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> I am not suggesting everyone need learn quantum mechanics, but a basic, qualitative understanding of "science" (uncertainty, experimentation, theory) would help understanding and decision making.

I think that the main problem of the modern education systems is not that people don't learn some basic things, but that they forget that knowledge very fast as they don't use it after they finish their education, and education itself. So everything abstract and not obviously useful for life or job is under constant threat of removal from the programs by the pressure from adults complaining that kids these days learn too much unnecessary things as these adults forgot what these things were for.

As an alternative I imagine a system where education never stops, so for example instead of a person abruptly leaving an education institution and starting a job we would have a gradual change in the number of days in the week dedicated to the education and to the work, with at least one day (I propose Wednesday as a middle of the work week) staying dedicated to the education for the rest of the live.

I understand that it all sounds very idealistic and hackernewsish because for the most people the school is a kind of jail that they want to leave as soon as possible, but seems like Scandinavian model sort of solved that. And of course all education must be public and free.
Is there a reason to use 63 KiB (64512 bytes) instead of 64 KiB?
Code quality is a result of many factors, but the single biggest factor is whether Management treats developers as a profit centre or as a cost centre. That makes the difference in:

- Developer compensation

- Training and career development

- Staffing properly i.e. not under-staffing

- Giving devs proper slack time between tasks and not over-burdening them with projects

- Letting developers own the stack not just in name only but truly own the technical decisions made in the stack without micro-management, including choice of language, platform, etc.

Without all those factors, it's a red herring to point to the code quality. The code quality is just the final output of all of the above decisions.
Try out https://saidit.net

It uses the old reddit open source code, and the administration is even based around the pyramid of debate, similar to hackernews.
> (To the best of my knowledge, there is as of 2020 no purely pythonic way to write one-lined try-blocks.)

You can do this using contexlib. For example the following in pwk:

try: { print(os.listdir("/"+s.strip())) } except: pass

Can be written in pure Python as:

with contextlib.suppress(Exception): print(os.listdir("/"+s.strip()))

(Assuming contextlib is imported, and you're okay with letting things which don't extend Exception slip through.)

You could probably also make a context manager which takes a function/lambda to define how to handle exceptions etc.
Yes, it is harder for consumers to boycott non-consumer companies.
If you deny them, you also did (morally correct) politics

It's morally correct in your opinion.

This is the crux of the problem - corporate bodies taking a single stance while being comprised of multiple individuals with differing takes on the (often complicated) issues at hand.
That's not how it works. Debian maintainers maintains packages from the very beginning of the process. They won't just wait until a package has entered stable.

Moreover, when comparing different distributions, it would make more sense to have a closer look at the release process rather than compare how they label their packages. Since Debian tests its packages for a longer period of time than Arch, Debian testing should be just as stable as Arch stable.
Supposedly microfiber cloths are awful for the environment as they leach microplastics if you ever wash them.

https://www.wired.com/story/microfibers-are-the-new-microbea...
Hey! Thanks for asking. On mobile right now so this isn't comprehensive but a few advantages jump to mind.

1. Compression/deduplication. Your data will (generally speaking) take up about half the space it did before even including the multiple file versions.

2. Automation. You won't have to manually do anything after you configure a schedule once.

3. Management of multiple backups.

4. A really nice native GUI

5. All the advantages that backup with file versioning has over sync (which is what it looks like you have). Safe from ransomware (you'll have an older version always even if your infected ones get synced accidentally), projection from human error by being able to revert to older versions, etc
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I'd be more curious what the advantages are compared to Arq.
I thought a bit about this, y'all might find this interesting: https://twitter.com/schimmy_changa/status/131500175166618828...

Basically, companies have an obligation to 'do the right thing' when it comes to universal human rights, but not beyond. The only exception is when it comes to their own industry where the companies have an obligation to share knowledge with the public / regulators.

I'd like to note that, if companies don't want politics, then maybe they should have less power in our system...! Activists only care because companies have a HUGE impact on government policy compared to normal citizens.
A gshock would very likely last 30 years in pretty much any usage situation.
Thats a terrific story! Another interesting thing is that they were often working on very practical problems, grounded to the real world. The second unix system, the PDP 11 machine was being used for patent applications, so they had to build text processing tools and also be very careful not to break anything that the patent clerks needed. I think this combination was the key, smart people and practical problems.
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The point it it's not supposed to be. You know, because people wanted to opt out of that sort of system, where governments can manipulate money supply, into a peer-to-peer system that was free of manipulation and that sort of money printing?

Instead they've opted into a system where a small group operate the printer for their own ends, with no oversight.
Probably the largest incident in memory is when someone tried to use the customer-only restroom at Starbucks without making a purchase, refused to leave, and then was arrested. This was a national scandal that resulted in Starbucks closing its 8,000 stores for racial bias training.

Do you remember when Chic-Fil-A was getting boycotted and harassed for the owner's donations to evil homophobic charities? Those charities were The Salvation Army and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Seriously, that's who it was. The Salvation Army and youth sports. Not exactly top of anyone sane's list of "problematic" charities. Chic-Fil-A caved.

Every few weeks I see blue check Twitter going after some nobody to get them banned, but I don't keep track of those things.
Thanks for the recommendation - will definitely check it out.
What, no? Tether is used as collateral for crypto futures positions. No day trader is buying spot, they are buying swaps (perp futures) or regular futures. And it's better to hold the collateral in tether or some other stable coin than in btc so you don't have to hedge as much exposure by writing futures.
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Where do you draw the line on what participating in politics means exactly? Is wearing a mask during a pandemic politics? Is calling someone by their preferred pronoun, or recognizing same sex marriage politics?

In practice having "no stance" means supporting the status quo
Tether Limited has never substantiated their claim of full-backing through a promised audit of their currency reserves.

"Trust me I'm fully backed, give me your money for tether" reeks powerfully of a scam to me.

I think the criticisms towards tether are fully substantiated given their lack of transparency.
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But the decision to operate the service or infrastructure 24/7 was a business decision, it wasn't my decision. Why should I be on the hook for a decision I didn't make? And if the business really, really wants 24/7 availability, why should that cut into my personal time outside of work? Why shouldn't the business set up teams in multiple timezones for a follow-the-sun model?

At the end of the day all this 'you need to be on call for your code' is purely a business money-saving ploy. We are an industry full of suckers, I guess, because we fell for the 'plausible-sounding' explanation hook, line, and sinker.
Yes, there are easier and harder ways to deal with api migrations. But even in Haskell, isn't "Cabal hell" a thing? And the type of the standard prelude's head function is wrong but it can never be changed.

Dependency migration is the sort of thing that's easy enough in small examples and gets harder as you scale up.
I watched Devs a few weeks ago and noticed the CEO of the zillion dollar quantum computer company was wearing a F-91W. Nice touch.
Ooh, ok, thanks. Since the numbers in that column were preceded by the "$" sign I thought they were in dollars and referred to something else. Speaking of that something else - the numbers you had in Column I are strikingly close to the officially projected amounts of what a "wealthy" person in each one of those cities would be (in dollars). I mean the US cities only. For example, for the Bay Area that number is in the $4m-$5m range, for DC it is in the $2m-$3m range, etc. I am guessing it is just a coincidence but it drew my attention and since I did not know what the column stood for I asked. It turns out it was not what I thought :-)
So what's a reasonable on-call schedule for developers?
More likely (most definitely), they are using tether as collateral for their futures positions. It's not capital efficient to trade spot in most cases.
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It is also easier for the manufacturer to check. it isn't unheard of for someone to walk into a store, get a discount, and then leave. If you next day the manufacturer says they caught you and so you get no more product.
Why the downvotes? The point is legitimate. Not everyone would be able to afford to pay for something like this.
Yeah.. It happened to be a qcow2 image for a virtual machine. I meant to put it on another disk but accidentally forgot to set the right path.
The US has plenty of other intelligence agencies.
Okay tell me what it was about.
> SaaS company is breaking no American laws and ICE isn't either

That doesn't make it apolitical. Politics is more than just what's legal and what's not. ICE is a political organization, and there are different political stances that support it or don't. A company doing business with ICE supports it in some way, and is therefore political.

> The fact you even think its morally correct to deny them service screams how ideologically possessed you are. Here's a hot fuckin' take for you... don't illegally come to America.

Sounds like you have your own political stance on ICE and the work they do, and whether it's okay for a company to provide services to them. This only proves the parent's point.

> Maybe you're not doing politics, maybe you're just not a shitbag.

These are not mutually exclusive, in fact they are often closely related. The example the parent gave about worker pay, unionization, etc, are political issues - they are associated with political stances, and have been since the beginning.
The alternative is that they dont have access to these services.
> It's not about your feelings. If you facilitate their efforts, no matter how much you wish to disclaim responsibility, you have still facilitated their efforts.

Obeying the law is like that.
Indeed, my grandfather (German) spent the better part of the war in an American POW camp in Kentucky after being captured in North Africa. He learned English there, got along with his guards, and didn't hate the Americans.

Coming home to Mainz and seeing what the French and British had done to his ancestral home and the civilians who lived there, he had other things to say about them. After escaping from a French POW camp (they were still being held despite the war being over and there were reprisal killings, etc.) he made his way back to Mainz (French occupation) but fled across the river in the dead of night to Wiesbaden, which was under American occupation and thus considered safer. A similar story for my Oma.

He was actually my father's adopted father. My dad's biological father I don't know much about, but he served on the eastern front and came home a broken man with a missing leg.
They just listed off a standard set of "europe good, USA bad" talking points. The "everything is political" argument lets you tie any political issue you want to any company you want, so that you can pressure them into being more political about the issues you care about.
If you've found an OLED screen that doesn't reflect ambient light I'd recommend trying to sell that to phone companies.
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>it is mainly in North America that waiters continually circle about back to the table uninvited, asking “Are you doing OK?” or “Can I get you anything else?” when you are just trying to have a private and leisurely conversation with your dinner companions.

It's probably cultural, but Americans generally like that (unless its overboard). I prefer saying "no thanks" to the alternative I tend to face in europe--where the waiter only comes to take the order, drop off food, and take the bill.

Trying get a second bottle of wine or address a problem with one's food is hard in Europe b/c of that.

I wonder if it America's rule that its rude to snap or point to grab the waiters attention.
They make all sorts of good advancements; But its also becoming harder and harder to make a good browser out of Firefox.

I've been using FF since Netscape, and it used to be a few settings and we're off. Now, you have to edit policies.json to get updates stopped, autoconfig.js and firefox.cfg to disable telemetry, legacyUserProfileCustomizations to use userChrome.css to get anything like a proper menu system.

'Lockwise' has dumbed down the login system so much you can't even change field names, making many sites incompatible. Nor can you import logins from file or even point to installations to import. The add-ons system is like traveling back in time ten years, bugs in everything, and fewer alternatives than ever, still can't figure out how to stop Tree Style Tabs from stealing mouse focus onmouseover like a widget.

For the first time in 16 years I'm seriously trying alternatives.
Not just a human, one with musical experience. They can talk about something from experience. You might talk to a guitar player about a keyboard, but at least they know music.
Not everyone can afford a BMW. Is that fair?
Again, "stated objective" isn't the original objective but the approximation we've had to use instead.

You say that it gets a "better" solution, so the against some indescribable original objective there's a difference.
These are the enemies of right-to-repair and the third-party aftermarket.
Brits to be given special ‘freedom passes’ to live a normal life
As someone who was in the chosen set, what exactly do you recommend people that weren't as lucky do? Because it seems really hopeless right now!
Maybe it was ObjectStore (read about it on Wikipedia). Pretty clever, I thought.
Sun Tzu said something to this effect. Always allow your enemies to at least believe they can escape.
> I'm thankful for that on-going work.

Thank you!
It might be worth reading Susan Fowler's rather notable reflection on her time at Uber if you think discrimination is only subtle or at the edges
If you want to give me USD in exchange for a currency I can print I'll gladly take that deal. I can stick your USD in a savings account and get interest for free.

Not sure what the advantage is to you though.
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Two 5 seconds ads on youtube feel worse than 30 seconds commercial on tv for a reason. The paradox of having 'free' on demande video you cannot actually watch on demand.. until the ads are over.
None of those tweets are evidence.
Here's a study that performs analysis showing that tether prints the coins and someone at bitfinex uses them to buy BTC at optimal points to support it's price.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jofi.12903
in your example "Is wearing a mask during a pandemic politics?" -- What is the status quo?

same with the other two?
He's nowadays riding the Covid wave:

https://www.sage-health.org/

https://www.sage-health.org/about-us/
i mean we literally just saw this how covid overwhelmed our just in time supply chains
You're incorrect on all three counts.

I never claimed he copied code line by line, and that issue was never litigated. I never even sued Mark. So I definitely didn't "los[e] that one in court."

Anti-trust scholars and Congress agree that Facebook has a monopoly and has engaged in monopolistic behavior. See https://judiciary.house.gov/online-platforms-and-market-powe.... It's an open question as to whether the FTC will sue on these grounds.

You don't provide any justification at all for your assertion regarding a lack of Ponzi-type behavior, so I'll just note that I disagree.
My theory is that culturally enforced typing is self perpetuating due to a collective action problem. I would absolutely stop tipping, but all I'd be doing is screwing a waiter out of their pay.

The only way to end it, is if we all collectively decided to stop the practice so that waiters could negotiate a real wage.
Much of what has enabled modern computers and telecommunications has come from war (WWII and the Cold War), so that’s not true at all.
That would objectively be an improvement, absolutely
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My sister enjoys this about working at home depot. That and meeting the dogs, if the dogs could tell her about the owners project it would be perfect.

Local hardware stores are actually doing well. They are a little more expensive, but have made up for it by having someone who knows where to find what you need quickly.
It's generally faster to backup [1], way faster to restore [1], backups use less space [1], has a native app for each OS and usability (subjective I know but give the two a shot yourself) is better imo.

[1] Benchmark on open data set. https://blobbackup.com/10_gb_benchmark.php
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Ruqqus[0]. Its Reddit with a focus on anti-censorship. It was launched in 2019, so the community is not quite mature yet.

As you can probably guess, it is a truly hateful place.

Practically speaking it is essentially (from my observation) a safe space for racism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, covid denial, dangerous conspiracy theories, misinformation, etc.

I hesitate to bring attention to the site at all because I don’t want the hate to proliferate, but I suppose it is better to know this exists rather than letting it incubate hate under the radar.

Edit: I also want to say I think anti-censorship is noble and Ruqqus, as a technology, is pretty well done. I think building a non-hateful community on Ruqqus would elevate it to be better than Reddit.

[0]: https://github.com/ruqqus/ruqqus
Just like underwear and pants, why would you ever need more than one jacket?
I was told that alternating cold and hot showers - a few cycles - help reset the nervous system. I tried it a few times and seems to be working, makes me feel relaxed and tired in a pleasant way. Simply taking cold showers before going to bed will make you feel invigorated, not very conducive to sleep.
They're not deceived, it just looks like a display error. If you open up an individual item, many have an "Open Image" button next to them that show the full filing document.

Here's a random example: https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?201811269133824807

Includes the individual's name & his employer, which isn't listed as Coinbase.
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> choosing to more or less blacklist themselves

You know, you're not allowed to say that in a lot of American offices now. Even in a technical context where it has an established meaning and multiple alternatives are now jockeying for mainstream. It's "exclusionary", which is a new HR code word for "politically incorrect". The battle is over and lost. Everything is politicized now, and all anyone who doesn't like it can do is fall on their sword. Alone.
> Is wearing a mask during a pandemic politics? Is calling someone by their preferred pronoun, or recognizing same sex marriage politics?

IMO, no, no and no.

Where it becomes politics is when you start trying to force others to follow your preferred behaviours in those areas, over and above what the law requires. If you want to do that then you should vote and/or campaign to get the law changed, via the usual routes, and normally outside the workplace (unless directly related).
Never short crypto it's a rigged casino, first of all. Second, the fact tether is trusted and used by exchanges is more out of necessity than desire. They would die if they had to ask their so called customers to verify their identities and so both sides look the other way and pretend in a classic emperor has no clothes situation. I'm sure the tether based exchanges are squirming in their pants as tether prints another 2 billion fun bucks per month.

Unless of course you have a theory about where an institution without a banking relationship, let alone an American banking relationship is storing just shy of twenty billion dollars US? And why legitimate investors are plowing two billion dollars per month into this scheme instead of putting it somewhere with audits and regulation like gemini or coinbase.
IBM recently apologized to one of its former computer scientists Lynn Conway whom it fired 50 years ago for being trans. When she was fired, she was a nobody and IBM felt that her transition would attract scandalous publicity. Now she's an accomplished award-winning professor. Is IBM playing politics? Was Conway playing politics when she decided to transition?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/21/business/lynn-conway-ibm-...
I use the RMT (Remote Control) devices of the ESP32 from FreeRTOS for this. They were intended for generating on-off-keying of carrier modulated wave forms to blink an IR LED for a remote control.

If you leave off the carrier modulation you end up just specifying a list of on and off times and get absolutely rock solid waveforms in hardware.

There's a bunch of them, I forget, maybe 8? So you can drive a bunch of chains at once.

You can also use these for rock solid reading of input signals too. Say you have a weather station that sends some god awful protocol up a wire at you… you just collect a list of the high and low times and get notified when it stops wiggling the signal. Then you sort out the data from the transmission. The timing might be way off because it's cold and the sender's electronics are really cheap, but you can analyze the signal and see what they meant.
I think they do it kind of on purpose. Sometimes I'll put videos on in the background while I cook, do the dishes, or brush my teeth. Then an ad starts, but my hands are dirty and I can't touch my phone for a few minutes. Has me wondering if they pick the moment for the ad knowing that I haven't touched the phone for a few minutes.
As alluded to elsewhere, Google doesn’t care about Android being profitable. They only care that it is widely used so they can continue to deliver ads and harvest data.
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