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Python started as a language with one correct way to do any task (more or less, but still).

Over time people have added all the other ways and called it progress.

What we need is a python fork that trims most of this crap and makes a faster implementation. And gets rid of this horrifying steering committee or whatever is currently butchering python. No wonder Guido had to leave the scene, to cry himself to sleep probably.
Thankfully, major websites know that 'Chrome only' isn't an option. Alienating all Safari users isn't something they'd be willing to consider.
I love the taste of coffee and liked the buzz when I was younger. I still love the taste but the psychological effects are way too much for me now. I didn't realize how strong the coffee I made on Monday was until it was too late and didn't really recover until today.
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> The question is: How do you enforce that or even complain about it?

The company "should" have a DPO, whou you can complain to. If that fails you can complain to the DPA [0]

[0] https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo...
> Americans drink really watered down coffee. In Brazil we would call it chafé (coffee tea).

Do we? How do Brazilians prepare a cup of coffee? Is the process different or do you just use a lot more grounds per amount of water?
Really nice! Is there any way to enable light mode? I find dark mode hard to read.
We should embrace this pragmatic approach. We can solve climate change by collectively shifting our thermometers down a few degrees!
There’s a 6 oz. standard coffee cup in a “that’s our custom” sense. It’s what’s referenced on many ground coffee bags. Also, https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/25041/is-a-cup-o....
I’ve noticed the same effect; if I’ve been off the caffeine for a while and have a coffee – it’s great. But there appears to be a negative counter-effect that compounds when it becomes routine.
Isn't that true of any such system? The US may have a written constitution, but that would be just a piece of paper if it weren't for the conventions surrounding it.

Perhaps, but I think there is a profound difference in the legitimacy and authority of a system of government if there has at some point been a clear demonstration that the general public consent to it. The ideal might be a popular vote to accept the original constitution document, with a substantial majority in favour, and then some practical mechanism that allows any member of the public to cause a later change to the constitution if the consensus of their peers agrees with them. The important point is that the final authority on the system of government is the people being governed, directly.

In practice I'm sure we could find a way to restrict the authority of parliament - the judiciary have already signalled some willingness to question the validity of laws if they undermine the integrity of parliament as a democratic body or basic human rights.

According to our current constitution as generally accepted, the courts can't overrule the will of Parliament. That is parliamentary supremacy in action.

Human rights cases heard by our highest courts have typically come down to favouring an interpretation of statute law that is compatible with other statute law like the HRA in cases of ambiguity. It is understood that if Parliament clearly intends a new law to reduce the legal protection of human rights then our courts must follow that intent in their judgements.

After that, we're getting into some very fuzzy areas that come to the foreground with issues like Brexit or Scottish independence, but again the courts will enforce the will of Parliament (and by extension, the ability of Parliament to express its will).

I personally don't think either of those is necessarily a good thing, which is why I believe it could be better in the long term if we had a proper written constitution as many other states do, setting out the basic structure of our government and associated responsibilities, authorities and limits on power, with explicit popular consent to that form of government.
I think water is key.
I drink easily 10-20 cups of coffee every day, but I add a cup of water for each cup of coffee.

Yeah i end up in the bathroom every 20 minutes, but at least this habit stops me from eating all day while working from home.
I wonder why you would think they pretend.

Any sufficiently large group will likely have its loners and social butterflies, and butterflies are the people who tend to be loud, joke around, and generally try and find (even if shallow) topics to talk about.

I'd rather consider it as a character trait, than straight up dishonesty. It's also nice to have a few of those people in a group, otherwise any meeting w/o a clearly defined topic would become too quiet and depressive. They are the people who break the ice, I don't see why they can't be having fun doing that.

I agree about the "zoom socializing" part though. Mainly because what Zoom offers is a fairly flat space where you're either one of the 20 people talking/hearing at the same time (so you gotta be loud) or you don't exist. You can't easily form a bubble of three people and discuss something all three of you care about, and any topic with 20 other people either becomes too exclusive (3 talkers and 17 listeners) or too shallow. (a 20-people grand debate about the weather)
AMD Takes Down Another Supercomputer Deal in Europe
Temporarily reviewing until 2024 or 2028.
Salesforce won’t force workers to go into office post-Covid
"Let's be civil!" - white people as they murdered hundred's of indigenous tribes.
The Mozilla corp style usual bullshit.

You click on the button that says: "Learn more about how we're different"

And you arrive on the page that says that:

<< The board of directors is composed of 5 directors from our Founding member companies, AWS, Huawei, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla, >>

Please, tell me again how different you are? ...
Check Google. Searching on this suggests a strong basis for 6 oz being a customary standard. https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/25041/is-a-cup-o... seems to back this up.
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Phillip, Looking back to 2013-2014, I was wondering what would you have done differently both on the product and also for yourself?

That's a good question. The most obvious thing would be to not push myself so hard, get more sleep, drink fewer energy drinks, exercise more, etc.

On the product side... Not sure right this minute, other than saying "narrow the focus and do less".

The one thing I thought about a lot back in those days, but ultimately decided against was trying to raise a FFF (Friends, Fools, Family) round of financing, hopefully enough to quit the day job and give myself at least a year of runway. Even now with the benefit of hindsight I'm not sure if that would have been worthwhile or not.
Question:

When "hard wrapping" is off and I move the cursor to the right beyond the screen, then the line on which the cursor is gets moved to the left - ONLY that line.

Is there a way to have the other lines move as well to the right?

Reason: sometimes I want to compare what I'm editing with what is present at the same position in the rows above/below - moving the cusor up/down to have those contents displayed is a bit annoying... .

Thx
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Better move to e.g. Sweden then:

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2018/feb/10/sweden-ice-sk...
Just wanted to reply here because you're unnecessarily condescending about American coffee. While I'm no fan of drip coffee either the caffeine content is actually higher than in the espressos you mentioned (unless Portuguese and Colombian espresso is somehow wildly different from the Italian one).
I know really little about Python except that it was heavily adopted by Google.

However for C++, I think that corporatization is having a strong negative influence on the language, which leads to it being stuffed with poorly integrated features which nobody really overlooks any more.
The "material" is a fluid made by mixing sugar and water, and letting it sit for a few days.

The net effect is that a density gradient in the fluid occurs, that is, there's a higher water-to-sugar ratio on the top, and a higher sugar-to-water ratio on the bottom.

The near bottom of such a pool will bend the (otherwise perfectly straight) beam of light emitted by a laser pointer...

A highly interesting effect, to be sure...
It's even easier post-internet. Your clocks automatically change for you now. In the past you had to remember when the change occurred and updated all your clocks manually - and if you forgot you ended up an hour late/early to any Sunday appointment after the change.
I've noticed some of the adverse effects, too. I didn't notice any of it until I read a few stories of people who quit coffee and said they were less irritable, etc.

It's hard because I also love coffee. I, like you, never had to "acquire" a taste for it- I just liked it.

I've done stints where I'd mix half-decaf and half-regular. I should probably do that again.
> Mozilla used Rust to build Stylo, the CSS engine in Firefox (replacing approximately 160,000 lines of C++ with 85,000 lines of Rust).

I would have loved to see two competing teams rewrite it, one in C++ and the other in Rust.

Saying that the rewrite is better does nothing to say WHY it's better. Refactored code is almost always radically better, even when it's in the same language, for reasons that might be insulting to explain on HN.

Point is, this is not an apples-to-apples comparison.

(I'm not arguing Rust isn't better. Nor that cutting your code base nearly in half isn't impressive. Simply that this single metric on their part seems like weak sauce.)
Wish Google MAPS and OSM share data with each other;
Didn't they lay off employees that worked on Rust projects like Servo a couple months ago? And now they do this?
XKCD has a semi-relevant comic like this, although it is more interactive (you can choose where to zoom in and get different results):
https://xkcd.com/1416/
Absolute cringe, thanks you for this.
Apple partners with TSMC to develop micro OLED displays for AR devices
> Compare that to Mixpanel for example, where they don't power ads, you can skip showing the opt in

Is this really the only criterion for requiring an opt-in? Tracking is bad for many other reasons other than selling targeted ads.
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The part about "using the text of the invalid timezone" seems to be fixed in latest GNU date (8.32):

$ TZ=EDT gdate
Wed Feb 10 13:22:23 UTC 2021
$ gdate --version
date (GNU coreutils) 8.32
...

8.30 (shipped in debian buster) still has the problem.

The BSD version of date shipped with MacOS 10.15 also does not seem to have this bug.
I've been wishing npm/pypi/apt etc would improve for ages, but it seems like infrastructure improves one disaster at a time, software one hack at a time. I'm only annoyed I didn't do it myself.

The pypi maintainer is being ridiculous, it is much better to have this guy poke MSFT than have the Russians do it, he's doing them a favour.
But they called _themselves_ retards, they're not insulting others. It's because they're aware that most of what they do is dumb gambling (with some occasional actual research thrown in) but they do it anyway.
Well, each language has a different tradeoff in terms of usability, performance and model.

Like Brainfuck could program anything.
>> And then you have the UK problem. Having variable time offsets between EU and UK would add yet another layer of disruption on top of Brexit.

It's worse than just EU/UK offset. You would have Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland in different timezones.
Dependency Confusion
For npm enterprise, it looks like setting the scope (e.g. @acmecorp/internal-pkg) would mitigate the public and private confusion. For Verdaccio, an open source light weight npm registry, it first checks if a private package is available before searching the public npm registry (however, their best practices say to use a prefix for private packages https://verdaccio.org/docs/en/best )
There’s a %%bash cell magic which turns one cell into a bash cell. What about a %%xeus cell to run a SELECT (or any sql)? Would that work?
Unfortunately it didn't work for this guy either

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/43fi39/i_set_up...
I'm struggling with my Internet connection lately and have been planning on doing exactly this.
That's pretty impressive. This new work seems like a step forward because it's getting the information from slightly further downstream - the visual cortex which is what the LGN feeds into. But it's still not magic because it was already known that there's a mapping between points in the 2D field of view and points in the 2D layers of the visual cortex. That mapping is already known to be very simple for the V1 layer which is one of the 3 layers of the visual cortex that this technique uses. It also uses the V2 and V3 layers that seem to me to have a higher level representation and doesn't perform as well on them.

Still, this seems like a step towards reading people's imaginations, and they hint at that in the conclusion with "While admittedly the promise of algorithms that reconstruct internally generated or externally induced percepts is yet to be fully achieved".

Not that I know what I'm talking about. Feel free to point out any minunderstandings I've shown.
And that this 53-year old man has no personal responsibility, which is deferred to the government.
I agree with you.

I was just pointing out that it's wrong to say this this decision had ample consultation, because overwhelmingly the population is not aware of it.
I use nano all the time for production linux services. Its simple, effective and works really well in a shell session over a satlink connection. The key combinations make it a lot easier to not f*k up in those kinds of sessions.
Everything can be hacked so if the decision is on what can or cannot be hacked then just unplug the server.
Here we are talking about blocking by google and apple, not whether url can be blocked.
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I don't think it's or me. I'm the kind of person that doesn't mind going to the office and having work thrown at me. Being in charge of finding clients and work to do would stress me out.
Tzdb has the date and time that location starts/reverts DST. It is updated regularly to keep up with regions changing the time zones. It happens frequently than many of us like.
The discussion on the value of monarchy is hotly debated around a quantitative measure of value, tourism vs maintenance costs.

I do think there is a case to be made on the qualitative aspect of value.

A monarch acts as a check for ambitious undesirables (politicians/hollywood types etc) from achieving the ideal elite rank in society, as no one can truly be king by definition, except the king. As such, they act as "power inhibitors" on the rest of elite society.

Inhibiting cult of personality, the monarch instead reflect opposite values like devotion to duty, and restraint, instilled from birth.

In summary, this seems like catastrophic insurance. Even if the probability is very low, the price to insure against a despot , would seem to be reasonable.
Lazlo Hollyfeld! My FAVORITE 80's movie :)
The golf courses are closed when it's too dark, but the offices aren't. You need to close the office a few hours before the golf course, even if your office business isn't strongly dependent on the amount of daylight.
Study Suggests Apple Watch Can Predict Covid-19 Up to a Week Before a Swab Test
Even worse - if you consider yourself average, half the software out there was built on top of even weaker foundations.

The web really is held together by duct tape and bubble gum.
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I think the point may have been that nano is a safe assumption to be on most any GNU/Linux machine where as gedit might not be and that nano has all of the commands listed on the screen for quick reference.

For example when I was taking my sysadmin class we used CENTOS which did not have gedit since it did not have a GUI. We used VI instead, but I learned nano was good for simple fixes and I did not have to google the method of saving and exiting.
I think it’s partly the effect of being an outlier in terms of population density (makes it harder to build wind or solar farms), natural resources (few possibilities for hydro-electricity, for example), and quality of farmland (moving production to poorer grounds often isn’t a net win, globally)

There also may be an effect that making Dutch agriculture greener makes it more competitive, increasing output and thus offsetting improvements in efficiency.

But yes, such a rich country that isn’t really dependent on its agricultural output should be able to do more. Stopping fertilizer imports probably would help a lot.
I recently got policy violation notices citing shocking content for articles about land usage in West Virginia and uneven distribution of GDP around the world. Their AI is definitely not good.
Different from the original structure where it was all Mozilla.
The entire PoS movement is driven by people who like cryptocurrency but don’t like the power use.
There's something called a foreign function interface that allows rust to access compiled c++ or c primitives.
Now you need a function to move it to a permanent location if you like the project and want to keep it or contribute.
I’ve been an Examine.com subscriber for about 1.5 years now. Well worth the money IMO if you’re into some light self-experimentation w.r.t. supplements. I had used it to research supplements that have an effect on blood pressure, and it helped me reduce mine during that period by a huge amount (like 145/90 to 120/70). Now anytime I want to look into a supplement, I pop over. So refreshing vs the usual BS medical blog spam. The linking to study abstracts is the most important part, when combined with human effect matrix.
Mirrors are great for speed and protecting you from dependencies getting randomly deleted off the public repo, but I don't think they can protect from malicious packages. They'll just get pulled into the mirror.

At my last gig (Java), developers reviewed all third-party libraries + dependencies and manually uploaded them to a private Ivy server. I don't think that could work in the Node ecosystem, where every module seems to have 100+ dependencies.

EDIT:

There's a real security vs accessibility trade-off here. You can't be a productive web developer, according to modern standards, and review every single transitive dependency that gets pulled into your application. And it's very inefficient to have individual developers at different orgs separately reviewing the same libraries over and over again.

One would naturally turn to repository administrators to enforce stricter security standards. Maybe RubyGems could review all source code for every new version of a package and build it themselves instead of accepting uploads of pre-built artifacts. But these repositories are run by smallish groups of volunteers, and they don't have the resources to conduct those kinds of reviews. And no open-source developer wants to have to go through an App Store-like review process to upload their silly McWidget library.
So how do I properly serialize a datetime in Europe/Prague time zone? As the article explains the use case where "CET" nor "CEST" nor fixed timezone offset is sufficient. And my actual local time zone is Europe/Bratislava, which may eventually differ from Prague.
Asking for sacrifice from others is often hard, simple, and ineffective.

> Stop eating calories and you'll lose weight

As America approaches 50% obesity

> Stop using AWS, Microsoft Office, AdSense, and Instagram
(If we want to talk about domineering monopolies)

Sure. Let me count the ways you've inconvenienced me.

A better approach would be to provide a viable alternative to change the underlying systems that put us in this state. That's never simple though.
Yup, I'm increasingly straying away from Amazon. If I need a new set of cooking utensils, do I wade through the hundreds of Chinese no-name entries on Amazon with hundreds of questionable reviews all across the spectrum, or do I just pay a little extra and get the quality ones from Williams-Sonoma?
Ever since I quit caffeine, I'm tired every day until about 2pm.

However, my crippling anxiety is mostly gone, so that's a bonus.
Which is why Bitcoin isn't really considered a currency anymore. It's purely a digital asset, something like gold, a store of value and reserve currency used by large institutions. Once Visa/Bakkt/Paypal get on the custody train bitcoin transactions will be reversible, as they will transact paper bitcoin and settle several times a day, etc. I don't expect to actually spend my bitcoin just like I don't expect to spend my gold and silver, but when I'm ready to I know I won't have to pay a broker 10% fees.
Those are clearly opinions at most, he's not claiming they're actual facts.

No one reads that and thinks "wow, these people are members of the actual Stasi? holy crap!"
Why was it raised, but only temporarily?
Coincidentally well timed - the new PEP on pattern matching would be great to include in the limited subset for teaching:

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0636/

The above tutorial is based on user input but to my mind this mechanism seems equally good for teaching recursion on data structures as you would in say, ML.
They tried to do it in C++ twice before the Rust. So what you’re asking for sorta kinda happened.
They don't explicitly state that the rewrite is better? They just mention that they reduced the amount of code from 160,000 to 85,000 lines.

Using competing teams for this purpose seems like a waste of money to me.
< EST is always UTC-4

Unfortunately not. Australia also used EST until recently. Now they've introduced AEST, but I'm sure there's systems out there using EST.
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Yeah, desktop development is really rooted in a different time where you'd iterate maybe once in a year... there is some CI/CD tooling these days, but dealing with the end system & user is still a hard problem.
Seriously, it may be the best portrait of smart people in the movies I know of. Also you have fine taste.
You expect people to read a book to find out your perspective? Do you have cliff notes on why using isolation mode doesn’t provide a security boundary?
EDIT: "secret service retinue", not "...revenue"
>Is there any proof that the algorithmic echo chamber is a real thing? I don’t use any social media that has algorithmic curation, but I still get the strong feeling that I’m in a bubble whenever I encounter other internet bubbles. How much is just caused by me choosing to see things I already agree with instead of a computer choosing for me?

There are multiple other factors beyond algo or yourself. 1 study I saw proving echo chambers used reddit r/history where their moderators enforce an echo chamber on purpose. They go way beyond banning viewpoints like holocaust denial. Even basic misunderstandings of non-controversial history are banned. Thus resulting in a objective echo chamber.

That same study went to look at more controversial subs and places like r/canada where moderators ban people for viewpoints they too have an objective echo chamber.

From my point of view echo chambers have been objectively proven to exist. In some cases that's the intention but ultimately echo chambers certainly exist.
> this could mean making sure the ice is 15cms thick along the entire track, and only starting it if you are 100% sure that this is guaranteed.

I'm unable to find any official decision-making rules, let alone historical ones, but as stated elsewhere it's doubtful that the regulations have got more strict. The event has happened only 6 times in the last 70 years, in any case.

Where it is useful, there is work to control water flow via locks, ice transplantation into weak points, and legal prevention of canal navigation. So, there is also more knowledge and ability to mitigate for safety concerns.