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Yes. Your ISP is. Because as one gentleman found out when doing terabytes worth of off hours remote backups, your ISP is more than happy to come back and bite you if you actually put those contractual terms to the test.

The fact is, every last ISP has been caught extracting higher fees from users for purportedly unlimited plans, to which the user was given the understanding they werre paying to not be throttled then hiding behind weasel worded contractual clauses to avoid culpability so as to not be held to task by having to improve their network infrastructure to handle actual traffic needs.

I'm more than versed in networking. I may not work backbone services, but I'm aware of the foundations of it, and I've gone out of my way to get familiar with the business environments and models around it.

Yes it's all statistical multiplexing. Yes. QoS is a purportedly necessary scourge to everyone in the modern day. Why? Because we allow ISP's and connectivity providers to sit back and provide lackluster links, overpromise what's being delivered, and wiggle off the hook.

My assertion is you shouldn't be able to market unlimited. All it does is create a misleading and unmeasurable relationship where no one can be held to account, and the status of the "relationship" between the customer and provider is opaque to the customer.
It might not be hard to imagine it, but it's not actually that common an occurrence.

When's the last time you accidentally delete 200 files and needed to restore them? Probably because you were using a shell...

Oh yeah, and if you accidentally delete folder in a GUI? Usually you can just press ctrl-z, undo!
https://blog.cloudflare.com/warp-technical-challenges/

See also: https://github.com/ViRb3/wgcf
Ssshh you can’t say that on HackerNews!
I can confirm membership status is always listed on resumes. It is no big secret.
No. In many respects things are objectively worst. The problem is that technology's ecological impact is not being measured. Mainly, because societal changes ocurring after technological advances are unpredictable but also because technology moves faster than social science.

The state of the art is to revert to previous tech or invent new solutions when social damage has become clear. Sadly, some times this is not possible and we are left with open problems bigger than the initial ones we encountered. Consider for example climate change, the birth of the precariat social class, declining birth rates, etc.

Technology can be good but it has to be created, nurtured and regulated to such a purpose.
I just delete stuff regularly. If you don’t own it you don’t have to organise it.
Stereoscopic computing: anaglyph sprites on the Commodore 64
Ugh. Tulips weren’t scarce, easily transferable, divisible and didn’t last. The comparison has no place in a discussion. As for the bubble argument - there have been bubbles in other asset classes and no one calls them out as worth nothing because of overly aggressive speculation.
>but for whatever reason the Bitcoin crowd doesn’t want to admit

I think this is freely admitted as the primary value proposition by many Bitcoin proponents

I think it is a misconception and misunderstanding by many BTC supporters and naysayers that BTC can be viable or that it necessarily must depend on being viable as a mass-transaction medium, unit of account or "currency".

Store of value is likely it's only function, but being finite, highly divisible, decentralized and highly transactable relative to other scarce assets, it could succeed wildly at this.
I went back and forth with ignorecase until I discovered that placing \c in the search pattern will make that search case insensitive. This makes it much easier to do the odd case insensitive search but keep the default case sensitivity. (\C does the opposite if your default preference is the other way).
This one sparks joy.
For me it’s usually complaining about what the fuck shit they have done to outlook. It’s like a train in Mumbai at rush hour these days.
> I can't find the link

Here you go! https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/6378
I don't understand this point of view. I think often in saying this the implication is that you wouldn't make the same choice. That somehow you would resist the same urges that poorer people face. But who are you to say you wouldn't if you were in their shoes? You don't know the stress they face or their desperation, their life experiences. We're all human.
Overloading is very valuable, especially in conjunction with generic code.

But unfortunately, it is way overused. It takes a long time to develop good judgement. I'm still working on it.
Like I said, it's a personal experience from a friend I trust. But if you need a cite, try this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25411282.
The Teeny Tiny Mansion – adventure game formally proven to have no “dead ends”
I doubt that is so much of an issue as most of the content will be deduplicated across users.
It would be up to each instance to figure out how they want to monetize their community, or if they even want to.

If there's more censorship at the payment layer, I don't see how crypto will be left alone.
Nice spelunking! If there is hope of avoiding C++ altogether, then I'll try testing it again on something beefier than my laptop. Thanks for taking the time and effort.
I'm surprised they are so into human trafficking and bank heists that they do it at a loss and let it eat into their weed money.
The Sharrows in are town are decent in a few situations. Mostly on roads which are designed primarily as bike corridors with very light car traffic. They work only because they advertise which streets are good for biking on and that's it. They communicate pretty effectively that if you are on a bike this is the road you should be on. In places where car traffic is moderate or heavy. I live in one of the top 5 most bike friendly cities in the US though and the transportation department does a pretty good job making good bike routes.

As the survey suggests, the idea situation is where bikes have physical separation from cars by a long margin.
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There's literally no upside to hiding this information.
For an ultrawide monitor, pretend it's not ultra-wide. Based on how tall it is, what would it's non-ultra wide size be? 24" Then use that.
>How many other things also came and went bust in the time since bitcoin started?

The higher this number is, the better argument it is for Bitcoin's "Lindy" qualities

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
And? The kernel and a couple of shell utilities don't dictate the developer culture, those developers that actually care about Apple ecosystem, not those that buy Apple hardware as pretty Linux replacements.
There are hacks that can cause extensive destruction. But it isn't good to talk about them lest we give people ideas.
For me FPC/Lazarus are also a secret weapon. We use them at my company in production apps (mostly web and commnand line programs) since ages.
>I don't understand what is funny about it.

No offense intended, but if you can't see the link between sadism and humor you're probably not looking hard enough.

the psychoanalyst Edmund Bergler once said 'every time a person laughs they are expressing a guilt-ridden need to get revenge upon society'.

I wouldn't go that far, and the journey to discovery is your own.. but humor/sadism/malice have been intertwined in the human psyche since as far back as anyone knows.
Search is awesome. I agree, gmail's is great. Apple's Spotlight is also fabulous. So why does the article say "search doesn't fix this?"

The problem is when search extends across domains. I can search files with Spotlight, but not my google emails. On my phone, it's worse because there are so many different comms systems. I can search my Whatsapp messages; my SMS messages; my email; Facebook messenger; Skype.... Each individual search is fine, but no one tool does them all. Hence, the idea of using manual labels to classify stuff - including emails - can still be useful. Crazy that we're forced back to this.
100% agree on that last paragraph.

For what it's worth, Vim never crashes on me. For me swap files are mostly helpful with broken connections, killed VMs that apparently still had a vim session open in a faraway terminal, or other such situations.
The paintings on the ground are abysmally useless from a safety standpoint, but at least SF in particular has bike markings that helped me find flatter roads and other cyclists to clump up with.

That being said, the one way sharrows can be less deadly is to make them borderline useless for other cars, such as Silver Street in Albuquerque. Silver street has medians in its major cross streets so that cars can't continue straight, but bikes can. This, along with the facts that its speed limit is 18 mph and it parallels larger streets the reasons it's not used much by cars, despite not having the excessive stop signs that most gridded neighborhood streets possess.
The flip side of a current account deficit is a capital account surplus. To the extent that the informal notion of a "global reserve currency" means anything economically, that's perhaps the best description of it. Such an investment surplus would tend to improve the country's economic base over time, far more than implied by any direct effect of the trade deficit.
The US can't let their prison cells go to mexican citizens when they are needed for hard working americans with families.
> None of the areas or categories overlap. There’s only one place anything can ever be.

Exactly unlike actual documents. Where do I put the sales figures we use for marketing?
Please, this isn't Reddit. The US just happens to be part of the list of bad guys together with Russia, North Korea, Israel, PRC, etc. The difference is that on sites with a lot of US users pointing the finger at the US is more often than not seen as someone being Edgy or whatever while pointing it at Russia is cool/patriotic/stating the facts/etc.
> In the ones SpaceX didn't win, the winning bid was nonetheless forced lower

This sounds like a really satisfying result. Do you have any sources on specific areas where that happened? I was kind of surprised that Starlink wins weren't more broadly distributed through more states, do you think the FCC was trying to spread the funds around between multiple ISPs?
John le Carré, author of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, dies aged 89
Ah damn yes my mistake. Ty for the correction! :)
> Brave is a web browser…

I've clarified my comments above to disambiguate, thank you.

> Serving RSS content doesn't require permission; the public feed itself is permission.

So does Brave not understand the importance of feed metrics for creators? Or if it does, is the plan is to force creators to get metrics for Brave Today users from Brave?
Depending on when your friend was in college, it feels like things may have changed in the last 5 years. Anecdotally I've heard college recruitment efforts are more intense nowadays. Possibly because the younger generations are less interested in joining now, at the same time the leadership has a strong nationalistic bent.
Excuse me, sir, all of our IT systems are always patched up to the most recent approved version. It says so right here on this contract.
It has bindings for practically everything (Win32 UI, GTK, GTk2, GTK3, QT, OSX) and also you can custom drae yours.
You are describing Facebook diem
To be fair, where I live the cars don't stop at signs either. A typical reaction when I stop (in a car in front of them) is to flip me off and honk or speed past in the wrong lane.
We migrated from Cypress to Gauge/Taiko for fuzzier (more human readable and guessable) selectors.
You might specifically appreciate that every page on Open Library is an API (including search). Just add ".json"

e.g.

https://openlibrary.org/search.json?q=

https://openlibrary.org/books/OL28018730M.json

This is one of the best implementation decisions that Aaron Swartz, Anand Chitipothu, et al made when starting Open Library.
I usually go with { and } for those to jump between paragraphs,
as that is usually a sensible distance of movement. But your
approach is also an interesting addition as it's more consistent.
> What is wrong with a yes response to "do you want to eat pizza or pasta?"

It doesn't answer the question. The questioner is asking for your help in making a decision. If you are completely neutral about the two, then most people answer with the phrase, "Either one is fine". Saying just "yes" sounds like you misunderstood the question --- unless you say it with a wry smile, showing that you mean to be funny in your answer.

(I suppose occasionally someone could ask the question with a different inflection, with the last word at a higher pitch, meaning, "Are either of these fine with you?" rather than, "Please pick one.")

> Similarly with the boy or girl question, "no" may be stillborn.

The sex is set at conception.
Yes, and you only organisationally learn this distinction really once you've been say, bitten hard by a contract renewal that completely up-ends your architecture, requiring huge efforts to stay in compliance with the new terms because by this point you're well and truly locked into the product.
> the idea is deeply terrible, and implements a sort of feudal network with kings, lords and peasants (galaxies, stars, planets)

That’s what we have today, except it’s profoundly more disturbing.

Urbit would be like if you were under the care of Facebook, but you genuinely owned your data. Facebook just routed connections for you if you weren’t already connected to someone. And you retain the ability to move from Facebook to twitter for that service if you choose.

Meanwhile today you live on facebook’s land (you don’t own any of your data or identity), and you can’t leave unless you blow everything up.

> who believes life was better when we had monarchies in charge of everything.

Yarvin actually does not believe that. His whole project is more about not resisting the inevitable, which is that humans will organize in hierarchies no matter what. So it’s better to not pretend otherwise and just be honest.

Again, this is better than what we have today. Do you even know who your “lord” is today? Vaguely Zuckerberg. Who is under him? Do we know who to be upset with if a decision is made that we don’t like? No this is all a mystery because it’s anti-hierarchy theater. It’s there but they tell us it’s not.

Here is an article where Yarvin basically endorses Urbit without mentioning it by name: https://graymirror.substack.com/p/how-to-regulate-the-tech-p...
Please leave your Redditor mentality at the door. Nothing good is gained by this kind of commenting.
Don't forget the bitcoin capitulation in march, that was very important.
Operator overloading is deliberately more limited in D, with an eye towards discouraging its use for anything other than arithmetic.

A couple of operator overloading abominations in C++ are iostreams, and a regex DSL (where operators are re-purposed to kinda sorta look like regex expressions).
Zig is a lot more complex than C, but I think most of the language complexity came from filling in gaps rather than tacking things on. For example I think they have settled on having no dynamic dispatch feature (interface, trait, virtual method, etc) at the language level. The comptime feature is flexible enough that userland approaches seem to be good enough. I bet a lot of "complexity" in the future will come from competing idioms used in various third party libraries.
Yes having attributes containing the union of the sets of attributes {“can read”} and {“can write”} means being in the intersection of the set of things having the attribute “can read” and that having the attribute “can write”. Set union, intersection, and membership are related that way.

(Which means saying that “and” is about intersection and not union is nonsense, everything statement about set union can be rephrased to an equivalent statement about intersection, and vice versa.)
The point of 20% time is to work on things that help Google as a company. Not sure what your point is here.

It's not intended to just be using 20% of your work time to work on whatever the heck you want to.
For javascript, would you say learn vanilla JS first or go straight in with a framework like React? Can you get jobs just knowing JS?
For spaces, I have:

set listchars=tab:>-

set listchars+=trail:⋄

This shows markers for tabs and trailing whitespaces.

The latter will make you very sad when you browse other people's code.
Visual Studio still has the best the debugger. It’s not perfect or even close. But it’s 50x better than cmdline gdb.

RemedyBG is a cool one-man side-project debugger. It’s crazy impressive for what it is. However it has never worked for me on any professional project. There’s too many little one-off issues that are hard blockers. I wish it was open source. https://remedybg.handmade.network/
What I always wondered: are German products that much better, or is it a meme?

The thought that comes to mind is when American railways tried to import German locomotives in the 1960s. They were appealing because they offered higher horsepower ratings than anything domestic, but they required too much babying and maintenance to keep healthy and were quickly scrapped. I hear strikingly similar things from people buying German cars today-- everything tends to be expensive to keep running after the warranty expires.

I wonder if American manufacturing needs to develop its own meme. I'd suggest the old line about GM products-- they'll run poorly for a lot longer competing products run at all. That could be a compelling argument when you're selling to a manufacturing sector that's rolling out in low-development countries with unstable infrastructure, poor environmental conditions, and low-training staff.

That gives us a niche we can target and use as a base to re-bootstrap ourselves into competitiveness. We need to be decidedly better than bottom-bit Chinese (etc.) tooling, which is probably still within our abilities, and if we overdeliver there, we can begin to position American-made as a premium choice.
I'm not sure I agree with her assessment of quality, nor its importance. Lots of FOSS software is written with the author's view of quality in the forefront - for instance, the GNU HURD project and NixOS are absolutely huge on properly handling error conditions returned from library calls and syscalls, and well-defined interfaces and interactions. We see a similar dedication to well-formedness in the KDE project.

But even in this limited realm, these projects don't have primacy. People use GTK, despite it writing literal screenfuls of warnings to console on every application launch. systemd has taken over linux, despite a lack of forethought of how its systems interact or are formed. So it appears that well-formedness has nothing to do with success or adoption of a project.

In the closed-source world, the most popular operating system since Windows 95 was Windows. The inherent quality of Windows, while continually improving, appears to be completely irrelevant. In fact, Windows 10 has a lower marketshare than ever, despite crashing less. For individual programs, Photoshop has continually been a crashy, buggy mess, but it's only since they changed licensing schemes has Clip Studio Paint caught on. Word has continually outperformed StarOffice, no matter whether StarOffice handled its COM exceptions nicer or not.

The most important thing for a computer system appears to be universality, followed by featureset, followed by user interface. Sadly (or not?), the only "quality" that appears is when the failures are enough to get in the way of the user -- and even then, projects such as Brave for Android and Sharepoint continue to be widely used! Because they offer something no competitor can. Reliability may end up being a tiebreaker, but for most user-facing software, it simply isn't as important as meeting your goals on the feature matrix.
Those two are words whose meaning morphs over time and every person seems to have their own pet definition so the terms are essentially meaningless and become whatever anyone wants. I've heard people to the left of Sarah Palin being described as liberals after all. These two terms are heavily misused.

We're pretty much in a double-speak world right now.
It's what the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services thought [1], and it's clear from the thread that the comment to which you responded was predicated on that.

There's no need to imply it's the GP's own opinion, and sotto voce that the GP is a racist.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25408088
I would describe a startup as one big 20% project :)
I have a window behind my computer. Every once in a while I glance outside and refocus my eyes.

It import not to have the sun shine in this window at the times you do this. That causes eyestrain too.
I was super disappointed in this but not surprised, honestly. Started building features for a Discord bot to share book reading updates, etc. with friends, and the API was rough to say the least (especially their OAuth implementation). You could tell they hadn't dedicated any resources to it in a long time.
Have you lived in a country where the establishment fails? Iran (1979), Soviet Union (1989), Turkey (take your pick)?

Yep, interesting times.

If boredom is the greatest difficulty you face, you're very fortunate. At least have consideration for those who value stability.
> Being a cyclist and a driver, I see sharrows as a middle finger to cyclists.

Any kind of solution that involves signage only is a middle finger to cyclists. I live in a very cycling friendly city, bike friendly infrastructure is the only thing that makes a difference. Even here where cyclists are super common, there is a pretty big portion of the population who treat cyclists as little more than road debris.
Has anyone done a survey paper on the impact of sharrows? I skim papers on sharrows when (very occasionally) I come across one, but they seem to be based on a small dataset from one city.

I personally treat them as preferable to nothing, and except on really busy streets, preferable to door zone bike lanes.

Of course there are options better than either, and I prefer those. But I also don't really think bicycle affordances are the solution -- a legal/policy war on cars and drivers is.
Could have been CVE-2020-7984: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-7984

>SolarWinds N-central before 12.1 SP1 HF5 and 12.2 before SP1 HF2 allows remote attackers to retrieve cleartext domain admin credentials from the Agent & Probe settings, and obtain other sensitive information
Probably showing my age I find announcing someone's death on twitter disrespectful.

Here:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/dec/13/john-le-carre-...
Speed limits + cars set an implicit speed minimum that is required for both safety and to not cause mad cars who are trying to go the speed limit. There's a reason you'll get pulled over for going 20mph on a US highway, and it's a legal oversight to have high speed streets that don't have minimums, or worse are designed to share with bikes even though the average bike won't hit a safe speed minimum.
Agree, my personal experience: walking from Walmart parking lot to walmart doors, crossing the hatched pattern section of asphalt exactly in front of entrance, half of the drivers do not stop even after looking at me. Sunny day, perfect visibility. Might be the reason that its a majority white republican county with pickup trucks.
I do local work in numpy/pandas all the time on my MPB.

Large data size or ML training is where I use my cluster and/or GPU computers.
Peter Thiel bet against the US dollar and lost big.

> Subsequent down years have reduced the fund's assets under management to $681 million as of December 2010.[4] Clarium Capital Management was reported to have had big losses in 2010.[14] The firm has continued to struggle with bets that it made on inflation and the US dollar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarium_Capital