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I don't know why we need to attribute these properties to monopolies when a monopoly is in itself a bad thing. Also, I don't see concrete measures to end monopolies being mentioned. Maybe it's time to realize that our industry has left the innovation phase, and is into consolidation. In this environment, legislation is well advised to look into mechanisms for a regulated market given the extreme importance of digital platforms and markets (which are the only ones having growth). And perhaps states should also play a much stronger role in setting standards rather than leaving that in a mixture of naivite and corruption to failed initiatives of market participants (such as the wannabe standard bodies W3C and WHATWG with disastrous results). After all, if "national security" (of the US, that is) is an argument to block market participants, and the web being monopolized, there's no point in pretending international trade or other fair trading rules apply.
Is this the same Krita I tried for the first time when I was a junior at college almost twenty years ago? Oh my, I'm so glad it all worked out!
@desilentio pushed human development forward by informing the original commenter that its source, in this instance wikipedia, is flawed (to nobody's surprise).

There are many high-quality sources on the Internet and in books. No need to rely upon one source (wikipedia) that has a dubious reputation.

Nevertheless, @3pt14159, you do make a good point. So, please lead us lowly forum posters/readers to the best way to push human development forward and actually do as you are authoritatively telling others to do. Verify the veracity of the misinformation on wikipedia and submit an update(s). Glad you thought of this! Let us know when you finish this initial task.
When Bernays brought the propaganda techniques of Hitler into the world of US commerce, he invented the term "public relations" to avoid the negative associations with Nazi Germany.
Yes; for us, it's a refinement of Service Oriented Architecture rather than hype mind.

Schemas (with well defined major and minor versioning), routing (with timeouts) and service discovery (in the more general sense of being able to find the service you need) are all essential components.

I fear Conway's law is at it's strongest with microservices and actually getting teams to collaborate is the biggest challenge.
In this increasingly "Software as a Service" world, it's nice to have a good alternative where you actually own the software you are using. Being FOSS is just icing on the cake. Huge respect to the team behind Krita, and the KDE community as a whole.
I am quite sure he mentioned it as inspiration (or he even learned it somewhere, on that count I am not sure) in some interview.

Things do not exist in a vacuum, though. Especially something such as breath would be pretty universal despite in what cultural context.
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You're probably right. We already don't recognise the other environmental negative externalities of imports. It would probably require some level of tariffs.

Something we've seen with solar power recently is that its become cost competitive on its own, without subsidies, in certain situations. Effectively the marginal cost of electricity from solar is almost zero, so it can outcompete any fossil fuel which has per-joule extraction costs. If we could give our green technology industry enough of a cash injection now, it's feasible that we could completely remove that subsidy later when green technologies (particularly energy storage ones) are mature enough.
Well, EU does have a lot of initiatives pushing for a 'single digital market' without borders/barriers; Romania is (has to be) treated as a domestic supplier.
[1] shows only that repeatedly hyperventilating then depriving oneself of oxygen affects various blood parameters. This is not surprising, and not evidence that the more pseudoscientific mind-over-body claims of the Wim Hof method are valid.
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> In MWI the difference is that if it interacts with a particle, you're not entangled, the particle is. If it interacts with a detector then you're entangled. So, there is no difference except for what gets entangled.

I don't think that is the whole story. If you want to predict the motion of a particle correctly, you still need to update the Schrodinger equation after interaction with the detector, but not after interaction with another particle. And this is independent of whether you personally look at the detector or not, even if the detection occurs outside your light-cone. This is evident from the fact that MWI still needs both the Schrodinger equation and the Born rule to accurately predict experimental results.

> What that means is the wave function can only appear to collapse when you entangle. If some particle entangles, it will collapse for that particle and branch into a new world, but you're not in that world; for you it's still a waveform.

But this is not true for macroscopic objects. The motion of a detector, and indeed even the motion of a particle after it interacts with a detector, does not behave like a wave, regardless of whether I have ever interacted it. Even if the interactions are space-like separated from myself, I can still predict them with classical mechanics, and confirm when the data finally reaches me. For example, I can predict the location of a particle in a double slit experiment if I know that there is a detector at one of the slits, regardless of where in the universe that experiment happens. How can I be entangled to a detector that exists outside my past light-cone? But then, I can't predict the outcome of a double slit experiment without a detector near the slits, regardless of how close I am to the experiment.

This still shows to me that there is an observer-independent collapse happening when a particle interacts with a detector, where we don't have a physical description of what a detector actually is.
No idea which shitty VPN clients these are. Am aware of frontends only (also I currently mostly use macOS as client), as well as Sshuttle (provides VPN over SSH via CLI).

You can run a container running a browser such as Firefox or Browsh linked to a WireGuard or OpenVPN container.

But you can do it without that, too. Have a different user use a different (virtual) interface, for example. Layer 7 packet filter could achieve it as well.
I think ancaps have very compelling arguments and I tend to agree with them.

Corporations privatize their profits (to themselves) and socialize their risk (to government). Eliminate the ability to socialize their risk and it's incumbent upon corporations to respond to market forces, creating competition, reducing barriers of entry, etc. This all makes sense to me from a free-market perspective.

From my experience the ancap positions are the most philosophically consistent, taking into account the large majority of economic and ethical variables. The only problem I have with ancaps is that they usually fail to acknowledge the third rail of politics and as such fall into the same trap as the libertarians.

It's one thing to envision a system which minimizes authoritarianism and maximizes personal liberty. It's another thing to actually implement that system from where we are, not where we would like to be.

For example, if we minimize (or abolish) government too early, we create a vacuum which invariably will be filled by existing corporate combines. I'll add this argument has been made before by ancaps against libertarianism, so the problem isn't exactly foreign to them. In contrast, break up the corporate combines without also reducing the power and authority of the state and we temporarily fix the monopoly problem while leaving the door wide open for the exact same thing to repeat (as we are seeing today).

There are undoubtedly smarter people than me working on this problem but in my estimation it's absolutely critical for ancaps to outline incremental steps (in the correct order) towards the solution and not fall on their swords because those incremental steps may not represent the most philosophically pure end result from the outset (like what's happened with libertarians).
It's like GIMP, but good.
I have to disagree. Both systems have advantages over the other, and of course with a mask on TouchID has a pretty big advantage right now. But:

- FaceID is way better when your fingers are not perfect: after washing hands, in the kitchen, when wearing gloves etc.

- FaceID is more secure (lower chance of a false positive)

- FaceID already starts working when you pick up the phone (you do not need to trigger it), so by the time I swipe up to unlock, it has already long since identified my face

- FaceID enabled you to hide the content of notifications and only show them when you look at the phone
Would love to hear any thoughts you might have on this tiny essay. =)

First part is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24696209
IMO, aside from Blender, Krita is one of the most amazing open source graphics project to date. Thank you so much for your existence!
In my personal experience, the visualization in visidata is nice but secondary to the exploratory data slicing you can do. It's not like a not terrible keyboard driven Excel.
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I'm a little concerned about the feature bifurcation with lidar only being available on the pro. Hopefully they won't just kill it off like 3D touch from a lack of developer support.
As a citizen of a European state I can guarantee you that close to everyone here is very aware that we don't live in a legislation that permits free speech. If america decides that they're limiting their speech as well I wouldn't know where to go to discuss. The darknet, presumably, or maybe some shell company on an island nation that rents servers.
Its a painting program not an image editing program. they dont compete.
Possibly. It was called KImage, then KImageShop, then Krayon and then renamed to Krita in 2002.

https://krita.org/en/about/history/
It's not for everyone, just the same as working for startups. I prefer working with a small team, and having less external teams to deal with, and shorter pipelines. We run a service with true five nines availability requirements so wherever we can reduce unnecessary complexity its allows us to focus the complexity in the right places where it is needed.
To me, there are two problems with what Google did here:

* As long as they provide the service, it's difficult for any other competitors to get traction. Once upon a time, their Usenet archive was great, and gradually they eroded the search and the UI.

* As far as I know, they never offered their archive through NNTP or any open protocol. It seems to me that if they offered the archives now, a number of organizations might at least consider stepping up. Instead, they seem to operate as a data roach motel.
The real interest is in manipulating the data, not just plotting it. Actually after manipulating, if you need to produce a plot the tools you mention can be used.
It's that one then, it was already called Krita by then.
Believe this was one of the motivations for Urbit, to be OS for the cloud.

https://urbit.org
I remember reading about a game developer who was a big time troll/flamer on Usenet for years, and who’s Wikipedia Talk page got so out of hand it had to be courtesy blanked and edit-protected at the highest level.

Does anybody remember who this is? I can’t find him, despite my efforts searching for what I just described.
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This isn't a tool for visualizing data (in the sense of plotting graphs) - the capability is just an icing on the cake. It's a tool for exploring, analyzing, summarizing and modifying tabular data that's lightweight, versatile, and much more ergonomic than anything else out there (by virtue of a keyboard-oriented UI).
You can! Check out Space Engine [0]. It’s... amazing. I’ve spent hours in this game approaching black holes of different sizes and watching what happens to the horizon around me as I get close... it’s loads of fun.

(It also procedurally generates the entire universe, and includes a huge database of known objects as well. It all works in VR, very worth the price.)

[0] http://spaceengine.org/
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Tricky to do much about it. Haters gonna hate. Russians gonna hack and sow disinformation...
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Which isn’t much better than any other phone in the industry. The difference is that other phones have been using standard cables that inter operate with each other and non phone devices as well.

So we’re now in a ridiculous situation where you have to carry fewer cables with a MacBook + Samsung setup than a MacBook + iPhone one.
You're being overly pedantic about this thing.
If the OA and Glow have such dedicated fans, can't another network pick up the show for an instant boost in subscribers?

If the contract doesn't allow it, show creators should make sure subsequent contracts do.
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> This applies for ISS even more (it is huge and thus a lot of drag)

Wouldn't drag be proportional to the surface area, hence the square of the length scale, whereas orbital energy is proportional to the mass, which is cubic in the length scale. I would expect the orbital lifetime to be roughly proportional to their quotient and thus for larger objects to stay up longer.

On the other hand, ISS has a lot more empty (well, air-filled) space inside of it, so it might be a lot less dense than a SpaceX satellite.
As a big history nerd, that’s what I love about digging into the details of these events. What is taught in school makes it seem very “clean” (I understand there is no time to really cover it in detail).

Take the Vietnam War for example - what’s taught in school is the Domino theory, support for a corrupt Southern government, quagmire, withdrawal and fall of the South. But, if you read through a bit of the Pentagon Papers you pretty quickly get a sense of how nuanced it was and how it wasn’t a single decision to support South Vietnam, it was a complex web of global geopolitics with messy arguments, fears, overconfidence, “fake news”, etc. And the people making those decisions were not dumb, in fact, they were pretty damn smart and considered a lot of different options and the risks that went with them. It just didn’t turn out how they thought it would.

And then it dawns on you just how much history is repeated over and over. Sure it’s a little different each time (and those small differences have a big impact), but the same types of things happen again and again.
>>* From my experience, they're not at a level of competence where the malware helps significantly, i.e. for low level crime you don't need it, for highly sophisticated crime you won't have a lot of success with off-the-shelves attacks.*

There is a danger that comes from thinking of these problems as theoretical. They aren't. We have a history, a present. History (germany knows this more than most) is that a surveillance-centric law enforcement is the basis for a repressive regime. The stasi wasn't a coincidence. The present shows us that state surveillance is on the rise. Again germany makes a fine example. Already repressive regimes (like Belarus, currently) give us an easier to grok understanding of the mechanics.

It's easy for us to agree that it's bad to supply these to bad regimes. If Lukashenko uses german software operated by german mercenaries (I believe this is a precise definition of the term) to find and arrest his dissenters, germans will feel that this company is bad. That's easy. But, that company can migrate and I doubt export bans would have denied Luka much or changed the game meaningfully in Belarus. It's effectively symbolic.

What is more important is for germans to ban their own governments from doing this, or at least strictly restrict it to counter-terrorism. If any police department can hire mercenaries to "do cyber-policing," we get to stasi situations quickly.

Unlimited power is a bad thing, a dangerous thing.
of course they did because their families has gone crazy already!
It's great that your service comes into existence at all, and if you set up an opencollective or patreon account, I'd gladly contribute to the operating costs.

As it exists right now, there are some glaring omissions. I would imagine that showing authors in the search results next to the titles would not be prohibitively difficult.

Proper threading of posts would probably be considerably harder, but would provide immense value IMHO.
Tiny borough in central PA. My LinkedIn is in my profile so if you were really curious you could find out :)

Yeah our mayor got $100/mo to our $50/mo, haha. It ends up being below minimum wage if you include prep time but it's definitely not a full-time gig and honestly for the members of council the pay was basically to cover gas driving to/from meetings and events. And the mayor definitely did more than 2x the work we did so effectively made even less.
At the time of my comment, 2003 was the oldest year present for the group(s) i mentioned. I searched for a FAQ before posting, it's not clearly marked "imports are still in progress". Please don't be condescending, OP specifically stated "ask me questions." You are not OP.

Edit: I am now on a desktop, and confirm it's not a mobile glitch; the archives for comp.os.linux are imported back to 2003 only at this time. https://www.usenetarchives.com/threads.php?id=comp.os.linux&...
Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy0n4dbHbdA
I think search will be quick. There isn't much stickiness there. It will be a disruptive S-curve, as soon as an upstart starts gaining traction.

Given how much of a cash cow that is for Google, I think when that happens, things will spiral. I'm not sure what this spiral will look like -- it's different for each company -- but an example:

* Revenue goes down.

* Beancounters at Google can't continue to offer $500k compensation, especially when so much of that are RSUs.

* A lot of top engineers company-wide leave for greener pastures. Worse decisions get made company-wide.

* Google finds it needs more money, and starts milking its customers more effectively. Data privacy goes down. Pricing goes up. Etc.

* Customers start to leave for free offerings from vendors with leaner cost structures.

... and so on.

I think a little bit of this kicked off when the qualified executives left. Schmidt/Larry/Sergey were quite good.

Fundamentally, though, Google seems brittle right now. It has a massive cost structure, which leaves them vulnerable (the problem isn't salaries; it's headcount). It's too big to be nimble. And it's not nearly as competent as it used to be. Or as it's competitors. Amazon and Apple are both more competent and more nimble.
>I am extremely skeptical of people who seriously believe that this insane reality is a simulation. They usually don't know much physics, nor computer science.

Some beg to differ:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgSZA3NPpBs

2016 Asimov Memorial Debate: Is the Universe a Simulation?

Panelists:

David Chalmers
Professor of philosophy, New York University

Zohreh Davoudi
Theoretical physicist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

James Gates
Theoretical physicist, University of Maryland

Lisa Randall
Theoretical physicist, Harvard University

Max Tegmark
Cosmologist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Not having to go into the eternal toxic hell that is school for a lot of boys, I can see how quarantine is attractive.
Bluetooth wasn't an option for Sonos before the Move. All my Sonos devices support WLAN only, no other way to connect.
Not necessary (rgd the edit). Comparative linguistics (however questionable) is a thing. For example, the page for October - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/October - does not mention any connection to indo-germanic languages where "october, november and december" have roots that map to the sanskrit "ashta, nava, dasha" (eight, nine, ten) which correspond to the eighth, ninth and tenth months in the roman calendar.
> , I believe such generic multi-domain libraries would be a hot mess to maintain.

I think you (or I) understood it backwards. They see macro as a way to avoid multi-domain mess. Each domain could develop its own macro without having to worry about other domains, while in the base language everyone has to be considered.
A big part of the world does not have access to such automation.
cheap advertisement. do you really need to toggle multiple values with one "custom" property?
Probably. But current phones seem to do that too.

I suspect the magnet will make it a sure shot thing with the new iPhone though. With current phones you can often get away with keeping a hotel card in the same pocket as the phone.
Essentially if the show isn't a hit immediately after release, it won't be renewed, and the threshold required to renew goes up exponentially every season, so essentially a show has to be a runaway hit in order to survive past the second season.

I buy it, but that sucks. I know my view is idiosyncratic, but I view making money like a biological process. Most things have to do it if they want to survive, but it doesn't deserve to be the thing that matters. The Silicon Valley focus on explosive growth, as opposed to healthy and reasonable long-term growth, is bad for the world.

I wonder if they are adequately assessing the risk of this decision model. People get deeply emotionally attached to media, and it's a strong negative when a series you love is cancelled, so this could negatively affect their brand over time. And that's not something which is so easy to design KPI's around as new subscriber numbers.

Right. This is especially true of series with defined story arcs. A sitcom can be ended at any time, but if Breaking Bad had ended at Season 4, it would have pissed off everyone.
Note the red message about how to run the installer on Windows despite the SmartScreen popup.

Microsoft really needs to do something about the whole SmartScreen mess if even properly signed, popular and trusted open source tools like Krita require such a "how to get around the SmartScreen popup" note in their installation instructions.
I completely agree here.

Besides, why waste precious resources that could be devoted to the language police and enforcing sweeping changes to random words only programmers will ever read?

Didn't you take the CoC?
Yeah but please let pass a bit more time...I think is too early to say mental health is ok
> Used to be easy to learn but now it's just easy to get started.

What about it has got harder to learn?

To do something technical involves knowing some technical library, but I believe that was always the case.
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It's awesome that the Linux version is distributed right on the website as an AppImage next to the Windows and MacOS downloads. I very much appreciate software that doesn't require me to wait for a third party maintainer to get around to building it for every distro or require me to add a new repo to a config file somewhere just to use the latest version.
Don't forget Hungary and Ukraine!
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It does if that's the only standard you apply in choosing to whom you deliver a product. If you sell to despotic regimes and not to Israel, you're criticism of Israel is anti-semitic.
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Have issues with QC35 latency as well. Definitely not buying Bose after a glacially slow support to fix bluetooth stack issues and lack of support for aptX or other low latency protocol.

I'd also love to have high fidelity Bluetooth headset + microphone support. That 8 kHz disaster is a constant annoyance.