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In adobe construction, too-high clay content can be as big a problem as too low. All clays are somewhat expansive, and the most plastic clays like bentonite are also the most expansive. If your adobe is too expansive it cracks when it dries and contracts. Including enough sand makes it less expansive and less plastic when it gets moist, and including enough straw† allows it to resist cracking.

When you need to build in adobe, you analyze the local soil first. If there's topsoil, you dig through it to get to the clay, sand, and silt that you need. If there's too much clay or silt, you can defecate some sand in a settling tank and pour the mud off the top. If there's not enough clay, you do the same thing but it's the mud you use instead of the sand at the bottom. If your clays are too expansive, or you have way too much silt, you may need to dig somewhere else, or grout your adobe with lime or ashes like they're doing, which shades into building with cement, as you say.

We have thousands of years of craft lore about how to get this to work, plus modern science. It's true that, like rammed earth, adobe works best in dry climates, but its range extends into wetter climates than you might think, especially in the wattle-and-daub form where you supplement the straw with wood.

The big problem with adobe nowadays is not that it doesn't hold up or that you can't make the soils work; it's that it's a hell of a lot of work because your walls are two meters thick, and they're nearly as dense as concrete, and it's slow, because you need to cure the bricks for months before you start construction. A double-wide trailer is just a lot more house for the money.

The potential advantage to 3-D printing your adobe or concrete instead of tamping it into forms, plastering it on layer by layer, or stacking it up in bricks is that you can deploy the material where you think it'll be the most advantageous. The ruffled outside surface will channel rainfall into the grooves where more of it can flow down the wall before it soaks in. Those big spaces you see inside the walls might help with insulation, they will slow leaching of water that can produce moisture or efflorescence indoors, they might let you cure the adobe in place in the wall instead of in a pile of bricks beforehand, and they remove most of the weight of the wall without reducing its buckling resistance. The dome-vault shape allows you to reduce your roof expenses greatly. And maybe squeezing toothpaste out of a CNC crane will be less work than a team of sweaty guys tossing 20-kg bricks up ladders all day.

Still, though, those gorgeous soaring vaults make me very nervous. An adobe wall collapsing on top of your kids would not be very fucking funny at all.

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† I guess straw is a "high-performance fibre-reinforced stabilizing agent". The amount used is typically around 1%, so maybe straw is higher-performance than Mapesoil, or maybe they're just arching the walls more than you would normally dare to do with adobe.
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie.
It's because it doesn't fit into the modern zeitgeist of extreme testability and pandering to computer illiterates

Every time this kind of UI comes up in discussion, I feel like there is always someone groaning about how much extra effort and cost is involved with giving the user too many options. In fact, you could say that modern software seeks to eliminate all noncritical optionality. Combine this with gobs of pointless whitespace, an inexplicable need to humanize pretty much everything, and smother the user in unnecessary feelgood emotions...

And then people wonder why modern apps suck so much...
What are you going to do ? Just believe it ?
I can attest to this. The pants themselves will wear you out let alone the extra gear. Hand tools when sharpened and operated correctly can be extremely efficient.

Crosscut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgAnAn_nd68

General: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8_AafEAOdk
You should come with a physical warning sign.
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You have no evidence to be smearing someone's name and defaming them on HN in this way. Stop this behavior until there is legal grounds for doing so.
Yes because that has proven to be extremely effective! Amazing insight here.
> younger people seems to have lost the capacity to discuss

I agree with your point about people being failed by society and the education system, but do not agree that this has become an issue with younger people specifically. Anecdotally, I have spoken with younger people and older people who lose control of their emotions when something they hold close and identity with is challenged. Even if the topics are brought up in a civil manner, I've seen people completely lose their cool.
I mean, it's absolutely a criticism of git, so in that sense the title's spot on; it's not a pull request, or a suggestion that we should all go out and stop using git.

I mostly took issue with GP's implication that there was no reason to perform a conceptual design review after the software's already created.
She is definitely the kind of woman where a man shouldn't be making such advances. Let her be the acting party. She would have been telling another story if she were on top and had taken the initiative.
One of the simplest ways for a man to avoid the problems of consent where he suspects there may be is to be the one from whom consent is needed.

That is the absolute safest other than leaving. If you as a man attempt to get consent that may not be something you're able to obtain. She might be intoxicated and unable to consent. You might not know that. However what's safe is to let anyone initiate sex with you while you remain passive and let them have sex with you.

If you leave then I would strongly advise to say it is because you are feeling sick and think it's something you ate. Go to the toilet first and say you have the runs. That will cushion her pride and make her just glad you left. No chance of something mean-spirited.
For the last three decades, search engines have been presenting results in descending order. While a lot of innovations have happened with the sorting algorithm, it hasn't fundamentally move forward from that.

From a user point of view, it's frustrating to look through the result, finding a list of ads, a commercial site, a few videos, a definition, a wikipedia link, a commercial site, and so on.

Instead, users have a pretty good idea of what kind of result they want. It would make it so much easier if the results are grouped together.

For example, a search engine could group results under individual tabs, separating results from user generated content sites, forums, commerce and commercial blogs, Wikipedia, content farms, and so on. Within each tab, there could be subtabs grouping results under each domain.

This would make searching the web a much less frustrating experience.
Of course there are. They're easier to pick out in informal writing, of course, but even, "is capable of writing extensively in SWE without screwing up or revealing lower-class status through choice of word or idiom" is a pretty strong class marker. One can even infer gender with much better-than-even odds, though, again, it's easier the less-formal the writing. There exist computer programs that attempt that trick with fair success, too, though humans are plenty capable of it on their own.

As for your example of mathematicians, and to offer a sense of how easy it can be to accidentally and innocently give these things away, something as simple as preposition use can give away a mathematician (or at least someone who's had some exposure to mathematical writing and usage). Consider: "over", and "in", for example, and also seemingly-innocent usage like the transitive verb "having", in a revealing context.

See the commas after the closing quotation marks, in that second paragraph? If I'm American, and not obviously-deficient in the rest of my writing, that's a fairly reliable signal that I'm a programmer.
>Because it is designed to lose money.

Not sure I understand this response, nor do I agree. AWS drove $13.5B in _profit_ for Amazon in 2020, and has been profitable since at least 2014, _8 years_ after its founding.[1]

Why isn't reasonable to ask "where and when is the profit coming?"

[1] https://www.geekwire.com/2021/amazon-web-services-posts-reco...
Arm based devices are not consistent enough with their bootloader to allow such a thing.
`All Play And No Work Makes Jack A Rich Boy` is a common amulet

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Edit: Would you characterize that part as "a bit like a public lynching"? Because I definitely wouldn't, even if I disagreed with it or felt it was too much.

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I think you are very uncharitably reading that comment. There's a difference between, "This person checked some code into a repo" and "this person is the maintainer of a project".

And I think that it's reasonable for people to hold the stance of, "I don't want to run this person's code because I believe they are a serial abuser" and to clearly state why. If other repos see that, maybe they decide to take on that stance, maybe they don't.

They encourage others to consider doing the same, but the don't demand them.
> The "existing laws setup to handle any false allegations" exist only for accusations made in the court system.

This is wrong though.

> Did you ever stop to think that maybe, just maybe, lawyers and filing lawsuits might be expensive, prohibitively so?

Indeed, and reporting a crime, and ensuring it is handled appropriately by a police force is also exceedingly costly, though perhaps not financially.

Significant portions of your post violate the HN guidelines.
Logistical black start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_start
This may be a tone-deaf sidetrack but also perhaps an important piece of advice for some. There should be an impenetrable barrier between ones love life and ones professional life. While there are certainly people who have met their significant other in a professional setting, there are much better ways of doing that, especially nowadays. By striving to keep this separation water tight we can avoid both unwanted advances and false allegations.

The above is not comment on the allegations in the post, any more than if everyone followed the above basic principle we would not have to deal with disturbing stories such as this one. It is important that stories such as this one are told but perhaps with the names left out.
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Well, to be clear, there is nothing wrong with serving - or responding - to search warrants or requests for evidence, etc.

We will, in fact, comply with any form of proper legal service. We do not want customers using our service to commit criminal acts.

So if a "normal" warrant is issued, we will simply add that to the canary that is published every Monday. If it does not hinder the legal proceedings we may even identify what the warrant was about or even publish it. On the other hand, if that would be harmful we will simply note that we received one.

On the other hand, if we are prohibited from even mentioning that we have received some form of legal service at one of our locations, we will follow that prohibition. We will also stop updating the canary.

... and that is where your question comes in ...

rsync.net is by no means a household name. However, if we stopped publishing our warrant canary, people would notice. It would be a news event in some circles and would continue to be noteworthy as it continued to not be updated.

I think that if this occurred we would only restart our updates of the warrant canary on the other side of a long legal process. At that time, the new warrant canary would make reference to the (now finalized) legal proceedings.
The seven second kernel compile (2002)
A list of all such tools https://xosh.org/text-to-diagram/
Were you trying to flash while the device was on?
The cost was hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the company would have fought it for about 3 years, based on the advice of the wrongful termination specialist he consulted. He would have been bankrupted, and did what most people do, and just moved on.
So is this essentially Remote Desktop for the web?
So you suggest the victims should just shrug it off.
It's rare these days to see total unavailability of a service.

Given how these systems are, every game that uses PSN is also down now, since it's a requirement of the playstation platform that they are the first party entitlement granting authority, and it must be checked on startup.

So, unless you have disks, your console is a brick right now.
Glad to hear. Something to say to know the entirety of the system instead of just going with the trendiest option.
There are 30(!) comments on HN linking to this video, including discussions of Bret Victor's "Learnable programming", using Lisp in production from last year, comparisons with Smalltalk, a thread with examples of beautiful software, and more: https://ampie.app/url-context?url=https://www.youtube.com/wa...
> I want to throw away everything and get my version to be the same as the branch on the server/another local branch.

Isn't that `git reset --hard remote/branch` ?
Well, this is the essence of discrimination and we wouldn't tolerate it for a whole range of indicators (you're black, gay, if a particular race, etc etc). My guess is the real reason they won't tell people is that they would end up in court pretty quick.
It isn't my argument, but as I try to understand all sides I'll do my best to explain the position anyway.

The idea goes something like this. You have white privilege because you are visibly white. By being visibly white you gain an automatic differentiation from those who are non-white. The belief is that the system, being largely run by white people will extend courtesy and nicer treatment to those who look like it whilst those who differ in appearance must "earn" the position you are given by the elements of your birth. It's a bit more complicated than that but that's my understanding of the core of it.

I am not trying to strawman the argument and if I have it wrong, please explain where I wandered off course.
Thanks. Please do identify when they're open source -- I have been bitten by filling a small app of unknown longevity with my system diagrams and flowcharts, only to have it disappear.
As the parent mentioned, the problem isn't recourse it is by that stage your life is already ruined. I don't think there is a clear answer though, the only moral thing to do is to support the accuser.
Lol, great explanation.

Maybe they should just get rid of organic results in Search, and just show Ads. Surely that would be more profitable.
These do the same i.e. ASCII sequence diagrams

https://textart.io/sequence

http://weidagang.github.io/text-diagram/
If by skill you mean something you do with your hands (and this includes
coding and math) reading books is not the answer. Repetition by doing,
interspersed with targeted googling, is.
Seems to me that he might do better if he put in a few tiers of "You get absolutely nothing extra for this except the thanks of Kovid and the Calibre community for supporting ongoing development." Right now all support is custom donations.
Does anyone know of any good ebook platforms that compete with Amazon?

Getting really sick of the Goodreads/Amazon interfaces and lack of quality recommendations.
I'm mostly interested in how Waymo is doing, as it has the option to clean up air quality by using electric cars, but sadly it's still a very secretive part of Alphabet.
The same argument can be made the other direction. It is quite common for someone to be convinced after the fact it was nonconsensual when it was indeed consensual.
Appreciate the clarification that it's not YC-founder specific and a further read of your comments and newsfaq on this makes it clear the tradeoff between privacy and maintaining HN thread history, and I think the right choice has been made. Thanks
He was told his case was legitimate, but the cost was too much for him to afford. Also, large corporations have massive legal teams.

The narrative that is widely believed is that "the cost of making an accusation is so high that nobody would do it, so automatically believe accusers" and they pretend that there is no cost to being accused.

It's an oversimplification and ignores the game theory involved in these things.
Didn't Opera do this back in the day? Like, exactly the same thing? It was awful.

https://www.reddit.com/r/operabrowser/comments/ls6on/can_som...
> I'm terrified I'll gut the repo by getting a flag wrong.

There are pretty few operations in git which can't be undone by a quick glance at git-reflog.
The UI is not the only weird part of it, probably the least weird one.

What I miss are first-class attachments (i.e. code archives and CD/floppy images) support, raw file naming (without automatic romanization of non-ASCII alphabets), flat storage (without creating a separate folder for every book). Using a Calibre-managed library from outside of Calibre (i.e. on a PocketBook reader) feels quite unnatural.

Another thing I always wanted is a simple viewer app without library management features. Like Adobe Acrobat Reader but for ePub and other book formats. The Linux app closest to this concept also comes with Calibre (Sumatra does the job on Windows). All the other book viewers I've seen insist on maintaining your library.
> I think most parents wisely caution their daughters about alcohol, intoxication, and making good decisions about their own personal safety

> What parent doesn’t have that conversation with their teenage daughter?

Sorry, α-reduced your comment. Force of habit. Also, the pattern matching checker complained your examples only apply to a subset of possible genders.
aka "you could be making so much more money if you didn't spend a bunch of your time sleeping, eating and showering".
With BoxedWine[1] this might be a the future of Windows in the Cloud! /s
1. https://github.com/danoon2/Boxedwine
Yes. By Chomsky:

"Anarcho-capitalism, in my opinion, is a doctrinal system which, if ever implemented, would lead to forms of tyranny and oppression that have few counterparts in human history. There isn't the slightest possibility that its (in my view, horrendous) ideas would be implemented, because they would quickly destroy any society that made this colossal error."

Except we're seeing its horrendous ideas flourishing.
The average person doesn't have the means to launch an extensive and hard to win lawsuit like that.
Perhaps the bug we chose to demo there is not representative of most bugs, but the underlying bug is in C code and Brendan Gregg, the person who debugged it "for real", debugged it using gdb. The erroneous state in this case is in ncurses, packaged as a system library, so using print debugging here would require building ncurses from source and wedging that into LLVM/Python somehow. So no, I don't believe your claim.
I'm one. I'm also male. It was brutal. No, I did not go to the police. I was far too afraid.
Assuming this comment is from a "nerd", this illustrates exactly the point I am making. Trying to "convince or train lay people" to admire companies that allgegedly seek to control "basic access to computing". Apple computers are pre-built, they are not DIY PCs.
as a happy Superhuman user paying $30/month for slightly faster Gmail: yes. its absolutely worth it for tools you use daily to be as fast as humanly achievable.
> Just as one example, automatically stashing and unstashing when switching branches is so obviously convenient, in hindsight I'm puzzled as to why git doesn't just do this automatically.

Yeah, I too have wished for this. Do note that that can fail, if there are conflicts, so you'd have to decide whether to fail the command (like today) or to drop the user into conflict resolution.
I've dived the Sinai's Blue Hole, so it's wild to see this on HN.

It was an intense experience. Our dive instructors warned us of how deadly the site was, and the various hazards. But the dive itself was unique compared to other deep dives I've done.

I would describe it like parachuting, slow motion, into the bluest blue. By the second, the sunlight got dimmer and the blue got bluer. It was disorienting if you looked in any direction besides the crater wall. At about 25m down, I looked up and realized we were too deep to reach the surface quickly.

That triggered my panic reaction. I started hyperventilating into my regulator, and had the urge to spit it out. But knowing that would be literal suicide, I managed to override it.

I felt like given a few minutes, there was a strong chance of getting my panic under control, but I thought, "why take the chance?" Also, the dive plan was to continue to go deeper, and if part of my panic was due to nitrogen narcosis, it was only going to get worse. It wasn't worth it for a recreational dive.

So I gestured the "up" signal to one of the instructors, and she immediately worked with me to do a controlled ascent. I spent the rest of the time doing a shallow dive along the crater wall, which was much more relaxing.
Sending out an HN bat signal here:

I can't find the article/post that this comment reminded me of but it was a semi-recent discussion/breakdown of class in the USA.

All I remember is that it called out Jeff Bezos as upper middle class.
The battle over a ballpark at Howard Terminal
So now you see why most women who are sexually assaulted don't report it.

https://www.rainn.org/statistics/criminal-justice-system
I just wish it wasn’t so ugly and felt like 1990s software.
It is a huge improvement over the low bar set by Overdrive. I use Libby everyday with my children and I think my three complaints are:

1. Filtering and categorization can be confusing: I have a difficult time finding books that are age appropriate for my daughter and available. I end up memorizing favorite authors as that is easier than the filtering.

2. The four buttons at the bottom are… interesting? The “library card” button the second from the left does… what exactly? I have never really understood the purpose of that button or why it is shaped like a card.

3. Figuring out how to exit a children’s book that is read “within” the libby app is inconsistent. I can never figure out how to reliably call up the UX to exit or change books.
The redress for a false accusation that results in serious harm to your career is a slander lawsuit. Sounds like all the ducks are in a row, evidence wise, so just figure out how much damage she caused, and sue her for it.

I know it's not quite the same, and an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure- but there's this narrative that a person who is falsely accused is utterly powerless before the power of any angry woman willing to yell "perv", and that's just false.
That's simply unrealistic and unhelpful.

That the author met this person in a professional setting is beside the point. It would be just as serious if it happened at a hobby event.
So they swooshed it under the rug, and you don't want to air max facts about the case in public?
> I've had YC startup teams describe fairly horrific ways of monetizing user data with a gleeful smile on their face

Examples please.
Paying is an issue
"Why is it every application touted for blockchains seem to address issues that either solely or largely apply only in the US?"

As per the reference link this is backed by the United Nations and is attempting to aid Afghanistan.