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I find it funny how people used to complain about the sheer number of times they had to explain to family members exactly the opposite: "No need to ask. If you can plug it in, then it will work. Computers are fool-proof like that. No, it's not like the jacks on the hi-fi"

As in, someone got a new mouse and didn't know where to plug it into their computer, when in fact there was only one DB-9 connector on the computer where it will physically fit and it would be the correct one.
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If you want to, you can turn it into a Home Assistant plugin (or even add it to the core). It's a great project that aims to provide this kind of interface for all kinds of "smart" devices in a user-friendly way.

https://github.com/home-assistant/
It is amazing how you equate a fairly random and unusual aspect of US law to "being moral".
If business not make money, close business. Business make money, big boat of money.

Engineers not make money.
Do YouTube charge rents way in excess of their costs?
> They went as far as using mental illness as a weapon against the community (equating participation in the commons as an equivalent to mental illness).

They went as far as fantasizing about associating those who used competing tech with mental deficiency.

Here is the quote from page 55 of the document you cited [0]

> Ideally, use of the competing technology becomes associated with mental deficiency, as in, "he believes in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and OS/2." Just keep rubbing it in, via the press, analysts, newsgroups, whatever. Make the complete failure of the competition's technology part of the mythology of the computer industry. We want to place selection pressure on [people who use the competing tech]...

Do people really need a plan to talk this way though? I remember how Linux, Mac and Windows enthusiasts used to talk about each other in the 90s, early 2000s and even today. Even right here on HN. Is it all Microsoft's fault? I don't think so. This is how people behave, especially online.

[0] http://www.groklaw.net/pdf/Comes-3096.pdf
Phabricator is (IMHO) in a class of its own as a code review tool but the tasks stuff is nothing to write home about.

If you folks end up doing an integration my group would be excited to give it a try.

Good luck with the venture!
Java, you just have to publish a version, right? My understanding with scala was that many of the versions are not compatible with each other.
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> We know that we can eliminate certain bugs with compile time guarantees; we also know that code reviews catch many (many!) bugs, and so making them easier helps. But what if these two are in opposition? It's not easy to tell which wins in which circumstances.

I understand the argument, but I'm not sure on what basis you consider that Rust's type system harms code review. Do you have specific examples in mind? (And because the discussion is about Zig, this is a pretty strange argument to make, because Zig's ubiquitous usage of metaprogramming is in fact a hindrance to code review).
Cost. At least the part that wears out first is on the cable, not the device. That was one of the botches of mini-UCB A
John Oliver is a master in presenting stuff in a deceitful manner so it serves his narrative.

There is some luck involved of course, but like poker, you need skill to have a constant success.
It's not really a fuck it point (usualy).

If you reach that you just put in the notice, take whatever vacations you have and then put in sick leave.

But 3 months notice is used for, so the company can hire a replacement for you, and you can help train him, and transfer knowledge.

A lot of people reading this site work in companies that have huge teams, but most people in IT I know from EU (where I live) are one or two person IT teams. 3 or 4 person team is considered almost medium sized.

In such situations you need yo hand of your task responsibly.

And that the one thing that will get you burned, if you leave your previous employer hanging.
An absolutely brilliant work in my opinion!

I'm always curious when/where/how we see Fourier Transforms of any sort -- because we see them in so many diverse fields, and in so much diverse Mathematics to consider them almost ubiquitous and fundamental for any meaningful understanding in many areas of Physics...

Here we see them in Image Processing...

Again, an absolutely brilliant work!
It's currently 12.7c

Back in November it was 11.7c

The bigger story is that back in 2011 it was 65 cents.
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My new PCP doctor threw shade on why I was taking 5000 IU of Vitamin D3 per day. I asked him why he wasn't considering Fauci and others take it for COVID outcome prophylaxis.
People said the same when they switched from air to water cooled engines.
Not sure why you're getting those bogus downvotes - these 'midnight shifts' are absolutely real, and can cause serious problems.

I know of a specific US-based specialist manufacturer who makes some of the best-in-class products in the world - a LOT of R&D and optimization. The castings and machining were done at a plant in Asia. After shipping their product, they discovered an obvious Asian knock-off selling for 1/3 the price. They immediately called their manufacturing partner and got that shut down, but it was too late - the Chinese competitor already had inventory, customers, marketing, etc., and just switched factories. And there's still debate in the purchasing community about which to buy.

Those 'midnight shifts' literally enabled a new competitor from the starting gate for just a bit of extra temporary profit - straight up theft. (If it was my biz, I'd have not only gotten them to shut down the backdoor selling, but also put as a top priority finding a new manufacturing partner and moving production at the earliest possible date).
Because I like solutions that are possible, and I can't think of many things more difficult than changing people's behavior.

We can't even convince the public to wear face masks in public and that vaccines are safe, and you're telling me that it would be trivial to make everyone go vegan? Even discussing this is pointlessly filling the atmosphere with more CO2.

I actually happen to think that our civilization will inevitably become vegetarian, but it won't happen within my lifetime, and in the meantime, some scientists have found a cheap way to reduce methane emissions. That's awesome! Stop pissing on their work.
> I guess everything helps

This is a dangerous attitude. While technically true it gives everyone an easy cop out to avoid making real substantive change.

Some things help and some things help.
Kitemaker is super cool. I've had the pleasure of talking with Sigurd for the past year and it's always amazing to me the progress they demonstrate. Especially the editor is super cool and the UI slick.

Waiting for the GitLab integration eagerly :)
Congrats on the launch and getting to YC - much deserved!
We've been waiting on this a bit to see if there's much demand for this and so far the answer has been "not much" but we're open to the idea. So the answer is "not right now".

Good news I don't think it would be super tough for us since we're built using pretty boring tech (i.e. not a lot of dependencies on a particular cloud vendor), don't have a bajillion microservices, etc.
Thanks! Yes, still early days, but trying our best to build something that will help many teams work better together :)
Your close-in-age example among people who are near the age of majority is quite morally different than an adult having sex with an 11-year-old. Some US states even have close-in-age exceptions to keep cases like your example legal, and the most common age of consent in the US for purposes of sex is 16, although certain states do have it at 18.
FTFY: Fired Central Bank Chief for the 3rd time in 20 months. [0]

Turkey had 4 different Central Bank Chiefs in the last 20 months, all fired by Erdogan. This one only lasted ~130 days.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Governors_of_the_Centr...
Oh I don't know, how about: solar, wind, nuclear, hydro; plenty of ways to power a railway network without the need for fossil fuels.

The real challenge here is likely governments simply not wanting to invest in this.
How will we fix the topsoil damage caused by industrial monocropping without grazing animals? We only have a few decades left before our petrochemical dependent agricultural system will be impossible to sustain.

Also, rebuilding topsoil with grazing animals has a side benefit of being a carbon sink.
but scala's cousin kotlin doesn't seem to suffer from this a lot... kotlin library-packages don't have kotlin-version to their download link... maybe I'm missing something?
Ah thanks, I wasn't aware of this. That mainly talks about the original "magic" kernel ([1,3,3,1]) and an earlier version of my page. It rightly references the fact that the magic kernel (any version) by itself slightly blurs an image. The paper http://johncostella.com/magic/mks.pdf sheds more light on all of this.
Typically a company owes you money when you leave, like the started part of the month, pending holidays, and the annual bonus/extra pay that you already earned.

If you don't respect your notice period they'll remove your salary over the missed time from that final payment. So in that case they'd remove 3-month salary. Sometimes it goes into the negative, and some companies actually send a bill, but there's basically no consequence for ignoring it. Usually companies don't push the matter.
Lower interest rates in the US to spur growth: Smart!

Lower interest rates in Turkey to spur growth: Stupid!
I was comparing it to a mouse rather than a keyboard. And also suggesting that being able to use a touchscreen but not a mouse isn't really the fault of the user when most consumer devices now are touch-based.

But I'm not saying computers should go touchscreen only, just that it's probably time that a touchscreen is a standard feature on desktops and laptops. Microsoft Surface and Lenovo Yoga seem to be well liked by their users, yet there are very few desktop touchscreen monitors on the market.

A touchscreen is just another input option, and you could continue to use your mouse and keyboard if you prefer. I certainly would stick to my kb/m - even if that makes me an old fuddy-duddy.
Anyone that has worked for/closely with the FSF or with GNU leadership knows that RMS has a long history of bad behavior across a number of facets. Leaving aside controversial public statements, he was not a good President and I'm glad he's not anymore.
What makes you think that it's not going to happen?

It's already happening to such a degree that diary and meat farmer interest groups are HEAVILY lobbying the EU, to make it as difficult as possible for replacement products.

We might as well put our efforts into cleaning up these roadblocks/corruption to a brighter future.

And why can't we do both?

Expect individuals to go vegan, expect governments to support the development of vegan substitutes.
Have people take the bike instead of cars more often, but have a carbon tax on flights.
In many countries it is illegal to work for free - companies have to pay you minimum wage regardless if you agree to not be paid. In a way this open source model provides a loophole through which companies can exploit developers or it puts developers who would love to contribute to open source into disadvantage.
I think we need changes in law to ensure even if people want their work to be used for free to be reimbursed.
This way if you want to work on open source you won't have to worry how you are going to pay your bills.
I need to think how to argue this better and make politicians aware of this issue.
Take a look how big corporations were able to amass such wealth - they don't pay taxes like small businesses do and they don't pay salaries for R&D as much as they should, because there is always that open source project to appropriate, so why pay?
I'd go so far as to say anything else would actually be biased.
I have.

I can't eat a lot of fats due to a bad pancreas, but I'm also B12-deficient and anemic. Doc asked me to eat more red meat on occasion, so I try to about once a week.

As an attempt at an alternative, I tried one of the popular substitutes. I tried it before my ... "pancreatic situation" was known to me. It made me sick for days. Vomiting, other digestive issues I won't list, and incredible abdominal pain and sourness of my stomach resulted.

I've even seen similar reports in various Vegan forums.

Those substitutes are filled with canola (and other) oils to add body, flavour, and characteristic "juiciness".

I'm intrigued by lab-grown meat, but those pea and soy meat substitutes are not viable. They're not even close to a viable substitute. Eating a steak or some bone marrow once a week or so keeps me feeling like I'm an alive human being, which I have to say is nice having been close to the alternative.
There's a lot of IoT stuff which doesn't reach out to the internet. You can also reflash some commercial solutions with open firmware. Also, there's quite a few local only solutions using ZigBee / zwave that you can manage from Home Assistant.
> One of the biggest risk factors for COVID and especially for poor outcomes is Vitamin D deficiency.

Is it? How exactly is vitamin D deficiency measured and diagnosed? How much variance / tolerance is there between people. Most importantly does COVID impact Vitamin D levels?

This may be a serious oversight. Or it may be that the Vitamin D thing is pseudoscience.
Most US states have “Romeo and Juliet” laws that specifically exempt cases like this where the two are close in age but one is past the line.
I don't work in the field, but I've found this material to be informative: https://www.visiononline.org/certified-vision-professional-b...
An EU partner would not have vaccinated americans first.
Two major reasons, as far as I understand things.

Firstly, reversible plugs are harder to make structurally resilient, they only become feasible cost-wise as stronger materials become cheaper and manufacturing grows more efficient.

Secondly, reversible plugs are a lot more complex. Compare the 4(ish) pins of USB-A to the 24 pins on USB-C. Not all of them are strictly necessary for parity with USB-A, but you could cut that number in half quite easily if the plug were not reversible! Sure, this complexity impacts manufacturing, but, less obviously, it also pushes that increased complexity onto the USB controller hardware/firmware.

Neither of these issues were necessarily dealbreakers, but... for a long time they certainly did conspire to make reversible plugs into a pipedream. I have to imagine that were always bigger problems to solve and fewer resources to work with! We're just now seeing reversible plugs really take off because we've finally crossed that magic threshold where it makes sense to try surmounting those barriers.
Why is it important? Where would the incentive come from? Who would be actually interested in still being able to invent new engines?
> As to what "a new family of ICE" means is anyone's guess.

It's exactly what he said. Modern engine-families are typically developed as somewhat of a modular platform. Then, there are several or even dozens of variations of that platform for various needs, some with different emissions accessories, some with varying displacements, compression ratios, valve/spark timings, etc.

For a tech analogy: it's similar to how CPU manufacturers design a core architecture and then give you varying numbers of cores, cache, thermal designs, feature sets, etc.
The technical people noticed, left, and they had to hire new ones who didn't know yet. Now the new ones also know.
Also Scala is not (yet) bootstrappable and the first binaries depended on proprietary software.

https://bootstrappable.org/projects/jvm-languages.html
https://bootstrapping.miraheze.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_Specif...
Very cool! We tried Phabricator years and years ago but haven't had much experience since then. GitLab is next on our list, but then we'll see what comes after that. We've gotten a few BitBucket requests.

Any idea how popular Phabricator is these days?
So you say that it's more extreme to eat beans than to raise animals by feeding them beans to then slaughter them to eat them?

I've read somewhere recently that you need 16kcal of feed to produce 1kcal worth of chicken. That's a 16 times loss in efficiency that requires a lot of plants to feed to the chicken that could have been consumed by humans.
Yeah, don't cop out, go vegan then ;)!
It changes things. Europe is developed. If Europe and other developed groups don't switch to clean energy, transportation, heating, etc, the future industrializing countries with probably 2-3-4 billion people will fry us all.

It's not a moral imperative, it's simple survival.
> The known effects of LC are horrendous: permanent damage to the brain, heart, lung, kidneys, liver, and pancreas.

None of these are "known effects". If you count "things that have happened to someone after contracting SARS-CoV2" as "long covid", then an entire universe of medical maladies is included in the set that may or may not be causally related.

There are specific examples of patients with severe cases of SARS-CoV2 infection who have had damage to particular organs. However, it is misleading to draw a connection from these to the broader phenomenon of "long covid", which is neither well-characterized, nor necessarily related to these acute situations.

The ambiguity in terminology here is being used to loop in everything from minor headaches to lung damage due to mechanical ventilation.
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/soy/

> Results of recent population studies suggest that soy has either a beneficial or neutral effect on various health conditions
Sure, but in my opinion a lot of the racing is super exciting.
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CO2 wise the shift to EVs alone will change almost nothing, you just centralize emissions at power plants. It does enable a potential shift to renewable energy sources, though.

Source: https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/comparative-l...
That's ~10%. The drop from 65 cents was ~80%, but this one is still noteworthy.
Umm ... what exactly makes you say that?
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Many of these WiFi-LED lamps contain esp8266 devices, which have a lot of open source alternative firmware available, like esphome[0] or tasmota[1]. You can reflash them by opening them & connecting a cheap (1$) usb-to-tty adapter.

If that isn't an option (for reasons like not wanting to permanently damage them or being afraid of electrical shocks) a lot of them come with tuya firmware, which you can (still) often exploit and convert with TUYA-CONVERT [2].

I found the Tasmota Device Templates Repository[3] to be a really valuable resource, although I've been using zigbee devices for lightbulbs.

[0]https://esphome.io/

[1]https://github.com/arendst/Tasmota

[2]https://github.com/ct-Open-Source/tuya-convert

[3]https://templates.blakadder.com/index.html
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Saw the handle on this thing and more and more I think someone is going to accidentally reinvent the old OLPC one day
DACH countries are jelous of Tesla. Soon even children in post-Communist countries will be forced to work for German automotive industry, skipping any education. No other opportunities will be available. (Meantime MS, G, and Big Four salesfolks are hysterical to sell them "The Cloud")
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In fact, it is very likely that the virus was brought to China by American soldiers during the military Games held in Wuhan, because there have been patients with similar pneumonia in the United States for a long time, but it has not been taken seriously. It just happened that the Spring Festival travel rush in China led to the widespread outbreak of the virus and was widely paid attention to
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Related - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26389690
(In 2018, US Diplomats Warned of Risky Coronavirus Experiments in a Wuhan Lab - politico.com)
Well that's a hell of a strawman...
Just chiming in with a "me too". For my organization it's self-hosted or bust. We're looking to replace JIRA with something else right now.
Worth noting that PAH3 appears to be Porsche SE - the holdings company that is the largest shareholder in VOW, not the Porsche company that makes the cars - which is 100% owned by Volkswagen AG (VOW).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche_SE
It's the vaccine bans that are bad. Careful review is not. When your government doesn't let you take something you want, it's a ban we just aren't using the word.

This one was particularly eggregious, because even if the side effect was caused by AZ (unlikely but possible), it would still make sense to take the vaccine.

But giving people a choice is the important thing, particularly in a situation where risk profiles vary so widely. Using pessimistic assumptions and data we knew in July 2020 it made sense to lift the ban, let alone now.
That was my thought - if America won't let you keep your money, Luxembourg surely will.
Interestingly the case can be made that the military is not exempt from the 13th amendment, which only makes one single exception for prisoners. It's just that the courts have ruled consistently that OBVIOUSLY the military wasn't meant to be included in the ban against involuntary servitude. Obviously.

Just like they have also ruled that mandatory Jury duty is not in violation of the 13th amendment either. Funny how the system protects and perpetuates itself.

But with respect to your point, I am nearly 100% sure that it is not the case that employers can use financial penalties to enforce such a contract. Anything you are paid as wages is pretty much untouchable after it is paid out, unless it was paid in mistake or you intentionally damaged the company or something. The best the company can do is withhold potential future earnings or bonuses, or take back conditional non-wage payments like bonuses within a certain window of time.

This is part of why golden parachutes exist. Your contract has very generous severance clauses which award you lots of money if you follow a certain procedures for leaving, which involves advance notice and such. Fail to follow that and your paycheck just stops the day you walk off. So there are incentives, but they can't go after your already earned wages, paid or still due to you.
The reason I buy expensive eggs, milk and cheese is that I know that the supermarkets fuck over the farmers. I never buy the supermarket brand, unless it's the last one on the shelf. The price difference is sometimes 1.5x but unless you're really "broke" broke, you don't notice the difference. It's a few cents a week.
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People want US dollars a lot more than they want Turkish Lira. I don't agree with US monetary policy but to imply they're the same situation is dumb.
maybe it's one of the perks of controlling the world's reserve currency?
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