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Well I suppose the nice thing about metric is that it doesn't matter!

You may be convincing me though, since in feet and inches it does matter, and it would mean as you say - 'looks about 10 11' means 10'11", not 1011".

In the UK though we generally don't mix metres and centimetres - '1 8' would mean '1.8' not '1.08', though I'd say the decimal point would rarely be elided, so that's clear.

So I just wouldn't say 1 80 about metres unless the question was 'how many metres' - and then I'd mean 180m.
It's not a problem with the car, it's an analogy that the fuel and the network are bottlenecks where normally the tires and storage might be.
Eggs is a bad example. Try building a wall and dividing it into 3 sections. The symmetry looks good, but metric makes it a real pain to do that, while base 12 systems make it easier.

Plywood is sold in 8 foot long sheets, or 240cm in metric countries. 200cm would be a more natural metric size, but it is too short to be useful (because plywood is used for things that need to be human height), and so being compatible with the US standard is the compromise construction uses.

Metric is nice in math when you can choose to your values to make things easy. As you get to engineering things get messy just because the nice sizes are not normally even values. Of course all systems suffer from this, 5000 feet in a mile would be a nicer measure but it doesn't fit in with the other things that you want in a system so you compromise. Metric compromised differently and is equally annoying to use for everything.

We should still go metric in the US, consistency is useful.
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>This is a broad statement and makes me think of how readily people talk about "fascism" and "neo-nazis" nowadays with little regard to whether the people they're describing bear any relation to Mussolini or Hitler.

Those were totalitarian states. Authoritarian is general term which can be used to describe any entity engaging in autocratic decision making.
UNIX philosophy is to have lots of small executables. This is a brand new scrappy project that offers a lot of value in terms of better enabling that vision. It uses normal GNU C / C++ / FORTRAN (which are all fantastic toys) combined with a linker script that emits a new executable format.
UK notes are still an IOU. The note I have in front of me says "Clydesdale Bank PLC promises to pay to the Bearer on demand Ten Pounds Sterling at their office here By order of the Board of Directors". This is one of the few cases where "legal tender" actually has meaning: if I present a wodge of bank notes to Clydesdale (or for Bank of England notes, the Bank of England) saying I want repaid in coppers, I'm obliged to accept legal tender for repayment of the debt represented by my notes. Which in Scotland means pound coins, but in England it probably means I'm getting more (although possibly different) notes back.

Interestingly, Clydesdale's office address isn't shown on the note.
> Hard disagree on the first point.

> Anchors are perfectly fine for jumping to a specific point on a page. Nearly all documentation websites do it, wikipedia does it, etc...

I don't think that point says to not use anchors for in-page navigation.

They're not objecting to `href="#my_anchor"`, they're objecting to `href="#" onclick="doStuff()"`, which is increasingly common on the web today.
The first point is that anchor elements should not be used as buttons by adding event listeners that don’t do something akin to following a link. It isn’t really related to the usage you are describing.
>maybe I should just not hang out on HN with this attitude

Sycophants are numerous everywhere else.
Now I feel even better about disabling my browser history in Firefox.
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What problems do skipping headings cause?
Dis you actually read the article? It sets out some real world ethical problems in terms of reproducibility of results and wasted effort as well as issues of recommending vaccinations to third parties that haven't undergone rigorous double-blind trials.
Hand grenade toting drones more or less came of age during the ISIS shenanigans and Syrian civil war. Both those conflicts are/were hot enough and had enough state resources pumped in that you had guys taking pot shots at each other with AGTMs. Basically the other sources of casualties were too much background noise for drones to be noteworthy.

When a cooler conflict comes around, think whatever the 2020s, 2030s equivalent of the troubles is, drones will certainly rack up a much greater market share of the casualties by virtue of the lower background noise. They just aren't that useful in a "low but still tons of real armaments around for use" intensity conflict.
I agree. Same for the Dalai Lama. He was once Tibetan but today he is Chinese. That’s just how it has worked and does work, like it or not.

Obviously being in exile I have no idea what passport he carries of if he gets to issue his own given he contends the current government, etc.
A drone need not enter a home to cause havoc within. I do not believe the assumption that one is safe within a home/car is a viable one.

To discuss specific implementations of an attack would seem to violate both a personal code and what I imagine to be the spirit of HN.
Yes, I mean Optance DC Persistent Memory. It's hard because they seems to market three different product categories under almost the same name (Optane Memory, Optane DC Persistent Memory and SSDs).
This is also thanks to Ubuntus commitment to contribute back to Debian and ensure there is a synergy. The same can't be said for Manjaro.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Ubuntu/ForDebianDevelopers
I think the author was talking about a literal "href='#'" which ought to have no use aside from a poor man's "back to the top", rather than an anchor pointing to another id on the page, which can be useful.
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Denmark and Poland and Sweden also have a Central Bank and unique distortions in the credit markets. Very few people pay attention to them, getting information is tricky. The nordic credit market is its own animal centered in Norway, but all the countries want business. They are trapped because the Eurozone is a behemoth and the yield curve distortions there are like a gravity well, and the cultural sentiment of speculators or general people is the same or has the same inputs, so they must go steeper in negative yields faster or expand their universe of investible assets faster.

Pay attention to the corporate credit market. The steeper the yield curve goes, the more it drags down the cost of credit for corporate issuers. Getting aggregate corporate credit information in these markets is hard but rewarding, you can predict what to expect - investment grade corporations bonds yielding 0% possibly issued at 0% - but it is hard to confirm the market appetite. This is where we are right now in market efficiency.
> Right, but jQuery often is, which lets you sell people on the feature by saying it's for jQuery. The whitelist is just in case people forgot the SRI on their jQuery

There's a huge difference between libraries (versioned, can use SRI, open source, don't have canonical URLs) vs services (none of those, change a lot, JS you reference on your page is generally only the first link in a long chain of JS). When I worked on mod_pagespeed (disclosure: at the time a Google project) we had the "Canonicalize JavaScript Libraries" feature (https://www.modpagespeed.com/doc/filter-canonicalize-js) which similarly only operated on libraries.

> why not throw a couple other trustworthy scripts on there while we're at it?

I'm still confused how you're imagining this working. The bundler inspects the site (really hard!) and packages up the resources? If you're doing that, "trustworthy" isn't a thing the bundler would decide: the site owner has indicated their trust by referencing the JS in their page source (directly or indirectly).

> "Google currently has internal policies forbidding it"

While Google started the AMP project and is its largest contributor, it's now an external project at the OpenJS foundation: https://openjsf.org/blog/2019/10/10/openjs-foundation-welcom... Modifying AMP policies to allow ad networks to run non-open source JS at the top level where it can't easily be blocked would be completely politically impractical.

> In AMP's specific case, you might not even need inscrutable JS since pages are served from google.com and thus already include the tracking cookies

As sites adopt SXG this wouldn't work. From the browser's perspective a site that is served from site A and signed for site B is not connected to site A, and site A's cookies won't be included on the request.
Those are a same-page links and they are perfectly okay when pointing to an identificator on the same page. However, people put no identificator after the "#" and attach a listener instead where the behavior turns undefined and everything is possible.
I've built an implementation of t-SNE in Go (https://github.com/danaugrs/go-tsne) and really like the fact that your visualization has a short Z dimension. Very interesting effect.
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Another is laws about employment. Is the guy who empties the trash can an employee of the building or the company who leases the space. That can mean different levels of what has to be offered to that janitor. As the mega corp could be 200k people and need to offer X benefits by law the building owner has it broken out into a REIT and the guy works for a 50 person employee shop and has Y benefits.
As of August 5, 2020, there was $1.95 trillion worth of Federal Reserve notes in circulation https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/currency_12773.htm
I don't want to be a DDG shill but there are two advantages to using DDG over Google here:

1. Pinterest images appear much less frequently in image search results

2. When they do, they can still be directly linked to
The difference of sun to the noon is at maximum 16m 33s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equation_of_time)
In the mid 90s I was at an OO database company, and we were expanding into tools. The decision was made to produce a Smalltalk binding and build tools for that language.

That was well underway when Java was released. And you could hear the air go out of the Smalltalk tires. Java was another OO language, it was designed for “applets” that would run in the browser, and it was created by Sun Microsystems, who built the most popular computers of the day. Nearly everyone who was interested in Smalltalk turned to Java and never looked back.
A drone swarm dropping hand grenades is like targeted artillery. Experience from WW 1 is that it's straightforward to defend against artillery fire, just retreat into a shelter. A target that's worth five dozen drones with grenades can afford a bunker.
The comment about scientists self-administering reminded me of Barry Marshall drinking a vial of H. Pylori

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Marshall
Personally, I have a github private repo where I put everything in named directories.

Small cleanup every now and then.

Can't recall where something is? Grep it.
Sure. They but now they can explicitly decide the other way around?

Judges question "Why 30% exactly?" indicates that people no longer think Apple is entitled to that.
Every other language works fine with Kate and Git, my favorite editor and SCM.

Having fewer options is not inherently good.
What if the browser didn't assume any defaults when rendering HTML? That is, without CSS an <h1> element looks identical to a <p>, a <div> doesn't do anything different to a <span>, etc. It would probably mean developers would make less mistakes using semantic HTML elements for style, but of course it would never happen because it would break every website in existence.
To be pedantic, it's time-space tesseract, but yes.
I think you’re receiving a strange response because people think you’re advocating some sore of crypto-anarchist freeman position, and HN as a community is very much weighted against that point of view ...

I can identify with what you’re saying and there are some very well known examples of local currency being subverted. You can see Bolivia in the news recently, or Argentina or everybody’s favourite trillion dollar note the Zimbabwean kwacha. Funnily enough, all have been using dollars ...
I have always noticed the fondness with which some people talk about smalltalk. For a language that practically doesn't exist anymore, I find that odd...especially considering the number of languages that people despise but still exist and are regularly used.

I don't really have much love for the combination of dynamic types and object orientation in general, but could someone explain what they got from smalltalk that they don't currently have via Ruby, Python, or other currently popular languages of similar discipline? I've seen lots of explanations as to why it failed...but why do people still talk about it like they miss it?
My parent was claiming that the 1825 reform is what made the Imperial fluid ounce weigh one ounce, though, but the pre-1825 units as used in the US also have that property.
> The average royalty is about $25,000 a year for a course
> A Great Courses lecturer earns a royalty that varies according to how highly viewers rate his performance; the base royalty is 4 percent of the course’s gross revenue, but that rate can rise to 6 percent if a course receives high enough evaluations.

25k being 6%, would mean the average course has gross revenue of about 416K per year. Impressive
In the last 10 years there has been an explosion in new renewable power plants. Consumption of solar energy has increased by 20x. Wind by 5x. Even hydro has gone up almost 30%.

But for every 1 watt hour of extra renewable energy, fossil fueled energy consumption has expanded by 10 watts. Gas and oil usage has only gone up, and the increase from 2010 in just coal consumption is more than the total amount of wind generated in the whole world.

The biosphere and its people, the future, all our kids and grandkids, water sources, atmosphere, it all depend on us stopping fossil fuels. Burning fossil fuels when there are better alternatives available is a an on going crime facilitated by almost every government on the planet.

It would be good to say that the answer is renewable, but it the wrong answer to the wrong question. The answer to the short and long term danger to the planet is a immediate stop to the production and expansion of fossil fueled energy. No new fossil fueled power plant should be allowed to be built in 2020 and onward. The answer about what we do next is also related to fossil fuels, ie any alternative energy source which is not fossil fuels. We need to ramp up production of solar, wind, storage and nuclear and we need people to invest into that today. There is only so many trained people in those fields and only if everyone is working on fossil fuels alternative may we get a functional energy grid without fossil fuels fast enough.
memento mori: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter
Wait i do say “one meter and eighty centimeters”!
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The difference is that the Dalai Lama is alive and presumably has an opinion on this.
Its Open Street Maps who benefits most. Microsoft uses OSM data from what I can tell, they get their imagery from other companies.
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I've got an (old) Samsung Galaxy S4 that I've stuck with because it suits my needs and it still works well. Knowing that it will eventually die, I guess I have two questions I'd love to have answered by Pinephone owners:

1) Is a Pinephone a viable alternative either iOS or Android?

2) How do you get it connected to carrier X?
Smalltalk and C were developed around the same time, which renders any argument to the effect of, "Smalltalk didn't get popular because it didn't use the C-style syntax that everyone knows and loves," uncompelling by virtue of being anachronistic.
> Just coz they fail somewhere does not mean they are bad.

But looking at the bigger picture is not especially favorable to Google et al:

Back in the 1980s, technology was advancing at a dizzying pace, and the world seemed on its way to peace, freedom, and brotherly love.

Today the world has a dis/misinformation crisis, and authoritarianism is rising.

Even if none of that is the fault of Google and social media, it casts doubt on the benefit of today's internet. How great can it be, given the state the world?
he's so French, in the worse way possible. I say that as a French person myself
>Some scientists are self-administering an untested product. Is it ethical?

Depends, if the self-administering scientist is the only person at risk then I don't see any reason to believe it is not ethical. Assuming they are adult, sane persons it is ethical to take personal risk, at least in my book.
Now, depending on what is being injected you could imagine a situation where this could pose risk to other people as well - for example a vaccination containing an active virus (through a design or mistake) that could spread outside the lab and infect others. This would NOT be ethical.

tldr: if the self-administering person does not put anyone else at risk it should be considered ethical
IIRC, The GPL incompatibility prohibits distribution of linked binaries. Since the CDDL-licensed ZFS kernel modules have to be linked against the kernel, those compiled modules can't be distributed.

Hence, Canonical (or anyone else trying to re-release under the CDDL) cannot distribute binaries of the kernel modules.

However, you are fully allowed to compile and link the two on your own. This is why the alternative to binary distribution is compiling yourself with the help of DKMS.
Given that:

1. Some of those 37 situations are more interesting than others

2. You need more than one of them for a good screenplay

3. Some situations do not mix well in one story

You will come to conlusion that there is limited number of possible stories.

Now, Hollywood has been producing dozens of movies every year for over a century it becomes clear that it is slowly running out of stories to tell. That's why you see so many remakes/sequels: Star Wars, Rambo, Die Hard, etc. Or remakes with a twist: let's make main characters black/women/gay/trans and pretend that we created a brand new, original story.

Hollywood is eating its own tail.
> What are we doing wrong?

Let me answer your question with your own quote:

> The thing is, everyone I speak to in the project hates it and not just because it’s new and they don’t like change.

Tech industry is all about change, and since there is so much change, we have to rely a lot of having good processes that can be applied to all sorts of changes. It does sound like your company dropped a bomb of a bunch of changes - they probably could have baby-stepped into code review before also switching to git. Too much change is hard for anyone. But I don't think your company's problem is git.

I used to be the guy that had a single branch project with pushes directly to master, live changes on production, some days had multiple deploys as we discovered bugs. While that was _easy_ from the perspective of "hey, I could just push code, and it was great", it was hard because all deploys were high-stakes, and could mean spending hours debugging and redeploying into the after hours of my work day (and this happened regularly).

Just to ask a question back to you, how many times did your company's simple SVN process backfire and cause more work for you?
CenturyLink “residential” is limited to territories where they are the ILEC.

CenturyLink “business” is everywhere in CA and a large provider.
You're just not used to it.

Now look at programming in English and it has the same "issues". "bug" means defect when it could also mean a little critter. "super" means the parent class? How do people know you don't mean the superlative? How does "short", "float", "long" describe numbers? You "catch" things? "map" and "dictionary" certainly aren't the things I have on my coffee table by the same name. I've heard of race being a "protected class", but not a "BeanFactory" being one.

It was always arbitrary from the start.

You're making the same mistake that beginners make when they think "ugh, English is so much more precise than this language I'm unfamiliar with!" when they are completely blind to the ambiguities of English that we take for granted.
Manual tweaking, probably.
After two previous times of attempting to switch to DDG from Google I finally made the switch seemingly permanently earlier this year. DDG is really good these days. Very occasionally I'll send a query over to google, which is easy in Firefox with the "@google <search term>" syntax in the url bar. Usually only necessary for local news.
I think w3school improved a lot and I use it more often than MDN, as it's more "user friendly" per se, but to get full explanation etc I will visit MDN.

So w3school for quick check, MDN for deeper reading.

W3school is popular as it gets one thing done right: very user friendly esp for beginners, no one beats that yet.
> You should only use one <h1> per page.

This just isn't true in 2020. I know that MDN still recommends that, but it's seemingly invalid and outdated.

Here's what MDN says about a single H1:

> Having a single top-level title is also arguably better for screenreader users, and SEO

Here's why it isn't always bad for SEO and why it isn't always bad for screenreaders: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsgrSxCmMbM

Here's a much longer article about it all: https://webdesign.tutsplus.com/articles/the-truth-about-mult...
Students from different countries are asked to write an essay on elephants.

An English student: "Elephants and their import for the industrial production"

A French student: "Elephants and their sexual life"

A German student: "Elephants as the precursors of tanks"

A Soviet student: "The USSR: the country where elephants originally came from"

A Bulgarian student: "Bulgarian elephant, the younger brother of the Soviet elephant".
Or 13 days ago. I know I read it recently--though perhaps on page 2..

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24196228
It does actually, and I really like this explanation: So, imagine you model a human mind. Now you can slow this model down, speed it up, the human mind does not know. In the novel states of the mind in time are computed, out of order, while watching reality, the mind observes it is time scambled but the mind itself does not notice. On the basis Egan concludes that the pattern that forms the mind may well be present in the universe somewhere, and the next time pattern, one time instance further may be somewhere completely different. But the mind does not notice. So the mind can just exist without it's physical basis being anywhere specifically... It get's one thinking.

Honestly as the other response says, indeed there is a parallel universe part to it.. For which I didn't really understand it relation to "dust".

I also liked "Quarantine" which made Quantum Mechanics somehow more intuitive to me. Truly a great writer.
as far as i know, the 100g weight rule is standard across the EU. I have seen it on virtually any packaging i could find, with the exception of packaged fruits etc. (which obviously come per piece).
"The way it is shipped" differs by distro and the message by non-ubuntu distros is that the way ubuntu ships zfs seems legally risky to them. Ubuntu disagrees and they might be right (isle of man jurisdiction IIRC?), but their legal theory has not been tested and oracle has a reputation.
I agree. People seem happier when they can have "free" time after work. It is depressing to leave work and it is already dark (in winter).
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