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> If anything they are too cautious and have only banned terrorists after widespread pressure and threats of advertiser boycotts

This is nowhere close to what reddit/twitter have been doing however.

> then you are creating an extremist haven

...of people interested in anime porn after reddit banned them.
Some of my favorite moments in time are traveling to some city and carving out time to visit a locally run bookstore. I can point to books on my bookshelf and recall precisely the year and store from which I purchased it.

Maybe bookstores are a problem the way you describe them... I also have a friend who does the annual holiday musical/dance/theater productions in her local town. Auditions, rehearsals, musicians, dancers, actors, etc. Her studio loses money. Her partner contributes most of the matching funds needed to break even. They book theaters and sell tickets, etc. It doesn't make money, it's not a high profile cultural event, it's a hobby but the people who do it, and attend year after year, love it.

I'm not saying bookstores are like that, for better and worse. I personally think bookstores can and should survive in our economic environments. They're a universal funnel of product, output, art, commerce and community. We can buy things from them and they can employee people and survive.

That said -- I just looked up the new Beowulf translation. Powell's is out, Bookshop is out, but Amazon can says it's "In Stock". Sigh^3.
Excellent, not sure what I missed before, but I have aptx and aac now! A good step in the right direction. Still would love LDAC and/or Aptx HD of course in the long run.
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Anywhere I can buy these cells? (No, seriously). I haven't found anything despite a fair bit of searching.

In comparison, I can order 18650 LiIons with 50% higher energy density right now, in pretty much any quantity or balance of discharge rate vs. capacity I want. BMCs are cheap and easily available. No supply chain worries. If I need to export I just buy in the destination country and build packs there.
Hey there’s actionable stuff in that. It’s very cool to see traction for these groups.
I ran into similar issues with driver blocklists on both Linux and Windows. There are workarounds, such as setting MOZ_GFX_SPOOF_* environment variables, but even the suggestions on the Mozilla Wiki at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Blocklisting/Blocked_Graphics_Drive... no longer work, because the spoofed driver version (8.15.10.2302) was blocked in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/843273 It's a mess.

I can understand the desire to avoid using drivers which cause a poor user experience. I don't envy the task of trying to implement and maintain a system to achieve that. I do wish it wasn't so painful and confusing for users when the behavior doesn't match our expectations.
The rules are against obfuscating your communications, which encompasses both encryption and e.g. using code words to hide your meaning.
I registered forename.surname@gmail.com, I often get mail for someone else forenamesurname@gmail.com. I noe have no idea who else they are routing email intended to the former.
It's easy to write that program. For example, a Peterson lock, which has a busy-wait loop:

while (flag1 == true && turn == 1) { /* wait */ }

the loop terminates by another thread writing to either variable.

If the variables were mirrored to registers, and that mirroring was not invalidated by another thread's write, then the loop would never terminate.

Of course Zen2 did not break Peterson locks, so the GP's question is cogent and has the answer "yes, there is such logic."
Depends on how you define the community.

The police were thanking him for being out there, for his support, and giving out water bottles. (Top video in the article, skip about a minute in)

1:40 something in. Police: "Are you Protecting that building" Crowd: "yes" Police: "Thank you."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/08/26/jacob-blake...
There was also “sticks and stones may break my bones but words can’t hurt me” that now seems in practice to have gone by the wayside.
There are similar adjacent problems with discord and violation of the terms of service.

Luckily most of these groups are tech savvy enough to run their own IRC servers.
The difference between the two groups is that one is organized, and its leadership has an obligation to control the behaviour of its members.

There's no chief-of-a-protest who can take administrative action against some anonymous drunk idiot throwing a brick into a window. There is, however, a chief-of-police who can theoretically do the same about the, ah, bad apples.

Practically, the various chiefs of police seem to be doing everything they can to protect those bad apples from the consequences of their behaviour.

Also, between civilians and police, the police should know better. We give them guns and a mandate to uphold the law, and pay them lots of money to do so. But instead of zero tolerance for criminal behaviour in their ranks, it's all coverups, collusion, the thin blue line, punishing whistleblowers, and lobbying for legislature that grants them them immunity to the consequences.
Can your paper notebook read PDF’s?
This is amazing !! So much better than looking variable in the watch. Please add ruby support to this
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I don't! I literally wrote that in my comment.

But it's okay to like things that aren't cutting edge or groundbreaking or Oscar-worthy, too. Critical discussion != criticism.
I've been wanting to switch to Windows from Mac for years. The thing that holds me back is the quality of the Mac touchpad vs any Windows laptop, and I recently ordered a Surface Book 3 having heard how great the touchpad is. I've already returned it.

The touchpad is pretty good but it's still not as precise as the Mac touchpad - there is a slight hysteresis that makes it imprecise for short movements. No amount of tweaking settings could overcome this. The only way to be accurate at short range is to slow the overall pointer speed so it takes more than one finger swipe to move across the screen.

The other problem with the Surface Book is the Home and End keys are not accessible at the same time as the function keys - a show-stopper for smooth editing and debugging in an IDE.
>there should be some ethical and truth finding considerations attached.

But who decides what's true? And why should we let them? Majority consensus is an easy answer, but we'd need something else if we were to regulate truth at a level we could enforce on journalists.

I'm personally more worried about that question spiraling out of control than I am about offering equal air time.
This seems like a misunderstanding of quadratic complexity. If every i in every foo is checked/operated upon once, that's still linear, no matter if the nesting structure requires nesting flow control.
I don’t think shooting three people can be considered a demonstration of self control. The standard is to shoot zero people, which I guess everyone else managed that night?

> The kid had zero record.

That can’t really be used as proof of innocence. You wouldn’t be able to convict anyone, since everyone starts off with zero record. He’s only 17, so hasn’t managed to avoid serious trouble for very long.
Simple fear of authoritarian government oppression. It was also decided in the very early days of our government that a national government bank wasn't constitutional.

With Snowden's revelations of things we mostly already knew, we can see that we don't really have much leverage over government abuse of power to collect and misuse data. The government is already doing broad data collections from private companies using secret courts... it would be a whole lot worse if the government already possessed the data.

With private banks, I can choose which one I use. There is at least some motivation for that bank to be on my side, and I don't have to wait for an election cycle and hope that my issue fits in with my side on other issues and that side gets >50% after 2 or 4 years ... my bank does something I don't like and I can switch today.

I don't trust my government to do a good job doing anything, or for anything my government does to not be vulnerable to political destruction (just look at the post office).
I get physical mail for a previous owner, even though I've lived here for five years. Usually I notice, I write "Not at this address" and cross through the address in Sharpie then shove it into a mailbox, per regulations.

More recently I forgot to check the front before opening. I realised when the contents were about a mortgage account, I don't like debt so I certainly wouldn't have a mortgage.

Apparently the previous owner still has a mortgage on this place, which would worry me if not for the fact I have monitoring set up so I know the Land Registry says it's mine, which means even if the idiot bank thinks they've got security for a loan they are wrong and the government will cheerfully tell a court of law that if asked. Hopefully they just didn't update the name of the mortgage and actually security is now in the form of some other property bought with the proceeds of the sale to me, but who knows, these idiots didn't understand "Not at this address" for five years.

I decided to call the bank about this mistakenly opened letter, but because of COVID they weren't usefully taking calls. I could remain in a queue for fifteen minutes and then get automatically dumped out with "We're sorry" if I wanted. So I just chucked the letter in the recycling.

If you need a recommendation for a Bank never to do business with in the UK (certainly not to trust with regards to where their customers live) it would be Halifax.
Actually what I don't understand is how you can at the same time:

- estimate that memory safety isn't paramount (you're not alone in this case, and it's usually the kind of discussion that happens over and over on Rust threads).

- and use the “Zig is memory-safe” as a marketing argument.

“Zig isn't memory safe but we think it's not what matters” is something I'm willing to hear even though I usually make a different trade-off, I know a ton of C programmers who are fine with those languages not being memory-safe. But redefining the definition of memory safety[1] so that Zig can fit in, while at the same time arguing that memory safety is just a detail in the grand scheme of things, is just incomprehensible to me.

Also, your writing in this whole thread is full of resentment towards Rust and I don't think your animosity is helpful in any way: among the really tiny group of people who are currently experimenting with Zig there are people who actually love Rust and use it every day, I'm one of them and I know I'm not the only one. Bashing other language in a thread about a language you contribute to isn't the best way to be a welcoming community.

Good day.

[1] “Zig is (will be) memory safe”*

*as soon as you disable some compiler optimizations and use an allocator which is actually a memory-management runtime but not totally a GC because you need to free things yourself and if you make a mistake it will abort your program. Terms and conditions apply.
You've spent 2 years with such a great username but only shared your thoughts just now?
Something tells me an outage will make them think about it
>Apple should be allowed to do what they want regarding charging for use of the app store, but they shouldn't be allowed to keep their policies secret.

Totally agree. There's barely anything MORE RELEVANT than the fact that 30% of proceeds aren't going to the businesses.

Apple claims that their processes lead to better results for businesses and customers, but they should just admit the main benefit is for Apple itself and that any rules are intentionally vague so that Apple can maximize that benefit. The opacity of their actual requirements and process are a hindrance to everyone.

EDIT:

Moreover, how can Apple claim that Facebook saying it takes 0% be relevant while stating that Apple takes 30% is irrelevant?
This isn't quite safe harbor. It's not like the app was removed for one user posting one bad content. If what the poster above said is true, it's closer to if an app had a user who regularly broke the rules, and the app refused to ban said person.
I see two parallel processes here: "decode video and render it" and interpret JavaScript/WASM at every frame.
The old days were never as controversy-free as most people remember. There was a time not that long ago when common techie opinions like "Internet piracy isn't a big deal" or "shooter games are fun and kid-friendly" were seen as quite immoral in some circles, and calling your forum "Hacker News" was kinda subversive. If we're headed back to that kind of environment, just with a different set of moral issues enforced by a different set of people, that seems solidly OK.
I'm not sure what you mean by justification. I think I simply lay out some context and a set of conflicting perspectives.

That said, if you don't want Chrome and Firefox to be content aware, then you should argue that safe browsing should be eliminated from Firefox and Chrome. That is a self consistent position, but it may not be consistent with e.g. avoiding dramatic growth in botnets, ransomware, organized crime etc.
Don't blame authors, blame society for failing to break out of the neoliberal (or other epithet) trap started in the '80s. If we had fundamentally different struggles and anxieties now, and perhaps a different, more idealistic outlook, then different genres would emerge.

It's gotta be a little weird for these authors to see their "movement" co-opted into big media properties that make millions of dollars for big companies. Somebody else said it in these comments; that's not very punk.

It's not weird at all. Consumerism has co-opted and commodified every single ideology; there's nothing wiser or more edgy or purer about cyberpunk that would have prevented this from happening to it. If anything, it's very apropos.
They're not forced to distribute it any more than they're forced to distribute content they do agree with.

In both cases, they're already providing the service to distribute it; they're simply leaving it alone and not acting at all.

Incidentally that's the best way for them to retain their Section 230 protection -- neutrality.
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From reports in my circles, Teams is definitely worse. Most people i know seem fine with Zoom, but Teams seems universally hated.
I have used https://www.dailylit.com/ on and off for years

Why is this service better?
Browser just says "give permission to use mic and camera" and you click yes.

If you click no, then I think you're going to struggle to intuit how to proceed; but it's no harder than navigating UAC dialogs to install software, much easier IMO.

None of the olds in my family had a problem. YMMV I guess.
Not a part which is ever run when the SSH daemon is started normally.
You are nice to compare Zoom to Nike.
They're not ruining Bitcoin, they're only making it painfully obvious how totally unfit for use Bitcoin has always been.
I'm curious as to how Zoom is that much different from Webex (at least from the user perspective). I've been using both working in a university setting with all remote classes and as far as the UI, Zoom is almost a copy of Webex with some minor differences.

In Webex I can either send someone the link to my personal room or I can schedule a meeting via Outlook (with a Webex plugin)or the Webex app.

With Zoom I can either start a meeting with my personal meeting ID or I can schedule a meeting via Outlook (with a Zoom plugin) or the Zoom app.

Inside both there are buttons to turn on/off mic, camera, change settings of those things, share the screen, and if I am the host, I can assign various privileges or revoke them.

I haven't used Lync in years so I have no idea what that's like, but from what I've seen, Webex and Zoom are basically in a back and forth to add the handful of minor features they're missing compared to the other. Zoom has been improving security options and defaults. Webex added virtual backgrounds and is about to add breakout rooms.

I understand that there are bigger differences in enterprise license options and backend, but for users they seem like similar-looking fraternal twins.
> There is such a thing as interaction-free measurements: you can take photos of things without ever letting light hit a detector and you can tell whether a bomb is "active" without actually interacting with the detonator.

Can you provide a link that talks about that? It goes against my understanding of why there's an uncertainty principle at all
It's not clear that the current economic situation would be better if we let everyone out and suffered all the death and negative long term health outcomes that may still lurk in apparently benign cases.
With COVID my grandfather has been doing telepresence visits with his doctors, for COVID among other reasons.

Mostly they were using a 3rd party solution like webx/zoom/etc but one doctor (automated in an online form) noticed his number was tied to iMessage and offered to just FaceTime him at his appointment time. Super easy for him (at 94) to self-manage vs any other solution where we (my mother or myself) need to be around to set things up for him.

Not sure how they are doing this exactly, if this is something Apple specifically enabled for healthcare or whatever, but its a fantastic experience.

Whatever solution they were using did have an "no I have an android and a 'use my computer' option" not sure what path they led down.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/world-history/holoc...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Vrba

So definitely were known before liberation. As for the date, could be that I was wrong and it was 1943, and not 1941 (However, as soon as 1941-2 some 1.5 million Russian jews were shot to death, was there zero evidence of that?)

It's also possible some governments had evidence but refused to believe such monstrosity could take place, or were just helpless / reluctant to do anything. Hell even these days some people refuse to accept what happened there.

Obviously the Germans didn't know who knew what and tried to conceal. And obviously American / Russian soldiers who liberated the camps were surprised. Does that mean Churchill / Roosevelt were surprised? Also - was it really such a shocker? Jews were starving to death for years in Ghettoes prior to extermination - surely the local population had an idea the jews fate wasn't great.
Shouldn't you be arguing for fewer police killings, period? Last I checked more white people were being killed by police than black people.
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Oh, I was all about LaTeX for a decade prior to switching to org, so I know the feeling. However, org is just so much more lightweight that I found myself writing/authoring a lot more once I switched. I now often author emails where I need rich text (embedded code with syntax highlighting, tables, etc) in org.

Oh, and I try to do all my presentations in it too - it can export to Beamer.

As for Emacs, I know what you mean. I tried it on and off for 10-11 years before I finally stuck to it. In my case, what helped was that vi/vim really was much worse, so it's not like I had a seriously good alternative. I tired of repeatedly switching editors per task (had one for Python, another for LaTeX, etc). I finally one day said "I need to learn a really good editor and stick to it." I bought the Emacs book, spent a whole week reading it, and forced myself to Google a solution whenever I couldn't remember how to do something. I was surprised how quickly I became proficient in it - within a month of use.

(All without learning elisp - I was a "power" Emacs user for 8-9 years before I learned elisp properly).

And then I discovered org mode. While I've encountered people who were proficient Emacs users but left for something else, I haven't found anyone who is an org mode user who switched to something else. I know people who use other editors in general, but still use Emacs just to use org mode.
I think the problem is that websites today don't have enough single points of failure or maybe that websites today have too few third parties with access to private information.

Something like that.

It reminds me of the fad to get people to use "Javascript CDNs" that are "free" because they track your users with cookies.
No, I'm not mixing them up. I'm asking questions about them to try to understand people's viewpoints.
> At this point my coworker gave up and the kid presumably lost his scholarship because his family didn't know you could keep your Gmail address when you moved houses.

Didn't your colleague forward the information ?
It already existed at the time this article was written, as well, I think. There is probably a niche for purely ergonomic tooling that works with, not against, the built-in features, but a lot of this is a matter of positioning - I know some expensive and widely used legal document management systems that are strictly worse than the built-in features (regularly lose important data thanks to user error in ways that are impossible with the built in features). They still sell and get used.
When it comes to flash memory, its best to avoid no-name brands and prices that seem too good to be true.

But considering we now have 1TB microSD cards, its definitely feasible to make a flash drive with such capacity
Starting a business here is easy.

Growing a business here is harder.

You want an office? Welcome to the wonderful world of business rates, commercial lettings, site security, ever-changing transportation and infrastructure arrangements that will be largely out of your control, etc.

Hiring your first employee? Welcome to employment contracts, documenting policies for things like grievances and disciplinary actions that you hope you'll never need, arranging pension plans, H&S regulations, statutory leave, benefits rules, and all the other HR fun and games.

Providing a service online, where your customers might come from abroad? Welcome to international tax regulations that you can barely keep up with, never mind properly comply.

Don't want to have users steal back all the revenue you ever took from them based on a legal technicality? Better have a good lawyer to write all your documents.

Don't want an intervention by the data protection regulator? Better make sure all your GDPR compliance processes and documentation are up to standard.

Remember to file your real-time payroll data and VAT returns and confirmation statements and annual financials on time. Don't forget you'll need to use suitable online systems for a lot of this stuff now, since HMRC insist on it, and you'll need to get anything else you're using for financial management integrated with them.

Don't forget your public liability insurance. And employer's liability insurance. And professional indemnity insurance. And property insurance. And...

Now, you can outsource a lot of this work. For some legal and accounting matters, you will have little choice, unless that happens to be your field of expertise. But of course the services offering to do it for you will charge you, and even if it's just a thousand pounds here or 3% of your revenue there, it will soon add up. Until you're big enough to have in-house people for things like HR, facilities management, IT, legal and financial, that's how it goes.

Now, run along and make sure your designated H&S officer has checked that all your employees currently working from home have suitably ergonomic workspaces set up, recent sight tests done and glasses/contacts provided if they're working with computers, and proper reporting in place for all the extra expenses they'll be claiming due to the sudden home-working this year, because you could be on the hook for a big bill if you get any of that wrong.