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The U.S. needs this day, especially this year.

With the unmitigated disaster of 2020, I’m “probably not ok,” but I am not in any danger to myself or others. Quite the opposite - I’m optimistic that things are moving in the right direction. I mean, it can’t get worse:

- Shutdown my consulting Business in February because I didn’t feel comfortable with being around new people constantly with a t-cell deficient immune system.
- My boyfriend abruptly stopped his antidepressant and quietly completed suicide in his apartment alone. No indication anything was off. It’s been tough to manage such a loss alone during a pandemic where social distancing is important.
- I am left with his orange tabby cat; and with the unrelenting frustration in trying to reason with people who never lost their lover to suicide, with multiple “it’s not your fault” conversations. I’m conflicted in that these people are the ones who are standing with me, but I can’t hear this logic again.
- Just a few days ago, six months later, I acknowledged what would’ve been his 33rd birthday and also our anniversary. I couldn’t find anything to actually celebrate or anyone to celebrate it with because of COVID. Still waiting for a good time to even have a proper memorial.
- My roommate couple friends moved back home to the Midwest. As the master tenant, I’m responsible for the difference in rent, nobody is moving to SF really; but may have a roommate come October.
- My best friend in San Francisco died of cancer late March.
- We were supposed to have dinner the last week of February,
- and all of us were supposed to celebrate my April birthday together at a Honey Dijon show;
- and go to the Maceo Plex day party on Treasure Island in May. Yep, as both of them are gone and both of those events will never happen, that calendar event was a rough thing to forget to cancel.

On the bright side, I had time to crash course my way into sharpening my CS skills for flavor of the week programming languages, turned half my garage into a wood shop; created an IoT paradise at home or “who needs an Alexa when Jenkins will do,” been building the tabby a “catio” so he’ll get some outside time, started getting into the fun world of circuit board reworking out of a BIOS Flashing disaster, and enjoying the work of cooking all my meals.

I’m not too stressed about work. I have decided I’m not going back into the self employment hustle; and I’m patient enough to wait for the right next opportunity. Low expectations yield pleasant surprises.
Honestly, my issue with Google Assistant has always been how inconsistent it is.

I gave up on voice control because "ok google play my anime playlist" only worked around 40% of the time (even though I spoke it clearly and it transcribed it no problem). The other 60% it would play Terrordome by AniMe which is not remotely what I wanted.

This is despite going out of my way to create a playlist named "anime" because of course there was no way Google Assistant would ever understand "ok google play 微かな密かな確かなミライ".
IFTTT introduces Pro subscriptions, limits free version to three applets
According to the presentation:

- Costs exceeded $126k by far. More like $150k in direct costs plus all the free labor Jared put in. This project has taken literally years of his life and all his spare time lately.

- Pre-orders were more than 17. 17 is the number of subscribers already hooked up.

- Take rate wasn't 30%, it was 70% along the route.

- Customers were, at least partially, pre-installed, so not all will require new construction. Jared also does a lot of the work himself without contractors. He also owns/has access to a chain trencher and a directional bore.

- customer acquisition costs do not traditionally factor in the cost of building drops. These are usually accounted for separately. Obviously construction costs time and/or money.
I remember when I was growing up in the UK in the 80’s we had siren tests from time to time. It seems strange now living in the real Cold War.
Why should the author care? The point is the automated process isnt so automated.

Incidentally, my imaps certificate isnt renewing automatically any more. Cant bring myself to debug it. Which just proves the TFAs point.
It was the original reason to invent X.
Literally
In a multi-threaded context yes, reduced memory usage is the main benefit.

But async/await can also be used for other things! In a C# Windows GUI application, it's normal to use async/await on the UI thread. Your UI can await multiple tasks at the same time, yet you don't need any locks when accessing the UI state; because all your code runs on the UI thread.

This is a really useful programming model made possible by cooperative task-switching via `await` on a single thread.

Here the "await" being explicit is a crucial feature, it allows the programmer to reason about when the shared state might be mutated by other tasks (or maybe by the user clicking cancel while the current task is waiting).

Any pre-emptive task switching adds a lot of additional complexity and isn't really suitable for UI code.
Even the high security ones are stuck using trash products that have to be "behind the firewall" to be "secure" because they run statistical analysis on your HR data (why?????) using peopletools with passwords and logins saved in plaintext .ini files
The famous photograph of Tesla sitting with the lightening hurtling out from his coils was a double exposure.
It will help if you find meaning in the work that you are doing than finding a meaningful work.

When I graduated, I had similar experience. I was deep into cs and loved the art of programming. But then I was writing SQL queries for most of my day. I was upset but during this time I also spent incredible amount of time learning how databases work internally, optimising SQL and Db through low level traces. Another really useful thing I learnt in this job is users. My users were financial controllers, warehouse managers. The job gave me a deeper understanding of how users think, what they know and what matters for them.

Over the years I worked with many tech and product shops but the amount of insights and learning at that job are incomparable. I just had so much tim to learn things I would otherwise not spend time on.

A software problem is intriguing and fun to work on but it's not always meaningful to others.
I’m not sure that an amusing leaflet, ostensibly about civil servants but equally humorous to anyone in a large private enterprise, refutes the parent’s point.
OpenStack is probably the closest but it will not have everything GCP or AWS has
If you didn't already know there's a command you can run to `find` files and put them in a dired buffer, then from there you can run an interactive regexp search/replace on all marked files. On mobile so I don't have the command names and key bindings available, but it's some combination of dired and find.
Crying this free service doesn’t invisibly do all the work by itself. If you want that, pay one of the commercial CAs.
> So it required less of my attention than before.

And that is why we run it. But we still monitor.

First we pipe stdout things to syslog via logger(1) to record each run in cron; however stderr is not redirected so we get that sent to us. Further, in our hook scripts, we have an "apache2ctl configtest" when a cert is renewed to verify that Apache (or equivalent) can read the files correctly, then we do the restart/reload. The configtest is sent to stderr as well so we can track when renewals happen and when there's an issue.

On top of all that, we don't actually trust our ACME client(s) to work properly all the time, so we check the expiration time on our certificates. We're monitoring the HTTP(S) service anyway, so adding another check doesn't add much cost.

And all this runs in the background silently and it only becomes top-of-mind really when it shows up in our service alert dashboard.
Civil servants are not "known" for anything. The civil service is a lumbering giant but you can't characterise it in such terms. You can try but you'd need to drive to a castle to get your eyes tested first
Do you think that founders’ change in equity could be a proxy for the “vision erosion” you’re thinking about? I’m trying to think of others data point other than the founders stating their perspective (which may not happen publicly).
Design, edit and share custom terminal color schemes
This is mentioned in the article.

The problem is that the official solution, as mentioned in the article, seems really bad... you just have to copy the whole project into the `v2` folder, then do the same for a future `v3` and so on... it kind of goes against normal practices of using version control tools for this kind of thing, where each version would be in a different branch, not folder.

Not to mention having duplicate files like this can make finding files in your editor a bit confusing as well.

Though I like how Go solved dependency management and dared to go on a different path than almost every other package manager, this particular solution seems to go a bit too far?!
So you're telling me that, once you enter a place that I can see, you get to examine whether I'm using a biological eye or a CMOS sensor or a cybernetic implant or whatever else? And then, having examined that, you get to assess what I'm doing, in private, with the data that I collect from my sensor experience of existence. But it's your privacy that's implicated?

How far does this philosophy extend? If I have a telescope on another planet and process the input in a way that you don't like, can you extradite me to Earth and charge me with a crime?
There's definitely a market for stable, long-term supported (in terms of documentation/email/phone, and manufacture) hardware.

I'm working on a multi-year project with many subcomponents and I'm tired of vendors upgrading and obsoleting. Version x worked just fine for my needs. Version y gains me nothing and adds risk and time in testing.
A tradeoff might be to keep encrypted data on GCP with keys managed on-premise with transparent encryption decryption by way of a local proxy.
> Europe is bigger than the USA.

OK, on some metrics. But I think nobody questions which country is still leading the world.

> And the division within the USA is as big or bigger than Europe. And, we cannot talk about China.

I don't agree with this or we're talking about different things.

The grip of Washington DC on the states of the USA is much stronger than Brussels' on the countries of the EU. The degree of sovereignty is very different. No matter the internal divisions inside the USA, first of all there is one USA. On the other side of the ocean first of all there are multiple competing EU countries, each of them trying to exploit the others and the EU and with different economics and foreign policy goals. About that, do (random picks among large states) California, Texas and New York have a foreign policy worth talking about?
And now, the Navalny poisoning was a US/Saudi false flag.
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/09/novichok-nav...
This reminds me, I've been meaning to set up a Huginn install to test out. I don't really have a use for it at the moment, but I think more people in this thread would find it interesting. They describe it as:

> Think of it as a hackable version of IFTTT or Zapier on your own server.

https://github.com/huginn/huginn
I might be old school .. I really liked to have a programming manual while doing bare bones development (I did this using a Analog Devices device). The HAL didn't work out of the box as I didn't understand what else was needed for it to work. I had to call certain functions. In that case it would be less work to implement the same functionality using interrupt handlers which I wrote and that would give me better understanding of the platform as I would have to read the documentation.
I don't think that the argument about hardware is "rather odd", I think it's the crux of the issue in Portland right now.

Our police bureau is terrorizing our citizenry before our eyes. So we brought cameras. So they covered their badges. So we started working on facial recognition. So they banned it.

If our eyes were sufficient to show the world what's happening and to document which cops are the most culpable, there'd be no hardware discussion at all.
My view of Assange is that he seems to be a deeply unpleasant person in a number of respects, but that does not in any way explain or justify the long string of irregularities in how he is being treated and how this case is being conducted.

This idea that defending his right to a fair hearing implies seeing him as a "messiah" or even as a nice person, is deeply disturbing.
Yeah, That's what I have been taught as well. Though the direct effect is very small and it's not part of many geoengineering plans because it is not great for us anyway. And you would also need to take into account the carbon footprint of manufacturing said aerosols.
Google Cloud announced three new features for Business Application Platform
For terminal server use cases, there are things like VNC, SPICE, NX, etc. The X11/ssh thing is for when you want to run a mix of local and remote applications on a single desktop, which i think is pretty unusual these days.
Sweden tests the emergency sirens the first Monday every month at 3PM. It's kind of weird when we have dismantled most every other kind of preparedness.
Quora now transparently logs you in if your Google account is connected
Fortnite could face year-long Apple ban, says Epic Games
“Auto-playing audio and video” is confusing me: is it not standard across all browsers to let the user prevent autoplay of at least audio and unmuted video? So I feel like this should be an entirely avoidable problem, just by setting your browser so.

I have Firefox set to block all autoplay. This is generally excellent, stopping all those annoying videos on news articles from playing (seriously, does anyone like those things?). But I am surprised at how many things break in some way, using a <video autoplay> with no controls: like product websites that have short videos throughout the page, or imgur on a video. You end up with the page loading and just no visual indication that there’s a video that you could play at all, and are left to just guess “maybe it’s a video” and right click on it and click Play.

I wrote myself a simple user script a few days ago to experiment with just adding the controls attribute to all videos on page load, which will probably improve most things—though some will add the video element after page load, or remove the controls attribute gratuitously—in imgur, right click → Show Controls, and next time the video starts (e.g. unpause, or buffering completes, or the video loops around) it’ll kill the controls again for utterly mysterious reasons). I’m contemplating putting a MutationObserver in that flips the controls attribute on every time it gets switched off.
Murray did not state that Skripal was a false-flag by the UK government.
He did ask several questions about the nature of the official UK government's explanation which you find at [1].

Can you point me towards credible answers to some / all the questions raised in [1] please?

[1] https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2019/03/pure-ten-poi...
I don't find laptop keyboards reasonable. They are a last resort.
Migrating cdnjs to serverless with Cloudflare Workers KV
You can post on hacker news from it too.

Sent from eww.
An Extension to Necolas' Normalize.css
I had mandatory bias training as an infant and these "psychologists" can fuck right off.
Relativty  – An open-source VR headset
Manhattan rental market plunges, 15,000 empty apartments in August
Padawhatnow? This should answer your question why it was overlooked.

And here is a link to the same author covering Padauk MCUs for people like me who have never heard about those despite having a degree in an embedded-related field: https://jaycarlson.net/2019/09/06/whats-up-with-these-3-cent...
Has Germany asked the US to leave? Taking all the US Money with it? Some how I doubt it.

Maybe Germany (and the EU as a whole) should start paying for its own defense, and paying their agreed to share of GDP into NATO while they are at it
That's true. A lot of people got the shareware versions online (whether by FTP or more likely from a BBS) and decided to buy them after trying, so in that sense it's selling software online, but I get what you're saying, it's still physical media.
Yet, many people use windows and I still miss X forwarding. RDP and VNC are just not a replacement for being able to start 3 different programs on 3 different remote computers, and have them all sitting together on screen next to each other.
I have found this to be almost universal when it comes to reading / writing documentation, not just Google.

I have come to the understanding that to write good documentation, you should write it as soon as you have learned it, or at least, try and explain in a similar way in the way you learned (which is not easy at all). I feel the issue stems from abstraction. Once you become somewhat an expert in a topic or develop a deeper understanding of said topic, you automatically abstract away the information that lead you to that understanding in the first place.

Otherwise you end up reading or writing documentation with a bunch of assumptions for knowledge and understanding, which are not only not stated but may not be available to the person trying to get to grips with the technology. A bit of a digression from the post, but I don't feel this is just a Google thing.
I've read it; it's a phenomenal book to understand more about how computers work on a hardware and conceptual level, but it doesn't really teach programming. Still strongly recommended.
Voucher System verification using TLA+
The mystery of tree 'crown shyness'
I don't know if I'd call it reimplementation when the original Emacs is older than DOS and GNU Emacs, still maintained today, is older than Windows (1985). Emacs's keybindings, font rendering, and scrolling were just as valid then as any other approach. Let's at least avoid comparisons to Swing :).

You can bind copy-and-paste as well as any other text wrangling functionality to whatever you want and there are ways to make it behave like other platforms without too much difficulty. But why hamstring Emacs' copy and paste by limiting it to the simplistic version we're used to when you can copy to multiple registers and have a searchable history of copied text?

Font rendering uses Harfbuzz in the latest version and is quite good in my opinion, there's even color emojis. Scrolling is certainly better than any terminal emulator I've used, although there's no smooth scrolling. I guess everything is off if you're comparing it to a browser, but modern browsers aren't exactly paragons of UX either. But if you're comparing prettiness options like these, yeah, Emacs loses to VS Code. All Microsoft had to do was build a text editor on top of a browser engine to get those features :). I'd say Emacs is more extensible, though. Lisp machines and all
Kenyans fear 'ecological disaster' if two swollen lakes merge
I've ran emacs in cocalc's terminal emulator in the browser, non-ironically doing real work.

It works pretty well.
If you let a server lag in OS version, at some point in time you're going to hit this kind of problem. If not with Let's Encrypt, then with some other dependency. I know, I've been in the exact same spot. I just don't blame the dependency, and included server OS updates as part of a yearly maintenance cycle.
>Crown shyness seen from above [video]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21958094
> Nonetheless that does not make the US forces in Germany an occupational force.

A stick is a stick regardless of whether it has been used to thrash someone lately.
Yes they do, I'm doing it right now with this account. Notice the intentional misspelling (correctly spelled username is still available).
The article you cite does not claim that the Navalny poisoning was a US/Saudi false flag. On the contrary,
Murry states:
"I should state that I have no difficulty at all with the notion that a powerful oligarch or an organ of the Russian state may have tried to assassinate Navalny".

The article states that "[T]he US and Saudi Arabia have every reason to instigate a split between Germany and Russia at this time." The US has gone out of the way to prevent the NordStream 2 pipeline, and directly after Navalny was flown to Germany, several high-ranking German politicians (including Merkel), have began publicly to question whether NordStream 2 should be reconsidered, in the light of Navalny, see [1].

May I gently request that you exercise more care when representing Murray's views? Please reconsider the HN guidelines for comments [2], reproduced here for your convenience:
"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54070046

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I can't disagree more.
In Emacs's defence, it didn't reimplement everything so mich as implement it first. When there's very little prior work to go on, often parts of the design won't be great, and then it becomes hard to move away from them.
The distinction that I see is that work should allow people to balance life and work life, regardless if the reason people need concessions are children or because other reasons. It is also a sad fact that in many cases there are social stigma attached to those reasons and thus make it likely to be concealed. What get perceived as choice can actually one of those situation which a person has not chosen. To put a number to those things, about 50% of the population is currently suffering from a chronic diseases. You add that with the number of people who has elderly relatives, the number of people with children, and the total number is creeping very fast towards almost 100%.

It is also a bit telling that in a very large company in my country, the term used for flex work can be roughly translated to "entrusted work schedule". It seems that the reason people are not given concessions automatically is that the employer simply don't trust their employees and view flexibility as something that a stereotyped lazy employee will abuse to goof off and play video games. A good start to combat this would be to view flex time as something that everyone need, which would naturally benefit parents.
British royal tours through the years
As a professional C++ developer, I’m always amazed when I see something like this implemented in bash. Cos why the fuck not indeed! Good stuff.
Yeah, I get a 'fake it until you make it' vibe from this. The stories just seem a bit too "pat", like simplistic morality tales.
While I appreciate the reporting from inside the court room, Craig Murray is clearly biased and thus predisposed to seeing what he wants to see.

His characterizations paint the prosecution as ridiculous characters and their case as laughable at best, which may not reflect reality as much one would hope.

So what he is describing might be very unlike what the judges are experiencing, and if they end up giving the extradition of Assange's the go-ahead, a lot of people are going to be very surprised.

Edit: This rollercoaster of upvotes and downvotes on a post that just reminds people to not blindly trust someone who tells them what they want to hear is interesting in itself.
System76’s Lemur Pro: A powerful, ultralight OEM Linux laptop
I happen to think SICP is a pretty good start for the reason you mention, the simplicity of syntax, in my experience it only gets hairy in the end when you start implement OOP on top of it.

Another good easy to learn as a first language in my experience is Rebol because it allows you to do stuff you ( meaning a person who uses a computer) might want to do quickly (send emails, scrape websites)

Of course another benefit of SICP is that it is written by people who are probably better writers about languages than most of the programmers hired to write programming books and articles.
> I seldomly hear this property mentioned by
anyone else, so even if it scratches OT-ness

What does "OT-ness" stand for ?