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Glad to hear I could make your day a little better :)
Is it really that hard to understand?
I grew up adjacent to super evangelicals and never heard of anything like this. Yes, there was a ton of pushing for traditional gender roles. And really, that's up to the women to decide if that's how they want to live their life. Clearly they shouldn't be forced into it but if they willingly choose it, then :shrug:? I don't believe in the Amish lifestyle, but so long as there is an actual escape path and they aren't being held against their will, I don't really see a problem with it. Some people want to live their life subordinate to others. I don't see the allure but some do.

The key difference here is that if an evangelical wife doesn't like her husband's views on life, she can just go to the court house and divorce him and move wherever the heck she wants, and do whatever she wants to do. I don't think that same freedom exists in Saudi Arabia.
Conclusion: if you have choice between Electron vs Web app, Use Web app. It's safer and battle tested for years. Electron apps will have their IE6, Flash and Java situations.
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This was my issue as well until I had a home. Work had two charging spots for a 25 story building (13 story parking structure). To be honest, the spots are work were often used only by people needing to charge but I would always be scared of forgetting and making someone else's day worse.
> When you think about it, what are they going to shoot at, a elongated football the length of 3-4 cars that seems to be in a temporal zone it created?

How about the first description of the aircraft, which appeared to be a helicopter with red and white strobing lights?
Absolutely painless. The “worst” part is having to drink enough water (with laxative and electrolytes) to clean your system for a clear view. I just had mine done and I was way more more anxious then I needed to be. Now I feel silly for being so worried about it.
You never speak to me except to attack me, speaking of bad faith.

So maybe just leave me alone. The men here are brutal enough without women here "eating their own."
The whole two man patrol over the area with 10 guys on standby as it repeatedly happened? The response does not appear at all proportional to the paranoia of that era.
Correct. Apple is trying to be a monopoly but also be able to say, “look! We allow external purchases to take place!”
> I've read countless design suggestions to reduce contrast and avoid using pure black or white on an LED display.

I have seen those suggestions too, but they seem to be just parroted off of each other. I have never seen a single one link to any reasoning or studies that support the claims of better readability. They all seem to say it because someone else said it in a game of design telephone.

In my personal experience, I find gray text on an off-white background to be very difficult and straining to read, and additionally, I don't think it looks good.

I can see some merit in reducing the whiteness and thus brightness of the background, but I don't see why reducing black to some lighter black or gray helps at all. Having text in a nice solid black or near-black with an off-white background seems reasonable to me. That matches more closely with reading things on actual paper, where dark black inks are possible but the background is not pure white. That leaves legibility in place and reduces background brightness.

It's possible this whole "reduce the contrast" thing has gotten off track, when to me at least, the goal seems to be to reduce the blinding background blasting you with light and not to simply reduce contrast.
Sure, some of it is open to interpretation, but I disagree with it not being taken seriously. This is the basis for CVEs, most bounty tables, and most audit reports (that I've seen).
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Try to actually formalize some math. Just definitions and constructions without proofs. See the challenge for yourself. You might gain some different perspective and sympathy for the mathematicians you are ridiculing. Consider this question: how do you know the string of symbols you wrote down actually correspond to the mathematical objects in my head? Conversely, Voevodsky advocated that mathematicians should formalize their reasoning to flush out the subtle bugs from differences in understanding. But representing mathematical concepts is a huge challenge.
What you say my be true in your corner of the world. I'm going to go on a limb and say you've not done or used much applied math in your work.

For the rest of humanity, those who build things using maths and have deadlines to meet to deliver working thins, knowing something is true for sure has incredible utility.

Understanding why it is true is most certainly nice, but it's just the icing on the cake: they have bigger fishes to fry.
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I agree, and while I don't think there's a great chance Epic wins in court, I think now is a great time for them to highlight Apple's deeply unethical practices around the app store: they are both stifling innovation (in what an app store can do or be, see Microsoft x cloud, but also see how long it took Apple to develop subscription payments) and pocketing money they really haven't done anything to earn (rent seeking)

Ultimately, I think lawmakers are going to have to be the ones to address this, and it's disappointing they don't seem particularly interested in investigating Apple's app store practices
This is not true. Men are better off finacially after divorce. Alimony are rare and typically awarded only in housewife situation.

There is only child support and division of assets acquired during marriage - typically half/half.

The cleaners sentiment comes from men thinking the common property is all/most theirs.
This depends a lot on where you are. In the US most travel is pretty local just like yours, but just the state I live in is more than 3x the size of the Netherlands (~150k km2 vs ~42k km2) and it's not that uncommon to have need to travel to areas of adjacent states. At least twice a month I'm at customer offices that are 40+ km away, so a short range combined with possible winter capacity reductions could be a real concern.

Also, if I'm driving with what I call the "idiot light" (low fuel) on, then I'd best go fill the tank. When that warning appears if I have less than 50 km of range I'd be surprised. A low range BEV would feel to me like always having that light on.
Notice how only 1 post out of thousands by the so called Q we're shown in the making this article?

Notice how immediately they point to one case of violence which was denounced by Q. Seems like an attempt to emotionally connect Q with a single nutjob.

Do you think it would be fair to write articles about everyone based on the actions of a single supporter with clear mental illness? Why the double standard?

If what Q is saying is so dangerous then why not actually show that material and debunk it directly?

Just like the podesta emails the content is always completely ignored because the people writing these articles don't want you to be informed here. Ask yourself why? What is their agenda here? Is it in your best interest?

Read the drops qmap.pub and think for yourself.

If you haven't read any of the drops how can anyone take your opinion seriously on something you know nothing about?
I am not sure if I follow your logic about quality of products and what that has to do with inflation.
Sorry to hear about your situation, and thanks for taking my question in good faith.

I see, basically a stay at home wife/mother is not adequately compensated for her time spent at home maintaining it and taking care of the children.

In the west, this is still a choice though, right? These days I don't think anyone can "bank" on their spouse staying at home while they work. In those years, you had the choice of going to work. For better or worse (I personally think children need at least one parent in early development years), you stayed at home and took care of them.
This type of fractured epistemology, where subgroups derive truth from truly weird conspiracy theories, while other groups in society continue with a connection to reality, is how a society falls apart, or becomes easily prayed upon by dictators or outside forces.

When people no longer have any idea about what could be true, they have to trust, usually a strong-man leader. This is how Putin maintains such control of his country. It's how he spread discord in eastern Ukraine, with wild stories about "they want to kill and eat your children." You hear Lukashenko say the same sorts of things as he struggles to keep power in Belarus (the villain being NATO forces...)

I beg of everybody on HN in the US: if you have family that starts to fall into these conspiracy theories, hold on to your relationship with them and try with all your night to bring them back to reality. We are at a scary stage with a pandemic and economic disaster, and many people are quite vulnerable to the false sense of order that these conspiracy theories provide. I think that familial connections might be one of the only things stronger than the strange pull of these conspiracy theories.
Finally a topic on HN I can actually speak about with professional experience!!! <3

I've done this job for years - putting new hires into Active Directory - (haven't quite got myself a professional programming gig yet, hopefully soon) and I don't know of any common system that would reject a three letter first name. Before I clicked I thought it would be two or one letters.

99% of orgs are on AD, and most of the other systems pull info from that. I would guess that one of these systems pulls info and doesn't allow manual entry, but also assumes names > 3 characters (or they're lying).

I've known plenty of people stuck with a pre-marriage name because it was too hard to change everywhere, or people who chose a different preferred name as their real name is often mispronounced, and other stuff like that.

Worst case scenario you add a few letters to get him in the system, apologize, inform his coworkers, and put in a request to update/fix it/whatever. If your manager is aware you're using a preferred name and your legal name still needs to go on important forms and stuff, it should be business as usual. That stuff happens all the time.

There's definitely bias in these systems, doing things like assuming a first name is a given name and your last name is your family name (and that everyone has those). Works okay for anglos, but people from e.g. some Asian countries aren't accomodated properly.

But 3 letters? What about Bob? Jon? Amy? What about Amy?

This is just bizzare. Admitting it even more so. There's got to be something else going on here. I'm not a lawyer but surely you could at least argue discrimination?
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Yes, there are lots.

Largest of which is that the manufacturers have to balance onerous return penalties vs. weight and size.

The solution is to use a monocoque and glue everything down.

Thus, consumers buy the cheapest plans, carriers push the costs onto the manufacturers, manufacturers push the costs back to the consumer for repairs, ad infinitum.

There are phones with user replaceable batteries available. They aren't great sellers. Until consumers vote with their wallets or regulations the dynamic will not change.
Where are you from? I'm en-gb native and refuse doesn't rhyme with refuge.

Ref-use: ref as in referee, use as in noose, or loose.

But then in en-gb we'd say "waste" or maybe "rubbish".
Jeez that scrolling behavior is just awful. I gave up.
I'm sorry but some guy going with his gun to a protest for no reason is as bad or probably worst than rioters and looters. I don't understand how some people can blame looters but defend this guy. Don't mix things together. He literally killed some humans. Are you out of your mind or your biases blinded you so badly that you can't judge anymore and you don't see anything?

They should investigate and see how a "17" years old is so brain washed to take a gun and go there. I hate rioters and looters, but I can't imagine how can I convince myself to go there with a gun. That isn't normal.
Is this a good place to complain about the choice of colour in KDE's konsole and threaten the developers with physical violence?
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I mean, there's a difference between "impossible" and "impossible today".

and when an md/phd says something is "impossible today" and a salesman who thinks biology is a "software problem" says it's possible for the right price, I know who I'll bet on
It's not necessarily even exaggeration as much as selection bias. If you have enough "friends" on social media, statistically every other day one of them will post something they're proud/happy about, making your feed a constant stream of other people's "success". But the brain is having a hard time dividing these streams by the number of people in your feed; it feels as if it was a small group of people who have it all.
Which i have always suspected was the real reason they killed off Google Wave in such a hurry, even thou we were told they found it useful for collaboration within Google.
As a language learner (working on my 8th right now), I dabble in Duolingo from time to time and agree that it provides contact time with the language, and any contact time helps reinforce memory.

Language learning in general though, I have found, is not that amenable to gamification. Some learning methods may be more efficient than others, but even with the most efficient methods, real language learning is still inherently and unavoidably a slog. So if you come across a method that makes it "easy", chances are it's not actually working. It's too easy to trick oneself to think that one is making progress, and then find oneself unable to communicate when called upon to do so.

In the polyglot (ie actual practitioners of extreme language learning) community, there are many super talented language learners but a common pattern among them is the use of surprising traditional learning methods. Most do not use Duolingo but instead elect to do things the hard way, by actually going through workbooks, talking to tutors on iTalki, making mistakes, exposing themselves to media, translating, etc. Space repetition tools are sometimes used. Pimsleur is good for speaking, but not reading/writing so it doesn't get used that much.

There are clips of YouTubers where creators show you how to learned a language to a conversational level in 24 hours etc. but if you look more closely, the experiments are highly edited and the actual outcome is not that great.

I've resigned myself to the fact that the way to actually to learn a language is to jump in and do it the hard way, rather than through easier shortcuts. Language learning is about creating new reflexes and creating new pathways int he brain and there's no easy way to do that (the brain itself resists) without discomfort.

That said, tools like Duolingo do create fun and interest in a language -- and fun is needed to sustain oneself through the journey.
I think your [0] note points to a hard truth of life. You have to be aware of how you're used to thinking so you can challenge yourself to make your brain work in new ways. I don't think this is by any means essential but I think it can be immensely useful to not always default to the same habit. 80% of the time, it's ok to exploit what you know, but maybe that remaining 20% of the time try thinking in a new way. The hard part is finding those new ways and not being too lazy or rushed to skip it.
I'm a practitioner, I've managed bug bounties for several companies, and spent 15 of the last 20 years doing assessment work almost exclusively, and nobody takes CVSS seriously. It doesn't say anything to point out that some people structure "bounty tables" based on CVSS, because, as I said, it's a ouija board; the actual rules for what bugs are worth are still ad hoc, they're just used to determine the CVSS instead of the price directly. And that's not a super common practice!

CVSS scores are put into audit reports --- at the ouiji levels clients want --- to shut up the suits in compliance.
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I like the idea of increasing the timeout on successive retries. Sort of like backoff exponentially, increase timeout exponentially. Of course, this is only if the reason for retrying could be helped by a larger timeout.
Absolutely applies to tech interviews.

Interviewed at a company that wanted to hire me a PHP web dev. I mentioned right out of the gate, "I have zero PHP experience and most of my roles have been back-end/infrastructure related, but since we are chatting, here are examples of similar projects in other languages. And I'll also discuss a bit about my understanding of web development in general".

Hired and started within the week and had a very productive working relationship with them for quite some time.
Create a law that says that if the battery is not user replaceable then the manufacturer must replace it for free when its charge capacity drops below 90% of its original capacity.

That would shift the market pretty quickly towards user replaceable batteries.
Right, so all of the incentives of evading cigarette taxation, except this time around there's a machine that'll accept the "cigarettes" you have for sale, and your "customer" won't be able to tell the difference between a cigarette and a tube of Styrofoam.

This sort of deposit scheme makes sense and works for e.g. glass beer bottles because in practice they're high-volume items (a consumer might return a 24 bottle crate/week), and the bottles/crates are actually still useful items in themselves and can be immediately returned to consumer circulation after some washing and gluing a new label on them.

The price/volume/weight of glass bottles & beer crates also makes any sort of return fraud impractical.

As opposed to Li-ion batteries which are going to be broken when they're returned. How is a vending machine that gives me money for a deposited phone battery going to know the difference between a battery and a piece of wood I covered in some duct-tape and wires?

And all for what? Reducing Li-ion pollution? It isn't some massive problem in developed countries, and people mostly do sort their batteries in recycling if given the chance.

So again, I'm not arguing that the recycling is a bad idea, but that this idea of giving it a price incentive in this case is a terrible idea.
Well, I've tried contacting sendgrid about phishing emails that look like they're from @sendgrid.com , using their own server. The SPF records match, so it isn't marked as junk mail.

It's similar to the github pages exploit from years ago, which is why we now have github.com and gitub.io

The purpose of these mails is of course to get credentials and spam some more.

At first I checked for a bounty, but as this is a "configuration error" (SPF), there is no bounty.

Then I sent it by mail, but yeah.. No reply.
As long as it can print its own money without a serious devaluation (because the dollar is the standard international currency) it shouldn't happen.

The money won't lose its value. International goods will keep their prices in dollars, won't be an inflation on that side, so anything from outside won't get more expensive.

Trillions has been suddenly printed, in 2008 and this year, without making a big change in how expensive are things. If you try that, in those numbers, in any other country, you may face a big surge in inflation.
Hmm.

FWIW, on my [Skylake/Cascadelake]-X Intel systems, Intel's compilers performed well, almost always outperforming GCC and Clang. But on Zen, their performance was terrible. So I was happy to see that MKL, unlike the compilers, did not appear to gimp AMD.

It's disappointing that MKL doesn't use optimized code paths on the 3700X.

I messaged the person who actually ran the benchmarks and owns the laptop, asking them to chime in with more information. I'm just the person who wrote that benchmark suite.
Thanks goodness this is not a renaming/rediscovery/attribution-hijacking of a well-known and old concept (reference count, allocation count, etc.), something every other person these days seems be engaged in.
What's the next step, after the stolen money has landed in the homeless persons account?
What information on reddit is useful?
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> We have traditions like a man asking her father for her hand in marriage. We change her last name

"We" as in certain barbaric anglo countries ;)

These things have long been abandoned in many (most?) other countries (Italy, France, etc).

> We treat marriage as very much a financial contract

Not really. Although community of wealth is the traditional European stance, in a lot of countries you can now keep things separate simply by ticking a box when registering the marriage.

> divorce tends to hurt women financially much more than it does men

That's a complicate issue, tied to the loss of income due to career interruption for pregnancy and child-rearing, as well as the fact that women simply earn less on average. But divorce is now basically a bureaucratic procedure pretty much anywhere in Western and Northern Europe, which can be accomplished without any assistance from the other side.

Obviously old traditions are not that different - we all come from rural societies. However, Western Europe and similar contries have seen massive progress in the XX century on this topic. I think it's fair to call out the countries who don't seem particularly willing to follow along.
Sorry, their whole point was not about digital sales or the 30% number, but more about the fact that console manufacturers have been making virtually all their money by charging a markup from game makers since the eighties (remember that consoles themselves normally sell at a loss). Once again, you might see it as being the same or not as what Apple does.
> Writing 500 words before noon is not an unrealistic expectation.

No doubt. To me it seems that the author is writing about being unable to meet basic goals due to depression from not having met more fanciful goals.
I still remember when SendGrid got DDoSed after an incident at PyCon* and they caved. This told me two things: 1) they weren’t prepared to stand up for their own employees when the chips were down 2) their engineering wasn’t good enough to cope with a bunch of amateurs attacking them.

* Let’s not derail this into a discussion of whether or not they should have done it in the first place. They didn’t, they only acted after they couldn’t cope with the DDoS.
To be fair, the smarter designers do too, but you don't hear about them because good design doesn't shove itself in your proverbial or literal face.
Yes, I do agree, use of the word feels lazy, poor form. There are trendy stand up comedians and trendy authors who base their entire brand on the use of the word. It is a desperate fall back position.
The authenticated one-click social engineering aspect of this significantly lowers exploit probability and overall risk.
Make sure to send me the images that crashed it (support at flyingmeat.com)! I'd love to get that fixed, as I'm not aware of any cases right now where this happens.
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