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I'm not seeing any references in this thread about the Trump regime's undermining of the USPS.

Last year during the election, they removed and disassembled sorting machines from the USPS. They just came in and took them out. They disrupted the mail service.

Don't complain about the USPS for things that were done to them in an attempt to undermine your democracy, instead contact your representatives to reinstate the USPS to their full capacity and then some.
Most people will rightfully think that the interest paid from lending will not be high enough to reduce the risk of default. The interest rates would have to be very high.
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Honest question... why not kill it off instead and push legacy users into the digital world?

The USPS claims to have 230,000 vehicles. How much of that environmental footprint could be eradicated?

https://facts.usps.com/postal-service-has-more-than-200000-v...
You don't have to remake the whole of society. Just stop making more of the bits that don't work.
> This effectively means that publishers will no longer be forced to use AMP and can instead provide fast, rich experiences on their own domains.

Yeah I won't hold my breath.
I was motivated enough to google the topic as I have WI relatives.

It seems mail the south is sent to Milwaukee, then split the north down the middle and send to Minneapolis or Green Bay

In the process of googling this up, I found some interesting information thats not being discussed... the post office presentations about this topic indicate over the last two decades first class mail volume has decreased about 70%, whereas junkmail has remained about the same. So much as organizations experience growing pains, it seems incredibly likely they will experience shrinking pains.

Certainly, as an older gen-x I remember spending like $5 per month on postage to send hand written personal checks to pay computer generated and mailed bills. Must have been paying ten monthly bills. Now, of course, that's all online and I write single digit of checks per year and use so little postage I now buy individually at time of use.
The Chrome UX Report itself uses PSI, and all of its metrics are based on page performance, so I wouldn't say it's irrelevant.
The letter sorting machines are faster and cheaper than manually sorting the same letters... and they were already paid for.

You are correct that there is a reason that they are being ripped out, but it's not because letter volume is down.
Or that Docker now requires forced updates.... unless you pay. Then you can stay at a known version.
AWS profits appear in Amazon's annual report, AWS is an Amazon business unit. The CEO of AWS reports to the CEO of Amazon.
I know there are tons of politics and whatnot involved, but this is what I want from the post office.

Monthly mail, instead of daily. I only open my mail quarterly anyway.

Charge more for bulk mail not less, Junk mail should be punished, not encouraged.

Allow me to create a list of blocked senders.

Thats it, please and thank you.
I think

grep ^ *

would fix that and is just as short.
Can't someone publish the w3w lookup tables on a blockchain and then anyone could use some generic blockchain > REST API converter to access the lookups for free? Would completely destroy w3w's ~business~ extortion model.
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With AOL and Yahoo and all the pieces, there was definitely a value play here.

Verizon may just not have been the right company to execute that.
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My side business in Wisconsin uses USPS too. For many years I found that regular first class mail was just as fast if not faster than priority mail, with the added benefit of charging by the ounce for packages under a pound.

Meanwhile, I'm also working my day job from home, so I get a lot of stuff delivered, and from what I can tell all of the delivery services have delays right now. This includes DigiKey and Mouser, two of the most reliable suppliers on the planet.

I'm not sure Scooter is responsible for this one.
I would be weary of DigitalOcean.

DigitalOcean unlike other providers does not allow you to easily download your disk images or backups of your own servers.

It has been a feature requested many times and support simply lets you (eventually) know that it’s not going to happen.

That means you cannot have backups stored in more than one location, and more regularly, it’s a veiled form of lock in to make it unable for you to move.

Other vendors simply let you download your disk image, snapshot or backup at anytime.

DO has a good interface, but so do others. Proxmox or ESXi can be run pretty easily on a piece of equipment too.

OVH and Hetzner are strong options, and I have heard good experiences with Linode, who’s pricing is on part with DO.
Yahoo is still in wide use by people and AOL owns a number of properties and has a decent ad business. It may be that these companies were trying to extract value from them. This happens a decent amount these days. It's less about salvaging a brand.
I certainly agree with all that. It should be banned.
Yes, the pre-NLL version makes it clear to see why swapping the assignment lines wouldn't work.

EDIT: i think some tooling showing lifetimes for borrows would be very helpful. Can mir do this? I haven't tried it.
Yup, actually the Belgian government plans to close all nuclear plants real soon now, and replace them all with imported gas. This is beyond stupid on so many levels.
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Avocados do not ripen on the tree. They need to be pulled off in order to ripen properly. You need to pick them at the right time so they have the right amount of oil content.
If that point is sufficiently far into the future then by the time you decide to spend, your money may paradoxically become worthless, because all businesses shutdown because of a lack of spending.
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Whoa, crazy, I never saw that option before. Same interface for container and VM is really nice.
Viewers can control the LED Matrix in this guys room
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Where people weren’t constantly battling the decisions, lockdowns were quite effective. The problem is that without a very strict but short lockdown you will get into this semi-lockdown that is hardly effective and thus just prolongs everything. But the answer never is “just do whatever you want”.
I had a dry cough for about 3 months that only seemed to crop up in the evenings. I didn't think much about it as I have quite a few allergies and chalked it up to that. I decided to visit the doctor when I started getting some chest tightness when I was going to sleep and I was also getting what I can only describe as hot flashes just as I was falling asleep. It felt like just as I was about to fall asleep I'd get an adrenaline shot and I'd spring back up wide awake.

My PCP did a clean EKG which showed nothing, then it showed up on X-Rays. I immediately got PET scans which showed 2 masses. I then had a bronchoscopy to ensure it was malignant where they noticed additional lymph nodes. I then had a mediastinoscopy showing spread in 3 clusters of chest lymph nodes. I went through 6 weeks of chemo and radiation that resulted in a 25% reduction in the primary tumor and no change in the metastases in a hilar lymph node. I'm now scheduled for a bi-lobectomty to remove my superior and middle lobe on the right side, as well as however many lymph nodes they can get a hold of (check out "da vinci thoracic surgery" to see the robot beast the surgeon will be using).

I have almost no symptoms outside of a slight cough and still run 1-2 miles per day.

I've generally been a grin-and-bear-it guy when it comes to my health. Please suck up your pride and stay on top of your health.
> I don't see how the respective populations matter here.

They don’t matter per se. It is just a stat I had in my head that I could provide without googling anything to show how different both countries are. There are so many factors to consider with regards to driving infrastructure and habits, even density is not enough.
That is definitely not the monetary inflation history of USD.

This is: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/BOGMBASE/
And I suspect these unfortunate individuals are treated with suspicion / lack of respect from the medical and insurance industries.
> Support, including paid enterprise support, was hilariously bad. It would take 3 days of escalations to the account manager to get even get someone to look at a ticket, weeks to resolve anything.

Having just finished a job that used an IBM tool ( IBM Sterling File Gateway ) , I want to throw in that I'll _never_ pay for an IBM product again, their support was awful , I think they actually helped the situation once out of the 30 times we called them.
I was mostly referring to the shared file access approach.
Marc Benioff's book Trailblazer goes into that story a bit more. The rest of the book is pretty good too.

This thread seems dedicated to picking Salesforce apart from the technical side but you should really look at it from the business value side and as an ecosytem.

Salesforce has certainly defined digital transformation for a lot of companies.

Anyone that wants to beat Salesforce is going to have to be 10x better or come in from a new or niche angle.

No code, slack/chat interfaces and AI assistants seem to be viable paths.
> You also get bugs introduced into a program by changes to shared libraries. I've even seen a vulnerability introduced when glibc was upgraded (glibc changed the direction of memory, and the program was using memcpy on overlapping memory).

Did glibc change the behavior of memcpy (the ABI symbol) or memcpy (the C API symbol) which currently maps to the memcpy@GLIBC_2.14 ABI symbol?
Or plain `>&2` since the `1` is implied for '>'
It's still available, but only to the account owner. You have to log in first.
Letter volume is down and the machines need to be replaced with machines that can handle parcels. How are they supposed to replace them!?
> My favourite one-liner is "open .", to open the current directory in Finder.

For linux one can use `xdg-open .` to use the associated application. Works with pdf, image files, videos, etc.

I have the alias x=xdg-open in my .bashrc, so that I use `x somefile` to open files.
Even if everyone went fully digital, and letters became a thing of the past, you would still need a functional postal service.

Packages obviously will still be sent for one, but also from a national security perspective it makes no sense to have private businesses running the entire delivery logistics network.

Lastly, if you see the government as enabling an economy for free markets, a state run postal service is a great backbone for that.
Here are some more benchmarks against USPS and other big brand carriers: https://benchmarks.wonderment.com/

This also includes UPS, Fedex, and DHL against a much larger sample size.
There is a story (I am certain it's apocryphal, but who knows?) of someone trying to get out of a ticket for running a red light by claiming that the light of the semaphore had been blueshifted because of their speed, so they had seen it as something similar to green. The story then goes that the judge decided to calculate how fast they would have been going for red light to appear greenish because of blue shift, and then issued them the mother of all speeding tickets for going some fraction of the speed of light in a 30mph area.

Edit: according to [0], you would have to be driving at 30855km/h (2237mph) to see a red semaphore as green, which comes up to ~3 millionths of c.

[0] http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~ryden/ast143/ps3_soln.p...
Yep. Writing "<file " is just as good as "cat file |". Still I'm more used to writing cat. The only (marginal) advantage of cat over explicit redirection at the beginning is maybe that you can split the lines more cleanly with cat:

cat file |\
program1 |\
program2 |\
...

If you use a redirection, since the command does not start with a pipe the symmetry is broken.

Redirections at the start of the line are fun. I have an alias

alias null='>/dev/null 2>/dev/null'

this allows to run GUI programs without cluttering the terminal with useless GTK/QT warnings:

null evince file.pdf
yeah I have never found anything on Meetup that interested me. I once went to one for "Computers and programming". Noped out of there real fast. I was the only professional and I'm not interested in helping rookies learn javascript.
Why hate the game when the best player one? Just because someone may not like the winner for whatever reason is no reason to hate the game. I'm not a fan of Elon Musk either, but I'm not going to deny that SpaceX has done very impressive things.
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> I think Karpathy at Tesla has basically unlimited funding,

Tesla's R&D spending in their earnings report was ~1.5 billion. That's a small number for unlimited. To contrast, their competitor at GM, with a significantly smaller market cap, is spending 6.2 billion.

> They've already deployed said hardware in the wild, and they're probably about as close to Waymo to true full self driving

Can you cite a source for this? Tesla is "probably about as close to Waymo to true full self driving" is an absurd claim. Waymo publicly states they're at level 4 autonomy (https://twitter.com/Waymo/status/1347286935535017986). Tesla states they're at level 2 autonomy (https://www.autoblog.com/2021/03/09/tesla-full-self-driving-...).
Case in point, countless relatives calling "I have a virus on my computer!" because they have a Windows-XP popup on a website "you have a virus" (they are on Windows 10, or Mac OS).
If that were the meme, I wouldn't be trying to dispel it.
My uncle died of lung cancer in Korea; neither him nor anyone in his family smoked. If culprits were to blame, it's probably his coworkers - Korean men are notorious smokers even today and it was worse when he was of prime working age. (quick Google stats indicate 40% of men smoking vs. 16% in the US as of 2016, and it's obvious many, many men smoke if you just live their and peoplewatch.)

His death is one reason I really hate smoking. In Manhattan it's especially annoying when you have to go past an honor guard of smokers wreathed in a carcinogenic miasma cloud of smoke when you enter or leave office buildings, or if you're walking in a tightly packed crowd and someone ahead of you decides to light one up and cropdust everyone behind with a blessing of cancerous smoke.
It’s easy to start a meetup. I did once and other people who were searching for something similar popped right up and formed some great friendships. It’s ok to be a light host.
I still use Yahoo Finance. Not extensively, but I haven't found a site I like better for getting random stock quotes & sifting through lightweight financial information.
> “They have to do it because they’ve tried everything they can do to fix MSN. Yahoo is the most visited site in the world, so it goes without saying that, given the current valuation, this is the perfect time for them to buy it,” said Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster.

13 years changes a lot.
> What societal services are being crippled by ransomware that's so called enabled by Bitcoin?

https://threatpost.com/ransomware-hits-hospitals-hardest/162...

> Please understand there's a difference between what the technology provides and what it's being used for.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha...
I feel like I read this same article about Starlink's program early on, swapping out a big chunk of core players. Seemed to work out for them.
Yeah, they went as far as designing a custom chip for encoding.
On one level never, so long as http is the dominant protocol.

For some things REST is appropriate, for other things it is not.

I am impressed with websockets; it's easy to make a web page that controls your smart lights, stereo volumes and such where the updating is symmetrical: not only does clicking on the HTML button toggle the light, the web page changes when the light is toggled from a different switch.

With the right backend a business application could do the following: you are looking at a customer record that shows the order hasn't shipped yet, the page updates the instant the order is shipped instead of requiring a reload.

The other thing I would look at is web workers, service workers, and indexed storage. One scenario is:

you want to read the manuals for your favorite programming language on your computer disconnected from the net; a web app creates a Service Worker that downloads all the web pages as a brotli tar file (not ZIP for many reasons) and stores them in IndexedStorage on your browser: the Service Worker then acts like an http server integrated that serves the pages of the manual.

If you want to avoid the baggage of http you can also create a Web Worker and communicate with it with JSON messages, a little like having a local "websocket server".

Those tech have not been used much because the coding is tricky and the most popular framework so far is

https://developers.google.com/web/tools/workbox/

which really just complicates the cache behavior of the browser -- the probability that workbox will really speed up your app is about 0.01%, compared to something like the "solid compressed tar" approach which will have much better performance you can feel. (Like try the quarter mile in a Dodge Viper instead of a Honda Fit)

One could even picture a news site, for instance, that uses push updates, websockets, or polling, to update a user's local copy of the site.
I doubt those particular scientists were big on Yiddish :/
Useful union voting bloc seems to be the major reason. When they come out with PR pieces the biggest “reason” is veterans and the elderly not being able to get drugs delivered via mail, which seems like a rather tiny, solvable problem that doesn’t require flushing endless billions, but hey, here we are.
So full of questions on this form factor, I’m not sure where to begin.

How do the ergonomics of a foldable phone work out? I assume it’s generally optimized for bigger screen capability in a phablet mode, but would it make sense to have it fold to become more portable like a flip phone?

Do the phones become more fragile from drops or subject to scratching due to having screen on both front and back? (Edit: Looking at the Samsung Fold, the main screen is actually inside the fold, so maybe not?)
Yes, the evil republicans are dismantling society as we know it so that they can rebuild their anarchist libertarian utopia. There can be no other explanation
more clowns wasting their time on a pointless tech that goes against the interests of civilisation
Under 100g is 0.93 USD (0.85 CHF) for B-Post.
Having AMP controlled and intermediated by Google was always a bad thing. It tainted what ultimately was a good effort, which is taking the enormous scope of web technologies we have now and winnowing them back down again for optimized publishing purposes.

And this article does what is often done in the AMP discussion and (disingenuously) demonstrates that you can make a non-AMP page that's smaller/faster than an AMP page. No one ever contested that. No one ever doubted it. But AMP isn't the alternative to your minimalist page, it's the alternative to the grotesquely overloaded media site where over time every single web technology gets smashed into a monstrous, massive pig of a page. Comparing the AMP pages of a news source and what they serve in their "full" web experience and it's absolute night and day.

I do wish we had a "web lite" mode that we could turn on, if only for certain domains.
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If you look back a decade, things haven’t changed that much.

Facebook was public, growing, had figured out mobile and had already acquired Instagram. It was by far the top social media company.

Amazon had taken over online retail. It was already a behemoth. AWS was in its infancy, but it was growing.

Apple was already the most valuable company in the US.

Microsoft had been one of the top 10 most valuable companies for a decade.

Google was already a behemoth when it came to search. YouTube was massive and Android had just started gaining traction.

Out of the top five companies, Google is the only one that hasn’t been able to pivot or diversify. The rest of the companies have been able to learn from the mistakes of the previous generation.

In the case of Apple and Microsoft. They have both been around for 35+ years. Microsoft wrote the first version of the embedded AppleSoft Basic interpreter for Apple //e’s in 1980.
No, it absolutely isn't valid to say the earth is stationary while the sun rotates around it, you end up with crazy nonsense.

Technically, the earth doesn't rotate around the sun either -- they both rotate around the center of mass of the solar system, which happens to be very close the the center of the sun, so it looks like everything rotates around the sun.
> curl https://get.volta.sh | bash

Anyone doing this after seeing the Codecov hack is asking for pain and suffering. Make sure to read every line of that script before running it.
I do not. You seem to have a severe case of trying to rationalise incredible destructive waste with pointless semantic arguments. I would recommend you stop that, and open your eyes to reality, where Bitcoin is causing massive, massive harm to society and you are helping.
we are having way to ensure beter compliance. may be we need for to make nuclear executive responsible with jail time if requirements broken. certainly nuclear safety has more importance than sox compliance.
I’m a slow metabolizer of coffee so it seems I’m best off without
I could be wrong, but I don't think that was enough to push it back above the 44.6B valuation.
Coal is down from 45% in 2013 to 23% in 2020. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Germany

During the same time, nuclear is down from 17% to 13%. https://energy-charts.info/charts/energy_pie/chart.htm?l=en&...

Still too little too late in my opinion, but one has a hard time arguing that nuclear plays a role here at all.
I love when my parents send me new socks digitally for Christmas. Oh, and the girl scout cookies I buy, a byte of thin mints has never tasted so good.

You cannot dismantle the only mail service that is OBLIGATED to deliver mail to every address. FEDEX and UPS don't deliver out to my wife's grandmother. FEDEX and UPS don't deliver to my Uncle's factory, in the middle of a medium sized town in north east Texas. But the Post Office does.

When you get rid of a government service that has literally served the entire country, and replace it with a profit driven company, you will disrupt the entire country.

As much as I dislike how crappy the delivery of the USPS has become (I still rely on them for a couple clients who don't believe in digital payments even if I discount their invoice, and my wife's and my prescriptions come through the mail), they have been much more consistent and on time than FEDEX or UPS. I'm actually still waiting on a package via FEDEX that has been out for delivery (in California not NY where I live) for about 3 weeks now.
They had good customer base initially. AOL has done so many acquisitions for like Adaptv(video advertising platform), Millenial Media(mobile advertising) etc which were pretty successful. Later ofcourse Yahoo. Failure started coz they platform integration plan didn't work as expected. Lot of talent from the acquisitions left. They still use lot of old tech setup for advertising, web platforms. In summary, they failed in making a single platform from acquisitions they had.
Halving the number of envelopes does not imply increasing their transit time. If anything, it could actually speed them up... As for financial loss, it's a state-provided service. They are not created to make profits, but to provide a level of basic service. Just like primary schools, or local roads.