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I don't have a better link than yours, but books I own talk about maps of the wider Middle Earth (first age) being developed in the 1920s and 30s (e.g. a recognizable Silmarillion Map from the 1930s).

The mapping in The Hobbit was finalised in 1936 and published in 1937, and was started in the late 1920s. Detailed maps of Middle Earth for TLOTR were produced in the 1940s, e.g. a contour map of Minas Morgul from 1944, although I can't find a date for the first rough maps.

To my mind there is a bit of a tension between Tolkien's "I started with a map..." comment and the fact that the story took a while to settle [0] down on the core theme of the One Ring and the need for a quest through Middle Earth (hence the map) that would destroy it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings#Writing
A sextant (1731) vs. GPS (1973, fully operational 1993). Most large ships still have sextants as backup.
Also, bash on Mac is shitty. I've run into problems with it before (can't remember exactly what it was) so we've reversed it: our shell scripts are written in zsh, and we just ensure that zsh installed everywhere.
Hacker News at its finest!
Glad to see it's run by a bunch of liberal elite globalists and not techies.
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Obviously. But the issue is not that simple. Do you think any kind of information should be protected by law? Because I can think of a few examples.

Actually, I believe we are going towards information being the thing that has value, we should arrive there, assuming abundance (on a human scale of course, energy is still required to sustain any patterns), material goods being just things that can be copied.

So where do you draw the line? If you get caught with my private keys is that ok & legal? What if I get caught with internal documents of some company? Espionage? Facebook just keeping some big numbers around? How do you implement privacy that you seem to care about without some numbers being illegal?

Also remember you bought/installed that malware or agreed to it. And no, I don't like DRM, I do agree that it is insane, but without presenting a coherent view where that problem is not present it's just being angry about the sky being blue.
Yes. In general, I'm not against "eco laws". If they are hard set rules and if they are applied evenly amongst all countries and politicians, I'm for them. I really am. But we all live in the real world and recent history shows environmentalism based laws and policies are political tools... mostly political weapons. Not about actual environmentalism.
A whole day of sun? That’s not the Manchester I remember.
Is there a controlled study on this? I can't remember much, if anything, before the age of 8. I don't think it's very uncommon.
Nothing original really: many, many, many sources, and I believe/disbelieve none completely. Triangulation process.
> Land lines have been around a lot longer than fax machines (both in the article), so they will likely outlive fax machines.

I'm less sure about this one, because of the relative difficulties of replacement. You can replace someone's POTS line with VOIP and they'll likely never notice (and this is underway). They'll notice if you take your fax machine.
1. Yes, but there are little reasons to use brainfuck in production code, and there are reasons to use POSIX shell: 1. It is available on practically all UNIX-like systems from NetBSD to Ubuntu in their default installation (no additional dependencies) 2. For small scripts it can run faster than Python/Ruby/Perl thanks to small startup time. 3. It is a handy tool when all you need a small script which mostly runs other commands/CLI tools (but you still have to spend at least little time to learn it first).

May be availability of the shell is an unfortunate historical artifact, yet it still the reason why one may want to use it.

2. Idea to impose elegance upon users is attractive, but even if we ignore that it makes system/language design harder, different people can have different option on what is elegant and what is not. Having said that I like Go (which tries to enforce what can be enforced) because options of its author are not too far from mine. But not everybody is happy with Go and it is not hard to find its criticism.
Hopefully they'll fix Nuance's terrible website and support.
I think you are leaving out a large scale prisoner's dilemma as well, because if your country goes from green energy but is surrounded by those going for the cheap dirty energy then you still get the environment damage anyways.
1) You close the local steel smelter that use a lot of CO2 and produce the steel you sell to the US.

2) You start a campaign to eliminate agricultural subsidies globally and also make them reforest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forests_of_the_United_States#D... so they must buy your agricultural products at a higher price.

3) They invade you.
This person sounds like she should take some of that money and spend it on therapy. Talking to someone would probably be better than this navel gazing and thought-spiraling.
Anybody presnting totalitarianism as a neccessary alternative is either a fool or a bastard to be disposed of at the earliest convenience. The object of power is power and not even loyalty keeps you safe from totalitarians.
I’d start with the ones that are clearly doing irreversible harm. Think of a coal burning plant to produce electricity or deforestation of hundreds of acres in the Amazon to build more IKEA furniture.
I'm going to add my personal take on this issue since I'm currently running a blog that's markdown-ish powered.

In my opinion the best solution is to find some sort of happy medium. Static site generators are excellent in terms of weight and speed but a lightweight file based CMS can be almost as fast while still providing the needed flexibility.

My site currently runs on Kirby (https://getkirby.com) but I write almost everything on iA both on my Mac while I'm at home and on my phone while I'm outside.

Updating the site is not as simple as typing a command on a terminal but it's just a few clicks on a very simple and minimal UI.

Images are hosted on my server like the rest of the content. It's a simply DO snippet with no fancy configuration.

If you want to go down a more automated solution, iA comes with support for micropub so you could in theory set it up so that you can upload a new post without leaving the iA interface.

But imo it's a lot of extra backend setup that needs to be monitored to save very little time in the long run so for me it's personally not worth it.
It would be much easier to create a "free speech flag" instead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Speech_Flag
I wish I resonated with this. It would definitely make me a better programmer because I would code a lot more. I unfortunately look at it like an exhausting thing that I only do when I have to. Most of my time is spent playing basketball or watching hbo/netflix/youtube =(
Life changing is a moving goal post and it is contextual for the individual.

Roughly 10 years ago when I first started in software development I was making ~$40k and thought I had made it and I'd be able to achieve everything I wanted on that amount assuming I just kept up with inflation.

Fast forward, I bought $500 of Basic Attention Tokens at $0.17 and after currency conversion it is over $5k. The money has 10x'ed but in the present I wouldn't describe it as life changing at all. The impact isn't notable at all to the point I'm like, either it goes to $0 or it goes to $50k to be "worthwhile".

It's all percentages. If the author's lifetime earnings were already going to be $5M than $200k might not seem like a life changing amount but anyone's who lifetime earnings are going to be $1M could see that as a life changing amount.
Don't care, this isn't Twitter. Twitter is a mosh pit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_in_absentia

The defendant has the right, but not the obligation to be present. If they're informed of the trial but don't show up or send a representative, the trial can go ahead anyway.

It would be difficult to try minor crimes (like traffic court) if not turning up to court meant you couldn't be punished.
That would make sense if the environmental destruction was counted from its beginning. The only penalty would be in terms of the gains that a nation has obtained thanks to its destruction. This should be used to finance green development on developing nations. The first ones to pay would be the inventors of agriculture (the largest source of environmental destruction). Then European explorers who cut all their trees to conquer the world. And so on.
Yeah, and if you ever wish to bloat up your Hugo install, there's always Hugo extended for that.
> However, ecocide is going to be a political tool to bully countries to toe a line or face severe penalties. Other countries performing ecocide, as long as playing ball, won't face charges.

This is an incredibly pessimistic view you've got. How would you go about making sure that large companies poisoning their environment get brought to some form of justice?

Right now, we're back to lead in drinking water being a problem. Who's going to hold water companies accountable? Right now, it seems like no-one and, before I left Florida, water utilities were frequently getting sub-contracted out to save the state money (and increase resident's expenses). I'll tell you what, once people stop dying from industrial run-off - I'll agree with you

Let's be clear here: people are dying from companies and countries that don't give a shit about anything but profit. So, where do we all draw the line? The international community seems to be thinking it's right here and we need to start holding companies accountable - at-large, they're not doing it themselves
What does Microsoft get out of this? They already have TTS and deep learning transcription, what technical capabilities does Nuance have that they don't have already (or can't develop for substantially less than $20B?)
If the existing company or companies are involved in antitrust activity, then they need to apply the antitrust laws.

When the law is vague in its definitions, then I can see why someone might claim the government is totalitarian on that subject. The enforcement of ambiguous laws also goes against the principle of Lenity. The discretion for punishment and infractions are left solely to the government and is not based on explicit definitions of infractions created through the people or their elected representatives. This is especially important in this scenario since the representatives in the UN/international court are not elected by the people, removing power from the people.

Definition from DDG.
"the principle of complete and unrestricted power in government"
Hmmm, strange that you and other FB defenders aren't actually discussing the claims in the article. Instead, you want to turn everything into a vague, abstract "new tech vs old media" battle. Both can have their problems.
It's interesting to me that you think you don't have the personal skills to "sell" yourself yet most of your business is centered around consulting and app development as a service. How can these be successful without convincing people you know what you're doing? Do you work with someone who has those soft skills? Or maybe you mean something else.

I can relate to a lot of what you said. Specifically, I've overheard people say things like "grog454 does it so how hard could it be?" when deciding to try to get in to software dev (they failed). 10+ years ago a talented comp sci major was openly hostile toward me when I spoke or gave a presentation on multiple occasions.

I like to think I know what I'm doing. My personal software projects made me a millionaire before age 30 with no outside investment and minimal employees (0-1). Like you, I think I lack soft skills in the traditional sense of convincing other people that I know what I'm doing. I am routinely approached by recruiters for FAANG, and will occasionally begin the interview process just to see what it's like. In 4+ processes I've gotten to the final round of interviews but never received an offer.

What I do have is a different kind of "soft skill". Search algorithms love me. I attribute the success of my projects and (apparent recruiter magneticism) to clever SEO more than anything else, followed by luck, followed by a kind of relentlessness with which I approach my work, followed by meaningful software dev skill / business acumen. 100% of revenue is from end-users, 99.9999+% of which have no clue who I am.

I don't mean to come across as hostile, but its eye-opening to see what "I've always been on my own" and "not expect much from others" looks like to other people.
What's the name of your app? I have been looking for something like that. OS maps really are fantastic.
>And I think you can use it with grafana too.

You can indeed; I use InfluxDB and Grafana to provide some stats on my home server. Pretty easy to set up, and Grafana just uses the Flux query language to pull the data from Influx.
$19.7 billion. FTFY
I think GitHub got better since the acquisition.
Anyone who is struggling to find something to invest in should consider https://leasehold.io/ - It's a cryptocurrency backed by real estate. It lets you own a share of income from a growing property portfolio.

We do token buybacks (and burning) in order to convert rental profits into crypto capital appreciation. Currently we're backed by just one company (with a relatively decentralized governance structure) but we plan to bring more companies and projects on board to make it more decentralized.

We're currently focusing on a small town in South Africa because property prices there are low and rental yields high.

Since it's generally not possible for foreigners to own real estate in such countries, owning a token backed by real estate income is the next best thing. Also, in the future, it will be possible to use the tokens to pay for rent to stay at any of the properties in our portfolio so the token will act like a flexible timeshare.
Anyone on here lauding the virtues of totalitarianism - no matter how tangentially, will discover in time that the price of actual liberty really is eternal vigilance.

I think it's fair to say that, if those who gave their lives in the two world wars, and all other conflicts since that defended freedom from tyranny, could come back now and hear you speak; the rest of us who do actually understand what is going on here, would be hardpressed to prevent you being set upon.

And don't misunderstand me, I will never condone violence. But the very high price that was paid still leaves an acrid taste in the mouths of so many - even to this day. Indeed, it should do in all of us!

And it's too ours and our children's peril, that we forget this simple truth.
Asymptomatic carriers are another myth and a 10 million person chinese study just proved it untrue.
> For example: Tesla itself

Bad example: Tesla almost went down the drain during the Model 3 ramp-up because they thought they knew better how to do large-scale car manufacturing than all the other large-scale car manufacturers. Turned out, they didn't, had to rethink and redesign many processes, and had to shift part of the production to hastily erected tents.
Nuance owns a ton of patents and are extremely litigious.
@patates, Thanks for the feedback! Yes, I actually noticed the issue, and I do want to address the issue with an appropriate approach (but it still needs more thoughts). Of all the css frameworks tailwind is definitely the best fit as far as I see it, thanks to it's "utility first" concept.
It's an enormous, sealed, empty metal tank that they were already taking mostly to orbit already.

One would make a pretty serviceable space station.

100+ would make one hell of a space station if you designed them to be strung together.

Some early NASA concepts: http://www.astronautix.com/s/stsexternaltankstation.html
The law cares about intent and outcome. If you intended to publish Bill Gates' credit card number and did so, and if doing so was a crime, you'd be guilty of that crime. This is true regardless of how you published the information. There is no "out" for putting it behind a pretext.

It's why sharing child pornography is illegal, even though all the creators are really doing is sharing a set of instructions for someone's else's computer to generate the image/video.
It is a fucking stupid one. It hasn't worked on dictators and drug cartels. Hell it isn't even a guarantee against unarmed protestors. It is a sin Hollywood shares a good deal of blame for perpetuating, the bloodyminded stupid idea that you can just kill your way out of complex problems.

You select for more ruthless, selfish, and paranoid targets that way. Hell it is terrible for your ideology's image as you marry the image of crazed gunman/bomber to cause. The anarchists trid that and the term is still synonymous with depraved lunatics with bombs two centuries later.
Is there a barrier to integrating the rail network with the airports for seamless transfers? I've long thought how nice it would be to fly from London to Oakland, then get straight on Amtrak to Sacramento. I do this already but baggage can be annoying.
Very good point. Sexprs for all!
Is it just me or have speech recognition platforms like Siri actually gone backwards in the last few years (roughly coinciding with the AI/ML craze)?

It feels (anecdata) that Siri is doing a bit better on voice to tex when sending messages but much worse on simple commands like “turn off living room lights”.
International law operates in terms of reciprocal agreements and treaties between sovereign states. If a sovereign state agrees to be part of some international tribunal or treaty, it reserves the right to leave or to selectively comply. This is exactly what we see in practice. We do not consider this to be a crime because a state has the right to withdraw from a treaty. Compare this to the government of a state, which does not have the right to violate its own law.

This situation implies that there is no authority above and beyond the sovereign state on which true international law could be based. This is a good thing. True international law requires a world government which would be an unbearable restriction of freedom. Where could Edward Snowden run if there was a world government? How about Chinese and Russian dissidents, past and present, who have escaped to the West?

Attempts, however noble, to solve problems by enacting some international law will fail, just as they have in the past. For the foreseeable future, we're stuck with the sovereign state. If the EU cares about the environment, it can pay developing countries not to clear forests. Or it could offer to install renewables for free. The only other option involves war and the idea of the EU invading Brazil is comical.
I'm sure there would be such an amount of money for me. And I don't mean to say that $200,000 must be a life-changing amount of money to her, or anyone else for that matter.

But she didn't say "I don't think much [...]", she said "You don't think much [...]", which makes it sound like this notion wasn't specific to her, but rather a sentiment shared by some majority. Now my point is that while it may be true for the majority of her social circle, it's important not to loose track entirely of how others are doing, because our lifes aren't isolated from one another.

Maybe I'm reading too much into the specific choice of words , and if that is true just take my comment as a friendly reminder to us all not to forget those less fortunate than us.
> I’ve been obsessed with men who are smarter than me. (Even when I was younger, at sleepaway camp, I was fixated on the boys who went to the magnet public schools, because I knew they were hard to get into.) Part of it comes from an obsession that my kid has to be intelligent, but part of it is about earning potential, because smart men tend to earn a lot of money.

Ugh.
Hopefully they will fix a couple of bugs in Dragon as well. I really would like them to have a release focused on bug fixes rather than greater accuracy
> But wouldn't it make the phone more secure, since no malware can update the firmware without your knowledge?

No not really. Look up the boot ROM vulnerability on the Nintendo Switch. I'm sure Nintendo wishes they could update that.
Seems like an additional tax on flights where a train is available would be a more sensible measure; especially if the tax revenue were earmarked for climate change mitigation.
I've learnt those blaming the evil "MAINSTREAM MEDIA!!!!!!" are rarely worth listening to.

You know why it's mainstream? Because it's nuanced, and well-researched and run by actual real-life journalists.

You know what you're left with when the media is no longer mainstream? The extremes.
Taking your environment as subject“ vs. ”Being subject to your environment
After having tried Microsoft's automatic captioning on Microsoft Stream which is akin in accuracy to monkeys typing something random on a typewriter, I think this seems like a good choice.
Oh yeah that too, that's another whole can of worms I forgot to bring up, thanks for mentioning it.
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The point is that the company wouldn't have been started if he had listened to industry experts.

The point was not that the company would never have benefited from other lessons from the industry at any other point.
Accidentally posted prematurely on octal ha. I’ll delete，but thanks.
For those not checking the link, Sodor is based upon the real life Isle of Man.
Presumably applying the "Right to be forgotten" to data encoded on the blockchain will wreak havoc on it's immutability aspect.
Now Nuance.

It seems Microsoft is still actively continuing to buy more companies and it seems Discord is still on the menu.
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That in turn effectively triggers an existential crisis - what do with all this extra time?

Give your money to me. I have a million things I want/need to do. So many things to do in the world. How can you possibly get bored?
Nothing will prevent some language from upsetting some people in some circumstances, sometimes understandably.

Back when I worked for an IT training company, one of my colleagues was giving a course on Unix, and specifically on Unix processes. He was using the then as now accepted terminology of "parent", "child", "kill", "zombie" and so on when one of the trainees got up and ran out of the classroom in floods of tears. It turned out she had recently had a miscarriage.
The worldwide median anual household income per capita is about $3000: https://news.gallup.com/poll/166211/worldwide-median-househo...

Which means most humans won't make $200K in their entire lives. Considering that it's not a life changing amount of money just shows how the 1% has lost touch with reality.
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Several years ago I used a Nuance product named Dragon NaturallySpeaking that had speech-to-text capability and adds verbal accessibility features on Windows platforms (eg, say "Open Word", speak your document aloud, then "Close Word")

I had no idea they had enough sales to justify a $20 billion valuation. Though to be fair, Microsoft tends to acquire companies at high price tags (eg, Skype, LinkedIn, Minecraft) compared to eg, Apple's acquisition strategy of smaller technology focused companies (other than Beats headphones) like P.A. Semi and PrimeSense.

EDIT: Other comments say Nuance's patent portfolio may greatly contribute to its valuation.
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