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Does any online resources exist showing life-time contributions to open-source projects from various organisations?

The reason I'm asking is that I've noticed companies often use their contributions for own marketing. And this is obviously great.

However, how can one validate if a company says "we're contributing $X/month", that it's really contributing and that it's ongoing?
I think because the term "language" is used in both places people carry over preconceptions from one to the other.

Sort of like computer viruses and biological viruses.
Purposefully? That’s a charged accusation, can you substantiate it?
Do you perhaps have recommendations on how to control:

1x central heater with:

.. state: on or off

.. actions on or off

Nx Temperature regulator valves

.. state: current temp, target temp, percentage open

.. actions: set target temp only

What control loop do I use to control the central heater on|off based on the state of the TRVs? To maintain distinct temperatures in different zones’ TRVs
This is a really nice guide and I like the suggestions at the end. One extra suggestion that would at least be great for me with Haskell is specializing the names of the super generic functions. Like there’s no reason to keep the function names “traversable” and “sequenceA” for your specific Traversable. It’s the same as type synonyms being useful because, while it’s the same thing, intent is clearer.

I love the Haskell for its focus on reusable pieces, but I can’t keep up when I have to learn and remember all of those pieces to learn that ‘monoEndoSequentialAlternataverse mEmpty (.)’ is just a getter from your nifty key value store.
I'm in the same boat. I like integrating with graphql endpoints. But for endpoints I make myself for my own frontend, I prefer making exactly what I need. Doing it more general would be a waste of time (YAGNI etc), and since it's often the critical path (not just data fetching) it's nice to have it clearly laid ot what's happening, without having to have knowledge about how the frontend happens to call it.
There are two mistakes in the quoted section:

1. Even under perfect competition, there is still a surplus. But it goes to the consumer. Example: a loaf of bread costs 1$ to produce, is sold for 1$ and delivers 3$ of value (economists call this value “utility”) to the consumer. In that case, the surplus was 2$ and fully went to the consumer.

2. The implied assumption is that perfect competition is “normal”. In reality, perfectly competitive markets are rare and there is a balance between firms constantly trying to find or create new market and competition entering the market. For example, Nike would insist that their sneakers are special and different from all the others. For the consumers that fall for these marketing tactics, Nike has no competition, because it is the only place where you can buy Nike sneakers. Same applies for most other products. It is quite rare to have a situation where two firms offer perfect substitutes. Therefore, perfect competition is not “normal”.
This was definitely one of the most iconic moments in any video game I've played, I don't think anyone who's been through the game will forget that song/mission combo.
This is some great news to hear, we've all been there when medical records have been lost in the paper trail or worse yet, been involved in a data leak.

This is a major leap, well done FLETA.
> China appears to have used mobile phone networks in the Caribbean to surveil US mobile phone subscribers as part of its espionage campaign against Americans, according to a mobile network security expert who has analysed sensitive signals data.

This is probably happening via SS7, right? Can someone explain how a non-telco third-party company like Mr Miller's can monitor these signalling messages? (or just point me in the right direction)

How likely is it that this can be independently verified? So far it's allegations reported as facts. I'm prepared to believe him, but it would be better to have solid facts.
As someone who has over 15 years of coding experience with many different programming languages, I'm not surprised to learn that coding uses many different parts of the brain.

I've noticed that people become more logical in all aspects of their thinking as their programming skills improve. Also, I've noticed that a lot of religious people become atheist or agnostic as their programming skills improve.

It trains you to become good at holding a lot of information in your head and being aware of how they relate to each other and how they conflict.

When it comes to coding, I prefer dynamically typed languages because they don't have any constraints and that makes them more effective at training your brain because you can't outsource or put a boundary on any part of your thinking.
I haven't seen it mentioned, but there's also dedicated computer eye-wear.

My eyesight is 20/20, but I did start suffering from some eye fatigue and dryness recently. What worked for me was a pair of cheap computer glasses off amazon that "block blue light". They're clear and don't affect color vision, so I don't know what (if anything) they in fact block, but the improvement is noticeable.

I'm not going to name specific brands, but
> This intelligence, which we might call conceptualization, is not a cognitive process. The real intelligence is animal intelligence

I can only partially see what you mean exactly by "cognitive" or "animal" (with regards to intelligence), it doesn't seem like you use the words in their precisely common meanings.

I also never claimed that intelligence is in its base cognitive.

The original claim was that all of the intelligence is based in "ape-ish" motor skills, that it's basically their motor cortex that is just a little more advanced that gives rise to all the behaviors that we call intelligent.

This idea would basically mean that a task such as writing and publicizing a great book such as Shakespeare's Hamlet (including accumulating all the life experience required to produce it, and make it being so good) - is "basically a motor skills task".

This just doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

While it does of course require motor skills like taking a pen and putting the words to the paper, it requires a lot more other complex skills as well that have so little to do with motor intelligence that I don't see any honest reason to put them in the same category.

Thus, my comment that your theory requires expanding the concept of "psychomotor" to such extent that the word loses all of its useful meaning.

> political correctness = criteria for the fit of my body with other bodies as we want from each other

It's just not a good explanation, it loses 90% of all of the intricacies. Try using it to explain it to someone who doesn't know what political correctness is- it doesn't do the job.
Plus they’re frank that their affordable price is community orientated, and if you’re looking for a polished experience or would chargeback due to “a couple dead pixels”, please reconsider your purchase.
I've used jsonsprc a few times and my experience was excellent (opposite to GraphQL, actually).

But the jsonrpc endpoint had good documentation and the client library didn't feel alien to the project, like a big query string embedded in the client code.

I wonder why jsonrpc is not used more often; but I guess compared to a REST API, the client may be more complicated.
The industry bias against mobile-only games is such a bummer
> I think the lack of progress is due to a fundamental misunderstanding of how democracy functions and drives progress.

I assume you mean people's perception of the lack of progress. Actual physical progress is independent of the public's perception of it, I would think.

> Meaningful progress is only made when persuasion occurs.

Makes sense. I pay fairly close attention to the variety and nature of political persuasion, and I find it rather....interesting. I think a fair argument can be made that it is often exerted in directions that seem inconsistent with the general well being of the population.

> The biggest trick ever played on the public is telling them they are disenfranchised and that the system is rigged.

I agree that that is "a" trick, but I don't agree that it is the biggest one, by a long shot. Actually, I think there's more than a little evidence that suggests there's a fair amount of truth to it.

> If people spent 5% of the time and effort they spent lamenting corruption or political advertising on persuasion, change would advance at a rapid pace.

I can't imagine how this could be true. Who would be the parties being persuaded in this scenario, and how would that exert influence on the amount of change?

And then looking at it from another perspective: compare the change in well being of the average person in China versus the USA over the last 10 to 20 years - does the above explain the entirety of the differential? Or, might there be some other variables in play here?
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Thanks for your reply.

> What does 'afford' mean to you in this context?

There's a budget that balances income and expenditures. The government can't afford things if the expenditures are more than the income, roughly speaking.

> The money is always (well, almost always) going to come from taxes, a municipality or other local government can reduce services and infrastructure spending (opex and capex, roughly) and lower taxes, or increase services and infra spending and raise taxes.

In this context (eminent domain seizures), they can also decide they want to put some infrastructure somewhere that is already in use, and instead of purchasing that real estate, they can use their power of eminent domain and expropriate the land from the people who had owned it. That costs less than purchasing it on the market because they compel obedience via threat of physical force.
The answer being...?
What I really liked with Periscope was the map view, where you could see on a world map where a live stream was happening. It was a great way to find random interesting streams around the world.

I didn’t see Twitter Live having that same feature. Is it hidden somewhere?
A reasonable course of action could have been to temporarily suspend payment processing until PornHub took appropriate corrective action (which they now have), and restoring payments afterward.
Pulls up a comfy chair and large bucket of popcorn, in anticipation of Western governments spluttering with outrage at this. While, at the same time, being opposed to their citizens having access to encrypted communications.
I think the unintended side effect would be more flagging of comments when its not warranted because users would lack the means of showing their displeasure without flagging or commenting. The users would complain that they needed a way to show their displeasure that wasn't as severe as flagging and downvotes would be brought back.

> The official guidelines are pretty easy to follow and fairly effective in labelling the sorts of comments that take the conversation backwards.

I think there are marginal cases for every rule.
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How to check that if a directory exists in a Bash shell script?
I created a similar service, https://idbloc.co

However I’m probably going to pivot away to email infrastructure because:

A) The market for paid users is tiny (when we had free users we had 1000s of sign ups, but they were mostly setting up spam accounts and would never convert)

B) Most companies will mark you as a temp email address and block sign ups, effectively making it useless

It’s frustrating as it’s a great idea. I think the best implementation is Apple IDs version, as they don’t need to care about A and have the reputation to solve B.

Great job getting to 8k MRR and good luck. I think 33mail (or idbloc) would be awesome if integrated with a password manager, might be a good place for you to find new growth.
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There's a lot of truth in that, but it's not strictly true. The Obama DOJ pursued and enforced consent decrees over a bunch of local police departments; the incoming Republican DOJ announced that they were backing away from them. Certainly, national politics has some influence over local policing.

But I'm mostly with you. I'm kind of dumbfounded by how much attention gets paid to national/federal policing policy, where change is essentially impossible to achieve, when most people live in suburbs, where 2-3 seats on a village or township board can result in nearly arbitrary policing policy changes for that suburb. Swing House seats are a million-dollar proposition; a village board seat in Oak Park might go for less than $5000 invested.

A serious theory of change, and one I think more credible than passing any kind of new federal law: get reformer village boards elected in a scattering of suburbs, get them to pass sharp, meaningful policies (an end to no-knocks, crisis intervention teams, or dream big and have the police stop doing routine traffic enforcement), then prove them out. I've been watching Chicagoland village board meetings for the past couple months, and the modal question that seems to come in policy discussions is "what are the neighboring suburbs doing". Start there! See if you can get a snowball rolling.
Well jurisdiction matters based on which soil you are on and not which citizen you are.

This is overall a good move by FB that puts a lot of pressure on EU/UK to come up with more sensible laws. Note that EU/UK has barely produced any major company operating in consumer web/app. It is for a good reason.
Until a rollback due to a failure itself fails on a complex stack and prod is hosed for hours while you try to figure out how to unfuck.

Maybe CF has gotten better, but I'm not sure since I totally jumped ship for GCP.
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Why would it be the same? Just because both happened to be called “language” doesn’t mean they have much in common.
Just chiming in as a happy user of 33mail - congratulations and I'm happy to know that it is sustainable and growing.

One suggestion would be to better advertise new features to existing users - I was going to suggest adding 2FA authentication, and went for a quick check on my account, and it was already available :-)
Not really -- the IDE overview means it doesn't really matter if the codebase is 1X or 2X or 3X the amount of lines.

Then, I just think, excluding some horrendous language and some corner cases, experienced programmers are limited by their brain and not the programming language, just like certain languages that are more verbose are spoken faster and terser languages are spoken slower, but the information flow is done at the same speed.
The point is that once you know the word PID you can read about the concept and reach conclusions such as yours.
The funny thing is part of that situation started exactly 24h ago as I too saw increased bounces from AWS SES towards Gmail addresses. Not for everyone though, to be fair.

If anyone from AWS SES is reading - please do not deliver bounce receipts for gmail for the time being - it makes everyones situation much worse.
Then there's the opposite problem too, where absent of any deadline, you get Duke Nukem Forever.
Much like the other comment - I can't really listen to music while learning to code, but if it's something I alredy know how to do then music sometimes seems to be helping.
> I think if users don't consent, you should be allowed to block their access to your web site?

No. That's illegal. Because:

- the functionality of your site does not depend on collecting user data for ads

- you can show ads without collecting user data
> Localstorage has its drawbacks

Could you share any anecdotes?
Thanks for explaining! I wish these types of takeover announcements didn’t always assume the reader already knows what the product / company does
Actually, that's a really good continuation of the analogy. Doorstep > living room > bathroom is a pretty succinct continuum of personal privacy or intimacy in your your living area.
Yeah, the hype surrounding 2077 had me thinking this was a GTA/Witcher 3 style game. Haven't played it yet.

See what I did there? Compare GTA and W3? Because to me, they are similar. I mean, you can't kill random people in W3, but the "go where you want and collect and build" seems the same.

If you're telling me 2077 is not open world, I'll be disappointed.
And "really matters" is just an opinion. Can you say why carbon offset doesn't really matter or why bio-diversity loss really does? I'm genuinely curious.
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It’s not legacy code – it’s PHP
Your 7th posting from that site in 16 hours - this is just spam.
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https://gdpr.eu does a decent job explaining

Additionally, as I only recently found out, it's common practice in European Law to have explanatory notes in the law itself. They are called recitals.

Here's a recital on what constitutes consent: https://gdpr.eu/recital-32-conditions-for-consent/
That's the key - you can't just "experiment" with paid acquisition. You have to spend a little to gather enough data on what actually works for your audience.

It might take $1000 in failed ads before you "get" your audience, but you might quit after spending $100. But the $900 in supposedly "wasted" ad spend will help you understand enough that you can make 10x higher revenue.

If you approach software development as an iterative activity, you should approach marketing the same way too. Expecting great results at first try is akin to expecting completely bug free software at first go without any tests.
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While I agree with part 1, part 2 of your argument is simply not true. The regulation has very little to do with the benevolence of our political masters towards us peasants privacy. It is the users who care about privacy (which they themselves don't really understand) which both the corporations and governments have spotted, while corporations like Apple, Google, Facebook etc. have come up different strategies for competition with each other on privacy, governments have mostly come up with nonsensical legislations most funded by these very tech companies or some other rent seeking establishment like EU. None of those regulations have made web safer for us on the contrary it has put a compliance cost on everyone.

The best innovations around privacy have come from the desire to prove to users that the company respects your privacy. Regulation has mostly given us fake cookie related banners that have become a spam in themselves.
> And honestly the practicalities of this situation and the risk-reward tradeoff seriously tilts toward repeating the request later regardless of what the RFC says. The world isn't going to end.

That is exactly the thought process that leads to non-standard mess that we see numerous examples of.

If you believe the standard is not robust enough to handle problems like this, first work towards a fix to the standard and then implement the solution. Not the other way round.
The authors gives that quote (from the JAX documentation) but does not seem to interiorize it as his conclusion says:

> This is the niche that Theano (or rather, Theano-PyMC/Aesara) fills that other contemporary tensor computation libraries do not: the promise is that if you take the time to specify your computation up front and all at once, Theano can optimize the living daylight out of your computation - whether by graph manipulation, efficient compilation or something else entirely - and that this is something you would only need to do once.

It is exactly what JAX does. There is a computational graph in JAX (its encoded in XLA and specified with their numpy like syntax), it is build once, optimized and then runs on the GPU.
> What point are you trying to make?

That maybe our time is better spent by taking the chance to simplify the languages of the web along use cases rather than document the whole of it in an encyclopedia. The Java example is a good one, since IME tools such as javadoc, and just writing down the purpose of something and why and when it was introduced, immensely helps cleaning up your API surface. The web as it is is way too complicated when it really doesn't have to be, as witnessed by browsers vanishing.
I had a similar problem, but I was lucky enough to be able to make more invasive changes.

https://www.secretbatcave.co.uk/house/raspberry-pi-powered-t...

However its all reversible
I call BS on that. US remains extremely competitive, what tech company has EU produced in last 20 years remind me ? EU is a regulatory black hole.
Wow! The submission list for that account looks like an RSS feed for Microsoft stuff. Either a novice marketer from Microsoft, a huge Microsoft fan, or someone trying to farm karma without understanding the demographics of HN.
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Now showing as fixed fwiw.
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I fail to see how this move puts pressure on the EU in any way.
I guess, but it’s not like the European tech sector is falling behind in terms of engineering. We have a healthy tech industry, just not a lot of world-dominating unicorns.
P100 is much easier to find than N100
Yeah, I came to project that used graphql without even knowing what it is and I was able to write queries basically from get go.

It just was not difficult to learn at all.
That is Dr Kory’s Senate submission from May about Methylprednisone. The submission related to this video is from December 8 on Ivermectin:
https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Testimony-Kory-20...
I believe the reasons are different than good privacy protection. For example having ~25 different languages in EU.
Not sure what you are about, wild guess is cfn nested stacks, yeah, I learned hard way to never use it, its a feature that should not be there.
To be honest? I don’t know. My take is that they carry more sauce, as said above, but also penne and similar pasta suck in more water than spaghetti.
Facebook owns 100% of social media? Do you not consider any of Twitter, Snapchat, Tiktok, Reddit to be social media?
> Okay, you lost me. Explain.

Consenting adults should be able to do whatever sexual thing they want. Incest-shaming is not a desirable property of our society.

> You're aware that they're measuring financial performance and objective criteria... not your personal feelings about what that charity does, right?

Mozilla's mismanagement of funds and overpayment of executive staff is objective. I also don't appreciate your tone.
> B) Most companies will mark you as a temp email address and block sign ups, effectively making it useless

This is valid point, I see both 33mail.com and users.idbloc.co are already on disposable blocklists (e.g. https://github.com/ivolo/disposable-email-domains/blob/maste...)
Some MDN links are broken (Camera docs) where do we report them?
Who is funding them in this case, and why?
> Also it may be illegal, i.e. if you are employed like a full time employee - you cannot work as an independent consultant/contractor. Though AFAIK this definition of "like a full time employee" is not very strict.

Polish here. It is like you described but a) not many people know about this (sometimes I surprise some guys telling them their employment form - independent contractor for one company where you are actually working full time - is illegal) and b) I've never heard of someone being caught practicing this.
It seems it's even worse for gmail to Gmail communication. Some of our company emails disappeared without any kind of bump information which causes a lot of frustration among our customers. I hope they fix it soon, it's a mess of massive proportion.