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Tons of business apps were written in ways that required activeX. It was one of the main reasons so many companies held on to ancient versions of IE.

Sure you could disable activeX but in practice it would have been rare.

People bitch that sites don’t support people who disable JavaScript but it really isn’t worth catering to that type of person. I’ve been in multiple shops where we had the debate about how to handle non-JavaScript clients and every single time all the developers agreed it wasn’t worth the hassle.

This includes companies who had blind developers using screen readers and companies that had major legal liability if the site wasn’t accessible. The “screen readers don’t support JavaScript” argument has been dead for years now. The only people without JavaScript are those who intentionally disable it.

It’s just not worth building what is almost a second website for incredibly tiny amount of non-JavaScript viewers out there.
Top management doesn’t “owe” them any money when they need it later. Say you budget $100 for dinner tonight and you go out and it costs $75. Do you owe the restaurant $25? While certainly some people might roll the $25 into the next day’s meals, some people might allocate that $25 to another cost center like buying a new car.

Budgets are meant to estimate costs and manage cash flow. From a greedy team perspective it’s best (and self interested) to try to game the system as much as possible so you get the largest share of the pie. From the organizational perspective it’s best to reallocate capital efficiently, especially if a team consistently over budgets.
The answer is actually mostly "we don't know, a very large number of small landowners" but that's boring and the top line items are big landowners who collectively own about 20% of woodland.

The two categories you mentioned are represented (e.g. the Duchy of Cornwall is the personal land holding of Prince Charles, the Forestry Commission is a government department for looking after this sort of thing) but there's also charities (the National Trust and Royal Society for the Protection of Birds are charities) and the Church (specifically the Church of England) in that top 10 list.

And not so much royalty (only Charles is in that top list, and only his mother is in the second list of smaller personal estates, the Crown Estates do not actually belong to the monarch they belong to the country and so are effectively another government agency) as aristocrats: Dukes, Earls, Barons, these people aren't part of the royal family they've just inherited wealth and power.
If you're operating at a scale or in a domain where crisis-like issues are expected (which is probably true if you're asking a question like this), The Checklist Manifesto[0] is a great read.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Checklist-Manifesto-How-Things-Right/...
Your comment is in reply to a comment about China, which is why I referenced China. (But if you wish to say your point is abstract, then my comment also applies equally well in any direction - I don't think China should use the US's misdeeds, which are plentiful, as justification for their misdeeds either!)

I am unconvinced that abandoning the attempt to be the good guys will lead people to be good. I believe it will only allow people to be bad guys without feeling bad about it. While claims to be moral have of course been used by many bad guys through history, the correct response is to argue convincingly that they're immoral, not to give up the idea that morality is a worthwhile standard.

Or, in other words, I believe morality is qualitatively different from any of those other categories you list. If a store chooses to sell Chips Ahoy instead of Oreos, that's just a question of taste; if a store chooses to sell cookies filled with razor blades and arsenic instead of Oreos, that's a different matter entirely, and we are not obligated to accept it because we've accepted that stores can sell Chips Ahoy.
Ideally, I'd like to retire, or just ghost them.

Realistically, I'd give 2 weeks notice. From the experience of others, they would have me train others and create additional documentation for my areas of knowledge.
Likewise California.
Uber is not used exclusively by international jetsetters.
The US itself formalizes that for some things; you can pay an extra fee to expedite passport renewal.
Cooperatives can expand by cooperating with other cooperatives -- a bunch of local cooperatives might nest to form a regional one, etc. Those regional ones could form a federation with a single identity for global operations.

So, this problem can be addressed by cooperatives, it's just a different kind of structure that distributes power locally -- with centralized power deriving from the bottom up, by the membership of localized cooperatives. The organizational challenge for expansion is how to avoid administrative capture: how to keep centralized infrastructure controlled by localized entities.

I don't think this "franchise" challenge has been worked out with platform cooperatives. However, if this NY based cooperative becomes profitable, it could expand to other cities not by getting bigger, but by forking off the operational aspects into a cooperative-of-cooperatives, then, a Chicago driver's cooperative could be a member of this shared operational entity.
> If you want to see the "title plan", you even have to pay a small fee each time for the privilege

You also get a copy when buying the house, as well as any covenants and details about any fences/walls etc that you have to maintain (either individually or with others)

Usually it just gets passed down in the buyer/seller questionnaire - until someone has a falling out with the neighbour then it all goes horribly wrong!

But yea, it is strange that we haven't started to do it more accurately, especially for new builds.
Even without the built-in option, you could always rip audio out of a video file with ffmpeg or similar.
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Yes. Compare it to having to buy/lease all cars first like a traditional taxi service.
> Elon Musk has never failed. Bill gates never failed.

There's a huge component of luck and everything. For every Bill and Elon, there's 10,000 guys as talented as them that didn't have their luck, and you don't hear about them. Elon and Bill are just guys who have won a dozen coinflips in a row - if millions of people are trying, it WILL happen to someone eventually.
> Jobless focuses on the individual, unemployment focuses on structural factors.

Why?
And that is how you measure whether or not the goal setting is valuable. The company I work with has found their way to the OKR model. Personally, I'm a fan, if they're used correctly. Objectives should be the thing that drives work. It's the "what" and often the "why" part of the equation. Key results are the "how" in "how are we going to achieve that objective?" and in "how do we know if we've succeeded?" If those objectives and key results aren't driving work and, more importantly, being used as a shield against unplanned work that isn't aligned, then they're not useful. I've seen both and I quickly stop participating when the model isn't used correctly. Models lime this are only valuable when they are part of the core of the org. When they're lip service, they're a major hit to both trust and morale.
one of the most interesting strategies for grid storage I've seen is just pumping water up a hill. Then, when you want to get the energy back, just let it flow back down through turbines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricit...

One of the potential strategies for dealing with grid storage in Europe is to turn Norway into a battery:

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/experts-respond...

Very neat engineering.
Assuming for a moment that he didn't say it: that just shows that he's incompetent at communication. Since that's an intrinsic part of his job it shows he's not suitable for the position.

If he'd ever showed any sign that he wanted to improve people might be a bit more tolerant. He's had years to put support in place, and he's declined to do so. He keeps blaming lack of understanding on other people - [I'm sorry you misunderstood what I said, vs I'm sorry I said what I said].

And now we have dozens of people who describe the harassment and aggression they faced when working with him.

People defending RMS on HN want it both ways: when allegations are made these people will say "it's unfair to put this in public; complaints need to be dealt with in private". But then when we're trying to talk about RMS's behaviours those same people will ask for huge amounts of detail in order to litigate the accusations.

It's an inconsistent approach that's driven by defending RMS rather than wanting to find out what the truth is.
What is your definition of technical debt here? Just because something has a small LOC, doesn't mean it lacks tech debt. It's just harder to find and quantify.

In fact, I would posit they're littered with tech debt, especially from an infrastructure and shared services standpoint.
Your law source misinterprets, possibly even misrepresents, that Supreme Court decision.

In summary the court said: The court opinion, by Chief Justice William Rehnquist, held that the due process clause protects against state action only. Police action was never mentioned or effected by that case.

Here is due process (5th Amendment): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Due_Process_Clause

Due process protects individuals from intrusion by the state. In that vein the case effectively says state agents without policing authority are not obligated to intervene as police would against private citizens.
An aggregator model would be great here if the major and local platforms provided fair access.

SmallTownUberCoOp would provide their offerings via standardized API, which aggregator apps could use and display to anyone.

Getting the balance between aggregator and local drivers coop would be hard, because aggregators love to squeeze.
Why do we allow such idiocy to be posted here ?
It's a good point that the process that is flooding the disk could be running as root and therefore bypasses the reserved blocks restriction.

It's also worth noting that the kernel is not a process and it does not write directly to files in the conventional sense. syslog-ng or its equivalents (which do run as root) will pick up messages from the kernel's circular ring buffer at /dev/kmsg and write them to a text file such as /var/log/kern.log, so it's possible that the kernel or one of its modules are verbose enough that syslog-ng causes that text file to get big. However, these log files can be limited to a certain size and/or logrotated[0] daily which will also remove log files older than a configured amount of time. In other words, there are better ways to manage servers than creating 8GB files as a bandaid.

[0] https://linux.die.net/man/8/logrotate
Electric heating in a country like Scotland is simply unconscionable. There is natural gas infrastructure. And where it’s not, even oil is better than electricity.
> What's with conspiracy types thinking that an all-powerful organization is behind these conspiracies, yet they're incompetent enough to drop these clues so people would find out?

In their mind they may see it as a malicious wink and a nod. "We know you know. Here's a little hint since you're powerless to stop us. No one will ever believe you."
It's a relief to see that people at Google made this call, but for a specific reason.

One of the times I perceived that I was being given the option to be read-in to some spooky stuff on a client site my view at the time was the IC should do their job, and civilian security folks should do ours. I said that they don't need us to compromise our work if they are good enough at theirs, it's an equilibrium. When I work for them, I'll work for them, but when I work for customers, I work for customers. The world doesn't need more compromised people.

I also didn't buy the "if you only knew/ticking bomb" arguments, because they know they have jobs to do and they aren't going to let some civvy contractor geek stand in their way. I'm sure I lost a lot of professional opportunity as a result, but you have to ask what it is you're protecting.

If companies who provide products that citizens trust are being subordinated to the IC to spy on them, just what does the IC think it's protecting? When the IC "misses" open secrets like Epstein's blackmail ring, human trafficking coyotes, compromised politicians, the total infiltration and compromise of universities and public institutions by foreign influenced operators, election integrity issues, and economy altering money laundering operations in plain sight, just what job is it they are doing again?

We need an IC and general guardian class certainly, but the point is to protect the integrity of the nation. Civilians and companies aren't game pieces, and if they are, I don't think the IC wants the accountability that comes with that.

Imo, Google made the right call in this situation.
Or they've got a moat. Warren Buffet likes moats.

If your potential competition is stymied by huge costs of startup or catchup, or you've got the government (be it national or local) on side to help you maintain a monopoly or cartel (I'm looking your way, numerous US internet service providers...), then your high margin can exist for a very long time. I don't know if I'd like to say "indefinitely" but with the right moats, yeah, maybe indefinitely.
>> You can get off an airplane just about anywhere in the world and get an Uber. That’s huge value.

I wonder what percentage of people driving on roads are actually the old "jet set", people who travel internationally more than once a year. I'd bet that is actually less than 1% of western populations. I think the real market is locals, people who need rides home when drunk, rather than 1%ers going to and from airports.

(I love the irony of people who use uber because "owning a car is evil" and then hop on 1st class airline seats to fly to remote islands. I wonder how often people take ubers to get them to their private jets;)
Sometimes it's a deliberate policy; Engines of Democracy[0] is about an aircraft engine plant with 170 employees and 1 manager.

[0] https://www.fastcompany.com/37815/engines-democracy
Just give it back to the taxi drivers to operate, but hold them to a higher standard of quality.
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I'm pretty sure that if the ship is stuck for a long enough time, conspiracies about it will start popping up and will lead to "alternative facts and truths".
I disagree. QA is not SW development at all. Start with front end developer in any language, any framework or anything. But no QA or Testing.
It's time for the adults to take care of this. I understand the deeply embedded gun culture and stockpiles. But what would you do if you found out porcelain toilets were killing people at this rate? You'd ban them and start programs to subsidize replacements. No, no, actually you'd have a significant percentage of the country insisting you can have thier toilets when you pry them from thier cold, dead hands. I sincerely wish this wasn't the way it is. The problem is generational, I guess. We need to start today by making guns a subject of ridicule among young people by using stats and studies to show there is no net benefit.
What’s with the quotes around “exported”? Excess power is exported, which happens to be one way to manage it, reducing the need for storage.
Congrats to Google for making the right decision here. Doesn't matter which govt agency is hacking vulnerable software, plugging the vulnerabilities and kicking them out is the _absolutely_ right thing to do as a private multi-national corporation.

If the western government in question wants to hack vulnerable software - they can create their own vulnerable software, ship it and distribute it. No one - utterly no government - democratic or not has any privileged right to hack market software and services.

Try passing a law through both houses stating the US government has the right to exploit US companies - and watch the US economy collapse.
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I read about a similar idea using abandoned mine shafts.

https://www.theengineer.co.uk/abandoned-mine-shafts-energy-s...
I was personally taught by the store manager of a supermarket how to sweep the floor and of course that built respect for him and the organization. (e.g. he knew how to do every little task like sweep the floor, cut meat in the deli, bake bread, etc.)

The (now retied) director of the art museum at Cornell could be seen out in his suit passing out pamphlets for an exhibition together with students promoting clubs and concerts.

Go to the exhibition and he'll personally give a talk about the art that will help you appreciate anything from a suit of Samurai armor to Mark Lombardi's conspiracy diagrams. It's nice to see the top guy, who performs like a top guy, doing the simple work.
This seems like it's probably one of those cases where there's so much regional and domain variation that a debate about it would only be useful as fodder for someone's weekend homework in an undergraduate level linguistics course.
I think that line was actually a lot worse than that, in particular:

>"with potentially life and death consequences that go beyond day-to-day internet security."

So this is setting up "counter-terrorism" as some sort of special thing far beyond "day-to-day internet security". But the whole problem is that day-to-day internet security absolutely can involve life-safety issues. Lots of vital infrastructure SCADA is on the internet and ludicrously exploitable. Internet monitoring is now used for all sorts of medical scenarios as well. Even in business settings like hospitals we've seen ransomware and the like cause major damage, but lots of individuals make use of internet devices to empower their ability to have the elderly stay at home longer for example, monitoring for falls or other issues. And even with "just" finance, if someone's small business is destroyed and everyone laid off, that can cause plenty of dangerous ripples.

If anything, I'd say terrorism is near the bottom of my list of threats to my own life and those close to me, right along lightning strikes. Sure, they do happen, and taking some basic transparent precautions is reasonable. But it gets lots of attention precisely because it's rare. Like, the entire point of it is right there in the name, to terrorize people into doing damage to themselves that the attacker could never manage alone. Terrorism is an expression of weakness, not strength.
Yes, especially how do you differentiate?

Also who says a lawfully elected representative government might not:

- act unlawfully, to undermine democracy to make sure they will stay in power.

- act unlawfully for other reasons, there are many such examples in history

- the CCP is also a lawfully elected representative government, because they make the laws so that they are. So you probably mean not "lawfully" but something like "properly"? Also I for example would say a lawfully/properly elected representative government requires that all people can vote and there is real choice about who to vote for. Guess which country has neither? (USA,it removes voting rights from citizens under certain situations and as a winner-takes-all de-facto 2 party system has no real, i.e. no democratic choice when voting. And that is ignoring the fact that the citizens votes can be overuled by a small group of propel, even if they normally don't do so).
I work with Vue every day at my day job and I spent about 200 hours on the side building an online Svelte course. I really enjoyed the syntax and readability of .svelte files. Local dev environment was a great developer experience and the lack of boiler plate was nice coming from a Vue background.

I built an SPA with an Express backend and my biggest complaint was the lack of an official front end router. The community based router libraries had lots of issues and quirks and I didn’t want to lock into using Sapper at the time. Svelte itself was rock solid though and I look forward to trying Sveltekit (think Next.js for Svelte) in the future.

Anyway, here comes the shameless self promotion:

https://www.newline.co/courses/fullstack-svelte
Also, with the revelations of Snowden you have to question the 'democratic oversight' part. We have no idea what our governments are up to and whether this is also being used to spy on us.
It would be interesting if this service could be provided 100% browser based. No app install needed.
Technical interview methods pale in comparison to playing Factorio with someone
SCOTUS – USG Amicus Brief – Caniglia vs. Strom (2021)[ [pdf]
> Considering how many eyes are on this right now, what do you think is going to happen the first time someone dies?

Considering how many goods and how much money is being blocked up by this the response may be loud from come parties but I doubt governments will care enough to stop it.

Some estimates I saw put the estimate at 10 billion dollars of goods being held up by the jammed ship and the costs of delays caused by sailing around the Cape instead will probably put a multiple on to that number before this is all over. There are construction projects in that corner of the globe worth far less that kill far more than just a few people but that hasn't really slowed them down much has it?
The vast majority of people travelling aren’t jet-set or 1% flying in first - they’re just normal hard-working people flying in economy who happen to have a job that requires them to travel and don't have any choice in that matter if they want to put food on their tables and feed buying their children new shoes.
In theory. Turns lout building pumped hydro is really hard. Finding suitable locations is a big challenge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSgd-QhLHRI&ab_channel=RealE...
This is something that never seems to come up in discussions on Scottish independence interestingly enough. I guess it'd be like Ireland and Northern Ireland where both jurisdictions use a common electricity market, unless politicians on either side throw their toys out of the pram which is highly likely in my opinion.
For one, if they don't meet their goals, you can fire them. It's a great tool to weed out the chaff. And it requires managers work with employees, and all of it gets read, so nobody in the organization can hide if somebody else didn't set goals. Basically it's a check to make sure half your company isn't totally out to lunch.

You can use it as a political tool. A senior exec can brag that their division consistently meets or exceeds their goals.

It's also a tool to encourage employees not to sit on their asses. You need employees to improve over time. One way is to encourage them to have goals which require them to make small improvements, whether that be in productivity, training, or moving the needle on some other company goal.
In the course of going about ones business, ill-specified amounts need to be paid extra if expedient service is to be expected. This is the local custom.
I don't like the spherical cow meme because it misses the point. The assumption isn't that the cow is a sphere but rather that all cows have 4 legs, all cows give milk, there are lots of cows, etc. From a cursory glance these may look completely reasonable, until they aren't. Some cows injured their legs and can't walk. There are male "cows" that don't give milk. Sometimes there is only one cow. Meanwhile the spherical cow meme implies that there was never any truth to it in the first place.

The complexity of life throws a wrench into everything.
It's good because they can choose to omit the hallmarks if they wish to hinder attribution, or they can take on the hallmarks of an enemy nation state to point the finger elsewhere/create false flags.