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The reason is that the complexity of the world is increasing, including the scale of the problems. It is hard to be perspicacious with such a vast influx of information, and it is therefore comforting and hopeful to look back on a past from which one can extrapolate and understand causality. In other words, we may be trying to unearth the essence of bygone eras in an attempt to see the way forward.

"History doesnt repeat itself, but it often rhymes"
An alternative first step might be for other companies to make products that are as good as Apple’s.
Okay? But that wasn't the question you asked. Part of the answer to your question is that cars should neither hit pedestrians nor do erratic things that set up a collision.
If I haven't had any luck with treatment options of fibromyalgia, what are good avenues to look down for treatment? What's the most renowned institution for treatment of fibromyalgia?
Built https://bufr.sh for some existing clients who wanted the functionality. Haven’t been able to sell outside much.
Sins of the Fathers was great too! I even read Jane Jensen's novelizations of both games in the 90s.
From what I've heard, the safety shielding of ICE cares are in all the wrong places to install battery packs safely. It will be interesting of this type of conversion can be cost effective when done in a way that protects the battery packs and occupants in the event of a collision or fire.
I’m not certain if other commenters have commentered about this yet, but in late 2019 - before they offered a paid plan - they nerfed some services. Specifically, they downgraded the “tweets per day” limit from 100 to 25. They did this without offering an option to pay to get back to the 100 limit (I would have gladly paid). So I was essentially forced to find an alternative.

It’s puzzling that they didn’t sync up the nerf + pro option.

I wrote about my experience: http://blog.pinballmap.com/2019/12/05/iftttwtf/

My use case is: check an RSS for new items, and tweet those new items.
If I remember correctly you can have Netlify CMS commit changes to a branch that is auto-deployed, so you can see the fully rendered preview.
Simplifying things to PGE’s current plight I do agree with you.

The larger problem is as the GP mentions the misaligned incentives. Here in Sacramento we have SMUD, which is a publicly owned utility. No shut offs here. I have a friend who’s an arborist for SMUD. Before that he was an arborist for PGE.

For years at PGE he was trying to jump to SMUD. Why? Because they place a higher value on his services. PGE, being beholden to shareholders, treated him as 1099 and paid significantly less.

PGE shuts off power in part because they don’t keep their lines clear. Because they didn’t employ enough people like my friend. And those they do employ don’t stay longer than they need to.

Short-term shareholder incentives don’t align with long-term incentives of the public in this case. It’s a problem. Pointing out that California’s government has flaws doesn’t negate that point.
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But the purpose of doing that is to provide a suggestion for a change in approach for a given patch. I don't think it would make much sense to start a new thread because you lose the association between the original approach and the modified approach.

That said, I haven't seen this particular feature used in the years I've followed the git mailing list, so perhaps it's not commonly used.
I have mixed feelings about this. I can see the need for security but at same time I can see why the big companies love to pursue "security", it gives them an incredible opportunity to exert even more control.
It will need upgrades for those decades you're just hoping someone remembers how to apply them 9years after they're I'm wide spread adoption.
Because they learn that other career paths do better later on. Perhaps there's an experience gap I expected to bridge these statements. I have friends who have dated multiple fortune 500 CEOs, and they learn so much about their lives, and how they got where they are, their real problems, stuff that they'd never tell anybody else.
Yes a vaccine is the only realistic option. Masks, no more handshakes, and social distancing can help. But you can get COVID simply by breathing in the aerosol left behind by an infected person.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and-conditions/preve...
“A person infected with coronavirus — even one with no symptoms — may emit aerosols when they talk or breathe. Aerosols are infectious viral particles that can float or drift around in the air for up to three hours. Another person can breathe in these aerosols and become infected with the coronavirus.”
> So he worked at McDonalds for 3 years in high school, what does that have to do with anything.

I'm confused, you started by agreeing that highlighting the McDonald's experience is a good thing, then asked 'what does that have to do with anything'. I don't know what position you hold, here.

As for me, I never worked at McDonald's or any other fast food, but I did spend some time working at a local pizza joint, where I started as a busboy, and eventually assumed cook and delivery driver duties. I'd already taken programming classes and knew Java and Python, but had never considered software as a professional option. My time in the service industry was still super valuable to me as a software professional - I learned about time management, prioritization (working as a busboy and dishwasher who also makes some minor food items is an implementation of a priority queue where the priority values can change very quickly), and how to identify repeatable business processes. These are all highly valuable skills for someone who writes code, and pretty much any service industry job, taken seriously, requires understanding them. They apply equally in SaaS.

So my answer to your (possibly rhetorical?) question is: working at McDonald's for 3 years in high school has quite a lot to do with the rest of the career, as valuable fundamental business skills are there to be learned even in the lowest wage jobs.
I have never struggled with mental health until the past couple months when I started having chronic GI trouble. I had to stop going into work and two CT scans, an ER visit, and a colonoscopy later it doesn't seem like I'm any closer to getting better. Waiting on the second CT scan and blood test results now. I just hope they can figure out what it is. Anyway, just wanted to say I get it. I didn't realize the toll physical pain would take on me mentally
A contemporary take on the real golden age of fiction: memoirs. (1) Memoirs by 29 year olds. Memoirs by celebrities. Historical fiction is the more marketable form of historical fiction (fiction about oneself), at least for people who actually buy and read books.

Reading of books has declined really crazily in the last 5 years. (2) (3) Can there be a golden age of fiction of any kind if people aren't reading? Would you have any idea what memoirs by 29 year olds I'm referring to if you don't read? No, of course not. How is anyone here supposed to have that conversation, if they don't read?

One thing's for sure. Margaret Atwood is writing a sequel to Handmaid's Tale because of the TV show. Seems like a pretty meaningful omission of fact. It's still fundamentally about marketability.

Julie Orringer, Colson Whitehead, George Saunders, Anna Burns, Marlon James, Gina Apostol, Yaa Gyasi, Jonathan Franzen... Great authors, yes, but like many Academy winning filmmakers' movies, hardly anyone has read their books. That sucks, it's not a refutation of their work.

(1) https://www.amazon.com/best-sellers-books-Amazon/zgbs/books/...

(2) https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/06/29/leisu...

(3) https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/feb/29/children-r...
True but equally they might end up with a nuclear power plant at the end of it which means while they paid £200k peer year for each job they get an asset at the end albeit unknown how useful it will be or whether it gets finished
In 2020, again, we have seem the same precautionary outages (last week)

What really bothers me if knowing that this is happening in part because their customers are paying for the company's unwillingness to perform preventive maintenance, as evidence by the Camp Fire.
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Arch/Manjaro is often praised as simpler, more powerful etc., but there are also complaints about instability. Mint has several QA links: upstream, debian, Ubuntu, Mint. With Mint sanitizing the corporate influence, ie. snap being off by default. I don't need bleeding edge, just stable desktop. So I've found my optimum in Mint, though nothing is perfect.

Vendoring is shifting focus back to individual projects though. K8s could almost replace an OS in many regards. It is made to be modular, but only within its own framework. So it is changing the way software is run, similarly to initd and systemd. Such systems as we've seen, tend to "take over" and not be made to be part of and integrate well from inside an OS.
Vendoring is really old practice, but also makes testing and support simpler for upstream. We all know the dynamic approach tend to be more unchanging, or associated with several circles of dependency hells.

It's just different end goals for software development and deployment, that affect how software is distributed. Kind of similar to touted goals of JEE of java fame, which also is too monolithic to integrate well within complex systems.
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the part of this document I found most interesting was the part about privacy coins or "anonymity enhancing cryptocurrencies (AECs)" as the DOJ likes to call them. they see them as a threat.
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> Would the situation be better if CA voters could elect another party to run the state than the one that's been in power for the last 30 years?

In the past 30 years, California has had a Republican governor for a majority of the time (16 years); at least one Republican statewide constitutional officer excluding the Governor (or Lt. Governor, but they've never had that office in the period in question) for 20 years (California, unlike the federal government, has a divided rather than unitary executive), a Republican Assembly majority for two years, and Republican strength in at least one house of the legislature sufficient to stop a budget from being passed without their consent for 24 years, and enough strength in at least one house of the legislature to block any bill that increased any tax for 27 years.

To the extent that California has a "political monopoly", its only been for the last couple years, not the last 30.
It's happening every year on both desktop and mobile. You can't call walled gardens good sorry.
Is it just me or it sounds dirty?
>In time though, I got to a stage where it felt like I could launch and was hyping myself up until reality struck: I didn't actually build what I set out to build.

Nice writeup! I'm sure this has happened to many of us haha. Glad you kept going and launched your app!
I had it too. I finally got double jaw surgery. And changed to sleeping on my side.

In my case I had to tell people because I was quitting my job to have the procedure done. Some opinions from people in the healthcare field (nurses, etc) said I didn't need surgery because I wasn't overweight or old. Well they weren't maxillofacial surgeons.
I had open heart surgery at age 27, and the months after were full of pain in my abdomen and genital areas.

I went to multiple urologists, GI docs, etc. and was ultimately diagnosed with “chronic pelvic pain disorder”: basically a wastebasket diagnosis after they’ve eliminated all other culprits.

It’s not known exactly what causes it, but a leading idea (that makes sense in my case especially) is that you’re basically having a Charlie horse (cramp) in your prostate that lasts months. It can occur after a serious surgery or traumatic event.

Anyway, there’s no cure, but after months of stretching it’s mostly gone now.

While health issues still persist in my life, I feel healthy enough now to do basically everything in my life that I did before the surgery. But the whole incident really changed the way I look at health, life, and health care/awareness in America.
Given that modern humans carry Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA (and who knows how many other subspecies DNA), I prefer to think we humped them to extinction.
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Apple's choice of "buggy behavior without notification" over interoperability of parts with a permanent "non-Apple part" notice is a clear signal of intent. This is not a security issue - this is locking out 3rd party repair in a way that sows doubt in people who attempt these repairs (with "buggy" behavior present after replacement).
> I don't mean to disparage your assertions, and fully agree with your ultimate point of not letting it get to you. That said, I look forward to the FM/a test being more widely recognized.

FM is young. Keeping up to date on it is something I'll leave to my specialist, living with it doesn't require knowing the latest or greatest, so I don't find it disparaging at all.

I mentioned the FM/a test in particular because it's FDA-approved under 21 CFR 866.5700 [0] back in 2012, which generally means it has moved beyond the experimental stage (the notification exception is because it isn't a take-home style test, only a doctor can use it). There's another blood test in the early experimental stages at Ohio State (Stage II) as well, and one from Oxford (Stage II) at similar stages.

Unfortunately, you'll find that the Mayo Clinic doesn't tend to keep up to date, either. They provide some good high-level information on the disease, but because of how young it is, the effort required to keep up to date on a deeper understanding, such as diagnostic options, is probably not worth it to them.

That and a lot of research into fibromyalgia runs into walls and funding problems. We don't have a great understanding of the disease, but we're getting there. The stigma of it being over-diagnosed is probably the most harmful part to research, when that no longer seems to be the case.

[0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/21/866.5700
My earnings report from my blog using Pixfuture
You vote every time you choose to buy a product from company X or one of their competitors instead.

Remember back when Apple made phones with smaller screens? They took notice when millions of consumers were buying Samsung/whatever devices instead with a key reason given being 'bigger screen'. Apple then started producing devices with bigger screens.
> But that had nothing to do with me working at UPS. I worked there because I liked the extra money on top of what my parents gave me and to me it was like getting paid for gym :D.

I'm happy you ended up with a great job that pays well. Congrats to you!

But I think you underrate what and how much you may have or could have learned from working at UPS. UPS is a fantastic logistics operation, and while being a package sorter is obviously not the same as being a VP, the job still exposes you to a system that's highly optimized for profiting from being good at logistics, and that reaches every job in the system. Maybe you didn't learn anything at the job, but that doesn't mean there was nothing there to learn for someone observing and trying to learn.
Jordan Peterson talks about this: Trying to help someone, when you aren’t in any real professional position to, is a good way to put both people in a very dark place.
Yes, that is journalism.

If the CIA managed to stop that hacking before it happened no journalist would have cried.

If the journalist had participated in the hacking they would be criminally responsible.

And if the journalist obtain proof of relevant stories (especially related to corruption in politics) they will publish them.

There has never been a poisonous tree standard in journalism.
Oh, goodness me. Thank you for the unsolicited kind words. You've improved my previously gloomy mood.
14 crashes and "by far the most" are basically meaningless here
NYPost gained 200K followers, and Twitter lost 21% of its market cap. Brilliant idea, Jack. I'm sure shareholders won't sue you for this.
As predicted:

Most sold BEVs YTD Globally

#1 Model 3 Trophy

#3 Model Y

Tesla = 50% market share of the top 10 BEVs

https://twitter.com/alex_avoigt/status/1322213980522213376?s...
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Yeah, the other things Asian American small-business owners are subjected to is being the butt of violent inner-city riots supported by major political parties.

Anyone who denies this has forgotten roof Koreans and the effects that the LA riots (and that the BLM riots today) are having on Asians.

EDIT; people downvoting me need to see reality. This stuff is reported in Asian outlets all the time, but the American mainstream media will tell you sweet stories of Asian business owners 'supporting' BLM riots. You have to remember that these people, including my parents, have come from countries where it is normal to publicly say whatever you need to to appease the majority group. My mom and dad, like most Asians, will say whatever needs to be said to keep their family safe, even if they disagree. Americans do not understand Asian culture at all.

https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1190650.shtml

https://www.npr.org/2015/04/30/403231749/baltimore-unrest-re...

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news/black-lives-matter-billboa...
Reminds me of a similar strategy employed to catch people illegally trafficking pharmaceuticals, e.g., oxycontin. One fake bottle is mixed in with the others. The fake bottle can contain a GPS tracking beacon.

Here, the drug was Adderall:

https://www.liveviewgps.com/blog/anti-theft-gps-tracking-dev...
> The packaging nightmare is why I left Debian and Ubuntu for Arch.

I find this comment odd and highly dubious. There is absolutely nothing wrong with Debian's packaging system. At most, some individual packages could have been packaged differently, which is arguably a matter of personal taste. Normally, everything just works, and works very well.

Either you shed some additional light on your personal struggles with Debian's packaging, which you did not do at all, or I have to scratch off your baseless assertion as a kin of someone on the internet shouting at clouds.
The way I deal with that situation is look at the drivers eyes. If they see me it's safe. If they don't, don't give a care if I have right of way.

Can't see waymos eyes but maybe I should consider they see me but will follow the legal right if way from the book they can see that I cant
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I do both desktop and Web development. There are advantages and disadvantages to both platforms, just as there would be for discussions of native phone apps and Web apps.

On the support side we use Team Viewer a Lot - it has massively simplified doing support. I can watch a user do something, or teach them how to do it, or simply perform a task for them in a fraction of the time it used to take.

Probably the biggest reason we still have desktop apps in the mix is simply because of history. Some of our desktop apps contain code from 30 years ago (further if you include some C libraries.) this means the apps are very mature and thanks to our tools completely up to date in looks and functionality.

Our desktop users keep their data in-house, get faster performance, fewer "use the right browser" issues, and are immune to Internet outages. No hosting costs means it's also cheaper. Most of our desktop stuff is annual license now in line with the Web stuff.

We interface with local hardware (think IoT) and desktop is a lot simpler to install. We can also obviously connect outside to inside with the Web apps, but that takes more configuration effort at the router level.

We also have a Web offering of the same software, which is increasingly popular. It costs more to the client because of upstream costs (hosting, devops etc) but is popular (and even more so with work-from-home this year.) As infrastructure has improved (massive fibre rollout) so this has become a lot more practical.

There's still a huge market for desktop, but offerings already in the space are usually very mature and well known. Breaking into the space is hard now - there are established players. For new comers it's easier to build a Web app, and differentiate that way - especially for niche markets that may have mature desktop, but no Web offerings.
Strictly punishing shut downs and damages makes sense to me though. They aren't really ideals that are at odds, if you consider the solution to both is to upgrade and properly maintain the infrastructure. To run a safe and effective power grid is really all that is asking for.

Perhaps you are on to something with regulations making it difficult for PG&E to upgrade the infrastructure, but I stand by the idea that it should become a public utility so that their goals align. I would say PG&E is a symptom rather than a scape goat, put any private utility in their place and the outcome would be the same.

I think we see the problem from a similar lens, I just differ in that I don't think less regulation would be the solution.
Not open source? GTFO, Microsoft.
Mine ended when they gated me on a screen asking for phone number to unlock the account. I cannot even log onto my account anymore as Twitter says Email does not exist - on a six month old account until I one day tweeted something that got some group of people riled up.
> Sonoma County isn't spending their windfall PG&E fine money on fire prevention though

Nor are they supposed to; its compensation for fire damage, not funding earmarked for prospective fire prevention work. Paying for fire damage doesn't transfer the responsibility for future work.

> This is a core California infrastructure problem, and along with crumbling roads and bridges is symptomatic of the challenges California citizens have to deal with more and more.

Well, yes, that it is a core infrastructure problem and leaving it to a private, in principal regulated (though it continues to fail to do its regulated duties and to conceal that with fraud) utility clearly isn't working, which is why PG&E's assets ought to have been expropriated by the State and its function made public.
I'd suggest the term "fire management" rather than "fire prevention".
Pete Elmore also recently wrote an interesting post about Bytebeat and Algorithmic Composition:

http://debu.gs/entries/making-music-with-computers-two-uncon...
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