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This story seems complicated - could someone correct my understanding if it's incorrect?

From the article:

* In 2015, federal courts stated that plans for weapons posted online needed State Department approval (I assume this is referred to as "export controlled weapons"?).

* In 2018, the State Department settled a lawsuit by ordering the removal of these plans from the list of export-controlled weapons?

* Directly after this settlement, 22 states (and D.C.) sued to keep those plans on the list of export-controlled weapons.

* In 2021, the State Department upheld their decision to remove the plans from the "export-controlled weapons" list.

Is that... mostly right?
To each person participating in the transaction, it's a net zero transaction. Person A values the item they're getting more than the item they've giving, but that also means they believe that Person B is getting the short end of the stick. So +1 for Person A is -1 for Person B. However, Person B obviously feels the opposite, as if +1 for Person B is -1 for Person A.

An outsider, Person C, might say that each of them has given up a fruit (-1), and gained a fruit (+1), so both Person A and Person B end up at 0. This is the point the writer was making.
Yeah, no, the writers of a TV show probably aren't random people off the street who are trying to sneak child porn past management. (Or not very often anyway.) There are disputes over how much edginess the writers can get away with, but in terms of the volume of content and adversarial nature of the relationship it seems pretty different?
Assuming a spherical earth, it's 4873 km.
By "see of there's a way to better balance exercise of individual rights against public safety" you must mean completely gut them.
I am certain that end of the human race will be preceded by these words: "Trust me, this time will be different"

We are simply unable to learn from even the recent past. Every generation has to personally try every bad idea to figure out why its a bad idea.
I'm guessing Coinbase, Kraken and "Binance US" which is totally not the same company as Binance because that one was banned by the NYAG, it just happens to have the same name and owners but it's totally not the same company. Very well regulated.
Municipal broadband really isn't the solution here. Sure, it's miles better than private infra, but we down here in NZ have a much better solution. (Not claiming we invented it, of course.)

In 2011, Central government started a big infrastructure project to roll fibre out to ~80% of the population. (Called UFB - ultra fast broadband.) However instead of making this just be state owned, the money was paid as cheap loans with a competitive bid system. Companies bidding had to agree to a significant number of regulations, including a requirement to not act as an ISP and to offer wholesale access to the network for a set fee. They could also offer their own services above and beyond the regulated maximum.

So to start an ISP in NZ, all you need is some national and international transit, and at least one server to do billing and core routing. As a result, we have dozens of major, actually good ISPs and many more niche ones. Most of them service the whole country - at least the UFB service area.

I actually like my ISP. I have IPv6 and a static public IPv4. Peering is excellent and international bandwidth plentiful. Gigabit bandwidth with no usage call and no fair use policy (at least no policy regarding days usage).

Municipal internet is great until you realize you just turned a monopoly into a duopoly. Without competition, what drive your new ISP to do better? If you're super lucky, the goodness of their hearts, I guess. Because you know the old incumbent will just match the new ISP and do not better.

EDIT: Folks in other threads have pointed out how bad US government bodies have historically been at investing in infrastructure maintenance. I'd like to note that the NZ model neatly deals with those concerns too. The companies which build out the networks are made the owners presumably when the loans are paid off. These companies become very profitable even though they can't become ISPs themselves, and are thus heavily incentivized to invest their profits back into their networks to keep them working well and to come up with new products to sell. Already a NZ fibre company has deployed 10gbit fibre commercially, with no extra government support.
Thanks! And agreed on many of the big players having surprisingly clunky interfaces. As a solo developer, no clue on the viability/likelihood of partnering or selling to one of them... but who knows I guess :)
I think different eras require different types of leaders that sit on the explore/extract axis. Product leaders (the 'explore' end) are there to define product categories, while Sales leaders (the 'extract' end) are there to win in product categories.

In the 70s, components were expensive and thus the market was mainframes and big company sales, so required a sales leader to extract the most, and the product could be average (like IBM, HP).

In the early 80s, components were getting cheap enough to be affordable by regular people, so a product leader was needed to define the personal computing sector, as the product could not be average (not Commodore, TI, or IBM PC).

In the late 80s - 90s, commoditization meant it was about capturing the value of the personal computing sector, so it required a sales leader to extract the most, and the product could just be average (like Windows, beige PCs).

In the late 90s - 00s, it became cheap enough to start internet companies at scale and opened up an entire market, so it required product leaders to define the core internet offerings of cloud, social media, search, and ecommerce, and the product couldn't be average (not Yahoo, Myspace, or co-lo ISPs).

In the mid 00s, components were getting small & powerful enough, so it required a product leader to define the mobile computing sector, and the product couldn't be average (not Nokia, Blackberry, Win Phone).

In the 10s - now, with mobile and internet now defined, it required sales leaders to extract the most and the product could be average (like Android).

Jobs was a success when product vision was necessary (early 80s, late 90s-00s), and a failure when it was not (late 80s-90s).

Ballmer was a success when sales/extraction was necessary (90s) but a failure when it was not (the 00s), as I consider not leveraging a leading market position into multiple adjacent trillion dollar business sectors a failure.

Cook has been a success for the past decade because the market really needed someone to execute well on the things that were just defined (mobile devices). According to the above theory, it should have been the decade of Android, but Apple's execution has been so much more competent than Google's that they ran away with it.
> Then, and this is the "reduced" part I'm referring to: you simply forget the original meaning of your symbol, and only take it for a basic sound.

This is usually known as the ‘acrophonic principle’, and indeed, all alphabetic scripts — and most of the other ones as well — are descended from Proto-Sinaitic, the first script to utilise the acrophonic principle.
True, but had a large fraction of those needless deaths not happened that would have easily given them the boost they needed to keep the seat.
Agree. Being touched by the image of an elder tree that was left to grow as it wanted without being attacked by silly people is a forbidden pleasure nowadays. There is always a damaged person that needs to cut it in the shape of a ball, or steal the wood, or ruin its health for no reason. Trees subject to this treatment live less years, decay faster and are also a risk for the people because the new replacement branches are prone to disassemble and fall after storms.
Uni group reveals the sordid buggy Linux kernel patch story
I sat on the curriculum committee for my university's (one of the Big 10) CS program for a year as an undergrad, and got to see first-hand some of the justifications from the faculty for how certain courses met the requirements of the ABET program.

It was... often something of a stretch, especially when it came to "soft skills" like ethics and whatnot. As I remember, the "justification" for meeting the ABET ethics requirements was spread across at least three courses, the first of which was a 1 credit lecture course that everyone in the major (including myself) blew off.

To be fair, we were already having difficulty cramming all the ABET requirements into the course material, to say nothing of related software development skills and tools. Our program was struggling to accommodate the insane growth we were already seeing in students--enrollments grew by something like 70% over six years, and we were struggling to hire sufficient faculty. When I graduated we were leaning heavily on online-only introductory courses and grading automation, which has its own issues.
You're telling me all the reasons that curb cuts may be a good idea, but not why they are actually a good idea in my neighborhood(not that I blame you since you don't know where I live). Anyways - that is really my point. ADA has good general ideas, but it can be too generalized to be usefully applied to many neighborhoods.

> Do you ever question why the sidewalk was unused?

No, because it is clear. It is unused because the only reason anyone would walk down it is if they lived in the neighborhood. So people do use it, but the number of unique users is approximately how many people live in the 10 houses on the street.

> Without curb cuts

There are a ton of curb cuts. Literally every 70' is a curb cut for the entire length of the street before they did their work. Now there are three more curb cuts.

> Does a parent with their kids in a stroller get discouraged by this?

I'm a parent with a stroller and it has never been a problem. Hasn't been a problem for my wife either who is significantly weaker than me and has a bad back.

> How about those with Rollerblades, non-electric scooters, or any kind of dolly?

These are also me, and no, no problem. Also me on a skateboard without an issue. And it's not because I'm great at skateboarding, since I literally just started 2 months ago.

> Curb cuts for cars are often a notable detour for other road users

There's zero lip on any of the 12 curb cuts on the street. I know this because I've ridden my skateboard over them a bunch of times and have never fallen.
All fair points, but the deal is these M1 MacBooks make more out of the ram they have. And I can’t imagine not upgrading a laptop in 8-10 years, still have a T430S but it can’t keep up with any reasonable workflow today
I don't accept the premise that the enforcement is done in good faith to begin with - there's no reason to. A bad faith actor can use a weak justification to selectively enforce the independently verifiable rule whenever they feel like it.

The guy who made the decision, spent 10 years working for John Kerry, Barbara Boxer and the Democratic party prior to his role at Facebook. Why should the USA policy director be magically different from the India one? They both engaged in politically biased selective enforcement, yet you want me to give him the benefit of the doubt. I will not. There is no reason to. Why do these companies allow 10 year political veterans to take these positions?
As a person who enjoys “shitting JavaScript into containers,” I also think something was lost in the abandonment of UML. There’s something wrong about the fact that software engineering isn’t actually engineering in the traditional sense. Not because we’re not beholden to a monopolistic cabal like the IEEE or bar association, but because it’s always felt like current-form software engineering isn’t actually engineering. The problem space isn’t so different from what it was 30 years ago, yet people solve the same problems over and over again with different tools instead of reducing them to some fundamental principles like UML and working from those. But UML was either the wrong set of principles or came at the wrong time. I like to think software development will revisit something like UML in the future, because there’s just something so compelling about not solving the same problems over and over again in slightly different ways.
Hypothetical scenario: Donald Trump's political career miraculously comes back to life in 2024 and he is elected president. He does just as you propose and expands the supreme court with justices of his choosing, and curtails the first and second ammendments.

Do you still support these policy changes?
mRNA vaccines 94% effective in preventing hospitalization in adults 65 and older
You found Signal very sub-par for everyday messaging when compared to WhatsApp? May I ask how so? Because I found those 2 of the many I use to be very similar if not the same.
Obviously not!
Wait until you hear about Ta-Allah-hassee.
It's totally open source. You just have to learn arcane, out of date methods for interacting with it.

Kind of like someone addressing Y2K by knowing Cobol.
RCS doesn't solve the core issue that carriers are bad at providing messaging systems and even worse at interconnecting their messaging systems.

If carriers were good at messaging systems, SMS wouldn't be so unreliable and expensive. MMS would have worked well. But sure, maybe their new system works? Except, for the most part it's only rolling out widely because Google decided to be the default RCS server, so it's yet another Google messaging service; 9th time is the charm.

Google deployed e2e in rcs at the end of last year... But does that mean it works everywhere? I'm guessing probably not.
Sell at the news is often a good advice...
Stainless Steel Rat comes to mind. :-)
I might vote for Trump if he promised to fight against the second amendment. Enough lives have been lost because of our desire to potentially be heroes in a hypothetical uprising. The second amendment has been ineffective against so many government abuses to date, and enabled so much citizen violence. Nice idea to try, shame it didn't work, time to fix it.

Not so much the first, though...
It appears only now because you never thought to use it before. People who want a dark mode will actively make it happen, whether or not the OS allows for it as a toggle.

> Besides, light mode is much more readable in the sun light

Kind of missing the point here.

Why would you want something readable in sunlight... be the mode that you use at nighttime?

White is harsh to my eyes, no matter the brightness. Especially at night. So I tend to find a dark mode solution regardless of what I am using. I have several stylus schemes that enable a dark mode on sites that don't have one.

I've been using Adwaita-dark as my theme in xUbuntu for years, as well. Before that, before Win10 took the ability away, all of my Windows themes were configured to be darker. Going back to the late 80s.

Original DOS could be considered "dark mode," after all... it's just white text on a black background.

Terminals, too.

The 'hype' basically amounts to: "The OS lets us set a theme without us using third party options." Before the OS, app or site has an integrated dark mode option, you bet your pretty penny we've been looking for other ways to make it happen.
I didn't want to be the one to compare myself with Galileo, but I'm glad someone did.
You can use it on the desktop and it syncs fine. Have you looked into it recently?
As I never tire of pointing out, as an empirical matter, this is wrong when you apply it to Apple specifically.

Apple's software support for all their devices lasts much longer than the competition, and their hardware tends to last many years out of warranty. Not always of course, but this is a numbers game, and there is a robust secondary market in everything Apple makes.

Objectively, a laptop, phone, or tablet, will have a longer service life if manufactured by Apple, than anyone else, with the possible exception of ThinkPads.

Sure, if you want more RAM or what have you, you have to buy a new computer and sell the old one. That's expensive, but all that matters with respect to the environment is total service life of a given machine, and again, as an objective matter, Apple is peerless there.

It's tempting to compare this record against imaginary competition which doesn't exist, but I don't see the point.
You can survive vaccuum for a brief period of time.
Oh sure, increased efficiency is absolutely value, and I'm totally fine with somebody claiming the difference between what was before, and what they do as "created" value.

But I would also argue, that these efficiency gains are tiny. That most businesses spend 90% of their labor effort fighting for control of existing value, not creating new value.

When A robot automates somebodies job away, a shareholders business is run more efficiently and shareholder value increases. But the robots value to society is not realized until the unemployed person goes on to do something else of value. Sometimes they will, but not always. These displaced people could be either a benefit or a burden to society. The value of robot labor is ambiguous.

When Google and Apple make tools for us to work more efficient I can see a clear path to value creation. (Even if very small)

When Amazon sells us more cheap junk from China that we didn't need anyhow, the value creation is a lot less clear.

I guess we are starting to get into the realm where my definition of value is not the same as everybody else. Apologies if I'm rambling, It's an interesting topic and I enjoy thinking about it as I write.
Perhaps we need to lock everybody down and forbid them to leave their own homes, so that we can take stock of the situation and figure out what's going on.
In mission critical software, software engineering feels like engineering. A friend of mine that has a company focused in this niche jokes around that his IDE is Microsoft Word :)
I cannot say anything about Vite itself, but this is just wrong that there is permanent hype about one helper tool over other one and people switch from X to Y and then to Z and then to the new version of X and then to whatever.
> I'll tell you - because there are no alternatives.

How about other more legit consulting firms like exponent (https://www.exponent.com/)?
(not saying you are, but it's a common sentiment on here). It's a kind of occupation-induced blindness, I think.

Oh I am 100% guilty of that, and I admit that. I have been using Photoshop in some capacity since 1994, and I am 37 years old. So that “teeny tiny click targets and lots of keyboard chording” is just baked into the interaction homunculus in my head. It is admittedly difficult to for me to think of an iPad as a “Pro” tool.

A blind spot I am working on, but once you get to be my age, you get set in your ways. You kids and your TikTok…
Canned or fresh?
Want better drainage? Get adequate sleep.
The First and Second Amendments don’t grant you the right to free speech and to bear arms. Being born a human being is where those rights come from. The amendments simply proscribe the government from infringement upon them. Not a hundred SCOTUS judges, not a thousand, not a million of them will change that.
Chia surpasses 1 exabyte of hard drive space
> I don't see anyone talking about taking that emmy back. Or canceling him.

Weirdly enough I didn't know he was given an Emmy but I have seen wall to wall coverage of the accusations against him and calls for him to resign from dozens of democrat leaders including the Senate Majority Leader.

SNL (pretty much centrist-liberal) has been trashing him on both fronts -- calling out the nursing home deaths on weekend update and even a very long cold open raking him over the coals for the abuse stuff.

Seth Meyers (easily the farthest left network host) has been dragging him hard on both fronts on Late Night as well.

The only opinions I've seen expressed by people in my social media sphere for months are that he's an absolute dirtbag - the man is canceled. I think the real point you are approaching is that most of the time "canceling" someone doesn't really do much.
Hi, Parcel maintainer here. v2 will be released very shortly. We are ~1 month away from rc. Also, we should have a very big announcement about build perf in the next couple days. Apologies for the long pre-release cycle but I think the light is finally at the end of the tunnel. :)
Design your API like you’re expecting to be the next Stripe. Then add a little more context. You’ll never get recognized but your documentation will be amazing.

Think: “how am I proactively planning on getting promoted so I can forget all this?”
The most interesting graph there is quarterly revenue for iPhone. This quarter and the last are nearly equal, which is the first time that's ever happened. Every other year they had one great quarter (Release/Christmas) and the rest were just really good. But this year they had two great iPhone quarters in a row.

I wonder why?
Are you just listing things you don't like?

The government's job isn't to ban a list of things that other people get excited about, but which frustrate you.
Where are you getting your stats from that you're referring to? If it is a hunch, you shouldn't say "statistically".

Also, it seems fairly presumptive to assume that ex-partners are intelligent. And to assume that intelligent people don't do crazy things(see: Lisa Nowak)
We have ways of changing the constitution. If there was support for these changes, it could be done, as it is it won't happen because there is not enough support for what you are saying. Any other method of subverting the constitution is wrong would violate the "contract" we have with our government... only bad things can result.
Same, I resorted to disabling Javascript for misbehaving websites and it seems to render the content fine after that in this case.
The point of the original skeuomorphic UI was to make the phone look small, like an iPod, and not like a computer, because they didn't think people wanted to look like they were carrying a tablet around.

It turns out everyone did want to do that, and in fact iPhones weren't big enough, so the flat UI was designed to take the same device and make it look bigger and brighter.
Oh my God! <wringing hands> What about the children?!?
> Well, there has been cases where ball lighting phenomena, was misidentified as UFO.

Minor quibble, ball lightning is occasionally classified as an Unidentified Flying Object, before it's identified as ball lightning.

The big problem here is with language. The military takes UFOs seriously because they're seriously interested in identifying things before deciding if they need to shoot them.

But then when the general public hears "the military takes UFOs seriously," many are operating with the "UFOs are definitely alien aircraft" interpretation.
I can't find it now, but I specifically remember reading an article early in the pandemic making the argument that the political leaders should step back and let public health officials take the spotlight, and pointing to Cuomo as someone who's doing a bad job of this.
This is a fantastic resource. I completed this course several years ago. He is a prolific teacher.
Why not just live in a state with more strict gun laws and let people of other states live like they want? As someone in the rural US, guns are part of my heritage. Police response times can be 40+ minutes in non-urban areas, and removing legal guns would just make us vulnerable.
Fingers crossed that you tackle a Quake Black Book at some point.
I think (hope) techniques like this will provably be more useful for forensics and inspection than anything else.
It’s a shame that unhelpful and extremist views such as yours make it a challenge to engage in anything resembling civil discourse in this country.

Fortunately for you, this website is moderated by individuals who go to lengths to make far-right extremists feel comfortable and unchallenged; so your account is safe.

The fact that your post not only added nothing, accused another user of being dishonest about what they wanted, and made it harder to have further discourse is irrelevant. You’re a while, male, right-wing extremist, so your account is safe.