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Thanks! Yes, Automation is what actually I thought of the 'a' in a18n :)
But it's named as `a18n` for some complicated reasons:

1. It aligns well with translation function name and CLI command

I want the translation function to be something:

- looks like `i18n` (so user can tell its purpose at a glance)

- but NOT `i18n` (so it's unique enough that we can safely assume its role when we parse/manipulate user's code)

- also NOT too short like '_', or 'i' (for the same reason above)

By these rules, I think `${someChar}18n` is a great fit as the function name, and to simplify things, I just use it as the CLI name and the package name.

2. (the real reason) It's really hard to name a JavaScript i18n lib today

If you search for "i18n" in npm, more that 7000 libs pops up. Here is a list of lib names I searched and found taken:

- simple-i18n

- i18n-simple

- s18n

- v18n

- next-i18n

- i18n-next

- react-i18n

- i18n-react

- ...(maybe 20 more?)

So when I finally found that `a18n` is not taken? -- I know instantly it's a digital treasure that I have to grab :)
Their first discussion was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efs3QRr8LWw.

The HN discussion at that time (10 months ago) generated a lot of interest: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21333063
Shameless self-promotion hijack: https://github.com/whyboris/JSON-i18n-Editor

A web interface for letting your team translate JSON i18n files - in case you store your i18n in JSON. See the live demo: link on the GitHub page.
Might be better with CIELAB color space, where "difference" is closer to "perceptual difference."
>Greg Stanton (D-Arizona) $2

You know, there has to be a story behind this. I'm not sure what it is, but I hope it is good.
Sales is about listening, not talking. Great that you came to this conclusion!

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Very useful. That's why I like this community.
A few counterpoints:

- This depends what you are doing with your business. Doing some software consulting on the side and making 10-20k/year from that? You probably don't need it. You have to decide for yourself what your chances of getting sued fare, but for many people, they are zero to negligible. The chances of getting sued go up quite a bit once you start to employ people though.

- IANAL, but I get the impression that if you do everything right, then piercing that corporate veil isn't so simple. If you start treating the LLC like an extension of yourself, then you run a risk. So don't buy cars or vacations (or any non-business expenses) on the company if you want to maintain that separation. Also, don't commit fraud or other things where the court might find it unreasonable to let you hide behind a corporate veil (if you sell $100,000 in counterfeit prada purses to an unknowing buyer, and then take that money and transfer it from the LLC to yourself, the court probably won't look favorably on that). Also, make sure the company is well capitalized enough. If you open up an LLC and put $10,000 on the credit card without any reasonable expectation that you'd be able to pay that expense, and the court agrees, you might see the corporate veil pierced. But in general, if what you are running is an actual business, there's probably a fairly good chance that piercing the corporate veil will be hard (doesn't mean people can't sue you personally... the question is whether they will be successful in doing so).

- For some people, paying $800/year is worth it for having something that sounds more official. Telling a customer that you are Acme LLC sounds more official, which is worth something.

- I do some side consulting and live in a state where LLC fees are much lower (~130-ish/year). I don't really need the legal protections (the most my customers would reasonably do is ask for their money back, which I would probably do anyway if they were unhappy, rather than deal with a lawsuit). But I like having an LLC with it's own bank account and credit card for tax purposes. It gives me piece of mind that i have completely separate accounts for business expenditures that I can point to in case I were audited, even though my risks of audit are pretty low. That said, I probably wouldn't do it if I were paying $800/year.
I have it connected to 4 accounts with a lot of data/events, over ~3 years nothing happened. I did encounter crashes initially due to some nvidia driver issue :| and another time due to my ram stick, otherwise it's more stable than macos.
Trump lied? Color me shocked!

The only real Trump news worth talking about is that there are still people who would support Trump despite him "willfully" throwing people under the proverbial bus.

For the inevitable whatabouters, change is better than more years of this lying incompetence.
It feels like a losing game to me. Pre-covid I decided to try and get out more and be more pro-active about meeting people. There also happened to be recent changed in my life that made it a lot easier to do so. When I moved there wasn't a ton of opportunities to meet people, but I found a group that went out regularly and so I decided to start attending. Overtime though I noticed that I judt had nothing in common with most of the group and while I formed a somewhat amicable relationship with a few other "outliers" I just wasn't connecting with most people and became more of a face. Nothing against them, we just had much different interests, hobbies, priorities, etc. Meetup gets thrown around a (poor) generic advice but in my experience Mertup is modtly fronts for MLMs and other scams, demographic specific groups or tech meetups. Look I'm a hacker at heart but tech meetups always just seemed so awkward to me and often felt like an advertisement. In fairness I have some other unique qualities / issues / etc. that make it more difficult.
Out of interest, why are you using a 10 year old OS that went out of support _7 years ago_? That must have horrible security implications, surely?
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This is like a11y - "accessibility" a[eleven letters]y - https://www.a11yproject.com/
The two links are identical, the first one is likely wrong.

The linked article focuses on Jews and seems to define Holocaust itself as Jew issue - while trying to make sure reader knows that is not the only atrocity that was going on at the time. I think that the other groups being mentioned too is not to define Holocaust through their murder, but to not make impression it was just that.

The first quote is confusing, because it simultaneously counts in "and millions of others" while also saying "The Germans called this “the final solution to the Jewish question.”". And then turning again to say that it represents totality of victims and supposedly Sho'ah should be word. I have never seen Shoʾah being used in English language. I have seen that in France, but it was in French language.
Are you saying OP is a Google PR insider accusing Google of abusing market privilege while ensuring the perfect definition of “monopoly“ isn’t marred by inaccuracy?
Jamstack is not less complex, it's just complex in different areas.
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> There is no other reason one could imagine for why banks, FinTech, or other financial services providers need to be regulated?

He boils it all down to crises, but that's not the sum total of what can go wrong with this kind of thing. Look at something that another kind of "fintech" has been doing for years: predatory lending via payday loans. Usury is real, and usurers prey upon those with the least financial literacy in stressful times when they are vulnerable. Credit cards and lines of credit similarly can be extended to people who may not realize truly what they're getting themselves into, or who may have no choice given their circumstances.

It is for these situations and these people that we need additional regulation in order to save people from terrible crushing debt.
Why even bother with this when you store infinite data in pi[0]?

[0] https://github.com/philipl/pifs
Good on you for asking. I'm a coach and I see a lot of successful people with your interests doing "all of the above," rather than thinking of a career in singular terms, or attempting to define all of their interests with a single role in their career like they've got an identity paintbrush but only one color.

Quite often this means using one or two roles as a stable income base while working on the other things. A lot of consultants and business owners work this way.

Some things that stood out to me:

- You didn't mention wanting a high income anywhere, which means you may be able to work this out by identifying a minimum income level. If you can do this, IMO you get major bonus points for being able to be more measured, flexible, and open with your schedule, especially in values-oriented work.

- Values and interests point at strengths. One can sometimes change a job in place, creatively organizing options at work and negotiating with an employer to bring those strengths to bear. This could involve everything from pitching a new project that overlaps with VR interests to starting a podcast for employees where you work.

- You have some big-picture expressions like "push for" in there. In my experience you'll probably need to develop your own frameworks for logging and measuring your progress in these efforts. Otherwise it's too easy to lose traction fast, and maybe even feel like a failure when it could be more helpful to look at it as first moves or first experiments.

Hope that helps! Nice job here and good luck.
> google subsidiary gets a custom tool at the top of google results (such as Flights) above both organic and ads.

Searching for flights is still a search. You wouldn't expect the first result of "cat pictures" to be Bing's search results for cat pictures, so it's also natural that the first result of "flight nyc la" would return actual flights as its first result would return actual flights rather than a link to Expedia.
Also networking. e.g. you can spin up a Node.js server in Linux then connect to it with Chrome on Windows at http://localhost
Or maybe, just maybe, inheritance taxes are bad policy?

And as for the US being a “failed state”, there sure is a big line to get in there!
Of course they do, HN is huge. But don't think that the software engineers there have much more ability to make decisions than you.
Unless Cruise has changed recently, they require a primary and backup person in the car, and the rules seemed strict. I remember they were super serious about it, iirc you weren't allowed to talk to either of the drivers after you put your seatbelt on (or maybe it was after the car was on?).

SF is also an easier place to be watching an SDV in the sense that there's more happening to keep your mind occupied (weird intersections, construction, people doing stupid things). It's a lot easier to lose focus when you're watching a car drive itself around deserted highways in the middle of the night.
> Trying to diminish the seriousness of 300 deaths with mealy-mouth terms like "imperfect" is pure spin. If a plane, staffed by pilots allegedly trained on how to fly it, crashes from pilot error... TWICE, the system is broken. terribly broken.

Wait until you find out how many people die in car crashes every single day. It does not mean “the system is broken”. In the real world systems can be improved without throwing disruptive tantrums to make fundamental changes.

>Terrorists flew planes into the World Trade Center. The system was broken. We fixed some of it. We put on some secuity theatre too. But we didn't say, "It's impossible to fix everything, so the system is fine." We didn't shrug it off as "imperfect."

Excellent example of an extreme overreaction that caused immense destruction to the aviation industry because emotional politicians wanted to fix a “fundamentally broken system”. The correct approach would have been, “we’ve found a big flaw in security, we will now install flight deck door locks”. Instead, some dim politicians went with the “system is broken” approach and now we have nudity machines (or grope-downs if you don’t submit) at every major airport in the US.

You don’t drastically change a system on the discovery of a single flaw, no matter how big. You fix the flaw because it’s one known bad vs the giant pile of unknown flaws with fundamental redesigns.
The Settings app in Windows works very well with mouse and the wasted whitespace only appears when it's maximized, the app was made to be responsive with several windows sizes.
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That's encouraging, at least. Not exactly a "cure" and not a vaccine, but if these results hold up, this could be important.
GPU decoding support for video streaming in Chrome/Firefox was enough for me to switch back. I know this JUST got added to Firefox but afaik, this Nvidia proprietary drivers don't support this.
Not just web search, also android, google home, google/android pay, gmail (even if you're not on gmail you send to/from), youtube, 3rd party android apps running analytics, 3rd party websites running analytics, chrome... the list goes on. Far more reach than any other competitor could hope to have when making a competing service.
> If they depend upon another entity for doing the task they aren't competitors in the first place. That is like calling me a competitor to Exxon Mobile because I can get gas in my car at a gas station.

I'm thinking more of "your car only accepts Exxon's gas", or even more accurately, "your car's engine only runs on a very specific type of fuel, and Exxon has a complete monopoly on producing and distributing it".

> especialally if everything was designed to be stateless by making websites not store any data permanently!

That doesn't follow. Websites should be able to store the data from the moment I give them consent, process it within the scope of my consent, and delete it when I revoke my consent. That doesn't imply they need, or should, be stateless.

> Indeed the only point to the design is as a passive aggressive way to tell them to "fuck off, if I wanted you to have it I would give it to you".

It's not about them having it, but about them taking ownership of my data and siloing it in.

And it's not (just) about telling them to fuck off, but about mitigating the strong positive feedback loop that causes centralization of the web - which is the topic in this subthread.

On a more abstract level, I'm thinking of ways in which "data intermediaries" could be made more transparent. For instance, I see no reason why Facebook should own the social network - which is defined fully by the graph of connections between its users. So e.g. if I friend you on Facebook, that edge in the graph is data that belongs to us both. If I share some photo to "friends only", you should be able to see it through an interface of your choosing. What happens instead is that it's Facebook that decides what interface you can or cannot use, and trying to disagree can cause them to terminate your account (and take away access to your data) or even sue you.
That depends heavily on your industry and obviously isnt true as a rule. Google gets 37% of ad spend, Facebook ~20% and then everyone else combines for the last 40%.

It's true that if your looking at targeting users searching for something that it's basically just Google. But people are increasingly using apps and specific sites over general surfing. Reddit, tiktok, snap, etc. all have their own ads and collectively represent major competition.
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By this logic it was fine when Samsung S7 phones started exploding, because it was a very low occurance in the smart phone market.

The problem isn't that flying is unsafe, but that the MAX specifically was/is, and something very clearly failed both at Boeing and in regulation.
> dbus hard depends on systemd

That doesn't seem to be the case, the dbus package only depends on libsystemd0 and installing dbus in a clean chroot doesn't pull in systemd.

$ apt-cache show dbus | grep Depends | grep -o ...systemd. | sort -u
libsystemd0
I interpreted those phrases as just a humorous writing style.
As someone who spent years working as a security guard... No. At least not in the way your thinking sitting at a desk eyes constantly on the cameras. Depending on the site we are expected to check and log them on a given interval and generally keep them in our field of view, but no one is under the illusion that there's perfect attention there.

For higher security sites this is solved by having several rovers in constant communication and coordinatation with the (often multiple) people sitting by the cameras. So both the rovers and the desk are constantly doing not just sitting.

Fire watch is the same thing. Your not just up in your tower eyes constantly peeled on the forrest, ready to react in milliseconds.
Craig Murray has been covering this trial from the public gallery. He certainly has his opinions and I don't want to get in the weeds on that account. He did mention that very few people were allowed in the public gallery, the rest where to sit in a room next door where (he claims) the sound is difficult to hear.[0]

My understanding at this point is that the public isn't really allowed access at all. The poor sound quality makes it impossible to understand what is happening, it's not access in the sense that they can follow the proceedings. Craig Murray seemed to be saying that Amnesty International was excluded even from this room. I believe this may be the crux of Amnesty International's complaint.

"Rather to our surprise, nobody else was allowed into the public gallery of court 10 but us five. Others like John Pilger and Kristin Hrafnsson, editor in chief of Wikileaks, were shunted into the adjacent court 9 where a very small number were permitted to squint at a tiny screen, on which the sound was so inaudible John Pilger simply left. Many others who had expected to attend, such as Amnesty International and Reporters Without Borders, were simply excluded, as were MPs from the German federal parliament (both the German MPs and Reporters Without Borders at least later got access to the inadequate video following strong representations from the German Embassy)."

[0]: https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/09/your-man-in-...
Interesting article about this at https://www.wolterskluwer.com/en/expert-insights/piercing-th....

> "A court will pierce the veil only if a failure to do so will result in an injustice. This requires more than evidence that a creditor will not get paid. It requires evidence that the corporation or LLC was used in some way to perpetrate a fraud or accomplish some other wrongful purpose. For example, if the shareholders or members formed the entity knowing that they were not providing enough start-up capital to satisfy its contractual obligations, or intentionally moved the company’s assets out of a known creditor’s reach so that the debt could not be paid.

Actions such as those may be considered by courts as abusing the corporate or LLC form. For example, an Alabama court pierced the veil of a solely owned corporation that was hired to do construction work on a house. The shareholder testified that the corporation had no money when the contract was made, that she made no attempt to make sure the corporation had enough money to complete the project, and that she and a friend used the corporation’s bank account – which consisted only of the funds from the plaintiff - for personal purchases at jewelry and sporting goods stores, car services, restaurants, and more."
Yeah, that just didn't happen here.

Pessimizer pointed out the moderation fallacy. For an argument from fallacy to have happened, he would have needed to use that to invalidate some conclusion from that argument.
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My parents and older sister say otherwise, if we're posting anecdotal evidence.
Another approach could be sufficently good communication. If you need former experts in writing the regulation to be compliant or need to work in the industry to know how it works enough to regulate it implies that the communication on both sides is missing crucial information.

The process of doing so and ensuring it would be very laborious in that you would have to document every last detail, go through and make sure they were covered, make sure they were retained, and make sure that their understanding of every last detail is identical. Making matters worse is the mix of implicit and explicit. If you use a sprocket on something the design implicitly states "Do not allow it to rotate that way!" An added strut on a panel already more than capable of supporting itself and the rest of the structure may be redundant or needed to shift resonant frequencies into a range where they would be irrelevant.
Yup, I've had experience with safety drivers in autonomous vehicles that are extremely professional and that I feel very safe with. After seeing the Uber video, the first red flag for me was the fact that she was alone; the second was (obviously) the fact that she was watching a video on her phone, which means either she was being criminally negligent (if she had been on-shift for a short period of time) or Uber was (if she had a long, isolated shift).
> but it is a long way away from Excel for serious work.

Most people don't use Excel for "serious work". Most people use Excel to make colorful grids of text and some calculated numbers that fit in a common corporate issue 8GB computer.
Other than the simplest of static/marketing sites, jamstack is just taking standard server-side rendered frameworks and splitting it up into several layers: CMS and other content sources, external APIs, build process, backend "serverless" functions, etc.

This is more moving pieces and complexity. Yes it's easier to build the frontend using modern component models but I find the tradeoff is rarely worth it.
>Everyone should be afraid

Please don't FUD like this. Proprietary systems on top of Linux are nothing new and Microsoft certainly isn't the first company to have done it. If you have some real proof of their business plans then let's hear that rather than encouraging speculation and fearmongering.
I naturally assumed, and by naturally I mean egrep '^a.{18}n$' /usr/share/dict/words, that a18n abbreviated anthropomorphization, and so in context that perhaps we'd be helping a recently translated program feel more settled in its new repository.
Toronto and New York City use a similar point-only system on its subway systems. Without the white gloves though.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/toronto/article-autom...
Giving money to people is the best way to help them. It turns out that most people are generally entrepreneurial and will spend the money on what they think is the most important need for them at the moment. Maybe the person doesn't need training; maybe they already have a skill, and what they really need is some capital to buy equipment or materials to pursue that activity.

This idea is behind a the success of the Earned Income Tax Credit in the USA. Giving people in need a substantial capital injection at a single point in time is a very impactful to people without the means to save.