pass some data privacy laws first?
My great grandmother used to play solitaire. The same way that many of us while away the night staring at a screen, she'd sit in her apartment wearing the spots off a pack of cards. Some oldsters will react to this news with dismay, but as I see it, our lives are richer for the innovation.
For what it's worth, with regard to .edu's specifically, you can always report any security-related issues to REN-ISAC [0] via e-mail or telephone (anonymously, if you'd like). The "watch desk" is staffed 24 hours a day.

If the .edu is one of their 668 member institutions [1], they have designated security contacts at the .edu that they can directly get in touch with -- and, in many cases, can even wake somebody up at 3 a.m., if/when it's warranted!

Even if the .edu isn't a member, though, they'll almost certainly have an easier time getting in touch with someone with a clue that they can pass your report along to.

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[0]: https://www.ren-isac.net

[1]: https://www.ren-isac.net/membership/MemberList.html
I imagine somebody is ‘friends’ with the police and asks for help identifying who the organizer is associating with, so they can fire that person.

It is a PTZ camera, so I am guessing they are trying to grab license plates.

There is definitely a gray area between private detective work and police assisting with a favor.
I still can’t understand why any money making business/ celebrity/ organization would purposely alienate half of their potential customers.
I will choose a forest of thieves long before a knell to a tyrant king
In J (which might be slower than K) with excessive comments for a one-liner:

echo@> (2{ARGV) -.&([: <;._1 LF, 1!:1) (3{ARGV)
NB. 2nd arg 3rd arg
NB. g&f execute f for each, then g on both
NB. 1!:1 read file
NB. LF, prepend newline
NB. [: <;._1 split based on first char
NB. -. remove right elements from left array
NB. echo@> echo each line
exit 0

On two ~1.6MB files with ~15k lines (both the same except 3) I had lying around:

$ time j9 -c ./pseudo_grep.ijs test_b test_a
…
real 0m0.064s
user 0m0.032s
sys 0m0.017s
$ time grep -vf test_b test_a
…
real 0m5.815s
user 0m5.234s
sys 0m0.576s

Note that most of the script is for loading each file into an array of lines. Most work is done by -. on the two arrays, which is exactly what you asked for, e.g. 0 1 2 3 4 -. 2 4 is 0 1 3. https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/minusdot#dyadic
About the addon whitelist

A couple more info points - yep, they indeed have a list of addons and if the addon is not on the list, you just can't run it, full stop. Even if no one actually tried if it is broken.

I know this as a fact as someone posted a patched build with a custom list covering many more addons. I installed that and tried two addons from that list I use on desktop Firefox. One did not work (ImTranslator), but the other run just fine (Furiganaize) as on desktop. So Firefox developpers are blocking user from using perfectly working addons as they can't be bothered to add them to their fancy list of allowed addons.

About Fennec from F-Droid

I have been using it since Mozilla broke the perfectly working Firefox install on my Android tablet with the quarter baked Fenic based release and so far I have not found anything missing even if it is supposedly cleaned up from non-free parts. But I don't use Firefox sync, so I can't comment on that.

BTW, Fenix based Firefox build is being worked on for F-Droid as well (they had to cut out all the non-free stuff Mozilla puts into a normal Firefox binary, reportedly a lot more than for Fennec) so if Fenix becomes usable one day, one can get it from a source that will not stealthily replace it by something broken.
Even if it was, that’s definitely not significant. Each engineer is probably paid more per day than that.

(I’m not a fan of the flat 30% charge, but developer program fees are not a challenge for any group with a revenue stream if any kind.)
If you truly believe someone who would sign his name to something this obsequious about one of his companies would tell Beijing to get lost for another one of his companies I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
I’m using 1Password and it encrypts the payloads before they are shipped to the cloud. How does that compromise my passwords?
Sometimes very guilty of this but I've done the "type as I think" then "end up figuring out the answer before I finish explaining my question" enough times that I now make an effort to fully form my question before sending.

The exercise of trying to concisely explain the situation and form the question is frequently enough to sort out a path forwards.

Not all coworkers enjoy being used as a chat-based rubber duck!
It's such a weird thing. Most of my coworkers don't do this, but a few will do a "Hi" type message.

It wastes so much time for everyone involved.

I sometimes wonder if these same people think I'm being rude when I write a message like "Hey, xyz, I was wondering if you knew PDQ about ABC?"

Like, are they expecting the convo to go like

me: "Hi"
them: "Hello"
me: "How's your day been?"
them: "fine"
me: "Crazy weather"
them: "yeah"
me: "Do you have a second to chat about ABC"?
them: "Just a sec"
me: "Ok"
them: "Ok, shoot"
me: "Do you if PDQ about ABC?"
them: "Oh yeah, it's 123"

Because I've absolutely had chat conversations like that. It drives me nuts because it's stuff that can be solved in 10 seconds but ends up taking 30 minutes worth of disruptions.
Similar story from 3 months ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23167592
I blame the chat apps more for this tbh. Coming from a long history of using IRC, using separate messages is a completely normal way of dividing up one's text, and it was fine because N lines of text in a single message wasn't hugely different from N lines of text over multiple messages. For the most part, the end result takes up the same amount of screen real estate, and I honestly like being able to send out thoughts piecemeal in a more active discussion--it lets others start priming their response before I'm done, or read through it as it's being said, versus having to wait for a complete set of messages. It's really one of the differentiating features that made me prefer chat over email or forums back in the day.

Slack, Discord, etc. wander in and turned chat into a _product_, and specifically a modern mAxImIzE eNgAgEmEnT product. No fucking chat app should send as many notifications as Slack and Discord do default, and they also shouldn't return to the same noisy default every time you join a new server, but they do. There's a good reason for this: constant pings make you use the app more because human brains are easily distracted, doubly so when something has been crafted to grab your attention. This probably results in a mix of actual stickiness and garbage interaction stats that product managers toot in internal meetings to demonstrate how good their ping flood is to clueless upper management, but the end result is that the distractathon defaults are just accepted as the way things are.
Aaand now I can't un-hear it. Thanks a lot.
You should see if you can convince some of your coworkers to adopt it at the same time. I've seen workplaces where many people have nohello as their status.

I would be inclined to think it odd if I saw just one person with that status. When I saw every other person using it, it became less off-putting to me.
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I see go/nohello has gone external, lovely.
I don't know if this is supposed to be a propaganda piece, but nothing about that dump is an "oasis". If you've driven by there, and I have many times, it smells so awful you have to close your car windows and turn off the car ventilation. It smells absolutely rotten and toxic. I worry for people who live and grow up in the vicinity.

Underneath the soil, everything there is toxic, a mix of whatever people put in landfills. Of course it will seep liquids into the ground eventually, despite the waterproof layer underneath, it's only a matter of time.

I acknowledge and appreciate the positive intentions, but we should not fool ourselves into viewing this a success. To do so would be an act of denial, and would be dangerous for our planet's health.
So your in top 1% of salaries and you are suggesting a 30sqm apartment is good? That’s a tiny box for a “top” income earner
The IEEPA gives the president the authority to restrict any economic transactions with foreign entities if he declares a national emergency regarding the activity. The judgement as to whether the national emergency is justified is granted to the president with almost no restrictions. The president must send a report to congress within 30 days justifying the declaration. Congress can then chose to over rule the declaration. A new report with justification for continuing the emergency must be sent to Congress at certain intervals and Congress can again choose to override the emergency. These are different from the powers given to the CFIUS under the Defense Protection Act.

At first glance it would appear that Trump has authority under the IEEPA do take the actions he has. Tiktok is most likely going to base their legal action on challenging the constitutionality of the IEEPA. Tiktok's argument of violating due process alludes to this being the case.
I dunno it's definitely happened to me before that the company's git repo was only down for me, or whatever. Networking is weird, so it's good to confirm that others are having the same issue.
Nothing mysterious about this. Surveillance has long been a known tactic of capital's resistance to what it deems a threat.
To me, that's fine if you're actually having a conversation (i.e. that chat window is likely to be in the foreground). It can be a case of using spare bandwidth to minimize latency, so to speak. But it's terrible if the thread is meant to be in async mode.

Overall, I think the problem here isn't the method of communication, per se. It's people placing unreasonable demands on your attention. Someone who came up to you in the middle of your break and started rambling a vague request would be annoying in the same way, even though the method of demanding your attention is different.
Perhaps an appropriately aimed missile...
Sounds like you're taking advantage of the politeness of others to foist an unwanted interaction on them.
Different union.
i'm not drinking this kool-aid. you're in a strange place if you think it's loops that are the cause of software complexity.
That'd place them at a slightly better position than AMD, that has been in the (discrete) GPU for years. All in all, this is still theoretical and we'll have to see how they behave under real workloads (be that games or compute).

Intels iGPUs have always looked great on paper and then hit a wall in the real world.
Well then. He can wait in the conversation queue, instead of the request queue.
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I can tolerate it if it’s through slack because I have set DND[1] but it really bothers me when people do that over SMS and I’m trying to concentrate.

[1] I have a set of scripts that trigger do not disturb on macos center notification and sets my status on slack to do not disturb and other relevant services etc but I have not been able to automate my phone settings the same way.
Not ironic. Police unions are fundamentally different than other labor unions. This might spell it out for you:

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/what-to-know-police-unions-l...
Yeah, I meant per developer. Wires crossed. But it certainly doesn't matter what each engineer is paid.

Apple has 20 million registered developers.

[Edit: And let's say a third of them pay that fee, which is admittedly probably a stretch. The finer details are not my point here other than to say here's a bunch of money that comes in no matter what]

I don't care what those developers are making: that's serious income right there. If Apple think they are entitled to more, that's their problem, but don't act like they're making any kind of sacrifice here, and for fuck's sake people need to stop trying to convince themselves that Apple are their friends.
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I really dislike any attempt to draw a distinction between “casual” (a dismissive term) games from “core” games. This is pure gate keeping behavior; an attempt to diminish some games (and therefore their players) as being less real than others.

If you wish to separate “core” gamers, do it by device or by category, since that is much clearer and carries less of a value judgement.
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When that happens to me, I'll give it a reasonable amount of time based on the importance of the question (which could be a few hours or a few days) and then gently prompt with "hey, sorry to bug you, wondering if you had a chance to look at my question?". That has never not worked out for me.

If it's such an emergency that it can't wait, then I can call them. But most of the things we think are emergencies aren't, and most things can wait longer than we think.
You can thank email for people being to scared to do this.
That is exactly why they don't want the "hello". They want to know what the question is before they socially commit to answering it immediately.
it got so bad at my work they had to email out to the entire company to nicer. the one slack room with all employees and no one is allowed to leave is a mine field. anyone can post there, but if you do and your message is not deemed appropriate the slack police will descend to the threads and rip you apart. don’t even think about @here or @channel because there’s already 5+ emojis that will be tacked on your message to ensure you feel like a moron
How does having to enter the same account information twice in the same session prevent unauthorized access? If an unauthorized person knows my account number, they can easily enter it twice.

And if the account number doesn't exist or doesn't match the name, they know immediately that one or the other was mis-entered.
Yes; that thread was 2019 and this one was 2017 - with a comment from apparently the original author:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14868294
What makes a video game “core” other than your value judgement?
The camera in question is a Canon PTZ camera with 20x optical zoom, model VB-H41: https://www.usa.canon.com/internet/portal/us/home/support/de...
It lowers the latency of the communication and also makes the text easier to read. Before you've finished typing it all out, your co-worker has already started processing and thinking about the question.

This is superior than just sending one big block of text.
As a former member of the Army I consider his actions to be treason and if he is proven to be guilty I would like to see him shot. It is a insult to all those that served that it is not an option. If guilty this man has broken his solemn vow as a member of the armed forces and betrayed the oath taken as an officer and trashed his sacred duty as an officer - responsibility for his fellow soldiers lives. I am expressing my very strong feelings on this subject based on my own life experience and a rich history of family service back to the revolution. This include family members on both sides during the civil war and I have the same disposition to those that fought for the confederacy (treason and firing squad). I have no doubt that others here will disagree. May I suggest that a disagreement or a difference of opinion on this is a good thing allowed in a free society and something for discussion and not a blind down vote?
Not ironic at all. Police are the agents of capital and their union is thus in service of capital, not labor. They are conspicuously the only union which isn't protested very much by the powers that be. The union protects police from retribution by the people against whom they mete out punishment, who are essentially never capitalists.

To put it another way, there is zero solidarity between police unions and unions of other types. IWW does not allow police (or prison guards) into its organization.
I grew up in IRC. I almost got fired from my first job for being to direct around sensitive colleagues. My boss coached me to start my emails with "Hello :)". I'm better but I still get into trouble from time to time, especially on a Monday morning when I forget to ask how someone's weekend was!

That's also a fun one because I love breaking the "my weekend was great how about you?" monotony by actually telling the truth. I remember once going for an interview and the interviewer casually asked how my weekend was as we walked through the office. He wasn't expecting me to say that I didn't have a great time because I'd spent it moving out of my ex's place and a family member passed away the same weekend. How was your weekend?

I mostly dislike all these fake interactions we have. Show me something real any day of the week. If you can't service my request because your mind is on something else, I'd take that. Just give me a human, not a half-assed care-less social dressage.
The problem with that approach is that it’s clearly biased towards the younger generations who are tech savvy. But it’s mostly the older people who would’ve voted for Luk.

Note, I don’t support Luk in anyway, just pointing out the bias.

Altho it does uncover the fact that the results are fabricated. But it’s not like anyone was doubting that anyways.
Do you want spit in your burger? Because that is how you get spit in your burger.
To expand on your second point:

The very first thing you should type after your initial greeting should be your question(s). Don't bury the lede.

You can provide all the additional explanation (i.e. what you were doing when it broke, where you've looked, what you've tried, etc) after you ask your questions. By asking up front, you frame the conversation so that the person you are communicating with can read your supporting information with the correct context.
This is cute and might work around the house, but I wouldn’t entrust anything serious to it. As soon as your traveling and don’t have it, or your kids rearrange it, or someone else gets a picture of it, then it the novelty is definitely gone.

You could just as easily use a deck of playing cards or to construct a password and it would have exactly the same issues.

Yubikeys win the day again and again, I just more sites support them. The financial sites that would benefit most are still stuck on easily spoofed SMS authentication - if they even have that.
Jesus Christ dude.... delete this comment.