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You measure the durability of ikea furtniture in terms of the moves it can withstand. If it stays in one place it's fine.
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I only read <<Lady Chatterley's Lover>>. It was quite a vivid description of a form of love that is more primitive and instinctive to my taste. I never imagined one can put those feeling into words.

Any other recommendations in this similar style (from Lawrence or others)?
It's only a 'grind' if you don't enjoy the process though, right? If you're getting good at doing something you love because you love doing it so much, I don't think 'grind' is a word you'd use to describe that time consuming process.

I think 'grind' is caused by a disconnect between what the learner is being made to do and what they want to do. Grind can therefore be reduced by providing people with the opportunity to study things that interest them, for instance by offering a broader range of educational 'tracks', or by reformulating lesson plans to make the material more interesting (explaining the real world applications or consequences of the subject matter.)
No companies (including Tesla) have the capabilities Tesla claim to have.

It's cool but it's clearly not ready.

That and I'm completely lost about the software-in-my-car thing - music, sure, but what else actually matters while the car is a tool rather than a self driving service (if you will)
Would it really though? It's true we don't have the penchant or capacity to execute on megastructures nowadays but SMRs in particular seem like a viable way to jump start that learning curve again. If France was able to pull it off in the 80s surely we could do the same today?
Basically, you have described RSS feeds and/or email.

I presume the issue is that most non-technical people are simply incapable of consuming content that comes without a front-end like Facebook.
Right, I am hoping that this leads to more websites utilizing FIDO2. Kind of like how Android Pay was around for many years but didn't actually take off until Apple Pay made it happen.
Here, I found this really useful to understand hashes: https://crackstation.net/hashing-security.htm
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That's an equalisation, a way to keep people humble but still acknowledging the status to keep the community happy
Since "conventional" farming wasn't even a thing until ~50 years ago I'd say about 60 to 80 years sets an upper bound on "long term" w.r.t. "conventional" farming.
Anecdata/opinion from me: Discord's infinite chat history and search [note 1] is a winning feature for me, and it's frustrating for me that other services I still use don't have that. For example, FB's Messenger app still doesn't have message search, even though the desktop version does. Why?!

[Note 1] However, Discord's message search seems to be quite finicky when it comes to searching links. For example, if someone posts a link with "www.twitter.com/user", it wouldn't show up with a "twitter.com/user" search, but it would show up for "twitter.com" or "www.twitter.com/user". Room for improvement.
Yikes. Sounds like they fired their PR department to save everybody the hassle of quitting.
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There is a reason why signal is relatively mainstream succesful (by crypto product standards) and PGP wasn't. Its because its willing to make tradeoffs in the name of usability (while still emphasizing security).

A secure messenger product nobody uses helps nobody's security.
This doesnt really surprise me - Apple has a history of implementing, or moving to, standards for their platform features in Safari.

I think about Apple Pay for web - it started out as a proprietary API, and then the Payment Request API standard was developed and they added support for that.

It's in Apple's interest to help develop and support standards like this because they mean more adoption of their platform features.
I think with just the shear amount of messaging that is occurring in todays age combined with the lines being blurred between work and home makes communication rapidly evolve. What one things is clear communication with no ambiguity, another might disagree.

An example is responding back to a message with "Ok.". I see many over, say, 50 do this much more often, but to many under, say 30, this is taken as very passive aggressive.
FWIW you can have different handles in each Discord Server, it's under right click on the server icon > Change Nickname. Seems to affect mentions also (something that didn't until recently IIRC), so your original usertag should be completely invisible.

The only thing though I found out not possible to customize per server is the avatar picture, for some reason. But I already use the same for personal and professional communications so it didn't bother me too much.
I am really curious just how common this is. I know that article existed in 2013, but how many people read it and agreed with it? If you produced a large survey across a broad age range and diverse set of background, how common is this? The fact that I have never come across this before today makes me feel biased towards it being rare. But the very existence of this thread seems to indicate it is relatively common.

I know another person in this thread mentioned a study about short (one word) responses being interpreted differently based on punctuation, or lack thereof. But that doesn't appear to have studied full sentences with or without.

With your example, I am basically blind to the existence of the period. So "I'm fine." vs "I'm fine" are identical in my interpretation. Or at least they were before today. The ellipsis does register as a trailing thought, and I definitely read meaning into that.

To me, a sentence should normally end in a period. However, due to the informality of chat, it is acceptable to leave off in the final sentence of a message. It being there vs not being there has never conveyed a meaning to me. I really would like to know how many things people were meaning, which I missed because of this. Or if people are interpreting my inclusion of standard punctation, with no meaning, as something more.
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This is undoubtedly one of the best articles I've read that accurately (or relatively close to it) describes the actual combat situation on the ground.
On the flip side, it makes it difficult to spot dupe accounts or ban evasion attempts. I run a moderate-sized server and I have a suspicion that one of our members has weird conversations with himself across multiple accounts, but I have absolutely no way to verify that since I can't see any IPs or hostnames.

One could argue that we need more insight for administrators because of how "toxic" gaming communities can be.
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It seems that the XSLT code you have written has become a different kind of obsolete
Aww, you got my hopes up but that looks like KDE-only fork of the original, which lives here: http://kdiff3.sourceforge.net/
I am still waiting for them to move to USB-C
> the PTT format works for coop play but it's annoying to have it on constantly at work

You can switch to "open mic" with a mic threshold (with an "auto" option), which would probably work well in a meeting situation where keyboard noise isn't an issue.
It's not that much when you consider that the the IRL group we where paying £2 to £4 dues and a couple of drinks and food so I was spending £15+ a night last year.

Ands that counting the cost of buying books figures etc for the DM
The core of my code is a line by line translation of the Firefox version. I know what it does, but not the exact motivation for everything, so it has many hidden tricks I never noticed. I'm not in Europe and I never tested this, but it's possible that it does remove some of the modals, as long as the actual content is on the page.

It won't do anything for the TechCrunch case you describe, because it only fetches the one webpage you point it to (and any redirections).
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>A Billy bookshelf or Kallax shelving unit will hopefully survive a single move, especially if you can tighten/glue things further after it's been moved. But once you're talking 2-3 moves, forget it.

Anecdotal but we have several (Expedit, the old Kallax) and they have survived 4 moves, one quite a distance and they are used daily to hold media and in a living room, one was part of my desk for 4 years. They are still in great condition. I expected 2 years out of them and am coming up on 10.
Really sad to see how much of the commentary here is meta-commentary about Lex and not about the content. Several people asked, so here's the reason I chose to go on his show: it's because I love his work (frequent listener) and he's a great person. He asks good questions suitable to a wide audience and he's fun to talk to.

If you don't like his show or style, then you don't have to listen to it. :-)

-Chris
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You're right. Even I underestimated the impact of the one click to join.

I don't remember the last time I joined a community or Slack where I had to enter a bunch of info, but I see in my Discord a bunch of servers I've joined because it is so easy.
What about careers other than software development though? I'm definitely not criticizing your choices at all, but its interesting to me that both your brother and yourself ended up doing software development.

Do you feel you would have a different option of "unschooling" if you had tried to be successful in a different career path?
considering the continued popularity of current social media websites, Im not sure trustworthy matters much.
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I think it is very private. The third party app cannot sell the attached email address to others. But I agree if you sign up with the third party using your apple id, they will not know you which may end up in creating second account. If they don't have account linking feature, it will be messy.
> So just to be clear: I'm not sure if it's a good idea or not, probably leaning towards good, but with a bunch of considerations in mind: selling their things second hand or even giving away is what people also have been doing already. In case of selling they get back money, with IKEA they'll get back vouchers, limited to 50%.

I think you underestimate two things here: (1) people would much rather go to IKEA to return an item than to sell on craigslist, and (2) people would trust IKEA much more when buying a refurbished item, rather than buying used from craigslist. The fact that it is IKEA itself that is doing this and making it easier for consumers can drastically increase both the pool of items that are being re-used, and the amount of people that will consider buying used items.

> To state the obvious: that is not at all what this is about and as far as I can tell I also never gave that impression in my comment. It's about teaching people about the value of durability, i.e. convincing people they do not have to buy a new bed or desk every x years. Now how do you achive that? I honestly don't know for sure. But seeing that previous generations had no (or much less) problems with that, it means it's something which is teacheable, so I'd start with that. As a push back agains consumerism, educate the young ones and explain them there are cases where it is possible to buy one thing for a lifetime (or so), that there is nothing wrong with buying second had goods, etc.

The previous generations had a very different life. Fewer people were moving across the country, and fewer people were moving to different continents. People would stay in one place and work for the same company for decades. This is simply not the reality of today. Many people do not stay in the same place for more than a few years, and the distances they are moving are larger than ever before.

Furniture has adapted to this new reality, and unless that reality changes again, it will not go back to the way it used to be. When you move across country it is impractical to take furniture along with you. Worse, it is straight up bad for the environment. Renting a truck and driving 3000 miles to lug around a table, a bed and a desk is a horrible idea from an environmentalist point of view. It is much better to avoid that transportation cost and give away your furniture locally for re-use, and get somebody else's furniture at your destination. This is exactly what IKEA is trying to accomplish here.
Building on the comments of @notslow below, here's how I managed to defeat a chronic Leukemia dx some 32 years ago.

Borrowing from Sun Tzu, "know your enemy, and yourself".

Borrowing from Norman Cousins, "laugh your way to wellness".

Add to that the power of positive thinking, and those ideas helped.

It's not enough to just accept a dx, especially a life threatening one ("you have 2 to 5 years to get rid of this"); rather, in my experience, it pays to take ownership of your visitation; know all you can learn about it, and about how you are dealing with it.

Find the loopholes in your approach, and find something you can believe in; that belief, IMHO, is a component of whatever secret sauce will get you through the visitation.

In one case mentioned below, someone discovered an environmental cause - a mold. In my case, there were many other factors with which to deal; only those associated with my own behaviors and lifestyle were in my control.

I am back to dealing with a different chronic condition, using the same mindset, and recent data suggests I am on the right path. Thinking about writing a medium piece about these ideas.
Great art piece regardless of size -- I could totally see this playing from a 8mm projector at the Whitney museum in 1968...
We'll (soon) provide a Backoffice, where you can choose which IP you decide to ban (based on their activities, like bot scrapping, bruteforcing, etc.) but also add some 3rd party blacklist, block some AS or ranges, Tor exit nodes or VPN. This is all being builded right now, but in a couple of months, should be available.
Hasn't this been leaked for like the past 3 years?
The incentive structure for the people involved in asking for and deciding upon the subsidy structure is heavily weighted in favor of getting the subsidies at least cost to the business. Effectively, large ag producers are faced with a choice between "getting subsidies for labor-intensive sustainable practices" and "getting subsidies for machine-intensive practices".
I am not comfortable with Apple getting any control over the web. Thankfully, so far the web is mostly free from Apple's clutches and they can run their fiefdom only in the App universe.

I shudder to think of a future where websites will have to implement some version of Apple's In-App Purchases program and give 30% of the revenue to Apple or else they won't be allowed to render on Apple devices.
Duolingo is one that stands out for this.
Guess what happens if you don't claim your account long enough?
Decades ago, the average person considered AOL as the "internet". Today it's Facebook/Google etc. In between these two swings of the pendulum we had periods of diverse, distributed, innovation. Remember the browser wars? Web 2.0?

My point is that the pendulum will swing away again. It's already happening. Blogging, podcasts and a long-tail of businesses that are not Facebook or Google are thriving. In some sense they never went away in the first place. In the coming years, this long-tail is likely to garner a lot more attention than it has so far.
It's a big factor. Discord is essentially a "better" iMessage for my immediate family.
Could be, I mean sure, it all depends on training, the institutional culture, etc. I'm simply not sufficiently familiar with the FBI to try to guess what would happen.

But as many [ex-]police chiefs said, they already do too much, and unsurprisingly the budget for training and hiring qualified personnel is too small. (Though it seems that some manage to pay for "Warrior Training".) Basically every locally rendered service is suffering from the dreaded cost disease[0] in the US, and of course to make matters worse the labor share of income is down (and inequality is up), and so on.

[0] http://rationallyspeakingpodcast.org/show/rs-236-alex-tabarr...
Forgive me if this is a stupid question; but I see that it has SATA support. Does that mean this can be shoehorned into NAS service?

I have an irrational desire to create a cluster, but I would like to use it for something practical like a NAS. Bad idea?
It isn't clear to me that we've got a good technical, never mind social solution, to the problem of anonymous actors.

I suspect that "be careful what you wish for" is applicable to the idea of a communication medium that "nobody can ever control or censor". We already have numerous problems caused by anonymity with our existing infrastructure (DDOS, ransomware, threats, defamation, etc.).

I think neither extreme, a completely anonymous infrastructure or a completely non-anonymous infrastructure, is desirable.
OK. That's still in the 70s, though, not the 60s (going back to elric's question).
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I'm all for more functionality!
I don't live in California.

I live in a place that is likely to be even adversely affected (in terms of human living conditions) by the move out of the last several thousand years of relatively wet weather in the American southwest. Note that this change isn't expected to involve increasing temperatures of much note all by itself, just increasing dryness. AGW will likely do that, however.

I'd also note that talking about the climate of "California" doesn't make a lot of sense. If state boundaries were based on biomes/climatic zones, CA would likely be at least 3 different states. The coastal zone of Northern CA is essentially unrelated, climate-wise or ecologically, to either Central Valley, the high Sierras or the start of the great basin to the east.
this is accounted for. By default you have a whitelist containing local lan IP ;)
A great deal of human communication is dedicated to signalling high rank/superiority, or demonstrating familiarity/intimacy.[1] In the case of HN, very few people know much about Moxie, so the only useful signal they can convey is expertise. Many people come here because of their technical or product development background/interests, and the way they show expertise is by second-guessing technical, user interface, and other issues.

As a result of this combination of constraint and desire, we get a bunch of comments where HNers talk about how they'd make Signal (as well as every other product) better/more useful.

[1] From Deborah Tannen's works
You can't coherently be alarmed by Signal's use of SGX while at the same time endorsing systems that use no cryptography whatsoever to protect the metadata Signal uses SGX for.
My story is similar to that of the parent comment and I would say the most important thing is to be supportive of the activities and interests that your future children are driven towards. If they're into computers, let them tinker with computers. If they like to take things apart, give them your old electrical components and teach them about electrical safety and soldering. If they like making things, show them some cool DIY videos on YouTube. Whatever it is, if they're into it and you support them, then all that time spent is practice doing something they love, regardless of whether or not it ends up being a career.
Because he is opinionated and doesn't write in a boring way?

He specifically tries to write in a poetic style. See his website - https://dreamsongs.com/

In 2002 he was 53 years old.
It's something I aspire to[0] and as elsewhere pointed out, it takes extra time. As your expected audience grows, the value of your time invested grows because it benefits proportionately more people.

I've learned to explain in terms almost stupidly simple because another's interpretation can be so extraordinarily far from your intent you wonder how they even got there. Then they explain how it reads to them, and inside you groan a little because yes, it could be seen to mean that and you had no idea. One needs to user test one's writings just as much as one's software, I've discovered.

[0] WIP
I was homeschooled and taught myself a lot. Works well if the material is clearly relevant.
Could you please elaborate on what you find confusing about Red? Am genuinely interested as an active member of that project.
Because Twitter, as a US corporation, has free speech rights. This allows to say whatever it wants and enforce whatever community standards it wants on the content in their network.

In purely business terms, it is probably in their long-term best interests not to go along with the alt-right disinformation campaign. The internet is littered with the corpses of companies that catered to that vile crowd.
> It's not a new or unknown convention/perception (as shown by the article posted here discussing the pissed period in 2013)

2013 is new.

When you say:

> because experience generally proves out most people only use a period in a single statement message if they're emphasizing firmness

I suspect your experience is with one crowd, and older people's experience is not as much with that crowd. Furthermore, older people simply have a lot more experience by virtue of being older, so that statement is simply not true for them.

Texting and IM is more common amongst the younger crowd, so conventions are going to be more weighted towards their preferences. But the notion of a period being used for emphasis is limited to that crowd. For the majority of the population (and perhaps including those who are non-native English speakers), putting a period at the end is fairly normal, and considered correct.

Language is dynamic, so I don't doubt that in 20 years I'll be "wrong".
And it's even more of 'something' when you're in a country with a questionable economy and future.

I'd have to think if you're an adequately-compensated-but-not-connected person in Russia, you'd be keeping a Plan B in your back pocket "just in case".
It sounds like you and your brother are highly intelligent and maybe didn't really need school to absorb the stuff you needed. I wonder how that approach would work with a more average child.
Or even software in the next few years/decades when regulations catch up and having a 16 year old do contract work becomes too large a liability.
In my experience, there is a huge difference between people active on discord community vs the reddit community in most cases.
Antibody tests check whether someone has had Covid-19 in the past. Those tests are different from tests which check to see whether someone currently has Covid-19.

If someone dies without having already tested positive for Covid-19, in many places they won't be counted as having died from Covid-19. So it's likely that many Covid-19 deaths haven't been counted - especially in places where most people can't afford the tests that check whether they currently have Covid-19.
yepn indeed, we call it private sharding or private consensus. Far on the roadmap (4 months), but nevertheless, the team is thinking about it. You could also include or exclude some Geographics for ex if you don't trust a country or have a private consensus between only your own machine. If you are, say Morgan Stanley, you may be attacked only you by some machines and the crowd wouldn't know. But all your servers teaming together will see it.
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