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> This precisely is the difference of having genetic predisposition to addiction, trauma etc.

Maybe. Or maybe just the culmination of a series of bad choices.

> No, it’s not a choice more than obesity / food addiction is.

That's a choice. Nobody is making you buy the potato chips and cheesecake. Nobody is holding you back from the gym. It might annoy a lot of very fat Americans, but you've got effectively the same DNA as everyone else - but they're not as fat. It's a cultural thing and a choice.

Yes I know I'm glossing over some nuance here, but personal responsibility remains. Ignoring that seems like just resigning yourself to be blown wherever the wind takes you.

Take responsibility for your decisions, take a good honest look at where you are, what you don't like about that, make a plan to change that, and then execute it.
This has been my experience. For the majority of applications that are developed using Ruby —- which means Rails —- the Ruby universe is performance and mature. I’m keeping an eye out for what happens in the Rust community, but for now Rails remains a solid choice for spinning up most any web application.
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> Scala, Haskell, even Typescript have painful compile times.

Can’t speak to the first two, but in some places TS has pathological compile times when you’re trying to give more information to the compiler. A recent example is trying to appease type inference on a set of generics where a wrapped function couldn’t narrow types from its wrapper even though they were totally valid but mostly inferred. I wrote a type guard which passed the same values with explicitly narrowed types and... it just never completes. Pegs all my CPU cores in VSCode. Used throughout my project and effectively kills type checking.

I know enough about the underlying function I’m calling that I just cast to any, but now I have a mine waiting to be triggered.

To be fair, this is in frontend land where it’s not TS’s fault that the types they support are so bonkers to begin with. But holy hell it’s not always obvious what’s gonna cause compile times to skyrocket.
But nothing prevents a law enforcement officer from hiring someone who's already on the inside.
For instant messaging you need to be able to receive messages even when the phone is locked. So the key material can't be destroyed and must be left exposed.

You could encrypt old messages separately, but the result would end up being very inconvenient.
Good point – we need not marry careers to color. People always forget "pink" used to be a color reserved for little boys (as a derivative of red) and baby blue for little girls (derivative of indigo).
I was about to call you out on ⌘-Down opening a file but I just tried it and was amazed that it works (most of us do ⌘-o or just double click).

Deleting a file is ⌘-Delete.

Everything in the Finder sidebar is removable (I've removed Recents and Tags, though I find Airdrop and iCloud Drive useful) and you can add custom stuff if you want something else (I always put my home folder at the top of the sidebar, it used to be there by default on earlier OSes).

⌘-Q is useful for closing apps, but I usually just open up the switcher (⌘-Tab) then while keeping ⌘ pressed you can tab over to other apps and just press Q to quit them.
A tip:

Switch the dock to a QT based one.
Actually i just checked their entitlements on github and it is set to NSFileProtectionComplete.

Seems stranger than I thought

edit: After diving into code, they are using NSFileProtectionCompleteUntilFirstUserAuthentication for their DB file, probably they have some reason
Yes. Even if every major country on earth requires PoW systems to use renewable electricity (which won't happen any time soon in the first place) and can't run on the regular mixed grid, then after switching to countries without such laws (until there are none left), the renewable energy will be bought up at the source and the coal and gas plants will continue to supply everyone else. Nothing changes.

We need to change everything else to renewable before this really starts to be effective.

It would make a much bigger impact if some countries, where users want to use cryptocurrency, make it illegal to use proof-of-work-based goods or currencies (whatever it's classified as). Suddenly a coin with PoS or something else becomes much more popular and we might, perhaps, shift over to a digital coin that is not a climate disaster.
Then there's Android One, but that is an absolute disaster at this point, with unoptimized software and updates that brick phones. Google themselves haven't been doing too good on software reliability this year; just look at Android 11, especially on the Pixel 2 and 4a. Both have huge bugs and in the 2's case, they will never be fixed. And some Android 11 bugs won't be fixed until Android 12 comes out.

I'm seriously considering a switch to iOS at this point.
Why would you hate someone for sending you some painting materials? This sounds like a fun idea with a low barrier of entry - if you just don't want to do it, you can always... not attend? Just watch?
I’ll bet their prominence is fairly carefully vetted, and probably part of their job description rather than the more typical tech industry “personal brand building”.

But then that’s evidently true of Google (and FAANG in general) as well.
You're right, I should have written "subject to".

Also, I do think it's likely that any adjustments to the laws were negotiated ahead of time so as to avoid the Queen withholding consent.
What simmering civil war in Pakistan?
Others have covered the lack of control and the general policy of "Don't inflict interests, support them." angle.

But for me, the biggest realisation was not rushing or expecting things at an age.

Do you honestly think talking dinosaurs with your same kid as a teenager or adult will be less fun?
It will be different sure, but no less great.
The Pixel is more of the Surface of Google devices. Devices made by the software company to showcase their platforms.
Your theory is that a digital currency relying on a delicate, sophisticated international network and an even more delicate technology supply chain, plus massive amounts of wasteful energy consumption will do well in "dramatic global economic failure"? I think "likely" is doing an awful lot of work there.
Can you explain why the lawyers needed mirror sites? Does mirroring a site mean making a local copy of it?
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Oh, thanks. That's interesting, there's a long history of decimal time.

Afer fixing the time we can fix the calendar. See the Hanke–Henry Permanent Calendar at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanke–Henry_Permanent_Calendar
The article is centered around a quote from Matz, Ruby's creator:

> "Ruby 3 will be three times faster compared to Ruby 2."

The context is that he was rereferring to release day Ruby 2.0 vs Ruby 3, not current Ruby 2.4 vs Ruby 3.

I think the lesson is that managing user's expectations is critical to major releases like this. Even if you are well intentioned, it's very easy for a promise to be misunderstood, and once it's out there, its out there. It's very difficult to put the genie back in the bottle without giving the impression the project is having issues.
It's not at all ridiculous if you pay closer attention to various historical events. Maybe the biggest shock in this regard would be the Cuban Missile Crisis. We generally remember just a tense moment followed by the installation of red phones, but a even cursory look at the detailed timeline of events and the sheer number of near misses and gross errors is enough to make the hairs stand up on your neck and question your inductive reasoning.

Now with the unknown prospect of increased weapons development over a century, it gets even less ridiculous. Imagine the international quagmire where something worse than nukes exists, but with a much easier manufacturing process.

In any case, my exact argument isn't that extinction is the most likely scenario. Just that the least likely is one where we are just chugging along with the same overall technological capabilities. Worrying about what will happen to micro-plastics in a hundred years is like a New Yorker worrying about the growing quantity of horse manure in the city circa 1894.
> No, it’s not a choice more than obesity / food addiction is.

I agree that obesity/food addiction and drug addiction are both on a similar level, but to me they both sound like a choice.

Mostly because if we decide to apply the same standard you use for qualifying whether something is a choice or not, then literally nothing is a choice.

A man who physically abuses his wife and children? Not a choice, he is doing it simply because he had some experiences in his life that made him that way or he is just simply genetically predisposed. Someone cheats on their partner? Not their choice, they were predisposed to do it or their partner was just not making them happy enough. Harvey Weinstein? Not his choice, he was just a victim of his own circumstance who was also genetically predisposed to do what he did.

You get the idea, but I honestly do not believe that most of those things are anything but choices, unless we decide to pretend we believe in predetermination and complete lack of free will. In which case, I would agree with you, those decisions were not choices, because choices don't exist in the context of belief in predetermination.

Mind you, I am not saying there are no circumstances in which those situations would not be a choice. There are indeed some scenarios like that. However, and that's purely subjective based on my personal observations, those scenarios are a minority.
Check out Dingo extension for VS Code, does exactly that for GitHub URLs + for npm packages by name too: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=WallabyJ...
I'm surprised there hasn't been a bigger fuss about this in the press.

I would like to see a calculation of how many extra people will die of skin cancer in each country as a result of this treaty violation.
Struck me as really well written, organised and useful - it resonates a great deal with my experience, whilst teaching me a lot and just patiently going through almost every detail.
I could never remember what the ctrl/alt/shift modifiers do and never managed to get fluent with them - they also require repeating movement many times by holding/tapping the arrow keys until you get to where you want to go, so it feels imprecise to me. I've seen plenty of people who are much better with the arrow keys than I am so I know it's possible to do very well with it though.

`dap` was simpler for me and is easily repeatable with `.` in vim.

Either way, you're not touching the mouse.
You don't need trust to stay out of a speculative, highly volatile asset.
Gmail iOS App Has Out of Date Warning After 2 Months of No Updates
It's an elective course.
This looks really exciting and I wish you luck with it. My own experience tells me that these all-in-one tools tend not to sell psychologically. You might get a customer who sees this and wants a few bits of it and is then put off by the prospect of paying for a bunch of stuff they don't immediately want. It may not be well reasoned (the entire package is great value - especially if I know I'll need all of it).

For that reason I think you'll end up spending the next few months playing with your design and pricing until you get a good fit. But again, good luck - it looks like a lot has gone into making this!
Instantly recognized my favorite CSS framework being used - SemanticUI. Love it! XD
That’s like your broker saying your investment strategy is D- because you don’t have enough money in his firms managed funds.

The D- is a bogus rating meant to increase spending, not improve value.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2011/12/12/best-of-blog-...

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2013/03/20/is-the-asce-failing-t...
Mostly plants, apparently.
> better than Oklahoma

That's a broad brush.

Currently sitting in a log cabin in an old growth forest on a stunning lake near Broken Bow, OK, with pretty hills / small mountains all around.

Interestingly, one of the few (maybe only?) place in the world that has both black bears and alligators.

Mountains, lakes, swamp, pasture... McCurtain County is a treat.
I get where you are coming from! It does feel like that sometimes when building Wasp - a lot of technologies we are layering on top of, sometimes we need to let them leek out, sometimes we want to hide them, and sometimes we have to play around them - it is a lot of work to put all that together to play nicely, and it will never stop shifting, even if we "make it" it is always going to be constant effort keeping up.
On the other hand, I can't imagine tackling this in another way. Designing a web app is not complex for no reason - it is complex because web apps are complex. They are multi-user systems that work over distributed architecture, that need to maintain persistent state, look good, be scalable, be fast, work on all kinds of different browsers/devices/screens, be secure, ... . When you also add all the innovation that is happening in the current system, the idea of build a bespoke solution from the ground up sounds next to impossibly hard. Even Wasp sometimes feels impossibly hard to do, and it is still of much smaller scope than completely bespoke solution.
I would love to hear your ideas on this though - I certainly haven't been thinking a lot in this direction, merely due to discarding it upfront as a possible approach.

Btw, one thing that Wasp does in alignment with your idea of bespoke solution, is that it brings DSL that is in big part detached from the technology used for the implementation of the specific parts (JS/React/Node/...), meaning that if we get it working with existing technologies, we have one foot on the solid ground and can work from there to see which other, "smaller" problems can be tackled next, potentially ending up with a set of solutions that together create one new, bigger, bespoke solution.
I don't want the same to happen to Android. Basically every single non-Pixel phone these days ships bloatware with it.
> I don't particularly feel that any of those characteristics are very important, and I think most people would agree.

Bitcoin doesn't care what you feel. It exists as an engineering artifact, continues to exist and functions to serve the needs of those who use it. Those who use it don't pay for it with their feelings but with their hard earned money. You evaluate a piece of engineering for what it aims to achieves not what you feel it should achieve.

Bitcoin at block height 670061 has a market cap >USD800B. That's a lot of people who feel the characteristics of Bitcoin are valuable.

Cf. A statement like: "I don't particularly feel HD screens on a phone are important and I think most people would agree that they're a waste and bad for the environment. Therefore HD screens shouldn't be in smart phones."

> if you want to measure the efficiency of electric cars vs combustion engine ones you look at things like miles/Wh or CO2 emissions/mile.

> You DON'T look at explosions per second or something like that. It might explain how combustion engines work but it is not the goal of a car.

Again, Dan Held said:

"the efficiency of Bitcoin’s PoW, should be defined in terms of the security of an economic history."[0]

That history is perhaps analogous to the entire lifetime travel distance of the vehicle. Let a coin be a vehicle. There are 21M coins. Let a block be a mile long and infinitely wide (for transactions of any value can be contained in a block without limit to the value), for instance, and you can get your miles/Wh. Or just humbly study the Bitcoin timechain and understand what it does and why it does it.

[0]: https://danhedl.medium.com/pow-is-efficient-aa3d442754d3
> They also offer zero discoverability for someone that did not read the manual (see the vim jokes).

I don't see why I would use a specialized tool for hours a day without reading the manual.

> good pointer UI + robust keyboard shortcuts

vim jokes aside, you can use a mouse with vim, terminal, tmux, etc just fine. I sometimes do, but most of the time I find the keyboard simpler.
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>without that delay when you release the dragged element.

Without the delay the system won’t be able to decide if you’ve really finished dragging or just run out of trackpad space but want to continue dragging.
I can't open this link in any browser, mobile or desktop. Seems to be some sort of ad loop redirect ending in a white screen. Anyone else?
Yes! FreeBSD has great documentation. One of the great things about the kernel+userspace unity. When I worked on HBase they literally used the FreeBSD style sheet for their docs, and it was similarly good documentation.
By resizing my window down to mobile-ish width, the "get your free e-book" thing on the right side covers the whole screen.
Water technology infrastructure is not what I'd really call "aging". Most municipal automation systems are quite old, but they're very functional. The underlying technology is called SCADA, which is still used today.

SCADA is an offline ecosystem by design because the innards of the system are mostly just signals flying around. There's no encryption or IAM in place to defend against bad actors. More recently the cities want their municipal infrastructure that runs on SCADA to integrate nicely with other information systems to either retrieve data which is useful for generating reports, like the delta between water pumped and water served which indicates total loss. The other use case is to perform actions. If I know there's a fire on one side of the city that is a four alarm fire, which will put pressure on service lines as multiple firetrucks begin to demand water, I can decrease pressure on one section while increasing pressure on another. You could perceivably do this in an automated fashion, but there's no such capability in any SCADA systems I know of. Hence, municipalities end up finding integrators who will build them custom devices to interface with their systems.

So, this is less an "aging infrastructure" problem and more "new capability demand".
Some of these user agreements tried to cover that too ("you are not an officer, nor employed by one, nor have you ever been, nor will you ever be"). It was cute.
I feel this.

There have been many times the temptation of “badassery” has sorely pulled against my own moral/ethical stances. Lots of projects I’d have genuinely enjoyed working on, but which I’d have hated myself knowing all the ways the tech I’d have been building could be misused (and too often in the fullness of time, when developed by other people, was misused in exactly the obvious ways).
There are at least 70 million Americans that are anti-science. How many would be "many"?
I was going to say...where do we start...
The thing about a mouse interface is that it's a lowest-common-denominator approach for a lot of things that works pretty ok. Certainly better for that than the text-only interfaces it's largely replaces. This is also why the web is so married to it, 'cause you can navigate around a bunch of semi-consistent information.

The average confused user will probably do better randomly mousing around than trying to juggle keys, or even worse "visually" navigate using arrow keys or something.

But if the interface is powerful and the user is skilled (both significant "ifs") then important operation can be done before your hand would reach the mouse, let alone do anything with it.

I suspect the most efficient is a mix of both, mice are pretty good at selecting from a long list of options, for example.

A lot of IDEs these days contain pretty underpowered editors and slow you down by relying on the mouse too much. If that's all you've tried, you may not have any idea why keyboard interfaces can be a lot more efficient for some tasks....
Feel free to return to Reddit, where mundane things are met with endless praise instead.
What is innovation? Understand the key aspects of implementing change
Have you ever said "let's hang out Tuesday afternoon"? Abolishing time zones makes that a useless phrase for a large slice of the world - consider the area where the date changes in the middle of the afternoon. And which days are the weekdays? The ones where it's Monday-Friday in the morning (with Tuesday-Saturday afternoons) or where it's Monday-Friday in the afternoon (with Sunday-Thursday mornings)?

This doesn't really solve the problems with times, it just moves them from times to dates.
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The ones I saw, for the most part, predated Mitnick's arrest. Some by many years.

(Blah, I'm old)
Ahh, I guess the emulator is not emulating the switch "API" but the GPU itself right? Because AFAIK, the Switch NVidia API is not avaliable anywhere publicly.
Kudos to the parents for encouraging / helping that behavior too. Too many people grow up believing it's useless to interact with the world at large because they can't affect it.
I think this is entirely plausible.

To put the emissions of India in context: by cumulative emissions since 1750, India is number 7, having caused roughly half as many emissions as my home country Germany (number 4). The US is number 1.

Source: animated graphics at
https://twitter.com/CarbonBrief/status/1120715988532629506
Moby Dick is one of the greatest English works. Herman Melville, did not, in fact, get any second chance during his lifetime. My understanding is that except for "Bartleby the Scrivener", the reception for Moby Dick embittered him into not trying much afterwards. Bartleby might be autobiographical, that Melville "would prefer not to" attempt any works from then on.

His obituary in the New York Times is telling (Oct 2 1891) [1] - he was already considered an obscure trivia at the time. (The Sept 29 obituary notice actually misspelt Moby Dick.)

"There has died and been buried in this city, during the current week, at an advanced age, a man who is so little known, even by name, to the generation now in the vigor of life that only one newspaper contained an obituary account of him, and this was but of three or four lines. Yet forty years ago the appearance of a new book by Herman Melville was esteemed a literary event, not only throughout his own country, but so far as the English-speaking race extended."

Melville's revival came in 1919, long afterwards.

[1] http://www.melville.org/hmobit.htm
The Importance of Innovation
I don't think that happened in a vacuum, but they have acquitted themselves poorly over the last 4 years.

To a large extent media audiences self segregate and demand certain content, and media companies have responded by tailoring their products. That probably further narrows their appeal.

I have to imagine that some of these news orgs will simply fail once they become too narrow and audience preferences shift again. News operates in a market just like anything else.
Partially inspired by that post and wanting to write my thoughts about business failures, I wrote...

How to Lose Money with 25 Years of Failed Businesses

https://joeldare.com/how-to-lose-money-with-25-years-of-fail...
Bitcoin is designed to be deflationary. Anyone who pays anything in BTC is economically irrational.
Argentina has 45 million inhabitants. Bitcoin has like 300k transactions per day. Every person in Argentina could do three transactions per year (300e3/45e6×365) and it would already exceed the transaction count of Bitcoin. Yet Argentina's banking system uses less energy than Argentina, and so their banking system must be more efficient than Bitcoin.

That's assuming that a transaction comparison even makes sense, which it doesn't really because:

Bitcoin is not a currency. People use it as a way of getting rich, which they could also do with any other currency by just having a limited number of numbered paper bills, some guarantee that no more will ever be printed (e.g. agree that nobody will use a bill number higher than 10 million), and publishing on a forum who owns a specific bill number. It doesn't need proof-of-work to function as an investment scheme.