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I'm simply offering the advice that the tone seems unfriendly and is likely to be taken as such by Redis users (aka potential customers).

> a person can disagree and go their own way instead of being hounded by zealots demanding compliance in the guise of friendliness

This is exactly the kind of aggressive and nebulously political tone that would not help a project gain adoption. Why be hostile?
The animation on this site is simply beautiful.
The point is, these comments are not unique or valuable insights. I'm sure users already know they can buy a better computer or more RAM, so why haven't they upgraded? How will the comments on HN change their behavior? Something must be stopping them from doing those things. Maybe Mighty is the solution that will get the job done. Suhail is the only one providing a new solution while everyone else is saying the status quo is good enough even though clearly some people out there still have a problem.
This story is explicitly not about censorship - rather, supplying additional context - but you and other posters seem unable or unwilling to address that.
https://youtu.be/zCbS0qmLxj8?t=204

You could have just waited 3 minutes :)
How do you know it's the increase of meat and not another factor, such as prior consumption of grains or such?
I voted you up because I thought you were talking about police informants
When you add up all the additives, it's about the same as the percentage of cement in concrete. This isn't "raw earth".
It's not looking pretty for Jon Pretty...
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Tried to buy a printer lately? Perhaps a computer? Part of the crap availability is likely due to the chip/component shortages that have gotten a lot of press, but some is also due to shipping.

I was looking at low- to mid-range workgroup printers and business-class desktop PCs for some clients recently. From at least some manufacturers the ones that were available were selling for at least $50-100 above MSRP depending on models, or you could order at normal prices (don't bother looking for discounts!) with estimated delivery end of May or in June. This article makes me think there's a chance those might be optimistic.
"but the abuse potential is massive."

I think people grossly exaggerate this. We have libel and slander laws. Individual companies aside, entire communities of people aren't that stupid. In my opinion, this is a really pessimistic view of people and also not based in reality in my experience.

At the end of the day, we need to be able to listen to victims. The amount of fake accusers compared to real victims is microscopic.

"And people who are accused are damned, period."

Not really. There are literally countless examples of accusations/allegations and nothing happening to people for whatever reason, usually influence/popularity.
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Calibre's UI is an artifact from a superior and more civilized time, IMHO

Extremely functional and just a little bit incomprehensible. Compared to modern UI/UX which just slaps me with how stupid it thinks I am
As I was reading these comments I was reminded of some articles I read quite some time ago about the impact of global warming produced sea level rise on container ports. Many existing ports weren't built with sea level rise in mind, and building new container ports is expensive and takes quite a while. A quick search on "sea level rise container ports" produced articles that said a lot of the impact depends on the amount of sea level rise. Five feet or less will probably not affect current ports very much; as the sea level rise gets higher the impact on existing ports becomes greater.

Would anyone who knows more about this topic care to comment?
if you don't mind a bit of boilerplate, I use this pattern, it avoids syntactic sugar and achieves what you are looking for:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA4h0cajgaA
It creates a power imbalance, or increases the power imbalance that already existed between the two.

If you have a boss/employee relationship, or a mentor/mentee relationship, or a professor/student relationship, you need to tread extra carefully around consent. One party in those relationships holds incredible power over the other, and can coerce the weaker party into things they may not be comfortable doing.

Likewise, enabling someone to attend a conference they would not otherwise be able to financially afford creates a possibility of coercion . It's not always coercive, but it needs to be handled delicately and appropriately. In the author's situation, if she refused, there was a chance she was thrown out onto the streets of Berlin at who knows what hour, with no money/luggage, and maybe no ability to speak the local language.
> there is a court and criminal justice system for a reason
Having supported a few friends trying to push these kinds of complaints through the courts, I think the precise reason this kind of naming and shaming has become so common place is the criminal justice system isn't working well.

Even for fairly straightforward sexual assault case in a liberal jurisdiction with witnesses I've watched a friend struggle with members of the justice system verbally insulting and degrading them as they try to obtain justice for themselves.

Having seen all that when I see a post like this I understand why the author did not go to court, and don't question it. If we took the time to actually fix the courts I'd be much more skeptical of claims that had not been presented to law enforcement.

I feel for people like your brother who are victims of people abusing the trend, but as long as our justice system fails victims so horribly I think this is the least bad solution available.
I once used this method and spent the last ten minutes of a test just guess-and-checking the solutions to a question I didn't remember the formula for. Of course, it was the last one I checked. (I wasn't confident enough to early return).
I disagree and I hope no effort is wasted on this. Calibre is great and any confusion is solved by googling.

If and only if the author(s) feel they have time and energy to spend on this, then that's ok. But no forks and no wasted energy, please!

I'd rather they spent time solving bugs and improving/adding features.
John Pretty is a troublesome character and as he reads through this comment section to find out how his reputation will be hurt by this... I hope it becomes a barrier for him to participate in the Scala Community with influence over others and the Programming Communities all around. Punish John Pretty IMO
> What if applicants from higher social classes actually are better fits for the job?

What a perfect example of social class bias. Change "from higher social class" to "from purple descent" or "from a Pastafarian background" and you have racial or religious bias.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted - it's a reasonable question to ask for a (supposedly) serious competitor to AWS & Azure.

E.g. if I'm leading engineering for a startup and thinking about which of the three to invest in, the long-term profitability and stability of my choice here is important. You can't just rely on the "Google" name - if anything, that signals that they're willing to just shut it down or raise prices if they can't reach profitability targets soon.
The Port of Coos Bay in Southern Oregon has been trying to expand their port for 15 years now. https://www.portofcoosbay.com/projects But the projects take quite a bit of time (dredging the bay deeper and wider to service 1000' ships, taking over and repairing a basically abandoned railway with 100 year old tunnels and bridges, etc). Couple that with some initial resistance from state legislators that serve Portland (which lost its largest container ship terminal contracts a few years ago), and these things take years to get into place. Could be real fast, if they got a guarantee of business from somebody, but shipping companies don't want to pay to develop in only a few years, and then have their backlog clear up before then.
Because I know people who have been harassed and raped and whose harassers and rapists weren't punished.

I know literally dozens of stories like that, and maybe a handful where the harasser or rapist was punished at all. Of those, even fewer where they were convicted of a crime.

The majority of these cases the victim isn't public in their accusation, there's no argument that they're trying to gain something or hurt someone else. So by comparing the data that is presumably more honest, that people make in private, to that in public, we can assume that most instances of harassment go unpunished.
So in your judgement, a person who is accused is guilty if they don't retaliate with a slander/libel lawsuit? Did you ever stop to think that maybe, just maybe, lawyers and filing lawsuits might be expensive, prohibitively so?

The "existing laws setup to handle any false allegations" exist only for accusations made in the court system.

It's amazing to me how little thought people like you have behind your beliefs. You basically just regurgitate what you heard from your college electives with zero mindfulness or introspection.
That's not how libel and slander works. You not only have to prove that the statements were false, but that the accuser knew they were false and was deliberately malicious in spreading the falsehoods
>To involve law enforcement she would have to travel to a country where she doesn't speak the language, to make an accusation for which she has no evidence but her word, against a man who lives in another city.

That's what an embassy is for... they help deal with these situation.

>And there is also a chance that we can hit a critical mass where law enforcement somewhere may take an interest after all.

Don't complain that a law enforcement agency doesn't do anything if they're never made aware of the problem.
Of course not, but that's because I know my friend personally. If I saw someone putting up posters outside my apartment complex saying "the guy in Unit 214 is an asshole, he used to beat me up in middle school", I wouldn't spread the accusation without knowing more about what's going on.
"If you want to do something evil, put it in something boring."
Abusers will use the platform they have
That's what makes me wonder if this kind of abuser can't help but do these things. But on the other hand, maybe anyone would, if conditions were right.

These public callouts which occupy the area between keeping silent and taking legal action are like antibodies marking a potentially dangerous cell.
Actually, you have the reasoning backwards for many common use cases like web analytics. To the extent queries are doing on-the-fly aggregation you are doing column scans, which are by definition heavy on IO.
Inefficiency brings up business opportunity. Some industry can’t realign quickly? Make a bet that a new business will be nimble enough to deliver faster and take their market share.
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Your toilet pipes are inside a wall? That’s pretty strange, toilet drain pipe is usually 3” dia. Are there 90 degree bends? I don’t understand how or why you’d put a toilet drain pipe in a wall when the drain pipe is in the middle of a bathroom floor, not in a wall.

Are you sure you aren’t thinking of sink drains?
So are you saying that victims must win a court case to have their story believed but perpetrators should be taken at their word?

If someone wants to clear their name, go to court and sue for slander. If it's two people's word against each other, I'll believe the victim every time since there's such a high cost of coming forward and slander laws exist.

EDIT Since I'm now throttled...

I'm saying that coming forward either means:

1. Something really happened to you.

2. You're breaking the law and can be punished.

High stakes, no? Which is one of the many reasons false accusations are exceedingly rare if not non-existent.

I will always believe the victim unless the perpetrator wins a libel case. It's the legal mechanism for fighting back.
It's going to make manufacturing in the U.S. cost-effective again.
Which is ironic because in the 1990s web-advertising was sold to marketeers' as the best form of advertising because every view is logged and tracked: unlike a magazine ad you can know exactly how many people saw it and interacted with it (...right before middle-school kids realized they could make free money by clicking ads they put up on their geocities webpages)

When Facebook launched their ad platform people were saying there would be even less fraud than open web advertising because FB (at the time...) was doing a good job of keeping bots out of Facebook - but I understand right now that Facebook advertising is the worst form of advertising you can spend money on...

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25623858

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26193544
That's not easy. There will be tens of thousands of satellites. It would be prohibitively expensive to hit them all with missiles. Not to mention the debris cloud which, while temporary, would cause real problems for everyone in space for a few years.

More feasible attacks would be hacking the satellites or ground systems, RF jamming, or just locating users on the ground by their RF emissions and throwing them in the gulag. Or how about holding the Shanghai Tesla factory hostage? Less fancifully, China can put pressure on SpaceX via the ITU. There are plenty of options for China and there is zero chance SpaceX will try to break Chinese law.
Less than 1% of rapes lead to felony convictions: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/10/06/less-than...

Same article notes that between 2-8% of rape complaints are false. Worries about false rape claims are wildly overblown.
China develops self-made brain-computer interface chip
Activity monitor showed that RAM was full. She did not use Safari, but instead Firefox.
Oil companies have even higher revenue per employees.
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What you’re looking for is called Perforce.
Because inevitably someone will make a FOSS version of this service and post a one-click docker image.
> Applications could be exposing intents they assume will be used by trustworthy applications (i.e. apps in the Play Store).

This is a poor assumption to make. Any data coming into your application should be assumed to be malicious. This would be the same as a server just accepting any data made to its API calls without any validation.
This is pretty much the idea behind Received Pronounciation in BE.
Some of us realised that end users don't want to program and that they can be better protected from themselves by only allowing execution of arbitrary code when they explicitly say they want it.
> Therefore the court of public opinion is the only court that has solid jurisdiction, so to speak.

based on what his public info shows about his location this medium post (and the ensuing public outrage) cops in that country will have to press charges (in case they haven't been pressed already).

There is a high chance he is a flight risk so they will book him, _unless_:

- he is actually a passport holder of that country (doesn't seem the case), and
- has a proper address registered as is law, (many Brits don't care since British law doesn't require it)
- has a strong social family network in that country, (unlikely)
- has a job in that country (contracting/freelancing doesn't count here)

... then he is looking forward to spending 6 months minimum in "Untersuchungshaft" (hard time) or for whatever length of time investigations are ongoing (until trial).

What I'm getting at is that this is a very serious allegation that _will_ result in hard time if convicted but also until he actually gets his day in court! But for that to happen she needs to do more than a Medium post (make a statement with the cops which can be scary but shouldn't be if she actually brings a lawyer). In case she doesn't then it needs to be considered a character assassination which itself is a felony. In any case posting such a piece is legally risky for her and if she would have bothered getting a lawyer, they most certainly would have advised her against it. The best option for her would be to go through the court system of where he is currently located.

Most other options have a high risk of this going nowhere (cost + extradition etc) and even give more room for speculation and he-said-she-said which shouldn't (imho) be the goal of the metoo movement and indeed it should be called out for mob-justice.
I think there’s a crucial point that you missed:

“...there is a court and criminal justice system for a reason”

John Wayne Gacy was convicted in a court via the criminal justice system. As a society, we have chosen this as our mechanism for adjudicating these types of accusations, and that mechanism has evolved certain safeguards over time. It’s not perfect, but it is a far fairer venue to be tried in than the “court of public opinion”. That’s not an insignificant point, and you’re glossing over it entirely.
We have criminal and civil justice systems that have different levels of burden of proof, and correspondingly differ in the severity of their outcomes.

It makes sense to also have social justice systems that are lower burden of proof and have lesser consequences. Especially for crimes that are difficult to prosecute and have low visibility.
Sounds oddly similar to a database deadlock. Wonder who the optimizer will select as the victim.

But that's what happens when you put all your manufacturing in one large transaction.
I have been going to conferences regularly for the past 9 years (eycept covid of course) and find them to be rather tame actually. Drinking is widely spread, but most other stuff i have not noticed. I also gave talks - maybe the community is different here in europe.
The front door of one's home always seemed a good analogy to me.

Is it good practice to lock your front door, on the assumption that some people are malicious and will take advantage and rob you if you don't? With particular caution suggested in some areas? Yes.

Is someone who is robbed when they did not lock their front door responsible for the crime in some sense? No, not really. A normal human failing to carry out a precaution that shouldn't be necessary in the first place, perhaps. I've forgotten to lock my front door once in a while, haven't you?
In a similar vein, I recommend Stephen Baxter's "Flux". It takes place in a civilization that evolved inside of a neutron star.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux_(novel)
I think that's a pretty cynical POV. False accusations happen, but aren't the norm. Far more abusers get away with their bad behavior than good people are wrongly punished. Yifan already has a second woman coming forward describing similar behavior as well some witnesses to some of the public parts. It's probably unlikely she'd be able to prove a criminal case in whatever country this happened, but we don't need bad behavior to be criminal to declare it unacceptable and stop rewarding it. It's likely we'll see a few more pretty soon, hear Pretty's side and then the court of public opinion can render a decision. Right now, her story is pretty plausible and she has seemingly no motive to fabricate. He won't go to jail, but he will stop being invited to conferences and likely lose his livelihood.
If you want to store solar heat, you cannot beat water @4000J/kg.K. Black barrels of water is probably the best solution, yet a very simple solution. I've checked the thermal capacity tables, only ammonia would do a slightly better job than water !

I also toy with the idea of building a greenhouse myself, that's why I have done some research. If you want to harness the thermal capacity of earth for a greenhouse, I know of two tricks:

- Excavate one or two meters of soil to build a “pit” greenhouse. You will get earth walls connected to an immense thermal storage capacity. This is the so called Walipini greenhouse concept https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walipini

- The diurnal and seasonal temperature oscillations dampen quickly with depth in the ground. Below some meters of soil, the temperature will be stable at the average annual temperature at your location (Ta). If you can dig a trench to lay underground pipes to create a ground/air heat exchange connected to your greenhouse, you will get a free source of air heated at (Ta) in winter or cooled down to the same (Ta) in summer. Fans to force air circulation will help.
What do you use instead of Calibre? I haven't found a similar tool that is as useful, is free, runs on Linux, etc.

I find Calibre is not a tool to "enjoy" spending time on, but simply a tool to solve something specific so that I can then spend time on my Kindle.

There are other tools where I want to enjoy the time I spend using them (say, text editors, paint programs, IDEs) but Calibre is not one of them.
“wide latitude”
You know the reason people started leaning into social justice is because the cops and the courts weren't doing a very good job? That's why we are where we are. Also the fact that a lot of dudes just can't imagine a world where they just keep to themselves doesn't really help the problem. But again, this is where we find ourselves and it is going to keep continuing.

And frankly the idea that there are people that believe "smear campaigns" are as normal as every day sexual harassment is extremely laughable.
Sure you can. You're less likely to be pulled over in most of the US than a black person driving the same car and wearing the same clothes.
I don't think eloff is Yifan's parent.
Google Cloud as it exists today was formed under Diane Greene (VMware) only a few years ago.

The Google Cloud Platform product (or, "Let's sell some of that extra YouTube server space") is a decade old.
My point is that she doesn't mention she didn't want it, said "no" or anything that implies not giving consent.
> the elimination of the staging area was enthusiastically received as a major reduction in complexity

Well, that'd be a huge negative to me… it is much easier to build up a commit piece by piece, verify that it's correct, and then commit it. The only two alternatives I can imagine are worse: disallowing partial commits (I use this feature all the time; I guess I could replace it by a temp commit on a branch and then so long as cherry-pick -p still exists, use that) or specifying it to git-commit (that would be one gnarly set of flags…)

Sure, a git without a staging area is less complex. But it removes essential complexity, and would no longer solve my problems.

(And in systems that lack it, like Perforce, I've sorely wanted it, and there was just not a good workaround. But yeah, that aspect of the VCS was simpler, I suppose…)

I do agree teaching the staging area seems problematic. Newcomers struggle with it. I also agree with how the article mentions other commands sometimes effecting one or more of the staging area & working dir, and it being unclear when are where they effect what. `reset` is perhaps the most confusing command in that regard. Outside of "git reset", "git reset -p" and "git reset --hard", I'm looking at the manual while I run it. (Granted, those first 3 cover probably 99% of the use cases…)