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People who would like to take guns away should start working on changing the Constitution. Looking at the current lineup in the Supreme court all I can say is good luck. I totally support a country's choice to de-arm their populace. However I also wish they would quit trying to push their beliefs on the USA as well. Nothing in this world is safe, from driving to work, to walking down a street you don't know, to repelling off a cliff, or parachuting for fun yet no one says "don't do that, let's make it illegal", yet with guns they freak out.
I have actually heard of this group before, thanks to an obscure reference in a Twenty One Pilots song oddly enough:
https://genius.com/15480382
https://www.britannica.com/technology/military-technology/Th... Britannica is telling quite a lot on how technology and society changed.

What is fascinating is that a switch to offensive weapons seem to have helped with bringing about a society with more equal opportunities as compared to feudalism: there was no point to maintain feudalism, when a few mounted and armored warriors could no longer defeat huge crowds of peasants. There were other factors as shortage of working hands due to the great plague, so that they had to pay for labor instead of the usual practice, but i guess you can't reduce anything that big to a single factor, as usual.

In ancient history you had a similar theme: The bronze age came with small elite armies and expensive charriots, later larger crowds of warriors with cheaper arms made of iron defeated them, and that also came with opportunities for more people and more egalitarian religions, more accessible syllabic writing system - lots of things became more inclusive.
If one doesn’t give a fuck then there’s also no reason to deny them either. Peasants are responsible for feeding themselves.
> The problem I've always encountered with this (which I 100% agree with), is that I've never met anyone in a decision making position who's cared or been open to discussing it.

As someone who is nominally a decision maker (in that my job title has "architect" in it), I have the opposite experience, I guess: most of the pushes for GraphQL have come from devs desperate to have a magic bullet, rather than to rework an overly-granular API.

(Of course there are also the folks who want a tick on their CV but that's a whole other problem)
I always see these numbers thrown around and I assume they fit the narrative that most lobbyist want to push but here's what's pulled under the rug is: Density distribution, ie, how many square miles to cover 50%, 75% or 99% of the population.

Sure, maybe Ontario has twice the size, roughly, of California. But I doubt the northern parts get any cell coverage.
We did that too, and indeed, very memorable. Not in Barth by any chance? - wonder if that was something done in different places or a thing for that specific school.
I'm no newbie vegan and I still looooove vegan burgers. I'm "indoctrinated" only insofar that everyone is "indoctrinated" by the gastronomic culture of their upbringing.
Rich artisanal whole grain bread and slaughtered hogs and fish.
> mechanisms like having to "wink three times" in your video to get it to proceed

Deepfakes are already here, we have that cat (or mouse) taken care of.
What debloating tools are there for the Android NDK? For any code that ends up dexed, R8 takes care of it, so it's not terrible if I add a library dependency with a lot of code I don't need. I haven't found anything similar for native libraries.
I remember one who actually said "I do not expect you to finish all the questions" and gave an exam with many questions, but to his surprise, a few students (very few - approximately 2 out of 300+) including me, managed to race through them all. The questions were extremely easy for those who knew the material, such that you'd spend more time writing the answer than thinking.

That sort of thing can't be done for all subject matter, however.
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A plan that could actually work?
Where do they claim that they think it is bad?
Hmm maybe I could use injected JavaScript and allow third party cookies in Chromium but use my injected JavaScript to randomly flip some bits in all third party cookies. And first party cookies for sites that I haven't explicitly whitelisted.

I also wonder how many database backends this will trip up due to invalid IDs, though that's not really my intention.
While it is usually the assumption that only one side has access to some kind of groundbreaking technology in these dystopian futures, that is rarely the reality in actual conflicts. Consider the Arab Spring, largely held with cellphones most of us would consider heavily outdated. Citizens were still able to communicate and plan protests against the will of their governments despite the fact that their governments obviously had the capital and resources to invest in better technology than existed in consumer hands at the time.

In a civilized world, the only thing stopping rapid equalization of technology in peoples' hands is intellectual property law, preventing thousands of copycat companies from ripping off the new iPhones until the price is so violently driven into the ground that you can find them at dollar stores. In a world at war, IP laws don't apply, and the only thing stopping the "other side" from standing up their own robot army is the will to invest in and support that technology. We may consider it to be secret government technology now, but all you need is one hardware hacker with some JTAG wires and one disabled unit for all of their secrets to spill out onto the open Web.
Yes. Or, if afoot, warriors could brace the lance (against a rock or with the foot) in the ground and direct the speartip into a charging horse. A line of lances/pikes kills or fatally wounds horses and unseats their riders.

Riders can be killed or trapped if their horse falls on them. And once on the ground a knight in armor is virtually helpless b/c he has little mobility. He could easily be killed with blows to the neck or head with a rock or tree limb. A handful of dirt stuffed into his mouth would quickly suffocate him.
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VS Code is the best IDE for TypeScript, which is rapidly growing. I think that's the more likely reason than accident.
Show HN: Clippy (Clone) – As Electron app: 165mb; as Sciter app: 6mb (not typo)
I thought it would be nice to have a concrete example of the same app made with Electron versus Sciter.

So I cloned Clipper (https://github.com/AkashRajpurohit/clipper) in Sciter to the best of my ability.

The original as an Electron app is 165mb.

In contrast, the Sciter release is only 6mb (3mb compressed).

I used Quark (Sciter's version of electron-builder) to pack the program's resources into a single file, and here is the result: https://github.com/GirkovArpa/clipper-sciter/releases (I've only packaged for Windows at the moment).

Actually it didn't pack the .mp3 files for some reason so I just zipped those up with the executable.

Not only is the filesize a magnitude of order lighter, but it starts up way faster and without an empty grey window at the beginning.

Some caveats:

- I haven't copied the button click waves effect from here: https://materializecss.com/waves.html (yet).

- I haven't implemented the tray icon (yet).

- Popups which are supposed to be hidden offscreen until activated can be scrolled into view when the list of clipboard history is long enough. I intend to fix this as soon as I can and have posted a question about it in the official Sciter forums here: https://sciter.com/forums/topic/position-absolute-bottom-0-d...

I would like to emphasize that this is my attempt at a clone but it's not a port. Since the original Clippy is written in React, a genuine port would utilize Sciter's "Reactor".
> Those laws and regulations are justifiable because the hazard of an unsafe product

Most consumer protection laws are not about hazard and safety. For example, credit card companies having to refund fraudulent transactions has nothing to do with safety and everything to do with protecting people in the vastly power-imbalanced bank-client relationship.
For visualization, you'd want to take at least 20 sound samples per second, each sample about 0.1 sec long, so they would overlap a bit to capture freq/amp modulations. With the typical 44,100 Hz sample rate, 0.1 sec would be an array of 4410 float32s. Round that down to 4096. Then you run FFT twice over this input: that's Nlog2(N), N=4096. So you have about KN log2(N) ops/sec, with K=20, N=4096 that's 1 million flops. Updating pixels of the 1000x1000 image would be another 1 Mflops. Well, brightness adjustment to the 3 sigma range is another pass and another 1 Mflops. I know for a fact that this thing can draw 1024x1024 images at 60 fps on pure javascript, but if you don't like the noise of CPU fan, you'll have to write it in GLSL.
Needed to look that one up:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longmont_Potion_Castle
I think it was Metatron or maybe Shadiversity on youtube talked about this once and I remember one point in favour of the Knights is that they dedicate a lot of their lives to training while peasants don't, so one advantage that Knights have is that they are simply better trained, many having trained from a young age.
> “Be cautious of revolutions in military affairs,” said Donald Sando, Donahoe’s civilian deputy and an intellectual mainstay at Fort Benning for many years. “We can’t hope endlessly that technology will make warfare easier or less brutal or less costly, [because] The reality is, it doesn’t; it changes it. It makes it harder in many cases.”

I can't imagine the mental gymnastics those working on this horrible idea must go through just to look themselves in the mirror every day.
The real social drag is real life not the digital one. You'll find the off beaten path interesting but ultimately full of locals places even in cities you imagined to be more international or urban, and it's not easy to strike up a conversation at a bar and eating dinner alone every night can become dull even with the best menus.

it seems that being more introverted makes this experience easier to handle. but i also never cared for meeting other expats, but i relished being among locals only.
but i did hate eating out by myself so i preferred to cook myself and watch a movie or something while eating.

Traveling with an SO could be more fun but I imagine there's tension there about getting alignment on the constant myriad of small decisions that need to be made. Agreeing on the next airbnb, the other one misnavigated google maps...again. The restaurant the other one chose over your preference was underwhelming. You forgot the laptop charger at the airport and need to trade off with the other one. No alone time or time with other friends to balance eachother out.

uhm, i somehow get the impression that here you missed the point of having a partner. at least for me, my partner meant that all these issues became irrelevant because the experience of sharing a life together is more important than whether i like the food, or whose fault it is that we got lost. if my partner was happy, then i was happy, and if there was a problem with the accomodation, then we'd discuss it and find a solution. part of having a partner is learning each others likes and dislikes, and find common ground, but not fret over how having a partner interferes with you getting your preffered choices.

Imho after a while I learned to stay in one place for a month atleast. No airbnb roommates. You deserve peace and quiet. Get on a schedule and try to live like a local. [...] It allowed me to stay productive but outside of having a schedule the main benefit was having a purpose of being there.

now you got it.

everywhere i went i became active in the local FOSS and tech communities, even when i didn't speak the language, where possible i found local musicians to play together with or connected with other communities that i had an afiliation to or interest in.
That's the hope! There's some good references at the end of the doc (written by far smarter folks) on the details on projects that are necessary to actually decarbonize but they kinda pass over the "where does the money come from" thing. This plan is supposed to talk about that all important piece.
This doesn't match my experiences with colored rooms at all.
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Sure… so remote work doesn't work for some jobs for some companies. Remote work doesn't work for sandwich artists or mechanics. However, there are so many jobs that do not require you to physically interact with anything other than your computer. Not just software engineering jobs. This doesn't mean that none of the hardware jobs can't be remote, just the ones that requires regular interaction with tools that cannot be shipped to engineers. Consider how much money companies save by not paying rent for large office space. If that money is redirected to making sure their remote employees can upgrade their workspace and send the necessary tools, then many of these can still work out.

Remote work doesn't have to mean multi-country workforce. It can be same country, same state or even same state within 1-2 hrs driving distance. There is a lot of talk about in the office once or twice a week.

As far as social cues that you can only pick up in person. I haven't struggled with this at all. I'm not sure if that means I miss those cues in person so I'm not noticing or I'm capable of picking them up on a video call. Could it be possible that those cues are not actually that important?

I do feel bad for my single friends who live alone. During the pandemic they have been very isolated and very lonely. I understand that an office environment might have been more enjoyable for them. However, from a business perspective, perhaps there are better alternatives to solve this problem than require everyone to come into the office and sit on site 5 days a week. I actually think this will say more about how people chose to dwell then how the office space should work.
Farmer strength is incredible. I remember rough housing with a farmer friend as a teenager. I was pretty athletic and he was smaller (~15kg lighter) but probably twice as strong as I was. Functional strength. He was basically a teenager with old man strength.
I want to see a coca-cola freestyle-style plant-hamburger machine where you choose your own blend of bases and watch them be extruded from some bags then blended together and plopped onto a griddle.
Only if the civilian has a rpg or IED and then he probably would not be a civilian anymore, but a specialized guerilla fighter, if he manages to take out a modern tank.
That might be possible, but is it likely? A knight is basically a medieval super-soldier: an individual with a huge amount of ongoing personal+state investment going into their ability to project power on the field.

This isn't really correct. Most knights didn't have a huge incomes (if they did they would become Lords).

A Knight wasn't a military position - it was primarily a class and status designation, which came with some military obligations. These could be met by supplying another person to your lord to do the fighting for you.

Often a Knight would supply their lord with their younger son for example, since their older son would be the heir.

To become a knight in the medieval times in the UK you needed an income of 40 pounds a year[1] which converts to around 30,000 pounds/year these days.[2]

> Wouldn't there be mass resentment within a lazy knight's power structure, that would lead to said power structure toppling or mutiny-ing?

Yes, indeed peasant revolts were a thing. And a lot of most knights "fighting" involved hunting down rebellious peasants armed with sticks.

[1] https://www.quora.com/Were-Medieval-English-knights-wealthy-...

[2] https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/currency-converter/#curr...
When the student is ready, the master appears.
Trump made a pretty good start at getting out of the Middle East. I don't know why he didn't use his foreign policy wins as running points, but he didn't.
Stim and Combat Shield only affects marines. This is an Army article.

(To explain the joke to everyone else: the parent is talking about Starcraft 2)
It's not mental gymnastics. It's often someone that has seen a side of humanity that most people haven't. It's not even a side you can eradicate. You can create conditions where it lays dormant, but it's never really gone and when it does show up it's better to be prepared.
What if friends of these fake review circles get themselves hired into Amazon to be on the teams that validate the reviews? It is possible that Amazon is so big, they would not detect this problem.

You could be a good corporate drone and do your job for 97% of the time, and in 3% of the cases delete bad reviews for your friends. Unless someone is doing really great statistical analysis, this could fly under the radar for a very long time.
His 8-bit CPU series made me finally understand how microcode works. His videos are very clear and well explained.
Concurrency is hard because we invented a bunch of theoretical machinery (semaphores, mutexes, condition variables,...) and embedded it in languages such that most of the programs one can express are bad: racey or deadlock prone. Compare with modern sequential languages which have near-perfect denotational semantics: anything which compiles means something.

If you want practical guidance, my best is to avoid all of the concurrency constructs that are taught in schools. Use log-structured single-writer multiple reader, wait-free, processes and shared memory.
I removed the extension when I realized I had to register to use it.
In addition to the onus on users to make a choice, there's an army of developers out there who can advocate to avoid unnecessary use of exotic features.

Sometimes they're appropriate (e.g. ability to drag-and-drop or CTRL+V paste a photo to an image sharing site), but as a user my personal inclination tends toward traditional interfaces (which as a happy bonus can be more responsive) and I've encountered an overwhelming number of sites that abuse capabilities for no good reason (e.g. those which immediately prompt for your location).

A little taste and restraint would be very welcome on the modern web.
You forgot to quote the most relevant part of my statement: "...by pushing the CSP model."

Of course you can do whatever you want, but Go is a very opinionated language and there's an opinionated community behind it. Which it's fine. But then when you ask "how to do X using locks," the only thing people respond is the mantra of "don't communicate by sharing, share by communicating". Which doesn't help in any way. Then people ask complex questions about using channels and others say "why don't you just use locks?" That's why I think Go adds more instead of alleviating the complexity of writing concurrent programs.
One nitpick with the writer, while beige is something I have a hard time with, pure resplendent white can be beautiful and is also a vivid color (or vivid absence of color?). But I mostly agree with her points...

Some of my most memorable experiences were staying at hotels that featured vivid colors, like the Blue House in Penang and I wish I was not renting and could decide on the colors I'd want in my space. Dull neutral colors might make decoration easy but it certainly doesn't make it sexy.
This is the "incorporation doctrine". It has evolved over time for individual elements of the Bill of Rights.

Here is a nice timeline: https://billofrightsinstitute.org/educate/educator-resources...
You bring up an interesting point that I (and Crawford) think is massively important nowadays. When you learn a real skill, like really learn it from a master, part of what you are doing is learning to trust an authority outside of yourself. Good technique in so many disciplines feels weird, awkward, wrong, and un-fun when you first try it. But the discipline decides on right, not us. The instrument, or the golf ball, or whatever real physical thing that you have to work with determines correct technique, and we have to learn how to make that feel natural through years of effort. I believe this is a huge part of the benefit of deliberate practise: you learn that "oh this feels good" or "this seems to work for me, and what I think matters most" is not good enough. And in this day and age of so much "me me how I feel me" and instant gratification, learning that humility is a really valuable skill. Music will teach you that the path to effortless mastery is full of twists and turns, and is often uncomfortable. We only get there when we decide it's ok to be uncomfortable.
Remember accessibility. The avatars are already quite small. I'd suggest something obvious like you could highlight yourself green or wear a green hat if you want to talk. You don't need to imitate real life - leverage the fact that you can manifest obvious queues in the digital world. If only we could make instantly make ourselves bright green in the real world when we want to meet people (sometimes people use wristbands or necklaces to do this IRL)!
> As for incompetent knights, I'm genuinely confused: how did they survive in the role for any length of time?

Most knights didn't fight often - if at all. Even when called upon they could just supply another person instead of themselves.
> how did they survive in the role for any length of time?

Not all knights saw that much action. I agree though that they had strong incentives, besides survival in battle, to be at least defensibly competent.

As to those incentives -- they had a multi-generation arrangement with the sovereign: to supply a certain number of mounted men when he called for it, maybe determined by the size of landlord they were, and in return the king let them keep dominating economic activity in their usually-rural area. The knight held the purse strings and could extract as much as he felt prudent from his tenants (farmers etc).

But the knight would employ Men-at-Arms. These were the guys with what we think of today as 'Knight Skills,' but no land/title/purse. They'd be taken care of, and they'd definitely try to keep their boss alive. Or sometimes an older knight might send the required men without going himself. (This varies a lot by time period of course).

So on the one hand, they didn't have to do superhero stuff if they didn't want to.

On the other hand -- their whole reason to exist was intensely martial; the structure of society reflected the fact that folks riding horse-tanks dominated all of civilization. There were good reasons for someone with a coveted horse-tank position to, yes, be able to be ride, be at least minimally competent, and show up to risk their lives when the king calls for it, or else risk losing their privileged position.

> the reason anyone bothered to work for them at all, rather than towns responding to recruitment attempts exactly the same as invasion attempts, with stoning, boiling oil from the rooftops, etc

Well, the knight owned the siege-proof fortresses in the area; that's one of those things they did well in feudal times, picking geographical strong points for fortresses.

The knight also owned the town people lived in too, the farms, houses, etc. His family got them way back when kings started deciding that they didn't want the town to send 5 random foot soldiers when he called -- he'd rather have 1 professional, well-equipped horseman with mail, shield, lance etc, and if you could make that happen he'd just give you your neighbor's stuff to keep making it happen in perpetuity.
I thought it was 94 total not just the placebos. if it’s 90% effective 8 or 9 people who got the vaccine would catch it. Unless there’s some more statistics to the 90% figure