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I am not going to argue beliefs, MIT/BSD and GPL are compatible. My point on cannibalization was in the historical context. Today the situation is different (thanks largely to what the GPL did in the past). And of course Linux is GPL2, not 3 - which would address some of the issues you raise.

All of these licenses would have avoided the problems we see with ZFS' adoption of CDDL or other MPL1 derivatives.
> whilst (while)

I'm not a native English speaker, but I find it funny how Americans often consider English spellings wrong.

I wonder if American Hispanics do the same for Spaniards:

> Ahem, it's pronounced "ustedes", not "vosotros". That's not a word.
I don't mind 'ping me': that one has a clear reference to submarines and networks.

What bothers me are 'ask' and 'lift' used as nouns. They add nothing to the language, and are just ugly. Maybe my father felt the same the first time he heard 'sweet' to mean 'cool.'
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I've been curious about the COVID PCR tests performance metrics, do you have a source for that (to also include sensitivity, specificity etc)?
Linux is pretty user friendly these days though, Ubuntu and Mint are perfectly usable even if you're not a poweruser.

Maybe that's just the developer in me falsely believing people are more competent than they actually are, though.
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Good point, it would require a massive charging operation somewhere in the vicinity of the battlefield since it can be assumed that these drones don't have that a particularly good deployment range. Whereas it is possible to have some jets parked on an aircraft carrier a couple hundred miles away, able of reaching the target within minutes. Much more flexibility there...
If we all agreed that free apps (and services) come at a real cost either in data or subversive practices. Then started paying money for apps that provide value. Do we think this sort of stuff would stop?
Hold on.

The number of deaths due to Chernobyl is grossly underreported. And deaths don't cover the full "cost" of Chernobyl. Displacing thousands of people lead to poverty, depression and suicide. The economic and social damage was huge. The Soviet Union doesn't have statistics on this because they didn't want those numbers to exist.

I'd be willing to argue that the Chernobyl accident caused (or at least precipitated) the fall of the Soviet union. This case was also made by the Netflix "Chernobyl" series.

If you look at it from that perspective: No, I don't think that a hurricane hitting Houston would be as damaging as Chernobyl and cause the United States to collapse.
So fires multiplies them
Can I say that this is an excellent piece of writing, the tension at the end of the second last paragraph was only finally relieved by the final sentence.

Kudos!
> (Note that since all integers evenly divide 0, GCD(a,0) = a for all a.)

Nonzero a, that is.
Will this new storage layer be available for AWS services like RDS and ElasticSearch? I checked the dashboards and the SSD options are still just "General Purpose SSD" or "Provisioned SSD".

My understanding is that these services use EBS under the hood but I guess there is no way to check if the attached storage is using io1 or io2 for now?
If you translate DevOps to Systems Administration it's a good grasp of technologies you cant ignore.
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The issue isn't the risk to yourself, which is minimal. The problem is that spreading the virus widely (which seems easy to do at crowded events, precise transmission model not yet known) ultimately results in a bunch of other people somewhere in the future ending up in hospital or dead.
Actually, this is a case where the ad SDK is behaving badly. No one signed up for that.
Low adoption of features and the sad realization
As do those who have coyote populations. I wonder if the bird life has been studied, where cats are less likely to be allowed outside.
Well, strictly speaking this wasn't an unethical experiment in so far as that they tested for covid before, to make it safe, not after, to assess the damage.

But it gives off a certain "scientific whaling" vibe, I can't help questioning the intentions.
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Wait, NFS isn't a thing anymore?
I thought the exact same thing! And this GemRB is not Ruby related at all.

On a side note, similar names abound in Ruby land! Only with a recent pull request merged for typo squatting protection is it that rubygems.org will stop someone from forking and publishing awesome_gem that is confusingly similar to awesome-gem.
What would be considere a proof in linquistics?
There is also http://strlen.com/lobster/

Rust-like borrow checking with a Python-ish syntax, compiles to C++ or Wasm
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Is there good evidence this makes a difference in the outcome of their children?
no good document on it and it is not very important for me ( I run it on homelab).

still wonder how to do it in minutes.
There's something innate about shaming people who do different things.

People are feeding off of panic and constant dread. If you don't affirm their apocalypse delusions you'll be shamed.

You'll be told attending a concert or even wanting to is a sign you're a selfish misanthrope and idiot.

They could just indefinitely stay locked in their home if they feel the risk is that grave...but no, they'll stop at nothing to extend their agoraphobia to everyone.
Sounds like me. Never gonna be rich, but doesn't look like I'll be out of a job any time soon.
I'm having trouble parsing this - is it a mark of stupidity not to believe in IQ or is IQ a lie that mostly hoodwinks smart people?
From the last time this came up on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22859156

> the core of the whole system (the Nock language) has "loobeans" instead of booleans in which 1 represents false and 0 represents true at which point I nope'd out pretty hard.

>> Being contrarian is not the same as being clever, and this is very much not clever.
> Ahem, it's pronounced "ustedes", not "vosotros". That's not a word.

As someone who learned Spanish in Spain, I have occasionally been "corrected" by South Americans when using vosotros. Of course, no one denies that vosotros is a word, but I have been told something along the lines of "There are X Spanish-speaking countries in the world, and only one says vosotros, so please, stop doing that and talk like us instead." South Americans with this hangup are a small minority, of course, but they definitely exist.
I guess they have an equivalent repository with roughly the same impact factor.
> 4GB RAM which is considered the minimum to properly use ZFS

This is mostly a myth with origins in the high-memory requirements of ZFS deduplication (which few should use, anyway). Of course, more memory allows for more caching, but that’s true of any filesystem on a “modern” OS.
> it's free for all their devices

Have you never heard the phrase "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch"?

The reason Apple does not sell the hardware at a cheaper cost should tell you that the OS is not free. The cost is included. Its a package deal.

> it's free for all their devices for as long as they meet the hardware requirements for running new versions.

If the OS is free then why not let it run on very old models, it will run very slow but that should not matter since the OS is free, right?
This paragraph was a jaw dropper:

>>> She took all family photos off the mantle. Instead, she hung up a series of oil paintings of Mr. Horton, who is white, and his grandparents that had been in storage. Books by Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison were taken off the shelves, and holiday photo cards sent by friends were edited so that only those showing white families were left on display. On the day of the appraisal, Ms. Horton took the couple’s 6-year-old son on a shopping trip to Target, and left Mr. Horton alone at home to answer the door.

The new appraiser gave their home a value of $465,000 — a more than 40 percent increase from the first appraisal.
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It’s unethical to -certainly- cause harm.

This is such a banal thing to say. By that logic existing in the contemporary world is unethical. At that point who cares about ethics? Ethics to me is fundamentally about improving life not some nonsense sophist rhetoric.
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> You may not photocopy any guide or pass on electronic copies without our permission.

Why do people bother making unenforceable restrictions?
How many people have you killed if you were ever infected with flu or some other airborne virus? This thinking is absurd.
I don't see how volunteering to enroll in a study (and being compensated for it) is any different to choosing to take a job as a soldier or firefighter.
I understand that, that is the case with any infections diseases but covid death rate are very low. Most people are either asymptomatic or only have mild symptoms.

Do you drive personal vehicle at all ? However safe you are you have non zero chance to kill other people somewhere in the future.
I have in mind an idea for a movie scenario where someone important is on their death bed and says their last words, and nobody can tell what they actually meant because it may be missing the second part of the verb, resulting in a potentially completely different meaning :)
Even though that's kinda sad, I don't expect to see any (relevant, mass-market, used by the general public) truly open alternative in the foreseeable future. The market just doesn't seem to be there for it.

On PCs, already pretty much no one uses Linux outside of tech bubbles (and even there, seems like it's behind both Windows and macOS [0]), apparently somewhere around 1-2% [1] among the general population; in practice, it feels like it should be even less, at least based on what mainstream websites I'm familiar with see. And this is for general-purpose computers, where an open OS might have tangible benefits for the general, non-developer/ops public (not sure which, but I guess such a case could be made) – but phones don't seem to be general-purpose computers for most; it seems they're used for media consumption, taking photos, communication, maybe some light gaming, and not much else – all thinks where the existing walled gardens offer a very compelling experience with assurances for security and quality that open platforms might have a hard time delivering.

A truly open smartphone platform would probably face an even harder uphill battle than desktop Linux, and that's already failed to gain traction time and again. You'd need compatible apps for it to gain traction, but who's going to make those? It'd have to offer a really polished UX, I don't see many people picking a clunky, ugly, bug-ridden phone based on GPL vs. proprietary – lots of people (including me) buy iPhones in part because they enjoy their design and UX. How do you make sure apps aren't scattered across lots of malware-infested app stores? How do you make sure people don't inadvertently shoot themselves in the foot all the time if you don't wall them off from choices that might lead to that? But how do you wall off people on a platform that is truly open? And so on, and so on. Unless some tech giant decides their interests align very much with a truly open and relevant mobile OS, I have a hard time seeing it happen – and even then.

The current tech world is much different from when the major desktop environments solidified; this time around, the vast, overwhelming, huge majority of computer users are not enthusiasts or IT professionals anymore like in the 90s, but completely uninterested and uninvested in the tech apart from having it work for them to do relatively simple tasks, similar to what most people outside of the relevant enthusiast bubbles feel towards cars or stoves. I don't want to run Emacs on my stove and maybe blow myself up in the process, I want it to work reliably and safely and just heat my food. I'd actully like no one to be able to tinker at will with safety-critical software in their cars, because their segfaulting Formula 1 brake patch they got from some Facebook page might mean they plow into me and I die.

[0] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#technology-de...
[1] https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide
Did the police have to break the law to stop those attacks? Because the question is not if a country should have a counterintelligence service, but what legal tools it should be given, whether it should be under judicial control when using them, and how to control it so that it does not abuse the powers (both legal and physical) it is given.
could you point me to them?
I remember Scientific American had an article about what would happen to New Orleans if a hurricane hit several years before Katrina [1]. I recall having a bit of a hard time believing it could really be as bad as they said: surely people would have planned for something like this given its inevitability? Obviously I was wrong.

Also, Katerina wasn't even the direct hit that they had modeled so it could have been much, much worse. I still wonder, even in the wake of Katrina, if New Orleans is truly prepared for the storm that is inevitably going to come.

[1] paywalled, but this is the link from 2001: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/drowning-new-orle...
My bad, my initial assessment was in terms of "how much of this is off-the-shelf and how much of this requires hardware customization". I had the mistaken impression that the basic engine didn't need a custom PCB, and other than that they both seemed to use off-the-shelf components. So in that sense I thought this required "more" customization (even though, as you mentioned, the basic engine requires more hardware). But I was wrong about that too, so either way you're right[0].

[0] https://basicengine.org/hardware.html
What a fascinating character & interesting read.

> he is taking college correspondence courses, “the path of least resistance” toward a business administration PhD. “I simply thought, if someone is going to call me a con man or [say] ‘you’re an asshole,’ well—it will be doctor asshole,” he said.

He may be in prison, but at least he's not lost his sense of humor. Completely in character based on the rest of the piece!
Usually local NIMBYs
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It should be able to change someone's mind if that person were rational, open minded and the article contained some very revealing information. It should.

...But it won't, not in today's American politics. There's no nuance left, it's us versus _them_, entrenched political warfare. If the article says something bad about my party it's either: _fake news!_ or a smear campaign by _them_! If it says something good about their party it's ____-wing propaganda.
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This article is major clickbait hand-wavey garbage. There’s so many exaggerations and half truths I don’t know where to start. Peter Holly has been in Houston long enough to know he could have called the guys who designed those storage vessels and other refinery equipment (they’re likely neighbors) and get a quote about the tolerances they were designed for. He could have included a map showing the placement of the various container ports (there’s more than one, this isn’t Long Beach) and refineries or storage. This information is all easily obtained in Houston.

Every time something happens here with a hurricane people here and across the country see fit to write inflammatory articles that are pure bullshit.

Is there some risk of a LOPC (loss of primary containment) somewhere near the coast? Yes. How big? Which facilities? What category storm? What storm track? Would it be like Chernobyl? No.
> when the USA recently smoked General Soleimani with Hellfire missles, where was the UN?

This is a good example of the weird attitude where Americans think of the UN as a world government.

UN is a place where diplomats of different countries keep constantly in touch and maintain relations. That's all it is. UN does not have opinions. The member countries have, UN is only a place where they are presented. UN does not do things. The member countries do things, UN is the place where this is organized.
I sort of half thought apple news might go that way. might not be cost effective - bundling larger subscription stuff is probably more revenue/profit.

But... in their news app, there's always a couple of interesting articles I might want to read, but I'm not signing up. They have my info, and a Touch ID device I'm holding tied to my payment info. "Read this article for 50c?" I'd certainly give some a read now and then.
So, the solution is to dumb everything down to the least common denominator?
That's only half of the story. Apple threatened Epic to block the Unreal Engine completely, that's what the article discussed here is about.
It's funny, I was about to include Rome and went like.. Naah, maybe not.
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I don't think I've ever seen such a bloated and sluggish website. I'm baffled by the fact that nothing gets any faster as time goes by. The website is being sluggish from early days of beta to this day! How is this ok for a site as popular as Reddit?

The app is not much better to be honest. Sure it works, but it doesn't feel optimized at all either.
Spanish spellings are quite standardized around the world, the “language academies” of each country collaborate together. Moreover Spanish writing is phonetic so there’s only really one way to pronounce a written word.

On the other hand, in Spain we’re famous for “cecear”, that is to pronounce “c” as the z in zombie; while in the rest of Latin America the pronounce it more like an s.
Looks like a notion clone but only for ios?
Provisioned IOPs are io1 still according to the pricing calculator (to my knowledge, it is EBS under the hood).
I love this project!

Many years ago I was playing with the idea to bring these games to the browser (decade-old demo: http://lumakey.net/labs/battleground/demo1/). I spent many long nights studying GemRB's code and the file format documentation from the Gibberlings Three community!

If I ever find the time I'd love to turn it into some kind of reinforcement learning environment :D
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It certainly helps.

If a heavily sandboxed, walled-garden App Store is still vulnerable on its smaller attack surface, then the open-for-all alternative will be absolutely plagued.

What is the point you're trying to make?
Ok, but do we agree that Epic getting what they want would result in a more open platform than what we currently have? Because the alternative to what Epic want (so the current situation) isn't a completely open platform but one where Apple is the only boss and can do almost whatever they want. Having more bosses in competition for parts of the market is an improvement toward a more open system.
Would the Ad SDK have less developer interest (and as a result be a less likely target for this) if ads weren’t as attractive a source of income?
I read "Bad user experience" but I suspect what you mean is "It not what I am used to".

They (Microsoft) say that their inspiration was Korn Shell and Languages like TCL. Microsoft when they still offered Windows services for Unix, they did provide a Korn shell.
If you look at some PowerShell examples and some Korn Shell example there are quite a few similarities between the two.

So they obviously were quite aware of the options in the *nix world. I really wish people wouldn't make these sorts of claims when spending like less than a few minutes looking up the development history would dispel these ideas immediately.

Personally I really like PowerShell and I find it fun to program in whereas with bash I seem to have to always relearn it whenever I attempt to do something non-trivial. However I come from a background of programming in OOP languages like Java and C# so many it just suits my mental model better than bash.
Yes. "Charges" translates to "load" or "burden" in English. Using that word makes it sound like it is only the employer that bears this burden, whereas it is very much >50% of the employee compensation package that is socialized (or mutualized, which may be a better word) towards health/unemployment/age insurance.
So, you're a fan of military juntas then? That's what you get when you remove a civilian guiding hand from military policymaking. I'll give you that civilians absolutely need to keep their nose out of the how, but guidance in terms of the what is absolutely essential. Otherwise you get the MacArthurs of the world calling the shots.

The military industrial complex is absolutely a beast that requires oversight and restraint. Just as the intelligence complex does. I wish more people understood and appreciated it. It doesn't need to be dismantled by a long shot necessarily, but BS needs to be called.
sci-hub? are there any other legal way? open access or bust for me.
As someone working with software engineers for which English is not a first language I cannot emphasise the importance of this enough. I've spent the last year or so consciously working on my writing and it's really paid off - especially given the current situation.

Never assume anything about your audience's understanding. Break everything down into short, concise sentences. If you're attempting to get across a non-trivial concept avoid the temptation to use big words - even if you end up having to write more. When you're done take another pass and see if you can simplify things further.
> GemRB is a portable free/libre open-source implementation of Bioware’s Infinity Engine, which powered classic CRPGs like Baldur’s Gate, Icewind Dale and Planescape: Torment.
The worst of the three versions you've given is the second, as it makes use of a sentence which, taken on its own, is a lie.

It's poor writing to state a mistruth and then whittle away at it until you arrive at the truth. Far better to build up truth upon truth until you arrive at the full picture.

Bad:

A natural number greater than 1 cannot be expressed as the product of two smaller natural numbers, if it is prime.

Good:

A prime number is a natural number greater than 1 that is not a product of two smaller natural numbers. (Stolen from Wikipedia.)
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tl;dr summary from 3 years ago.

https://www.flyingmag.com/young-entrepreneur-and-pilot-faces...
If rank was the only factor, that’s a bad choice considering you can fairly easily make that same rank in less time by simply enlisting.
It may also create necessary mental burden. I think too much has been considered "unnecessary mental burden" recently, including education.
Same here. Teams need autonomy to thrive. Managers need to be able to let go.
w.r.t "best healthcare system in the world" there are only 2 countries that think this of their healthcare: France (because people think it's free... it is not) and the US (because mostly of the quality of emergency medecine IMHO). Of course both are wrong, and it is a meaningless contest anyway.
The benefit of dumbbells could be the opposite: that they weigh less than the body and thus make the exercises more manageable.
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That's funny because my first thought was almost the opposite, that they are offering a new open source HTML template for ebooks.
Absolutely! Every minute spent on fine-tuning an ad SDK is a minute not spent on making the app better for paying customers. Most of these SDKs are not just drag and drop, either; developers have to spend a lot of time configuring the attribution schemes and to update them periodically.