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> Modern cars will generally last at least 300k miles today with few problems.

That's not been my experience. I was a Honda loyalist and my first 4 cars were all Hondas and the reliability steadily decreased over the years. My first car, an 88, only ever needed regular maintenance and an alternator at 250k miles. My last Honda, an 07, was costing $2500 a year in maintenance when I got rid of it with 127k miles in 2015.

The three most reliable automobile manufacturers according to Consumer Reports Reliability Indexes, by a large margin, are Toyota, Honda, and Subaru.
don’t forget the pensioners whose money is in the hedge fund
Just want to say: I feel you.
Deloitte should be investigated for defrauding tax payers
Damn man the level of misinformation you guys are feeding in is at the next level. So which is it, the people who where rioting were actual farmers, sikhs or from BJP? In the same thread you guys are listing out all possible combinations.

In India there are Farmer organizations, labour organizations etc of all parties. The current agitation is by farmer orgs belonging to opposition parties. This is just politics nothing else.
Honestly, I can’t even make the morning stand-up without a 1g dose of shrooms, err in my coffee.
WSB / Gamespot: text adventure to explain it
Hello,

I am no programmer but made two simple text adventures to explain the WSB/GameSpot episode to a broader set of people.

This is the game from a WSB/DFB point of view: https://reloaddoc.github.io/wsbets/

This is the version from a Hedge Fund point of view: https://reloaddoc.github.io/wsb-hf/

It's simplified of course, in order to reach more people. Happy to hear your feedback. Thank you.
I think this is quite a common reaction for someone white coming from low socioeconomic backgrounds and making it to a good wealth. This is quite an achievement, more than 40% of children born in the lowest wealth quartile stay there.

I believe it stems from the feeling that the talk of white privilege is taking something away from this achievement, so there is a counter reaction.

To that I say that yes breaking the circle of poverty is a great achievement, but acknowledging that others have factors that make it even more difficult does not take away from this achievement.
In India there are Farmer organizations, labour organizations etc of all parties. The current agitation is by farmer orgs belonging to opposition parties. This is just politics nothing else.
Sorry for the terrible angle. The phone is hanging off my jacket. But this gives a good view of how my fingers share duty in the center of the keyboard: https://youtu.be/YH0YFJEcy0c

Apparently I misremembered my speed... Monkeytype tells me I average ~110 WPM. With one hand I get ~45 WPM.
Not unless you've 8 of them all across the whole world's cities streets. And an eidetic nemory. Now, that's creepy.

But seriously, a street recording is not forbidden in many countries, right?
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How does a "system" get a monopoly? Genuinely asking as I didn't understand your point. A mandi, from what I understand is a large market of traders.
That reminds me of this

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/05/09/is-there-a-case-for-sk...

Which tries to point out almost all treatments work and don't work and almost all papers that claim to do are by the true believers of the treatment.
I used to have a few friends who worked at deloitte as analysts I'd often catch up with them for lunch or after work drinks and I can guarantee you this was most likely made by a bunch of coked out 22 year olds working until 3am every night for a couple of months

It reminded me of a university style group project, constantly astonished that they’d turn over a few 10's of thousands of lines of python code that (usually) some government department was paying millions for. Not to smear my friends who worked there who must have to work incredibly hard given the conditions and the stress they were under, I always suspected their code must have been absolutely riddled with bugs, and I shuddered to think what it must have been like for the next poor grads who had to work on it after them.

And it was always some project where I was amazed there wasn't already some mature software out there that accomplished what they were doing anyway.

But anyway they seemed to have fun so whatever
Using TCP/IP used to not be a viable option for the average person either?
>Regulators and prosecutors do as industry tells them

Then why would any company ever get sued?
Although the ranking is named "social mobility" it isn't clear that that is what is measured; the report seems slightly confused.

The visual capitalist provides a definition of social mobility - children having a better life than their parents or being unconstrained by their socio-economic status. But the index they reference doesn't measure that. It measures more general Quality of Life metrics like prevalence of malnourishment or quality of the social safety net.

So while a high score reflects an easier life for the low end of the social ladder it doesn't actually measure their ability to move up it. I could on paper come up with a country that scored quite well on most of the index measures and had a rigid caste system where children could never outperform their parents and cannot escape their birth status.
growing up in the bay area you take it for granted when there are 5 different PMT shops every other block. I will also take calling it PMT (pearl milk tea) > boba to the grave
Can anyone chime in on their experiences hosting a synapse server? I have close to a dozen people on mine (although we don't federate much with the network as a whole, I set it up initially for a couple of groupchats/DMs with friends) and I'm not even close to hitting the limits of the $5/mo Digitalocean server I put it on. Does federating with the greater Matrix ecosystem cost that much extra processing power, that one user's chats are taking multiple gigs of RAM and gigabytes of space? It looks like the author's using multiple bridges, which could be a problem, but my understanding is that bridges are separate programs that hook into synapse via an API.

I will agree that voip/video isn't there yet, tried it with some friends and none of us could get anything working. I did go out and set up a TURN server afterwards, but once a piece of tech fails as badly as element did for us the damage is done. E2EE could definitely be done better as well, but in another post on here I saw a comment detailing a bunch of clients (many of which were abandonware) that didn't support E2EE at all. That's going to kill mass adoption, since you have no idea how many people are on those zombie clients that you still need to support. I wonder if the Matrix API has a way to define versions for these purposes, to advertise the highest supported version by both the client and server?
> Yes it's a lot of overhead, but this isn't a run of the mill green-field SaaS app a few 22 year olds can crank out in a few weeks.

I get your point, but also yes it is. The issue is superficial, it's like when I try to Zoom with my mom, it'll take 10 times longer as I need to explain and bring her along every single step of the way. This is the same for these type of contracts. A lot of the slowdowns come from people just not letting development take its course as it should.

Just look at the article, the states ended up choosing to use a bunch of SaaS startup not even designed for this use case in its place, like eventbrite.

And look at the issues:

> “It won’t work on Internet Explorer; it only works in Chrome. The ‘Next’ button is all the way down and to the right, so if you’re on a cell phone, you literally can’t see it,” says Rowe.

That's not a project management issue, that's a full on development issue, it doesn't even work on mobile in 2021 !!
I once went to a Bubble Tea place, and not knowing how the process worked, I said no to all of the additions, and ended up with nothing but chocolate milk and a big straw.
A more fair comparison would be a higher end Camry, Avalon, or L Series Lexus.

The Corolla is a very simple car in every respect and inexpensive. Reliability goes down when systems get more complicated and expensive. That's why the Acura and Lexus equivalents of there Honda and Toyota counterparts are much less reliable.
I think the evidence here points towards quite a bit of stupidity on the part of Robinhood. They didn't anticipate the way their platform could be weaponized.

There is plenty of malfeasance as well, as things have gone off in ways they didn't anticipate, RH and the other exchanges are making sure their big money clients are protected as best as possible from the WSB craziness at the expense of retail investors.

But the last bit wasn't planned which is what I was getting at.
Why? You download a single program, run it, it unlocks forbidden content. There is nothing in this flow that people way below average already can't do.
Has Django's ORM syntax changed recently?

If not, this is the first time I've heard someone say it's a pleasure to read/write.

I've done lots of Python over the years (Zope3, Django, flask, aiohttp, custom stuff...), and if there is one thing I wouldn't like to come back to, it's Django.

Sure, it's a do-everything toolset, but the syntax is an abomination (imho, at least, though I hope that doesn't need to be stressed every time).

To contrast ORM syntax, look at old SQLObject, Canonical's Storm or both SQLAlchemy's declarative and core implementations.
The details are important, though. The industry factors R&D in to gross margin, and typically reports of per unit losses include it.

If you spend $1bn to develop a car you sell 100k of break even, you just lost $10k per car. But that doesn't mean you're going to lose twice as much if you double the production.

If they were going to lose 10-15k per incremental unit, that's horrific and I'd love to know the details, that's why I'm asking.
> Espousing a desire for any change will always be offensive to someone, and so wanting any improvement necessarily includes being deliberately offensive.

This is not true. Whatever you’re disagreeing with another person, you don’t have to call that person any politically incorrect slur, which is really the kind of “offensive” that we are talking about here.
Venv is great for keeping dependencies separate but if your local machine doesn’t have the same version of Python as your server then you’ll need pyenv.
The current thing happening delhi is similar to the Occupy Capitol a few weeks ago. Of course this violence needs to be stopped, I mean it's the capital for gods sake.

India is not losing its freedom, but with the amount of population and rumour mongering on whatsapp/social media tamping down on the internet sometimes is necessary. Earlier before data become ubqiquitous, they used to clamp down on SMS.
So can VPN's! There is a reason why Opera still has market share in some countries.
Gross. I had bubble tea exactly once while interviewing at FB. I had to choke it back and try not look like an idiot.
Pretty sure that is the one and only reason why I didn't get an offer - "this dude is clearly from the Midwest and has no place here." /s
You already have to propagate code all over to handle integer multiples, don't you?

The email seems to be worried about things happening at the wayland level with fractions, but that's easily solved by rounding entire windows to the nearest pixel.
because it’s a free country. why would we restrict people from taking loans and who is the government to say the loan has to be denominated in dollars instead of shares?

short sellers have also discovered a lot of fraud companies because they have a monetary incentive

and for society as a whole, we should want the markets to price things accurately. things that are overpriced just means capital that isn’t being used somewhere else efficiently

it may seem ugly but capitalism is creative destruction. it’s an evolutionary system, the weak need to die so the strong can thrive
There are government contractors who are doing this kind of work! There's a group of younger companies that grew up around the Healthcare.gov rescue and work in conjunction with USDS, trying to build cultures of better software development practices in government. Check out the companies in the Digital Services Coalition (https://digitalservicescoalition.org/) and you'll see a lot of companies doing the kind of work you talk about.

I work for Ad Hoc (one of these companies) on software projects at the VA, and I'm happy to chat with anyone who's interested to hear more about this kind of work. I left a cushy Google job to work on important and needed systems, and it does feel so much better!
>I am doubtful if any Army officer, even if they are Sikh, will support what happened at the Red fort. Also the protests were supposed to be representative of are farmers, not just Sikh farmers. Giving it a religious angle will be detrimental to the protests.

Not sure what's the fuss. People who disrespected the flag are on the record. Police can arrest them. Why to malign the whole community?

BJP has disrespected the Indian flag so many times by flying their own party flag above the national flag.
My criticism has always been around the use of wealth as the indicator. I believe it is chosen instead of income primarily because:

1. It's perhaps easier to determine than income (especially for the ultra-wealthy, who often have negative-income in certain years).

2. The wealth-gap is much greater than the income gap, so leads to more dramatic-sounding statements.

But really what we care about is income--especially when one considers that wealth is just unspent income. And income is actually what determines lifestyle.
The comment replied to talks about

> Measuring the workload that I care about (Netflix CDN serving static videos)

not middleboxes...
These points are no different for a full code environment: I want them there too.
you sound like a quant. are you l? if so, always like to network/talk/make connections

hmu
Why compare the privacy implications of IPFS and Signal? They are intended for entirely different purposes.
The New Relic Hack the Planet Contest on Dev
Why Does Athens Look So Quirky?
Yes! Thank you, copy pasted wrong tab
I know a moderate amount about the history of US surveillance, the two WTC events, and the activity just before the last event.

The FISA court existed since 1978, so was available before the events.

ATT's Room 641A since 2003.

Total digital surveillance around then. (There's a documentary that discusses the transition from targeted to total dragnet under the DNI's direction basically overnight) and the building of several new data centers to store it.

Verizon domestic phone metadata collection started in 2013 also.

FYI: any historical legal limits on govt. surveillance that you thought you knew, are exactly that, historical. There is no limit on what can be collected or how at this time, whether domestic or international. Also, FISA was used in the Mueller investigation long after it was learned the warrant information was fabricated.

Yahoo allowed the govt. to do email keyword scanning on its servers via a govt-supplied kernel module since around 2015.

So that's the rough timeline for total digital surveillance, and mostly started after 2001.

You're correct that the govt. had enough info from many sources (Saudi embassies in US and Canada, pre-event operatives in US and Canada, foreign governments) so didn't need Internet sources at the time. (Canada was used as a base since Egyptian jihadis could avoid US airport immigration.)

Would Internet scanning have helped in 2001? Well, maybe, but 2001 was very early in the development of the Internet. Also, integrating that info at the time with other info would have been sporadic.

Today the problem is the volume of Internet traffic related to similar events, and staying ahead of it (collection, translation, scoring, etc.) But some of the most effective and well-known types of attacks can be done spontaneously by a single person with no warning.

Fusion reports sent to local LEO are usually ignored because of the volume and vagueness.

What can be detected an hour or so before an attack is mass cell phone traffic from one building as participants say farewell to their families.

Ultimately to understand this event's issue, just read the Koran. It's an ideology problem, not a digital surveillance problem. There's no secret what the motivations and goals are.

Is there a better or different way? I don't know. After the incompetence of the last event, it's hard to argue for less surveillance. The US is not good at policies in general.

The Chinese government is going with surveillance down to monitoring individuals using facial recognition and QR codes.
These are not starving farmers. Punjab has the richest farmers, I feel you are just associating the word poor, starving with farmers.
What _should_ happen is that people should not believe allegations that have no evidence.

Censorship and defamation law are just patches that we're desperately trying to use to make up for the sad fact that critical thinking was never strong in humans at seemingly any point in known history.
Eric Idle tries to understand what Python is
> then why are you outsourcing that part?

To what extent is this due to neo-liberal "small government" policies, where from the highest political levels - through lobbying - it is decided that outsourcing is a win-win that leads to financial savings and budgets that are cut, and later on cut some more, etcetera?

I've witnessed the crazy dance of enterprise consultants in large corporations (not government) and it is astounding how much money is wasted in inefficiency.

I was in a small tech shop and we had just won an RFP at a big corporation, with a very practical solution and for a limited domain. Our down-to-earth approach led to so much enthusiasm with corporate employees, that they sent all their consultants to us to investigate interfaces to ever more back-end systems. Scope ballooned, and we - being a small party - were dictated to support all this stuff. It was utter madness to such extend that we decided to more-or-less graciously wringle out of the contract. Just-in-time before we were committed to a monstrous project that was 100% certain to fail. And that was not the only time we experienced this phenomenon in big corp.
Bubble tea is bizarre. I only recently stumbled upon it on a trip to Bankgkok after a local said "let's get something to drink". I fell in love with it immediately.

It's something that has not yet fully permeated Northern Europe, and Helsinki (where I live) has (or had..) one or two places to get it from (pre-pandemic).
Tech people are just as vulnerable to the Dunning-Kruger effect as the rest of the population.
I agree. Python's virtual environments are awesome and easy to use. On a new server just start with

apt install python3-venv

Really easy to source the environments as needed during automation, etc.
You need to go reread the comment you called not true.
I can't see how it would matter for home assistant. It's not a CPU-bound application.
Agree.

I have a BSNL net connection (with reliability going down from good to worse). Being public sectore, Central govt is accountable for BSNL quality.

The way BSNL value is/was destroyed to promote Reliance... is now repeating elsewhere.
Dude, which media houses are controlled by the government? can we stop with this meme?

NDTV, the times group all of the influential media houses oppose the government. So pray tell me which media exactly is controlled by the government?
Once the mandis are gone, what prevents a monopolized market from then strong-arming farmers into bad deals? Farmers do not have leverage to negotiate good deals with big corps, and when the mandis eventually die away (simply due to this bill); they will be forced to enter into exploitative deals.

EDIT

> But can ONLY sell the produce to the local Mandi.

This is factually incorrect. Only about 30% of produce is sold in mandis. [1] [2]

[1] https://www.downtoearth.org.in/blog/agriculture/by-pushing-f...

[2] https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/opinion/can-free-trade-...
I think that argument gets stuck on language. "Knowledge" is not a single, atomic thing. If I have warp drive "knowledge" that has been claimed by someone else, then there are two non-mutually-exclusive options:

- I have the knowledge of how to integrate a fusion plant and warp motor to form a warp drive. The only purpose of this knowledge is a warp drive, therefore I cannot express it.

- I have the knowledge of the fusion plant, and a warp motor, both of which are claimed. I cannot build the fusion plant even if I intend to integrate it with a terrestial power grid. I cannot build a warp motor even if I intend to integrate it with solar cells. There's no other purpose for any of this, so I am forbidden from expressing it.

I'm not seeing another way to define "knowledge" that would allow me to express it despite it being claimed by someone else, so I conclude IP makes knowledge useless.
Yes. It's a negative externality [1] which reduces the value GP would otherwise get from their home.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality
Medieval Cambridge skeletons reveal injuries to manual labourers
I Got $10k to Shut Down a Company I Was Going to Close for Nothing
That was my initial reaction when i first saw the reddit threads started popping out. However, I have come to deeply regret my fear of being manipulated, because I could have gotten in very early.
> """ It’s not just DRM. Take “Goldman Sans,” a free font released by the finance giant and global supervil­lain Goldman Sachs. Goldman Sans is a copyrighted work, and it comes with a copyright license that you “agree” to when you download the font. Among the license terms for Goldman Sans is a non-disparage­ment clause – that is, a clause that prohibits you from criticizing Goldman Sachs. Goldman Sachs doesn’t need copyright law to prevent people from copying its font. It gives the font away for free. Goldman Sachs needs copyright law so it can boss people around – so it can tell them what they may (and may not) say."""

Wow! That this even exists blows my mind. It reads almost as evil as surreptitiously inserting a "all your money belongs to us" clause in a EULA in the hope that nobody will read it. I'm exaggerating, of course, but I'm not sure what part of the license is actually this "non-disparagement clause".

https://design.gs.com/d/legal/goldman-sans-license

The closest I could find in the above "restricted font license" is in the "Governing law" section -

"The User and Goldman Sachs hereby waive any right to a trial by jury and consent to exclusive jurisdiction of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York or, if federal jurisdiction is lacking, New York Supreme Court, New York County, for the resolution of any dispute regarding this License or the parties’ relationship arising therefrom."

.. which is limited to disputes regarding *this license or the parties’ relationship arising therefrom* .. and which doesn't seem as out of line as the article's wording suggests.
Why Does the US Have the Best Research Universities?
No, "middleboxes" does not just refer to MITM proxies, but a whole slew of things (many of which are broken in various different ways).
With the mandi system, the farmers never made money. It was always the mandi (the middle man) who made money. These mandis also can hoard and drive up the prices, They have total control over the supply. The farmer orgs currently protesting are all opposition backed orgs. so all of this is political
If they wanted to provide OpenGL ES support (all mobile devices) they could just use ANGLE which will provide OpenGL ES support on top of vulkan

https://github.com/google/angle
Ram usage also important.
Their suggestion of creating a brand new competing social media network is not a realistic solution to Facebook treating its workers badly. Your suggestion of just creating some AI to do all the work is similarly unrealistic.
Anything you say could imply fault, sadly. It's a lawyer's call after all.
How might you recognize a project like this?