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> After all, LEGO is just the medium for an expression here, and by creating something with LEGO as that medium you have made a (hopefully) original work.

Again, I'm not a Lawyer, but I think this is covered by merger: https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/media_law_prof_blog/2006/0...

There are only so many ways to connect Lego bricks which is the part I'm trying to understand.
Do the games run in an emulator, too?
If you're out in the sun every day, probably not. If you are indoors all day, it's probably a good idea to take a supplement. This calculator page is a great way to estimate how much time outside it would take for you to get generate a specific level of vitamin D given your skin colour, latitude, cloud conditions, time of day and so on:

https://fastrt.nilu.no/VitD-ez_quartMEDandMED_v2.html

For me it calculates only 15mins needed in the sun to get an equivalent dose of 1000IU. Note however that depending on where you read, a recommended dose per day may be 10,000-15,000IU.
Not sure how I helped. But, you're welcome :)
> I feel like if you close with "only 20% slower than make" you can't justify the title "is not slow."

IIUC, the 20% slowdown happens with a build that does nothing, it's just the scons overhead. (Not sure if they replaced the compiler invocations with echo, or if they touched the result files right from Python, for this number. They mentioned both, but I don't remember which one of them resulted in the 20% figure.)

The 20% figure should go down for real world builds.
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This looks useful and to the point. Would you consider submitting it to f-droid?
Sony makes it official: Playstation 5 won’t natively support PS1, PS2, PS3
Oh man, I love that “who do you go to for X?” question. I’m starting as an SWE on Monday, so that’s big on my mind.
1. Deputy Director posts are the bottom rung in the Senior Civil Service. Any SCS post is, by definition, senior. The SCS accounts for 1% of the entire Civil Service head count[1].

2. Why mention the pay rate? Civil Service jobs have never been well paid - especially in comparison to private sector equivalent job roles. People go into these jobs for a lot of reasons beyond remuneration - behind-the-scenes power, for instance, or social cachet, or even in the belief that they can help make things work better.

3. The key level in the average UK central government department is the Grade 7 Team Leader. They're the ones with (wide) responsibility for a specific policy area, and/or running a specific government programme. They're also the ones who get hammered when anything goes wrong. (Deputy) Directors will be responsible for managing a Division of such Teams in a related area. Above them are the Director Generals (C-suite folks for each Department, though far more limited in numbers) and the Permanent Secretary (the CEO, if you like).

Running a country is not the same as running a business.

[1] - https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainers/grade-s...
Requirements can vary. The institution I went to did require a differential equations course after Calc III even for CompE students. And, yeah, it was painful.

Either way, I agree with you 100%; if the student doesn't like math, they are almost guaranteed to get weeded out by the calculus courses.
I think his thinking is still valid.

If you sit on the left or right the sound should still come from "center stage" or (x,y,z)=(0,0,0) without being shifted or drift.
> In reality, I can both oppose female genital mutilation and consider Ayaan Hirsi Ali racist.

Of course you can. But became sufficiently famous doing so, and you will probably also find yourself on some list of "problematic" people.

In case I am completely wrong about this, the best way to convince me would be to provide a name of a recent famous speaker against female genital mutilation who is considered politically correct.
Chemistry of Stinging Nettles
All empires fall eventually
I agree and think q-tip use has damaged my hearing considerably over the years.
I highly recommend that you contact LEGO’s customer service directly with the question, as they are easy to reach and they really take pride in being available and they try to provide answers or point to people who can (source: dude trust me)
> This is frequently stated as fact, but no evidence is provided.

Indeed.

Last I heard on the subject, government does a great many things people don't think of at first, for example facilitating R&D that wouldn't otherwise occur, and large scale administration and maintenance of infrastructure, and much of its activity is ludicrously efficient as a multiplier for the economy compared with how people think of it, and cost effective or at least competitive with the private sector on many things that it does.
Most likely D3. D2 is quite hard to find.
The answer to this is "use Shake", which is similar to what you describe. The secrets are that you need a more abstract concept of "targets" or "dependencies" that aren't just files — so you can depend on environment variables, file contents, results of dynamic commands, etc — you need to be able to express "dynamic" rules where you can compute new dependencies for a rule "on the fly" while it's executing, and you need elbow grease to write it as an API. Shake also has had a lot of research done about it comparing it to other systems, is used very successfully, and has an array of nice features other systems don't, including .ninja file compatibility and build profile reports: https://shakebuild.com/

Shake is written in Haskell as a library (so your build rules have to be written in Haskell too, as programs) but you could either wire up a language via the FFI to make some classes of build rules easily expressible in JavaScript/Lua, or in theory rewrite the core of Shake in another language too. The theory is all there, though.

My personal rule of thumb is: use a "specific" build system if possible, but use Shake the second any build system requires even a tiny bit of complexity (multi language builds, requires parsing or other "advanced" features, etc). As a bonus it's also very fast, within a few % of Ninja when parsing Ninja files, and sometimes faster than that. I was surprised when it came in as 2x as fast as Ninja on a large-ish C codebase at work, due to having picked a different "build schedule" that distributed compilations across cores better.
I distinctly remember, at age 19, not being able to imagine what it would be like to be old — like, 25.
I like Dan Millman's lesson in a Peaceful Warrior

What time is it? Now
Where are you? Here
I remember when I was a teenager and wondering what life would be like at 50. Now I know.

You feel exactly the same, only with less time left. You're still you. You still feel the same. You still want to experience all the same things and achieve. But now with less time, you have to start triaging some goals and face reality.

I remember thinking I have all the time in the world. Now I don't. So I guess that's the main difference.

Also, I used to hold the illusion that I'd always have my family and parents to talk to. But that's not true either.
People on customer service teams are not qualified to provide legal advice. Neither are random people on an internet discussion board.

edit: With this said, neither of the two example scenarios presented by lawlessbricks encompasses the act of copyright infringement, in my mind, simply by building a model based on a schematic or photograph with no further actions. You can assemble whatever you want with the bricks you own in the comfort of your home and no one can or should stop you from doing that. Assembly is not equal to reproduction in the eyes of a copyright.

I'm not a lawyer and copyright law varies drastically depending where you are and how much money either you or your plaintiff have.
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I agree, and well-put.

If we don’t constantly hone our skills and learn new things we risk getting left behind. I think programmers can imagine that as a bigger threat than it is, but it can happen if one chooses a dead end to specialize in. Not getting in on a trend early presents the risk of getting left behind, especially in today’s tech hiring process that often requires experience with relatively young languages and tools. That said I would still focus on the larger trends rather than specific languages or tools.

When I got into programming 40 years ago it was just barely possible to learn most of the major languages and tools used in business applications. Today that’s not even possible for niches like web development. I read an interview with Bill Gates a while back. We’re close to the same age. He said he just got lucky, born at the right time, and he got into programming as a teenager and grew up with the technology. He said it’s much harder now to get started because there are so many places to start, so much to learn, and the languages and tools continue to drop on us faster than we can keep up. That can lead to despair, or over-specialization.

I now specialize in web applications, but I can’t learn everything, so I don’t try. I wait until something gets traction, when I start seeing demand from customers (rather than HN buzz or a mention in the TIOBE rankings), before I pay attention to it. Once a language or tool gets significant traction it tends to have a long lifespan: Unix, C, COBOL, SQL and relational databases, PHP, etc. I work mainly on legacy software so I don’t have to stay bleeding edge. I know this seems like a boring “I give up” path, and I partly got here because of increasing age discrimination, but it let me relax a bit about keeping up with beta versions of Rust and React and focus more on what my customers actually want.
Also see Thomas Delauer's yt channel. Many good tips there. I do 1x 36 hr/week for abt 1.5 years now.
Not free plastic bottles; free water (at fountains and suchlike).

We should be using reusable bottles and filling them on demand at public fountains, not running into the quickie mart and buying Evian 1/2 liter at a time.
> I'm assuming the original LEGO bricks are out of patent (which may be relevant here as well) but other parts may not be.

My understanding is patents protect Lego from other entities reproducing brick designs based on their patents. (Think Lepin lego clone bricks:https://technicstory.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/servo2.j...)

If patent means people cannot create objects (copyrighted or not) from Lego bricks without infringing on Lego patent, the point of the toy is moot.

> some LEGO sets are presumably licensed from the holders of trademarks or other IP (as in the case of Star Wars sets).

Correct, I'm sure if someone made a Tie-fighter out of lego and started selling it, Disney could come after them, because it infringes on their trademark and possibly registered copyright.
Can you show me on the following graph when did the era of high tax on the rich end? https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYFRGDA188S
Go through part one of the nand2tetris course on Coursera to learn what goes on inside a CPU, then build a physical computer using an old CPU like the 6502 or Z80. You'll find lots of inspiration for that on YouTube.
Good point, but I would say "pretty bad" is relative in my opinion. I think of it as something like this:

Mental notes < written notes < SRS < repeated exposure + emotional connection.

Specifically around retention (and only retention), taking notes doesn't get you everything, but it gets you something.

(I do feel some of us put undue focus on taking notes at the expense of understanding the world through empirical means, but that's another discussion. I'm focusing solely on retention here.).

Active recall testing and distributed practice are great ideas. No disagreement there. (the Ebbinghaus curve is well known)

(also, thanks for the link to the publication -- those are interesting results that describe aggregate outcomes for the population studied, but there's usually variation in individual outcomes, and in self-selected groups like this one, a different subset of techniques may dominate)

To your point about Anki specifically, I'm a language learner and in my experience, flashcard-style SRS can help retention for atomic types of knowledge, but I find as I get to intermediate levels of a language, the utility of flashcards declines precipitously -- because one is called upon to synthesize structures rather than just words.

So far I haven't found an easy way to encode structures into flashcards (clozes etc are too simplistic)... furthermore, language learning is complicated by the need to acquire a "feeling" for the context of how certain words are used. It's a kind of tacit knowledge that sometimes defies simple flashcard-type encodings. You can encode context through narrative, but then your flashcards become too unwieldy.

I've found writing and speaking (with feedback) in small chunks over a long period of time to be much better at creating the "neurocircuitry" necessary for retention. Again, I wouldn't say flashcard SRS are bad at improving retention (I use them), but like taking notes, even if they don't get you all the way there, they get you somewhere.
Look at the last of the screenshots, it describes the purchase.
Ask HN: How to launch a side project after a startup failure?
Greetings! A few years ago I resigned from my full-time job to start my own business. About a year later, I lost my business and much more I lost my marriage. The years that followed were hard...no job, no money, homeless, few friends and family members. Last 3 months I got a job (less $150/month). I still have a passion to run a business after learning lessons the hard way and have been thinking of launching a side project while working. Honestly, I just work to put food on the table and just to see if I can raise a $1000 capital to start a small business but at the same time the other side of me is still afraid to venture on a business based on my previous startup failure. Any advise based on past experience on how I can run a side project on a tight budget and still make it successful?
The other worry on taking vitamin D supplements is that people go overboard with them and end up with too much vitamin D. I'd consider that to be good evidence that you're not just making expensive pee
In short: support for WebKit (to test Safari), out-of-process automation (not constrained by scope of in-page JavaScript, for example, to test multiple pages/frames/domains), support for non-JS language bindings. For a more comprehensive list, check out "Why Playwright?"[1].

[1] https://playwright.dev/#version=v1.4.1&path=docs%2Fwhy-playw...
Mind Webs is excellent! I would also recommend Quiet Please, which has a similar feel and quality but a more horror/speculative fiction focus.

https://www.quietplease.org/episodes/

The episode The Thing On The Fourble Board is widely regarded as a classic of that era of radio.

https://www.quietplease.org/episodes/the-thing-on-the-fourbl...

While I'm at it, I'll point to Erik Bauersfeld's Black Mass as well, another high-quality horror-fantasy radio show that was produced locally in the Bay Area. The adaptation of The Outsider always gives me chills.

https://www.oldtimeradiodownloads.com/thriller/black-mass/th...
IBM mainframe disk devices from the beginning of S/360 to today
You’re missing the biggest reason this is relevant: enterprise IT shops with strict change management processes amd, especially in government, years of austerity budgets cutting resources for both sysadmins and rigorous testing.

Either of the targets you mentioned are more the symptom than the root cause: management setting up bad incentives. If you have a charge management process which takes a month to approve updates, the problem is not the sysadmin. If years of skimping means that the operators are afraid to patch because they’ll be punished if it breaks things and they don’t have a robust testing process, the problem is not the sysadmin.
As to the significance of "5826 D.B.T. 1976", it appears that it stands for Denver Bicycle Tax. This is probably why the author tried phoning the Denver police and then the oldest bike shop in Denver.
Avoid becoming addicted to anything (e.g., don't consume unhealthy illicit substances). Get enough sleep, sunlight, and exercise. Also, make sure you adopt a healthy diet where you remember to also consume things that will improve your gut bacteria so that your body thoroughly absorbs all those healthy nutrients. Of course, if you don't care how long you live, you can ignore all of the above advice. Some people say they don't want to live forever, but I've yet to encounter anyone who was happy to exit this world like a satisfied diner at a restaurant.
> Apple most often seems to accept that it doesn't have good people so it'll not roll its own but just use things that already exist

Do they? Wasn't "goto fail" a bug in their SSL code? That one wasn't even a bug that a reviewer would need to reason about the logic of the code to see.
The republicans had the opportunity to do it, and haven’t...
Maybe natural language should become more like programming languages instead of the other way around. I suppose this could be especially useful in e.g. legal circles, where ambiguities are problematic.
The Greenland ice sheet has melted past the point of no return
Show HN: My Python Notebook Driven Book on Evolutionary Algorithms
I didn’t see this listed on the official testing library page. Is it maintained by them?
where it says that, follow the link
My family is descended from Rev. John Lothrop[0], who came across on the Griffin in 1634. The high literacy rate among Puritans and their subsequent notability through the colonial years left many, many records of them and their progeny.

He is also an ancestor of the Bush clan - among many others. At some point, everyone is related to everyone. :)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lothropp
My father is 64. He has just been given months to live. He will be the second in my family to die from lung disease caused by smoking. My advice for any young person, don't smoke it'll rob you of years of life.
Last I checked, the hydroxychloroquine studies were looking up. "No evidence"? Maybe you should find some better sources.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24298838

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/02/health/hydroxychloroquine...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23923861
One of the crazy parts about being older is how time feels different. 10 years ago seems like yesterday, but when I was young that seemed like forever. It doesn't seem like the world changed much until you actually think about the details.
My first advice would be to not underestimate the importance of sleep. This is a key factor for both quality of life and productivity. The only way to optimize sleep is to sleep enough.

Second, try to understand the power of compound interests as soon as you can. Life is long enough to invest and see the returns. Invest in yourself and in projects with long-term value, don't be seduced by shortcuts and don't be a slave.

Last thing, there is a lot of blind and seemingly unjust randomness in life, it is better to embrace it.
> Wouldn't this logic imply that operating systems are not copyrightable, or that works created using products from Adobe Systems Inc. are not copyrightable?

Operating systems are copyright as literary work AFAIK.

You can copyright the output of a system AFAIK, but with Lego, the output is the system.

For example, if you make a graphic in photoshop, the result is it's own entity.

The result of building in lego may look like something new, but it exists as lego. My argument is a lego model is just pretty instructions that is merged with the work and cannot be separated.

Hoping a lawyer will pop in so I can pay them some money to answer this. :)

(I talked with one, and they agreed with my original logic. I'm looking for a few more to understand the spectrum.)

And to be clear, if you take a picture of your lego design, that photograph is 100% your copyright.

If you make a graphical depiction of your lego creation, that is 100% your copyright.

If you make something in lego -- is it copyrightable?
>protect Lego from other entities reproducing brick designs

That's what I was saying. There are many different parts in that picture and some of them may still be covered by patents.
> Apple wrote that "reality" in a way to use its market position in one vertical to control people's actions in other.

Again, that is your framing and doesn't take into account that maintaining independent contracts for each individual app would be incredibly impractical. Some developers have hundreds of apps in the app store. Are you really suggesting that if the developer commits a fraudulent act in a single app within a large portfolio of apps, that Apple should only be allowed to take action against that one specific app as opposed to banning the developer entirely?

> I'm not sure the point you're trying to make with your analogy

My point is that this is standard industry practice so framing it as something particularly evil that Apple has done is kind of silly. Look at Google's Play Store agreement, or Steam, or even Epic's own game store. The fact that all these different companies do things the same way indicates there's probably a valid reason for it.

> I personally don't think it's reasonable that doing a chargeback on a food delivery app (for any reason) should be grounds for me to lose access to my music or yoga apps.

As a consumer, no. But we're talking about two businesses here. If you commit fraud in your food delivery app why should Apple (or any company) be required to continue distributing your music or yoga apps? How do they know you won't do the exact same thing in your other apps?

This example isn't just hypothetical, it's a real issue in the Google Play Store. Malicious developers will build up a portfolio of apps, and then once the install base is large enough, begin to sneak malware into future releases of the apps. Google is constantly playing a whack-a-mole game against these developers. Imagine how much harder that game would be if they couldn't ban the developer and had to wait until malware was discovered in each individual app before they could ban that app.
On SiriusXM there's an old time radio channel that plays this show and tons of others (Ch 148 Radio Classics). I love X Minus One, Dimension X, Suspense, and Escape. You can also find them on The Internet Archive.
Steven Spielberg used an old 747 for War of the worlds and the set is still on the tram tour at Universal Studios.

Apparently the airplane itself was free, but it cost $250k to transport it to the location of filming!
I alwayd thought its because fb wants to get power over me.
I don't want that.
There are operating system patches that break third party software releases. Some of those vendors take more than a month to release a patch.
I don't know if SCons is still slow, but in 2018 it was definitely very, very slow. I doubt it has improved much, as its maintainers were in similar denial then.

When we used it at MongoDB, somebody (thanks Mathias!) put together apparatus to make it generate a ninja config instead of building by itself. That was fast! Anyway, after you had the ninja config.

But the edit-build-test cycle did not include a slow SCons run anymore, and that was huge.

The MongoDB internal wiki had a page titled "SCons Isn't That Slow", with advice for how to live with how slow it really was, later including ("unofficial") ninja and ccache setup. (Which I added.)

But at least it wasn't WAF.
as others have said, tension myositis syndrome. The theory is supressing uncomfortable thoughts results in the body instead trying to communicate them as pain.

I personally think its quack science, but it seems to work for some people, so that is what matters.
Sure, and that's great, but I'm asking about the efficacy of a supplement