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I got bullied out of conversation by angry mob (downvoted). But I think, I’ll still provide a clarification. (Fun fact: people in angry mobs are always righteous.)

I was not saying that change is not needed. I am just saying that (total) electricity consumption, say of EU is half of that of US and 1/3 of China. 25% more than India. My electricity consumption is about the same level as of a person in Jamaica or Syria (some years it was less but gone up a bit now). And only 24% percent of my electricity nowadays is fossil (still bad). My newest laptop is from 2015. Many of the people around me are vegetarians or vegans, some people have pretty much given up traveling by plane (* scream emoji *), many use bikes to move around the city.

> Richest. Shmitchest. I happen to think that some of the folks around me are doing pretty good job. Yes, it seems that it may be too late. :( Yes, more needs to be done (likely it will take decades unfortunately)! But “rich” (as you call them) have better opportunities to switch to electric vehicles, adopt energy-saving technologies earlier, and so on.
How come this wasn’t completely over-exposed after so long?
As I stated in my other replies, I'll create another set for mobile flows, as well. Wait for 1 month, I'm sure I'll be ready. Thanks for the comment :)
Some people actively seek drugs out.

Some other people actively seek out suppressed information, even in face of higher barriers. Otherwise, we would still live in an ossified world of aristocracy and Church; the secular and republican ideas were once banned and persecuted by the powers-that-were. But they failed, all over Europe.

You are right that bans increase the friction of the process, but they also act as evolutionary pressure. After some time, the best dissenters will get really good at conveying information against all odds. A good example is Iran, where pretty much everyone can find out what is going on despite all the efforts of the Islamic Republic to crack down on unauthorized news.
Interesting rule!

>>a rectangular silver French old little lovely whittling green knife

I am not a native English speaker but there is a sense of something odd about this description. But (I am always confused about starting with but) I would not think anything is wrong with "a lovely old little green rectangular French silver whittling knife".

I had a team mate who always used passive voice in technical documentation. My manager always used to point it out to him but he was never able to fix it. Once he got mad and said, "Ma'am, I have no idea what you are talking about, this is the only voice I know". On his next Birthday she gifted him a copy of Lynn Truss' Eats Shoots & Leaves. He later said that was the best book gift he ever got.
Agreed then, Redux does give you enough rope to get into trouble, especially when used indiscriminately.
Batteries inside a laptop have no reason to be glued in. Look at the sleek laptops from Dell or Lenovo. Somehow they managed to put an easily replaceable battery into all of them - even tablets - without sacrificing weight or thickness.

Glued-in batteries are not a necessity contrary to what Apple wants you to believe.

Similarly, Samsung somehow managed to make their Galaxy Buds Live (small airpods pro competitor) very user-serviceable with standard replaceable battery without making them much bigger.
How to turn a concise tweet into a 3000-word essay with zero additional substance (and half a thousand tracking cookies).
The metaphor of a hammer has barely changed over time. What you're describing are implementation improvements - not trivial, but you could take a modern hammer back a few centuries and it would still be recognisable as a hammer. Albeit a very unusual one.

UX/UI has the same issues. Everything is a metaphor anyway. You don't get to choose whether your interface is a metaphor, because there is no other option for interfaces. You only get to choose the type of metaphor, and its affordances - from hand-editing binary in a "file" (...which is also a metaphor) to voice recognition.

There are some good points in the article, but they're maybe 10% of the way to a full understanding of this issue. Most of the complaints are about inconsistencies and expert-level operation (written scripting) vs beginner-level operation. But there's also a point about contextual metadata.

Modern operating systems are pretty bad at all of the above, but that's because designing intuitive and powerful interfaces that incorporate expert-level features with some workable built-in intelligence - and preferably some form of composability - is incredibly hard.

It's so hard it's barely been attempted, never mind done successfully. So most operations in userland are explicitly task-oriented. Their settings are customisable, but not the menu of operations on offer.

As a non-expert if you want to rename a folder full of files, you buy a file renamer. You don't try to write a script, because even trivial scripting requires a level of comfort with abstractions that most users simply don't have.

Experts do have that skill level, but they can already use $scripting_lang.

It's possible to imagine an OS that would be more open-ended and wouldn't silo data inside task-oriented applications. But this runs into huge problems with efficient representations and the most appropriate schema for each domain, and just the concept on its own is far outside anything most users would want to deal with.
Indeed, I didn't know that long exposure beer can photography was a thing.
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Thank and yes, a page sucks button is a good idea which we will consider.
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I have a tool that makes parsing that file easier for some query types: https://github.com/sampointer/digaws
Ah, good old Hacker News editing titles.. thanks for that. I will post again another day. This article deserves some more readers. Personally am not a big fan of snaps.
I was a huge Ambrosia fan back in the day, so thank you for stopping by!

One thing I don't understand is why Ambrosia never put their back catalogue on Steam. At least with EV Nova's Windows version, it seems to me that if you stripped out the licencing system and tossed it up on Steam, you could have had a nice income stream from there. I'd have bought it.

Most of the other games you might have been able to package into an emulator, like GOG games running in DOSbox.

But that's my outside perspective, so maybe there were bigger legal or technical hurdles?
Those aren't mutually exclusive. The government can simultaneously regulate specific behaviors of large entities where there is reason for concern while otherwise largely leaving them to do whatever they want.

I don't think GP is necessarily suggesting that Trump will address their objections or that they personally support him. Rather, I read it as suggesting that much of his support may in fact be due to backlash against such cultural trends on the left.
Is being alienated the same as being dead, e.g. a final, irreversible state?

I would say no. There is always a lot of fence sitters. Say "fuck you" to their faces and you lose any chance of winning them back.
Considering solid materials with ultralow friction (e.g. fullerene-like nanostructures) might be worthwhile.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21825776/?dopt=Abstract

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11001049/?dopt=Abstract

https://doi.org/10.1088/0022-3727/39/18/R01

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1366649
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Maybe if you make the pinhole the right size and match the ISO of the paper? I can barely get digital photography exposures right lol.
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If it had only run for one year you’d be able to reconstruct the weather- or at least the cloudy days. 8 years probably mashes the data too much.
Why on earth can CSS load JS. Is this an oversight or does --javascript actually exist for this exact purpose. I cannot find any details on this in any spec or rfc etc.
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This reminds me of Polish dystopian sci-fi, where people spoke a language incomprehensible to automated systems:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koalang
I don't know but from what I recall at the time, it became news after most people were already vaccinated. It was long enough that it was too late to act on it in a real sense.
Sorry, could you clarify what you mean by “distinguish property-as-value and property-as-function“? How does Python distinguish between these two?
That's a big question and the details would require a long answer. A short one is that it's mostly algorithmic aided by human feedback to improve; manual intervention is rare.
UI/UX is not only about what "low code tools" offer. It's also accessibility, internationalization, usability, security...

And low code tools are often not adecquate for integration purposes.
Surveillance is much easier these days with that little computer in our pockets. Doesn't that nearly everyone still publishes their location to services like FB. I predict that the West will move closer to Chinese style surveillance and censorship. Actually, I don't have to predict it. It's already happening little by little.
It looks like `--script` is just an arbitrary string, it is only executed because a real `<script>` tag retrieves the property and evals it through `(new Function())()? https://twitter.com/sansecio/status/1336614850047381506/phot...
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I made some changes to Lynx code to extract relevant information and use it as Web Crawler;
Most of the time, he appears to have also misspelled various things in his many plaintext letters, and generally the same things consistently, shared between encrypted and plaintext writing. They had the opposite effect of hardening the cipher and actually served as perfect "cribs" to aid decryption [1].

There are some occasions where a word is spelled correctly in one place and incorrectly in another, but this isn't necessarily anomalous for people who don't write or read very often or don't have a lot of spelling memorized. In some cases they might even be using some words they've only heard and spoken and never seen before (or only decades prior), and then might see the correct spelling later, or look it up.

There's also the possibility he did it consistently because he wanted to mislead police about his knowledge/education/region. Haven't dug into it or anything, but I could definitely see either one being true (genuine mistake vs. subterfuge).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crib_(cryptanalysis)
There are many people (like me) who argued for exactly that. We should have had general distribution and ramp up of production as soon as the Phase I studies were done. This could have prevented the second wave we are in, and saved hundreds of thousands of lives.
"their advertisers don't want to be affiliated with guns"

Which ones? All of them? Who asked them? What about gun companies, they do not want any ads?
Ouch, okay thanks!
Thank you. This is a good idea and one we need to consider more than we have thus far.
I think Dash has a lot going for it despite not being cross-platform. I switch between nvim, xcode and pycharm throughout the day and like being able to look up a term without internet from any editor with a shortcut.
So where am I wrong? Where is this MD, MPH from Johns Hopkins wrong? https://thedispatch.com/p/fda-career-staff-are-delaying-the

Why is the UK able to approve it over a week ago but the FDA needs longer?
I agree the pricing model could be improved and personally think simplification would be best change.

Imagine you have a single user subscribe who works inside a big company. They implement whatever process they needed and show a colleague who wants to do that too - either run the same process to build a new one. Your goal in this situation is to rapidly expand adoption inside that company and complex licensing will really slow you down. The second they need to place another order to get more access or sign a bigger cheque you will get dragged into sign offs and approvals and procurement and all kinds of wasted time.

"Land and Expand" is the right strategy for this type of solution and you should do everything you can to not slow down adoption. Your current pricing model is definitely limiting this and the initial plan of 350/mo is quite a jump up - that WILL require levels of sign off and approvals and slow you down.

Try this exercise - create personas for users of your service (power user who wants to automate EVERYTHING, administrators who will use it because its their job, end users, managers) and work what is important to them and what variables will increase or decrease the speed and volume of adoption.

I think pricing based on number of users alone would be easier to understand and not restrict growth. If one person gets really into your product and wants to automate 100 processes DO NOT GET IN THEIR WAY! Let that champion sing your praises and tell everyone that will listen how incredible your product is, because in a few months time when they roll those processes out they will come back for more user licenses. And if you select the right features into the higher plans they may well opt for a more expensive plan to meet the needs of security, billing, management, reporting etc
I bet everyone who will get Airpods Max for free is going to say - oh sure, they are worth 550 and are so nice... But it wont be 100% case when person would pay for them.
Wasn’t there a paper that showed it is basically impossible to load a physical coin?
Something along those lines :)
How did you acquire the original 10k addresses and what year was this?
At the risk of Godwinizing the thread, one of the first oppressive operation against Jews in the Reich was a campaign "Kauft nicht bei den Juden" (Do not buy from Jews).

It did not carry weight of the law, you COULD still go to a Jewish shop and buy something, but the message was that the society disapproves, the state disapproves and you are a dirty being for doing so.

The result was severing of an important daily interaction between Jews and non-Jews. Once such casual contacts were severed, it was easier to convince the society that all Jews were evil, without the people having doubts like "but ironmonger Katz is such a nice person!" They did not know ironmonger Katz anymore, only a caricature of his people.
You might underestimate the speed and velocity of advancement in the field. A few years ago creating artificial data or images that are indistinguishable from real data was impossible. Now machines generate information, like entire videos that are real but fake. This can, and has already (look at facebook and fake profiles), led to big problems and in a few years the world will change quite drastically because of further advances and automation. This can go in good and bad directions... I'm just worried that downplaying it will cause pivoting towards undesirable outcomes.
Is no-code displacing much traditional development that libraries did not?
I've not tried Datasette yet, but, with office hours, seems like now is a good time!

Does it make dataset discovery easier as well? I spend a lot of time looking for sources that are close to what I need— perhaps even more than I spend on formatting or displaying. Does datasette (or some other tool) make that easier than Googling around?
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We used to have a bread machine years ago.

The best part was the smell of freshly baked bread.

The part I didn't like was the big hole in the loaf where the bread mixing paddle thing was. Has that been solved?
> ... because he attacks marginalized groups like black runaways rather than white people.

That strongly implies that a white person couldn't be marginalized.
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Ya but that debunking has been debunked

https://thefederalist.com/2020/12/07/no-the-georgia-vote-cou...

Partisan source? Maybe. But unfortunately the fact checkers have lost all credibility over the last few months by debunking things like, in the context of this article, hunter's laptop.
Agreed. "The Pandemrix experience" is fresh enough in people's mind here that it surely will decrease willingness to be vaccinated against Covid. I will not rush to get it, but if for example I could no longer work from home, I would get it then.
It sounds to me that we need to, as a culture, understand the tremendous responsibility and privilege of putting a new human being on this overpopulated world to be a good place into the future, remove this entitlement, and make it the most honourable respectable choice to refrain when you can't make it work.
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I am surprised photographic paper will last that long while being undeveloped.
Lots of controversy over some of the winners. https://potsandpansbyccg.com/2020/12/11/im-still-confused-by...
A good Content-Security-Policy that did not allow unsafe-eval would have worked to protect against this. Puzzling that ecommerce sites have not set up proper CSP on their checkouts.
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> Well, our legal units will move first. They're the heart of our company

And I always thought that the (software) engineers would be the heart of the company. That puts their (allegedly) preferred way of interacting with customers and the rest of the world into perspective
Well, if it the longest exposure ever captured I guess it would also make it the longest exposure ever captured using a beer can.
"Firefox seems to eat all 8GBs or my RAM lately so it's getting more tempting"

How many tabs are you opening? I have right here, right now 20 tabs opened in Firefox and Task Manager says my RAM is at 3.7 GB usage. That includes everything, from OS to other background apps that I'm running.
One leaves control of speech up to the individual speaker while the other leaves it in the hands of an Oligarchy of people who think they are know better than everyone else because they have more money. There's a degree of arrogance behind the thinking, "I'm smart enough to discern fact from fiction but those less intelligent than I must need my help or else they might believe a falsehood"
Thank you for your kind words.

The feedback is appreciated and your example is one for a generic challenge that we are actively working on. I note that your site shows as link #2 so someone looking for your site/brand should see it; but still your point stands.
> <h> for a time was not silent, and many words that start with <h> used to have an /f/.

Probably related, most words with an H in Spanish use an F in Portuguese. Like 'HONGO' - > 'FUNGO'.

In the 17th century there was a concerned effort to make the written language consistent in writing.
Removing spam could be considered a form of censorship. It is removing the speech of others.

Generally anti-spam measures facilitate rather than inhibit freedom of speech. A sufficiently popular internet forum without spam controls would quickly become mostly unusable.

In this case, doesn't censorship enable freedom to speak?
I don’t like the word bothsidesism because it implies that in reality only one side is the bad actor. That is a massive implication considering how casually it’s thrown around. Moreover, it’s used like an accusation. Accusing people of acknowledging that things probably aren’t black and white. Full on groupthink.
Why is “taxing Death” a problem?
Sure it does, using Electron is picking the easy way of coding against Chrome specific APIs, instead of what Web is capable of across all browsers.
I found it to be my USB mouse. I'd already disabled the option to wake the PC in the mouse device, but then found out that you also have to do that with a separate "keyboard" device[1]. But ever since disabling the option on both devices, things have become a lot better.

[1] https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10...
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this is ironic because that's a very stereotypical and lazy take on modern philosophy straight out of a Jordan Peterson book. If we came closer to the truth every time someone on the internet mirepresents modern or postmodern philosophy as "we can't know anything bro" we'd have ascended to some higher plane of existence by now.
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> There are also the situations of highly targeted minorities that would now be unable to protect themselves because you've made anonymity illegal. These people really do need anonymity to protect themselves.

To reiterate, I was specifically talking about circumstances where people broadcast to mass audiences. If people of a certain minority want to congregate together in a private space to discuss things important to them as though they would in their own house, then they should have every right to do so in private.

> And no amount of laws can protect someone from a hate mob attacking them, that doesn't care about the consequences. One of the only ways for many of these people to protect themselves, is to be anonymous.

I don't know what world you live in, but I haven't seen a hate mob running down my street for a while.

> Actually, it is possible with basically no amount of tech savviness. All you have to do is click the create new account button, on twitter, and you have just been given a pretty large amount of anonymity.

> In order to have your twitter account de-anonymized, the government has to take pretty extreme actions, such as court orders

That won't offer you much protection at all from the government. So you seem to have a lot of trust in warrants being issued justly, but also a great fear that the government will turn against you.

It's not that hard to get a court order if the government has probable cause that you've committed a crime. There have been 55,000 warrants for US Facebook accounts since the start of 2020. This is not including national security requests, which Facebook is not legally allowed to disclose.

https://transparency.facebook.com/government-data-requests/c...

> Also, the original point that I was countering was this "pseudo-anonymous political discourse on open mainstream mass-broadcast social media".

> So I am talking about specifically why anonymity, in the form of having the ability to do what people do now, which is create anonymous twitter accounts, and engage in political discourse.

I'm glad we're back on the same page, so would you say that the culture of anonymous political discourse on social media has resulted a constructive political discourse? Is there nothing you'd change about it?
In the 50s Google would have been unionized and firing would have been harder, not easier, than it is today, all else being equal.
Ohhhhhhhh, 'friendly fraud' nearly.
IDK in the US, but in my country rural internet is indeed expensive. Using old telephone poles makes it easier, but you still need network elements, pay people for deployment and it's very low density.

The most expensive part is paying construction workers if you have to bury cable and all the stuff that involves that.
Yeah maybe it was just a really tiny hole!

It’s strange though because you usually need to figure out how long the exposure would be and then use the right size hole / paper. But this sounded like it was accidentally left for all this time.