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> consistency is good in and of itself

It can't be, because consistency is only a concept with no intrinsic value. The value is based on the relationship between the concept and the application.

You can say "consistency in code is good" or "consistency in code is bad", but then you've made an argument and you need back that up with reason.

> id prefer someone/something that is consistently wrong to someone/something that is more often right, but randomly wrong.

Just to be clear, we're not talking about bugs here, we're talking about style where there's, sometimes subjectively, "better" or "worse" more often than "right" or "wrong".

> consistency implies methodology that can be changed and adapted, as opposes to simple mistakes that have to be assiduously monitored for.

Consistency doesn't imply anything of the sort, but if you want to apply consistency to a problem with the goal of being able to change every instance of something you're not really solving a problem, unless your actual goal is consistency, which I argue isn't actually a goal at all.
I got one better, add an extra "Apple Tax" to the apps on the app store.
I don’t get the impression that the proposed church is connected in any way to the meteor or himself as a personality, but since you raise the point:

Some time around 54 AD, silversmiths started a riot in Ephesus because their trade in idols was being threatened by people listening to Paul’s teachings of Jesus as Christ; then Acts 19:35 says:

> And when the town clerk had quieted the crowd, he said, “Men of Ephesus, who is there who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is temple keeper of the great Artemis, and of the sacred stone that fell from the sky?

(The town clerk’s speech was largely, “c’mon, guys, you know better than to throw a tantrum/riot over this—use the legal system if you’ve got a complaint”.)

There’s some uncertainty as to exactly what that meant and referred to, but it would seem to suggest that a meteorite had come to be an important part of their worship.
Because we're not talking about human beings. We're talking about huge, huge collectives of humans that are impossible to trust or predict. Think of states like you do of corproations: You wouldn't trust a corporation to do "the right thing" or "act nice", wouldn't you? Now image the corporation has nukes and tanks and lives next to your back door. We have a saying: "Trust is nice, surveillance is better" (which is used in different context but applies very nicely for this situation).
To be honest most of your questions' answers are on the page. Let me answer on them, if you don't bother reading the page :)

1. It is written on the given website: Centos 8.2 and Ubuntu 20.04

2. As many as 5U server can fit. Each drive is 8TB in passthru mode to your VM.

3. I think they are willing to work with users who know what is ZFS. At least for now.

4. Because it's your box. Do whatever you want.

5. Agree with you on that.
Worth nothing that this 'small amount' is 50,000 euro. Which is almost double the total income of the median fine artist or writer.

Sources:

Exemption - https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/money_and_tax/tax/inco...

Writers salary - https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/the-500-a-year-care...

Artist salary - https://www.glassdoor.ie/Salaries/artist-salary-SRCH_KO0,6.h...
Two stories I found, that both provide insight

https://cleantechnica.com/2020/06/10/usas-battery500-initiat...

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/650_whk...
I don't think this is right. Treasure trove covers finding money on your property. Refined precious metals (gold and silver particularly) are historically and legally treated as money for many purposes. But a gold mine isn't.

This seems to me more like discovering a gold mine. You can't buy things with your meteorite, or divide it indefinitely into smaller pieces that keep their value pro rata. Even if it was filled with platinum ore, you'd need to smelt and refine it.

The tax treatment of treasure trove in the US is different from the treatment of discovering gold or oil: in brief, you owe taxes when you find it, instead of when you sell it or its products.

Edit: another legal question, what if you don't own the mineral rights under your own home?
the money has to come from somewhere... either the money was in the company, in which case it was drastically undervalued, or it comes from creditors, in which case if they want to lose their money it's their problem
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Why not? A card having or lacking a chip is orthogonal to transactions being processed as debit or credit.
It happened because Ford T cost 4x cheaper per mile than a horse-drawn carriage, in a city (less difference in the countryside). It was a no-brainer to switch. When your horse died, it would be stupid to buy another when you had an option to buy a Model T.

Same can't be said about electric cars. So far, it's almost at the contrary.
Can DoH be used to bypass home DNS servers, such as the pihole?
Removing cookies for medium domains solves this.
The best known "in the field" solution is Proof of Work, and the best contender being deployed now is Proof of Stake.
Maybe that's just because I'm too young, but most of my music discovery since I was 16 maybe was done through spotify, so spotify knows pretty much exactly what music I know and what music I don't know.
I found it annoying until I added a git hook and got used to auto correcting. Its low friction for me now, and well worth it imo.

If you run into a very large number of linting errors then you might naturally write code in an unidiomatic style, which unfortunately takes a while to adjust to.
Politely disagree
Great article. Just one small tip: instead of using the BigDecimal("123.45") notation, I much prefer typing 123.45.to_d.

Anywhere you used Floats, you can just replace them with BigDecimals. They work just the same. Some people get scared by them because they are always printed in scientific notation in the console, but you can just call `.to_s` on them to see them in a regular format:

123.45.to_d
=> 0.12345e3

123.45.to_s
=> "123.45"

So don't get worried about the display. The behave exactly the same as a float, you can sum, multiply, and so on, and then you call .to_s when it's time to display it.

Also any BigDecimal#round will give you an integer (just like .to_i will), but you can also call Bigdecimal#round(2) to round to, for instance, 2 decimal places.

Also, if you are coding anything related to currencies, I strongly suggest you always use integers to store the amounts in cents. And when you need to divide it for calculations, just call `.to_d`, do your math, and then `.round` at the end, so you discard the fractions of cents. It works wonders, and the math will add up just like in Excel :)
Stack Overflow, and the other Stack Exchange sites, could be another example. Content is licensed CC-BY-SA. Publically accessible, free as-in-beer. User moderated. There are some ads however, but quite minor in my opinion.
> Operating systems can and should implement DoH

I see a comment like this basically every time something about DoH comes up.

What I haven't seen: A plan how this should be implemented, a proposal to OS vendors and developers, ideally with patches.

This raises a few questions. How should the OS decide which server to use? It obviously can't be DHCP, because that's not a secure thing to begin with. How does this interact with things like captive portals if you have a disconnect between the DNS functionality and the gui application? Do you have good answers for these?
It’s hard to do that when I’m entirely new. Idk where to start or what raw knowledge I possess that combined with biology would achieve the results I want.

I know the end goal though, I want there to be an option, a fix or a painless way to manage autoimmune diseases, things like hormone and metabolic response imbalances -thyroid, androgen, progesterone, insulin - etc they all share a link to deadly lifelong debilitating diseases That make living hell for so many people and I want to take that away for them or at least generations down the line.

I know I’m a rambling scattered mess right now I thank you for being patient
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CrossOver does, it's paid software however.
This is the direction most of America is going. A surgeon and his colleagues I used to work with brought up the point how they often had to approach litigation of insurance companies regarding claims to pay for services rendered. I mean, their time is expensive, I get it, but this whole idea of forcing everyone to litigate transactions essentially puts the onus on the one with lower capital resources to pursue legal recourse.

Corporate structures are aware of this and play the statistics as to if they'll pursue the proper action or simply take the infraction to court. This creates a new barrier to entry for people at large wishing to be fairly compensated: resources to litigate.

To me, this shows just how misaligned modern corporate entities interests are with society and it's only going to get worse. These are, IMHO, some of the greatest threats to our society because they are legal, have a long history of legal precedent and are threats that come from within our own society.
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I know it’s not a popular opinion, but I’d like you to at least consider the possibility that spying between both allies increases peace and diplomatic cooperation.

The outcome of spying is that we know what our allies are going to do. If our intelligence verifies something our allies told us already, this process fosters trust and better relations. If our intelligence uncovers lies, we have forewarning and are not caught completely off guard.

I like both outcomes, though I can see how being spied on would feel bad. I suspect governments have come to much the same conclusion, because it seems tolerated that pretty much every embassy on earth is 50% spies. Yes, even european embassies in the US. In fact, opening new embassies in allied countries and increasing the number of staff in them is seen as a mark of friendship.
For a broader context, 16 years earlier something very similar happened in the Netherlands:

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Theo_van_...

“The murderer Mohammed Bouyeri, an Islamic extremist, killed van Gogh. The reason for murdering Gogh was to oppose the controversial film which criticised Islam: “Submission”. Bouyeri shot and stabbed van Gogh, then cut his throat. Finally the killer attached a 5 letter page to van Gogh's chest with a knife.“

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4716909.stm

“Bouyeri had told the court he had acted out of religious conviction. Clutching a copy of the Koran, he said that "the law compels me to chop off the head of anyone who insults Allah and the prophet"”

What was in the letter: it “threatened Somali-born Dutch MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali. She had written the script for Van Gogh's controversial film Submission, which criticised the treatment of women under Islam.”

(Completely unrelated to that event, the killed artist’s great-great uncle was Vincent van Gogh.)
I agree with all of this, and to sibling reply as well.

My point is that these advantages are seldom (if at all) discussed in most online introductions to GA I've read so far, yet to me they're the real selling points of GA.
If you only learn dates, of course it makes no sense. Its like memorizing mathematical formulas. They also make absolutely no sense if you never see why you would use them.
Much less likely. Thousands of people win $1 million or more in lotteries every year. Only a handful have their houses hit by million-dollar meteorites.
The definition of general computing devices i.e. Personal Computer (PC) is correct and applies to smartphones. Making open usability a legal requirement makes sense and is what we need already for a long time. The difference between a cellphone and a smartphone is that the former is an appliance and the later a portable general purpose computer.

@John Luxford. Thanks!
Thanks Google! This is the kind of good impact Google has on the OSS industry
It only pops up sometimes:

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I think Quake's enemy models are clumsily made, except for the Scrag which elevates the whole game. Eventually someone made a whole game with the Scrag aesthetic (Devil Daggers) and it became a huge hit. Wish there was a campaign game like that.
Tyranny of the Majority is somewhat brutal--by definition--to minorities :(. The hope that the majority is actually cool with everything seems flawed to me as the majority seems at least mildly puritan and racist, and so you are going to get a bias--even if only subtle--against non-hetero-cis-white-males :(.
I've never learned them because I've never been shown. I've ended up in column mode accidentally and not figured out why it's useful.

Any tutorials/videos you recommend to juniors?
One thing I've noted is that scary monsters designs don't really have any effect anymore (did they really ever?). If a spoopy monster's head splits in half and two more fleshier ones spawn out with visceral scream... well whatever, I guess it will have a different attack pattern now. What's really scary is enemies you don't understand, with unexpected or undefined behaviors, weird dynamic animations, or norm breaking behaviors that don't feel scripted.

Mr. X of the RE2 remake was very good at this (for the first playthrough at least). The original amnesia monsters were pretty good for a bit too. Both grew kind of tiresome after you were familiar with their mechanics.
In his case, the guard clause is completely appropriate, because "super" is "the rest of the method" the guard clause is protecting. It's not a filter method, it's a selective render method.
Oh, so I wasn't imagining UI stuttering on my iPhone 11 with the new app.

I've never seen that in any other app for that matter... Is Google using Flutter in their other apps as well?
Its more like everyone getting one lottery ticket for free, but with the option of buying more. Anyway I suspect people winning lotteries is more frequent that people having meteorites hit their house.
I am always amazed the kind of dedication people has for niche computer history! kudo to them!
I just want to point out that there is no such thing as genetic engineering. This isn't a nitpick, but an important point that investors and laymen alike can benefit from understanding, particularly in regard to avoid being deceived by exuberant claims of progress by so-called "genetic engineering" startups. The top comment [1] from another HN thread sums it up pretty well. Here's an important excerpt:

...engineering is a tradition built on minimizing variation, while biology is a science founded on understanding a built-in mechanism for generating variation. "Life finds a way"....evolution is always driving against the engineered design

An engineer can design a system that creates 1000 screws with minimal variation. He understands all the effects of the different steel chemical makeups, he understands how to change the pitch and length to his specifications; he understands how to achieve each and every property of that screw, and once created, the screw will not act against its makeup.

A "genetic engineer" is presented with a million million variables. In altering a variable, he may observe some change – maybe some bioluminescence in fungus, some hairlessness in a mouse. But how much also changed that he cannot possibly observe? What other variables were dependent on the altered variable? As it is life, ever in flux, how much more will it change, itself, and its environment?

"Genetic engineering" should rather be called "unprecedented biological experimentation". This is important because "engineering" implies certainty, replicability. Altering some gene isn't engineering. It isn't minimizing variation in a system – it is introducing even more variation into that system. "Genetic engineering" certainly sounds cool and promising. But before you buy into a startup that employs "genetic engineering", don't be so certain; biology is much harder, much more complex, than screws.

[1] Or: Biology is really hard... | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21396311
Doesn't work for me. Firefox Reader Mode just shows the first page. (I have uBlock Origin installed, but I suspect it doesn't matter.) red_admiral's suggestion worked for me though.
Exactly - you don't even need to turn it off globally, just add the magic comment and then an explanation for why you are being explicit about returning nil. ezpz
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this might be a hint: https://governance.funkwhale.audio/d/QyEBOaV6/status-of-our-...
That works, thanks. Pairs well with Firefox's Reader Mode.
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As far as I understand, you can rent multiple 8TB drives
Notepad++ is probably the most frequently useful Windows app I use day to day.

I dont use it as an IDE but literally as a notebook, as well as editing the odd xml / json / sql etc.

Just a fantastic multi-purpose Notepad application.
Hi! We are currently working on a _simple_ account management portal backed by our PostgreSQL instance. This will print out a monthly table with your bandwidth usage/quota and provide a Web Interface + API to purchase more bandwidth, add drives, etc. Our design is API first, with a simple wrapper around the API as our Web UI. They both will be well-documented and functionally the same.

This Hacker News soft launch was mainly to see if we could generate enough users to purchase a second and third server and scale-out. And by the looks of it, we can!

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As for downloading large files directly to the instance, I'm with you 100%. That's exactly one one of the use cases. (I'm looking at you: massive linux ISOs and +30 GB Xilinx toolchains.) Personally, I like to download them first to a remote machine (takes about 5-10 minutes for 30 GB) and slowly rsync them to my local dev machine with `rsync --partial --bwlimit=10M`.

Think of this service as $5/month DigitalOcean VPS, but it happens to have a hefty native storage unit passed through.

You can SSH into it and do whatever you want with it. In fact, you don't even have to run ZFS. You could run any filesystem -- EXT4, XFS, BTRFS, etc. Compute-wise, it's not going to be anything groundbreaking -- just a 16-core Ryzen 3700 with a couple of cores passed through to you. Ryzen CPUs support ECC and are still priced as consumer-CPUs which is fantastic.

The nice thing about KVM is that even if you don't explicity allocate CPU resources, if the guest machine needs to burst compute, it will "Steal time" from the hypervisor as long as there is extra headroom. This isn't the case with RAM. (For RAM, whatever you set, that is the hard maximum limit.)
The first maintainer of GCompris was my boss at some point. I've met few people as competent as he was, and none that were as competent and as kind. Working under him was a joy.
I hear ya!

While i'm more of a linux user - not a mac user - for personal computing, i used to use notepad++ for years and years on windows machines that were issued to me at my day jobs. However, for the last few months i've been using Geany [https://www.geany.org/], based on many positive comments i had read elswhere that it comes closest to notepad++. So, I'm running Geany on my work machine (windows), and any/all of my personal linux machines. While Geany is amazing, it is not as good as notepad++ (in only a few small ways); though it really does comes the closest that i've seen compared to other text editors. Plus, it runs natively across windows, linux, and mac! I have no wish to persuade you to switch if you've already found a notepad++ alternative. But, if it helps you, i've grown to really love geany. And, as much as i still love notepad++, i yanked out notepad++ from my work windows machine and only run geany. I do this because i now have a consistent, unified experience (for my text editor) regardless of the OS, which is important to me. So, again, not trying to persuade, but if you haven't, give Geany a look-see. Good luck!

EDIT: I failed to add that...i've heard folks suggest running some sort of emulation layer or maybe Wine on linux in order to run notepad++...but for me, needing to run some extra layer for a text editor just didn't sit right with me. YMMV
Air is caustic, and depending on the exact type these meteorites can crumble very quickly.
I was curious enough to look it up, apparently it's the fallacy of "I can't properly start until I have <tool X>". In that sense I think it's not at all a problem among professionals, but perhaps an easy stumbling block that discourages a lot of amateurs (the study I heard about was actual trades, where going from amateur to professional is less of a hurdle than among creative pursuits).

I might say, "A journeyman makes his tools do the job, a master invests in his tools".
If Apple wants or cares about the scientific computing community, they can do a great job. If they can achieve this using an ARM SoC that evolved from a mobile platform, they could very well make a beefier version of it dedicated to ML or graphics intensive workloads. They could easily make enterprise versions of these to power Cloud GPUs that'll easily outperform AWS offerings.
When I was in my AP Calc class in high school, the teacher began by explaining what a derivative was. He drew a picture with a curve, drew a line across two points on that curve, and explained that the derivative is the slope of that line as the two points get closer and closer together. We knew how to calculate a slope, so it was easy to build on that knowledge and take it further. It’s been 20 years and I can still do this, after having seen it that one time. I don’t know if this way of teaching derivatives is unique, but it felt like a far cry from memorization, even back then. It was effective because it was visual, because it explained something intuitively, and because it added a small piece of information to an existing foundation of knowledge.

Incidentally, the only things I remember from biology are pictures, or the demonstration that a teacher made when someone “stretched” her “intestines” across the room.
it’s so simple/so very simple/that only a child can do it!

(and remember kids, base 8 is just like base 10, really — if you’re missing two fingers)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIKGV2cTgqA
Well Apple definitely wants to go that way, but it's unclear if users will rebel enough for Apple to give it up.

My guess is that Apple will make it step by step more difficult to install non-store apps so that people get used to it and only then cut it off.
Because DoH is implemented in the browser and bypasses the OS resolver configuration, it will specifically break things like pihole.

The correct solution is a) do this at the OS so users can configure the behaviour, b) add support to pihole or similar for making DoH requests out to somewhere like CloudFlare, c) also add support for receiving DoH requests for those people using a pihole over untrusted networks.
Right, that's exactly the point. There was almost 0 money in the pure sale. All of the money is in high interest loans (via kickback from the financing), waterproofing treatments, "extra" insurance, service plans managed in house. The profit on a car night be negligible, but a cheap car sold with gap insuranxe is likely a days salary!
Also, I can enable IPv6. I think we get a block of /64 of IPv6 for every IPv4 address. Most people are worried about getting their hands on a dedicated IPv4 address (~$1/month @ most co-locations) so that's what I mentioned.
Let's create an excuse to be angry and then another excuse to be angry at people who aren't angry.
"Enormous subjects are best approached in thin, deep slices" - this one clicked for me. I mean why this is not the way the education goes? I think its not optimal strategy just to force people memorize random facts without seeing big picture. Why go suboptimal route?