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I don't recognize what it means for something to be "just an informational bug report". You either have a bugtracker or you don't. It's supposed to contain a list of known defects or it isn't.

> After all it's more burdensome for them than it is for me.

This is nuts. This can only be true if there are much, much bigger problems afoot. Most of this was figured out years ago and opened up to the public under Netscape. Folks abandoning or ignoring those lessons is precisely why maintainers are burdened, burning out, and complaining about it—they've fostered a culture that encourages outsiders (and the developer's own process/practices) to "burden" them.

> If upstream says they can't help me or fix the bug without further input from me, it would silly for me to become infuriated because my effort seems wasted.

You're strawmanning. Your job here is not to postulate the most convenient[1] circumstances that could be true and which would make it easy for the fury to seem "silly". It's to deal with the concrete, non-hypothetical circumstances where people have responded in genuinely obnoxious ways to bug reports. Imagining counterfactuals is easy.

> If I'm infuriated that the maintainer responds as if I want something from them, and I didn't bother to clarify that I don't, then ironically that means I do want something from them

Sure, but the expectation that people not be presumptuous and/or rude where it's unprovoked is an expectation that runs through everything. It should be regarded as axiomatic.

1. https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Least_convenient_possible_wo...
1. There is a strong slant against off-label uses of drugs in general

2. Insurance companies require extra paperwork for anything other than the 2 or 3 most common drugs. I ended up on Dexmethylphenidate after trying a few others; I rate it as "okay" but still so much better than unmedicated that I paid a few hundred dollars out-of-pocket for it while I was convincing the insurance company to approve it. I ended up on ER, which doesn't work as well because they wouldn't approve 2x 10mg of non ER but would approve 1x 20mg of the ER. sigh
What percentage of plastic actually gets recycled since China stopped accepted our trash?
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OK, I'll say it differently, don't be an asshole.

Don't be an asshole submitting a high quality bug report.

Don't be an asshole submitting a low quality bug report.

Just don't be an asshole.
> One side effect of Adderall though is ED, and it's pretty bad. I guess it depends on the person, but for me, the ED was quite bad. The ED does go away after getting off of it.

The drugs for that are very easy to get these days - you can get a prescription online by taking a survey and the pills will be mailed to you without ever talking to a human.
I maintain the site. So that I can improve the links or the instructions, could you tell me which ones you tried?

(If it's easy for you to send sanitized screenshots or longer explanations of what you did, https://simpleoptout.com/#additions-and-updates are also monitored.)
The article mentions 3 chutes for different materials.
No, they typically don't burn the same regions.

The crux of the matter here is that getting forested areas to the point of being able to do controlled/prescribed burns is going to take an insane amount of effort and is only happening to a fraction of the forest needed to keep things under control.

You can't just go start a fire in a forest and hope it goes well. You have to manually go through and clear the brush in the understory, or else the fire will be so hot it will burn down large trees.

Once you've cleared much of the small woody brush, etc that causes these fires to be absolutely massive, regular fires will typically be much more mild and continue helping keep the forest understory clear without requiring much manual labor.

It really is pretty effective, but it does require lots of little fires quite frequently.
This is a great perspective. Thanks.

And in fact this happens a lot with a lot of situations - people forget (including me!) that very little “happens to us” without our input. (Obviously some things are totally out of our control, but I’d argue less than we might think.)

This reminds me of a kid I met years ago. He always seemed to be in some bad situation or another - a personal injury lawsuit, a fight with a client, a fight with a boss, etc. He always framed it as bad luck - lots of bad things just happened to him and he was pretty melancholy about his lot in life.

It wasn’t until I spent a week with him on a group trip that I got some more perspective - he made a lot of bad decisions. If someone called him a name, he wouldn’t walk away - he went in and started yelling (made the personal injury lawsuit make more sense). If one of his clients had a request, he didn’t just adjust - he fought back and argued.

The whole thing was eye opening for me. It wasn’t that bad things happened to him - it was that he regularly made choices that put him on a path to bad things happening. He just never quite realized that and, of course, never reported those parts of the story.
Considering what the central government said back in 2017[1]
>"There is no fundamental right to privacy and even if it is assumed as a fundamental right, it is multifaceted. Every facet can’t be ipso facto considered a fundamental right."

This doesn't sound like a good idea to give the control of an app store to the government.
Government will for sure try to track and spy on users and remove any app it doesn't like and quality will be a joke.

[1]: https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/right-to-privacy-not-...
A while ago I read an article about which properties signals might have that could indicate that they originated from intelligent life, something about having "acceleration", higher order derivatives, that are usually not generated by natural events. Does anyone know how this is called?
I got like that on Ritalin & quit stims for 10 years.

After that 10, I tried amphetamine which blew holes in my persistent brain fog. I went on Adderall and (as we've often heard) it changed my life.

I'm not advocating you change a regimen that is obviously working for you. I'm just adding another possible plotline to that same story.
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Drum roll...: Head -> Desk -> ad infinitum!
No shit Sherlock. What do you think the purpose of that "free" service is and how do they cover the cost of running it?
How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism: An AMA with Cory Doctorow
My vision is very good and I can confirm, the default Ubuntu terminal colors are horrible.
Bill Gates. Random condition. $100 billion dollars. That’s all you need to know about random condition.

Terrible analogy.

If you can design your life to be benefited by ADHD, that’s awesome.

If you’re stuck working a 9-5 like a large portion of the population ADHD sucks.
Very similar experience with Dexedrine here, but that wore off after a week or so. I would indiscriminately DO things, like a ride in lawn mower ghost riding into an overgrown field with a full tank of gas. Was I productive? In a sense. Was I effective? Not as much.

I use it occasionally still but with no euphoric, overwhelming empathy or boundless energy to mow the metaphorical fields. It helps me push through brain fog when things just need to be done.

I haven’t managed to get past the tooth grinding. I barely feel that I’m on it now, but every single time... I grind my teeth. Even if I feel perfectly relaxed otherwise.
In the 70s waste chutes were installed in large buildings.
By now a lot of those got removed / blocked off because they turned out to be a maintenance hassle.

Trash is not uniform and large parts would clog the system. How is this any different?
If you're interested in this topic (and if you live in California, you probably should be), I recommend reading reports like this one from a California State policy arm:

https://lhc.ca.gov/report/fire-mountain-rethinking-forest-ma...

It'll take you through a better-than-surface understanding of the problem history and how we got here, contributing factors, potential solutions, and political/social obstacles.
Which is why we have sewage systems in dense areas and septic systems in rural areas.
I mentioned this elsewhere but strattera (atomoxetine) straight up gave me acute psychosis and semen leakage. It was a monstrous drug for me.
On newer versions of Android you can remove the updates and disable the applications. That will stop them from updating too.
Something like 60% of the UK rail network is unelectrified and recent electrification projects have been ruinously expensive, we need something to fill in the gaps and hydrogen definitely has potential.
As an software engineer in a bank (i'm gonna call that tech) my password has to be 8 characters and capital letters don't matter. I still use a Yubikey personally.
There have been a few paper-based storage projects... I would guess that you're thinking of "PaperBack"[0] or maybe "rainbow storage"?[1]

0: http://ollydbg.de/Paperbak/
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_storage
Cruising power can be almost zero. Trains run on shallow gradients, and most of the power is used to climb them.

When the gradient is negative trains freewheel down the slope, and the power source is only used to keep the lights, heating, and electronics running.
4. It is made for renaissance men (edit or women)
Can someone help me understand around what time did performance per watt become more important than performance per dollar?
https://www.aacr.org/blog/2020/06/26/aacr-virtual-annual-mee...
Hugo has a lot of generation logic so it will always be faster to develop in it than React which has no concept of a website, blog or CMS.
One thing I love about the libraries at least in Toronto, is that many of them have private collections, and some of them are entirely one subject or genre.

I have a deep interest in magic and mentalism, and found a library here that has books on the subject that are so old they're not even in modern English (or German as is the case for some of the books they have). Luckily the illustrations are detailed and verbose.

Also in Toronto we have the Reference Library which is a gold mine, and probably is even more archive.org-like than most libraries. I honed my Assembly Language skills there in the 90's, and did enormous amounts of research on Artificial Life and that sort of thing. They have some of the best stacks, so you have to use the CueCat or whatever they call it to summon up all the good stuff they dare not leave on the shelves.

Nowadays a lot of material is available on the Internet. Yet most books are so very much better than a current blog or online "tutorial." Even the older books. So there is that.

PS: I always buy the e-books that I like. Paper copies if they're available, since I prefer them. You can tell a great book by how dog-eared it gets over time. You don't get that metric with ebooks.
I've thought about this for a while now, and for the purposes of this discussion I agree.

That being the case, I think that the study would be best off tracking those 18-30 who are living individually and are not attending school. Thoughts?
I had such a poor experience that I briefly considered building a digital signature product because the bar appears to be pretty low between them and DocuSign.
>What you really want in drier areas is an open forest with few, large trees

This is what the aborigines in Australia used to do:

'To Help Australia, Look to Aboriginal Fire Management'

https://www.yesmagazine.org/environment/2020/01/13/australia...
In the past years, I have actually experienced Hacktoberfest as a really great event - both as a contributor as well as a maintainer. The recent events sadden me, but I also understand why these changes were necessary.

I just opted in to Hacktoberfest PRs for two of my projects: bat and fd. For bat, I opened three special issues for Hacktoberfest in order to help contributors who are completely new to the open source world:

- https://github.com/sharkdp/bat/issues/1211

- https://github.com/sharkdp/bat/issues/1213

- https://github.com/sharkdp/bat/issues/1216

Curious to see how this works out. The first PRs are already coming in :-)
Mega-yachts are actually most environmental way to be bring million tourists to places to like Nordkapp. There has not been much complaints lately, because modern ships clean they sewage water and fuel exhausts.
Both have always been important in different contexts.
How Did Being Happy Become a Matter of Relentless Competitive Work?
Coincidentally there was a Twitter fight about that topic last night. From a consumer perspective there's nothing that can really be done about it. Chip designers have known for years that "Moore's Law" is slowing so it's not news to them.
You can still use the stock apps, which come bundled up. The only difference is that people who don't want it can delete them.
Apple sucks at Thunderbolt 3, apparently
>People still think that people making 6 figures are the elite and cheer every time a progressive income tax targeting someone marginally richer than them is introduced by their government. They are not the enemy, they're not the people lobbying the government so their business can make extra millions or avoid paying taxes with loopholes.

Every single person in this country that makes more than $100,000 has outsize political clout and the capacity to change things for the better, and simply don't. Your retirement is more important, or your children's education, or your career. Fiddling while Rome burns.

"But the cost of living." What about it? Take a stand. You make $100k, $200k a year. Collapse the property value pyramid scheme with direct action. Throttle your mortgage payments. Throw out eviction notices. Hire gangbangers to protect your house when the police come to throw you out. Organize with your neighbors to build a series of self-governed mini-ethnostates based on the first two digits of your house addresses, where your trashed credit score and criminal record are meaningless.

Clearly I'm halfway joking. I'm not clever enough to come up with a real solution. But to act like making twice, thrice, quadruple the average household income as an individual still leaves you handcuffed is farcical. You all pay too much for necessities and you buy goods and services you don't need, and you use it to justify inaction while 2/3 of the rest of country languishes in sickness and poverty. Figure out what you're willing to sacrifice to make this better for everyone, gather it up into a big ball and catapult launch it at the walls of the establishment. If a few days off work and some posterboard can set cities ablaze, the power of someone with 5-6 figures to burn and the willingness to really do something substantial would be awesome indeed to behold.

And (completely serious this time) don't tell me that people with six-figure incomes don't donate to political campaigns because you do.
5. You can boot it. I can promise that at least. Mac or PC hardware. EFI prefered. Has to be 64 bit, made in the last 10 years.
I didn't need to go back to the 17th century but it seemed an appropriate example given the part of the world under discussion.
Was it Su or was it actually Keller?
Right, the efficiency improvement used to be ~60% per two years now it's 7% per two years.
Extradition treaties are voluntarily agreed to by both countries. If you are British or American and don’t like the consequences of this treaty, I encourage you to contact relevant politicians and tell them to renegotiate the treaty.

I believe the right treaty is: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK%E2%80%93US_extradition_tr...
Eh, those almost always use lwip, which is probably the only stack that can rival the Linux and BSD stacks in man hours spent fixing bugs and adding support for different envs. I don't think any of those companies are writing their own stacks.
I guess I just don't tweak things much while doing stuff. I only know of one gesture of the kind you mention: cover the watch face with your palm to silence an alarm or incoming call.
Don't think it's cited in this piece, there is also this recent piece of news - "Controversial facial-recognition software used 30,000 times by LAPD in last decade, records show"

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-09-21/lapd-con...

I guess it's reasonable for police to use this technology, but not without more transparency and accountability... Feels like this year that's becoming very clear.
Maybe it is regional but in the US microwaves have been mostly touchpad since at least the late 70s.
I think you just validated mjw1007's impulse to add the disclaimer.

And it's more than a bad experience. It's an entire culture, which leads to the point that mjw1007's comment here is the top voted one for this story, and I've written comments to explain why I stopped filing bugs for projects that host their trackers on GitHub.
All those were acquisitions, iirc
It's extremely annoying to me that Apple devices don't allow you to delete their apps. I have youtube music on my laptop and every time I search for "Music" in spotlight or Alfred, it picks Apple Music instead of Youtube Music app, so I often have to wait until it starts up to close it.

I want to delete Apple Music, TV, Podcast, etc. I never use them, why do they force me to have them on my device that I paid $3000 for?
None of those drinks have anywhere near the caffeine of coffee, though. An energy drink of some kind probably does though.
Did Epic really not argue that it's a forced fee? If you don't pay the 30% you're effectively not allowed on the mobile market.
As CIOs report slow thawing of spending freezes, expect 2% growth in 2021
Saying that the Indian government is committing genocide and atrocities in Kashmir (and thus they should not be allowed to rule it anymore) is not the same as supporting Muslim fundamentalists just because Kashmir is a majority-Muslim state.

Muslim fundamentalists have a right to live and speak out against the government and not be raped and imprisoned and dismembered by the Army. And they even have the right to self-defense, as all Indian citizens do. My saying that doesn't mean I support fundamentalism, it just means I support basic human rights for all people no matter what they believe (even if they might hate me).
Windows on ARM only runs on lame processors like 8cx/SQ1/SQ2.

Apple Silicon may beat Intel/AMD and Apple Silicon is ARM, but that doesn't mean that ARM is beating Intel/AMD.
Privacy and Freedom are the same thing. If you dont have privacy, you cannot do anything as a group or individual that goes against anyone powerful. Freedom can also be thought of as sovereignty. I think if any government including USA has to be sovereign, it has to take privacy of citizens in its own hands. Democratic countries have to devise ways that this data cannot be used to influence elections. Otherwise, Keep in mind Google is no democracy. This data cannot be better off with a corporation because they maintain their database security better.
What part of the article do you think contradicts my explanation?

Edit: maybe I still wasn't clear enough. All I'm saying is that, whether the TCP/IP stack is in kernel or user space, the specific HTTP(S) handling is always in user-space in all OSS that I know of - so there is no choice to be made for HTTP itself in this regard. You can put any HTTP 1, 2 or 3 implemention that you like over either DPDK or the traditional Linux TCP/IP stack.
> Some have argued that the ill health of the npm registry is a social, rather than a technical problem

In some cases it is, yes, for packages that require so many access privileges that they can subvert the entire system they run on.

But this is not the case for (I'd estimate) the majority of libraries, because they are purely computational, they only transform data and do not need access rights to any external interfaces (filesystem, network, user input, displays, ...). Malicious data generated by sandboxed programs is still a problem, still the problem would be localized.

There are efforts underway that would allow Javascript programs to effectively and economically sandbox each other and grant only the minimum number of privileges they need to perform their tasks: https://medium.com/agoric/pola-would-have-prevented-the-even...

Avoiding global mutable state and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambient_authority, being able to grant rights in an opt-in fashion and to transfer them in a way that is robust in multi-party settings in accordance with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability-based_security

This is the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_privilege and I encourage every language, virtual machine and operating system designer to understand it and implement it in their systems.

Then, the social attack surface can be technically minimized.
> Is graviton2 really faster?

No

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=epyc-vs-...
I am totally with you that our democracy may be lacking a lot. I really understand that. But democracies are frágil and ours is as fragile as ever. Saying that both choices are the same only benefits the worse choice, and that makes our democracy weaker, not stronger. But our democracy is not dead yet. Our collective votes matter a lot this November.
You're extremely limited in what you can compile as a GraphQL query, so while yes I agree with you that likely there is some stuff we're simply doing wrong.. good luck doing it right. After all, its a database query language trying to create a giant cache of its results.

For example, we have what roughly amounts to an <Include> component. It uses some contextual information to include language-specific code. That include component pulls in a markdown file from disk based on 1) the includePath you set, and 2) the language selected. In order to make this function, we have to pull in _all_ possible includes within the static query, and then filter it down to the ones we need. There is literally no better way we could do this, because static queries are exactly that - static. There is no fixing this problem because the design of this data layer is broken by default.
Ah, good luck to you! I can see why you wouldn't want to add any risk factors at all. Sorry to be nosy but do you need to avoid caffeine?
China perfected this all for us and now the U.S. government can piggyback off of their practices... great.

Serious note - the below is such a scary concept. There is a line somewhere and this feels like you are starting to cross it... both place-based and person-based predictive policing sound ripe for profiling / instigating actions that police can use as a reason to arrest an otherwise harmless person.

"Predictive policing programs are another illustrative example showing how data, surveillance technology, and a system of automated policing work together to spy on, search, and, ultimately, control Americans who have not committed or been convicted of a crime.

Predictive policing is premised on the idea that historical data of crime, demographics, socioeconomics, and geography can be used to forecast future incidents. Knowing where crime is likely to occur again, police try to intervene beforehand and prevent it.

Broadly there are two kinds of “heat maps” produced by predictive policing models: place-based, which uses less data to try to avoid systemic pitfalls of relying on crime and demographic data and surges police into specific areas, and person-based, which tracks and creates a list of “high-risk” individuals by combining a person's criminal history with an analysis of their social network. "