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> such discipline requires witnesses or confession (edit: or evidence, probably)

Witnesses are straightforward: blackmail multiple members, or get some plants who are "new to the ward". Might take awhile to build up a ward-wide infiltration network, but it's likely worth it.

Hell, we're talking about the same demographic that routinely falls for MLM schemes like dōTerra. Once you get a bit of a nucleus, a ward's espionage machine can very well be self-maintaining and decentralized, using peer pressure and some judicious application of scripture to guilt-trip people into being informants.

As for evidence: that's the whole discussion here :)

> There is also (to us) scripture that says Church discipline can only deprive one of membership

Which is all that's really needed to be effective leverage.
Space is black. Even in daylight, the background behind an object in space is always black (except when passing in front of the sun). A black plane against a blue sky stands out. A black satellite against the black of space does not. Or a blue plane against a blue background.

The F117 is black and only flew at night, at lower levels. The bottom of the B2 isn't actually black, more a dark grey with a bit of blue in it. And the top of the aircraft is more sea blue than black at most angles. Someone thought long and hard about those colors, about not just painting it all black like the F117.

https://www.thedrive.com/content/2019/08/b-2-top-2.jpg
> if you are working from home nearly all the time

No doubt the pandemic has had a permanent effect on how people work. But how big of an effect? When the pandemic no longer forces 100% WFH, will people still do 100%, or will they do (say) 90%?

If you go in to an office for an occasional day or half day, you'll want your computer while you're there. Though I guess this could also be solved by borrowing a loaner laptop at the office to use to remote desktop into your main computer at home. (Maybe we can call this reverse telecommuting?)
If it didn't take a team to design what you use then it probably won't take a team to design a fallback. But the difficulty doesn't excuse not doing it, if you don't have a fallback for whatever you pick, pick something simpler.

Ideally we keep stuff running, but I don't want to be the kind of person who just tells you that we've got it. You need to know your airbag might fail so that you take your seatbelt seriously.
OK, smaller market.
Great article.

There are people who want to communicate ideas to as wide an audience as possible. Those people will instinctively use speech and writing in a way that is most accessible.

There are people who want to intimidate, or impress. Those people will hide behind jargon and lingo.
Their anecdata beats your unsourced generalization.
> My computer isn't doing that at the moment

Your computer was produced using all green energy, using eco-friendly manufacturing with resources that are mined in sustainable ways? Wow, it must have cost a fortune.

This argument makes it seem like you're fine with people being poisoned as long as it's somewhere else.

> It's sane to be skeptical of things that could potentially poison you. Why do I have to explain this?

Would you say we are poisoning ourselves by blasting carbon into the air? I would. And by that metric, it obviously makes sense to look at the alternatives, and it seems to me that nuclear is currently the least-poisonous way to power our collective needs. Solar just cannot do it. Maybe on a bright sunny day it can! But it's not always bright and sunny, sometimes it's night or it's cloudy. So you need to overproduce, and store the energy somewhere. Where is it stored? According to 90% of the solar advocates here, in batteries filled with poison, that are produced using poisonous manufacturing.

Solar and other renewables are not as "clean" as we'd like to think, and they also are just not up to the task yet. Nuclear is.

I get that you're not anti-nuclear, but maybe this is some ammo you can use when you're arguing for it.
You want to know from what point of view?

From the buying manager POV, one is cheap commodity and the other is expensive single vendor equipment.

From the programmer POV, one is a proprietary environment with uniformly addressable memory (not UMA, just addresses) and the other is a distributed blank canvas where you must write the IPC yourself (or use a library, of course). Both have a huge IO capacity, but mainframes can integrate data much faster (and usually, process it much slower).

From the ops POV, one is a single machine (a heavy one), and the other is an entire datacenter.
Before I look up `man cat`, what can you do with `cat` other than just see what's in a file?
That's why once you have a strong fission program you retire fossil fuel power as new nuclear comes online and then electrical vehicles and other more environmentally friends travel/HVAC etc starts happening. Economies of scale and training lower the price even more. This could happen in big powerhouses like China/India/Europe/USA and reverse some of the damage we've done to the environment and green house gas increases.
We have a fairly academic background, so we know how to write these grant proposals and have been doing it for a while. It's definitely a specialized skill, but there's no magic to it. You have to know how to do the paperwork and budgets though. This particular one was an extreme fast track program, so there were 30 days between each of program announcement, proposal due date, performer selection and final contract negotiation date. Nothing in government usually happens that fast - I was quite shocked that it actually happened in the stated time frame.
There is an actual emoji button on new dell keyboards as well as a lock button. Not just a repurposed FN key but really a separate key with a smiley on it and one with a lock next to it. Both work without extra drivers in Windows 10.
I worked at a place that had a little mainframe (essentially a large server) from IBM to port some software to. Most of the people didn't know anything about mainframes.

On a hot day they had an air condition problem in the data center and had to turn off a lot of machines. They tried to turn off the mainframe using the big button, but it just kept running. Then they decided to pull the power plug. System still kept running. It turned out it had an built-in UPS. After some more attempts they finally managed to turn it off.
Counterpoint; writing simply isn't useful in all cases, communicating simply is telling a first grade student that multiplication is repeated addition, yes it works in most day to day examples, but it breaks down when you start looking closely - how do you add something to itself zero time?

Communicating simply can leave vague generalities to a technical conversation or decision making process that allows for those involved to make the wrong assumptions; but if you take the time to give precision to the process you can remove those assumptions without harming the overall communication. One doesn't need to go in depth about how a decision tree works or a random forest works to explain the pros and cons of the process, and the assumptions made to get the results.

Writing simply in all cases is the equivalent of "when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail," writing precisely is using a screwdriver when you're working with screws and a hammer with nails. Use the right tool for the job, sometimes simple isn't correct, and sometimes precision isn't either (elementary school algebra vs algebraic theory).
Importance is organizational and just hints three things:

* Which feeds are fetched first.

* Which feeds are hidden from view. (Only 'real-time' is show on the first view.)

* The tab for each tag will be colored according to the status of 'Real-time' follows.

Importance is not a fixed number. It acts as a gradient:
https://twitter.com/glitchyowl/status/1285757728049094656

Fortunately it's a very small feature and can be ignored. To other users, it is a crucial feature - and establishes the mindset of how to think about your follows. (That you can follow hundreds or thousands of people and move some into the background - to check on a much less frequent basis.)

Really appreciate the question, nsilvestri, and that you've made your own good use of Fraidycat.
It's not fair to just blame Facebook though. Twitter, reddit, CNN, FoxNews, all have the same kind of behavior.

It's also not fair to just blame the media. How about the politicians? Any major political leader dare to elaborate a balanced view at all?

It seems to be deeply rooted in partisan politics.
You are right, it doesn't "poison" your code, you can always wrap or map it.

I guess I was just going off some tangent.
I have to argue this to friends all the time.
"C is too hard" isn't your worry at this stage. Get some kids doing stuff and worry about what language and platform to use when they complain. MicroPython might be easier; indeed... doesn't matter if none of the kids are interested in bending wires.

My small sample of "minecraft kids" were very willing to spend effort in minecraft and eager to learn for self directed goals. But none of that translated into the real world at all. Making real things was something they expect others to do, I think.

Best of luck; perhaps that wont be a problem for you.
The most successful (by that I mean, placed the greatest number of ideas in the greatest number of brains) informative writing I've seen is a pleasure to read as well. Humans are capable of deriving multiple rewards from something at the same time. People who fetishize simplicity would take Carl Sagan's:

Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

And replace it with:

The Earth contains all humans and is far from Voyager I.
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ICANN SSAC Advisory on the Use of Emoji in Domain Names

https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/sac-095-en.pdf

A good document outlining many of the issues with using Emoji in domain names.
Thanks! We try to put a lot of focus into design. We're currently thinking on free tiers, team features, etc.

That's a great idea. Our current approach is bottom-up. We found people sharing it with their teams organically so we rolled out team plans to get more people on board. Open to other suggestions if you have experience!
Yes - I certainly didn't want to impart 'the obvious' in my response, but I'm not sure if there's an answer to your more literal question. If there was, we would have read an HN post on how there's a great new AI that develops compelling literary works, art, and music based on analyzing past masters and current psyche. Of course, there are AI writing, painting, and music composition systems, but other than seemingly random chance, they have yet to produce something compelling (novel, yes).

I do believe many great artists had a certain degree of mental affliction - not so much to incapacitate, but to provide additional insight. For example, it's been said that Ravel's Bolero was written in the early throes of his mental affliction, hence the repetitive theme. I completely agree with you - compositions (classical and modern) ultimately take us on small adventures from one place to another and back - happiness, despair, melancholy, and so on. As you mention, the melodies are the main 'characters' in the story, supported by chord sequences, rhythmic patterns, ostinato, and so on, all perversely using our ancient and deep auditory instincts of baby wails, hurt fellow tribe members, dangerous animals, thunder, laughter, etc. against us to elicit an emotional response. A great song creates a personal story in the listener's mind based on past experiences. Great painters and authors strive for the same response, but I think it's a more difficult task; for some reason we're more susceptible to auditory emotions vs. visual or the written word. Of course, soundtrack composers combine the visual with auditory very effectively; the whole being more than the sum of individual parts.

As for creating an entire world on which to base novels and characters on, Hemingway does touch on this as well, stating roughly that he could have made The Old Man and the Sea 1,000 pages with every detail exposed and examined (and that approach has successfully been used before), but it was much more compelling (and difficult) for him to eliminate all unnecessary things and have the town exist under the waterline as internal experience and just let the novel show whats important, which connects the reader with the story, as they have to fill in the details with their own experiences and ideas as opposed to Hemingway's.
>One of the barriers is that these companies are not willing to pay the same money we (I think we are from the same generation - I was paid to write Apple II software) can get from working with anything that's not COBOL.

As a younger person (graduated 2012) who entered the mainframe space for my first job then left after 2y, I can very much vouch that compensation for software devs working on zOS systems writing COBOL or HLASM is peanuts. You'd be looking at 1.5-2x'ing your income even if you took a job at a series A startup writing CRUD apps in Rails/etc.
Yep! His songs are really funny. Very sad he sort of retired but I'm happy he's working on what he enjoys, with the movie he directed.
Sorry it's not clear to me why this needs to be subscription service?

Mac has a native Calendar app that allows you to sync to Google calendar and includes notifications. So I'm not sure why this would have $120/yr value add.

On another note I truly dislike this trend of SaaSifying every software product. Some things are a simple utility that don't need much maintenance and updates. I can't imagine this widget being drastically different a year from now
That’s entertaining but I just went a year back into that author’s posts and she never called them anything differently. Writing a lot about border immigration, ICE, and their facilities.
The error propagation won't be through measurements, because that blows up linearly. There's other approaches which give much more promising results.
They probably just don't have the time to upstream it themselves. I think it's just a publicity stunt for them.
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My macbook does just fine as a zoom terminal, VSCode runner and web browser. Battery can go almost the entire day if I'm not on calls. All code is developed locally and run through pipelines in the cloud.

Many people don't need a workhorse machine, simply a portal for communication and reading.
Lower noise floor = easier to grab low-power or distant signals. It really depends on your use-case.
We're not doing design in Julia at the moment, just simulation of existing domains, so we're just reading in netlists from other tools. Eventually I do think Julia would be good at HDL, and I too have an abandoned HDL DSL (that I basically used for an FPGA demo and nothing else), but I don't think HDL is an area where Julia would be able to provide 100x improvements over existing tools (which is about where we want to be to start something new). Of course, if Julia takes over in the space, doing HDL in the same language as your simulations would have advantages :).
I lurk on /r/golang and to be fair there are a lot of crappy low effort questions, so yeah. I wouldn't consider these answers as non inclusive, but I understand that the people asking these crappy questions could feel not included.
That's absurd; if a customer has to engineer for and be prepared to migrate to another cloud provider at any moment, that erases any possible cost advantage for using a cloud provider in the first place. They might as well just self-manage bare metal.
Another key quote that explains the fundamental misalignment of incentives at the employee level - you're rewarded for increasing engagment metrics. So why do something that might decrease it?

"But anything that reduced engagement, even for reasons such as not exacerbating someone’s depression, led to a lot of hemming and hawing among leadership. With their performance reviews and salaries tied to the successful completion of projects, employees quickly learned to drop those that received pushback and continue working on those dictated from the top down."
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In what sense is it more "readable"?

The main difference is reach, not readability. I write a post on my blog, you need to know about and visit my blog. I write a post on Twitter and... the audience is already on Twitter and able to easily share it with others.
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I just went a year back into that author’s posts and she never called them anything differently. Writing a lot about border immigration, ICE, and their facilities.

If you want to be vigilant about it, do that. This author and the people upvoting it weren’t part of that, and this post is still intended to be vigilant about the problem.

If you are expecting the same media and representatives to continue making this the controversy du jour, thats obviously not going to happen. They will omit discussion about it and there is nothing surprising about that.

You will need to be more discerning about who is contributing to what. This article isn’t one of those partisan hack jobs and is still about a real ongoing and increasing issue.
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I've seen a few places accepting anything, mostly with smaller NFT ideas:

- https://twitter.com/ricardojuchem/status/1369957369833226241

- https://twitter.com/simonstalenhag/status/136966166114619392...

- https://twitter.com/simonstalenhag/status/136968271596920832...
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TLD .cf supports emoji and can be bought for free (up to 12 months).
Now good luck finding a reseller that processes the purchase of an emoji domain name.....
yeah but that's how many have gotten jobs.
It's just a matter of ROI.

Wrong direction for whom?
Yeah, I am on Webex much of the day and it's generally great, even over a slow vpn with many attendees and video feeds. But I use the native client on MacOS. I wonder if a lot of the complaints are coming because of the browser-based version. For sure, the security story is the best around.
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>Reducing language to a mere communication tool also destroys much of its beauty, meaning, and ability to inspire or motivate us. I don't think it's a coincidence that the loss of interest in poetry has coincided with a general loss of respect for literary culture.

That's not the argument here. This talks about language and writing as a means of communicating ideas to as broad an audience as possible. There is still a place for dense, poetic, or ambiguous language full of jargon and metaphor and all that good stuff. For example, physicists will communicate amongst themselves in a very inaccessible language of physics because they need precise language in that setting. But a physicists who wants to communicate his ideas to the public, he will simplify it to to make it accessible.
What exactly is wrong with Nim's docs, in your opinion? They seem fine after perusing the ones at the following link a bit just now:

https://nim-lang.org/documentation.html
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If your employer subscribed to a network of workspaces (collaborative and private) would you use it?
From the point of view of safety smaller reactors that -can't- go into critical mass by the design are far superior to the older huge reactor designs that we have currently. Sure it's usually cheaper to go bigger but the public just is not going to have allow it with designs that can potentially go critical mass and make the next Chernobyl no matter how many times you tell them you can handle any situation.
I think the key to the Street address question is to actually first find their parents and then find the addresses that they lived at.

There is a non-zero chance their parents still live at the same address. And if not, there are likely records of home buy/sales which can give more guesses.

First pet though, I agree is difficult. I can't think of any public records which would list this kind of info. However, pet names also follow predictable patterns. You can probably get very far with names like "Mittens, Duke, Spike, Spot ..."
Fair point, although I like the blur effect. But you can also fill in with a solid color or transparency.
It's more of a benefit than features. Features too often don't answer the question:

Why should _I_ care?

The philosophy at least spoke to me as opposed to features being about you.
(Edited.)

That sounds sad.

I have found (the easy way and the hard way) that God is just and merciful, and expects us to be kind & honest, and trust the final judgement to Him.

I'm under the strong impression that our local and general leaders, or maybe about everyone else too, are aware of the things you talk about, that there is less deception than some might think, and really, the goal is to help, not condemn. Many things are structured with that help being available, if someone wants it. Even the online resources anyone can find, are extensive, and my own site links to many. Someone said, if you can't smell cigarette smoke at church meetings, we aren't doing our job. Some I know are open about their struggles (and/or opinions), and we can and should love them for the good that is in them.

Being wrongly judgemental or harsh is a sin too, I suppose a common one, and we are to love the sinner and help them if we can (and they want).
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Yes. And for wanting to expand that audience simpler writing is an advantage IMO
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Jacques Barzun somewhere remarked that what makes for difficult reading is not length or number of words but density of thought. He instanced Dickens as a writer who used long words and complicated syntax but whom everyone finds easy to read.
If they're not gaining enough new customers to offset the losses of those that eventually leave the platform or go out of business, and if we take it as a given that over long periods of time all businesses will eventually disappear or reshuffle their technology stack, then the mainframe market is shrinking. Possibly very slowly but it's still attrition.

That might make it good business for a long time but it would be a stretch to call it thriving, and it provides gentle but salient cause for businesses to consider migration.