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> It's not illegal but it's also not required for car manufacturers to give 3rd parties the necessary equipment/parts/documentation required to repair their cars.

This is where you're wrong though. Car manufacturers are required to provide all of that in the EU, because it's a prerequisite to having competition in that space.

It was codified around 2007-2011 into EU laws, but most European countries already individually had laws for this.

How do EU laws impact the US here? From what I hear it's only thanks to these laws that some independent repair shops in the US are able to fix certain things at all, because they can receive tools and such by proxy of the EU (and other places).
It's only irrational not to do it if you're a completely self-centered asshole who derives no internal happiness from seeing others thrive. I can't believe the marginal increase in quality of life, happiness or life satisfaction is any different between someone worth $100 million compared to billions. If I was married to someone for decades, and decided to leave her for a newer model (shitty to begin with but bear with me), I would feel the value of leaving on at least decent terms would be worth a couple percent of my wealth.
What makes you think Democrats in government don't support billionaires?
> And i am not getting any of that.

You can’t expect a mass market product to be designed precisely for you.
> Getting a large enough group of contributors is hard.

Not really. This is a thought-terminating cliche in the form of a just-so explanation. The group of volunteer contributors who were underpinning Mozilla's success at its peak was quite large and healthy, complete with its own governance model. But then Mozilla Foundation essentially handed the keys over to the Firefox subproject, which in turn made a bunch of questionable hiring decisions, including people that deeply affected the project at an organizational level.

The really perverse thing is that a very similar thing had already happened once before—with Netscape. It was those very circumstances that led to Mozilla's original governance model as an insurance policy against any one corporate group accumulating too much power after getting it into their heads that they were the real reason for the project's upward trajectory and the only thing they needed to do to really get things on track was wrest full control of the golden goose. Mozilla's "failure" began when every random yahoo who managed to get through the company's hiring process was ipso facto part of a privileged class and anyone not on payroll became second-tier consideration at best (or more realistically, seen as a nuisance).

This "failing", of course, is the kind of failure that grew revenue to half a billion per year even as Firefox was getting thrashed, so whether you consider that a failure or success will come down to principles. If your idea of success is tied to the organization's charter, its openness and approachability, enabling people to shape the future of the Web even when not on the payroll under a browser vendor, and its "market" adoption and the tractability of developing an independent browser engine, then Mozilla is a failure. If, on the other hand, you're predisposed to seeing high revenue as a success, then Mozilla has been winning up to the point when it will inevitably fail due to unsustainability and its approach of salting the earth around it, pulling up the metaphorical ladder, etc.

> For Linux this works since it was built over decades and contributors come from variety of backgrounds (students who want to learn, hardware companies who want to have support of their hardware, users who want it to be fast, companies which want to make it sort of a product (distributors etc.)

That's a pretty accurate description of Mozilla for a large part of its history pre-FirefoxOS. Mozilla was incredibly effective even before the number of people getting paychecks from anything called "Mozilla" had reached the low hundreds.
I got to witness The Talk once and it consisted predominantly of introducing and explaining the idea that there are Things You Cannot Unsee, they are all on the Internet, and thus you should not click on everything just because you’re curious.
No. This is not black and white. Case in point: Religion. Is it okay to prosecute someone for that? They choose it after all. You might say he was born into that, but same goes for rich children. I hope I don't need to argue on why prosecuting for a religion is a bad thing.

To be fair here, I don't think it's wrong in all cases to judge someone for his groups. If you say everyone in the KKK is bad, that's fine by me (and, FTR: I agree). But the hypocrisy irks me alot.
>Radically...

I vaguely remember reading a similar Open Source License, but couldn't google it.

And it reads very AGPL like. Which may be a big no no for many Cooperation and Enterprise. And what if the Author Set a Grace Period of 50 years or longer?

It feels to me a solution looking for problem.
This language of matching brackets is also called the Dyck language and its syntactic monoid is the bicyclic semigroup, which is an interesting example of an inverse semigroup. Edward Kmett gave a talk on programming with these sorts of algebraic structures that some might find illuminating: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGi5AxmQUwU

Inverse semigroups are used in the geometry of interaction to give a parallelizable interpretation of lambda calculus. I don't have a great introductory reference. Here's some people who have implemented a system based on the theory: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/mathematical-structu...

Sorry for the citation dump, I'm short on time and I thought they would be interesting to those who found this submission interesting.

References

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicyclic_semigroup
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It's probably the same people who spend a week configuring their desktop, only to have it covered up by other windows 99.9% of time. Some people simply like it.
Thanks for this! Very interesting. I just tried it on the article and, sure enough, the "better" version of the first circles, a number of them do, indeed, look the same when emulating any vision deficiency except blurred vision while they are perfectly discernible in the "not ideal" versions.
Or it ends up here: https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-failed-eco-pocalyp...
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Sometimes an overly enthusiastic post is just an overly enthusiastic post. While I acknowledge that it is good to have a bit of cynicism, it is probably better directed at the content than the motivation since motivations are far more difficult to determine.
I'm in favor of a fundamental knowledge of the classics.

Regarding the "statistically insignificant minority", I'm just stating facts, not saying it's a good development.
Oooh, I did think of that article!
There is a short description on another page that refers to the physics: "Pixel-based physics: Every pixel in the world is simulated. Burn, explode or melt anything. Swim in the blood of your foes!"
This is very similar to how I look at it. Expressive editing features do not have a direct impact on my productivity when coding.

However, for those 1-2 hour focused coding sessions, it is easer for me to enter and stay in flow when I feel a better connection to my tools. Since I do perhaps a dozen of those a week, I am able to accomplish more and do it more enjoyably, even if I only spend 20% of my work time in one of those sessions.

I am not sure exactly how much the productivity increase is because I haven't tested it rigorously (honestly not sure how to even measure that), but I'd guess it's still only 5% at most. The benefits to my happiness and fulfillment when coding are definitely noticeable though, and I think it is because I am able to spend more time in flow.

Edit: and for what it's worth, there are things that arguably have much greater impact on my ability to stay in flow than just the text editor: how good the debugger/REPL is, my familiarity with the language and libraries related to what I'm doing, etc.
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> No one asked for their phones, tablets, and laptops to be even thinner

I asked for this.

> Water resistance is a feature that most people don't need

I need this.

So how can Apple satisfy both of us? How about let them research the market and decide what to do themselves?

There's something so arrogant about the right-to-repair and user-serviceable crowd who think devices should be crippled to suit their minority requirements at the expense of the majority.
Oh right, but I meant even by people who do write templates haha. I'm wondering in what fraction of cases they'll actually use concepts when they potentially could.
Scroll down and the answer is right there:

> Q: What does "every pixel is simulated" mean?

> A: Basically every pixel in Noita is made of some material. The different materials are simulated. E.g. Water will behave like a liquid, gasses will rise, sand will pile up, rigid bodies will rigid body... In addition to that we run simplified simulations of various chemical reactions, electricity, thermodynamics and so on.
Escaping your government is easy. There are plenty of places on Earth you could go that have essentially no (functional) government. People tend to run from these places, not to them.
Yes, but they recently had a major outage that caused a lot of issues for me. I have since reverted back to the Comcast defaults of 75.75.75.75
>You hear stories about people trying everything when they're out of food, maybe trying the cow's milk was a sort of last resort that worked for some lucky people. Then again, you'd think they'd have eaten the cow first.

Maybe it was more desperation from waiting for cheese or something? I'm guessing if they kept milk cattle and didn't eat it they had a reason?

Cheese seems like something that cows would be used for. It's easy to make, it comes from curdled cream, it stores for long periods, and it's calorie dense.

Maybe milk drinking came at a time of extreme hunger where people just drank it directly instead of waiting?
Why is this ‘myth’ talked about here in negative terms?

From my professional experience, it’s obvious that there are coworkers that can output even 100x impact qhen compared to peers. When judging entrepreneurs it’s visible some people’s multiplier/productivity is in the million-times compared to others.

Given automation is at the core of our work as devs, why do some people think 10x isn’t credible?
This is the cause of jellyfish population explosions too.
https://www.e-education.psu.edu/earth103/node/693
I was expecting different click-bait, like a keyboard drawn on paper with a camera pointed at it or something.
I had imagined they had built it by carefully folding the paper to give each "key" a distinctive sound that a nearby computer could decode into key presses
> The allegations against Biden have almost no water at all.

Holds no water? That doesn't seem to be accounted for in "I believe women" when Biden et al were warring with Republicans in general, not just Trump.

Compare and contrast Reade & Biden with Christine Bleakley Ford & Kavanaugh, which quite a few publications have already.
Also the title of a Death Cab for Cutie album.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kintsugi_(album)
They've intentionally made battery replacement more difficult on their laptops by using strong adhesive on in their batteries (they used to screw them in).

What's more damning IMO is their propensity to solder RAM, and now SSDs, to the motherboard. If permanently affixing the most commonly upgraded parts for laptops isn't planned obsolescence, I'm not sure what is.
I believe you are right. Shift+Ctrl+Power shuts off the display and it does so more reliably than Shift+Fn+Ctrl+Power. I guess I memorized it wrong.
Not hard to eliminate the regressive parts of this, just give a tax credit for the first $X dollars of consumption.

It took me a while to understand consumption taxes, but now I'm fully in favor of them. The level of your standard of living is solely determined by what you spend money on, not your total wealth. Plus taxing consumption would be much easier and harder to skirt than a wealth tax.
This review is, if anything, understated.
I can't really agree, to be fair it's been about 5 years since I stopped using Arch so things may very well have improved. But my experience using it as my daily driver on my work ThinkPad was that I kept running into quite a lot of problems every other week from upgrades breaking things, it was of course always fixable but probably spent a few hours every month just on maintenance, this is fine for me on a hobby machine at home but not really something I want in a worn environment. I'm not particular fond of Ubuntu either, it was fine in the 00s but then they lost it, nowadays I primarily use 3 operating systems, FreeBSD, Debian and macOS, they all are somewhat "boring" but also tends to mostly keep working without bothering me to much and most things are easy to look up and well documented.
> Whites will become the minority in U.S and the UK in the coming decades

Regarding the US, that's a bit of a misleading statement. US Census Bureau projections have "white" people as a majority in the US until 2060, which is as far out as their projections go [1].

The claim that "whites" are going to become a minority soon is arrived at by redefining "white" to exclude white-identified Hispanic people. Indeed, "non-Hispanic whites" are projected to become a minority in the US by 2045. But "whites" overall are not going to become a minority in the foreseeable future.

In 2060, the US Census Bureau projects the US will be 68% white-identified (white-identified Hispanic people included). By comparison, their actual estimates for 2016 are that the US was 76% white-identified (again, Hispanic people included). Although their projections don't go out that far, it seems likely the US will still have a white-identified majority at the start of the next century.

[1] https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/popproj/tables/2017...
Yes, you are surely right. I was mostly wondering if the bot net is actually secure.
Note this (larger?) study from 2013 found no correlation and is not referenced in the article linked in the OP, which seems to cover very similar ground.

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/grl...
About the stack/monoid structure, there was a nice talk by Conal Elliott recently describing how it can be used to implement a compiler [0]. He also mentions parallel computations at some point.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvQbpS6wBa0
Look at the first item in my list.
have a "smol-lua" that is a proper subset of the "hugely-lua" ? I really wish there were more good options for that for python.
Hi! great question!

I'd say that compared to redis you can get started faster with pandora. I'm not an expert in redis but IIRC you'd need to do the setup/configuration which is what I'm trying to avoid with pandora by getting ready-to-use services pretty fast.

Also, compared to a JSON store service, pandora is kind of similar at the moment. However, in pandora you can have more control over your service by configuring permissions about which operations are public or private or even disabled. Also, you can use a custom domain and pandora will generate the SSL certificate on the background so you can have your own service under your own domain and with custom permissions.

Let me know if this answer your questions and if you have further questions/feedback :)
Eurasia focused more on mare's milk and China and other rice dominated agricultures had no room for large concentrations of herds.
And it has a substandard camera, heavier, thicker, face detection that is not secure, a less than top end processor and a fingerprint reader that isn’t reliable.

https://www.samsung.com/us/business/products/mobile/phones/g...

And since it is a Samsung device, by the time you get ready to change the battery, Samsung more than likely won’t be updating the operating system.

The $399 iPhone SE has a better processor, camera, finger print sensor and given Apple’s history, will probably get operating system updates for five years.

You could get the battery replaced, and have an updated operating system for years and still be at slightly less than $499.
I believe its a design choice to discourage flame wars like you get on reddit. Making you go look prevents that (or at least discourages it).

There is also a timer expressly preventing you from replying too quickly to each other.
Call me a pessimist, but I think Netflix will only be ad-free for as long as it is a competitive advantage. The day will come when that’s no longer true, and the ads will come. When their growth has stalled and they have raised prices as much as the market will bear, how long can they resist “free” ad money? Will their shareholders just let them leave it on the table?
I bought it on steam, played it a while, it is fun to play around with the system/environment, in the way powdergame is, but the actual game part is lacking.. I hope it is developed further it make it more of an acual fun game, rather than a tech demo(perhaps not the right term)
You can’t educate dummies.
Yeah, I was thinking this was going to be an article about making colors easier to see for colorblind people... but it actually appears to be the opposite.

Having some degree color blindness is extremely common. Its depressing how designers just refuse to take this into account.
> tons of homelessness and dodgy people harassing you in the street (trying to sell you drugs or scam you)

I agree with that. It’s not because of the social safety net however; or it is in a way, but only because it got combined with other laxist laws and policies that drew people in for the bad reasons.
Thanks, it was your work that kindled my interest in programming the GPU. The fact that most vector graphics are done by CPU libraries made me resize it's still a very underdeveloped area. The hard thing about it is also what makes it interesting, it's not just a different programming language but a different architecture with other runtime characteristics. Sort of the closest you can get to owning a quantum computer. Anyway I'll learn some math and cuda, and buy the book if you find the time :)
Ads have more adverse effects than just being distracting and facilitating spying. They are privately designed propaganda. They spread misinformation, establish harmful standards and desires, manipulate emotions and make it harder to find unbiased market information that would be needed for a rational purchasing descision.

Ads are universally bad, targeted or not.
I have a sort of similar problem with stuttering. I tell people I stutter, and no one really believes me because it I don’t stutter in most common situations. But I get stuck on certain combinations of sounds when my brain is sort of working faster than I can talk. I often have to stop trying to say the word and pick a different one. It’s quite maddening especially when being precise is important.
Nearly every time I order things like small kitchen gadgets, barware, office accessories/supplies, I get a card saying that if I write a 5-star review, and send them a link to it, they'll send me a "free gift."

I suspect there are a lot of reviews like this that aren't 100% fake (they're from different people who actually paid full price for the product) but are solicited and therefore not accurate.

(I'll never review a product where the vendor makes an offer like this. I used to report it to Amazon, but I don't think they care.)
Yes, the educational system is about two standard deviations worse than a private tutor. There's a name for this effect, but I don't remember it.

As someone who was homeschooled, I'll do that for my children as well, and I hope I will be able to afford a tutor to assist with that. I've had no difficulty in life competing with people who went through the public school system, and I want my kids to have the same advantage.

And that's before thinking about the people whose lives were ruined by the influences of their peers, by the bullying, the drugs, or the teen pregnancy. Some of those people who went to my school, before I switched to homeschooling, are no longer among the living.
From the brief gameplay footage I saw, this seems a lot like Lemmings/Worms in that every pixel on the screen can be destroyed (but more advanced).
People generally don't tinker with vim/emacs for editing. They tinker for the IDE features that Carmack says are valuable.
If security is your concern, you can run the browser inside a container: https://github.com/ConSol/docker-headless-vnc-container

You can also use: https://browsergap.dosyago.com/

There is also: https://firejail.wordpress.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactase_persistence

Probably will be updated :)
It was already known to be a very recently-developed mutation, so that's not that surprising. It might pin it down a bit more, and it is interesting that it indicates that it spread so quickly in the first couple of thousand years.

Because so many people are still not lactase persistent, it is still possible to see how much that changes over time and the change might be noticeable over a relatively few generations.
Each in-game particle ('pixel') has its own physics and interactions with other particles. There are other games which did this before Noita, but none of them have the same depth or gameplay. The other major "falling sand" games are just sandboxes.

One of the earliest games (a Java applet) was somehow made to work in HTML5: https://dan-ball.jp/en/javagame/dust2/

This is the most feature-rich falling sand sandbox game with built-in Lua scripting: https://powdertoy.co.uk (their website appears to be down)
Dare to write this comment from your phone on subway line 4 at night, nothern portion?
Very true. I had to stop playing b/c it's such a time-sink.

I'd also mention that development is pretty fast, new stuff is added all the time.
The actual paper [0] does have some decent details, though it is somewhat heavy.

[0] https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2020.105301
I love that this problem space is getting more attention! I totally agree information is way more useful in context and in a common place. A meta layer would be very interesting, but I struggle to see how it would be technically possible to implement (outside of the browser) -- maybe for anyone except for Apple. We've been approaching a similar problem to what hey is tackling from a different angle, at https://www.twobird.com