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It won't be faster than WebGL in most cases. Browser CSS rendering stacks have gotten pretty fast but are not really optimized for this. In practice WebGL gives you more chances for optimization, because CSS rendering has to handle lots of edge cases that games don't. For example, a CSS renderer must split self-intersecting partially-transparent 3D polygons on CPU to render correctly, whereas a game engine just tells the artists "don't do that".
I have a vague notion that there was something along these lines in the '00s. I think I even tried reading a book with it, maybe Call of the Wild. I imagine it works great for some folks, but I didn't find it an improvement over my existing reading practices in the least and didn't continue with it.
What do you think about jupytext? https://github.com/mwouts/jupytext
>"This is a case of advocating to suppress one kind of speech because it will lead to the suppression of another kind of speech. So maybe there isn't a problem here?"

>"If the act of criticizing Facebook changes Facebook's behaviour because we've observed people are doing bad things linked to Facebook's current practices that is just the marketplace of ideas in action, isn't it?"

I don't understand what you're trying to say; perhaps you could clarify what you mean by adding some punctuation to your second paragraph.
Yep, I live with this too... I thought it luck that I got <my_last_name>@gmail.com early on, turns out it was a curse. It's not a _common_ last name, but people with the last name seem to assume it is theirs, or maybe people miss the other letters in addresses they are given and just use the last name?

I used to get periodic emails from an elderly German couple giving me their train itinerary for their upcoming visit. I politely reply that I'm not their cousin, and consequently their cousin probably won't be there at the train station when they arrive. And then six months later it all starts again.

I have what I assume is a distant cousin on the east coast and I get an email with an invoice every time the pest control folks come out to his house to spray. No option to unsubscribe, and I've given up calling the company to let them know they have the wrong address.

There is a fellow in Quebec whose <first_inital><last_name> == <my_last_name>, and for a while I got monthly emails because someone was trying to wire him money. Again, no option to unsubscribe.

Lately I've started getting emails from universities interested in admitting another distant cousin in Oregon. I'm guessing some college lead-generation service crossed her name with my email (her/our last name). I haven't figured how to handle that one yet, I'm contemplating printing a few out and (snail) mailing them along with a note.

But I've had the address long enough that I don't want to let it go, so I guess this is all a necessary burden......
Sure but most people are using it as a cache. Their valuation reflects its use as a cache.

> I've personally mostly used it as a message broker

Did you geo replicate message broker?
Metastasis as a Metabolic Disease
Yes, and now with autos driving battery costs downhill the window for general nuclear as "power backup" is closing quickly if not already slammed shut. In 10 more years they might be able to pivot to a niche market. Ships maybe, portables on barges for emergencies. It would be nice to see something come of this technology.
My wife sees doctors at four different clinics. Each has chosen a different remote meeting solution. It's non-negotiable - to see your doctor remotely, you need to use their software. And that's just in one field.

I'm not concerned about Zoom monopoly at all.
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Easier than ever now yes. Once they finish the move to ARM... :'(
> I really don't understand how Word remains so popular.

Because Office/Word has become the hammer of the document writing world.

It isn't an issue that it's a bad product and better products our out there (and there are).

It is that everyone is expected to know how to use word at a basic level. From Secretaries to VPs and CEOs, almost universally these people can open a word document, edit it, and save it.

Because of this expectation, it is easier to throw money at Microsoft and have the tool you can expect everyone to use.
Is Success Luck or Hard Work?
> The problem isn't implicit copy constructors but implicit copies in your code.

I don't understand what's the difference.

I'm not an expert in writing real-time safe code, but I've spent close to a year working on allocation-free programming. Implicit copies of structs (value types) are as fast as implicit copies of integers, but implicit copies of types with owned heap memory invoke the copy constructor, which calls into the allocator. Or did I misunderstand your comment or get anything wrong?
This is just one of the times where you’d just have to read the source. No documentation usually means I start diving into the source code.
Which groups?
And the hilariously Orwellian statement to "increase" security by requiring Javascript to be enabled:

> The browser must have JavaScript enabled.
As the editor of the internet, are they not taking on full legal liability for anything they haven't blocked yet?
You want to hear some of the crap I hear on 2m in London UK. I dumped my HT in the end so I don’t get annoyed.

CW and FT8 are generally best if you don’t want to deal with that sort. CW is much harder to put the effort in to be a dick and FT8 doesn’t have being a dick built into the protocol.
> The value of the dollar is down maybe 10% from last year.

Which makes USA tech companies even more valuable as they do a significant amount of business overseas. They report in USD and converting those Euros, etc into USD means more USD. All the while not having to pay more for imported materials, etc.
Hi, I created this. That's a good idea. This is the first version, I intend to improve it based on feedback.

About being against the original author's intent, there is no way to escape that I think. Those original installments were published in print, some of them were installments of dozens and dozens of page. I had to break "The Brothers Karamazov" in many more installments that it was originally. It is an adaptation to a new medium, so I will have to make changes. The idea is more preserve the spirit of the initial publication and encourage people to read more fiction.
- You can get the directory structure in Finder windows.

- The short cuts are not a mess, they're just not what you're used to.

- macOS may still look similar to previous versions, but, to my taste, anything touched by gnome is a macOS ripoff that looks downright oversized and is either gaudy or too dark.

- Today I tried to get a database manager for mongodb on Ubuntu 20.04 that is more than a wrapper around the command line. Nowhere to be found. And let's not mention video editing, music making, and gaming.

You prefer Linux, fine, but please don't diss the rest.
Privacy is a continuum. CoinJoin offers a trade-off between privacy and convenience. It is good enough for some cases.
I wouldn't make the argument that regulations get in the way without specifying which one. I would make the argument that, philosophically, Europe is very conservative and risk averse in terms of terms of releasing funding. For the purposes, of this argument, I'd also ignore states and political unions. However, you segment Europe, the result tends to be same.

This is at all levels of banking and financing. In the US, the balance is very different for almost all types of business. Of course, you can find exceptions, but investors will engage without the level of due diligence, or qualification, that is required in Europe.

There are various papers like Assessing the Potential for EU
Investment in Venture Capital
and Other Risk Capital Fund of
Funds (https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/horizon2020/document.cfm?doc_i...) which cover some of the issues.
I suspect most of these ransomware operators have the support of some government which turns a blind eye in return for a cut. There's not much value in tracking the BTC payments back to the same damn Russian bank who never seems to have any "evidence of such activities".
Those aren't open source.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts. This makes me think of the concept of "learned helplessness" [1.], it is useful phenomenon to be aware of when considered the influence on one's life due to systems and events that are outside of your influence and control. Martin Seligman, the psychology professor who initiated research on the topic, also developed the field of "positive psychology" [2.]. Concepts from positive psychology have helped me to understand and to cope and to come to terms with a state of mind similar to what your post insinuates -- a state of mind heavily influenced by the outside world and my perspective at the time.

[1.] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness

[2.] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_psychology
kbensons is explicitly referencing a legal case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masterpiece_Cakeshop_v._Colora...
Isn't this the justification for every kind of moral panic?
If we let kids watch sex scenes they'll become prostitutes. If we let kids play grand theft auto they'll shoot up their school.
Everything has the potential for negative externalities. I don't expect anyone to "think of the poor morbidly curious people" because it's strongly taboo in our culture but suggesting that - cause and effect: gore equals more murder for snuff - is a stretch.
Such apps tend to advertise that they block instances. Tusky, for example, blocks all Gab instances and says so right in the FAQ [1].

[1]: https://github.com/tuskyapp/faq bottom of the page
Also a good check if the site has some sloppy implementation. More than once have I seen that my "+" email was not accepted because of invalid characters. I take this as a sign to not trust the site's security too.
It is interesting that you say that. In English, we do use phrases like "X was destroyed by Z" ( I forget the exact idiom, but kids seem to be using it -- god I feel old ), where no actual destruction beyond verbal attack took place.

I know you were referring to something else, but it got me thinking that we are already using the phrase. Our legal system just does not allow a lot of 'word damage' to be adjudicated.
No quite the same thing. None of the Linux vendors make their own laptops, they just use barebones from Clevo etc.

So they can never achieve the same integration as Apple.
You might be right if the money has already been spent and is in the hands of innocent people. But if those addresses are still controlled by the criminals then seizing them causes no collateral damage.
Ruthlessly closing issues seems like the only reasonable way to deal with the onslaught of low-quality issues being opened. Whenever YouTube breaks it, several issues are opened within 30 minutes, and filled with entitled, respectless complaints about it still not being fixed. I've contributed once or twice, but dealing with that issue tracker has always seemed like hell.
I 100% share the frustration with carelessly damaged books from Amazon and don't disagree with your comment, but just want to say it's not Jeff Bezos or "Amazon" doing this to your shipment.

It's underpaid, overworked and (these days) health-endangered warehouse workers pushed beyond their limits by crazy quotas and efficiency measurements trying avoid losing their jobs.

[Well, I guess I should say it is Bezos/Amazon, but you know what I mean.]
I've definitely received counterfeit books from Amazon. I bought two volumes in a set of George Orwell essays and the difference in quality between the genuine one and the fake one was absurd. The real volume was a high quality trade paperback and the fake was a low-quality scan of the book printed on extremely cheap paper, binding stiff and hard to open. I emailed the publisher to let them know it was happening and never heard back.
Tilde.fun has a somewhat working ssh signup with an admin interface: https://code.tilde.fun/tilde/ssh-reg

Maybe we can work together and create a lightweight admin framework.
You're right, but calling it a 'simple solution' is disingenuous. We have decades of structural racism, policing legislation, ill-considered training regimes, and cultural bias to correct for in a federated system whose stakeholders are notoriously contemptuous of top-down approaches, and who's legislative actors avoid being responsible for any decisions with consequences like the plague.

You might as well say solving conflict in the middle-east is as simple as turning every government there into a functioning liberal democracy.
>Is this a problem with joining carbon fiber?

Fundamentally? No. That said, I imagine there's a lot of pressure from the management to make big, expensive, slow-to-manufacture subassemblies fit together, even when they maybe don't quite. Not sure if it's an issue with their tolerances, or if something bigger is going on (the skin roughness they mention is troubling, because it implies the carbon layup might not have been compressed enough during its cure, and would require significant reinforcement at the very least to meet minimum strength requirements--an aircraft that can't even reach its limit load is fantastically unsafe to fly), but joining composites is mostly about having good procedures and following them religiously.
Watts's work is great also as an existentialist hard sci-fi cosmic horror. It's got all of the Plutonian depths, malevolent antediluvian creatures, unfathomable aliens, degenerated humanity, and posthuman body horror of Lovecraft, just not the omnipotent space gods. Plus, he even continues cyberpunk tropes to their natural dystopian conclusions- in Rifters, "N'Am" is a continent governed by the power company that sends PTSD-afflicted veterans and abuse survivors to maintain deep sea geothermal generators, gigacorp execs are literally called "corpses", and the internet is completely swallowed up by A.I. spam bots.
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> Bash to Zsh

Always remember that the whole debacle of people even moving away from Bash is because Apple and others are afraid of GPLv3. They dread having to contribute back to the open source projects they profit from.

Most of the things I see for Zsh have been possible (and more portable) on Bash for decades. It's just the new javascript-like hype for Zsh that is new, not the capabilities.

True, Bash have lots of baggage, but half the portability and performance trickery is also because of that baggage. It's impossible to have the niceties Bash offer without some of the tradeoffs, and every new shell learned that the hard way.
How to join this workshop? I cannot find a direct link to any beginner tutorial in this program.
yeah, i mean '737s made before the MAX body length extension.' thanks for making me clarify.
Which is the whole point of hate speech laws. Can't market censorship of one party, but who could ever oppose censoring hate... then redefine hate to be anything you'd like censored, and ... that's what we have now.

Any time anyone complains about censorship, roll out the excuse of holocaust denial, regardless whats actually being censored.
As another commenter already pointed out, the IdentitiesOnly config option removes that ability. The ssh-config man page explains this.
I assume "let them fail" = "let them run themselves in bankruptcy". At which point, a court manages their re-org into something (hopefully) more lean, efficient, and probably several smaller independent units.
Powell's (for example) have a good alternative, they stack several books on a piece of cardboard the size of the box's bottom, then shrink-wrap the books to the cardboard. The books can't slide around, and can't move much. I've never had any arrive damaged (unlike AMZN).
Arizona DMV selling records is wrong (and a massive privacy invasion) but it is the least of your worries.

Quoting a recent HN post - At the time of his arrest Ngo (the bad guy/haxor) was averaging 160,000 monthly queries (aka fullz) to Experian with no questions asked.

See Part I and II of 'Confessions of an ID Theft Kingpin' to see how easy it was to submit a 'I am a Private Investigator, I Pinky Swear' application that ultimately he (Ngo) pivoted to full Experian database access.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24285784
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24295501
To be fair, docker doesn't run well on macOS. I've got a few containers that are mostly idle on Linux, but take two cores on my mac.
Yeah, a lot of people don't realize how market cap weighted actually gets you a not very diversified portfolio. For example, if you hold the S&P 500, about 8% of that is Apple, 6% is Amazon, 6% Microsoft, and 4% Google.

So 25% of your capital is going to 4 names, all in the same sector. Meanwhile, the smallest holdings will be under 1%.

Though market cap weighted is good for avoiding trading fees (you don't have to rebalance when the price of a stock changes), it's bad for investors. Not only do you miss out on some diversification, you end up with undue exposure to only a few sectors and you miss out on Fama and French's size factor by only investing in large companies.
I don't know of an easy or economical way to prevent or discourage abuse of communications.

For social communications, the main problem is: How do I find people I like or trust? That is a tough problem given constraints.

For network communications (IP), practically any two machines can communicate with each other, which opens up a number of serious security risks.
As if other code collaboration methods don't have drama. Making it obscure to access can help somewhat, but also gets in the way of contributors.
No, it dropped 75% in 2000 due to the dot-com bubble. If you started in 2001 you actually had a 60% gain by 2010.
"Heads up jack"...as if he doesn't know?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl1_LMcEszU
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>The loss of control of the narrative due to the internet has been a severe setback for the powerful

How was the narrative controlled by the powerful before the internet became a part of everyday life? Specifically, how was the narrative controlled in the US in the decades before 1993?

I'm asking for recommendations of books written by historians, journalists and other serious people. (Understanding the situation decades ago is probably a lot easier than understanding the current situation -- partly because the powerful will take pains to hide their controlling actions from the public.)

In the US I get the general sense that politicians and holders of government offices have never been able to exert a lot of control of the narrative with the result that journalists and the prestigious universities have so much influence that they are best thought of as essentially part of the government.

That suggests that the efforts of the establishment to rein in the big social media companies will prove largely ineffective with the result that Facebook and Google will probably join the New York Times and Harvard as parts of the de facto governing structure of the US.

EDITED: changed "rein" to "rein in".
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Can't you block bitcoin miners via limiting CPU time per user?

As soon as a user hits x amount of minutes CPU per minute, you kill all his programs.

Not nice but effective.
are they a suitable alternative for wheelchairs?

Because of stairs, etc.
Yep, you are right. Apologies for the misinformation there - I had misremembered.

Good to know about FRS and GMRS. Those things just underscore how really limited experimental transmission privileges are without a ham license.

About the Chik-Fil-A thing, that was a silly way to say that even if you do transmit on FRS or GMRS, it's not like there's a community of other experimenters making it fun to do so.
I wouldn't argue that it's not a universal human behaviour.

I would, however, argue that there's lots of evidence that it is not evenly distributed.
Those meat packages end up getting very different handling, because of the dry ice that's used to keep them cold. It's necessary to keep a careful track of the dry ice and know how much of it you're loading into a container, in order to avoid asphyxiating your colleagues. Most packages are just tossed along as quickly as possible, because there's a tight schedule to keep. But you have to temporarily slow way down when a package containing dry ice comes down the belt.

It's a little bit like that photographer's trick of packing a starter pistol with your camera equipment when flying, in order to ensure that the baggage crew is extra careful with your stuff.

Source: I used to schlep packages at a UPS hub.
> This pandemic leaves everyone's possessions and wealth alone and cuts off your ability to work. The people most likely to get it are those who don't have the wealth and power to insulate themselves from risk. And they are the ones least likely to have the healthcare required to survive.

This is the most astute articulation of the problem I’ve seen. Well done internet person!
Powershell support would be nice.
> Gibson found the Cyberpunk 2077 trailer exceedingly retro and 80s because its imagined future repeats anxieties and themes which were most relevant in the 1980s, when the genre first appeared.

The genre itself actually dates back to the 60s.
> that's more reliable than media that fact-checks itself and issues corrections

oh boy. I'm not even going to start in on this one. If you actually believe any of the "fact checks" done by your favourite news outlet, instead of going out and doing a lot of research from a bunch of different sources and viewing the full actual video of events in context, you're not getting the right picture; not even remotely the right picture.

We've never had a media that's more blatantly bias and unreliable than the one we have right now.
> It's not hyperbolic at all, or have you not seen the "Silence is Violence" rhetoric everywhere? It could literally come from Orwell's world of "War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength"

I’m aware of the “silence is violence” slogan. It means that inaction in the face of injustice is tacit support for the status quo. It doesn’t literally mean, for example, that all people are being violent while they are sleeping, or that people who are unable to speak are being violent. I’m sure there are some people who use the slogan in preposterous ways, but that’s true of all slogans. You’re looking into this way more than necessary. There’s a pretty clear reasonable interpretation of the slogan if you’re willing to look for that interpretation in good faith.
Yes, it's the same in the US.
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BTW, we released scrypt 1.3.1 yesterday:
http://mail.tarsnap.com/scrypt/msg00268.html

Main page, including the signed tarball:
http://www.tarsnap.com/scrypt.html
Thinktanks are always putting out hype/FUD reports like this. That is how they try to stay relevant and get media coverage. Remote learning and video existed well over a decade before zoomn. It is like saying that is Nike were to go out of business, people would not be able to find shoes.
My 10 year old gmail account has no associated phone number. Maybe it's valuable now. It's the only thing I use at all that is a Google product, and I'm always near deleting the entire account but it's just so convenient (Read, I've been lazy)
most offices are an immense source of waste regarding information exchange.

some would say whoever solves that problems is filthy rich
You're mixing up two different things: sites removing illegal content because they're mandated to do so, and sites removing legal content because they choose to do so.
Is Boeing the company of strategic interest to the U.S., or just its intellectual property and factories?

Both.

Strategic interest because Boeing has a massive military business.

Plus, the sheer size of the company and the fact that's it's one of two airline manufacturers worldwide (ignoring the few companies that focus solely on the regional jet business).
The old days are gone.
Would you also email me so I can ask a few questions?

m@replace-with-my-username.com

Would be much appreciated!