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"The specific political distinction to which political actions and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy." - Carl Schmitt

Agreed it's nonsensical. Until you remember the above, then it starts to add up. There is no other principle in operation here.

The pair of tweets capturing the absurdity of this reaction is really wonderful, just beautiful stuff.
You've already given them a lot of money. The German government gave BioNtech $445 million dollars in a grant last year alone. It's not unreasonable to be concerned that a small number of pharma companies are trying to generate massive profits when they basically have the entire world hostage.
How much more time for EDL? Can't find that information anywhere!
I've always wondered how Welsh sounds to Scottish or Irish Gaelic speakers and vice versa. Seems like on paper at least they're a bit further apart than, say, Spanish and French, or Norwegian and German, but not as far apart as, say Russian and Lithuanian. Within the same Celtic language family but phonetically so different as to be difficult to recognize? The P/Q thing seems pretty drastic.

Both also seem to have crazy orthography, too, hard for an English speaker to figure out
It's great to see NASA livestreaming in similar quality/fashion to spacex. It reminds me of watching the NASA feeds on public television in the 90's but much more nicely produced.
Nobody is a paragon of virtue.
While I can see the hot-spare advantage here, I do have to wonder about the impact of replacing the broken drive.

I suppose it works out as follows. With traditional raid, you are rebuilding while degraded from a safety perspective. So obviously, if your configuration guarantees losing `n` drives while healthy does not cause data loss, you could lose data during rebuild if `n` drives failed.

With the distributed hot spare approach, you are no longer degraded from a safety perspective as soon as the distributed spare's data is written. This is faster than traditional raid, as the writes are distributed among many disks. So time-wise you get out of data safety degraded state faster. (It does seem like it might be riskier though, since you are doing heavy writes to many drives while safety degraded, instead of only writes to the spare).

So now you replace the failed drive, and the array rebuilds to make this new spare's capacity distributed. This will take a long time, since you will be writing to basically this whole drive as part of distributing its spare space. (Plus probably shuffling chunks around between many other drives). This could possibly take even longer than traditional raid rebuild. However during this whole process, your array is not in degraded state from a data safety point of view.

Or to summarize: during the long single-drive-write-limited part of replacing the failed drive with a new hot spare, you are not degraded from a safety of data point of view.
Banning the building of ISPs by local governments - who probably care about their people - and relegating ISPs to private companies only, in the name of “promoting competition” is ludicrous. One does not increase competition by limiting supply.

I can only conclude this proposal is in bad faith.

I therefore speculate that big ISPs like Comcast must be paying the politicians behind the bill.

NPR covered a local government a while back that tried to build a local ISP but was shutdown when players like Comcast brought in their legal teams to make building a government-run ISP illegal in that jurisdiction.

We absolutely must not see a ban like this at the federal level.
I disagree. Generally working 40+ hours at one company brings significant benefits like health insurance or retirement plans. Working two part-time jobs wouldn't do that. Plus there's a significant cost with context switching. 40 hours at two jobs will have more overhead than 40 hours at one job.
Without first checking, I can confidently say you'll probably be able find a good modern interactive fiction game on itch.io.
No. It is very simple, even common, to know exactly what the dose is and still OD. Look at any prescription opioid. The labels on those bottles are very accurate. People still OD and die.
I would think that even programmers don't know how this works.

They likely just got document that when you receive message with these fields filled this should happen. And then other team of programmers had implement UI with these fields and then make it send message here.
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Linux flying on Mars and Electron regularly launched to LEO. What a time to be alive :)
Agreed. I will never recommend an ORM, things simply spiraled out of control for medium to large-ish projects that had more than 2 developers. Even with "best practices", code ended up having a mix of raw SQL and ORM-style queries, and it was hard to reason about the code.

Since switching to asyncpg [0] these problems have vanished. It commands a deeper knowledge of actual SQL, but I would argue this knowledge is absolutely necessary and one of the disadvantages of an ORM is that it makes the SQL that is eventually run opaque.

Not sure if there are equivalents to asyncpg for other RDBMS's.

[0]: https://github.com/MagicStack/asyncpg
Chattanooga's municipal ISP is affordable, profitable, and vastly outperforms the competition. Meanwhile Verizon/Comcast lobbied to stop it from expanding their service outside the county.

If you think local government is inefficient, you should look at the inefficiencies of industries with large barriers to entry and its resulting lack of competition.
> is actually concerned about monopolies

Well in a way they are, they're almost certainly sponsored in some way by them.
That's the point of the system, to give the vaccines to the people who run the biggest risks (elderly, healthcare workers who spend a lot of time in proximity to infected, etc), rather than to whoever's the richest. Especially considering that being rich already makes it a lot easier to minimize your risks (typically have jobs that are easier to take home, better access to private transportation, can afford to not work for a while in the worst case).
In a competitive market a price of 1000$ per Epipen would not exist.
> The first UI issue is the obvious lack of intuitiveness.

You can't judge intuitiveness without knowledge of the intended userbase and usage pattern. A sovereign app for specialists in a process can be intuitive with a design which would be radically unintuitive for an occasional-use app for people only tangentially aware of the same process.

> Looking at the evidence, I would say this is a pure UX/UI issue at root: three people got confused about what they needed to do, and they all thought they completed their task successfully when they didn't.

It's definitely a UI/UX alignment issue, where the understanding/knowledge of t(at least some of) the current users is not aligned with the assumptions of the UI.

But without knowing a lot more, it's hard to tell if the real problem is UI/UX design or processes and procedures for maintaining, assessing, and addressing (whether through system changes or otherwise) the current understanding and evolving needs of the current staff.

We aren't at the point where it is legitimate to expect software adapt automatically to changes in the userbase.
The appeal of drugs and orgies is perfectly understandable. What I don't get is the appeal of mixing those with work and hierarchical relationships.
I'm definitely going to check this out. I was looking for a Lisp that compiles to PHP after using, and enjoying, Clojure at work. I was going to actually try and make one myself but then got distracted and moved on to something else.
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How about "House Head-on-straight Party proposes nationalizing all consumer broadband and delegating it to the municipalities."
In a professional setting, this is definitely done, and the generations are then ranked with separate models that predict different quality metrics, such as "interestingness", "safety" in an inclusiveness type of way, whether the answer seems to fit a style that you want, whether the facts in the answer seem to make sense, etc., and it makes a big difference actually
Last year grant was when the technology was already ready and with initial results - it was to scale up the production.

But the funding of the previous 10 years was 1.5B, from private people who also took way more risk.
How on earth is that supposed to promote competition? In my area, the only places where there is any competition for ISPs are where there are municipal broadband networks.
You can put farms in the desert. Some of the most productive farmland is in deserts. Arizona and California are both noted for producing large quantities of high-quality cotton.
To be fair, I know a significant amount of people who work multiple jobs but they only really put in a few hours on the weekend. They are the minority though, and most 2 or 3 job workers I know do put in a significant >15 hours a week at each.

I think the bigger thing beyond hours worked is commute and decompression time. I don't know anyone who, after working 6 hours on a Saturday, is ready right away to go out and have fun with their friends. Everyone wants to come home, change clothes if needed, and relax a bit before moving onto to something else. That extra hour or so, not even including the commute, is a pretty big hit to your weekend time.
Right now I am subscribed to zero paid news outlets. Sad.

Watching this thread for suggestions. I'm thinking international, as foreign outlets will be less susceptible to American fashions.
Probably around 20-30 minutes after it's landed. Perseverance needs to lock onto sattelites that are part of the Deep Space Network for the bandwidth required to send media. It also takes 22 minutes to send a command and get a response back.
Some other tools I use in case you liked the list above: bat, exa, percol, GNU dialog or zenity, xsv, ministat, gnuplot, tshark, mitmproxy.

Plus any project from sharkdp and burntsushi and any tools recommended by Brendan Gregg.

ht editor is a personal favorite too (press F6 and go to image to get started).
And the importance of proper UX writing and user documentation.
> Google offered it for free, killed all the other companies that offered similar services for money and now Google maps is also paid

There weren't really similar services when it launched and there were far more mapping services/APIs both before and after the rate hike, so...

The real problem is people based businesses on the rates offered and then they were drastically increased. The maps market is doing fine.
exactly... you can have a farm in the middle of the city and a solar farm in the middle of the desert...
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Bitcoin, and decentralized currencies in general, are a novel thing. They absolutely do have utility, especially when it comes to circumventing government asset transfer controls. Plus, there's a fixed amount of bitcoin that will ever be available. And we're already close to that limit, 80-90% there.

Tesla is a pioneer in the electric vehicles industry. It's in a particularly good position to profit from decarbonization movements.

Gamestop is neither of these things. It's a brick and mortar store that was being made obsolete by digital distribution, and even more so from coronavirus.

Should pump and dumps be legal? That's just reading bits of paper based on people's views of how valuable they are. But nobody serious doubts that pump and dumps schemes are justifiably banned. Yes people should mostly be free to buy and trade as they see fit. But some people are willing to act in bad faith to exploit others.

Was Gamestop's meteoric rise a pump and dump? In part it was a short squeeze, but it also had all the hallmarks of a pump and dump. We keep saying that it was a bunch of internet people getting rich off hedge funds. But the people who were actually getting screwed were the ones who bought in at $100+ a share and lost over half their money. Nobody was ever under any illusion that the stock would remotely stay this high, and people were just hoping to get lucky and sell right before the crash. This isn't the kind of behavior someone wants in the stock market.
Ah yes, the insurrection which involved no military, no firearms, and involved only the deaths of the rioters by State forces (we learned yesterday that Sicknick was not killed with a fire extinguisher and the New York Times just made that up)

Yes yes, that was an insurrection, but the ongoing movement detailed in Andy Ngo's new book is "just an idea"

Give me a break
Yes, so much for it. It should not be worshipped at the expense of the societal good.

Should private companies have some access to rights-of-way? Perhaps. Should governments be prevented by federal law from providing public services through rights of way? Absolutely not.

Next, let's ban libraries, public pools and public schooling, because those are all lost opportunities for capitalists to make money.
One increases profit by limiting supply - an obvious anticompetitive move.
Can someone familiar with Arizona law explain why this wasn’t covered by Worker’s Comp?
Free market in action /s
Would it have been worth the money? Yes.

Would it have been outrageous pandemic profiteering? Also yes.
They are both supported in mycli and pgcli clients.
> I didn't know about any liquidity issues.

Of course not. There were 9,000,000 people in a subreddit convincing each other the stock was headed to the moon getting thousands of upvotes. The real information on what was going on (like the shares short / float metrics being outdated by 15 days) were deeply buried.
> Alarm fatigue

The notable example of alarm fatigue is the designated pillow on board of the Tu-144 (the Russian copy of the Concorde) to stuff into the alarm horn. The wikipedia page is itself a “bestof” bad engineering/operating practices, which are worth a good laugh now that it is not flying anymore. See chapter “Reasons for cancellation” - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-144
"It introduces two extra round trips" is an implementation flaw/detail, not an aspect of this strategy. There is no reason that servers cannot periodically advertise their load measures to clients, or staple current load reports to query responses, which the client can cache and use for a period of time.
Challenging people to do stuff you won't reveal the nature of until they've committed to it--with no mention of incentives or alternatives--is not a "dare," it's just an inconceivably-shitty contract.

> Neither UX nor the Product Managers enlisted. Why not?

> Seven people joined, two dropped the day before, and when the challenge was revealed, one silently disappeared.

> Four brave souls to face the challenge…

All this shows is that out of his 13 devs, 4 of them will agree to anything.
"But if you try to implement a Lisp interpreter in a low-level language by translating that metacircular interpreter into it (as I did later that year) you run into a problem. The metacircular interpreter glosses over a large number of things that turn out to be nontrivial to implement — indeed, about half of the code is devoted to things outside of the scope of the metacircular interpreter. Here’s a list of issues that the Lisp 1.5 metacircular interpreter neglects, some semantic and some merely implementational:..."

Amen! Those metacircular interpreters are neat, and very useful from a learning-programming-languages standpoint, but they gloss over about 90% of the details and pain of language implementation.

I was really looking forward to Paul Wilson's An Introduction to Scheme and its Implementation (http://www.aboulsaadat.com/wael/teaching/324/exdocs/schintro...), but at the time it was really incomplete. Looks like there's more now, but still no garbage collection as far as I can see.
Also of interest is Arbel's paper on GPT-3 (AID currently but he got GPT-3 access recently) legal summaries: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3740356

One thing I would note is the potential for a feedback loop between summaries and the model: if a summary of a specific ToS or piece of law is wrong, you can hardwire an expert-vetted one (there's only so many ToSes or pieces of law and it'll be a long tail), and you can feed back in the correct one as training data to finetune the model. The bigger the GPT model, the smarter it is, and the less feedback it takes to correct its summaries: https://openai.com/blog/learning-to-summarize-with-human-fee...
The difference is that research was paid for by the entity that would have to pay this ridiculous price.
Definitely off-topic, but I was fond of a textual adventures on my father’s MacSE. There was anyway an image alongside the text to illustrate the descriptions. It started in a monastery, where everyone had disappeared. You had to travel around and grab things. And (bug or not), you were sometimes teleported to an arena where you had to fight a T. rex.
I cannot remember anything else.
But I spent an awful lot of time figuring out how to win that game (and died 99.9% of the times because of that T. rex).
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I agree that companies should be disincentivized/punished for doing that. The overhead of an additional job can't be overstated.

I would still like to see the total hours, but ideally the hours spent at each job, to see the depth of the problem. It would also help draw attention to the exact thresholds that businesses are abusing to draw up better legislature.
This will certainly be made worse by raising the min wage, as suggested in the article, not helped. Contrary to the apparent popular opinion, companies aren’t bottomless pits of money and many are barely surviving. How do people get away with having this fantasy as one of the central “truths” of their universes?

Many of the barely surviving companies are those that employ “vulnerable people”, think grocery stores- laser thin margins, managers that aren’t actually making much more than employees. Nuking those businesses will improve the health of the job market? are you kidding me?
Monetary compensation is only part of the equation.

Having "the guy who made PowerBI" on your resume can be worth more than some stock options.
> Artificial lighting saves land because plants can be grown above each other, but if the electricity for the lighting comes from solar panels, then the savings are canceled out by the land required to install the solar panels.

This doesn't have to be the case. Plants don't use all the sunlight that hits them, because available light isn't generally the bottleneck in plant growth. Note how most plants are green, which is to say they're content with reflecting the most energy-dense range of the visible spectrum. Solar panels can in theory (and possibly in practice, I'm unsure of the current state of the art) yield more efficient utilization of solar energy than plants do. (Of course we also need to consider efficiency losses from reconverting the energy back into light, but I recall the reading that the overall system efficiency can still beat direct sunlight in theory (consider that the grow lights can be precisely tuned to only emit energy in the frequencies that plants crave).)
Not everyone is using Decimal; there's a lot of applications for floats that don't justify such a heavyweight class. The first place I'd look is in numpy.
Oh, also, nice bit of history on the Chinese copy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFhIBaB7MRk
> the sun provides free energy and the clouds free water

This is somewhat tangential to the author's point, however considering the resources from the Earth as free (not the sun) has been a disaster - environmentally, socially and economically. It's like double entry accounting but only entering on one side.
So we'll have 3-5 months of lockdowns because we haggled for 30 Euro, which would be 18B to vaccinate the whole EU. The losses for the economy will be way higher than this... :/
From your choice of words one can see that you judge pharma concerns for "generating massive profits" by "taking the world hostage".

But nobody has taken anyone for hostage. You're speculating. And it's a gigantic global health crysis. Nothing bad with pharma solving covid.
It certainly looks like Oracle Forms 6 (not sure if earlier versions looked similar, though.)
Because Russia isn't able to produce complex electronics.
You could do that with whatever interactive fiction tools you want, combined with some form of speech to text software. For instance, Inform 7 for your IF tool, and any of the following for speech to text: https://www.lifewire.com/state-of-linux-voice-recognition-22...

That said, I'm not sure how good any of those speech to text tools actually are, so, this might be kind of a pipe dream at the moment.

Also, I know you meant "Choose Your Own Adventure," but my immediate first thought was "Cover Your Own Ass." I may have spent too much time in corporate America. :/
Couldn't give a single fuck. Have my money. :waves about:
Yes.

I live in Arkansas, am on co-op owned fiber. It is by far the most stable, fastest, and fair priced service I've ever had. I can call down to the shop any day and get a call back from a network admin within an hour. They provide TV and phone here too.

The other option is AT&T (MAYBE 6mbit) dsl.
Seems low considering how quickly it was brought to market and the benefit.
No, they're just galvanized by pious righteousness and a never failing sense that they are the ultimate Good fighting evil, reinforced by the echo chamber of the press and Twitter cheering them on, with absolutely zero self awareness as they embrace racial Stalinism in the teachings of Ibrahim Kendi et alia
Texas, the go-it-alone state, is rattled by the failure to keep the lights on
The latest version of pgcli is pypi was released on Dec 11 2020. There are only a few changes unreleased in the master branch.

https://github.com/dbcli/pgcli/blob/master/changelog.rst

What feature are you waiting for? I can talk to the project lead to see if we can push out a new release if needed.
Most of Infocom classics can be found at e.g. https://github.com/historicalsource/zork1
Nah, I disagree with him a lot, too, but I recognise the nickname from other communities. He's just a dude who's very passionate about nuclear power and, iirc, holds some other views I strongly disagree with. But he's entitled to his views and opinions. I'm much more annoyed by the people who vote his comments to the top :)
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Many comments below focus on failures with a single startup. I think it misses the point. Working for startups is risky, but the key is to build a system that increases your accumulated probability of success -- this is exactly why it's important to live in the bay area and work for some startups there, at least before the Covid-19. You get to see a large number of people who didn't fund any company, but still became financially independent by choosing to join the right companies at the right time. You get to see how those people make their choices. You get to see how those people decide to jump ship. You get to build a social circle where you learn lots of first-hand information about startups. There are a few simple steps that worked well for many people (again, no guarantee of success, but they do increase accumulated probability of finding the right company).

- You bet on product you love. Airbnb/Pinterest/Uber before 2013, Netflix before 2010, FB before 2009, Google before 2003, Databriks before 2017, Tesla before 2017.

- You bet on sectors. SDN, gig economy, search, big data, and etc.

- You bet on company's productivity - the customers/engineer grows exponentially without Uber-style marketing cost - Instagram/WhatsApp; the company releases features faster than they hire - Google; people deliver without working like a dog - Netflix

- You bet on people you know or you admire

- You bet on the leaders in each sector
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Even more insidious sometimes is that Virgin Media seem to silently block some VPN websites.

They may have given up by now but think of those children they saved!