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Given the prevalence of COVID in all countries (i.e. almost 10% of population of my country were infected already), it is not that low and will only go up exponentially as governments can't hold lockdowns longer. At some point old people will not be able to avoid contracting the virus, and 10-20% of them will die.
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You're making a giant logic error. It may well be true that most self-made millionaires started a company. It is certainly not true that most people who start companies become self-made millionaires, which was the premise of your original post.
Just get an android phone and a gamepad.
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I had the same thought a while back on the "bullshit jobs" idea. We know that a large percentage of jobs are probably unnecessary. The problem is that we don't know which jobs those are, and finding out is surprisingly hard.

A whole lot of things are like this.
These are now being skipped for that vaccine.
If matrix.org were to see this level of influx of users, given their constant scaling problems, they would be down in minutes.
OK, I'll bite. What does this statement:

var a = b + c.d;

actually do?
It’s a small percent but adds up - I’ve “smiled” hundreds of dollars.

I don’t use the add on and just type “smi” to autocomplete the domain.
> The Covid jab is to vaccines what IV saline is to drinking water.

I don't quite get this comparison. Are you saying the covid "jab" is almost a vaccine but isn't, in that saline is almost tap water (minus minerals/contamination plus 1% NaCl)?
You're one of those people. The lowest risk might be to vaccinate the rest of the population, thus stop the spread of COVID and avoid the danger of both COVID and the vaccine for the most vulnerable.
Agree 100%. You see this all over TV news. It makes total sense to wear 2 masks one with a valve and another over it. It protects both the wear and the people around.

My one issue is that long term it's hard to wear both. Air restriction can be bad for the wearer. It's important to know this.
At this point, I've worked 'a bit' with Lua, in addition to plenty of other coding experience, and it's still surprising to me.

> Everything is a table and accessing unset variables is accessing the table (named _G) holding all global variables.

Before you said this, I had no idea about that. Because it's not like the tutorials are talking about the underlying implementation for this stuff, just like how Java tutorials don't usually go deep in explaining how bytecode works, or how the JVM can be used to interoperate with other languages.
This article will likely get picked up by other media vehicles and sensationalized, but the writing on the link is very sober and very clear that they are just investigating.

I actually liked it a lot and will save this for when people start spreading the "gloom and doom" version of this news that might be coming soon.
A digital pin will most likely output a signal using a zero-order hold, which is the simplest type of reconstruction filter.

A zero-order hold is just one possible way of turning a digital signal into an analog one which you can then measure with your oscilloscope. But the output of the zero-order hold is not the digital signal, because the digital signal is only defined at discrete sample points.
Another cool thing is that you can turn their phone's flashlight on and off. A lot of blind people don't bother turning lights on because it doesn't make a difference to them.
RP4 (and I think 3) is aarch64 so it shouldn't be a problem, right? Pretty sure I already tried aarch64 executables on both Pi4 and Pine.
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News out of Germany seems to indicate that there is some household mixing allowed. What's described here should be more than permissive enough to allay the concerns of those living alone in e.g. San Francisco, who were not officially permitted any contact whatsoever until December, and then only outdoors. (Of course no one really waited for that rule change to meet up outdoors).

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-55292614#:~:text=A%20m....
I don't have percentages, but the charity I have marked for my Amazon Smile donations gets about $100,000 a quarter. So it works for some groups.
If you can't find one you should consider making your own and contributing a 'bare bones' style tutorial to https://wiki.osdev.org/. If you're familiar with the subject matter, getting to the point of working serial output in a new language shouldn't take too long.
"Machine-human collaborative apophenia" is an amazing phrase.
The clearly visible and eye-searingly bright line here is that the people on Parler were not just wishing ill against others but making plans and executing them. There was no moderation to keep those publicly visible conversations from gathering steam.

It's very easy to avoid seeing clear lines in the sand if you walk around with your eyes closed.
> Also easy to self-host a server, if you need full control:

Recommended specs will include 16GB RAM only for synapse, SSD storage, etc.

If someone wants to self-host, start with Prosody and XMPP, not with Matrix.
Yes, very peaceful. By the same token, it must be deeply burdensome having your own equanimity displaced because "other people have built their opinions based on a faulty understanding of the situation". Quelle horreur!
Quite likely they aren't allowed to sell whenever they want, they may be subject to an open trading window, or a fixed sell-down plan over the year.
The NRA has expected it would be targeted (whether justly or not) for years.

Which is why must fundraising hasn't gone directly to the NRA in probably 20 years, but to other, financially separate entities, like "Friends of the NRA." The segregation isn't arbitrary for legal purposes of piercing the corporate veil because these entities have more specific and specialized purposes, like safety training programs and responsible ownership initiatives.

I don't know if the strategy will end up working. In fact, I suspect it's made the NRA's finances look even more suspect, since it's basically designed to absorb liability without accumulating donations.

But even if they aren't able to "move" to Texas, I expect there's little direct extractable value from NRA proper, other than the bad PR of the continued investigation. Which of course, will also be used as a reason to send more donations and support.
I did unskilled labor for 10 years of my life, 5 years of it in a factory where a typical job involved lifting 50 and 100 pound loads repetitively the entire day. It started at maybe 20 cents over minimum wage as a temp and went up a few dollars above that by the time I left.

First of all, comparatively Amazon warehouse work doesn't sound like "terrible working conditions", it sounds like a dream job, and it sounds like you have never really experienced typical manual labor if you describe it that way.

Second of all, was I exploited? What would that matter? Every other choice I had was worse or I would have taken one of them. Should the company have improved the working conditions? They did! They automated everything. All of the unskilled jobs are gone and the jobs that remain are higher paying mechanic or process operator jobs. Today I would have to take one of the worse choices.
What is more ethical?

- Inject a patient with a vaccine that may kill them.

- Do no harm, treat them if they get sick, mourn them if they die.
Loans get paid back... donations don't. An organization that takes donations (like wikipedia) will have to keep asking for donations... while an organization that has a debt can take the time to figure out a revenue model not driven by ads to allow them to repay the debt.
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IMHO, the list seems to confirm why I would choose C++ or Rust over Zig.

I might still consider choosing Zig over C, but since Zig has nowhere near the embedded coverage as C, with all the obscure compilers, it seems to me that Zig will remain a niche contender.
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Thanks for the implementation. How does Forgo handle state?
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> The bigger problem, though, is that I even have to use array-based indexing to iterate something. That's just asking for bugs.

You absolutely do not, the standard Lua idiom is to use ipairs. The numeric for loop is there, of course, and the index of the pair (index, value) returned by ipairs will be 1 based. of course.

Iteration isn't why 1-based indexing is bad, it really shows its inadequacy when doing interval maths. I make abstract syntax trees in Lua, and a node in that tree with zero width at the 4th position is { left = 4, right = 3 } which is... awful.
In most union workplaces, one of the first contract demands is exclusivity, where the employer can only hire members. This is referred to as a " closed shop" [1] When a closed shop forms, works have a choice to join or leave. Some places allow non-union workers, but they must pay part of their salary to the union. This is called and "agency shop" [2]

For example, if you become a police officer and do not choose to join the union, you must still pay fees which are spent by the union on political lobbying.

I am generally pro union but think that all unions should be optional to the workers.

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

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

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/free-books/employee-...
HabitStack founder here. Your points are well taken! For some context, for the last few years, we've been a service company with a software product. You're seeing us at an awkward transition point to a product first company. So, sorry for the rough edges in the app! We're excited smooth them out.

What jumped out at you as needing immediate attention?
There’s actually no “going back up” or digging yourself of your own grave once you hit a large medical expense. Lots of people become homeless and bankrupt for life due to these issues.

Personally, my plan is to go back to Europe if I want to launch an American startup because there is no way I would do this without a good health insurance and good social safety nets.

Interestingly, we see much more startups in the US even though the downsides of creating your startup in the US are insane. I guess we are really optimistic individuals (or start up founders tend to be crazy individuals).
wipes tear... I love these stories. Kudos to you all for sticking with it and thanks for sharing the troubles you went through to get your first user base, a critical first step.
> - No operator overloading

Ehh??? It's the first point there.

And I don't like all this hate for operator overloading. I prefer to write "vec1 * (vec2 + vec3)" instead of "vec1.mul(vec2.plus(vec3))".
They don't get the contents of the message, and I don't believe (off the top of my head) that they get told who sent the message. It's just a "you received a message" notification, that the phone then has to expand into the actual notification itself by talking direct to the server.
Research shows that people view negative evaluations as being more intelligent. It’s extraordinarily difficult to be intelligently positive, and very easy to seem intelligently negative.
> whose primary concern is one of...

I'm not saying that all Republicans are white nationalist and anti-abortion but I haven't met a Republican whose primary political concern wasn't one of the issues I listed.

And everybody I've met whose primary issue is one of those that I listed has been Republican.

The vast majority of my extended family, whom I love, is Republican. There isn't some great mystery to understanding their political motivations.
Hey, I played in that CTF! Although, I ended up spending most of my time pwning QEMU instead. There was an easier challenge, aptly named Easy Escape, in which the organizers added a vulnerable memory-mapped device to QEMU. The device had the ability to read and write certain memory, so the exploit ended up being an attack where you triggered a memory operation which accessed the device's own memory - essentially causing the device's MMIO handler to recurse. That in turn set up a use-after-free situation which could be exploited for the win.

I love Real World CTF. In 2018 I participated in the finals round held in Zhengzhou, and there was a problem that involved Java and the RMI protocol. We ended up exploiting two zero-days in Java, reported them to Oracle and got a CVE: CVE-2019-2684. That was very exciting to me - to discover and exploit a bug in real software in less than 48 hours :)

Kudos to the VirtualBox hackers for doing that on such a high-profile bit of software - amazing work!
Absolutely speaking, a large number. Relative to the number of WhatsApp users worldwide? Maybe 1-3%?
I'm much more interested in Zig than Rust, but I'm also the kind of guy that is attracted to C over C++, and I also really like Go. I actually don't care about arguing the merits of one over the other, I'm just really happy and excited that there are cool new languages out there and it seems like here's really something for everyone.
The exact same things were alive and well in the suburbs of Sacramento circa 2010. Lots of "hecka" and the coolest kids could say "hella".
As someone who has barely done any web development in his life but having a fairly interactive side project in mind I wanted to work on, is Rails and StimulusReflex a solid thing to start out with right now, or would you recommend just going with React, Vue and so on? Navigating all those frameworks seems very complex.
I guess I would be in the D evangelism strike force, but I concur.

D also has a really rather nice composable allocator system in the standard library.
I'm currently playing with Lua in Roblox studio. It's a lot of fun.
Yea for sure but I think the message is that 1 hour of engaged time - such as going on a short date (at home or other) is much better than 4 hours disengaged and thinking of work while watching Netflix
Operator overloading is hated among programmers who never use math; in that community all uses of "+" are to do something other than addition, usually something that's not even remotely related to addition. Operators end up as one-character infix method names.
> my favorite question for people who like 1-based is "Given index and length N, how do I create index-1?"

Create index-1? I don't think I've ever needed do that. What does come up all the time in practice in both JS and Lua is "how do I assign past the current end of an array?"

In javascript (if you don't use .push) its arr[arr.length] = x

In Lua its arr[#arr + 1] = x

Even having worked with 0-based indexes for over 20 years, I still doubletake reading that javascript code when it’s embedded in complex code before I can convince myself its inserting. But the lua code is intuitive.

Likewise "read the last element in an array":

JS: arr[arr.length - 1]

Lua: arr[#arr]

I much prefer the lua version in all these cases.

And simplicity is important here because the code gets much worse when the array isn't in a local variable, but instead is some complex expression. confabulate(foo.bar.baz[foo.bar.baz.length - 1]); <-- Simple statement. Absolute mess.
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I was interested by this statement made in the article: "The entire concept of the heap is strictly in userspace"

Is that just an analogy between Kernel and userspace from operating systems? Or is it an actual term used for programming languages, when abstract from an operating system?

If I was running zig on a bare-metal embedded device, and wrote my own heap allocator, is it appropriate to call that a "userspace" heap allocator?
Because it's the Eastern District of Texas.
Are you claiming there are no laws banning holocaust denial in Europe? If you're not, then there's nothing incorrect about the statement you were countering.
I wonder why the Eastern District is like this? I wonder if it goes back to the oil industry and what I'm sure was a brutal fight over patents on drilling and refinery technology during the heyday of Texas wildcatting.
This outrage is over placing ads for one thing near another thing. Neither the ads nor the posts by themselves are inappropriate, but it's the composition of the two that people are upset about. This type of logic is almost as absurd as California's gun laws. Of course people tend to buy weapons out of fear, this is nothing new.
That can be disabled and is disabled in many situations where one would use C or C++ such as embedded devices. It can be disabled system wide or an application can disable it for itself.
Men should approach. That's expected. Women only approach when males are top 20%.

Incels are due to gender skew being realized. Appearing larger than true, mainly due to marketing and lumping in with males who weren't getting any anyway (, are shy/insecure, and/or still in high school).
The Snapchat ripoff statuses or the profile status? Note that profile statuses are very obscure and most people don't see them.
That theory really seems sensible to me.
I work on a templating library called lit-html that aims to just solve the declarative DOM w/ property & events bindings problem: https://lit-html.polymer-project.org/

It's plain JS with a very similar DX to JSX, and I think addresses that really well.

My team also works closely with Chrome, Safari, and Firefox on proposals like Template Instantiation that aim to build up more APIs that template libraries can use to be smaller, faster, and more interoperable.

I really think we will eventually get good templating in the DOM so at least the most common use-cases are taken care of.
Venus atmosphere is (roughly) habitable in terms of temperature and pressure at 55km up; seems like the elemental shortage there would be hydrogen and phosphorous; but that might be a better trade off than trying to farm the moon...
This is a bummer, the whole reason I bought my M1 Mac Mini was so I could side load apps like Discord and use native versions instead of running electron.

I think I’m past my return window but might see if I can return mine or not.
Point of GP is that failing while hitting unexpected medical issues in the US will destroy your life with high probability. There is no prize for those who lost, just a feel-good stories for those like OP who “survived”.
I think the article is trying to say the plus and the dot access are guaranteed to be language built-ins and therefore be very cheap to call. Furthermore they can't fail by throwing exceptions or such. (Note that in C the plus operator may result in UB, such as signed overflow, or forming a pointer beyond one past the allocated size.)
I think the fair solution is to just evaluate wages of executives vs average of lower level employees. If it's disproportionately higher than average, then unionization should be lawful. If it's not, then it should be illegal.

The point I'm getting at is most of the wages that could go to employees go to executives. Not even to the board or funneled back into the company for investment. Some businesses are fair and obviously pay the CEO fair compensation package. But not egregious ones like 100x the lowest paid employee or even higher. That's just flat out absurd then at that point and clearly someone can't stand not being able to compete in a worthless yacht race or some bourgeoisie garbage.
"But we have to protect this place" makes a great epitaph for rhetoric on the internet.
This looks great. It’s so hard to find an inexpensive antenna rotator.

Do you know when the project files will be available to download? I’d love to try making one.
A new person has no grasp on what constitutes a "more appropriate tool." People with zero experience don't get to dictate what tools people who know what they're doing should use.

Can you imagine if a layman walked into a mechanic's shop off the street and started trying to tell the workers there the same thing? Or a bakery?
I for one have literally never been bitten by it anywhere. I get that you could launch missiles with it but ultimately that's true of literally any structured programming.
I think he's referring to how when you're really dehydrated, you give people IV saline because it is a much faster uptake. I honestly don't know the mechanism and am not looking up why right this minute, but my inference from his comment is he's claiming the COVID vaccine hits way harder than a normal flu vaccine.

I've already had an anecdotal report from someone who received the vaccine that it 'floored her' for an entire day.

I hope this helps your understanding.
But it's not universal, since there are established languages like Fortran and R which are 1 based. And Fortran proceeded C.
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The point is that people should avoid that path until universal healthcare is a thing, and we need to showcase more stories of life destroyed not feel-good stories that give you hope that the system is “fine”.
These are basically patents on something talking to somethings securely over the Internet. It's absolutely outrageous. Luckily the first one is expired.
I mean, the stated use case is for a music school. I actually live in a University town. We have tons of students all "working remotely" within a single mile radius of campus, and many of them are connected together by our campus intranet -- the University does wireless point-to-multipoint links to connect all of these random housing options (which include large buildings they simply bought in the community) -- which is something I think we could easily push to include more buildings. I bet we could easily pull off 2ms networking overhead.

(And no: you are wrong about round trip. If you care about round trip time then 3ms of round trip by sound is so close that the violin player is going to be elbowing the singer. Sound is fundamentally slow, and you need to just accept that.)
Sure, which is why I said "surprising" and not "inconsistent" or "weird". New Lua devs are likely to have to debug an issue caused by typing "ponits" instead of "points" well before they get to the point that they learn about the global table.
If they go with the convention of using internet petitions to set official International System of Units prefixes, brace for prefixey-mcprefixfacebytes.
Rust is also getting configurable allocators soon. Most standard collections will take an additional, optional allocator.

There are also a few people who want to rethink the design of allocators to allow for inline storage. It definitely sounds interesting, but may end up being too complicated.
Much of the money was in Facebook stock, which the founder walked away from cos Zuckerberg gonna Zuckerberg.
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Waaaah! Pocket change. Nothing to see here.... Move along.
So I suppose most people should not start a company for the next 50 years?
Not recently. Is that commonly used for video?

To be clear, I’m an amateur at video and I do know there are lots of dedicated tools from scrubber dials to keyboards.

The part I can’t figure out is why Apple has this “pro” tech for which the most obvious and most hyped use-case is video editing, but they don’t sell any version of it a professional video editor could actually use.
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Unless I'm missing something obvious, striking is the only leverage a union has. If striking is illegal, what's their leverage?
Because it's incredibly unstable, and horrible to use? Yes, tried it, even earlier, when it was called GNUsomething.

EDIT Ring. It was called Ring.
As someone from SoCal, hella was always a NorCal colloquialism. I grew up around actual 'valley girls' and the associated slang, lots of silly things. Even after all of that, hella always sounded off to me.
A signal of its own success.
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