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This is a good feature! Sometimes, you want to use `if` `else` based on type information, say if your function is very large and the different behavior based off of type is only a small piece of the process you want to convey.

It's great to have the flexibility.
You aren't only one =)

https://twitter.com/bradfitz/status/1301565453702107136
Almost certainly hyperbole, but imagining 50 packs a day made me run the numbers for a laugh.
Is it socially acceptable to spam people with political articles? I don’t think so. I mute people who do too much of that.
https://www.npr.org/2020/09/16/913398383/whistleblower-alleg...
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Which could be taken as a rather funny take on "here's what happened" ;)
Why Don't You Use Java for Programming the Client-Side Web Browser?
I would like to know, what are the obstacles for you as Java developers not using Java as programming language for writing Web browser apps. Web browser apps are client-side and not server-side Web apps. For running Web browser apps you mostly don't need a Web server, you just need your HTML, CSS and JavaScript files.

This is my full story:

http://bit.ly/TypeScriptVsJavaGWT

Would like to hear your voice, Java developers...
I'm developing a bit of a Pavlovian response to blog posts that begin with "An update to <Product>", so I was glad to see that all of the changes seem really positive.

TimescaleDB is a neat piece of software and I'd definitely recommend checking it out if you're looking for a time series database. I had used some of their competitors in the past and it wasn't a fun experience. They had a high learning curve (things like multiple custom query languages, quasi-relational design that led to massive performance penalties if used the "wrong" way, etc), and at least for my use case the performance wasn't even good enough to justify the esotericism (although I've only used Timescale on small hobby projects with low data rates so maybe it's not fair to complain about another DB's performance with heavier workloads).

IMO what makes Timescale so great and user friendly is that after you set up your tables you can treat it like a regular old SQL database. Everything just works, and you get all the niceties when you make temporal queries.
Politics is how we solve all problems between competing interests as a society.

I've been trying to find ways of asking the question of "what do you mean 'political'" and if someone were to ask for my 'elevator pitch', I'd find myself in agreement with your definition above, but something tells me there will be clashes against this definition, because it is either too limiting to be effectively weaponized as a thought-terminating rebuke, or too expansive to allow for a firm encapsulation and therefore jettisoning of targeted forms of 'unpleasing and disturbing information'[1] (take this statement as far as a pleasant and idle thought will allow, I am not accusing one side of this while condoning it from another, it's not even about who or whom, it's just a man thinking through his keyboard.)

Star Trek introduces a black female lead "Star Trek is getting political". (I fear I may have opened pandora's box with that one)

Colin Kaepernick kneels in protest of police violence "Keep politics out of sports".

Pop_Culture_Icon_number42 argues for an improvement in how society conducts itself in terms of previously_under_addressed_social_scenario_27 "This pop star is getting too political".

To me, politics is inherently and by the function of what we allow, just as you said: an embracing of the necessity to solve problems where there are competing interests. To take issue with that, and rebuke a point of order as "getting political" is, perhaps-and at least in my mind-an unwitting show of the rebuker's hand.

But at the same time, I think about shit way too much.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/39004-we-have-currently-a-b...
Well if your country was itself formed by other illegal aliens it is a bit hypocritical to want to keep others out. Obviously if this was native Americans it is different, but I bet everyone of those people that want to limit 'illegal immigration' are themselves immigrants only 3 or 4 generations ago. And I'm sure you will tell me they are legal immigrants, but I bet there are native Americans who would call that bullshit.
Why not. Groundskeeper (manual labor) at 50, when you could presumably start that job at 16. At 16, anything over 40 (visible signs of aging) is an ol’timer
I don’t think they cared too much if they got a legal ruling on Fortnite in their favor. Fortnite is a fad that everyone has heard of but that is in decline. It was probably perfect for this purpose. I suspect they didn’t expect Apple to go thermonuclear war on them and revoke dev tools access entirely (impacting unreal engine).
Amazon Just Released a Ring Camera That Flies Around Your House
If I don’t eat at least some meat, what do I eat ?

I’ve tried living mostly off soybeans and I can tell you, it was a depressing and miserable existence, at least for me.

I legitimately has no energy and felt depressed for a long time.

Yes I also ate other legumes. It just didn’t really work well for me. Maybe I’ll try again someday.

Even when I was vegetarian, I was freaking out about all the food that was imported and the emissions from that.

You’re kind of screwed if you do and screwed if you don’t. Which is the inspiration for my original post I guess. I don’t truly feel I can stop climate change via my diet.

I decided not to own a car and be more flexible with my diet instead...I’m much happier now.
> I don't disagree but does this mean Sony should allow, for example, Steam to be installed on the PS5?

That would be great for the hundreds of millions (billions?) of consumers and thousands of developers in the global game industry, but bad for exactly 3 companies: Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft.
Are there minimum hardware requirements? I mean, does this stuff run on a Raspberry Pi, or do you need something better?
Genuinely curious, how would you give users "the freedom to stop all data collection by these devices" without some kind of walled garden. Is the solution something like flatpack for all apps? but then how do you make sure all apps don't just refuse to work without permission to collect data or manage to collect information without users knowing? You can't force developers to be honest about what their app does without having a means to prevent it from being installed. Specifically for apps, I can't think of a solution that has no restrictions of software installations, but wouldn't be trivially turned into an incredibly user hostile environment.
seems like a very interesting story however after the third voice change I lost interest and the specialized tech jargon just makes it sound goofy
What became of Jim, do you know?
I understand your point but we don't even know if the number of this users that need protecting is even 10%. This imaginary group of people must have this properties:

- they are gullible , so bad people can trick them to ignore OS security warnings,create some extra account or security key to unlock the device (Apple can do it hard enough it must not be just 1 click)

- at the same time this users are not that gullible to paste their credit card in random websites or on Apple approved chat messages

- at the same time this users can be trusted with the app permissions for files,contacts, camera, location

For me if I intersect all this sets of users I get void and your argument should be that everything should be locked down, no permissions allowed for this users, there should only Apple approved websites, apple approved contacts, Apple should scan your messages not to send your card details or do stupid things. This people should use an iOS version made for children and adults could use the unlocked version.
Yes. I would call you old timer in your 40's. I'm 36 and I'm fine with that.
Wouldn't it be nice to use old iPhones for tinkering instead? the hardware is pretty amazing.

I guess I've decided the last few years to forsake some safety/connivance to ensure the right to use my hardware the way I want. Its harder. I have a linux notebook which is great, but requires a little more attention.

As apple moves more into services its become less of a systems company, I'm not completely trusting of them.
Clickable links

https://www.sqlite.org/mostdeployed.html

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/how-many-galax...
Root beer is a fun and popular flavor, some people like it more than others.

Black liquorice is a bombardment of a very strange flavor. It's a mix bitter, medicinal, sickly sweet, no idea how to describe it.

Check this reaction video out, it gets funny around 6:20: https://youtu.be/yHetC2G-xVo
Have you worked for Facebook? I'm curious because my experience at another large valley company was that people rarely interacted between groups. When they did, the conversations tended to be more general and not specifically regarding work.

Incidentally I've worked for a DoD contractor and the visibility was actually better in that environment. It was a smaller org(<1k employees) though.
actually... the tlds are gradually being parceled out via a seemingly random algorithm to prevent exactly the type of squatting you're complaining about. a LOT of TLDs still aren't available for purchase yet. the ones that are already in the top Alexa results were reserved for the people/companies that already owned the names in existing TLDs... again, to prevent squatting.
The utility increase of going from a ~2000 to a ~5000 computer can be significantly more than 10x depending on the domain.

For instance, if you buy a 3090 Nvidia GPU with 24 gigs of VRAM, you are capable of training AI models that are eminently more capable of getting publications accepted than an owner of a 3080 would. (Yes, distributed training is possible, no it is not always an option). Sure, it's nowhere near 10X in gaming or flop improvement, but the relative capabilities offered by a top of the line computer can become exponentially more useful compared to a significantly cheaper computer.
This only shows that it can do method type specialization to get rid of type dispatch.

Can you add a new multimethod clause to an existing if-then-else type dispatch method? For example add:

foo(x::Baz) = x.foo

Or is harm still done because the method is not open for extension when written like that?
Dr. Hibbert: Another broccoli-related death.
Marge: But I thought broccoli was—
Dr. Hibbert: Oh yes. One of the deadliest plants on Earth. Why, it tries to warn you itself with its terrible taste.

I feel the same about Liquorice
So I get excited about seeing an old friend. Then when I read the article, they are opensourcing a version which only works with Delphi versions prior to 2009.

Dude, this is 2020.
As I understand it, you pass your current span ID to the remote RPC endpoint, it continues adding to it from there, creating their own nested spans etc.

When it gets back to you and all spans are merged, you can see the whole picture, but don't need to provide all the details all the way down.
Yes imagine working for an organisation that upholds the democraticly voted laws in a country /s

What a bunch of idiots people are
then you just label anyone who disagrees with you as having those beliefs. and then you get to smugly consider them subhuman and ban them without having a single thing break your bubble
> ICE is simply enforcing immigration laws, which are part of our justice system

California and all the other states are only enforcing gun laws, which are part of our justice system
Surely TPM is only useful for getting to a trusted point/input for the key that encrypts the drive?

If an attacker can get hold of the hw long enough to get into the TPM they could just copy the encrypted drive, and replace the laptop entirely - the only thing needed would be to ship the typed pass-phrase home on next login?

I suppose ideally there'd be some kind of challenge-response to verify the TPM (very naive version - type in a wrong pin/pw first - if it's accepted you know the system is compromised..).

But, assuming the attacker can replace the whole system - I'm not sure I see how it could be trusted fully, assuming it's not under 24/7 watch (and even then, it could of course be compromised, but shifting the attack toward eg bribery, betrayal, neglect etc).
I love seeing new competition in this space. Fingers crossed that Prime customers can eventually get free access to a wide selection of B-grade games from the 2010s and earlier, accompanied by a small, limited-time selection of today's favorites. :-)
Most of the enterprise features were moved actually moved into the Community tier in our 1.7 release, where we also announced that the upcoming multi-node would also be a Community feature:

https://blog.timescale.com/blog/timescaledb-1-7-fast-continu...

(Many thought that multi-node would be an enterprise feature, as that's somewhat common for databases.)

I believe that it was only data-tiering that was remaining/moved from enterprise to community as part of the 2.0 release. But the bigger thing is the "elimination" of the notion of enterprise / usage limits from the license and code base, as a statement for the future.
Another side question, please.

How does TimescaleDB compare to Clickhouse? Since you mentioned compression, I've been using Clickhouse to store bitemporal data, and have been amazed by its speed and compression levels. Unfortunately it's lacking in terms of relational modeling.

Would I get the best of two worlds with TimescaleDB? What are the tradeoffs?
What privacy rules would those be? Why would iOS privacy settings be affected by the install method? What would be different from the Facebook SDK that's already installed in millions of apps on the App Store today?
This is a strawman argument. No one cares about other people having and sharing different opinions. However the argument for moderating content on Facebook is centered around misinformation, and incitement of violence. There has now been multiple instances where right-wing populists have posted fake information on Facebook with political consequences. In Myanmar this incited in genocide[1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebo...
You're absolutely right! You also need to activate the Handshake support in NextDNS' settings!
Its the details that matter. A small company logo on every slide, color scheme that matches the company colors, and not having things too crowded (a la Death by Powerpoint) tends to make things look more put together.
But their ancestors did it the "right"* way.

* Just show up and not be obviously sick.
Things have improved since I posted this.

At the time I posted this the top comment and many other highly voted comments were just criticizing epic, spotify, and tinder. E.g. complaining that epic sells to kids, spotify doesn't pay artists enough, and that tinder sells sex and commits age discrimination.

Regardless of whether or not they are valid complaints, they aren't at all related to anti trust (or if they are, no one was bothering to make the connection).

This use to be the top comment, for reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24579860

This was the comment that was the tipping point for me making the post, and was at the time ranked fairly highly (hence all the replies to it): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24579479
I think this actually made Zuck's leadership look solid. Of course it's a little naive to say "we aren't political", but he's probably just doing that because it's the calculated thing to say. Almost every other company says things like that, except for a few ideological ones in Silicon Valley.

I don't know how anyone takes these employees at FB seriously. They are complaining about the lack of free snacks? Anyone complaining about a 'lack of free snacks' is someone you should certainly ignore.
By which definition of "relevant" are animal cruelty[0] and pandemic-level diseases not included? COVID-19 is very "tame" compared to what's possible. There's a sense in which we're lucky that we got this pandemic as a practice round for something which we know has the potential to be much, much worse. This isn't controversial at all.

[0] If you think it's not that bad, watch Dominion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQRAfJyEsko
Perhaps a tall pole with some realistic looking dummy cameras to start. Along with very prominent signs that activity in the area is being recorded.

Another idea, corral your horses at night. Get them in the habit of coming back to a protected area for evening feeding, lock them in and let them out in the morning.
How about this? An email reminder N days in advance of the charge date with a cancel link.

Companies get regulated for a reason, and facilitating the cancelation of subscriptions sounds reasonable to me.
Oh wow, this led me to the author's book on reverse engineering to assembly, and it is fierce. Damn!
You'd think the package would have a warning on it?
Sure, they happen, but how often? One in hundred times?
I would hope that Biden's team learned from Clinton's run that they need to focus on winning the most electoral votes this time and not just the most votes, period.
Where is the logic and rationality of hiring a doctor that has no medical license to remove women's uterus (uterii)?
Why the TikTok deal is like Schrodinger's cat
I eat more than my fair share of dark chocolate, so I took a look at that. The toxic levels are _a lot_ of chocolate, and I can't even imagine consuming anywhere near the lethal levels.

That said, I think the black licorice case here also falls into the "levels I can't even imagine" category.
It's short term (12 years seems like before being reabsorbed) but this also means that we have this big static-ish chunk being renewed and absorbed in a cycle. If we reduce emissions then that static variable goes down and gives us more time on the other 100 things we need to figure out.
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Now the company has taken a political stance that likely doesn't represent the entire view of all its employees. No doubt this is talked about in all the slack channels leaving many to be alienated.

The ask for politics to be left out X these days seems to be impossible. Will only lead to more division and hatred between people with different ideologies.
Given that the majority of paying customers are on iOS, it's certainly a strong incentive for app developers to target that platform.
Ewww Marxism! D^:
I just find it shortsighted; you're getting immediate convenience at the expense of longer term innovation and freedom. As I keep saying, if Microsoft had the power in 1990 that people want Apple to have today, the web wouldn't exist because Mosaic and Netscape would have been banned.
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I understand why she has these sorts of terrible beliefs, but I still think she deserves criticism for having them. Did you know that some anti-black racists also justify their beliefs based on their personal experiences? One person's individual experience is not an excuse for having terrible beliefs.

It all comes back to the fundamental question: is it ethical to criticize racists/sexists/homophobes/etc? You seem to be proposing that it's unethical to criticize such people?
It usually is sold loose, by the gram, in DK.
right wing extremist here.

there is one funny aspect of this perceived Right Wing bias on FB due to its most active user demographic being Boomers.

to the real right wing, we view Shapiro, Bongino, Breitbart and Faux as being fake "Cuckservatives"-- we laugh at them as being Israel-Firsters and Neocons in disguise, essentially a controlled opposition who are allowed to be soft right wing and designed to keep the base closer to the center and to pacify the base from coordinating and organizing the overthrow of the US govt to replace it with open fascism. (the Constitution is completely compatible with Fascism, and is an Ideal of Fascism, so it won't be going away.)

there are dozens and hundreds of real right wing pundits and gatekeepers who have long ago been banned off FB. just look at the recent Qanon purges. where did Alex Jones go? Tommy Robinson? Gavin McInnes? Virgina Dare? AmRen? Patriot Front? but since the average Lefty only consumes Left Wing content, they are only aware of the fake right wing content producers who are used as boogeymen to scare Lefties into allegiance.

next time you think about how much you hate hate HATE Faux and Breitbart et al, remember that you ought to be grateful to them as gatekeepers holding the Overton Window in place. because the alternative would have the Fourth Reich installed immediately and Death Camps open within 6 months.

a similar dynamic exists on the Left, with Neolib centrists versus Left Wing extremists like DSA/Communists, Antifa/BlacBlock and BLM/Soros.

funny how the extremes on both the Left and the Right lead to the same goal. we agree on the destination, we just disagree on the path of the journey.
If it's just sitting above the ground then bacteria will eat it and release the carbon as emissions. OR it burns and then turns into emissions.
I don't believe the KKK is an illegal organisation, but if it is then membership of an illegal organisation seems like it would fall under "political crime". In any case, change the setup to another organisation that is not outlawed but nonetheless has similar ends. I just don't see how extradition can be withheld for leaking state secrets just because the overall aim was to damage the US political status quo.
(putting my hard hat on)

I am not sure the consent of majority or for the perceived benefit of majority is the right way to go.

What if the majority of the class votes that Jenny now must go to all school events wearing nothing but stockings and lingerie?
I still don't get it and I can't get away from 'printing press' analogies.

"The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" resulted in countless deaths but who owns that responsibly besides whoever wrote it, read it, and acted on the information within? You could blame it's publishers but that seems pretty off-track.

Also every company I've ever worked at has angry, self-righteous employees who disagree with upper management. We all think we're smarter than everyone else and most of us aren't afraid to share it.
It's not just the phone. They will sell it with some other service(maybe be JioMart?), which will make the deal attractive.
I thought this was going to be about the teenagers Prince Andrew violated with his mouth.
If they found car tracks, my guess is that they misinterpreted them as simultaneous to the attack. Perhaps they were older tracks. Perhaps some newer tracks after the animals died and the owner or some relative took a look.

Try to read a few reports of somewhat similar case, like the one I linked. We agree that in neither case the explanation is the chupacabras. But it is interesting to see how a bad explanation can get a lot of media coverage and the evidence misinterpreted.

Also, try to get some sleep. If your explanation is correct, you would think a better and build a better system with enough sleep.

(And no bobby traps, you may kill a relative or a innocent bystander.)
> That's likely a holdover from when mysql had a better replication story than postgresql.

What is the Galera-equivalent in the Postgres world? There's BDR, but the latest versions are closed source.

We use Galera in a bunch of places because it's fairly straight forward to get an HA cluster going, and with keepalived, we can point a front-end to a vIP that fails over automatically if one system goes sideways.
> keep the bootloader (and key) on a usb drive on your person.

So the bios that boots your USB in a hypervisor can't read what you type?

Thats what TPM can sort of help with.