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I don't see a question in the parent's comment?

Nothing in particular on the 055 page isn't canonical. But any other page on the wiki might contradict anything on any other page. For instance, there are a number of other SCPs and articles that provide conflicting explanations of SCP-055.
Discord/Slack already has a bunch of those things- how to mute channels is a big one, as well as how to change ones nickname, how to get a role, and managing permissions for various channels.
The fact that we had no knowledge was intentional and does not diminish the impact of the operations.

Let's compare Hong Kong and Guatemala, right now, and pick one to live in.
Whenever I see this man mentioned, I always see a comment saying, "This man travels AND has sex!"

It's about as surprising as someone visiting Amsterdam and having the audacity to smoke weed or single guys doing what single guys do when they visit SE Asia.
Are there any legal ramifications for them not following the spec?
I agree with you on almost all points. The realism of the series was what I really liked about it.

I stopped watching it though once the "protomolecule" stuff started. What is backed by science about it?
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What's the big deal:"a piece of Asia on the European continent", Europe and Asia are two parts of one continent, Eurasia
SCP is the opposite of say, the Star Wars franchise where George Lucas (now Disney) gets to say what's canon even if all the fans disagree. In the SCP-verse, everything is licensed Creative Commons (I think), so your own headcanon is equally valid as anyone else's, and fanfic doesn't exist because it's all fanfic.

That also means it's popular to make live action movies like this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVx2jyDPinw)
In that particular case a web search works, sure. But for most name clashes that I see, it's often tools that are well known in some domains but not so much in others.
> you do not need as many name spaces because there are no names to clash.

You know, maybe you're right and I can't prove you wrong, but this is the kind of thing that IMHO application developers read and think "yeah no, been there, done that, never again". Because many people's experience is that names do clash, again, and again, and again, and I fail to see why multimethods should solve that.
You’re right, of course. But I think that if your goal is to build a robust system, protocols win.

If you want to monetize your users, then you absolutely need that walled garden and ease of use that a program provides. If you have a protocol based application, then you can only really monetize the service, not your users. For example, only a few email providers have enough users to sell ads (Gmail). There are far more providers that sell the service as opposed to advertising to users.

Although, I will admit building a robust protocol is difficult. It is much easier to iterate a feature set if you only have to worry about one implementation.

But this is a trade off between short term gains at the expense of the long term.

Email for all its warts will still be around in 10 years. Can we say the same for Slack?
And if you like SCP and videogames you should definitly check out the game Control.
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Please, somebody turn this into a wikipedia article! It would be a good companion to "list of common misconceptions"[0] and "list of biases"[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
Most of these gaming laptops likely don’t; they’re really not intended to be used for heavy gaming while on battery, because the battery can’t support the discharge rate needed by a high end GPU.
Nope. Pick any point in history and there was a huge imbalance between the sides. Often such "gaps" were unrecognized at the time, but each side would later learn that their perception of the other was incorrect. The "missile gap" and "bomber gap" were illusory. The public picture, the one on which budgets were based, was disconnected from the intelligence picture which was in turn often disconnected from the on-the-ground reality. Those involved at each stage of abstraction turned the information to suit their own needs. People who sold airplanes in the US counted extra bombers in the USSR. The people who drafted budgets counted more troops in the opposing army. In the end they all got what they wanted: massive spending on material.

An interesting example is the number of ICBMs programs on both sides. The engineering culture within the USSR meant that it had many different missile designs, some only ever resulting in a handful of missiles. Missiles would have short service lives and then be replaced by a new model. The Americans were different. They stuck to a smaller number of designs but mass produced and maintained them for decades. Both sides perceived that the other "had more missiles" because they were effectively counting them differently. The USSR saw American missile factories churning out missiles. The US saw a flood of new designs on parade and assumed they were being mass produced. Such cultural splits continue to inflate budgets today.
"Liberia Chat" or "Libera Chat" ? :-)
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I've been on IRC since the 90s and a number of channels I've been part of in that time, have renamed, fractured into multiple channels, moved to other public servers, moved to private servers, etc, etc.

This is the first time I've encountered IRCops trying to stop it from happening.
What was the topic before the bot changed it?
Those down payments used to be the standard in the US. However, I am surprised that, indeed, median down payments do seem to be significantly below that these days.
> Some untrustworthy entrepeneur bought Freenode.

In 2017

> Network staff quit in response and started Libera.

In 2021
Actually, it's somewhat worse than the headline mentions. It seems that the script targets channels that merely mention Libera in the topic. The topic of an affected channel I was in said: "See also #foo on irc.libera.chat" (as we hadn't decided whether or not to move). And everyone in the channel was banned from both the #foo and the ##foo channels on Freenode.

Needless to say, Freenode kindly decided for us whether or not we should move to Libera for good.
People in USA usually call the war from 1980-88 “Iran-Iraq War” after 1991
It is weird for me read comments on HN lately. I do not know where it became a thing to argue that being able to buy whatever you want at any time is a god given right. It comes across as rants of a spoiled child that has only seen prosperity. I am seeing the same complaint in crypto wars on GPU shortages and so on.

You are not owed anything. You have a shot at an offer. That is it.
Nevermind, there's already such an article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies
> I stopped watching afterwards.

Do you realise if you want to be morally consistent like that then the only limiting factor is your ignorance? By that I mean its likely A LOT of the content you currently consume or products you use/buy are unethical in some way but you just don't know they are.

I'd like to suggest that if you're not trying to fog-bust your ignorance by personally auditing all your supply chains actively then that is also ethically inconsistent. To permit your own ignorance suggests that its more about how people perceive you to be supporting unethical brands (once the lack of ethics becomes clear) as opposed to one actually caring about the ethics.
I'd suggest your phrasing here backs that up.

Idk, that's just too exhausting a mentality for me to handle tbh. I don't think its my job to force everyone in the world to conform to my precise standards, I think there's value in being able to trade with those I wouldn't consider friend.

I mean lets spin it another way, you think the people Bald meets in his videos are all "good people"? A lot of them likely have issues in one way or another but we can celebrate that they're friendly and hospitable and that Bald is going out there and showing us that part of the world which we typically wouldn't see. Lets not forget that its likely that Bald is probably one of the more progressive individuals in his videos. I think that context matters a bit.
The last paragraph makes me perplexed.

If I create a religion saying that the only worth purpose in life is to own one of my drawings, and then I make 10 of them, and then I get the whole Earth population to believe this religion, my drawings will have an unbounded market cap too.

That does not make them "proving value as sound money", only it shows that they are very desirable, but what it does not reveal is that the reasons behind it are irrational.

About the bitcoin as an "incentive for more renewable", wouldn't all the catastrophes present and future provoked by the global warming be a sufficient incentive? Why would adding random usages of energy change anything?
Alternatively, you could notice that the abnormally-long lifespans match a pattern of exponential decay towards a new equilibrium. This would be consistent with a hypothesis that there was a lifespan-extending factor involved, which effects grew weaker from generation to generation. The factor could perhaps have been environmental, or genetic.

I don't subscribe to this view, because I no longer believe the stuff described in the Bible actually happened as described - but if I were trying to treat the Genesis stories as real, this would be the approach I'd take to reconcile them with scientific knowledge.
While I do hate that Discord is being used for all chat needs instead of just sticking to being a replacement for Ventrilo or Skype for gaming groups, I want to point out that the drama is a massive overreaction. Discord made very minor style changes and slightly modified their logo, wordmark, and brand color scheme (with the logo being the only one of those you really end up seeing inside the application).
reminds me of the Brutal File Manager
US admits Xiaomi isn’t a ‘Communist Chinese military company’ after all
I heard a rumor that Freenode is planning to move to a subscription service, so those remaining channel operators will have to pay a small monthly fee to keep their channels intact. And that normal users will also be able pay for benefits like being able to add sponsorship messages to arbitrary channel topics, and things like that.

Anyone know if this is true?
> Then they say "the burden of proof lies on you".

> The 2020 election machines actually were hacked, and results were tampered with.

I'll assume you believe the things you cite. Geez, "cognitive dissonance of their personal politics" indeed. The "evidence" given by Giuliani et al about the hacks are so fucking flimsy, only the Trumpers can say they're legitimate. They claim "this footage shows" even without no smoking gun shenagians to be seen in them.

If the "legitimate" election results should've gone to Trump, that would mean team Biden tampered with hundreds of thousands of ballots. That scale of tampering is very hard to hide, but so far no solid evidence has been unearthed. Is it a few people, or many people? If it's many people, somebody usually blurts out something and the conspiracy is unravelled. If it's just a few people, how do they manage to tamper with hundreds of thousands of ballots? Footage of people handling small boxes can't account for the amount of fraud that's being alleged.
While it is true that the US has done morally questionable and practically useless world-policing, it's not as cut and dry as you state. In both world wars, the US was undeniably a force for good, against the extremely evil Nazis, the extremely cruel Imperial Japanese, and helping more monetarily and supply wise in WW1. Furthermore, the US fought itself to free millions of slaves in it's own Civil War. While it's true the South attempted to leave to keep their slavery power, the other half of the US stomped them in the war.

Outside of militarism, the US has generally been cruelly expansionist against Native Americans, and has seen a lot of atrocities on "its own" soil. Yet the colonists eventually established a nation today that is pivotal to the arts, science, technology, and even human rights, humanitarianism, and large scale philanthropy.

How do we weigh all these? The US is not merely on the wrong side; we are a mixture of good and bad.
Wait, this is asuming that they have the same notion of a year as we have now.

Unless some changes were made in modern translations.
Yeah, he's probably my favourite character in the series.

The way his character develops and changes is incredible and the acting is really well done.
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Oh, I 100% agree with you. There is no going back, without massive famine and death. Glyphosate causing cancer is, I would bet, going to be mostly ignored due to the unbelievable human suffering that would occur if it was banned.

Again, though, the point of OP was not that more is used, or better chemical are used, it was that GMO has, in terms of row crops, been mostly organized around chemical use. That stands true, in my opinion, regardless of whether the chemicals are more or less harmful.
> Refreshed mobile apps, intuitive web apps, friends lists, working team support, video calls and file sharing. All within a few taps of the mobile device as people have come to expect.

So... XMPP?
That's how the computers work in Neal Stephenson's Seveneves too. It serves a purpose in the story.
Cloudflare's offering isn't really designed for small creators who want to send rushes/pilots etc around without paying for a studio level security solution. Or marketing teams for non-critical video.

That's kind of Vimeo's niche.
>"You do understand this right? At no point were the American public consulted by the intelligence agencies when they did these operations."

German public was not informed of the gas chambers, and Soviet public didnt endorse the gulag. So thet don't count then?
It's been 15 years since I've used IRC, but what changed with the apps? All the apps I used to use let you choose what domains to connect to.
The Fast Ride
“Aaaaa look at me I am right you are wrong aaaa”
For example, to book the NHS vaccine you only need a person postcode, first and last name, and date of birth. All this information is easily available, for example from companies house.
Yes! I find it so ironic, in a country that prides itself for it's stance for "privacy", that random predatory lawyers can just get from ISP's the personal details behind any IP address on the basis of potential IP infringement. It is really infuriating...
Run badly written weechat scripts, a lot of them.
I am certainly not defending the actions. I just know that that 720 number was found by searching netsplit.de's list of Freenode channels for "libera". It is not a list generated from known takeovers. And I know that Andrew Lee created a new set of rules (after the fact) for this act which center around primary channels (single #) as a cover for his (still obvious) bad behavior.

So, definitely not in defense, just pointing out where the numbers came from. The ##* channel I've op'd for many years with hundreds of users has had "libera" in the topic for a while and has not yet been taken over. But we are moving regardless.
Deaths in Sweden: 5.7% higher in 2020 vs 2018:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/525353/sweden-number-of-...

And that's after the lowest deaths in a decade in 2019, leaving a lot of 'dry tinder'.

Same thing in Ukraine, with merely superficial lockdowns, and about a 6% increase in annual deaths.

All of this is basically in line with the aging population. None of these places ran out of hospital capacity.

Governments fell short of dealing with COVID because they embraced politics and fear for something which is basically a once-a-decade flu variant, like Swine Flu or the forgotten flu waves of the 90s, 50s and 60s which lead to the same death spikes as COVID (and given populations were younger and less obese back then, were probably actually more severe).
I agree that it might be harder to switch if you have Bots or some other automation running. Although since it's just text it should work the same after changing read/write API's.

The other points seem a bit exaggerated. The "new app" to install is just a browser usually.

I used IRC a lot in the past but being a protocol also means it's barely been updated in the past. There's so much functionality in Discord / Slack and others compared to IRC that dwarf the negative aspects of "learning an entire new app" whenever you want to switch.
Now if only they could convert this into some sort of death clock, that would put those young whippersnappers in their place.
I disagree. Even if an API is effectively used by a machine, the root cause either is human interaction or it makes sense to also allow human interaction (e.g. for testing, troubleshooting, interactive documentation). HATEOAS can help to define formats that solve both problems.
I think the most valuable thing we can glean from this is the failure of systems. The focus by the BBC has been on transient matters. What will happen to Johnson and Hancock for instance? I think the focus on this is misplaced. If 'lessons are to be learnt', we must focus on systems and their failures too.

Cummings mentioned the the example of PPE logistics. In February/March 2020, he asked what the plan was and an offical replied something along the lines of, "we should get the PPE shipped in a few weeks". Cummings said he was surprised that PPE was being shipped, rather than flown. PPE procurement had always been shipped, so the offical was simply following protocol even if it meant causing more deaths.

Another issue he identified was the scattering of authority. It was not clear who was in charge of pandemic planning. Ministers decided policy, but could not hire and fire civil servants or move people who could effectively solve these sorts of issues to where they would be most useful. He said if Bill Gates were put in charge on 1 March, he would find it a nightmare.

Obviously, this is one person's evidence and we should wait until hearing from more people before forming assigning blame. However, if we are to respond to the next big crisis better, we should look at our systems and not solely focus on the transitory state of politics.
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I was trying to escape the intro material but legitimately couldn't work out how to navigate the site.

But yeah, robotics is really tough - I tried a course on Coursera once and found it too challenging despite my Physics major background.

I want to learn it though as it'd be a cool hobby to share when I have kids etc.
Eggdrop is still a thing?

Damn. It's been for ever.
Efficient, supports terminal mode natively, open, and frankly for exactly this reason.

If whatsapp, or apple, or google, or facebook does anything like this then all you can do is shrug and accept it.

But if you have $5 a month then you can run an IRC network with a VM.

> IRC is still unencrypted in transit

Sometimes. But there's also a lot of TLS, and it's trending upwards.

> users have no anonymity

Less anonyminity against each other, but more against the central powerful provider.

And while you may have my IP on IRC (depends on the network), what are you as a private individual supposed to do with that information?

Whereas when centralized it becomes monetizable.
> OpenBSD users: Hi Mark!

Ok I nearly fell out of my chair. A+
And a lot of the US is pretty sparsely populated.
1. He's obviously an asshole.

2. He's obviously right; the UK response was absolutely crazy.

One thing that struck me is that he tweeted a picture of the graph[1] the government was using when they were going for the 'herd immunity' strategy.

We'd seen that graph before, but the lines didn't have numbers on them.

The government briefing graph had numbers, and their 'optimum' number was 250k deaths.

Which is, you know, terrifying.

[1] https://twitter.com/Dominic2306/status/1396493979064094720
That didn't use to be the case. The mortgage interest deduction used to be a solidly middle class benefit.

But, yes, with relatively recent changes to the tax code, it's a lot harder for most people to hit the standard deduction and therefore mortgage interest is often not deductible unless someone has a higher end home in an expensive area.
What should I have done differently?

I chose to move the official IRC channel for my FOSS project to a different server, so I registered the new channel on the new server, and updated the topic in the old channel to say it was no longer the official channel and where the new one is.

There's nothing provocative about that.
Except the other side "responded" against bystanders, not the instigators. If I was a bystander, I would leave.
Seeing how there is now the Aya Neo and the Onenotebook Onexplayer, this might actually work. Have a handheld with a powerful enough laptop chip and a Thunderbolt, when at home it sits in an eGPU dock and use it like a traditional desktop, and on the go either connect the game controllers or a keyboard to use as a laptop.
But we shouldn't held UX ransom by such hardware. Martix has TUI clients too.
They are way more fractured. the Catholic Church is one mega entity.
My policy when people are being unpleasant is to try as much as possible to stick to the facts and let them speak for themselves. This is for several reasons:

1. It's easy when you're angry at someone to paint things more black than they are, or to interpret neutral actions poorly intentioned. Forcing yourself to state the facts helps make sure you're not exaggerating or misinterpreting things. (In fact, occasionally when I've gone through that exercise, I decide that I was overreacting and they didn't mean what I thought they meant anyway.)

2. Laying out the facts is much more convincing. Some guy on the internet says, "He things he's a prince"? Well, OK, one guy doesn't like him. Laying out specific actions he's taken that are consistent with considering himself a prince? Well, now I have data with which to form my own judgement.
If only it also had a Thunderbolt for an eGPU.
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Build a small but functional habitat on the moon.
Why long-term planning is not as good as you were taught
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I agree. The Julia community is defensive. When you criticize Julia, often their first reaction is to say you are doing something wrong or to convince you Julia is perfect for everything. I was enthusiastic about Julia but not anymore.
The best way to find it is just Google “Amazon live chat”. It is more difficult to find on their website haha.
James Bond, Meet Jeff Bezos: Amazon Makes $8.45B Deal for MGM
If you have a war between two sides and you are calling one the wrong side, you are creating a dichotomy
Registration is a bit of a sore point (and is being worked on in the IRCv3 WG), but login, ops, channel listing, etc. afterwards isn't - that's all handled quite well by modern graphical IRC clients.
There are many things that the UK government could have done at borders that they did not do, or delayed and did only when damage had already been done. It is a mischaracterisation to suggest that it was out of their hands, or that the UK faced unique problems that other countries did not also have, and handle better.
Amazon to buy MGM Studios for $8.45B
No, you have to demonstrate that it is actually in bad faith rather than just a cock up, and that's not going to happen (especially given it very likely is just a cock up).
This is not about soft skills. It is about ideology and values.
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When it came to the tedious task of categorizing pottery fragments, a deep-learning model was found to be just as accurate, and far more efficient, as four human experts.