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Balsa wood is extremely durable for its weight.

> carbon fiber

I think the "tech tree" of wood products has been around for hundreds of years. It's only been the last few decades where we have developed synthetic materials that were strong AND light. I would say carbon fiber and other composites have really only come into their element maybe since the 80's so with cost-insensitive projects like military jets.
Danke Schön, herr STASI mann.
I'm mainly backend guy (python), but used to do a bit of jQuery/bootstrap and basic js. Recently discovered quasar framework with vuejs and I'm amazed how productive it makes me.
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My parents didn’t have much money growing up, but they would always do what you described - get the raw ingredients and make it to their own health/taste preferences. They are immigrants from India, where this is the norm for all levels of income.

Many of my friends growing up had parents working multiple jobs or long hours, who wouldn’t have the time or energy to do this. I had one friend whose single mother wouldn’t come home until 10 PM, so he prepared pre-packaged meals for dinner every night.

If you compare the costs, it’s ~$2-4 per meal in a box, compared to $20-30 to get all the ingredients for meal preparation. Many Americans simply don’t have this amount of cash, and food stamp programs are insufficient in allowing for healthy eating habits.

With the rise of Walmart and Dollar General across America, prepackaged meals seem to be a dominant meal option (I don’t have any data on this, this is just from comparing shopping carts at Walmart vs Whole Foods).
Big fan of this! Have you explored using this platform as a sort of USB C port hub for a full desktop environment? Being able to effectively create your own docking station would solve a ton of problems in the current market.
> Electric pressure cookers require less cleanup and effort than 'traditional' cooking.

I own one, I use it all the time. This is false. I have to remove the seal, disassemble a valve and remove some components. A pot for mac and cheese just gets tossed in the dishwasher.

This is especially false when you want to grate cheese (now I have to clean a cheese grater).

Electric pressure cookers do not reduce the cleanup or prep at all. It replaces one pot, everything else is the same.

Compare this to boil water, dump in a box contents, wait a few minutes. Clean ONE pot and ONE spoon.

Every oven/cooktop I have ever used has a timer.
I had the same reading.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence
One difficulty in using extended grapheme clusters is that the codepoints which will be merged into a cluster changes depending on the Unicode version, and sometimes the platform and library. For collaborative editing, the basic unit of measure is codepoints rather than grapheme clusters because you don’t want any ambiguity about where an insert is happening on different peers. Or for a library bump to change how historical data is interpreted.
It's not quite so comical as complaining about people using "wokeist" immediately after typing "raging snowflake techbros".
Well, you told who you are, then. Virtue signalling is more important to you than the work done by the open source community and the FSF, and you'd gladly destroy the latter for a chance of the former. OK, listened.
There are two obvious answers:

1) Companies wants work done for free and managers heard some rumor "setting goals is good". Anyway, there's no choice for every party involved: Mythical work gets added in addition to work where employee is supported. This lets employees that are already supported to have another bragging list, while employees who are not supported are held down by yet another instrument.

2) Managers never heard of or actually been part of agility and teamwork.
They don't, but my ISP-provided modem/router combo has built-in integration with a dynamcic DNS service. If your domain name follows whatever your IP is, it's close enough to static (at least for my uses)
When I was a kid, I used to love Mac and cheese dinner night! Now as a parent, I love Mac and cheese night even more! I can get both kids fed in 5 minutes and everyone is happy.
If there's a shortage of bread, prices of bread will go up. The price is a symptom, the problem is not the price, it's the scarcity. Prices are simply an expression of scarcity.

The worst thing to do if there's a shortage of bread and thereby a shortage of bread bakers, is to put a cap on bread prices and reduce the bakers' incentives.

If there's issues of inequity (e.g. the poor being unable to afford bread) then you can tax the general economy progressively (taxing the rich the most), and then redistribute money to the poor, subsidising their purchase of bread. This equalises consumption, but it does not artificially lower prices with a cap, thereby keeping incentives to bake bread high, which is the primary way to addressing the scarcity.

Rent subsidies and income redistribution, sure, but rent caps aren't necessarily great instrument.
Does the concergie of a hotel take anything away when he informs you that your flight has been delayed?
It appears that rotenone (a powerful piscicide) is actually banned [0]. Same document also indicated that copper sulfate use is limited to specific situations/crops. Though, of course, conventional crops also have restriction on the use of pesticides, presumably they are less restricted.

[0] https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?c=ecfr&SID=9874504b6f1...

edit: This, of course, only applies to the USDA organic program. Products produced elsewhere may have different rules.
What's amazing about this to me is less than she had two powdered-cheese-related food product hits, and more that she was able to make such a generic product, and have the segment to herself for long enough to make a windfall.

These days, anyone who tried to make a product by purchasing the core ingredients from two major food suppliers would find their offering cloned within days of any kind of traction. Consider the hoverboard phenomenon, which is much more complex, and still didn't make it a year before there were dozens of identical products out of China.
Other nations somehow manage with prison systems that don't just shoot convicts who are trying to escape. I believe there are even nations where trying to escape from prison (or successfully escaping) is not a criminal offense itself.
Stallman has a long trail of accusations of mistreating women at MIT, as well as a long history of adopting some extremely unpleasant opinions. Many of these instances didn't get much attention until he was scrutinized for defending Minsky. Stallman and his defenders like to frame this debate in terms of a single email to a mailing list, but people associated with the FSF see it as a longer-running problem with his personal behavior. I am not comfortable repeating any of the stories about this, but they have painted a fairly consistent picture for some time now.

Finally, his return to the board came as a surprise to everyone outside the FSF board, including sister organizations like FSFE and even voting members of the FSF. Now it looks like the current FSF president is planning to step aside for Stallman to assume the presidency, all with no apology or even expressed remorse for the behavior which led to his resignation in the first place, and I think that's adding fuel to the outrage.
What did actually Stallman do? And gossip-like "proofs" are not evidence.

Did the affected people actually sue him? What's the Police for then?

I mean, if Stallman it's actually that bad for you all,
just call the Police and ask for a trial.

But no one at the FSF tried, ever.
Threat modelling to develop useful risk mitigation requires that system owners essentially do a means/motive/opportunity test on the valuable data they have. The motive piece includes nation states as actors, and that matters in terms of how much recourse you are going to have against an attacker.

However, I'd propose a new convention that any unattributed attacks and example threat scenarios of nation states should use Canada as the default threat actor, because nobody would believe it or be offended.
Koreatown in los angeles is a bit more than 1/3 the size of SF and achieves 42,000 per mile and is basically a mix of single family homes and 3-5 story apartments over parking. There is a subway that comes every 10 minutes. The 101 through here is not 15 lanes wide each, it's 4. The city still functions at this density, and could probably stand a lot more and function just as well.
I'm close to the point where I'd recommend IBM to revive AIX and devote all resources to that. /s

This is another power grab by RedHat, which has been infiltrating many open source projects in the past decade.

Their representatives are dominant and operate in groups. If you contradict them even on technical matters, they'll remember for years to come and make your life difficult.

RedHat has been a net harm for several projects, this is another political move to grab even more power.
I'm going to assume this is satire
In a democracy the many decide.

In a democracy the people who inhabit a place decide. Not the people who want to inhabit it. That's not democracy, it's colonialism.
The big players are not threatened by the FSF. The FSF is background noise to paying customers. There's nothing to gain or lose by bashing or not bashing.

Sometimes you have to take at face value that Red Hat is made of people, who can have principles and act according to them.

Disclosure: I work for VMware, ostensibly a mortal enemy, and they are so far on the correct side of history here that I'd be proud to wear the crimson fedora today.
I think it is mainly about making it easier to port code from more mainstream platforms (AIX/Unix/Linux), which reduces engineering costs. Porting open source code is a low cost way to get new functionality and features, and makes the environment seem more familiar and modern to newcomers who are familiar with Linux – and commercial Unixes such as AIX are pretty close to Linux. When detractors call it a "legacy" platform, their sales team can now respond "it's not legacy, it runs node.js!"

But one thing I think it demonstrates is a problem with non-mainstream operating system architectures. Even if a non-mainstream operating system architecture is technically superior, sooner or later you want to port software to it from a mainstream operating system, which means you need a compatibility layer implementing a more mainstream operating system architecture. And before you know it most of the code is running in the compatibility layer, because that's where all the new applications are coming from and there is no way you can keep up with that pace yourself. And then you have to ask what is the point of the innovative non-mainstream architecture if so much of the software you run doesn't actually use it. So eventually it leads you to moving off the non-mainstream architecture and on to a more mainstream one.

Is IBM i technically superior? It is a weird mixture of (a) advanced concepts like single-level store, an object-oriented operating system and bytecode virtual machine (b) legacy crud like EBCDIC, RPG, block mode terminals, 10 character limit on object names and a single-level filesystem (c) a severe lack of extensibility and openness in which a lot of OS concepts (e.g object types) are closed up so only IBM engineering can extend them (or possibly ISVs who pay big $$$$ for NDA manuals) (d) the completely different worlds of POSIX/AIX/Java grafted on the side, and increasingly taking over the rest. I grant that (a) could be said to be technically superior, but (b) and (c) clearly are not.
They sure do have the "circuses" part down.
Here is a test that measures all child processes:

https://twitter.com/vladquant/status/1375557440578539521

This brings it to 2x more RAM for Chrome, compared to Safari.
Hey, take SOME credit here, you had to mix all the boxed ingredients in a pan!
They didn't even inform the organizers of LibrePlanet this was happening. The whole thing is extremely poorly-handled.
Indeed, they called it the lawn dart :D It was used in the netherlands too.

I don't know why they even wanted an interceptor. I suppose the soviets were still a thing. But a handful of F-104s wouldn't have stopped them.

In the Netherlands there was also a huge corruption scandal involving the queen's husband who was paid to lobby on Lockheed's behalf.
Only partially. Anyplace where you want to live has zoning that limits how many people can live there. Zoning won't stop you from building out on some ranch in the middle of nowhere (ranches are getting bigger so you can find some no longer used homestead to rebuild). However zoning will stop you from building in a city.
I was a little surprised to see claims about being the worlds tallest and worlds first without any mention of Japanese architecture. There are some very tall wooden pagodas and structures in Japan that are over 1000 years old. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C5%8Dry%C5%AB-ji
It's been over 15 years since I was scribbling on PowerPoint slides while my Tablet PC was hooked to the projector. I'll ask my spouse if her MS Surface supports such functionality, because I found it pretty darned handy at the time.

I have little need for such a feature anymore, so I don't know if an iPad Pro w/stylus can do that with Keynote (not without looking it up).
The progressive rehashing described in the article is very similar to what Redis does [1].

Just thought I'd share a example of a use case where the incremental rehashing logic makes sense.

[1]: https://github.com/redis/redis/blob/unstable/src/dict.c
If you can't afford the rent, your work is shit anyway, and you might as well move. The other question is how you managed to move where you live now to begin with.

There are places where you can get land for free. If you band together with your socialist friends, you could turn that into the next glamorous megacity.
I created https://tiiny.host - might be exactly what you're looking for. Command line tool coming soon!
> this is another political move to grab even more power.

What power? The FSF is decrepit and its influence long spent.
Oh well, at least get the facts right.

A-10 was designed to kill T-55s, T62s and T-72s (most modern tank USSR had at that time), not today's tanks.

GAU-8 was extremely effective against armor from that era and still is very useful against armored vehicles, structures, etc.

F16's can't do what A10 does the best (CAS).

In 1st Gulf War A10s are credited with something like 1000 tanks destroyed (mostly with Mavericks though)

AF is trying to get rid of A-10 for decades, but it still survives ..
I'd be careful whether you're not looking at things through nostalgia-colored glasses, as humans are well known to do.

Computers crashed and exhibited data loss all the time back then. PCs came with very prominent reset buttons, and when both Linux and Windows NT came up, the prospect that you could run your machine for an entire day without having to reboot was a revelation.

It wasn't different on 8 bit micros: My C64 was very easy to upset, and I bet most people turned it off and back on to get it into a known state when switching programs, instead of risking that the previous software left some interfering bits somewhere.

Sure, it was easy to power cycle a C64 and took mere seconds, but it was also very necessary. Well into the 90s there was a strong general attitude of having to reset every now and then just to keep things from diverging too badly.

Computers crashing, hanging, and losing data was so ubiquitous that it was part of mainstream humor much more than it is now. Then, towards the end of the 90s, when things started to get better, people were so proud of uptime, that they used to brag about it in forums and chats.

Nowadays, my computers, smart phones and similar devices usually run for weeks, pretty much only rebooting for software updates. That isn't always the case, but it's certainly orders of magnitudes better than the very fragile balance back then.
> Relying on Apple to do the right thing when they're sent a bunch of data which has some use to them, and to their users, if they keep it and run statistical analysis against it, is like relying on that handshake agreement to store some of your belonging in your kindly old neighbors shed.

No, it's relying on this being disaligned with their profit incentives. They've made a selling point of their products being privacy-focused, and actions that go against that directly impact the profitability of these products.

There have been several cases where data was mistakenly collected. Nobody's perfect! And in every one of those cases, they've gone above and beyond in explaining what went wrong and how they'll prevent those situations from occurring in the future. In several cases, they've even published white papers pushing forward the current state of the art on preserving privacy while collecting the minimal data necessary for services to function.

Apple is not Google and Facebook. The latter two have direct profit incentive to maximize data collection and analysis of you, personally. Apple wants to sell you consumer devices, and—outside of specific counterexamples like Siri—collecting your data rarely aligns with those profit incentives.
I don't think the F-35B is seen as a trainwreck by the UK.
some Qualcomm SoCs (410c and 845c) are seeing mainline support. I booted a 5.11 kernel on an 2015 device yesterday and had surprisingly good working handheld with the pmOS/Phosh stack. Of course this is still a raw experience for enthusiasts, but one can use an AOSP distribution instead.

The Fairphone concept of easily replacing common problems with screens and battery complements the longterm chipset support, one needs both. It wouldn't help the repair/replace decision if the screen needs 2 hours and heatguns to replace. Making it difficult to unlock the bootloader is another barrier manufacturers and mobile operators are guilty of.

Mainline phones can be used until their counterpart antennas fall from the operators towers - and for 4G I think this is well into 2030.
> It just has to burn money more slowly than renting which is the alternative you'd be forced to spend that money on

You also need to take into account the opportunity cost of owning land. You can rent and invest the difference in other assets like stocks.

If an asset class has much lower risk-adjusted returns than easily available alternative asset classes, I think it is fair to call it a poor investment.
Git project? Netlify. Not a git project? Surge!
> Inside the main barrier is a series of smaller fenced-in paddocks. Several years ago, Moseby decided to start adding cats into some of these.

In a small area they have added cats to help train the natives that are part of the breeding program to learn cats are dangerous.
If you haven't met RMS in person, it's hard to understand what a raging asshole he is. Frankly I'm surprised it has taken this long for him to be called to account for his behavior.
Which only matters if you want to sell. So never buy a house you don't plan to live in for a long time.
But isn't that just defeatist? Can't we continue to ratchet up our defenses?
Why Does American Infrastructure Cost More and Take Longer Than It Used To?
Cool, thanks for looking it up :)
They could have been bought by Oracle!
A while back I wrote a tool* to make this as easy as possible for my use case: a single command to register the domain, jump through all the AWS hoops, and have a live static site with ssl at the end. I was pretty happy with it.

These days, though, I just use netlify. It's not quite one command, but it's about heroku-level easy, and it gives you a lot of little niceties (autodeploy whenever you push a specific git branch to github, ssl, etc).

* https://github.com/kkuchta/scarr
Notetaking for Fun and Profit
HN can be fairly informative and genial until you step into the wrong conversations. Anything involving race or gender quickly becomes ugly.

To use "wokeist" language, it's like they're posing to get their picture next to the definition of "white male fragility" in the dictionary. Anything that they perceive to put them at a disadvantage must be stopped, right this instant -- while anybody else's disadvantages are their own problem.

What's most disappointing is the way it quickly becomes ad hominem. The words used, like "woke" and "social justice warrior" and "virtue signalling", all mean that the person is lying about their motivations, and can therefore be dismissed without engaging their arguments or concerns. On this issue, company after company was dubbed to be a traitor -- and therefore to be "canceled", even though that word is always a term of opprobrium when describing what other people do.

That kind of ad hominem argument is very poor reasoning, of exactly the kind that we like to think ourselves too smart to fall into.
Important one because a dependency (mimemagic) changed license and forced GPL2 on all newly generated rails apps and those that did a bundle update. Pinning versions did not help because the author also pulled the old releases that were under MIT.
No link to the study...

Also no notes on whether it's been corrected for anything, e.g. better housing, bigger housing, changes in subsidies, smaller households sizes, different demographic makeup, increased disposable income etc, no information on zoning restrictions etc.

Not very interesting to be honest as a way to explain the magnitude of the change, the confounders, and the drivers of the changes. We don't need another little-substance 'rent is too damn high' article if we want to have a serious discussion around problems and solutions.
what about low>>1 + high>>1 + (1 & low & high)
I read it as something like the "Midus" touch, or maybe that one South Park episode...
I think there is actually a U-shaped curve here.

Working for an expert engineer is fun because their expectations are in line with reality, and they don't compel you to solve problems in stupid ways or in the wrong order, because they know how things should work. In any case they understand when to help and when to delegate to you.

Working for a bad engineer is the worst. They criticize smart or elegant solutions because they differ from the stupid way they would have done it. They try to dictate how everything is done because they think they know how, when all they really know is how to fuck things up.

Working for a smart person from a completely different discipline is fun. Say if you are programming CGI special effects for a movie director. They have respect for your different expertise and defer to you when needed. They find joy in your work because to them it's a kind of magic. They don't tell you to solve problems in stupid ways or the wrong order because it's not their area. It's fun that they request impossible tasks sometimes, because working out how to get close to the impossible dream they are imagining is how you get to do your best most innovative work.

Working for a inexperienced person from a different field is also fun. Although they don't know much, they know that, and won't dictate how your job should be done. They will still have appreciation of your expertise. They probably have unrealistic ideas about how long things take, and what is possible, but as long as they are willing to be guided, the project can still turn out OK. Their lack of knowledge of what's possible or how things normally work often leads them to come up with crazy new ideas, and working out how to make those real is my favorite thing.
So essentially, if you own anything, and don't give it away for free, you are a parasite?

There is plenty of cheap land available everywhere. Berlin from the OPs story was very, very cheap 20 years ago, but then the socialist didn't want to buy. They preferred to enjoy the cheap rents. The government even sold most of the social housing. Now that it has gone up in value, they want to have their shares, risk free.
Pfft. Get out of here with your reasoned analysis and balanced approach. WE WANT BLOOD