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> The US response to WW2 took years.

That's incorrect.

4 months before the Pearl Harbour, FDR instated the Supply Priorities and Allocation Board by executive order. The purpose of the Supply Priorities and Allocation Board was to coordinate the distribution of materials and commodities related to national defense and to assist the Office of Production Management (OPM) in carrying out their overlapping duties.

On january 1942, merely 4 weeks after Pearl Harbour, FDR dissolved the SPAB and instated the War Production Board by executive order.

The WPB directed conversion of industries from peacetime work to war needs, allocated scarce materials, established priorities in the distribution of materials and services, and prohibited nonessential production. It rationed such commodities as gasoline, heating oil, metals, rubber, paper and plastics.

Moreover, the U.S. economy was already radically shifting before 1941. Between 1939 and 1941, unemployment feel from 17.2% to 9.9% and by 1942 it feel to 4.2%.

There's also an implicit assumption in your statement: the U.S. not actively joining the War until june 1944. That's incorrect as well.

The U.S. already actively engaged in the North African Campaign on 11 May 1942. Barely 6 months after Pearl Harbour.

Pearl Harbour kicked off the Pacific Theatre right off the bat. In June of 1942 - 7 months after Pearl - the Japanese Navy was soundly defeated in the Battle of Midway by Admiral Nimitz. August 1942 - 8 months after Pearl - the U.S. took the offensive at Guadalcanal.

Admiral Yamamoto, who led the Pearl attack, never believed Japan would be able to win from the United States in the first place. He believed it was a massive strategical mistake. He has conveyed his feelings:

> "I can run wild for six months ... after that, I have no expectation of success".

Which is exactly what happened.

So, no, the involvement of the United States in World War II is anything but an example of a nation state being forced to wait until it has ramped it's economic output before it can act.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Production_Board
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_home_front_durin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_African_campaign
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Midway
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guadalcanal_campaign
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoroku_Yamamoto%27s_sleeping_...
Also check out "Powers of Ten" of you do not know it yet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0
Well yes, and what is VSCode but a web app, hosted locally? :)

I was thinking about the online version when I wrote my comment, as that is what I usually use. My point is that even the browser version is basically perfect, which is rare to see in web apps (including "electronized" ones).
I've never found the narrative that more roads were supposed to cause more congestion particularly convincing. If you fulfill demand, and then more demand springs up, then you fulfill that demand too. It's like with housing: the solution is to build more, not less.

Only in infrastructure construction do you see complaints that people take advantage of the provided service. In any other business where creating more product prompted superlinear demand, this would be seen as a marvelous opportunity.
I was really hoping this was about the dance moves..
NZ locked down at the point the U.K. was in the 50k new infections a day range.

They had an extra month of warning compared to Europe, that made a big difference.
I'm OK with this. Private messages have shared ownership. You weren't sending them to yourself. Yes, there might be identifying information in the content of the messages. Yes, in the majority of cases it wouldn't make a difference.

In some minority of cases, though, they would. Abusive ex sending you messages over discord? Yeah, those might be evidence especially when both parties are saying different things. This is the most common example I can think of, but I'm sure there are others. Heck, even if someone wanted to reminisce about days gone by... they should have the right to do so in conversations they were involved in.
Well that’s settled then.
> kicked off Facebook and Twitter aren't the people you want to build a business on

They could have if they went with a provider located in another more conservative country. Or long-shot self hosted.

Not supporting Parler however, it deserves it's rightful place in the embers of eternal hell for negligently failing to protect & secure sensitive user data.
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This looks interesting, but personally I don't have any problems with virtualenvs. I use pipx to install "global" tools and virtualenvwrapper to make project envs. It all works fine really.
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Isn't this exactly what happened?
I think OP's point is that you have to focus this way to get to the point of knowing if a product is the right one to focus on.

Not focusing this way only guarantees that you'll move on before even finding out.
Yeah you're right. "Puttering about", with that sense of a machine chugging along, seems a different thing to pottering. Pottering in a garden seems more like patiently tinkering with something than continually moving from place to place.
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I love this and I aspire to eventually, if I come out of the grinder with any ambition, drive, or passion left, do something similar.

I abhor big corpratism, and love the way software can be independent and disconnected from it, if not usually in practice.

I deeply admire Basecamp's style of "you don't need VC money, keep it small, keep building something useful that gets you paid." I want that someday but someday is not this day.

I'm not much of an idea guy. I can build stuff. I can get really passionate about how things "should be" and implement process and infrastructure to get there. But whatever "it" is, just hasn't come to me yet.

I long to be an indiehacker but for all the supposedly wrong reasons.

I want to putter but don't know where to get the right seeds to be puttering for.
Another case of "it's impossible to do, says the only western country not doing it".
Before today, I’d only ever heard ‘putter’ used to refer to the golf club you use for ‘putting’...
Do you not use nvm or something similar then? That "messes with your shell" in exactly the same way.
Both are true, though, if you consider a non-power-user's perspective. Calc is behind Excel and Sheets in usability, but ahed of Sheets (and behind Excel) in "power". You can do more with Calc out of the box, but it's much more annoying to use than Sheets and if you don't need that power, Sheets is the better choice (ignoring philosophical issues).
It seems like this is one of those projects that isn't really interested in explaining anything to non-compiler developers. Every time this link comes up, we get discussion variations of:

- Where are the benchmarks?

- Benchmarks aren't relevant; it's only for detecting possibilities.

- But it has some kind of direct replacement mode, why aren't there benchmarks for that?

- Crickets...

- Where is this used in practice?

- By developers who take its advice.

- Examples?

- Crickets...
Trump had years of fomenting and approving of violence. Offering to pay legal fees for anyone who attacked his detractors. "Stand back and stand by", etc.

He might as well said "it sure would be a shame if someone was to storm that nice capitol building there"
If you're going to show off demo scene bitmap fonts then the best way would be to use a scroller. Feel free to use mine... https://codepen.io/onion2k/pen/rYgxdJ
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I have to imagine that it would be tough to cast actors in multiple languages that all fit the same vibe as the original. My understanding is that the casting process is relatively difficult and takes a lot of effort; why do it multiple times and risk putting out a mediocre imitation?
Of course not.

If advertisement be less capable of generating new customers, then it is less valuable.

The amount of money one can sell an advert for to the advertiser is of course related to expected return value for the advertiser of that ad.

If it be lower, due to less efficient targeting, then he will not be willing to pay as much for the same advertisement.
Articles like this remind me of the fact Paul Graham noted a decade and a half ago that a substantial portion of "news" articles are written by PR firms.

http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
They just have really good PR and much less touch points with consumers.
Of course you can! Attribution is recommanded to support the artist.
It’s why there was discussion about alternative currencies with Parler.
Do you know if it's possible to make QuiteRSS automatically download and cache the pages of new posts it finds? It seems to wait until I click on a post before starting to load it (quite slowly).
I'm not sure when exactly scene.org was started, and I experienced the demoscene in the late 90s / early 00s, so a different time than you, but I felt there was quite some effort at archiving.

Most demoscene artifacts worth archiving are of course the demos itself, and most of them are published at parties. And pretty much every party of any relevance, including many small ones, pushed their releases on ftp.scene.org.

Furthermore there's the "got papers?" project that archives stuff like flyers around demoscene (and related scenes) events:
https://gotpapers.scene.org/
I personally believe that 75% or more of what we do is not based on any thinking at all but rather comes from subconsciously copying other people. Its what we all do naturally.

So you don't really need to do deep introspection to find something more efficient. You just need to be willing to question what you are doing and do something that you know other people aren't necessarily going to like because they aren't used to it.
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Bill Evans in the long-form of this episode discusses how he approached his career: which was focus on the music first and foremost. He pushes back against trying to solve too many problems at the same time.

“If I spread myself all over the place I would have lost sight of everything.”

“Gosh if you try to accept every problem you’re just going to go insane. So you have to choose some field in which you operate at your best capacity which will then serve as an influence towards all the other problems that you may worry about. So if I take care of the music the best I can with my truest beliefs, then all these other things will be affected as I desire them to be affected, as much as I can affect them.”

I am immediately a fan of him.
“Demoscene?”
But that doesn’t help when you have zero atmosphere. Zero times anything is still zero. And doesn’t help enough when the atmosphere is too thin.
Of course IP addresses can be personal data. But in themselves they aren't. The GDPR do not claim otherwise, including recital 30.

The links you provide list examples of what may be personal data.

As already mentioned, and also actually stated in your second link, for something to be personal data it must be related to an identified or identifiable person. Their first paragraph summarises it well (the definition is of course the one in the GDPR):

"Personal data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable living individual. Different pieces of information, which collected together can lead to the identification of a particular person, also constitute personal data."

So if you have IP addresses and nothing else, you most likely do not have personal data.
But if you have IP addresses of identified individuals (e.g. logged users personally identified) you most likely have personal data. This is in line with an ECJ ruling from 2016 and the GDPR have not changed that.

A problem is that people make shortcuts so "IP addresses can be personal data" becomes "IP addresses are personal data".
Google can probably track you without cookies if you use Google Chrome. If they remove alternative methods of tracking they end up eliminating competitors.
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My sister has bought online from a shop which is quite clearly a scam. She paid with her card, there was no PayPal. Is there any way to block the payment?
A mod selected it and gave it some kind of boost or home page position.
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Oh man I always dreamed to have access to something like this. You made my day! Thank you
It should have a trophy case then :) About nice found optimizations
This resonates with me. I get the same experience from my youtube channel - making a modest but sufficient income to make a living, talking directly to my "users" every day - hearing their appreciation and the stories on how my videos directly changed their life. So enjoyable.
This post almost reads like a manifesto of the digital gardening movement that was showcased on HN a few months back [1], with some indiehackers sprinkled in. Just a small space of your own on the Internet to cultivate your thoughts/projects, outside the gigantic walls and rigidity of Big Tech platforms. There's even a subreddit [2] for them!

I like to think of software projects as belonging in three categories - massive high growth products (big tech), more niche low growth products, and side-projects. Digital gardens and small software projects with a band of loyal users seem to go between side-project and niche product. They are a welcome escape from the noise of big platforms, so I hope this developer/Internet trend catches on across the web.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24996780

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/DigitalGardens/
Showing once again that the main idea of most of these crypto coins is to pump and dump.
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I don't think that lip movements are the thing holding dubbing back. Most dubbed voices have a cheesy Days of Our Lives vibe. Its quite easy to tell a dubbed TV show without ever looking at the screen.
What further examination can help reject the anthropic principle?
If there are any rustc devs in this thread, would it be possible to make a superoptimizer for Rust MIR? To do optimizations on this pre-monomorphization representation always sounds so attractive.
Reminds me of the time the team I worked with allegedly short-changed Discover, an advertiser with Amazon. The story went... people who reported it internally got fired: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8600716

Usually, I have seen these things happen due to bugs (or worse, wanting to game metrics); and because Amazon can be ruthless with data determining a lot of decisions, very few (not all), especially at the top, are willing to admit incorrect metrics that might jeopardize their standing with the leadership.

You're what you measure.
“I am not a number! I am a free man!”

— The Prisoner
"... clash with police" almost always means "are viciously attacked by police".
Copyright means the real owner has the right to object to his action. Good luck.
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Don't forget one of my favories, easily up there with graphical applications without screenthots:

The new programming language without sample code on the landing page.
I'm pretty sure I had to send in a photograph of my passport when I created my AirBnB account back in 2013.
> Autopilots are great and can do much, but not everything (yet?)

Biggest issue with autopilots is that, well, they're part of the machine, the human comes in very important when the machine is partially crippled - we've already seen what happens to automation when critical sensors fail in the 737 Max.

> You can’t blame a machine but you can blame a person when an accident does happen. Accidents can be happily resolved as “pilot error” without having to call back the entire fleet of aircraft.

That's not really the case, air accident investigations won't blame the pilots just because they're there. They'll happily point out design defects, or maintenance failures, or pilot error, if it was actually a contributing cause.

Of course, plane manufacturers love being able to blame the pilots when their autopilot engages Kill All Humans mode.
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Are you talking to me? Azure brings iconic characters to life with Neural Voice
Here's a clickable link: https://github.com/MatteoGuadrini/dinosay
Sorry to hear. I wonder how many stories out there, put people in very absurd positions. Online collaboration is great, but only when it is working. And when it is not, telling 10+ stakeholders you are presenting what happened is just embarrassing.
Drawing diagonal lines as a kid in the 80s is exactly how I started :) My very first program (or at least the first one I have evidence of) was about drawing a bunch of lines on a ZX Spectrum [0]. I should make one of these "how it started / how it's going" things.

https://gabrielgambetta.com/computer-graphics-from-scratch/d...
It seems almost meta that they have scanned the pips on a CD https://www.gaudi.ch/GaudiLabs/wp-content/uploads/LaserScanC...
Just finished the season finale. Keep watching, it’s worth it.
Well, I thought they would delete them after having requested it, but they did not. In any case, there is a feature on Discord: I can delete messages (for everyone). So as long as I can log in to Discord, I can delete messages. I doubt they actually get deleted though, probably just changes its visibility, but in any case... why would not they do that if I could do it anyway were I to be able to log in?
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Only tangentially related, but are there any projects out there that modify CD or DVD readers to make it possible to read the raw (analog) pits and lands from the disc? When I was rescuing the last batch of burned CDs from my teen years a few years ago I unsurprisingly had some with lots of read errors. Googling around only lead me to forum threads where people recommended certain drives that would be very good at error recovery, but I thought it might be even better if you could get the raw stream from the disc and then do all the EFM reversal etc in software with more advanced analysis, brute forcing etc. But nothing of this kind seemed to exist.
Because the Python.org installer does not have an uninstaller or an upgrader, so you end up with files dumped in various locations on your system.
There is a reason you wont find many such guides. For example, the programmers quick guide to machine learning looks like this:

Step 1: Download library X solving your specific need.

Step 2: Run library function Y on your data, this creates the model you need.

If you want to learn machine learning properly you need to go do a real course and learn the fundamentals. If not that is all you need to know. "How do I know what library to download or what function to run to get good results?" yeah, that is the hard part, a tutorial can't teach you this, go learn it properly in a university course or equivalent or spend a lot of time building experience if you want to be able to answer that.
Fortunately she didn't use a debit card. Ask for a "chargeback." Use that word. Don't just dispute the charge, then resolution will be under the control of the scammer. Say, "I want a chargeback." Under Visa Int'l/MC rules, the bank has to initiate the chargeback and take the money back from the holder of a merchant account who has charged your sister's credit card. Remember the magic word,"chargeback." Note also that too many chargebacks will cause the termination of a merchant's account.
One problem is that it doesn't work as simply as "all APIs this add-on uses are supported, so let's enable it" – they instead still insist on explicitly whitelisting every individual add-on. So a few really popular extensions are whitelisted and the long tail is left behind, even if it might work perfectly well or at least useable enough.

I have for example one small extension that I maintain, which is basically little more than a glorified page script which therefore doesn't use any special extension APIs at all. Despite that, it took months for it to be enabled, and if it wasn't as popular as it is I might still be waiting even today.

> the new browser is significantly snappier and uses less power in my experience.

Ha! From a cold start, on my phone launching the new Firefox (with less add-ons) and loading a page seems to take approximatively twice as long as on Firefox 68, and still ~50 % more than even on Firefox 55.
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Of course no one at McKinsey was indicted personally.

The law specifically provides for it, but it practically never happens.
> Of course you own it and they will own it.

While the receiver of a letter on paper certainly owns the letter she doesn't own its contents. The copyright of the letter remains with the author.

So you can frame the letter and hang it on your wall you violate the authors copyright if you publish it without authorization.
You mean building out their own datacentres?
You know, that might be about the first legitimately good use of deep fakes.

Personally I've tried to watch programs dubbed into English before and found it very distracting, to the point I'd almost rather watch it in the original language subtitled (though that takes considerably more concentration).

I'm not sure how much of an issue this is to people who don't have English as a first language, where they have presumably encountered dubbed English films since childhood.
What search terms should a site like this show up for? I poked around and all I found was short generic bios and links to social media and photo sites. I don't understand what searches should return a site like this, other than the person's name and some other identifying info (to disambiguate from the other 10 million Pauls).
> Restaurants usually go for that last option.

So restaurants basically run their own health insurance company?
Reminds me of this:

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That's a brilliant T XD
I think it's called Sharpe ratio, not Shapre ratio.
The Pirate Bay have managed.