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>Our kids' teachers want them to print out assignments, fill them in, and upload pictures of the completed work to Google Classroom.

Why the hell are such ludicrously byzantine solutions being employed in the first place? What happened to the dream of the paperless office?

We're sitting here having pointless discussions about the feasibility of open source printers when we should be discussing the creation of better options to avoid the need to print stuff.

Kids shouldn't be printing assignment sheets and then photographing them and uploading the photo's, that completely idiotic. The should be able to download it, fill it in, and re-upload it.

These are things we should really be discussing. We don't need better printers, we need better solutions to printing. Then we can wave goodbye to HP and the like and watch them suffocate to death under the weight of their own greed and incompetence.

IMHO
> made a query to X.Y.Z.T, it recursed

If it recursed, then X.Y.Z.T gave you the final response. It doesn't tell you how it arrived at that final response, and it might not even know (it only saves the final response in the cache). The output of dig +trace is the steps a recursive resolver would have to follow if it started from scratch (with a cold cache).
Plants can taste great without using mad science to change them to taste similar to animals.

Vegan eggplant India curry comes to mind, so good.
> One common criticism we’ve heard since we started Pijul a few years ago was about the name. I came up with that name, but to be honest, I was more interested in getting stuff to work (which was challenging enough) than in thinking about names at that time.

Can someone help me find a more flattering way to pronounce this project? Any way I slice it it sounds awful in English.

- PEE - HOOL
- PEE - HOLE
- PIE - HOLE
- PEE - JEWEL
- PIE - JEWEL

Hearing nothing, probably gonna have to stick with "pie jewel".
I use vim because it’s the only real option for my workflow. I work on an extremely large codebase that easily eats up several hundred GB of disk space.

This code lives on a workstation under my desk. I do my coding on a laptop.

I want only one feature: Low latency for typing, find/replace, search over a wireless connection from my laptop to my workstation, possibly while I’m traveling.

Nothing beats ssh’ing into my workstation and launching vim. (Emacs will also work - I just prefer vim because I’m used to it)

I would love to use an IDE and the powerful features that come with it. But I wouldn’t trade off latency for those features.

Additionally, there are a ton of people who use the same workflow as me - ssh + vim. Any impact from changes to a network security policy will quickly be fixed because it impacts soo many of us.
They came up with a new formula somewhat recently and I had the same experience. I think it's just awful. Impossible Burger has been a consistent, very burger like experience.
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I'm sorry, I will add some instructions on the readme file.

Right now you can download it from the release page (https://github.com/zonetti/zonote/releases/latest). Then all you have to do is to extract and run the binary.
No interviewer has demonstrated anything but perfunctory interest in my open source work, popular or not.

It's a myth, like 'nobody cares where you went to school so long as you can do the work'.
It was the developer behind the macOS package manager Homebrew https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768
Very simply, you can't sell it as vegetarian if it has meat in it. Vegetarians may choose to abstain from meat for many reasons, including religious ones. Burger King's duty is not to question those choices; it's simply not to deceive their customers.
There are no tax benefits to be had for US citizens trying to hide money abroad post-FATCA. None.

The US has the most draconian global tax system of any country in the world, and has the unique position of being able to actually enforce it due to the fact the USD is the reserve currency of the world and every country needs to stay on the good side of the US Treasury to transact in the global economy.

In fact, the laws are so strict, they make living abroad as an honest middle-class expat a total nightmare. I have friends who cannot find a single bank in their country that will work with them because of the reporting requirements of working with US citizens. They cannot save in foreign banks and they cannot invest either due to the US penalizing foreign Mutual fund/ETF purchases by private citizens.
That is a country that is not interested in innovators. Good luck with that, USA. The economy is not based on sheer brute force anymore.
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Alaska will vote for Trump, but Alyse Galvin told me the other day that internal polls show her still in the running for the at-large House seat. We'll know more tomorrow.
Blog post: https://medium.com/orijtech-developers/efficient-struct-pack...
Naturally, but it's also a way to approach death if you don't consider it a horror.
Agreed, very interested to see how this plays out as well.
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> Except for inherently graphical tasks like drawing and diagramming

Let me introduce you to graphviz.

https://graphviz.org
No, we don't. If you spend more than half the year in Norway, you are considered a resident for tax purposes, and chances are you will have to pay some tax.

However, income is not subject to double taxation; if you've already paid taxes in another jurisdiction, Norwegian authorities are not going to tax the same income again.

As opposed to the US.
Not only does Emacs have those features. Magit is far and away the best git interface available.
Probably, but give the company either option. They might be bought by someone bigger who would rather refund the cash.
Virusses mutate all the time. What if a normal flu virus mutates and kills us all? There is no reason to believe that covid is more likely to become more lethal compared to any other type of virus.
> How do people share the work and the fruits of the labour?

Atheist now, but formerly not. This story isn't about that. See my other comment for the broader context it is contained in.
> I don’t believe I’ve ever heard those first three used as a colour.

That's a bit unusual - plum and peach in particular are so common in use as colours that they're part of the HTML colour names (as `peachpuff` and `plum`). Even if you haven't, surely you've heard of lime, olive, tomato, etc being used as colours?
It treats HTML as a dynamic thing to be filled in by executing some third party code. As opposed to being text in a document. There's no text to fall back to. Just blank stretches. This is treating the web like an application instead of a document.
VSCode Remote is a nice solution to this problem.
If you could change Javascript, you would stop using Javascript.

Typescript is, at last, a pretty good language. Not a great one, but a pretty good one. You wouldn't really look twice at it, except that it's easily able to run on web browsers, the critical niche for Javascript. And it's easily compatible with the vast numbers of existing Javascript libraries, which have become indispensible for making web apps practical.

Javascript has a lock on that domain. You can't really program web apps without Javascript. Even if you compile to Javascript, you can't make that process completely opaque. You will have to deal with libraries and debugging tools built around Javascript.

A superhuman effort has made it possible to slowly upgrade Javascript, so long as it's all very backwards compatible. Even Typescript has vast numbers of Javascript warts in it which nobody would consider good langauge design. They exist because it's all just a thin gloss on Javascript.

If you could break that notion of backwards compatibility, you wouldn't pick Typescript. Anybody with the power to force Typescript would force something different instead. Indeed, Microsoft is doing that, by nudging forward with WebAssembly, which may ultimately supplant JavaScript as the target language, allowing much better languages to jockey for dominance.

Meantime, many teams will be wise to pick TS as the least-worst language for web apps, and maybe even dejectedly pick Node for the server side and Electron/ReactNative for your mobile apps so that the can all share code. As bad as JS is, that browser lock is a commanding height. TS makes that fact less grim, but it relies on JS's death grip on the browser. There's no way for JS to take that over without displacing so much existing code that you might as well target Haskell.
I know I for one will be going back to the office as soon as possible. However, that's more due to the fact that working from home does not fit with the way I want to live, rather than any actual logistical hurdle.

At the same time though, I highly doubt many companies in the future will go 100% WFH, so all these discussions seem rather academic to me. I feel like the people that want to work from home will get more opportunity to do so, and the people that don't, won't have to. Easy.
Here:

> The problem with this is that Redis isn't used because it is particularly good. It's used because everyone else uses it.
Isn’t the US government not allowed to own any IP? I’m pretty sure the Constitution says so. That’s why JPL is a thing; so NASA can pay JPL to do research (giving JPL, a company, the IP).
It got a hardy chuckle out of me, so, mission accomplished I suppose.
Internet-in-the-70s was incredibly, astoundingly useful, and people weren't in it for the potential, but because it was offering them something, _today_.

I'm not seeing a single BTC enthusiast who's out for the utility of it. They are, quite literally, all of them into it for the speculatory potential.
Yeah, hopefully thats where new engineers hoping to cut their teeth on FOSS contributions would step in and say "I want to contribute too!"

It doesnt have to be a full binary, can be a spectrum of outcomes where some people get paid for full time work, some take "experience"/"portfolio" payment and others are happy to just code ...
This is not a tax dodge. There is no way to dodge taxes as a US citizen by moving abroad, the US is the only country in the world with a real global taxation system.

EDIT
further information I posted below:

The US has the unique position of being able to actually enforce this due to the fact the USD is the reserve currency of the world and every country needs to stay on the good side of the US Treasury to transact in the global economy. FATCA requires all foreign financial institutions to report on any US citizen assets.

In fact, the laws are so strict, they make living abroad as an honest middle-class expat a total nightmare. I have friends who cannot find a single bank in their country that will work with them because of the reporting requirements of working with US citizens. They cannot save in foreign banks and they cannot invest either due to the US penalizing foreign Mutual fund/ETF purchases by private citizens.
I have no conclusive evidence of course, just positing a hypothesis.

re: amount you'd have to consume, "entire families would find themselves afflicted with either symptoms of burning and eventual gangrene in the hands and feet or with epileptic-like convulsions, headaches and hallucinations." [1]

re: timing, ergot tends to thrive in summer after cold winters followed by damp springs. March is a bit early, but not out of the question.

re: wide-spread, ergot outbreaks affected huge populations all at once. [2]

For what it's worth there's a decent chance that ergot poisoning may be responsible for the Salem Witch Trials. [1]

The best argument I could find against my case is that it was rare in the UK as the climate is less favorable to rye [2].

> ...let alone share such an experience with others in such vivid recalled detail.

It's an acid trip. Ask someone whose done acid. They'll tell you exactly what they experienced.

[1] https://asm.org/Articles/2018/November/From-Poisoning-to-Pha...

[2] https://cropwatch.unl.edu/2017/has-ergot-altered-events-worl...
> Americans are currently blocked from travel to many countries, European included, due to the bungling of their Covid 19 response

These rules are littered with loopholes. If you work media, you (and your staff and family and apparently girlfriend) get a free pass in Portugal and Italy.

I just got back from a wedding in Germany—just had to quarantine in London for two weeks first.
I would say one of the best ways to understand a domain is to rapidly prototype and test in it. One month to me would be the absolute longest.

I don't see MVP as necessarily what you launch with, but what you need to test with to prove market viability and reduce risk when spending more money/time.
> Let me tell you that the future of game development ...

> Does anyone care what language were any particular games that keep being replayed

That seems to be a non-sequitur to me.

What does what people play have to do with what developers are using to create? That's like asking if users care what language serves the web pages at Facebook. The users don't care, but people that make web sites/applications (the developers) might.

Do you know what brand of guitar/piano/keyboard etc your favorite musicians use? I bet other musicians care about that.
I'll happily wager the UK and US will over-order and then tacitly use the argument you have made to say that African countries are wasteful and don't deserve their supply.
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In the case of the lawn mowing company, you don't have employees showing up at customer houses drunk. You don't have to deal with your employees running into houses and cars with their trailers, trucks etc.

Lots more head aches with in person businesses than SaaS. I have a neighbour who switched from lawn care to SaaS (selling other peoples tools), says it doesn't matter how much you pay him, he wouldn't go back.
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To be fair, emacs and vim suffer from other equally baffling problems for newbies. Otherwise this wouldn't be such an upvoted question on SO:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11828270/how-do-i-exit-t...
In exchange for these subsidies, farms have lots of regulation and little control over prices. I wouldn't consider that to be a benefit. The main downside is that it keeps around the bad farmers and makes it harder for the good ones.
> I don't know what it is... mass production?

It is the structural incentives of the modern food retailing industry [1]. Buyers (in aggregate, both corporate and end-buyers) do not care about taste as a primary purchasing decision point. It comes in around 4-6th in importance. Your and my preferences are seen as a rounding error of the market segments. Be really, really wealthy enough to source from your own farms and ranches next to where you live, or have lots of disposable time to raise your own food, or (like many here I suspect) pick your battles and cobble together a solution between a little raise your own, a little CSA, a little pick your own, a little farmer's markets, a little from co-ops, etc., which again, exacts a price of your disposable time, a luxury working poor do not possess.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/11/07/9313480...
I thought I read, not too long ago, that he was kind of hell-bent on getting either the military or US govt. or NY state or some such, to be guided by him on adopting high tech for "their" benefit? Was I right, and if so, what happened about that? Fizzled out? Almost sure I read something to that effect, either in a TechCrunch kind of site or some online newspaper like NY Times. Likely not more than some months ago. Then why the sudden Cyprus thing?

Edit: Did the obvious, googled - for "eric schmidt advise us military on tech".
First 3 hits indicate I was right. Hit 1:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/02/technology/eric-schmidt-p...

Other 2 hits are Business Insider and The Verge.
The Fourteenth Amendment:

"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States..."

It's hard for federal law to get around that. I guess common law would allow someone to opt out...
This is McDonald's we're talking about. They are very much more concerned with mad science than taste. They're concerned with keeping costs low and their food easy to transport, store and cook (or reheat).
There aren't. There just aren't, and I am constantly amazed at how crypto enthusiasts have this level of cognitive dissonance.
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> Good: ~90% of individuals achieve immunity.

As far as I recall, the high R0 of COVID-19 meant that >90% was needed for herd immunity. You then also have to factor anti-vaxxers into the equation.

It's a good stop-gap for the 90% who develop immunity, but we need a better vaccine even in developed countries.
Covid would be over if everybody used a properly fitted respirator.

I stayed at home even before symptoms, I infected 3 adults and my daughter in my house.

It was only luck that the adults showed symptoms like myself on day 3 and day 3 was a Sunday and my test results came back that day.

Otherwise, they woul have infected others just like I infected them, before I showed any symptoms.
You're free to renounce the citizenship, it's not a lifetime obligation to pay taxes to the US.
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This is very misleading. US government heavily taxes people and organizations and spends on certain projects. But if people had more resources left to themselves, they could spend some of it on the same projects US gov spends it on.

On top of that, US gov has all kinds of laws and regulations that make it difficult to do certain valuable things. For example, if companies in the same industry come together to do something valuable, they might break antitrust laws.
Government might also make it prohibitively expensive to do something and then they step in to do it themselves - you see it with pharma research.
Would you rather be forced to pay 130 bucks a month and still have to pay up to 800 bucks a year for initial costs of health care? Because that’s what it means. Or you get your own health insurance and have something to choose from
sed, perl? I don't know why you would ever need to load a 10 gig file to memory.
Cyprus is under investigation by the EU, along with Malta for “selling” citizenships.
> When you use Emacs or Vim and live on the command line every project has the same workflow. You don't need to install 10 different IDEs and learn 10 different workflows for 10 different projects.

When I was demonstrating emacs to some co-workers last week, I opened up code in three different languages and pointed out how the comments were all the exact same color. It's little things like that. And having things like hl-todo-next/previous and flycheck-next/previous-error bound to the same keys in multiple programming languages, or binding F4/F5 to compile/recompile, and that works for any command I want to run, then I can parse through error and warning messages with next/previous-error, or cruise through blocks of code with C-M-a/C-M-e. And all of this works in C/C++, Python, Lisp, Perl, etc.
-80C is dry ice (frozen CO2) temperature. So you can carry vaccine vials around in a cooler with a block of dry ice. Pfizer has a dry ice shipping container good for 10 days. FedEx can ship that. Then the vaccine can be stored at refrigerator temperature for maybe 5 days. Dry Ice costs maybe $3/Kg.

The SF bay area has dry ice delivery.[1] Lagos, Nigeria has dry ice delivery.[2] Bismark, North Dakota has a dry ice plant.[3] It's not hard to get.

Coolers for holding items in dry ice are about $100 on Alibaba.[4]

This doesn't look like a big problem.

[1] https://bensdryice.com/

[2] https://www.businesslist.com.ng/company/256889/greatsmith-re...

[3] http://www.dryiceweb.com/Praxair/Bismarck_ND.htm

[4] https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Vaccine-Carrier-Biome...
Sadly I think the radicalisation started when the censorship did. I honestly believe they're making things worse by clamping down on misinformation. Streisand effect is real.
I was recently given some money and splashed out £150 on an i5-6th gen desktop which lives in my roofspace. The i5 replaced my trusty dual-core.

A long time ago I centralised my projects to the headless roofspace box and now run up Sublime remotely for each project (using lxc). It works great and I can code from any computer on my network.

This seems easier to me than running vim and spending a month getting on top of my vimrc.
Seems like straight up theft to me. Why is that not owned by the public?
Can we decouple the idea of "healthy" from calories? Calorie density doesn't make a meal unhealthy.
My work experience is mostly python, so I hear "build a Django app"[1].

However Python and Ruby will hit scaling issues due to their performance limitations. I hear a lot of positivity on HN about what a single instance of C# monolith can handle, but I'm not familiar with the ecosystem.

[1] But don't use common Django patterns because they suck. Use it because of the completeness of the tooling and libraries.
I think it's more likely than not, yes.

Jonathan Blow has a reputation for taking a rather long time to release something eagerly awaited, and the result being impressive and critically acclaimed.

I hope Jai will be the same way. We'll see what happens.
Unfortunately, Rust has limitation on what it can prove to be safe using the ownership and lifetimes approach. One of the simplest things which can't safely be done in Rust is a doubly-linked list.

I'm certain that Rust will help some parts of game development a lot, but I'm also certain that game developers sometimes use tricks safety of which cannot be proven by Rust's type system.
Because the investment was well worth it for the federal government.

How much tax revenue has Google created? How many intelligent people have immigrated to the US because of google?
Elsewhere you've asked people to prove that Trump made the statement, which people did. Please now prove that this was "obvious political riffing," whatever that means.
The plant based hula burger didn't do so well in the US. Times are different now though...

Although, I do also wonder if a plant is the same thing colloquially as a "plant based alternative".
I live in Washington state. There is someone registered to vote on my street who has voted, consistently, since 2012 - The year the resident by that name moved out. We have raised the issue to the Secretary of State’s office, and they have sent out a mailer for the resident to confirm their address.
Termination is relevant if you never run the program, because the point is to prove that something exists by writing the program. In languages like Agda or Idris, you can prove things exist by compiling the program, not running it. It doesn't matter if it takes a million years to run, so long as you have a guarantee it won't loop forever.

For ordinary programs that we run because we want the result, if you want a guarantee that it will finish then you need something like real-time programming, because it's not enough to know that it terminates. You want to know that it will meet a deadline.
Link is working as intended. Maybe your browser is broken.
This is a good example of gish gallop: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop
Honestly emacs and vim haven't been at war for ages. We joined in an unofficial peace treaty when the common enemy of graphical IDEs appeared.
You can also mine out some awful stuff by plucking certain passages without the right context, and we have certainly seen hatred and violence justified that way through history.

This story is also missing the larger context that explains what it's really about -- and the answer isn't labor and wages.
Uhm acquiring another citizenship to give up American can totally be a tax dodge. The key is giving up the American one.