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> Well they shouldn't!

If you treat them as public interface, they shouldn't, yes. But if you treat them as internal implementation details, they absolutely could.

One can also think about it as static vs dynamic dispatch: you make an initial request, you get a vtable of "method name -> method pointer" as a part of response. Or you can hardcode the method pointers and make it the remote server's job to properly chose the appropriate internal endpoint.
Yes, you can introduce new code but the kernel should also watch for that (JIT compilation etc.) and check the resulting code. It's quite involved, and the whole process looks more like a sandbox or emulator, but it's possible.
Rental car prices are extremely high. That’s not your imagination. This is a result of car rental companies selling a third of their fleet last year to survive so supply is way down and demand came roaring back.

Tip: hire a UHaul instead. Much cheaper.
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It could have helped the UK, but you have to make use of it.

If "it's much easier to control population flow into an island" then you still have to step up and control it. The UK government did not even show interest in doing that.

The UK government mismanaged their borders, and most other aspects of the pandemic; notable exception being vaccination.
They all optimize PNGs in different ways. For some files one tool is the best, for others another tool. There are even meta-tools like PNGGauntlet that just brute-force the compression with several of these tools (e.g. pngout and optipng) at the same time. That way, you can be relatively sure that your file will be close to being the smallest possible.
I think these kinds of lists encourage a particular approach to debate I've seen on the Internet – respond to someone's argument with a claim "you've just committed the X fallacy!" Often with no explanation of how what they've said is actually an instance of the X fallacy, or justification of why the X fallacy is actually fallacious. (Just because someone calls something a fallacy, or even publishes it on a list of fallacies, doesn't actually make it a fallacy.) As if fallacies were magical spells with which your opponents arguments could be dismissed by mere invocation of their names.
At which point do we change assumptions about safety of USB cables though?

Myself and most people I know always considered USB connection to be safe-ish - that is, you can keep the cable connected on the supply side, and have the receiver end just lie on the desk on the floor, and the worst that could possibly happen is some tiny sparking if the stray end touches something conductive in a very unlucky way. But the more power I see pushed through these cables, the more I start to look at them as live wires hooked to mains power.

Additionally, such wattage sounds like a serious fire hazard if the cable is damaged, which means the cables themselves need to be handled with care. Something that wasn't the case with typical USB charging until recently.
Moved to Matrix, but there are active IRC channels on Libera as well.
Not a conspiracy theory: Covid leaked from a "gain of function" experiment.
Hopefully Windows will eventually include something like Objective See’s Ransomwhere (https://objective-see.com/products/ransomwhere.html) built into the kernel to help stop the ransomware madness? We don’t need updates to Candy Crush Saga. What businesses could use is reasonable defense built into the OS.
This is not true, many are moving to OFTC. But the obvious answer is, Libera is run by the ex-freenode staffers, and runs on the same software. (Unlike OFTC)

So Libera is basically Freenode's spiritual successor with a different name.
Well, it is not. The catolic church has a lot of economic and political power in Germany.
I’m always surprised that more research doesn’t start from the mathematical “end” and work backwards to something that approximates it.

For instance, assuming our universe is computable (or at least can be approximated to a high degree as computable), we know that Solomonoff induction is in some sense a mathematical upper bound on the best we could do at predicting the future.

If we had a magical program that, given a sequence of data S, found the shortest (prefix free, non-halting) program that produced S, we would essentially have real AI (and the “best” AI, in some mathematical sense on general optimality over other algorithms).

We know this is uncomputable, but I’m surprised that this fact seems to totally throw a wrench into at least approximating it. I suppose some efforts in reinforcement learning could sort of be considered attempts at this, but not really in the sense of mathematically developing the best physical implementation to solving the problem.
You'd be forgiven John, because Taiwan is indeed a country.
>Humanity has seen the most positive growth by far under Pax Americana.

It's not really much of a Pax Americana in the middle east or Central/South America. East Asia seems to be next too. "Pax Americana" has definitely been amazing for the west and it's friends but as countries like China and India start to challenge that, true colors will probably start to show as the existing world power(s) fight to keep that title.
You're entirely right.

Another problem with REST is that Fielding himself describes it as a "large grain resource approach".

It's no surprise we love HTTP and URLs when we have to return, say, images, downloads or entire documents in our APIs. Just put the URL in, serve it on your CDN.

But for small grain data items, it's terrible.
Doing this performantly is going to be very prohibitive.
>Look at the number of single family home that are being bought and immediately rented out, in new construction the renters far outnumber the owners.

I'm not sure I see the problem. People are living in the property one way or the other. It's not like there is some infinite pool of renters not living someplace who will absorb any supply.

What would be (and is in some places) a problem is if speculators/people parking cash bought property and let it sit empty.
Well I just did a test with a tool for lung cancer risk. Assuming I smoked half a pack a day for 25 years and stopped at 40, my risk would be 1 in 1000.

Yet noone would say it's "good" to smoke. Even if the risk is 10% of the risk of dying of COVID.
Stop with the whataboutism we don't know if there was a better alternative because we hadn't have the chance to see one. It's that easy it could have been worse or better.
This is pretty good for the people who have such laptops, but I’m just struggling to understand the use case for a laptop. A laptop that consumes that much power can’t possibly have much battery life. At that point, are you getting much portability out of your laptop? Why not just use a desktop?
That's quite right, this is the trickiest issue. However if Brexit had been decided in the usual way then responsibility for addressing and resolving that issue would have been clear. So a party would have put Brexit in their manifesto, campaigned on the issue of delivering Brexit, and perhaps held a referendum to double-guarantee they had a solid mandate to do it. This is the exact process we followed to join 'Europe' in the first place, after all.

Instead the May government utterly collapsed the moment it got anywhere close to actually delivering anything. We're very, very lucky that Boris ended up leading the Conservative Party on a deliver Brexit platform and got a solid majority.

And I say this as a dedicated, thoroughgoing Remainer that will never forgive Boris for his sheer political opportunism over Brexit in the first place. But still. My attitude is, we eventually did have an election on the issue and a government committed to the goal, so let's get on and do it, and get it over with.
Hm. The Vox article that you posted starts with: "The main point of building protected lanes was to make biking in the city safer." The Bloomberg article is talking about the same data, where the flow was found as an added benefit, not the point of the infrastructure work. Your Wikipedia article states that the original designs that were driven by the auto industry were nixed and replaced with safety-driven designs which are still in place today.
> Also its not GPL, so we will see actual binary drivers instead of GPL <> proprietary shims in Linux that need to be recompiled on kernel upgrade.

That could be prevented by hardware manufacturers manning up and releasing their source code in full. If the community cared about that hardware, it'd eventually get upstreamed into the kernel, or at least actively maintained as a patchset.
What's the cooling situation on such a laptop?
I do not think the so. The URL did not make the era, the communities did. If a community is strong enough they'll just move. So everything is still on. It's like if software forks an renames it's still the same thing.
> We pretend all human languages are equal for political reasons, not because it's reality.

Hmm, what is the "non-political" reality in the question of equality of languages?

> the [Python] language syntax is widely known as a success.

There are other successful languages, too.
Because it's one of the rare still used open protocol supported by multiple servers and clients implementations and not backed by single corporate entity.

In short there are other new technologies, but most of them are corporate walled gardens, or small open source projects that only have one server/client implementation, and few servers under control of single entity.

The Matrix ecosystem is the only thing I can think of, that could eventually replace IRC. (There might be others, I am just not familiar with them)

End even if they are somehow similar, discussions on Discord and Slack and other similar platforms are different than on IRC, at least in my experience.

One defining future of IRC at least channels I frequent and Discords/Slacks/Matrix is less memes and animated things grabbing your attention.

Another big thing is, that new stuff like Discord/Slack/Matrix are combination of messenger and discussion forum, while IRC is discussion only.

I almost never bother reading chat history in IRC, but in Slacks/... you are expected to keep up with @mentions and on "important channels" etc.

IRC is more of a tavern room, you come in have discussion with people currently in, some people come some people go during that and then you leave and that is that.

While on newer apps you are expected to keep up. I don't know how to describe it better, but fore me that's the biggest difference.
I am not defending or commenting on US itself, I have never been there honestly.

I am kind of defending US actions in Vietnam, and really not US actions themselves, but the South Vietnam government (US did some bad stuff there)
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This is a symptom of the more general problem that CLI interfaces usually have very little attention paid to usability. It's not that developers can't agree on what command should get rid of a package, it's that they can't agree on whether a CLI is an interface meant for humans or programs. So you get completely unintuitive user interfaces that break all the time and never DWIM, and user guides so filled with explanations of all the persnickety behaviours in such a useless format, that you end up needing a separate tool (tldr) to augment them.

The tooling doesn't help. Many CLI flag parsing frameworks don't make it easy to give flags and commands aliases.

You could also view it another way: many small tools that could/should have GUIs don't, because so many developers no longer know how to do a GUI that doesn't involve running a web server.
First Tasmanian Devils born in the wild of Australia mainland in 3k years
> houses have never decreased in value historically

Never?
If you mean the conflation of two continents those are “The Americas” plural with a definite article.
I'm skeptical about the 700 number. I'm in some of those channels and they have not (yet) been taken over. Others have been. Others might be soon.
I wish something is done about these rentiers. Someone I know is amassing a rental property portfolio, while I am struggling to buy my first home. I am not against people making money and getting rich, but it would be nice if it wasn’t so easy to buy up multiple properties simply because they have the cash.

There should be all kinds of incentives for first time home buyers. But it should be made very expensive/very painful from second home onwards. I don’t care that I can’t afford a luxury car or overpay for Google stock. But it annoys me to no end that the so called “investors” (not just rental companies but small time landlords too) buy properties with the sole aim of jacking up the rent and pushing first time buyers out.

Housing is not a luxury, it is a basic human need. People can own a hundred Ferraris for all I care, but there should be some sane policy on letting individuals and companies own entire neighborhoods and blocks.

Along the same lines, Bill Gates owns 242,000 acres of farm land. What for? I don’t know. It is just plain ugly to let someone own huge lands, water supplies (there are companies buying up large water sources) etc. This amount of monopoly on basic human needs is just bad.

I know this is an unpopular opinion here, as many HN readers see real estate as a way to get rich and likely own rental properties themselves. But across the world, in many urban areas, there is severe housing shortage (artificial in most cases, and houses sit empty because “investors”, see Canadian cities for example).

On top of all this, most cities and towns have extremely unfriendly policies towards tiny houses. That is whole another level of unfairness.
this hijacking was presumably done by the liberachat "defectors" rather than Andrew Lee ?
Nope, I live in Amsterdam
This is a bit different. Skirting app store policy/rules
You still can, it's just that you have to switch apps too. Which undoubtedly creates more upheaval, and I am guessing that a lot more people would get left behind in the process. But still, it's not like communities that don't use IRC are helpless.
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> build rockets, fly to other planets, split the atom,

Those have come in the past 100-ish years despite the species not getting appreciably smarter in that small span of time. That is strong evidence that these leaps are due to process and culture, not just intelligence.
I mean, I share that worry, but isn’t the “-PD” part of “USB-PD” a negotiation step?

I have very little worry that my carpet can accidentally negotiate 60w and up.

I _am_ worried about cheap USB-PD devices that forgoe this negotiation as it is complex and expensive to implement.
Perhaps (depends also on CPU support), but on the other hand: in today's world with untrusted apps, the kernel will have to do some sandboxing anyway.
You mean there weren't photo ops on the american side? Come on it's war there is propaganda everywhere take it all with a grain of doubt.
It's still a mobile form factor.

That's basically why. It's a computer you can take with you, without worry about packaging or needing to bring cables.
IRC is an unusual service in that legitimate use is very low-traffic and easy to handle (Freenode has under 100K users, and human users type at most one message per second or so), but it's also attractive for botnets and spam.

Running the registration services and anti-spam measures to keep your small network going doesn't, to borrow a phrase, add business value. There's nothing Gentoo gets out of running their own server (besides avoiding once-in-a-lifetime events like this) that they wouldn't get out of using a service where someone is already dealing with all of that.
This doesn't have anything to do with Fuchsia though.
> Regarding the second bullet point, you would have to explain to me what that has to do with GDPR.

Without the gdpr the cheapest alternative is to dev null the email, with the gdpr the cheapest alternative is to re-enable the api.

> I'm not making a point beyond this, so the responses so far have been a bit confusing.

Welcome to the internet :P

I do think your point is a bit weak here to be honest, and that people are reacting to this. It relies on interpreting the original demand as strictly "re-enable the api" and not "comply with the GDPR, and btw we both know the easiest way for you to do that is to re-enable the api".

In the example being used it was really the latter, consider that all the followup emails included the phrase "or allow for some other method to allow me to exercise my rights under the GDPR". It's also not like the overall goal of exporting data to another provider would have not been achieved if they implemented some new method instead, you can be sure that songshift would still do the work to make it easy to switch from spotify to them.
This makes sense, even though I'd be on the receiving end of that, being the guy in the car. I'm assuming the actual text of the law is a little more nuanced, being written more in terms of responsibility to act to avoid the accident.

Despite appearances cars are far more agile than anything else on the road, and even if a biker makes the initial mistake, a driver has the biggest toolbox to mitigate or completely avoid the accident. This is something to be aware of when sharing the road with motorcycles as well.
> Why not just use a desktop?

Gaming laptops that contain high-end GPUs can consume this much power while charging the battery and running games. And such laptops are still way more portable than a desktop. You can lift the laptop and keep it in your car, drive off and have a gaming PC ready-to-use where ever you end up. Same cannot be done with any desktop.
Prove it by writing supermatt in a html comment on libera.chat, or editing a dns entry...?
I’m hoping all of these pent up “forced” WFH complainers can go back into an office, personally.

One of the biggest stressors in my working life is that all of that time spent in an office with coworkers is time NOT spent with my “actual” family that I live and breathe for. All the time wasted commuting, all the energy Ive lost trying to fit into extroverted work cultures only to return to my family drained and unable to appreciate them - Ive regained that by being enabled to work from home.

Once people who cleary dont appreciate WFH can go back into their physical office spaces and get back to socializing as a first priority, there will be more opportunities for people lile me who genuinely appreciate WFH to be had.
How is Libera meant to be pronounced? L-eye-beer-ah, or maybe "liberal" without the trailing ell? Freenode was such a great name, this one is hard to warm up to in the same way.
Is it just that the folks who took over freenode are stupid and short sighted, or is there an actually rational reason behind their actions?
Well they certainly make the decision easier for everyone.

I wonder what is their motivation? Do they just want to get rid of the irc and reuse the "brand" for something else?
I can't take a desktop with me on an airplane.
The Southern Vietnamese population in the US would strongly disagree with you. One shouldn’t forget what happened to them after the U.S. pulled out. It wasn’t a rainbows and sunshine reunification, but murder, anguish and famine.
The moderation workload providing a public platform, especially one that allows direct peer to peer communication, is intense. Spammers, trolls, 1337 h4xx0r scriptkiddies and other "for the lulz" types on one side - these make a ton of work as they're openly visible, diminish the value of the platform and are not shy of using some 10$ a hour rented botnet to essentially kick you off the Internet... and on the other side, criminals that want to fly "under the radar" for you and expose you as platform ops to some serious legal risk: child abuse and warez.

There's a reason why there aren't many IRC servers/networks left over... it's incredibly expensive and taxing to run them, with users leaving en masse towards closed-source walls like Discord and Slack (which both have brazenly copied IRC principles!).
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I’ve created a separate Chrome profile for this purpose
You must have not noticed that Chrome is the new IE, or that they recently revoked API keys that open source Chromium forks (including ones that just disable certain features, so they are 99% the same as official Chrome) have been using for years to allow them to sync bookmarks and the like.
There are some projects that are also moving off IRC entirely now, which likely would've stuck around for a while longer if not for the Freenode debacle. Unfortunately some are also moving to entirely closed source platforms like Discord.
>We are the dumbest possible species that is capable of what we do.

Whenever I get annoyed with "how stupid people are", I try to remember this (the irony that I am of average intelligence is not lost on me). It gives our species a lot of slack. If we had to be more intelligent to achieve our current society, it would be more fragile.
Meh, I don't know. This seems a pretty niche usage. You'll need a specific USB-C dock to power such a laptop anyway, so why not go the route of the Apple thunderbolt displays, with a dedicated power connector run through the same sleeve as the data one.

In practice, I find the loss of convenience compared to USB-C negligible. You still only have one cable hanging around.

Plus, as those are PCs, said connector wouldn't even need to be something specific, I suppose a random (big enough) DC barrel plug would do and be compatible with different manufacturers' products.
Tesla supplier CATL to release sodium-ion batteries soon
Can Sodium-ion batteries really replace Lithium-ion batteries?
The OS only makes pages executable if they come from a signed app. There is no way for the app itself to do that.
UI is pretty simple (but at the same time), but I really like the idea. With a bit of work on UI this could be pretty popular.
Part of the reason “conspiracy theories” are more popular than ever is the media’s a bunch of vomit-encrusted lying shills without the self awareness to even pretend they’re unbiased any more. The media in general will never recover from Trump, he broke them thoroughly and completely, forever.
Salmon also don't see living in oceans and then swimming upstream to spawn as weird. Doesn't mean it can't appear weird to outsiders like us humans. And weird doesn't mean bad, just peculiar.
This whole scandal actually makes me want to dive into IRC again after a long time just because it shows me how many commited people are active there and how much I was probably missing.

I don't want to say it was a good thing that it happened, just that from my perspective it shed new light on IRC and some others might feel so, too.
Thank you, that's very helpful! I'll be saving these for later :)
the repository has activity recently and people do stuff in whatever they see fit

the only drawback I saw is that it seems to be OpenGL based - that will last some time though
I think this is a very wise dissection of the problem.

> leads us to treat black kids as morons.

This is often described as subtle, but it is anything but if you have experience being discriminated against. Don't expect anyone to admit that though.
Yup. Equally offensive and ignorant. Why does one get this (justified if you thought I meant it) response but not the other? For asking for "proof of innocence" of people murdered by state violence.
Pulling the data from a formatted Google sheet would be amazing. I can share that with parents to backfill… I feel a side project coming on
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I think you may be overestimating the complexity; fronting a blog with a CDN is trivial, even enabled by default on modern platforms.
It seems the NHS will still be able to identify patients. FTA:

"Data that directly identifies patients will be replaced with unique codes in the new data set, but the NHS will hold the keys to unlock the codes “in certain circumstances, and where there is a valid legal reason”, according to its website. "