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Context matters.

I think kotlin definitely works for android developers but other cases need more thinking. If you're building webapps in smallish teams then maybe those work too.

Some reasons against Kotlin are-

* If you are working in a mid to large team then having all developers learn a new language is a massive cost. Learning Java is also still a requirement if you're developing in Kotlin since many open source libraries are in Java. So teams need to be aware of 2 similar but different tech stacks.

* If you are developing platform libraries then you would look at higher adoption by using Java 11 LTS as the baseline. You could add an optional kotlin library for a better experience.

* Others have pointed out how Kotlin will be an evolutionary dead end as Java catches up on features.
The Passenger: Lost German novel makes UK bestseller list 83 years on
Firstly, I don't think skepticism is the inverse of docility, or even necessarily aligned with being questioning. Skepticism is traditionally characterized by an attack on the methods of knowledge-production, and as such, can engender docility and make questioning incoherent.

Vaccine skepticism isn't based on a question or challenge towards experts - questions or challenges exist within a specific framework, a specific body of knowledge. Rather, it is based on a challenge to the value and nature of expertise itself. As such, it's absolutely compatible with docility, totalitarianism, and antipathy towards questioning. In fact, since experts are experts by virtue of their existence within a specific body of knowledge, they are always by their very nature open to questions and challenges. Attacking the idea of expertise can as such be a way of attacking these areas of open questioning and challenge.

A good example of this is how authoritarian governments are typically hostile to academic institutions.
Given the topic, some of you may be interested in the China Owns US [1] website.

[1] https://www.chinaownsus.com/
Same location taken 100 years apart
Oh, you're the one that put that message there.

I just quietly held through the bottom and the token price did come back, not to ATH(which I should have let go of back then, but I set my price target roughly 2.5x too high and did not plan a DCA exit) but it was plenty enough - I will be finishing up my exit today as it happens.

The experience has left me more wary of proof-of-stake coins, but I still have the Symbol airdrop. If that pumps I will probably let go of it too.

The only difference between you and me is probably that it's your first time. I already got caught in a regular old pump and dump in penny stocks years ago, which I got hooked on through a friend. It really hurt, and I wanted revenge. But I ended up making back these losses many times over in the crypto markets, so I can shrug it off now.
Authroian regime and homogenous population(Han). It's same model as Singapore, just at bigger level.
Here's a medium post describing how they've been recruiting Western YouTubers: https://medium.com/swlh/how-china-is-influencing-youtubers-i...
Of Chickens and Pigs – The Dilemma of Creator Self-Promotion
On NPRs site I can tell which track is the wav file by observing the load time of each track.
The logo you want is the CD Digital Audio logo which requires adherence to the red book standard. Music discs with Sony root kit DRM did not have this logo.
Every event is related to some degree, but that's a long timeframe (~11 years) to be a direct tail
Imagine the irony if a tanker ship had sails.
Twitter has the ability to create sudden panics - we saw that a year ago with the toilet paper issue being referenced. I agree that a lot of what happens on Twitter never escapes the bubble of Twitter - but that toilet paper panic was swept up by mainstream news and echoed across the nation.

Being able to incite a panic can be extremely tactically valuable if you can, for instance, leverage that panic to move a whole bunch of product at a mark up or weaken a critical system at a critical time.
No, there is no such thing as "spelled as it was spoken" when everyone has inconsistent agreements on how to spell sounds and when a new language comes in with its own Latin spelling conventions that differ from the previous language.
To me that's a great feature from Spotify, as I like exploring lota a lot of different genres and sounds. But I can see that is a personal taste and others would prefer a different experince.
What are the plans for Public Spaces discovery?

I've created a space, added a few rooms and unless I invite the users they can't know it exists. There should be something better than spamming rooms.
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Do the right thing, and you do not need propaganda.
Iirc, APE starts with a (Windows) PE header, which is also a valid shebang-less shell script; when invoked on Unix, the shell script replaces the beginning of the file with an ELF/Mach-O header and invokes itself.
Sounds fun to me. At my old work, we used to have "song of the week" contest every Friday, where everyone would post the most ridiculous, over the top, goofy videos of actual songs (think Top of the Pops pisstakes, overly earnest power ballads, hair metal, bad 90s fashions, etc) and everyone would vote for their favorite. There were some pretty amazing selections.

I do agree that their landing page is pretty lacking.
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Best of luck to you! Having said that I feel this is a tough space. Most developers spend a lot of time in different ticket systems at work and for the most part they suck. So when we want to scratch our entrepreneurial itch it’s easy to look at software we use often. That makes the space very saturated and it’s difficult to differentiate your product. Also, all ticket systems I’ve used are bad, but the companies I worked for still paid a lot of money for them, so maybe UX isn’t a factor when buying these systems?

Once again, best of luck!
I must be remembering the escalator ones, that makes more sense.
I have been quite suspect of some chinese content that turned up on reddit at interestingly specific times...

During or around the time of the protests in HK a lot of chinese content started popping up in r/videos and similar in a way that was out of context for the usual content there. Then it disappeared again. I assumed some kind of manipulation was going on.
Two possibilities: They knew restoring from backups is slow, so they wanted a shortcut. They knew there was data (ie from the day of the attack) not in the backups. Take your pick - or not, I have no idea if the claim is even true.
>That completely misses the point. The problem is that companies won't do the research to find cures -- because cures don't make money.

This is only true if a company is confident that all other companies are also not working on a cure. That may be feasible when dealing with a local service or commodity (as you only have to come to a wink wink agreement with other companies in the local area) or when only a few companies control a large amount of a limited resource (like OPEC). That does not work well when dealing with an idea or technology.

Any company anywhere in the world could decide to research a cure. A Nation State-run research group could do it and just give the patent away. It is virtually impossible to get all of them to not research it, and if any of them anywhere find a cure, your treatment profits fall off a cliff. So it makes fiscal sense to sell the treatment, use your market position to get the best data on the condition, and research a cure so you can be first to market and control the distribution of the cure and ensure that the profits go back to you.
You don’t need to challenge every instance of vague similarities. The law actually states that but for some reason that clause gets overlooked by nearly every casual reader of HN in favour of the popular misconception that companies have to venture into the ridiculous or else they somehow instantly lose their trademark.
>Its not a signal of the ability to procure resources, it's that housing is the single most major cost and homelessness is the most major financial risk.

In my opinion, that one can afford the single most major cost and avoid the most major financial risk is a possible signal of the ability to procure (or defend) resources.

>What's attractive about it isn't that you can consume endless amounts of plastic and steel by proxy, it is that you eliminate risk.

I agree. But I choose to define the word "consume" in this context to refer to being able to walk away with a contested resource. The more contested the resource, and the more you obtain of it, the more you signal your ability to procure and defend it.

That is why I distinguished access to housing in places with high demand versus access to housing in places with low demand in my previous post.
Show HN: Chrome extension to see if a website produces any podcasts
Never works. :)

Read about "The Great Chinese Famine"
Revolutionizing Audio with Descript and Temporal
Just in time is good for the economy, however like everything else there are downsides that need to be managed.
Sometimes, the free market does work.
Also NVDA, and by proxy Sony and Microsoft as they use AMD cpus/apus.
? In what way Florida and Texas barely did anything and have better or comparable numbers to the rest of the country.
It in the past was from another user of site, he was desiring a new name and gave to me the old. In this way I am able to use down vote with no wait.
This might be naive of me, but isn't this in a way fixed by systemd service handling? Assuming the process in question is, in fact, handled as a service of course.
> No you can't, not without breaking the rules of the system, because as you say, that would lead to an actually inconsistent system.

If you want to redefine eventually consistent to prohibit that behavior then you've just reclassified most real life AP systems as eventually inconsistent.

Eventually consistent systems allow stale reads of older data plus deleted data for an undefined period of time. If you turn around and issue a write based on that you get inconsistency. Eventually consistent systems do not prohibit this.

> Nonsense. CPUs only work on very limited data structures (sequences of bits), but that's not a concern in practice because we can build up more complicated datastructures on top of them. The same is true for CRDTs.

You're talking like there are no downsides to CRDTs. There are huge downsides to them, which is why they're rarely used in practice. Your analysis is only valid in theory.
The night sky cries tears of light, until the vehicles are promoted to an operational orbit.

Nifty tracker shows the handful of low-orbit (not operational) trains. https://starlink.sx/
Is there actual evidence that a homogenous population results in better economic output? That sounds like literal fascist propaganda to me.
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> However, by definition, the sailing ship is not a carbon neutral technology. For most of history, sailing ships were built from wood, but back then whole forests were felled for ships, and those trees often did not grow back.

I do not understand this sentence. If I cut down a tree and do not burn it, isn't it a carbon neutral process? It did not release any carbon into atmosphere. By this logic is there any material to use to build something which is neutral?
"Here's what happens next"
Data point: an Intel quad-port GbE NIC did not work for PCI/IOMMU passthrough to a VM in my P330 Tiny, while a Broadcom quad-port GbE NIC did. Root cause unknown. Broadcom may also offer a bit of isolation from vPro.
Michigan too. all with disastrous results.
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"These figures translate in more than 0.8 million additional deaths over the next 15 years."

Given the birth rate and the current population, that's roughly 0.2% of the population.
Tourism has always been a way of propaganda.

Look into what are sold as the most attractive places to visit in a country. See that those places always sell a narrative as to why they're important for the country and unique in the world.

The US tourism industry basically sells NYC, Disney, Las Vegas and LA. NYC's best-known landmark? The Statue of Liberty, selling a narrative of a country of industrious immigrants. Disney? It's basically 50% of children's cultural consumption all around the world. Las Vegas, LA? Consumption and media.

For the record, the CIA used to sponsor a lot of artists and musicians around the world in the 70s as a way of promoting art the idea of the US a place of cultural and technological refinement, much in the same way that the soviets pretty much gave away math and engineering university books of the highest caliber.

What does the Chinese cultural industry sell? The Wall of China, properties associated with imperial dynasties, and more recently industry fairs.
Is Beef the new coal? Climate-friendly eating is on the rise
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They're terrible for men as well, if you didn't know.
Just put the page together this week. Will be adding more detail to it. The idea is to get away from the kanban board look and to help you track your sprint flow. Capture standup notes, sprint planning notes, manage backlog more effectively.

I just wanted to see if there was interest. Looks like there is. That's awesome.

I'll spend some time this week adding more details to the page.
If you want something more lightweight and easier to selfhost, I recently discovered https://www.goatcounter.com/
So, your Airtable-based solution covers more than 80%? This is impressive, without any irony.
For those interested, I wrote a similar library for Ruby: https://github.com/rickhull/device_input
Very interesting and this bit made me chuckle inside:

> "We may now assume that van Leeuwenhoek's silence was a deliberate choice," the authors wrote. "Van Leeuwenhoek adopted the very lens-making procedure by Hooke soon after he published it, and brought it to a great success but never told anyone about it. This is ironic, as Hooke always wanted to find out the secret of van Leeuwenhoek's lenses but never managed to do so."

It seems that while we made great technological leaps, humans have not changed one bit ;-)
GPU's significantly increase performance between generations. My 1060 is already effectively outdated. The cost of production isn't less than it was originally, and $200 for a 4 year old GPU is far too much. Modern titles are going to require 6-8GB vram at a minimum.
> fear of a virus with a 1% mortality rate

You are aware that a 1% mortality rate is very very very high, right? It's like having a fear of a laser-canon-toting space alien ship hovering above your house. Pretty rational.
> Unsurprisingly, China is being much more secretive.

But why?
At what point does the additional resource of building a lot more ships (which have more crew, eating more food, producing more waste) result in a net negative?

Oceangoing ships have a relatively short useful life...salt water is rough on metal.
If I ever have to program in python, I'm absolutely going to pull out some of my obsolete translation programming and write a preprocessor that translates brackets to the semantically equivalent indentation, yes this will make python sort of an intermediate language LOL
Would be interesting to compare with Julia as well, which should provide comparable performance without the two-language problem.
You're only noticing the obvious Chinese propaganda. They've probably got bot networks that are using AI to generate responses that you'd never distinguish as Chinese.
Hey! Sorry I took so long to reply. The commenter below you is somewhat correct that I would identify as a 'Red' in Kim Stanley Robinson's trilogy.

I am not opposed to scientific exploration at all, (I work with several people who run Ops on MSL and Percy), but putting people on the surface requires much more infrastructure and expense. A sample return mission is already extremely complex and costly, and would be orders of magnitude more so if the mission also had to support human life.

Further, terraforming Mars so that people could go explore it seems completely backwards, since you would be altering the conditions you would be studying.

To your question:

>There must be so many questions you have about the planet that just won't be answered in your lifetime unless we go there and have a look around.

I'm not even sure what those would be. Almost any question we could want answered could be solved with a probe or a rover. Obviously there are questions we can't answer right now, but those are largely because we send rovers that are specialized in some areas, and totally ignorant of others. To answer those questions, it would be simpler, cheaper, and better for Mars to send more robots than to send people in my view.
Take a look at https://thlorenz.com/rid-site/docs/getting-started/architect....

Basically all StatefulWidget's become Rust structs. Flutter is used to paint the widgets, and mediate events, elegantly.

Very interested in this. Now, does this run on Android?
This is pretty old hat now. IRCAM was experimenting with spatialized sound on a stereo medium already back in the 1990s. The software they came up with was used e.g. for the Deutsche Grammophon recording of Pierre Boulez’s piece Répons where sound is moved around the hall.
So an entire school district would be the same user?

Seems reasonable for most cases, but if you're a website that's used a lot by schools or businesses, they might have every computer using the same user agent and IP.
Pope Francis's New Vision for Catechists
I really like this combo:

1) Use fish interactively, with quite a few aliases.

2) Write <= 10 line scripts in sh, perhaps with a bashism if it is very helpful, and only run on my machine.

3) Write > 10 line scripts in Python.
This is true, most of 320kbps is indistinguishable, but high hats are often subject to artifacts, including pre-noise that occurs before the sound is supposed to begin. To some it might sound intentional, like a very subtle reverse high hat or other room effect.
The tree is no longer alive to photosynthesize co2.
One can note certain rhetorical similarities without holding that in every aspect China and India are doing the same thing.
Doesn't macOS allow you to add new root certificates to its certificate store? If not, you could still use a browser that brings its own certificate store (e.g. Firefox). This is significantly different from locked-down or embedded IoT devices you have no control over.
I get you. I think the reason for the horrible tab spaces mix was that our system doesn't display tabs well and me seeing them in sublime/code/np++ where the older devs prefer to edit on the system itself.

The reason I want to use tabs is accessibility for visually impaired. Know some great devs who have to zoom lines until they become mega-sized and with four spaces the next line is a far scroll away for them, whereas with tabs they can set very slim tab widths.
To the big floaty hospital ship the Orange Man sent to NY harbor? That would be a good start. They also converted Javits Center into an emergency hospital that was barely utilized too.

And on top of that, the actively hid deaths of nursing home residents that happened in hospitals to further downplay the impact of COVID to the nursing homes.

If you only watch the main stream media it's no wonder you haven't heard any of this :p
Hundredrabbits are traveling on a sailor ship while working on OSS and many projects, they are also providing many informations about their 1982 boat and about sailing and how they are providing electricity from solar power etc..

https://100r.co/site/sailing.html
Logarithmic scale... 3db = 2x... 10 to 20b is ~8x (2^3) the amount.
Thank you, I've been wanting to build something that works well for myself. After reading Jeff Sutherland's book, my ideas came together to the new layout and the design.

I don't know how far this will go or if it'll be successful, But I gotta give it a go.
What features did you lose in Fantastical?

I wouldn't recommend it anymore either because of the subscription model, but I don't see any functionality missing compared to the previous version.

The only drawback for me is that the UI takes more space.
The thought could be that in "tree form", the material contributes to the net uptake of carbon from the atmosphere, so once it is harvested that negative flux on the balance sheet shifts equilibrium more towards lower or net negative uptake. It's relative.
As I said elsewhere, I do not believe we will ever travel beyond our own solar system so we should preserve what we already have close by, instead of counting on pristine worlds elsewhere.
Why is the Gaza Strip blurry on Google Maps?
Yes, the inconsistencies and just general human nature do make me think some percentage are likely psychogenic. And the microwave explanation doesn't have any specific evidence at the moment. But I think there's more rigor to it than you're suggesting, as well.

I recommend giving that GQ article a full read if you haven't (https://www.gq.com/story/cia-investigation-and-russian-micro...). It goes into a lot of detail and isn't just some fluff piece. Their sources also claim to have identified FSB personnel near victims at the times of the attacks using the same method Bellingcat used to track and locate Navalny's FSB assassins (leaked telco geolocation data purchased on the black market), as well. That alone doesn't necessarily mean anything beyond surveillance, but it's interesting.

I absolutely could be wrong and it could all turn out to be a mass psychogenic episode. But I'd put my money on there being something here, even if I have no clue what it is. (It could be something as "mundane" as poison or some kind of harmful aerosol.)
This made me think of the bike manufacturer that printed images of flat-screen TVs on the outside of their boxes to reduce damage during shipping. It worked better than actually printing warnings like "Fragile" or "Handle with Care."

Just a more creative solution to a problem instead of a more technical one.
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I think the question should be why Kotlin instead of Java because it provides part of the answer.

When I switched to Kotlin, I liked some nice things, but found that in the big picture, it wasn't a huge advantage, and many of the language artifacts I didn't like.

Most importantly: Kotlin doesn't produce more succinct code. The code is not really that much shorter. If you go to Android and look at all the Java/Kotlin examples, they are almost always similar in terms of length and complexity.

Once you find yourself dealing in an entirely Java world, with Java idioms, libraries, builds, jars and reading java source ... the bit of 'impedance mismatch' to your own Kotlin code then becomes a pain.

Kotlin is no way better than having to work in 'two languages at once' with the constant switching. And of course a whole bunch of extra tools as well.

Also, Kotlin is more of a 'bunch of features' than a cleanly designed language.

So in the end if you are using K for a very specific reason (maybe js compile target), or if you can do the whole project cleanly in K (maybe Android) etc. then maybe K is the choice.

But I've switched back to Java and accepted slightly more verbose typing and never missed it. The IDE's do a lot of that work anyhow.

Even more qualitative ... I find Java easier to read and maintain for some reason.

I would almost prefer a few small changes to Java than I would a new language.