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A Pandemic Is Hard Enough. For Some, Being Single Has Made It Harder
I don’t think this is the definition of difficult the author is using. I find JavaScript intimidating and difficult due to too many tools and frameworks. I cannot rely on any of their documentation, either on their site, or the peripheral collective experience of stack overflow, to be accurate to the actual thing I’m trying to use. This makes it difficult to me.
Here in Moscow russian citizens can get the vaccine absolutely free in about of 100 authorized medical partners. I've personally got first dose of Sputnik V yesterday without any problems or shortages.
And how do you know if you can grow weed in your closet?

Well, if you can put a few servers in there, you’re good!
Grishka, DA!

Well, in Russian there're definitely words for "obruchal'noye" I "svadebnoye" rings, so they aren't the same. Agree when my parents got married in the USSR, there was only the wedding band. But somehow the history of Russia and its language has both.

In many cultures, the engagement is a commitment to a marriage and is signified with a ring, and then the wedding itself is signified with another ring. As the other person said, the engagement ring is generally more ornate that the wedding one.

The engagement ring signifies among other things, a hefty commitment and seriousness about getting married. The wedding band signifies the infinity you'll spend together. In Judaism, the wedding ring is meant to be completely plain to not mar the infinity aspect of it in any way.
If I have the competency and like it, then why not? Also consider this is in the context of personal projects and small operations where scale is not the issue.

I get way more bang for the buck in terms of compute, storage, and memory with self-hosted/dedicated.
Experimenting with Email
Yet from the leaked contract it mentions no where that EU stock will have to come from EU facilities. So it's obvious that EU demands to have the contract fulfilled no matter where vaccines are produced, why should the EU care about that?

The elephant in the room is that there might be indeed an export ban of vaccines manufactured in the UK, disguised as contract obligations.

Yet when EU mentioned export ban it became some sort of "hostility", while AZ doing it with UK isn't hostility but contract obligations?

What if EU slapped in the contracts that all BioNTech production would be all for Europe first due to the contract obligations? As long as it's hidden from public it's not an export ban, right?

All of this does indeed sound like politics, smoke and mirrors. So I hope AZ gets squeezed to at least make it clear that some contracts are being privileged over others.
I've been in technical, not management, consulting, but House of Lies felt disturbingly accurate.

Except I usually just stared at bad movies in hotel rooms to decompress after dealing with clients, rather than blow and strippers. Sue me, I'm boring.
I've had some brutal conversations around "quantum", especially in undergrad when I made the mistake of mentioning that I was taking a semiconductor physics course that required us to learn quantum mechanics at at least an introductory level. Many people seem to make a wild leap from "at a deeply microscopic scale, we have to use statistics to predict what's going to happen because it's not nearly as deterministic as it is in the macroscopic world" to "at a quantum level, all of our brains are resonating in quantum harmony and that's why my cat is so intuitive"

Wonderful typo with "landmind" by the way. It's perfect!
I am curious if someone can elaborate on the scenario in which one is accidentally committing secrets to source control.

For us, anything that would be a "secret" is stored in a SQLite database that sits next to the executable. In many cases, these secrets would additionally be encrypted with platform-specific techniques such as DPAPI. None of these databases are under source control and would be ignored upon commit.

If we want to load a secret into our application, we have to use an administrative web interface exposed by the application in each required environment. We view the management of secrets and other parameters as an important feature for our product and have built tooling up accordingly. Non-developers are able to manage secrets in our software, and we are actually trying to make this mandatory for compliance reasons.
It's probably true, but a little bit silly to repeat that diamonds aren't special because there are many of them still in the ground. It's like saying furniture is worthless because there are so many trees, or music doesn't exist because air is all around us.

A diamond isn't just any stone, it's a stone that has been selected for its visual qualities and cut by an expert craftsman. It's a beautiful human artifact.

Sure, there is no fundamental reason to associate diamonds and "love", and the whole diamonds politics are horrifying -- but that doesn't mean diamonds aren't interesting or fascinating.
I think you just have to come up with strategies to force people to express these clichés in different words. With this one in particular I'd try to work down a tangent about how Libertarians take this as their basic "anti-violence" tenet in the NAP. Then I'd try to locate the boundaries where people end and begin through Buddhist/Hindu arguments (that usually ultimately deny those boundaries.) Penultimately, I'd start joking about all the strange things that Libertarians are forced to refer to as violence to justify their responses.

Then I'd circle around to the original subject under discussion, and argue that the boundary that they drew may not be extreme enough in light of some of the things we had just discussed, and ask how they justify drawing the boundary in that particular place.

Now we're having the conversation that I wanted to have in the first place, and I've positioned myself to argue from a perspective farther from the position that I actually hold than the person that I'm arguing with is. Their disagreement with the arguments that I am now making will generally push them closer to my actual position, and their agreement with the arguments that I'm making will push them into defending an obviously extreme, outlying position (which is what I chose it to be.) Both create cognitive dissonance that can be resolved by accepting my actual position.

edit: There are infinitely many other angles, too. I like talking about desert, as in "the property of deserving", because it's not something most people have thought about as such, and it can be spoken about in pretty ordinary language. Then you're talking about positive liberty rather than the negative liberty of "freedom from restraint." To continue to use the cliché in those terms involves having to change signs (-/+), which is difficult and requires thought (if you never learned DeMorgan's rule or practiced explaining it in plain English.) Now you're having a real conversation.

tl;dr: If you can force people to reword their clichés, you can have a real conversation. The best way to do this is to attack them from strange angles.
What I'm saying is that trees represent a single path through a graph. As requirements or nodes change, the path can change, or multiple trees can coexist.

Think tags on items represented on a tree, where clicking the tag reorients the category around what you clicked on.
This isn't a model for identity, this is attempting to justify a rearchitecture of identity systems primarily for solving the scenario of plurality
You’re extrapolating a bit here. I do think it will have an effect of life cycle costs just not to the extent that cars will last that long or people will suddenly start keeping cars for 30 years. That goes against basic reliability theory as well as human behavior.

You have parts in an ICE vehicle that can last 30 years or longer. But the reliability of your vehicle is the totality of the overall reliability. The drivetrain is a major constituent so obviously iimproving reliability will increase the overall design life. But it won’t bring the other components up to the same. For example, my last car was replaced because the suspension was rotting from harsh winters. The drivetrain was still perfect, but it didn’t make sense to maintain/keep it considering the depreciated value of the car.

Besides that, many people look at cars as a status symbol rather than strictly on utilitarian means. I doubt many people will keep their EVs long, just like most don’t keep their perfectly working cell phones for a decade. The current stock price of TSLA seems to indicate most don’t think the market will shrink this much
The page is incorrect (or out of date), it's 39 DKK (€5.23), and 24PLN (€5.27).

Still cheaper, but only just. It might be to try and attract people to the Ikea shops in Denmark, which are generally significantly less conveniently located than their closest competitor here, Jysk.
I agree that testing is not a panacea, but I also don't think it is completely divorced from design.

I see testing and design as cooperative processes, I agree that design is almost always the highest yielding process in any non-trivial program, but I think of testing almost as a design phase that tries to invert the design to look for weaknesses.
Probably the homeserver.yaml file, as yaml is a standard format where indentation matters, and is always 4 spaces.

# cat /etc/matrix-synapse/homeserver.yaml|wc -l
1611
# cat /etc/matrix-synapse/homeserver.yaml| grep -v '^\s*#\|^$' | wc -l
101

The config file is just well-commented.
I actually think it lines up everyone's incentives nicely :)
I would say it is fair.

The problem is the manufacturing process. The vaccine is slowly grown in large volume bioreactors. If you need long time from investment till finished product, then obviously people who invested sooner can expect that they receive the product before those who invested only now.

What happened is that both the first UK and the first EU batch had a low yield. The problems were (hopefully) fixed but it will be months before the next batch will be ready.

If the EU had invested sooner, these problems might have been already fixed by now. The UK risked more with earlier investment, so they should get some payout from the risk.

From the moral side I think that it would be fair for the UK to send some vaccine supplies to the EU to show solidarity. Maybe they will do if we talk about this more dispassionately. On the other hand, legal threats are not going to work and may only spoil relationships.
The point is that Tesla's economies of scale aren't going to be a comeptitive advantage against companies like Honda, Toyota, or Panasonic all of whom have huge economies of scale. For example, we don't say Apple's economies of scale are a competitive advantage, because most of their competitors have the same economies of scale, no one seriously believes Apple's scale gives it a significant advantage over Samsung.

So at best you've got a propriety solution that's going to be swamped by the generic charging stations, a network effect on FSD that's entirely speculative, and no real advantage of scale.
Every time this came up, I always insisted that it should be called booby tea. Because that's exact what Boba means, large breasts. That's a slang term meaning king of wave, because large breasts move in wave motion.

The pearl tea name came later, due to the vulgarness of it's predecessor I guess.

Now, you can enjoy more next time you suck on those sweet bouncy topioca.
I am spooked about LACK as a rack: its legs are far from made of strong material, and wood screws are very likely to tear out with a sufficiently heavy rackmount item. I'm not talking big servers; just small music synthesizers would be sufficient.
For my music rack I had used the discontinued RAST end table:
https://us.amazon.com/IKEA-Ikea-Rast-Nightstand/dp/B01GUHPVK...

End table: $15
rails: $8
screws: $1

It's too bad they don't make it anymore.
Languages change, often quite quickly. English, in particular, does not _have_ universal hard and fast rules about grammar; the correct grammar is what is used, not what’s ordained.

Particularly in the late 19th and early 20th century, there was were attempts to impose hard rules, sometimes _new_ rules by reference to Ancient Greek and Latin, which were then believed to have immutable rules. Some of the grammarians writing the books introducing this even complained that great works of English literature didn’t obey the rules they’d just made up, which you’d think would have given them pause.

In a sign that there’s nothing new under the sun, there’s at least one example where we have fragments from important second century Roman historical texts only because a fourth century Latin grammarian used one as an example of ‘incorrect’ grammar (in reality the language had just changed).
It's 2021. 1999 wants its arguments back.

At the language/runtime level Java has been faster than anything else we have used on the Web with huge success (faster than PHP, Ruby/Rails, Python, Node, for example) even since 2000, and is as fast or faster than Go. It's also used in HFT - where ultimate speed means a lot.

Seriously, your argument sounds like the first year CS student argument of yore, where they hear that assembly is faster, and want to rewrite everything in assembly (fortunately today's first year CS students are more well informed).
I think it might be "union" you should wrap in quotation marks.
VS Code Day 2021, Erich Gamma Keynote
> So far, AWU has called on YouTube to permanently ban Donald Trump

So one of the top priorities of the union is to push the company to cancel more freely, to shrink the overton window, to be more politically partisan and to conceal more from their customers for their own good.

Of course they have every right to do so, but it doesn't give me confidence that this union will be a positive force.
I’m torn on this.

On one hand I see the value in helping people who are sick, which is clearly a good.

On the other hand I’ve seen how casually antidepressants can be consumed and seen them offered in social contexts and can’t help but suspect that pervasive mind-altering drugs could have a negative effect on society.

Reminds me very much of Brave New Worlds Soma
"it only works in Chrome"

Thanks, I hate it. I use Firefox. This 50% of my time on the internet.
It's common (for novices/experts who are in a rush ) to accidentally commit AWS keys for dev environments, or other API keys (e.g. Mailchimp) or other secrets (2FA, SAML certs etc).

We all know how to do it right, but particularly early on in a project it's easy to test something with a hardcoded API key, then forget and commit it.

Picking a framework that makes this a less obvious choice (e.g using a .env file that's already in gitignore by default) helps a lot here.
I am a Mensa member, and I can confirm that most of us aren't truly smart in any important field. We just got a high score at a test with some drawings.
What do you use for the frontend part? I'm using Vue or React + django-drf, but it always feels like it could be much simpler for most SaaS applications. Using Django forms feels too limited, on the other hand.
Which, considering JavaScript is a language many compile to, sucks. I have said it many times: recursion is unbiased. Compiling a languages looping facility to something recursive is simple. Forcing one looping facility into the shape of another looping facility is the path to suffering.
269 peers, 104 representatives (I presume stakers)? Ethereum has over 10 000 Eth1 nodes online, and 75 000 stakers (+14 000 queued) currently validating the Eth2 network.
There’s also a Ten Ren on Grant in SF Chinatown. I still have a punch card..
> I have never had a static type checker (regardless of how sophisticated it is) help me prevent anything more than an obvious error (which should be caught in testing anyway).

This is the static vs dynamic type debate in a nutshell. Personally I think Typescript hits a sweet spot of static typing by default with an escape hatch (via the `any` type) when you need it. I think more self-documenting code makes the tradeoff well worth it (with the added guarantee that the documentation is correct). And most importantly, I like getting feedback from the editor as I'm typing rather than having to write code then run tests, then write some more and perhaps modify the tests, etc.
You shouldn’t need to reboot the system for settings to take effect - pretty much everything except some kernel upgrades can be done without a reboot.
Which is relevant for a server how?
It will be highly interesting to see what happens here, and what the results are.

Let's suppose, hypothetically, for the sake of reasoning about the future, that India passes this law.

OK, so now India has an official, single, state-sponsored cryptocurrency, er, "digital currency".

Well, India still needs the Internet to function to do that.

If the Internet is still functioning, and we presume that it will be, then how are they going to block other cryptocurrencies, er, "digital currencies" from being transacted?

Well, it could be China to the rescue!

China's firewall "block out all other countries' Internet" technology that is!

But if they use something like that, if they create a "walled Internet garden" in India, then what happens to Indian Citizens who travel abroad, and want to transact in India's digital currency?

In fact, what happens if two people, who are not Indian, who are not located in India, want to create a transaction in the new Indian digital currency with one another?

In other words, what are the rules of that game?

What happens if you have two or more Indian Citizens, who have accounts with the new digital currency, who act as minature "bankers", (that is, to produce surety/insurance/act as a source of trust) who then underwrite contracts which can be paper or digital, where these contracts are detached from the system, and can be traded by any number of other people in any number of other countries?

Make that practice illegal?

You could -- but this is sort of how paper currency first became valuable -- because it could be used as a proxy for gold (the goldsmith being the party that brokers the trust).

Also, it's sort of what commercial paper and stock markets and derivatives do... there's an underlying object of value, and then there's a piece of paper which grants some form of control to the underlying value, and a "trust broker" that guarantees that that relationship holds...

Make that practice illegal and you've basically banned stock markets and commercial paper of all sorts.

The banks and major financial players (who are well connected politically in whatever country we want to talk about) -- won't have that.

So it'll be interesting to see how this plays out, if India can control it, or if, more than likely, "creative" people in the finance markets will find ways to game the system...

Of course, the only other option is to let all of those uncontrollable digital currencies proliferate.

I'd say that India, with respect to creating this digital currency, is "damned if they do, and damned if they don't"...

In other words, there's no simple solution...

But, on a positive note, 10+ years or so into the future, future historians and policy makers should be able to get a whole lot of information as to how this played out, what was negative, and what was possitive, the effects and ramifications...
Ask HN: What book has the most accurate depiction of tech in the next 10 years?
I was looking for some near-future sci fi recommendations, particularly anything with a compelling prediction of what the next 10-20 years will look like.
> What a fantastic website.

Wow... the first channel I landed was CBS from 1992 with coverage of the recession with the day labor for manual workers in Los Angeles with white guys next to Mexican laborers, and then as if that wasn't absurd enough the next segment for the 'Michelangelo virus' with John Mcaffee (the guy who I saw said he'd eat his dick if BTC didn't reach $1 million [0]) was pumping his anti-virus software in Santa Clara like it was the pre-cursor to Y2k or something. And then wrapped up with the breaking up of the Soviet Union's Red Army military disbanding to serve as local counterprts for now independent soviet satellite nations.

I'm not sure why I felt I was watching all of this like it it was the first time, even though I lived all of through this and saw a lot of it in TV first hand back then... it was incredibly surreal.

0 https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/john-mcafee-dick-bitcoin-bet...
Part of the experience is knowing it's real...
Lol Java in 2020 for performance & that too with front-end? I can only imagine the wait-times between changes to source.
UK's first gigaplant in Blyth will bring 3k new jobs to the North East
Perpetual Storytelling Apparatus
Note that small noctuas are not magic, like other small fans they're noticeably louder than larger fans.
A common situation for this is when people put a Github "personal access token" in a dotfile and then store all their dotfiles on Github.

https://docs.github.com/en/github/authenticating-to-github/c...
rnnoise is fantastic. I use it in an Equalizer APO filter chain on my gaming machine along with an EQ and compressor which are fed from a dynamic mic. I consistently get comments about the quality of my mic setup in-game and on Discord.

The best part is that it has almost no impact on voice quality, unlike Krisp and some other options I have tried. Singing into the filter chain even sounds good, with the exception of when my 5 year old daughter joins in. rnnnoise seems to think that her voice is noise and tries to intermittently filter it out, which causes a volume warble while we sing together. To be fair, 99.9% of the time her voice should definitely be considered noise I want filtered out. ;)
In the video you can hear only one of the two. Other one is connected to other power supply.

We had a lot of them, with full configuration, at full load. Go, figure.

They can generate a lot of heat though.
Don't engage just someone repeating the same FUD from 20 years ago...
He was referring to sandboxing in terms of not polluting the installed packages/libraries on the server and not from a security perspective. But even from a security perspective, there are solutions to this problem like running containers as an unprivileged user using podman.
In this age of "infinite" content curation is really important. Inspired by the 90's MTV experience I've built https://humanmusic.tv/ to replicate that but with indie music from the last 10 years.

I'm also running a web crawler to discover fresh music videos from various music blogs.
These big companies always have a lot of overhead. The middle layers of management are useless. Often the government will try to work with smaller companies that are under 50 people. However, if these small companies land good contracts the big companies will buy them up.
They aren't using DSA to be fully modern though.

https://www.khronos.org/opengl/wiki/Direct_State_Access
Starling: A Scalable Query Engine on Cloud Function Services
Strangely I was following up where the Norwegian Power cable landed in the UK, and I've spent hours reading about Blyth.

It makes some sense to build a battery plant where a 1.4 GW power line connects to the UK grid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea_Link
Thanks! Looking forward to reading the paper..!
There are no riser cables that are stable for PCI-Ev4.
> The freedom of one ends where the freedom of the other begins

> Usually it doesn't make sense and doesn't convey any concrete meaning

This is the first time I have heard this quote, but it makes sense to me. Why do you suggest it doesn't make sense?
Focus on the means rather than the end. This takes off the pressure and helps you work efficiently so that you achieve your goal, instead of just dreaming about it. It also helps overcome procrastination.
Robinhood Play Store app back to one star
State of Chaos Engineering 2021