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Yep, it's the same problem we've had for a decade. Microtransactions are far from frinctionless (sign up, enter a credit card). News sites need to band together and use a consolidated billing system, where you refill it when it gets low.
> or just nickle-and-dime the locals

Some of the most revolting tourist behavior I've seen is along these lines.

Like being at a cenote in Mexico and a tourist with her three kids is livid at the clerk that she has to pay 100 pesos for her family (<$5) yet there's a sign that says the impoverished locals only have to pay 15 pesos (<$1). She wants that price! Arguing with the 16yo kid at the front gate who is nervously looking around for an adult to help. Then she got in an argument with us in line.

Some people feel untouchable when they're abroad, and they expect every place in the world to be the same as their little suburb. We need to stop making these people.
Deutsches Museum has a great collection of computers, including a Cray 1 and an original Apple 1 kit donated by Steve Jobs. However, most of the exhibitions in Deutsches Musem - including the computer science one - seem to be stuck in the 90's.
...for the time...
Olkiluoto 3 is a new design though. Making a second exact same one again will be much faster and cheaper as you have now worked out most of the issues.

Olkiluoto 1 and 2 were both built quickly and on schedule. Mainly because they were already proven designs with tens of other units already built around the world (and the second reactor is practically identical with the first one)
I don't think a lot of people realize that Taleb's ideas are from Mandelbrot. So he's guilty of this too.
The NYT and Guardian have me in that first stage now, but the chance that I'll upgrade to something more expensive is again, like Tim writes, ultra-close to zero (the Guardian is pay-what-you-want anyway, and it seems to work for them). My main news expense is my local national newspaper, and other papers will always remain secondary news resources for me unless they develop the same kind of coverage of the Netherlands.
Related: high- versus low-contrast. Most colour schemes are low-contrast, and I haven’t the foggiest idea why, because I’ve always hated that, and find it makes no sense whatsoever (zero) as a decision.

I used to use molokai (dark, fairly high contrast); a few years ago I decided to build a new minimal, light, high contrast one from scratch, which I called “bland”, inspired by the printed code of yesteryear. Paired with Triplicate, the only true serif monospace font that I can think of (I have a vague feeling I found one other once, but can’t think what it was). Black text, white background, keywords bold, comments italic, that was it. I tried that for a few days and decided I liked it, but did want strings and comments distinguished, so I made strings red, comments green, numbers blue. Over time then I’ve added a small number of other cases for specific languages and constructs, but it’s stayed very minimal compared with what almost everyone’s doing.

Well, I deliberately tried it for a couple of weeks, then went back to molokai for a week before I broke and went back to bland because I found it just so much better.

It’s what I use in code blocks on my website, though with light grey backgrounds rather than white. See https://chrismorgan.info/blog/rust-fizzbuzz/ for an example.

It was a couple of years before I even bothered to make a dark variant of the theme, for the occasional low-light situation where dark actually works better, and because I wanted to have a dark mode on my website. I almost never use bland-dark.
Not a single person has died directly of radiation from the Fukushima accident. That's in the context of a tsunami wave that has directly killed large number of people by impact. So in general, Fukushima should be a very good example for promotion of nuclear power.
almost any Western country

That's a ridiculous overstatement. We live in Germany & have a lot of relatives in Austria. We have 2 kids & know lots of people in both countries with kids, it is very possible to have a decent life while having more than 1 child & earning median German/Austrian income (last I checked our household income is almost exactly at the 50th percentile for German households with 2 adults and 2 children).

I suspect the same is true to a lot of other western countries.

(this doesn't mean I'm otherwise of a different opinion than you regarding whose welfare to optimize - a state is for its people not its corporations)
TLS1.3 + ESNI is a robust solution, Firefox has the option of enabling it.

Cloudflare has a great page which allows to check this https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/ssl/encrypted-sni/
> Explain why pixels on smart phones are not physical pixels, as I would expect them to be. Why does a phone need to act differently, kind of dishonest about its pixels?

The phone is not acting differently. The phone is acting according to the specification, which is that a pixel is 1/96th of an inch. This happens on all devices, not just phones.

From the spec:

> The absolute length units are fixed in relation to each other and anchored to some physical measurement. They are mainly useful when the output environment is known. The absolute units consist of the physical units (in, cm, mm, pt, pc, Q) and the visual angle unit
(px):

> 1in = 2.54cm = 96px

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/CSS_pixel

https://drafts.csswg.org/css-values-3/#absolute-lengths
So, there's something of a story behind this.

To simplify things, the early phase you mentioned is simply computing, and has been proceeding since the 1960s. The latter phase is called business process management (aka BPM) [1] and has been a thing since ~1980(?).

In promise, BPM says "Encode all your business processes and their relationships into our tool, and we'll optimize and automate them." In practice, BPM is doomed to failure because (1) it's invariably implemented in an organization by management consultant types who care more about billable hours than actual solutions & (2) it's fundamentally an imperfect abstraction over your actual business processes, leading to leaks / hacks in implementation, leading to yet another system that further slows down the business.

SAP is illustrative here, with the adage that smart businesses change their business to fit SAP, rather than try to change SAP to fit their business.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_process_management
> *Oh you have an iPhone 6 and want an Apple watch S6? Gee what a shame. You have an iPhone 6 and updated your S4? Yeah that's not going to work anymore. You reinstalled your OS? Now let's spend 10 minutes re-pairing your watch

Are you complaining about a -6- year old phone not being compatible with the latest accessories?

Newsflash: That problems happens on every platform. What's the oldest PC that can drive an RTX 3080 without upgrading something else too like the PSU or motherboard? Does the Wiimote work on a Switch? Will a PS2 connect to a DualSense?

iOS 14 is supported on the iPhone 6s.

A device that's five years old.

That's much better than state of compatibility and updates over on Android.
Wow, that's really an inspiring model. Thank you for sharing.

Attention as a replacement for hard cash. Hmm... So, how to control its spending as a consumer - that's the question. We're like natives selling land for glass beads. Can we omit ranting and make that a technological problem somehow?
Hmm, what if they offered a one-week or one-month access pass that didn't auto-renew. Would you be interested in something like that?
Maybe it's on standby power (remote wakes it up), and the memory leak persists until it's properly rebooted.
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Can I take payments from other browsers? I think what’s missing is a service, not a browser.
> TikTok is the generation that is most malleable to propaganda in a way that can undermine an entire generation

Citation needed. Come on.
It seems that the US has the rule of law only in cases where the rule of law is not in conflict with the military dictatorship.

In the cases where the military dictatorship wants to jail a journalist (Assange) or has some protesters for a photo op, law no longer rules and instead the military just does what it wants without consequences.
That's good enough for me, I've just started it and the way CS is taught in my high school is extremely generic and boring so yeah, for me it's good so far except for the initial part, they do get to extreme basics I suppose.
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> Elite on the Beeb was the game that started me coding

Same for me! Not that I could read the code, but my desire to try to cheat in the game led me to learning BASIC and then a career in software engineering.
Yeah but put yourself into the shows of a hardware manufacturer: if you'd build a Linux driver, which version do you build against? There is no reference implementation that you might use as a "if it works here it should run on every Linux there is".

If we really want good hardware support on Linux we have to at least some reference that manufacturers can use to verify it works
Some don't actually turn off, nor do they restart when you turn them on. You notice for the first time that they have never been actually off the first time you experience a bug and freezes and then you unplug it and after you turn it on you see that every app takes longer to start and look slightly different due to some unattended background upgrade.
Ask C engineers about DriverKit, Treble drivers, UDMF, mbed, GenodeOS and they will answer exactly the same way about C++.
Sweden had recently illegaly "renditioned" people to the US, as well as illegaly (Bodström) directed Police to seize Pirate Bay equipment.

So while things got a little better later, it looked very bleak at the time.
I have a much simpler explanation. Most people can't afford it. The median income in Germany is ~44k/yr. If we assume the woman earns a bit less, we can already see why it's more common for the mother to take the paternal leave. It's less of a hit on the finances. If the dad takes it, or both, they might not be able to sustain themselves for long.
That’s just Noise, not communication. Try making a reasoned and articulated argument for something controversial (and in a polarized society like the US one, mostly anything is) and see how long it takes for takedowns and shadowbans to reduce your reach down to nothing.
We could, but we shouldn't.

The fact that we can is probably the reason for the fears around the reactor. People don't fear the technical limitations of a well-build and well-managed safe reactor, and those can be built. But they fear the danger of the corruption and corner-cutting in some countries which is very difficult to constrain, which will lead to building an unsafe reactor.
Numerous crops benefit from sharing the field with solar panels, by reduced peak heat exposure. (And, of course, numerous farms are happy to rent out a bit of space for wind turbines.)

Not to mention parking lots, factories, and warehouses that benefit from protection against sun exposure.
In that ranking India is only 0.01 points ahead of pakistan. Does not pass my smell test about its methodology to be honest.
I often have to explain Docker (or containers in general) to non-tech people. I tell them I take an entire PC, with all software on it and make it a single function package that I can give to anyone and they can run it anywhere. Almost nobody understands the minutiae of their OS or their CPU. We may understand it a bit more but a Dockerfile or a docker-compose file simply says, "take a fresh full Linux install, install some stuff and run it."

It a mind numbing number of abstractions but one can understand the high level if one understands what an OS (or a computer) is.

It IS easier, but I agree it's much more complex under the hood. I don't think that has to have downsides. A human can only comprehend so much, we must build on the skill-sets of our fellow humans.
Your client ssh-rsa keys do not specify a hashing algo at all unless they are signed certificates.

The vast majority of client ssh-rsa keys are completely unaffected since they are bare rsa keys with no hashing done at all.
> You said a parent can go grocery shopping anytime

And what I meant was they have the freedom to go anytime. Obviously the most optimal time is when both parents are available and at home.

> Also, after dad gets home, then it's time for dinner, bath, and bedtime

If you have that little time after work, then that is an entirely different issue.
> they lose a not insignificant portion of landmass to an accident.

After a tsunami wave. That was the reason for losing large land mass and a lot of destruction and death. It would have largely been the same way with or without the nuclear plant there.
Yes but only since it's very poorly enforced. I can't count the occasions I see the GDPR is violated a day. Like, almost every website I open.
DoH just by itself won't help unfortunately, since it just fetches the DNS (btw, only Airtel, ACT, BSNL, and MTNL bother with DNS censorship).

ISPs have been looking at the cleartext hostname in the TLS handshake to block these connections

As someone correctly pointed out, greentunnel does much more than DoH.
Free speech is not about releasing every movie or TV show produced by entitled people. It's about free speech of common people. A person getting fired for a thing he/she commented a decade ago is not free speech. USA has lot to do with free speech which really matters.

USA was top country regarding free speech in maybe 1980s but now, it needs to change it's policies to be one.
Yes. Though CT can help you with systems programming as well. But you wouldn't want to use C nor Haskell.
So you didn't read the article and stopped after reading the subhead yet you felt the need to comment anyway.
That’s misinformation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Germany

You can clearly see how coal is on the rise shortly after 2010. So it is factually true to say they switched back to coal. You would be correct to point out that coal use has gone down since, but not by half. Not even close.
So the cost of storage would exceed the cost of generating the same power via a CCGT plant?
Yes, every statically-typed language has a dynamic language as a subset. It is up to the author to use and apply types. One can certainly write Haskell where everything is in IO and everything uses Strings.
gnome-terminal already seems to do this for me...
The most common language people would want to translate from online platforms is most likely English, given it's ubiquitous use on the internet and the fact that there are more people who don't speak English than people who do.

Of course the details of how English is turned into incomprehensible garbage by machine translation always depend on the target language in question.
> Now that the US is itself considering doing the same, many in the west have suddenly adopted the attitude that China had it right all along.

PRC blocks applications which are critical of the regime and are not openly sharing data with the CCP[1]. The US is blocking applications due to legitimate concerns[2]. I don't know how both can be the same.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_ma...

2. https://citizenlab.ca/2020/05/we-chat-they-watch/
I've read your discussion, and having talked about something related recently, came up with a (IMHO) descent definition:

Consciousness of a physical system A is the difference between the behavior of A and the behavior of a system Aavg, that has the same content as A, but mixed randomly (think water and organics of the right weight and proportion simply mixed in a barrel).

This apparently breaks when you start using tools though.
Extremely grateful to everyone involved with its development.

It's easy to say there's a huge disparity between it and office but I've found it to be more than enough for casual users like myself, and for free too.
And there is no reason to think anybody else would bother, either.
Twelve kids is 24/7 work.

Why I would change 8 hours to it?

It is also unethical way of life in this planet.
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Yeah, I was assuming it was recent but then it turned out to be more than two years old.
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> a crowd who will immediately scroll past anything heavy (or just plain stop using the app) to get to the next funny video

Politics is huge on TikTok.
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> with literally no concrete evidence

we don't need the evidence for TikTok's case when we already have the evidence of what Facebook is capable of (think about their A/B testing people without ethical considerations to whether they can be made depressed by showing them certain posts ... or the many other ways US social media giants are now critical to shaping the political discourse outside of the US from the UK to Myanmar to Hungary ...)

this isn't about hacking or 0days or even spying on Americans but about whether we allow them to control a machine that allows continuous manipulation of billions of people outside China.

Letting a non-ally control a social media platform and what content billions of people around the world are fed (or NOT fed) is too much of a risk for the US. Ofc the US does it too but their logic is that they're the "good guys".
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I wish you all the best.
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Timely reminder that talking shit about royal family is 15 years in prison out there and that prince is a king nowadays
I wonder if a fairer cost comparison would thus be coal power plus carbon capture? IIRC that works out at similar costs, though I never looked much into it.
It's not just about the money. Doing things yourself is rewarding. It also makes you good at more things than making and spending money. This could be useful if the economy goes south, or if you lose the ability to work.

Fixing things yourself also means that you don't need to deal with professionals, which can be hard to pick and have weird schedules.

Also keep in mind that you pay other people with your post tax income. If you both charge the same rate, you'll need to work for more than one hour to buy one hour of their time.
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Comment before was saying you cannot miss a deadline; i didnt know this was possible with windows or macos.
Maintaining your own car is not ridiculous. Ive spent less on vehicle repairs over the last 15 years than most people spend in a single year on car payments for something "reliable". How much does getting your brakepads replaced cost you? For me it is $15, and I buy better brakepads than most. The tools consist of a set of sockets and a jack. Some random sensor goes bad? I can get 4 different sensors that are literally are plug and play for the same cost as just having a mechanic tell me I got a bad sensor. In some cases you could replace every major sensor in your car for less that the cost of having a mechanic find and replace a single bad sensor himself.
How is the CCP ideologically opposed to the United States?

Keep in mind that one is a political party, the other one is a country.
I think the issue isn't that someone may be forced to take the leave when they don't, rather there are hidden incentives for them to not do so when they do. There's a heck of a lot of room between the latter and the former.

On another note we are seeing fertility levels fall in many countries to the point where it's becoming an economic hazard. Parental leave thus becomes a social good. A smart market friendly solution, that would also be a win for families, would be to do more in terms of culture to encourage fathers to do this. In Japan, I've noticed high ranking male ministers almost uniformly taking parental leave to set an example to emulate. I'll add that such an initiative should still leave freedom for people to make their own choices for their own circumstances.
I'll take Twitter threads, which should've been blog posts for $100, please.

In readable form: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1310377930661351424.html
There's a very lively startup scene in Berlin, but no-one in that scene seems to know that the world's first digital computer was built in Berlin.

There's an obscure and easy to miss sign (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Zuse#/media/File:2007-0...) on the house he lived in while working on it, and another sign at the technical university, but that's about it. No big festivities in his name, no commemorations, nothing.

Just imagine if the first digital computer was built somewhere in the US or in the UK. I'm sure we'd hear about until the end of times. Strange how that works.
It comes preset with evil-mode which is Emacs' vim emulation layer. But there's a lot more that Doom have done on top of that.
Sounds like your typical argument for a free press would apply here just as well?

A free press also includes a free press for people you disagree with.
Yes, I believe the MPL fits the usecase you describe.

As far as I understand it, proprietary code using an LGPL licensed library is more or less incompatible with templates in header files (!!!) since there's no way (AFAIK?) to relink against a modified version without providing your full source code. Supposedly the LGPLv3 provides an exception for header files but personally I wouldn't go anywhere near it because it seems quite vague - "small" macros, templates that are less than 10 lines (what constitutes a line?) etc.

So as currently licensed (LGPL), I don't think your library is usable as part of a proprietary project.

The MPL, in contrast, places no relinking requirements on the developer. You only have to share any changes you happen to make to the MPL licensed code.
I doubt that. All the evidence would suggest Google is maximizing employee comfort anf productivity to the exclusion of all else. They are already spending literal billions on real estate in pretty much all the most expensive metro areas in the world. If they thought smaller offices were more successful they’d do it. Pretty sure that the success of open floor plan is based on solid scientific evidence.

Personally I enjoy working in open floor plan. It’s only when I’m having a bad day I don’t feel like it. But I wouldn’t feel like being in any kind of office environment at that point.
> But China blocks American companies from their market, or extracts unfair concessions from them.

This is largely untrue. First, American companies have a far larger market presence in China than vice versa. Second, American companies have made massive returns on investment in China. They're in China because it's profitable for them.

There's a view that developing countries should immediately open their markets to complete, 100% unfettered access by all foreign companies. That might be great for foreign companies, but it would be terrible development policy. The host country would risk destroying any domestic industry it has. Developing countries benefit from some level of protectionism. There's nothing unfair about that - advanced companies from developed countries have enough of an advantage that they can still compete. Asking for 100% market opening on day 1 is like asking to eliminate weight classes in boxing in the name of fairness. That would be great for the heavyweights, but not so much for the featherweights.
I do use Arch, suppose I ruined that joke by not mentioning it up front!
But if, out of every 100 people who buy the article for $1, a single one of them would have otherwise become a subscriber (if the micropayment option weren’t available), then the paper lost money on net.

I don't think Tim Bray is suggesting removing the subscription option. The point is that there could be a price for an individual article as well as the subscription option. If that 1 person would subscribe anyway then the lack of an individual article price is just leaving the other 99 payments on the table.