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Sorry, but I was a top contributor to Zig when we forked it. What did you contribute? No regrets, by the way -- conversation is important.
There are plugins (at least in some browsers) that let you turn off/on javascript on a site basis. They are very useful.
Yes, but we all know what it is to go to a public place. We choose that.

When you are on your own home, looking a website, you think you are on your own, reading something, like a book. You do not have a sense of interacting, or of being in a public space. You would have that sense of interacting if you were on an Internet forum, or discord, etc.

A book does not report on you (and I'm talking about paper books not kindles!). But all websites monitor you. This is to say that the user is gamed. They are misled into thinking they are looking at a private thing like a book, whereas the reality is that they are being monitored. It's the biggest anti-pattern. It's absolutely without meaningful consent and it is absolutely baked in to the internet. There is no privacy online.

But, in my perfect world, we should be allowed privacy and be able to go online. Oh well, maybe in the next life!
> Unfortunately cat6 can only handle about 10 Gbps

What is the main limitation for cables regarding transmission rates? Do we just need to move to fiber?

I was surprised recently looking into wifi options that apparently the new wifi 6 claims to handle 2400Mbps.

I assumed a wired connection would always trounce wireless (and I guess cat6 can do 4x that), but it seems like people are moving mostly to wireless setups. Is it solely because of the inconvenience of wiring things through a building?
> Medicine has a unique and extreme case of the "uninformed consumer problem." In medicine it's incredibly difficult even for professionals to tell whether something actually works, let alone individuals.

It's extreme but not unique. Do you know what's running in any of your devices? Almost not, I believe. Yesterday I had the pleasure of needing to copy some medical reports of mine on a multipurpose printer I own. I shortly gave it a pause being not sure whether the contents would be sent immediately to the mothership. I then realized that when the printer was set up initially that I set up the router to prevent calls to the outside for this machine. But: although I configured the router, I would need to go to great lengths to actually verify that the printer can't phone home.

And don't get me started about quality (as in endurance and serviceability). It's a nightmare as price is not a deciding factor in my experience. Neither is brand.
font-weight: 300 is a bit light.

Bump it up to 500!
> In reality, your doctor would simply stop testing for Coronavirus and instead refer you to a LabCorp collection center, where they could keep you waiting in line until they had enough testing capacity to take your sample and start the 24-hour clock. Everyone loses.

This kind of sounds like a semi-win. Eliminate the middle man between the patient and the lab. Provide visible backpressure by refusing to accept requests that can't be serviced in a timely fashion, allowing those requests that are serviced to be timely.

It doesn't help the problem of more demand for tests than supply of testing (or at least, not directly). But it's better to have all (or substantially all) results in 24 hours, than to have all results in a pipeline for a week.

Also, maybe start at 48 hours, if 24 hours is too restrictive.
Does FreeCAD handle constrained assemblies yet? You can't kneecap students while making the argument that their participation will make the tool better for someone else, maybe, in the future.
You can make Google searches plenty slow if you Google something uncached.

I just Googled: the OR google OR a OR badger -the -google -a

it took: 5.66 seconds.

This is probably cached now so don't try it yourself, replace badger with some other weird word. :)
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We had fires like this in Washington in 2018. 2019 was a small respite. But I expect this to be at least a biennial thing from now on.
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If you look at the HN discussion about Nikola four years ago, it's filled with people pointing to the copycat name as a redflag. So even without hindsight, this was obvious.

> They could have tried a little harder with the name. It makes me take them less seriously with a copycat name like they're not confident enough in their product and need to glom onto Tesla's success. What an awful decision. The truck looks neat, though.

Response to the above:

> I don't think that truck is ever seeing the light of day; the name and the rest of it all seems incredibly unlikely to materialize except as some money in someone's pockets."
The most important "comments" in your code are names. Taking a chunk of code and giving it a name gives you a small bit of free text to explain what it does. The function signature gives you a few more words to play with: foo(Bar x) -> Baz is a function that foos a Bar into a Baz. (Another reason why functions should have as few arguments as you can manage.) A well-named piece of code will often read almost like natural language text.

People tend to ignore comments anyway. The fewer of them you have, the more likely they'll take notice of one that's actually important.
If you don't pay for support, you will get what you paid for. This is orthogonal to whether the software is Free or non-Free.

If you've ever heard of Red Hat, they were a Free software support organization that became an international success story with a multi-billion-dollar valuation. They are not the only ones out there.

In short, what they'd do if there's a problem is pick up the phone to whoever is contracted to provide support service, and expect support.
You're absolutely right! There are potentially a great many readers with exactly the same question, and any response should bear that in mind.

At the same time, Stackoverflow and similar public fora are doubly dangerous for the issue I've described. Instead of the possibility of one person mishandling information they're not equipped to contextualize, you have potentially tens of thousands who will stop reading once they get the answer you have helpfully provided first.

Again, you're completely correct. Any response should bear in mind the possibly sizable audience. I think it might be the case that there could be scenarios where answering the question as asked first is actually the least helpful thing one could do for this audience. I have personally fallen into this trap, reading the first few sentences of something helpful and getting the dangerous information I was looking for, coming back for the rest only when it blew up in my face.
>Just to be a little realistic: is there some "school activity" that makes using closed-software mandatory because there isn't an open-source alternative?

Closed source software may not be mandatory, but sure it can be convenient. For example in EE school we had this course in C programming. Few of us had any real programming background, for the lucky ones it was some variant of Pascal in high school, and we had to start somewhere. We used Visual Studio on the lab's PCs. We didn't use GCC. After all this was an introductory C programming course, learning how to set up a text editor and GCC was a waste of time for us in that particular context. And I'm limiting myself to programming, where you can make the case that there are compelling reasons to use free software (i.e. there are high quality, mature, "industry standard" free software solutions). In other areas, such as CAD, the free software alternatives are hobbyist level, at best. They are really not usable beyond the most basic use cases, proprietary solutions are basically mandatory. If you want a job at $aero_firm you should know CATIA. A curriculum with FreeCAD on it gets thrown into the trash.
Finally I just wanted to add that I appreciate free software, but the zealotism of many of its proponents really puts me off, and my sentiment is shared by a lot of people.
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Platforms such as apollo.io provide similar services. They also include data of residents and citizens of EU countries, which is subject to the GDPR, but since apollo.io is not based in the EU, no legal action can be taken. Such services are creepy, but let's not pretend they don't exist in the West. And since it was built with public data and web scraping of social networks, it must be assumed that any significant secret service has similar databases.
> Not political at all? Do we really think the USA is running something close to a Experimental Concentration Camp? Exactly what are they experimenting on, what don't we know about hysterectomies?

I think is 1) this story is probably true, 2) it is not the result of any kind of explicit national policy. My guess is the real problem here is malpractice by the gynecologist coupled with a criminal lack of competent oversight by the prison officials. My understanding is prisons scrape the bottom of the barrel of the medical profession (i.e. hiring doctors with bad records that no one else wants), and the actual complaint focuses on one doctor:

> According to Wooten, ICDC consistently used a particular gynecologist – outside the facility – who almost always opted to remove all or part of the uterus of his female detainee patients.

> “Everybody he sees has a hysterectomy—just about everybody,” Wooten said, adding that, “everybody’s uterus cannot be that bad.”

> “We’ve questioned among ourselves like goodness he’s taking everybody’s stuff out…That’s his specialty, he’s the uterus collector. I know that’s ugly…is he collecting these things or something…Everybody he sees, he’s taking all their uteruses out or he’s taken their tubes out. What in the world.”

IMHO, people who are saying (at this point) that this is the result of a systematic policy are jumping to conclusions. If that's true, it'll probably take a least a few weeks for the investigations to confirm it.
So this is the mortality rate of Sweden as of August:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/525353/sweden-number-of-...

We know mortality increases with unemployment, which increased due to lockdown by 5x. The richest people in the USA made over a half of trillion dollars during lockdown, on top of free money, trillions, that they just openly took.

I hope Mr. Gates reads this, because I just have one word to say to him. Bravo. I am glad you are the one doing this, because I would be so much worse. It's good I am kept away. We would not survive. I see our shared ills, cities burning and people dying as simple forceful motivation.

To everyone else, don't be shocked by the complete absence of morals among society. I read through most everything. This is no argument. It's just what works, to be the most frightening person among them, so everyone leaves you alone. What humans do to each other, nothing surprises me.

The people trying to take over with just who they are and what they say, what else do they have? Racial strife? Let me tell you how that one is going to work out. BLM yeah yeah yeah, sure. Whatever. Please meet the new member of the team, Joshua Blahyi.

I do not want leadership, or a celebrity, or even a president so much as I want a very mean man walking the streets with a gun.
Unfortunately, anthropological "hierarchalism" driven by race-conscious notions of personhood has made these regular reminders necessary. We still haven't completely shed the unscientific caricatures of neanderthals that were constructed for sociopolitical purposes (and before it was discovered that most of Europe and Asia [and possibly the rest of humanity] is partially descended from them).
I still don't want to play with that because the author seems to insinuate that his language is the leanest fastest because it compiles to C as if he's not taking the C->native step.
Sorry, cannot talk about individual cases.
I came here to say much the same about textbooks.

In the case of textbooks not much has changed with middle school algebra in the past 100+ years, but we are still paying >$100 a textbook (these days ebooks!) for books which can be found with a google search. In many cases because the free books are missing some fine tuning an individual state wants to make.

In the us we have "common core" in a lot of states, and if there is a problem with a free e-book, they should have hired someone to fix it rather than paying the big publishing books orders of magnitude more money for book rentals.

Similarly with software, maybe the commercial offerings are better this year, but we should be _investing_ in open solutions rather than paying rent to large corporations only interested in profiteering in the education sector.

But those companies, and the lack of widespread political will makes it generally infeasable for any single school district to create a "google classroom" (or whatever). A few states getting together and putting wording in the procurement process that say that commercial offerings which are based on free software are preferred, and where solutions fall short, a small fraction of the payment to the commercial offering needs to be redirected as investment in open software.

The goal is to create Redhat type organizations that improve and support free software offerings, rather than proprietary solutions which cannot be afforded by the smaller or economically disadvantaged districts.
If I remember correctly, there was a lot of controversy, partially because of the amount of donations being elicited before releasing anything and overselling some benchmark results.

Looking at the repo, it looks like there is a ton of effort going on. 6458 commits and 687 open issues. Seems promising?

https://github.com/vlang/v
it s an old story. Most of the social games that became popular, most of the stuff that zynga did was copied from simpler social games that were popular in china/japan
Tesla is 17 years old, Nikola is much younger.
David Parnas explained in an interview:

Q: What is the most often-overlooked risk in software engineering?

A: Incompetent programmers. There are estimates that the number of programmers needed in the U.S. exceeds 200,000. This is entirely misleading. It is not a quantity problem; we have a quality problem. One bad programmer can easily create two new jobs a year. Hiring more bad programmers will just increase our perceived need for them. If we had more good programmers, and could easily identify them, we would need fewer, not more.

... most software developers will have direct exposure to/experience with one or more such incompetent programmers.
Ha, that's an interesting one. It's more likely to lead to bans on the affiliate/website side than piss off the advertisers, but that might not be a bad thing.
What, you mean like this guy?

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2018-190

> The SEC’s complaint charges that Gregory Lemelson and Massachusetts-based Lemelson Capital Management LLC issued false information about Ligand after Lemelson took a short position in Ligand in May 2014 on behalf of The Amvona Fund, a hedge fund he advised and partly owned.

Or maybe this guy?

https://www.sec.gov/news/press/2008/2008-64.htm

> The SEC alleges that five months ago, Berliner disseminated the false rumor through instant messages to numerous individuals, including traders at brokerage firms and hedge funds. The false rumor also was picked up by the media.
I'm just asking you to do the test, because it was forced on me for 6 months of my life :)

Firstly, cr.yp.to is hosted on some really basic consumer grade hardware most likely and has to make an additional hop through Tonga of all places for DNS resolution.

Of course, the page size of cr.yp.to is very small and does not involve any other communication with other servers to deliver a request.

But Google has x million machines, x million miles of fiber, x million sticks of ram, and the page size on google also isn't terribly huge. And it's serving a cached result usually, the robot has already scraped it.

But still, because of the number of network pings that serving a single google search takes, it is extremely common on cell phones to lose service for a millisecond and completely destroy the bidirectional connection between you and Google, and your mobile browser will just sit there hanging forever until you force restart it.
There is this entertaining series called Houyhnhnm Computing that imagines computing invented by a different species.

https://ngnghm.github.io/index.html
As our technology becomes more complex this becomes a growing problem in every area. Things are becoming more and more opaque even to end users with specialized expertise, let alone the average person.

Is that web cam sending pics of you to China? Is your fridge listening to your private conversations? Is your printer sending confidential PII to a poorly secured server somewhere? Is your car tracking you and selling the info to insurance companies? Is your home security device allowing a stalker to watch your every move?

It's pretty hard to answer any of those questions unless you are a security researcher with deep understanding of network protocols and systems and a good deal of time on your hands.
Also the back and forth seems to be

Andrew, et al: "you're being an asshole"

Kristopher: "we're not doing anything illegal"

Which to an outsider just reads like a tacit admission of being an asshole.
This is such a bizarre idea. I have 7 monitors on my home office - 6 24" in a 2x3 grid and a 27" widescreen vertically beside them.

I use them all. It's so nice to have my IDE, documentation, 2 terminals, CI status, Slack, music, source control, diffs, etc all visible at once.

Not only is it faster to my move my eyeballs than key combo to another desktop, it's about having all the info visible at once.

Your comment is like saying "Why bother having 16 registers in your CPU? Just use a single register and go out to cache every time you need a new value."
Good article about the PHE Covid-19 Dashboard here - it's quite recent:
https://publichealthmatters.blog.gov.uk/2020/09/04/the-covid...
> Eventually, one could write a native hardware kernel in Nock/Hoon

Sounds like the dream of the "lisp machine". Is it more viable than that?
In this same vein, i use DroidCam and my phone as a high quality webcam. Full version is 5 bucks, money well spent!
Different kinds of fraud. Elon lies because his lies sell cars (I.e. FSD perpetually 1 quarter away). The purchasers are the aggrieved.

The effect his lies have on the stock market is secondary.
If you focus on how everything could be weaponized you are a short sighted paranoid a skip and a hop away from fascism. Even tyrants aren't stupid enough to ban all hammers.

How about stopping the idiotic tool blaming and blaming the bad actors?
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I’m a Vi user for over 20 years now. Though, I only know the very basic of Vi to edit config files. I have tried several times to use Vi for as a general editor for programming (with plugins) but didn’t feel intuitive with it. I guess the obscured key shortcuts are putting me off. For some reason, I got hooked to emacs after using CiDER for Clojure. I feel like the shortcuts problem in emacs is just a facade as everything is bound to a function! What a revelation it is. I would give prelude a try because it doesn’t try to force push Vi mode in emacs.
> without action by the government and individuals to slow the spread of coronavirus and suppress new cases, 2.2 million people in the United States could die

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/16/us/coronavirus-fatality-r...
This is precisely my point. Why allow anyone to walk off the cliff if you’re just going to tell them it’s wrong anyway? They could have avoided all of this if it were GPL in the first place.
I've been working on a conlang based on word vectors and "morphemes are phonemes", a very tight coupling between the syllables and semantics (it's an abugida but written in ascii). Gu=earth, va=motion, mu=machine, things like that. Initially there was no requirement for order of the morphemes, guvamu=muvagu=vagumu, whatever sounded best. Then I ran smack into, "what's the difference between a ground vehicle (car) and an earth-mover?"

So I needed recursion and a bit more grammar to make this hierarchical word fusion work better.
Well, it was a bit more complicated, because there wasn’t any transparency in what leaks WL was in possession of (only Assange held such info) and because Assange published information that had little public relevance, but brought him fame.

Also, not really clear why WL would attack Panama papers...
Nobody has mentioned they are a short seller? Every article I’ve seen about it mentions it, and Hindenburg themselves are clear about it.

You should certainly take that into account when analyzing their report, but it does not mean they should be disregarded.
Apple's and Microsoft's compilers are downloadable for free (Apple's is actually Clang), they're not forcing you to pay if you want to use them; even the IDEs have been free for a while without any kind of payment or subscription.
Well except that recorded Covid-19 deaths are statistically inseparable from deaths due to comorbidities and the overwhelming majority of recorded deaths were over 55 years old and had two or more comorbidities. The number of recorded Covid-19 deaths with zero comorbidities is some infinitesimal fraction (< 10%) of the overall “death count.” So, yes, as a perfectly healthy mid-30s adult I have a higher chance of dying in a car accident.

If anything we’ve successfully argued why people with comorbid risk factors (old age, diabetes, asthma, obesity, etc.) should remain isolated, but even that is looking sketchy as the death rate continues to plummet.
It's fine for Zen to fork the Zig code. It's not fine for Zen to claim authorship of code that was written by someone else (such as the async/await code)
> Other than encouraging Japanese users to use Zig instead of Zen, that is.

They're not encouraging users to use zig instead of zen because zen is a private fork, they're discouraging users from using zen because it is zen.

> The fact that most of the message was pointing out how poor the character of the Zen authors is doesn't feel good to me

Most of the statement has to do with Zen's dubious relationship with the truth (with the lack of significant value despite lofty claims being but one of the examples thereof).

The statement also doesn't point out the poor character of Zen's creator but their poor behaviour. You can infer poor character from poor behaviour but that is not what is pointed out in the statement.

> It's an appeal to our sense of fairness, "Look at these big bad guys who are profiting off our work".

You may want to re-read the statement if that's what you got from it.
At the end of the day nearly every developer in the world is writing code that will run on an instruction set designed by someone else. There's some shocking elitism around "glueing frameworks together", but the JS devs build on the work of npm package devs, who build on the work of the browser devs, who build on the work of the devs who wrote OpenGL/their TLS implementation/libpng, the whole lot are writing code for a compiler or interpreter of some kind, and on it goes, all the way down to the electrons.

It's the equivalent of a medical professional saying their field just makes incisions then wiggles things around - debatably true, but unnecessarily dismissive and reductive.
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"Not Enough Clarity about your Role" - Like the author mentions, this can definitely signify that the role is not important. The other thing I've noticed over my career is that it could be that the role involves "grunge" work (awful oncall shifts, doing backend work when you want to do only frontend, etc). Companies hide behind cool titles/department names/etc, promising whatever you want to hear to get you in.
> Nikola’s Response Had Holes Big Enough to Roll a Truck Through.

Love it.