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If someone asks me of a small snippet that describes some fundamental thing about TCL, I will respond with this:

set a puts
$a "Hello World"

A command is just a list. Substitution is done before executing it. That's why [set] requires the variable name, not $variable.
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X11 has to go because of flickering and the way it renders text. It is bad for your eyes
If you like the "Unix Way" idea that programs should be able to handle input and output in a high-level string representation so that it is trivial to share data among a multitude of independently written programs, then you'll love Tcl.

Tcl not only allows you to share string representations of data between different programs, but also internally between different modules of the same program, easing issues of interoperability, scalability and deployability in wildly different systems and environments.
I’m sure Wilson has fired gobs of CEOs in his career. Probably happens to at least 1 of 10 VC funded startups.
Oh, sure -- the CPUs themselves can run in 16 bit mode, but after switching to 64 bit long mode I was under the impression you couldn't invoke vm86 mode. But I've never really played with 16 bit before.

I guess I was confusing it with BSD -- on at least NetBSD and I think OpenBSD, there's an in-kernel (16 bit) x86 emulator used for certain ACPI functions, like calling VGA BIOS code (option ROMs?) when waking from suspend-to-RAM.

There's also an option to just use native real mode, but the man page says "this may result in direct reboots".
A growing number of them are Microsoft's Surface Hub [1]. Admittedly they do have a "Smart OS" installed, but it's a Windows 10 variant (so at least amenable to the usual Windows 10 device management tools and system update processes).

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/business/surface-hub...
Is there a precise definition for ‘exploitation’? Is it a function of feelings?
I have a simple rule in life.

Don't want to be remembered as a jerk and have your death celebrated? Don't be a jerk.

His death doesn't absolve him of the despicable things he did while he was alive. It just means he can't continue doing despicable things. Which is a good thing.
This works as long as you're really sure that the language you'll want to parse tomorrow will be regular also. It doesn't take much to accidentally add a new requirement that isn't, and once you've committed to regexps you may be tempted to break out the non-regular extensions that most regexp engines support, and that way lies madness.

Starting with a real HTML parser is a good way to future-proof your code for when someone asks you to add just one more thing.
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Late reply, but replying since you mentioned gittorrent. The project's author recommended [1] the Radicle project (https://radicle.xyz) instead of gittorrent.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24876815
> "I'm a sinner, even though I never know when I'm sinning"

The entire point of the courses I've seen is to bring people awareness of unconscious bias and thereby help them transition from ignorant commission of error to awareness of the potential for such error. And unconscious bias doesn't make one "worthless," it's (as far as we can tell) pretty ordinary human behavior.
The entire idea behind credit cards is to force processing fees upon store owners. As a store owner you are required to pay up to 3.5% of your revenue to the processing company (the percentage can be even higher than that if you sell stuff for small amounts, like just a dollar). With cash you can choose your bank and there is more of a free market, while with credit cards you can't get around not accepting certain brands. It also ruins the business for banks, which have to increase their processing fees, causing the cost of cash payments for the business owners to increase further and further.
This is why I advocate for seizing the means of production.
It is not. During Zapatero's we had the worst crisis ever, now we have covid's and Sanchez ruling agenda: money spent on gender, progresive things and not in real infraestructure. There's a sort of basic income done, and it is not even working.
That sounds even worse.
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If you want to automate stuff on windows with tcl, twapi is great.
I prefer Tcl with twapi over AutoHotkey.
You can tell that much of it is paid and bots. Social media spreads a lot of negativity.
Cooling on new Mac laptops is nearly-nonexistent. I'd wait for ARM (if that will even be usable for you) or go for a PC if you plan to do anything except editing text files and using SSH.
Any chance of also including GLL (generalized LL)?

I found the paper (http://dotat.at/tmp/gll.pdf) quite hard to follow, and haven't been able to find a good explanation anywhere else.
It's also ironic, because this is an Iranian having and using a Github account without being blocked, which some commentators here appear to believe is impossible due to US sanctions.
Technically this is know as "mortality displacement" or the "harvesting effect".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortality_displacement
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I think this is the apex of the HN effect - usually it's finding a world expert answering your question ... but we can beat that :-)

And thank you for volunteering.
I wonder if a lawyer would say this was a cut and dried case of warrant-less search or if it's legally ambiguous. I can imagine naively arguments both for and against this.
Sue an open source project based in Russia? HAHAHAHAHA good luck with that.
Obviously, but calling gay rights a "battle already won" when the third largest country in the world by population still has one of its two major political parties fighting tooth-and-claw on the issue seems premature.
paywall.

Is there a free link?
That's the case for Earth. This would be on Luna, with about 1/6th of the gravity on Earth.
parent is speaking of a lunar orbital elevator. Given the gravity involved I doubt material would be the issue. Though there may be problems other then strength of the material - I think the moon's gravitational field is very irregular for example.
It’s in phase 3 now. I believe all of the above poster is mentioning happened in phase 3 as well.
I think the author misdiagnosed the problem. It's not Corporate that's the real problem, it's the fact that what you're working on is probably just not that interesting. Plus the fact that you have to keep slugging away with it whether you like it or not. No-one gets excited about writing accounts packages.

It reminds me of an anecdote a pro photographer gave to someone thinking of entering the field: if you love photography, really love it, then don't do it professionally.

Be an amateur. Fun fact: the word "amateur" derives from Latin "amatorem", meaning "lover, friend".
I understand some of the appeal of metal cards and the like but this seem short order as the move to contact less payments increases. To be honest the less someone knows about my purchase which includes the brand on the card the better

Now I can see the appeal to some, example the Apple card, where pricey items can be paid for at no interest with the added hope they use your card elsewhere. I haven't look into Apple's card but does it give you "points" for later Apple only purchases?

I still see more appeal in products like Chase Prime cards as there are many more products I can pick up at Amazon to get five percent on at all times instead. I only keep two cards and this one was chosen as having the biggest impact.
Ha, fair enough! I made sure to word that carefully...

But in general, good health leads to better outcomes, and we know that's the case with covid.
I think this is a very uncharitable interpretation of the people who get “duped” by Borat. They’re racist because they don’t immediately suspect this strange person is actually an actor? Even when they do, that gets edited out. What exactly about American behavior would you have change that would make a Borat-like film impossible?

IIRC Ali G was originally filmed in Britain and the same sorts of antics were pulled off easily... I don’t think “going along to get along” is unique to Americans, although as a multicultural country I am sure we have a bit more than average.
There are legitimately things on social media that become much bigger and become a story in and of itself though. Breonna Taylor's case was not covered in MSM initially, and the continued pressure on it is largely due to social media self-sustaining it.
Ouch. I just did a quickie test asking Siri to set me a reminder for 'tomorrow at eighteen'. No dice. It set it for 8 am.

It doesn't even support 24 hour time - at least in English.
the doctors I know make less money than the programmers I know
The executive has the power of surveillance, so they can get dirt on the right Congress people to turn the screws on to prevent any semblance of return to a checks and balances system, one that is completely eroded in all but the most meaningless ways. Of course, bribes and that sort of thing from k-street usually prevent the need for use of dirt, but the more powerful one is, the more likely there's a video of them somewhere on an Epstein alike property doing dirty things.

A real analysis of the three branches including the fourth estate will show the executive has gobbled them all up in the backroom, of course allowing the illusion to continue for the public. This bribery-blackmail system is bipartisan, and as for the executive... it's the cabinet and shadow cabinet with real power.
Surely Congress needs to be able to investigate these matters before writing new laws?

I'm finding it hard to understand why you wouldn't want congressional committees (i.e. the people who regulate the country) to have the power to investigate bodies established and funded by Congress. Can you clarify?
I've always wanted a better way to document and structure arguments/debates.

Assertions can have supporting statements (as children), that can be further expanded and evaluated.

This way, I can evaluate and discard branches, distilling an argument to what matters.

Would a tool like this help me?
Lol, I work in adtech.
Yeah, I would think it would be obvious to most humans that "set an alarm for 6:30am" never means "6:30am four days from now." It seems like it should just be interpreted as the next occurring 6:30am unless otherwise specified, but hey, I'm not a computer.

Edit: also, your "tomorrow at 6:30am" example is also open to interpretation if you're saying it two minutes after midnight. I'd really like it to recognize these sort of ambiguities and prompt me for clarification. "It's after midnight. By 'tomorrow at 6:30am', do you mean you want your alarm to go off about 6 hours from now or the next day?"
Agreed. But being offended and pressuring someone to stop doing the thing that offends you are different.
Note that 90% of people in England weren't in London, circa 1800.
> Without sufficient calories you can’t have an obese population due to physics.

Sure you can, you just have starving poor people too.
"Some people aren't cut out for it" explains nothing and is an unfalsifiable statement. It's simply restating what's happening, but in a way that removes empathy.

As someone with 10 years of management experience at big corporations, I encourage you to consider the possibility that managers are not valued more and this attitude, itself, is evidence of the beginnings corporate burnout.
The sample size is about N=18 for the anecdote so it’s hardly definitive. The ones who didn’t engage typically left after 12 months, maybe 24 tops. It’s not a perfect indicator. Some people in the morning are stellar performers but also want to sit and enjoy a cup of coffee and read the news instead of grinding out computer-realizations of discrete path integrals or whatever other Monday morning shenanigans.
To be fair, they're getting paid to recommend buying it through Amazon. Sure there might be an incentive to link a higher-priced laptop to get a larger commission, but in terms of Lenovo-vs-some-other-brand I don't see any incentive for bias.
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I love the idea of resurfacing notes before meetings where they are relevant. Feels like there's a lot of software out there based on improving our note-taking, but very little that focuses on how we use our notes. Very cool.
I have not had this experience at all personally. Then again I tend to just stay neutral when such subjects come up, though its rare that they do.
Considering the man and his employer were acquitted of all charges, the prosecutor could have easily used his leeway to not prosecute. This has nothing to do with congress, the guy clearly did not break any laws.
Mens rea as a cultural notion has been undermined by the growth of strict liability laws to be "tough on crime" plus it spares any prosecutorial inconveninces like having to prove the barest level of intent.

I am no domain expert but an ammendment to require mens rea for far more felonies as opposed to the farcical nonsense where picking up an unidentified feather could be a crime if the feather turns out to be from a bald eagle.
Zeynep Tufekci has a good thread on the controversy.

https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1320380607294263296
I work in HFT and base comp is pretty much irrelevant. In fact at the firm I work at, every single employee gets the same base salary (low 6 figures). Not that's not important: everyone makes way more money through their part of profits depending on their equity and their amount invested in the fund.

Total cash compensation easily gets above 400-500k. People probably make less money at large firms, tho.
Nice but would expect pedestrians, random interactions with elements sometimes etc...
Yeah. Strongly reminds me of: be more scared of not succeeding than failing. When you optimize towards larger goal and are okay with not doing perfectly, bumps along the road become trivial.
I run Shipyard (https://shipyardapp.com), a SaaS platform to orchestrate workflows seamlessly with minimal code on your part. If I'm understanding your current setup and needs correctly, it sounds like we may be able to solve what you're looking for.

You can get started with our no-code templates or build your own using Python/Bash. We're higher level than Airflow, with visual workflow editors and a web-accessible platform (no hosting required), but still lower level than Zapier by enabling you to run heavy-duty custom scripts as needed.

On the off-chance that you're looking for tools that create workflows that require more manual intervention... you might want to look into Formstack, Quickbase, or Microsoft Power Automate alongside Kissflow.
If anyone has any comments or suggestions please let me know. I've been working on this on and off for the last several months and I love getting feedback.

The repo is located here.

https://github.com/rbreaves/kinto

Screenshot of the system tray and wizard is here.

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/10969616/97070698-...

I know in the past I had seen confusion during the setup process so I believe this new GUI wizard will clear that up.

Additionally I have removed all system level shortcut modifications (even though the previous uninstall would undo the half dozen rebinds). Most rebinds have always been part of the xkeysnail config.

If the Overlay key is set then Kinto will undo it so that you will have 3 unhindered modifier keys. (Overlay key is of course mapped to Cmd+Space) If you remove Kinto the Overlay key will be set back to Super of course.

All remaps are self contained in the ~/.config/kinto/kinto.py config file and ran as part of the xkeysnail service that Kinto sets up for you. In the config file the Left side is the physical keys you press on either side of the spacebar, and the right side are the keys you are virtually pressing.

Also note that the Left side, in the config, is impacted by a modifier swap that occurs early on in the file, so you may not immediately recognize that but the 1st key left of the Spacebar is RC (Right Control), 2nd key is M (Alt) and the 3rd key is Super.

During terminal usage the 3rd key, Super, is swapped out with LC (Left Control), but some Super keybinds will still appear to work on LC just fine - like Virtual Desktop switching.
while emotionally i'm with you, logically i think that the data entering public commerce (until of course Palantir collected it illegally or in violation of privacy provisions of user contracts - which is pretty hard to establish given the multi-layer of data laundering) is like somebody walking the public street, ie. free game, in the sense that i don't see any explicit protection applicable in such a case.

It also seems to follow that slippery slope proverb "they came ... until they came for you" - government started by outsourcing (to military contractors) illegal actions against foreign citizens, statistically mostly accidental civilians, and the citizenry was mainly fine with it, and now government seems to apply the outsourcing loophole (starting with data, the rest will come later) to its own citizenry.

Failure to obey Congress? We're talking about agency which seems to have lost all humanity in their agents who shackle pregnant women right before and after delivery - i'm waiting for some military contractor to come up with and the CBP to buy the shackles allowing delivery while still on. Compare to that some database search without warrant...

I mean it is kind of naive to think that illegality and inhumanity can be practiced while confined just at one agency or area of operations without metastasizing across.
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It's obvious because you don't test risky shit on people already at risk of _everything_.

I've got a 90yr grandma, she shouldn't be the first to try new stuff injected I to her body. Is that not obvious?
I think it's actually much worse than this.

A doctor can be fairly certain that a healthy, smiling patient is unequivocally a good thing. A thing to feel proud about.

An engineer is often tasked with moving a metric they don't personally believe to be meaningful, or worth while.

If I'm told that "We're prioritizing new user activation and engagement" and my team's quarterly review will be based on how I move that metric, it's soul sucking to realize that the optimal way to engage new users happens to also be objectively worse for our existing users.

There is no unequivocal "Good" for me to do. I'm not really doing "Good" at all, I'm just making bank for an employer that:

A - Won't return the favor in any meaningful sense.

B - Is of questionable business acumen (Is trading old customers for new customers a viable strategy? Maybe. Maybe not. I don't get to see the discussion and understand the trade-offs that were discussed).

C - Clearly values metrics that correlate to profit over any real pride in their product.

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Once you dispense with the idea that you're actually helping people with your profession, the only real motivator left is money. Money certainly matters (anyone who says otherwise is lying) but every dollar has a diminishing return on motivation.

If I can pay mortgage/utilities/food and still have enough cash for a night out or a nice drink every now and then, I no longer want more money - I want more fulfilling work.

That might mean making smiles.

That might mean having more control.

That might mean working on a task that judges excellence more objectively than "Making lots of profit".
But he isn’t critiquing the content only, he’s also questioning whether it should exist or not.

He says, “Calling something “satire” doesn’t give you a free license to be rude...”
"anti-environmentalist position that pops up"

Ya. Cognitive dissonance. Humankind has full agency (dominion) with an utter refusal to even acknowledge consequences, much less accept responsibility.

"Our ecosystem is a vast web of interconnections."

Yup.

In the Anthropocene, we are the gardeners. Laissez faire is a terrible gardening strategy.
Ah, but the lunar orbital elevator can also act as a cell tower that covers nearly half the lunar surface
How do you gather this is from the Nov 3rd election?

Sure you can replace "The CEO" and "The Company" with "The President" and "The Country" but I don't see how you got that correlation.
I think the photo of the woman is terrible. I don't blame the phone for it, its very hard to achieve with small sensors, and the iphone is probably the best of the bunch. But it doesn't make the picture quality near "good-enough" for that scenario.

With slightly better lighting it can be "good enough" to be hard to distinguish from a bigger sensor camera for "web" where "web" really means ~6inch phone display - and that's great, but let's not fool ourselves ;-)

I'm also curious what the max will look like - though at the size and price it's difficult to say if buying a RX100 and a cheaper phone isn't a better option still, for many.
GUIs won over console workflows because GUIs have better discoverability and the "recall vs recognize" difference; it's mentally much easier to recognize the option you want when presented it than to recall the existence or the naming of that option.

In those aspects of UX, voice interfaces have the same drawbacks as console apps when compared to a good GUI.

Also, they have to work within the "bandwidth bottleneck" of audio - just imagine a phone system that tells you all the options you have, "Press 1 for something, Press 2 for another thing..." - they are so annoying because they are slow and inherently linear; a GUI can show the same options all at once, and you can read it much faster than listen to them.

So NLP as such is not dramatically more user-friendly unless it is at the "do what I mean" level which likely requries full human-level general artificial intelligence; before that it's just a voice equivalent of a console app, sharing all the problems of discoverability and needing to remember what the system can do and how should it be invoked.
The term dark matter itself is kind of misleading in the first place. The math in general relativity just doesn't add up when applied to certain observations. They've essentially gotten 2 + 2 = 5. In order to fix that they just assume that one of those 2's was actually a 3 somehow, and the extra 1 it picked up got labelled as dark matter. In other words, dark matter is just a term for some missing numbers somewhere in the calculation. Based on the different places where the extra numbers might be included they think it's something with mass, but really that's just a guess based on the existing formula and the changes that would be necessary to make it match the observation.
What do you mean their desktop app for HFT? no one has HFT desktop apps
> "almost always" is not a guarantee of free speech.

There is no such guarantee with respect to someone else's private property.

> What is "very rare" today can become "more common" tomorrow if there aren't strong legal protections.

Yes, that's the slippery slope fallacy. I could make a similarly flawed argument in reverse, e.g. allowing Nazi propaganda to flourish unchecked is what lead to the rise of Hitler, so we should make Nazi ideas illegal before the acceptance of nazi ideas in wider society becomes "more common". Just to be clear, I am not actually arguing this position, only demonstrating why this reasoning is fallacious. Simply pointing to the existence of a rare event is not evidence that it will become more common.

> My ISP should not be able to disconnect me from the internet on the basis of speech

I agree, but only because ISPs control a shared, finite, public resource (the physical ISP lines, paid for in large part by the tax-payer).

> server host should be the same

No they shouldn't because they're not at all the same.
That's not how copyright works.
Maybe I'm missing some context here, but why is this political? I don't really see anything obvious in the actual text of the post.