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This is why more people (everyone!) should definitely read “Black Swan” by Nicholas Taleb. His book is an amazing read about how we get fooled by chance and how we deal with risk. Anti fragile systems are certainly possible.
This will be great for those smaller towns which have been suffering a drain to the cities for decades.
Where will all the charging station access come from is the problem, not the electron count.
Keep in mind the following: the flue spike was without any decent form of measures. We can do a lot to reduce those.

Also note that while your anacdotal evidence is sad, it does not take into account that without those measures they might have been as badly off as well due to even more sick people being around at the same time. People easily blame measures but forget that the alternative might be even worse.
Something I learned. Try to hold the opposing thoughts and feelings in your head together at the same time. Hold gratitude at RMS for founding the FSF and all that has come from that, along with whatever anger you have at his other opinions. Meditate on that conflict. Try to accept that these come from the same person.
I've found this to be an effective way to overcome splitting (psychology reference, good concept with poor examples about mommy IMHO).
I expect employers should offer an additional allowance for extra space to work in at home or (post lockdown) coffee shop/coworking space fees.
Except that Depp did get convicted of abuse:

> A High Court judge has ruled that actor Johnny Depp subjected his ex-wife to domestic abuse on twelve occasions.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/54784429
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What are the criteria for being a "massive creep"? Future board members, start taking notes!
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> They did have freedom, but just had a different definition for it.

Who’s they? The communist rulers had own definition of freedom that applied to caprice others?

That freedom reminds me of the freedom concentration camp prisoners had in WW II. You’re free, but don’t try to escape.
At will employment is the problem. You should be able to switch off at a certain time and ignore work comms. But I think in US you’d be scared of being fired. In other countries like UK this has never been a concern, and WFH doesn’t change that.
>No mention of Typescript. You'd be mad to consider writing a significant app without it,

Thanks for calling me mad :)
Liberal actually comes from "Libre" that means "free", as in Freedom.

Liberal as in education, comes from "liberal arts", that were those arts that were not necessary for surviving but were typical of Free men's education(Aristocracy first, bourgeoisie later).

Liberal is actually an overloaded adjective that could mean: liberal as in non orthodoxy(not subjected to dogma) like in sex politics or religion. Or economic freedom.

But in the US, "liberals" in politics are actually another dogmatic cult(that probably see themselves as non dogmatic)

So it is quite confusing term to use.
The problem is that the market is tolerating the currency too much.
I doubt it's anywhere as in 'you can work from the beach in Thailand'. Going abroad means complying with the local tax regime and if spent enough time outside the UK, no taxes need to be paid there.
Honestly, after "Huzzah!! Yesss! Sing it loud." I simply stopped reading, as I expected a snarky and sarcastic comment to follow. It's an extremely non-neutral way to start a comment, and while that's not inherently bad, in a medium like this, where it's hard to tell the intentionality of a commenter, it forces people to figure out what are you trying to do here, and that's very draining. If we had to do this for every comment in a thread, many of us would simply skip the comments. I bet most people that downvoted you simply didn't completely read your comment and were annoyed by your tone, even if they misinterpreted it. I don't think it's wrong expressing yourself differently, but being in a minority makes you less fit for any medium that expects a certain zen.

If you started this with a more neutral "I loved this!", that would serve as a warning for "passionate, high energy comment incoming", and people would know to skip if they weren't looking for that. Simply, your signals are too confusing in this context.

Edit: wow, rereading this it sounds quite harsh, almost as if I was making a moral judgement here. Not my intention at all, I was just trying to add some perspective.
What if they start to cause problems? Will they be culled?
It's to disambiguate the english uses of the word "free." It's free as in freedom, not free as in beer. Libre (in French, as it is used in the acronym) only means the former.
indeed, I'm not native speaking, but is - 'Thirdly, the rhetoric of Free Software devotees is awkward and unconvincing.' - 'devotee' respectful rhetoric? Isn't that, well, awkward and unconvincing?
Yep, it is libre, so as to invoke "free as in freedom" rather than "free as in beer"
That was a ramble. Of all of the sections, though, what stood out to me was trying to hold open-source software developers responsible for problems their software causes. Does this author seriously think that anyone would open-source a single line of software if it could somehow tie them up in legal action?
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Insightful read, thank you.
Yep. The original paper on Borg (the predecessor to Kubernetes) didn't even go out of it's way to hide the fact that they looked at the problem at least a little bit as "what does a million core mainframe look like". Calling the resource config language 'BCL' as a play on IBM's JCL is a huge clue.
Herring gulls also live for 30-40 years.
> Android also comes with a bunch of anti features like an api to block the user from taking screenshots.

When it came out there's a malware campaign that tries to extract MFA codes from Google Authenticator by taking screenshots, there was a lot of criticism towards Google for not setting the flag that activated that API and made screenshots impossible, and it's a good solution, there's no viable scenario in which you'd want to screenshot your MFA TOTP codes. I admit that i'm sometimes annoyed with it's use in banking apps, but IMHO it's a needed feature for security.
Very good point (on hardware). Although on software, I think it will always be a never ending battle - we should never get complacent
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> GNOME 40 will be coming to a distribution near you in the coming weeks

laughs in Debian
The issue is that the word "free" in English has two meanings, while other languages have two separate words for each meaning (gratis = free of charge, libre = free as in freedom). The reason why L means Libre is to emphasise that the "free" in "free software" refers to the libre meaning of the word "free", not necessarily the gratis meaning.

This is also what the phrase "free as in speech, not as in beer" attempts to disambiguate.
Are there any Tesla buyers who just "need a car"?
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On a weekday pre covid many people would spend about half their waking hours at work so its reasonable for work to be a major social component in their lives. I'd guess that other social activities they might have been doing were also curtailed due to covid. As another single person I can definitely relate to feeling very isolated over the past year.
Nationwide is based in one of those smaller towns (Swindon, pop approx 220,000).
It is can be a very fun hobby, though.
Many things aren't actually exponential. Adoption of something new may look exponential at the start, but then becomes an S curve. The middle of the S is the point of maximum slope and does represent a transition.
This is very common for cargo movement in the USA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piggyback_(transportation)#Rai...
I use Quodlibet and it allows you to construct such queries.
So it's basically "my bird could beat up your bird".

In the UK our national bird is the Robin :)
That makes more sense thanks.
For example, we do a lot of of low-level RDD Operations through databricks. From skimming the Website I feel something like this is not in the scope of this project.

In the end, I feel, it is about wording. Databricks is a serverless spark environment with Azure integration and notebooks. Unless the product copies all the aspects (i.e. the hosting) it may not be wise to call it a databricks alternative.

If I reed the title as it is here on HN, I would think is about the infrastructure and not about a custom low-code JSON-based template language on top of spark sql.
Screw ups happen I guess. Looks like they got to know her through earlier work and assumed she was ok.
I dont know why but I never had much good experience with VoIP on the street. VoLTE with EVS [1] has been superb.

[1] I think they are called HD Voice+ in some market.
It refers to the civil liberties kind of Free. You have the term "free” as in “free speech,” not as in “free beer”. The Libre makes it clear that the first kind of Free is referred to here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software

Update: The distinction is important. It also entails that people should be able to earn a living by providing FLOSS software. Many people that don't know much about FLOSS think of it as the "Free beer" variant (something promoted by much of big tech, which is seemingly free). There can be good business models attached to FLOSS (though devs have a very hard time to monetize in practice).

I heartily applaud anyone trying to monetize FLOSS based on decent principles and values, rather than just bottom-line, willingly taking the hard road of founding a bootstrapped, sustainable business.
I have been remote for around 8 years. When speaking to people new to remote (since covid) I always tell them this is the worst version of remote.

Generally remote working means flexibility and freedom (to varying degrees). We don’t have that now.
German is not a romance language yet had heavy influences from Latin. The neuter "das" is alive and kicking, no sign whatsoever of disappearance.

It's das Haus (the house), das Kind (the child)
Or perhaps inane gibberish is just the recipe to get attention.
> “He literally used to have a mattress on the floor of his office. He kept the door to his office open, to proudly showcase that mattress and all the implications that went with it. Many female students avoided the corridor with his office for that reason…I was one of the course 6 undergrads who avoided that part of NE43 precisely for that reason. (the mattress was also known to have shirtless people lounging on it…)”

He lived in his office. Maybe that explains the mattress, huh?

Additionally, at some point another anonymous person has sat on RMS' mattress without wearing a shirt. We're setting the bar quite low for what counts as "abuse" here.

> Until around 1998, my office at MIT was also my residence. I was even registered to vote from there.

https://stallman.org/rms-lifestyle.html

> I recall being told early in my freshman year “If RMS hits on you, just say ‘I’m a vi user’ even if it’s not true.”

So one person having allegedly told an arguably sexist text editor joke to another person is somehow good enough evidence to punish the third person who is the subject of the joke?

> Richard Stallman told me of his misery and that he’d kill himself if I didn’t go out with him. [...] He was not a man of his word or he’d be long dead.”

Complicated story, and arguably not nice of RMS, but saying that someone is not "a man of [their] word" because they haven't committed suicide is also not nice, in my eyes at least.
> Its like asking what happens when you're handed a bill that is clearly counterfeit

Presumably they would say that your stick is the one that is clearly counterfeit.

So how do you resolve that?
I'm not sure I understand this comment. Is it a threat? a joke? A reference?
Internet, noun: A place where everyone is an expert on everything.

Synonyms: Conjectural circlejerk.
I never got the appeal of state management in React. People now seem to rave about Svelte, because you can just do 'count += 1'.
But you could do exactly this already in Angularjs (which, just like Svelte, had a template language).

Ok, Angularjs worked different under-the-hood than Svelte. It was a dirty checking loop instead of compiler-generated change indicators, which didn't scale as well. But other than this scaling issue, the ergonomics were very similar.

But in the meanwhile the React folks started this whole idea that this mutable state was a bad idea and people seemed to blindly believe the React way was going to be the silver bullet. The widely acclaimed Dan Abramov launched Redux, one of the most cumbersome, boiler-plate-heavy state management systems I've ever had the displeasure of using. And with react hooks there are more performance pitfalls than there ever were with Angularjs.
So now everyone seems to realize that they lost quite some convenience with React. React had a good run, but it's time to move on.
Correct me if I am wrong, but fumes from tires should not be a problem with EV's ?
He never mentioned price control.
There is still a need for it. It keeps us honest and free from being ignorant. Whether you comb through code or not it keeps the ability to innovate supple. Let’s all move forward as a society and not put barriers in the way.
> 1. Real estate prices in high traffic metros like Los Angeles and Houston will increase further because the return to clear skies from smoggy days and fresh air will be a bonus.

Do you own real estate there or something? Are you aware that many people are homeless? Why is an increase in property values a good thing when it has never been more difficult and more expensive to buy a house than ever before? This increase is in large part due to the disgusting financialization of the housing market.

A documentary called ‘Push’ (2019) does a great job at laying out all the facts, while at the same time showing the impacts of these changes on working class people the world over: https://youtube.com/watch?v=qWSVG9nsRa4

For people in Europe or elsewhere you can use http://yt1s.com to download it if it’s region blocked. You can support the filmmakers and rent it too: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/pushthefilm
Stackexchange and maybe Quora.
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> the flue spike was without any decent form of measures

I agree flu vaccines are worthless. :)

> People easily blame measures but forget that the alternative might be even worse.

Totally agree! But I'm just saying that the spike also contain collateral deaths (for lack of a better word). And yes it's totally anecdotal that I know two of those, and not know even one person who was even hospitalized from C19.
"640k [bitrate] ought to be enough for everyone"...
I am fortunate enough to be able to afford a 2br (65-70m^2 internal) to myself, so I have more than enough room and don't feel cramped. As such, I tend to go the opposite direction - 4 days at home, 1 day in the office out of obligation. Sometimes I just skip that 1 day a week if my workload requires more focus time, as office time is generally me helping more junour staff. I agree though that a mixed mode can be a best of both worlds scenario.

If we as a whole continue down the path of more WFH, open shared office spaces may eventually begin to find their feet and fill that 'mixed-mode' equivalent if the company itself does not have office space. I predict there might also be more public spaces such as libraries opening up with work areas for people to get out of home when working.

The other challenge is the social component of work, but I think that will change post-Covid too. Being in Australia has afforded me the extremely lucky capability of being able to get out and socialise almost completely freely during the last year, and it undoubtly helps immensely. I think that for people who live alone, working from home will become less isolating when they can socalise outside of work hours more freely again. For example, social sport is a lot easier to fit in to your day when you're not then also losing an hour or more in your day to travel. You can do it and still easily have time to prep dinner or do your daily chores.

In short, I think that the shift to WFH due to covid will be a lot easier for a lot more people once the restrictions of Covid subside.
In going off on a tangent

If nothing else, this has showed movies to be far removed fron reality. I imagine in hollywood, the US government takes something like a virus of questionable origin quite seriously. Not just because it can kill you but because it might mutate and a deadly strain might surface and do the real damage.

The real response was hard to fathom for most of the world. How can the most powerful nation on earth struggle so badly? More so since we live in the digitally connected age where data is plenty. Does this mean if we had an alien invasion they'd dysfunction as bad as they did? Its outrageous really.

Being prepped and having the financial muscle to buy supplies for months in advance is well and good but most people arent in such good financial terms. Therefore prepping is a function of time and money where money is the determining factor.

Not a lot of people have a lot of money. As much as they'd like to get into the practice anti-fragility, the economics disagrees with them
The obvious reason why the wealthy "win" in politics is that they organize. In principle, lobbyism is just the act of telling politicians what you want. There is nothing wrong with it but if only one side is communicating then the politicians are going to fulfill the demands of that side.
If you take die Klaviatur you have it female in german as well. It's just that Schlüssel is of different semantic origin compared to clave
This definitely riled up a lot of people. The comments point out many flaws, but I’m not seeing rebuttals to what I find to be the core arguments:

* The overlap between what the FSF thinks a majority of users want and what they actually want is minuscule
* The FSF failed to inspire new leaders
* The FSF, a political foundation, has no governance agenda
* The FSF missed the boat on a plurality of software revolutions, causing free software to capture only a small portion of the explosive growth of all FLOSS software

Is any of this incorrect?
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I hope you see why I still don't consider Mozilla behavior acceptable here.

Many addons work already, but they're locked behind mozilla's vetting. Not only you need to jump through additional hoops, but you actually require an account on Mozilla's website as well.

This is like saying that Chrome is fine too, just use Chromium, get the addon from a github release and there you go!
Here's an idea:

One of the problems bands solve while planning tours is organizing shared gigs with some local band[s] of choice. It usually helps to establish your position on the scene (if artist X plays on a gig with artist Y you're safe to assume they share some musical similarities). This way bands share and expand their audiences.

Oh my, is it hard to find suitable local bands ready to play on given dates! If a platform could track bands that are ready to play in a specific location on certain dates and offered this to other bands (possibly, only to a whitelist of bands/genres), that would be great.

The more I think of it, the more I see it could be useful not only to touring bands. At the moment, most multi-act gigs are organized by venues, some system which promotes inter-band planning could give more control to performers.
the idea that 64k opus is indistinguishable from uncompressed is so ridiculous... the caveat being "if you have shitty equipment" is not any sort of argument at all. if you have shitty equipment, nothing ever matters. is that an argument for anything at all?

people love dunking on hifi-- it's such a meme at this point.

edit: ah yes, i forgot about the "i disagree" button to the left of my name... feel free to use it, i guess. clearly, as a hifi stan, i doth protest too much... (and am just an idiot)
I hope this is going to take off. I'd happily take a stroll across a park to a shared workspace, then go back home, rather than spend 3 hours commuting.
The problem (not for me, but potentially for my employer) is that I will not be sitting with my coworkers, so building this sense of "community" is going to be much harder for them. The solution? Force everyone back in to the office as soon as possible...
You're not alone. I just couldn't work without a varied selection of places to work from. I kind of froze, and couldn't bring myself to wake up and go 2 meters to my desk and work all day. The office was worse, but having coffee shops to go to was my previous solution.
At this sort of bitrate I am wondering if AAC-LD ( Low Delay ) could be used on Apple platform.

And speaking of that I am wondering if patent has expired on that just like AAC-LC.
> I wonder for how long..

Is anything ever really taken out of /usr/bin once it gets in there? It may be a long long /usr/bin/time.
I have the same feeling. Heck, they could even use this opportunity to straighten the repeated lies that Stallman was defending Epstein when the opposite is true. Instead, they chose to link to a hate piece by Selam G.

I wonder... What happened to the law? In the past, when someone was accused, they were brought to court and could defend themselves, and in the end the judge/jury declared them guilty or not. These days, the mob seems like a caricature of dystopian Judge Dredd - police, judge, jury and executioner combined.
"Do you want another job?"

No. This is also the reason why, at times, I loathe to use Linux. I would prefer to use something like FreeBSD, which has a different culture and attitude. It's a more stable and polished experience that doesn't aim to cater to every nerd's obsessions. This is what I want in a phone, which is why I use an iPhone, despite all the tradeoffs.
I'm based in Ireland. I think your view is a bit one dimensional in terms of the employer-employee relationship. A lot of soft pressures exist for employees even when their actual employment is secure.
mpv also works fine as an image viewer if you don't view many high-res photographs (I don't).

https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/7983
Pinus and quercus are both fourth declination, not second, but there seem to be some elements of the second declination that have been included at some point (pini/pinorum/pinis and querci/quercorum) which muddy the waters a bit.
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The Liberal Party in Australia is from the conservative side of the house, so those on the left call themselves Progressives.
Interesting, I only ever heard of Simpson's paradox in the context of comparing overall averages versus subgroup averages.

I guess this paradox could then be thought of as a special case of Simpson's paradox? Since the out group will exclude people with both traits there should also be a negative correlation there, which disappears in the overall population. But in Berkson's case it seems they're implying the subgroup correlation is spurious whereas with Simpson's it could go either way.
I don't think I would go as far as calling it a dictatorship, the article mentions it in the context that there has been no new leadership emerged, no development in the movement, so the same people lead it. That does make sense.
The article also mentions that FSF tries too hard to make Linux "their thing". So I'm not sure how one excludes the other.
The article goes into length why "free software" is a bad term. Which is a bit pedantic, but..
Wait, did you actually read the article?
The other advantage of the UK being small and everyone working in country is you can therefore still meet up easily say every couple of weeks, or for smaller groups to work together for a short time.

I guess in the US people can fly for this too. Does anyone do "work anywhere but must be in the same state"?