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> Europeans were told after the election who their anointed leader would be, what her political platform was, and what her vision for the EU was.

> Just consider why for a moment the EU doesn't require leaders to be publicly announced and vetted before elections?

I'm from Italy. This is exactly what our Constitution provides about our Prime Ministers. They can be anybody, even without a seat in Parliament (or current Prime Minister doesn't.) The President of the Republic appoints them, probably even you because I don't see requirements about citizenship or residency. They must be confirmed by a vote of the Parliament (50%+1) and that's it. Actually, if they are not confirmed they still are Prime Minister until the President appoints somebody else. You can check Articles 92 to 96 of the Constitution at http://www.senato.it/documenti/repository/istituzione/costit... (PDF, English) from the site of one of the chambers of the Parliament.

I don't particularly like this but it's an example of how that is usual in Europe. Many other countries don't have direct elections for their leaders. Given this status it's normal that we don't elect the President of the Commission.

Furthermore what really matters is the Council, made by the leaders of each country. The Commission is the government but the real power is in the Council. A Commission going against the Council doesn't have any political backing.
Thank you. pobox.host is very nice, I like the simplicity of it.
I disagree that Zuckerberg feels emotions.
GDPR only matters if the EU has jurisdiction. If it's a website run from China then GDPR can't really do anything. A better first step would've been to limit the information that's being sent out in the first place - the browsers and OS. If people had better control over what their computer sends out then the privacy issues would be much less worrying. After that you can talk about limitations on who can do what with the data. Just having the latter means that people are still leaking all of their data, but companies are basically just promising not to use it.
Try a Gmail email marketing campaign
Aside from human narcissism, the space race is motivated by it's militarily strategic importance.

Outside of a black swan event, humanity is not ever getting off this rock in any colonial capacity.

Space, it turns out, is a really shitty fucking place for life.

Elon's Mars fantasy is a red herring.
Are you for real? 2 months ago you posted "I can't quit my job to take a break because my wife and kids depend on my salary for money". Now you state you gave your life savings away?
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You might be able to answer this - are containers coming to Firefox Mobile at any point? That's the main thing that would make me switch from my phone's default browser.
Create a relocation Airbnb app for the millions that will be displaced once we hit 2-4 degree Celsius increase in global temperature. Also, charity apps for more frequent hurricanes destroying cities.
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Home servers are already blocked by contract policy and firewalls. What difference does the IP make? You can filter on prefixes too so shutting off your entire IP block is easy.
We had to do a security review of EMR recently. I’m amazed it works at all. Hop on one of the cluster nodes and take a look at the processes running.
Social media was a major source of blog traffic 10-15 years ago and now it's negligible (see Rand Fishkin's talks for more on this).

Google has also been keeping more and more traffic within its ecosystem, but it's still by far the largest remaining source for most independent sites.

The landscape for independents to get even traffic, let alone comments is very, very different than it was. As fb and reddit grew, my site comments reduced by over 80% while traffic was flat. Readers who had been around for years continued but newer visitors stopped.

For a while social media shares made up the difference, but over time social media traffic dropped to less than 5% of its original level. I started seeing less and less value in what I'd once thought was evergreen content.

Then, I changed careers to software. It wasn't because of the drop in RSS readers, blog commenters, etc, but those changes did decrease my enthusiasm about blogging as a social activity.
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Super nice to find someone doing the same thing.

I use Safari and Firefox for the main work and Safari Technology Preview for a small learning project. Even if they share history, I like to open the browser and all previews links are open already.

I also use Brave and Vivaldi and Opera and Chrome for various tasks like:

- Opera for reading papers and articles as I never sign in there on any account

- Chrome for Google Meet as it is directly open by a toolbar widget I connected to the calendar

- Brave for some hobbies including small research when I (rarely) write something on my blog.

- Vivaldi for all things related to parenting :)

Now I installed Edge and playing around with it thinking to move there al things related to blog and social media.
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Terraform is much, much better.

I used CloudFormation for a few years and ran up against a lot of its limitations. Maximum file size. Maximum resource count. Automatic rollbacks of THE WHOLE STACK on any subsystem failure like unavailable instance. It has no templating built in, so doing ten things with minor differences means copying and pasting 10x or deploying your own templating solution to generate CF. And I did this back in the ROLLBACK_FAILED days, where if you did something that it couldn't automatically undo you were stuck - no way to roll forward or backward, just abandon innplace. The button for "Continue rollback" or whatever that came out 5-10 years ago was huge.

Contrast that with Terraform: all of your points addressed, plus all of mine are non-problems. It lets you do some awesome things that are no doubt inspired by CF, but it takes them to an entirely new level.

There are a few downsides too, but nothing compared to CF. You can build too-complex things much more easily in TF, so you have to be careful not to go overboard. It also bugs me that I can't spec a high-level thing like "compute with 4 cores and 32GB RAM, repeat 10x and put behind a load balancer with DNS name foo" and use it anywhere, I have to say google_compute or azure_load_balancer or aws_dns. That was the biggest disappointment coming out of CF and hearing how awesome this thing was, and then realizing it still left me vendor locked.
That's something what I've been looking for. Never thought about possibility of frame having ftp server..

Hopefully the product is not discontinued as the good ones usually are, when i discover something cool.
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> Strength in numbers is a compensation for insecurity.

"strength in numbers". ≠ "economies of scale"

The former is about relative group size, mutual defense within the group, and reducing the risks of aggression against outgroups.

The latter is about increasing the effectiveness of coordinated activity more generally (which, yes, can include defense and aggression), especially those activities that persuade people. Winning hearts and changing minds about issues, especially across faction/party lines.

Making common cause with others who mostly share your views, even if the issues you most care about aren't the same ones, is just good tactics. Making common cause with those you mostly DISAGREE with on the issues that you DO agree on is good STRATEGY.
There was a perl vs python religious war back then that generated a lot of online vitriol. Which made some sense since they were competing for mindshare in the same space. Obviously Python won that war, but it's interesting to think how things would have worked out differentlywithout the self-destructive tragedy that was Perl 6.
One possibility is the use of a cycler - in other words, putting only a couple Starships with massive amounts of water onboard in an orbit that loops back and forth between the Earth and Mars. Passengers would board it for the transit, then transfer back into an unshielded starship that flies in formation for the journey. This way, the shielding mass only needs to be launched once, and can be reused for an arbitrary number of flights.
> I've also found when I'm deep in a problem solving mode like coding I tend to be far less empathetic.

My experience as well.

This is a side effect of a forced WFH. My kids are regularly at the receiving end of my outbursts when they interrupt me when I'm deep in work, more so when I'm debugging. In office on the other hand such 1-1 interruptions are rare.
For all the claims and all the links posted, the only crimes I actually saw on video were police assaulting nonviolent people who were acting as press and wearing clothing labeled press. Not really the slam dunk evidence that there are tons of "fake press".

It's true that there was one police report you linked mentioning people labeled "press" attacking officers, and Andy Ngo himself claimed that this is happening. Everything else is just recycling of those claims (e.g. Andy Ngo retweets that Fox News reports that Andy Ngo says fake press are attacking the police).

If this really is happening all the time, I would expect it would be easy to find video evidence of it happening repeatedly, as we do find for other activities that definitely are happening all the time, like police brutality against protestors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95GCraUPiGE.
Not with $8k/month revenue they aren’t

They will just go to a contracting firm for a few hours of work, or not
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What's the solution? You squeeze FB/Google and you'll get several another ones that will start with lofty slogans ("Don't be evil. Really this time!") and by the time end up being same silos. I think these platforms are inevitable.
Fiber wouldn't do much would it? Does it reduce actual travel time for the signal?
I think my biggest takeaway from this (very cool) writeup is that I'm an idiot for buying cases for all of my pi zero projects instead of digging into my kids' box-o-legos.
> If your code has wrong syntax it doesn't compile. If wrong grammar you can get very wrong results.

In both cases, when you get it that wrong that your meaning doesn’t come across correctly, it’ll usually get pointed out to you, either by the compiler or the person you’re talking to, so you can go back and try again.

Eventually, you’ve potentially gotten it right when the compiler stops throwing errors or the person you’re speaking to understands. Unfortunately, in both cases you may still not end up with the desired outcome as your compiler is “stupid” and cannot understand intent, only what you’ve written. Similarly, but different, the human you’re speaking to may bore of your broken language eventually and just move on.

There’s no perfect system for everyone, but it never hurts to remember the saying: perfect is the enemy of good enough. It doesn’t matter if your language skills are perfect, just that they’re good enough to convey your meaning effectively for the environment you’re in.
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It's a real headache but should be fully reversible. @shmoogy hit the nail on the head: we'll run through our events in that timeframe, inspect the raw bounce reason to check it relates to the Gmail outage, then undo the actions that the bounce caused.

The reason why this is so nasty is not because Gmail went down, but because they returned a 5XX permanent failure and not a 4XX temporary failure for these bounces. Literally every email provider will respond to a permanent bounce by suppressing all further emails to that email address (it's permanent, after all!), so the fallout from this will be huge.
Despite shuttered campuses,some SiliconValley firms still paying service workers
"my wife and kids depend on my salary for money" -> This part I lied, sorry. I have no kids and my wife works too.
Oh i wasn't suggesting we overtake the existing HN show function, just that i think an additional one for products making money is a good idea.. much like this product!
You're lying, or simply not reading what I'm writing. Like I said, the Reddit comment I linked to cites a chart showing the rise in the average lifespan of cars.

This criticism is also a case of extreme hypocrisy. You provided no evidence at all for a general tendency of capitalism to produce planned obsolescence, while criticizing me for not meeting standards of evidence that you didn't even bother trying to meet. This incredible obstinance shows a complete lack of respect for people who disagee with you, which makes it all the more reckless when you're advancing economic theories roundly rejected by experts in the field.

>Most do. I disagree that it's some "extreme conspiratorial allegations" think it's very reasonable given the circumstances of that field.

No, it is not reasonable at all to discount an entire social science, with over a century of scholarship backing it, without having studied that social science for yourself. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, not this lazy half-baked analysis based on anecdotes, vague assertions, and unsubstantiated conjecture.

What you're exhibiting now is the hubris characteristic of the over-confident and under-informed, whether it's flat-earthers, Moon-landing denialists, anti-vaxxers, or socialists.
That’s largely the point of it. Graphql allows for a smaller, more focused team to work on the generic backend and lean into the pain of it while at the same time supporting larger and more divergent frontend/user facing teams.
There’s more to Power Platform than low-code/no-code development
Thank you for the feedback.

Yes, I agree that it can be a disadvantage to be grouped with disposable email addresses, we have aliases that are a decade old that are still forwarding emails.

With respect to the longevity of the company, it makes a healthy profit and due to my brother's great sysops work it is fairly low maintenance except when we're making improvements.

Also, our friends and family all use it, they'd disown us if we shut it down or sold it to anyone that wouldn't respect its users :)
PID can’t be used for control of any device that uses a relay. PWM will have the effect of just changing the coil voltage. Even if you could switch a relay on/off quickly you’d just prematurely burn out the contacts.

PID is only effective with solid state switching devices, which are not really common for residential heating/cooling.
Picking out GPS coordinates from the recording of a news helicopter was astounding.
My house has a Carrier Infinity system where the compressor and air handler is fully variable. It can retrieve weather data over the net and adjust heating/cooling. The compressor and air handler are "connected" which is HVAC lingo for a proprietary protocol. The brains are in a $700 thermostat with a buggy touch screen that has the resolution of a lite-brite and it cannot work with virtual assistants.

One benefit I did see in the manual, is that if the air handler was gas combined with a heat pump you can enter the price of electricity and the price of gas and it can compute which heating method is best: gas/heat pump/resistive (usually when heat pump cannot provide requested temperature). But I don't have gas.

ROMs are available for these systems distributed as hex files on Carriers website. So its been on my todo list to reverse engineer the software.

Someone with time combined with a Raspberry Pi + Raspberry Pi Display (around $80 USD) could build a much better thermostat than what Carrier has done.
We have some shades similar to that I have used them to visualize the partial eclipse with coworkers.
Wow, I read the ‘how it works’ on your website. Kind of a genius little service. Congrats guys!
One other option that I like is ElementaryOS - simple enough UI and lightweight. It's not Chromebook lightweight but I've put it on some 10+ year old clunkers with no issues. Plus it keeps you and your family members out of the Google surveillance dragnet.
I've noticed that I make more errors while listening to any kind of music. But, upon further reflection, it's probably because I tend to listen to music when I'm in the flow, writing large amounts of code.
If I were splitting hairs about it I wouldn't personally call the bulk of them "distros," if only because the overall Android ecosystem is that much more homogeneous compared to one like GNU. The extent to which features or visual tweaks are added will vary, but your underlying system will generally be the same regardless of whether you're running LineageOS, Paranoid Android, Carbon or most others. (Some exceptions include Bliss, which maintains a desktop-focused x86 build; /e/, which is specifically built around MicroG; and GrapheneOS, a hardened build specifically for Pixels.)

With that said though -- yes, if you're into modding or general preservation there are a variety of community spins of Android, and potentially even a small scattering of other Linux-based systems depending on your device.

Now that Android requires the use of a GSI -- or generic system image -- in testing, device compatibility is also significantly better than it used to be. That said, you're still limited to those that support bootloader unlocking. (Notably, while they don't implement this internationally, if you're US-based Samsung is out.) Additionally, GSIs will still have edge cases around drivers (since they don't have to actually work on production devices), Google apps generally have to be loaded separately, and even then the act of opening your bootloader to begin with trips SafetyNet -- which breaks everything from banking apps (for the sensitive-data protections this was originally intended to cover) to Netflix (for DRM) to various games (for anti-cheat) to... Snapchat for some reason?

Where this starts to really get exciting is that, over the next year or two, that requirement for generic image compatibility will be extending to the kernel, on devices that are actually shipping to users. Treble's launch triggered a sort of second wave within the custom ROM scene, as it meant they no longer strictly needed to be ported to devices on an individual basis -- a limitation which up until now has still existed for the kernel.

Some particularly interesting details around this are that a custom kernel is required to run Halium (a GNU compatibility layer for Android devices that allows images like Ubuntu Touch to be loaded as GSIs), and that Android 11 can actually boot on a minimally-patched mainline assuming that all necessary drivers exist.
This has been available since the 90s, 80s if you count telnet. Yes it has improved, but what hasn't in that timeframe?
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Airlines banned valved masks on flights months ago for being ineffective.
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Maybe you are remembering Dr. Lintgen? https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-record-reader/

"Dr. Arthur Lintgen, a Philadelphia physician, can — within prescribed limits — determine which works of classical music are present on a phonograph record by “reading” the record’s grooves. His ability is not the result of any trickery — he performs the feat by combining a thorough knowledge of classical music with the technique of determining the structure and dynamics of a piece of music by examining the spacing and pattern of the grooves."
Thanks for the pointer, I was exactly asking myself "Was it written like in 90s?"
Today the problem is too much information, not not enough of it.
This is the new denial. We have gone from “climate change doesn’t exist” to “there is nothing we can do”.

It’s pathetic.
Obsidian is downright abusive towards any of their staff that isn't part of the old guard, and doesn't compensate any more to make up for it.

source: three people I know who worked there
Rules for thee, not for me
He has wife and kids?!

I mean, if I was his kid, I'd appreciate it if there was enough there for me to not have to take out loans for college.

edit: ok apparently he doesn't
It’s pretty usual for a company financial target to need to be hit before the bonus payout starts - in fact it’s unusual for a bonus payout to happen regardless of financial performance (companies want to give employees certainty about what the rules are to trigger a bonus, but don’t want to have to give out bonuses if they are going under).

I’ll assume the bonus is probably actually tied to the companies financial performance rather than the release, but that the release was required for the revenue target to be hit.
would have increased the price I paid at amazon by 10% last year. So that's not a significant dent but on the other hand that's obscene.
Absolutely in sympathy with everything you said there. But I can't help but challenge my silent aggressors :)

I really wish downvoting was replaced with a flagging feature. The official guidelines are pretty easy to follow and fairly effective in labelling the sorts of comments that take the conversation backwards. If someone is arguing in bad faith, they're likely in contravention of one of the guidelines, in which case moderation is a more appropriate tool for the problem.
Thank you! You summed up my feelings (about the comment you responded to), perfectly!
Not to mention not burning ourselves slaving over a hot laptop.
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In theory yes, in practice, only under virtualization (though I'm one of https://www.patreon.com/marcan sponsors so maybe one day this will change).

However this is a moot point as Apple doesn't sell what Pine does - Linux device. Apple sell Apple devices. If they incidentally runs Linux is irrelevant to Apple.
Thank you for the suggestions.

We do have a referral program, free upgrade if you refer two people - however referrals only account for 2% of our signups which doesn't really move the needle.

We are thinking about trying affiliate marketing through something like Commission Junction, where we would pay affiliates directly for conversions.
It could be a myth, and still contribute to the "legend".
The issue is GP has made sacrifice but MacKenzie doesn't have to scarify as much as GP. GP am not saying MacKenzie have to make sacrifice but he is just pointing the fact we live in society where richest people hoards money instead of using it for betterment society. And most of the donations are just plain PR strategy or some tax escape strategy.

You may argue they earned hard for that money but some people are just lucky and don't have to struggle and are so greedy they don't care about anyone else.
I think you're ok feeling that, especially with your CDPR experiences. But a lot of the promotional material heavily emphasizes 'night city' and the whole worldbuilding aspect. They even coin it as 'the next generation of open world adventure' at the end of this trailer. I think the promotional material definitely focused more on the setting rather than the characters and their stories.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO8lX3hDU30
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You're seriously suggesting he start spamming people about his email service?
The App Store is fundamentally a problem because there exists only one (eg apple) or one is inherently privileged (eg android); on a PC/servers/cloud, this isn’t likely to ever occur.

Although, I suppose steam is an argument to the alternative, though they haven’t successfully abused their position afaik (like their attempt to monetize general modding communities across non-valve games)
This merely makes these certificates worth less than the same but named stock options and regulated.

The employee will "just" need to discount the value of these certificates accordingly.
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Oh I meant no one benefited from them releasing on old-gen consoles. I wonder if perhaps they were contractually not allowed to release only PC + next-gen consoles, and delay old-gen consoles?