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This partially answers your question [0]:

> Urbit started back in 2002 as Curtis Yarvin’s personal project. Curtis developed the original prototype for Urbit and, separately, wrote a blog on history and politics under the pen name ‘Mencius Moldbug’.

> In early 2019, Curtis left the Urbit project and gave all of his voting interest (both as address space and voting shares in the company) back to Tlon. He retains a non-voting, minority interest in both the address space and the company — but is not involved in the day-to-day development or operations.

> Curtis laid the foundation for Urbit by delivering its first prototype but, since 2013, it has been refined and almost entirely rewritten by a community of developers. No one working on Urbit today had anything to do with Curtis’s writing. For the most part, we couldn’t be less interested in it.

> The community of people who build Urbit have widely varied ways of thinking and looking at the world, but they all share two things: the desire to build neutral infrastructure for all people and to think from first principles about hard problems. We welcome spirited debate and disagreement as a primary tool for refining our work. Successful infrastructure, we think, serves all people — no matter their background, culture, or worldview.

[0] https://urbit.org/faq/
The normal procedure of clicking on a folder result in redirecting the existing file management window to the new directory is the only functional way to operate. The behavior of creating a new window per directory inevitably creates too many window management tasks in terms of constantly closing extra windows.

Also what size your file manager should be is a function of what else you have on the screen which is inevitably variable so you end up resizing and moving windows to fit in with an arrangement that is different than last time you opened that directory. It's vastly easier if you want 2 directories shown side by side is to just use the traditional split view.

The fact that size and position are arbitrarily chosen even if they are per directory means that there is no mental map between position and position in the filesystem hierarchy.

Spatial browsing is a poor metaphor based on nothing that never made any sense whatsoever.
Not everyone wants to martyr themself to save management from hoisting themselves on their own petards.

Especially when it's just a taxi app.
> they had documents about me before I was even born.

This needs some explanation.

Also, what's stopping them from just lying?
Now that is a good conspiracy theory :-)
Yeah exactly lol. So they pay the lower taxes to another country like Ireland or Malta. Those countries played no role in their ability to produce. Like what did Ireland do to make Apple the success it is today? etc.

Apple wins (lower taxes). Ireland wins (free income from a random corp). America loses (loses tax dollars to invest in infrastructure, education, etc).
There are some great tyres out there now too. Pretty slick in the middle and knobbly on the sides, so both road and trail work.

I am mystified by standard gearing on newer bikes though. It may be due to my height or a dumb riding style, but I basically only use the top 4-5 gears.
I paid a lot for cable TV and they still showed me ads despite being the customer. I also pay a lot for my internet connection as a customer, but guess what my ISP's privacy policy allows them to do? Share my data.

Like any other profit driven company, Apple is incentivized to generate revenue from their customers' data and to advertise to them.
I did mention using a physical controller toward the end of the post. But then it's unclear what the advantage is versus doing that with your existing phone (as I say, unless you already have a Duo).
Thanks you for that example. You really should put that somewhere public.

However, that example commits the Rust "sin" I always see with "spawn" explanations in that it packs everything into a closure.

Please, please, please ... for the sake of newbies everywhere ... please define a function and call that function from inside the spawn closure. This is one of the Rust things I spend the most time explaining and unpacking for junior engineers.

The separate function makes explicit the variables that are moving/borrowing/cloning around, which names are external/passed/closure-specific, and how it all ties together. It breaks apart the machinery that gets all conflated with the closure. They can always make it succinct again later once they understand the machinery more completely.

This gets particularly bad with "event loops" (I have a loooooong rant I need to write up about event loops and why they are evil--and it's not Rust specific) and deep "builder chains" (which I consider a Rust misfeature that desperately needs to go away).
The worst is that it punishes the most privacy conscious of us, who clear cookies on every session, and are forced to click and reclick again on the same popups. I think the law should have been enforced at the browser level, mandate browser makers to prompt for authorization and once it has been refused, to never ask again.
Sorry, to be clear I don't and never have worked at Uber. My former org was a reference to a team I was on prior to current team at another company.
> The only reason you have for assuming that the IDF are trying not to kill civilians is their own word

No, actually I'm looking at their actions. Evacuating buildings first, checking them via drones, then firing warning shots, then bringing them down. Levelling a twelve story building with 0 casualties is a degree of care rarely seen in warfare.

Civilian casualties, of course, do happen and are not avoidable in war. That's the nature of it.

> so don't give me this bs about how you're somehow being fair in your coverage when you're transparently biased towards Israel

I'm being more fair than you are in your bias against Israel.
First of all, of course the number of A-team engineers willing to work for half the pay is small.

But staying out of FAANG means more than just 50% less initial total compensation.

FAANGs offer career growth, including pay growth, that simply doesn't exist in startup world. Even if reality won't hit you when you just accepted a $200k startup job when your college friend with the same experience got $400k, it will hit you 4-5 years later, when you're hunting for your next job for $200-250k while that friend is making $500-600k+ because your startup fizzled out or got acquired for peanuts while his FAANG just kept growing and carrying his career up with it.

Or it will hit when you try to get into your next startup and realize that startups are the first to look up to FAANG engineers. That engineers with FAANG experience get all the interviews, and are lavished with the best offers and most senior positions in startup-land. While the only reward you get for staying in startupland is... being considered a B-player.

Finally, let's profile the "FAANG-hating" engineer willing to work for startups for half the pay. As you said, this engineer is sacrificing most of their pay for a work environment in which they feel more comfortable. Is that great for the employer too?

Would that engineer agree to sacrifice other aspects of their comfort, such as WLB, to make the startup succeed?

Of course not. Their equity stake is negligible, they're unaligned with the company's goals. They work there for the fun, and once that fun stops, there are dozens of other startups waiting to hire them at the same (low) comp package.

Startups today don't just underpay - they completely fail to align their senior employees. The combination of minuscule equity stake, no career growth prospects, high risk and constant job-hopping means as a senior engineer you will not be rewarded for good performance. Much as we love to disparage "sclerotic big tech", I've seen more mission alignment there because employees expect ample reward - in pay and long-term promotions.

In fact the typical profile of an "A-team engineer who'd rather work at startups" is someone who spent several years in FAANG, acquired FU money there, and now looking at startup work as fun CoastFIRE if not a harmless retirement hobby that pays a bit of money as well.

On top of all this, let's not forget that even if you're absolutely obsessed with working at a small "non-sclerotic" company, there are still options for you, including unicorns and plenty of small successful shops that aren't startups.
I wrote a graphics library in Swift that uses a method like this to initialize buffers and it's super useful
Maybe it doesn't in America. Here it does.
I can predict exactly what European countries will do in response to this horrible atrocity. They will express the deepest of all possible concerns. That's all they'll do. In fact that's all they can do. They simply don't have any other alternative.
I don't support corporate involvement in public policy and politics. I don't think they should be able to donate to political causes or politicians. PACs and dark political money are an enemy of democracy.

But I don't think you should get a say in someone else's income just because you think they earn to much. That's none of your business.
The first amendment also respects the right to freedom of association. This law is akin to the government forcing you to do business with someone you would rather avoid, for example to make a cake for a gay wedding that goes against your personal religion.

Do you see the breakdown here? The government cannot force private parties to associate with anyone like this, especially a controversial political figure.

You seem to misunderstand the basic sense of the first amendment.

https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1594/freedom-of...
Lower corporate tax rates make it more likely to distribute profit to employees (bonuses) and shareholders (dividends, stock repurchase).

My reasoning is that people prefer direct compensation over perks, and shareholders can’t get perks.

With a high tax rate, there’s more of a benefit to pay deductible benefits rather than bonuses. With lower tax rate, the incentive goes away so corps can just pay directly.

The goal is to get max tax revenue, so whatever equilibrium results in the highest government revenue is preferred. So the comparison should be what brings in the most revenue.
I sometimes quip that the difference between cooking and process engineering is that unlike the former, the latter actually gives a shit about the quality of outcome.

The issue isn't just specialized knowledge - knowing the principles underlying the process, knowing that there are principles - but also access to tooling. I'm sure plenty of lay cooks would appreciate appliances that let them be more consistent, even without knowing any related formal theory - but these are not available. As it is, an oven that's not shit is a major capital investment. It only makes sense to get one if you're more likely to call your work output a "formulated product" than "cookies".

However, software development is a peculiar occupation - one in which the best tools are free. It's like being able to buy a production line for less than a consumer-grade stove. Access to quality tools is not a limiting factor. Knowledge and awareness is.

Of course, non-programmers that code have more interesting things to do than to study software engineering. Which is why it's doubly important to make sure tools that are being popularized aren't shit. On the contrary, tooling is the perfect place to encode good practices and principles, so that even most lay (programming-wise) users succeed by default.
Well we already guessed it came from bats first, we've just more recently found the probable progenitor virus in bats (still not sure if it was that exact virus or a sibling, but its very close).

And we found it in civets but that doesn't prove that humans caught it from civets, it could be the other way around, just like SARS-CoV-2 and the minks in Denmark.

The fact that WIV1 seems to infect humans also doesn't rule out the possibility that there might still be an intermediate animal like civets. It is suggestive that there's no need for an intermediate animal, but that doesn't prove anything either way.

So we found a similar virus in civets in 2003 and jumped to a conclusion very fast. We have also found that SARS-CoV-2 infects all kinds of other animals and have found it in them, but we assume most of them caught SARS-CoV-2 from humans due to the massive pandemic going on this time. The few viruses we found in e.g. pangolins don't seem to be similar enough to have passed from pangolins to humans or vice versa. The bat coronavirus we already knew about (RaTG13) is somewhat close but would have needed a decade or two to mutate into SARS-CoV-2.

So we can't say that much for certain about either SARS-1 or SARS-2 at this point, even though we're 18 years or so past SARS-1 we still don't have all the answers.
Who’s the Best Tic-Tac-Toe AI?
that's a lot of trust in the fly-by-night ad industry
Turns out that my parents took on some kind of a life insurance policy in an insurance company that no longer exists in the strict sense but the documents have carried on through fusions and when a couple of decades later I got car insurance, a bunch of old medical records and contracts were linked with my account.
The don’t list family trusts either. So multi-billionaire families like the Rockafellers and the Rothchilds aren’t there.
The problem is that sites will just pretend that any such standard doesn't actually exist. All of these sites could suppress cookie popups for clients that send a do-not-track header, but choose not to.
They did. It was called Do-Not-Track and Microsoft had the bright idea to pull an iOS 14 and turn it on by default in IE. At that point the few ad companies that had supported it basically told the browser vendors to pound sand and it became entirely useless for anything but fingerprinting.
As someone else mentioned, when we say "marginalized" in the context of diversity hiring not just referring to the hiring process. There's value in hiring people who have been marginalized elsewhere. Black people in the United States go through life in a totally different manner than white people. Immigrants face hurdles that citizens are not even aware of. Women face obstacles like harassment and dismissiveness everywhere from their local grocery store to parent-teacher conferences to their jobs and even in the courtrooms. Having teams that reflect these viewpoints in the room where it happens is valuable.

Consider a lot of the camera-related fiascos in the tech industry recently. Until very recently, Twitter routinely cropped out non-white faces on photo previews. Why? Potentially because people of color weren't involved enough in the process to notice. Augmented reality and facial recognition routinely fail when paired up with the faces of people of color. Amazon in the not-so-distant past tried to use AI to filter resumes, and it wound up throwing out all of the women. If more women had been involved, perhaps that might have been caught earlier.

A lot of these are hypotheticals, and we may never know how the ethnic composition of the teams affected the final output, but it's hard to argue that having a more diverse team is a bad thing when it comes to issues like this.

And for what it's worth, the thought isn't "ugh, we gotta hire this white guy," but rather "does hiring yet another white guy bring something to the table that we don't already have and couldn't get from a woman or person of color?" The answer is "probably not."
Found them. Scott at-4 pros.

https://www.mtbr.com/threads/modified-scott-at-4-pro-bars-li...

Third pic down with the yellow bar tape, but with the forearm cups on the flat section as well.
In France, we're starting to see sites where they give you two options:

1) accept advertising/tracking cookies

2) pay a monthly subscription

I've seen this on AlloCiné (French IMDB), and "aufeminen" which is a random forum that a Google search led me to.
Shit like this is why Uber should have failed. Total disregard for humans. TK is a monster.
Because the railroad can't be used to turn my favorite social media into the haven of trolls, fools, and reactionaries. If you accept all speech without any boundaries - ie, with no defined "hate speech," the internet will swiftly become the domain of the loudest haters.

Your arguments apply to Twitter banning Trump - but they also apply to dang banning a poster who trolls everyone.
But then how does this explain that some people got covid twice?
Prey tell, how is Michael Dell or Steve Wozniak a tyrant?

And do you consider yourself lucky or unlucky in life? Your handle suggests the latter.

I can attest I do not wish to share my wealth with those who are cynics ;) does that make me a bad human? Does it make me a bad human that I choose to cultivate myself further, exacting greater human flourishing in the process? Am I lucky to do so, or am I determined to do so? And how is society not benefiting from my greater efforts at being human, which necessarily implicates more integration with my fellow race?
>How much could you possibly need to live a good life? Certainly not more than, say, $50 per day, right? Let’s simply cap ourselves there

You say that as if it's ridiculous. That sounds fine to me. Warren Buffet espouses exactly the same thing I'm saying. Is that jealousy too?

Ungodly means more than you need. No one needs a billion dollars. The top marginal tax rate was 90% in the 1960s, and guess what? inequality was much lower
This is why a market-based economy is not good at solving problems. It's great at managing problems, alright, but solving a problem would mean cutting off a source of potential revenue.
NextCloud is great if you need Dropbox-like functionality. For straight-up syncing of a single directory, or multiple single directories, SyncThing is fantastic.
1) Subscribe via email!

2) Accept our cookies and let us track you! (with a delay for choosing anything that's not accept all)

3) Surprise! There might be a paywall whether subscribed via email or not! Schrodinger's paywall

4) Oh hey! I saw you paused scrolling or moved your mouse in the general direction of the back button, check out this other thing!

5) Okay lol, here's the article. Maybe. Depending on the deal we cut with the creators of your specific browser and geographic location and how many other articles you've read this month.

and thats with adblock

Europe and California, we are counting on you to fix the internet!
If you take away rich people's money, other kinds of "insiders" will still pull the levers to enrich themselves and benefit their cronies at the expense of the public well-being.

The regulatory state, even if democratic, is fundamentally self-disregulating (as opposed to self-regulating).
Uh... 26.

And he was 36 when he published general relativity.

Which was his last really big achievement. Of course he still continued to produce a ton of work, many individual pieces of which would be considered a capstone achievement for many ordinary physicists.

But a lot of his effort was spent on a unified field theory that never really came together. And a lot was spent on trying to prove that quantum mechanics was incomplete -- which turned out to have some useful discoveries that largely affirm that QM is complete (at least within its domain).

In other words, he kinda was a model of somebody who did his best work before his mid-30s, and spent the rest of his career merely being very, very smart.
Also in some cases with cars by my understanding leasing makes lot more sense than buying. Like Rolls Royces where lease payments might be lower than depreciation. So do you actually buy this thing, or just the use of it. When later might overall be cheaper. It's get bit weird with some commodities.
In that case, the US are one of the last OECD countries to get onboard.

If you want to look at a case of aggressive US extraterritorialism, FATCA is a lot more egregious.
Ryujinx: Performance Optimizations with Extensive Ramifications
I can name 5 without even putting 10 seconds' thought into it
Please show that P != NP to prove that you're human. (500 characters remaining)
Do not track is a gentleman's agreement in a world of thugs. But you could block cookies at the browser level if the user clicks No.
1) don’t track visitors

Then there you go, no popups, no consent to ask for, job done.
Not roiled by the US doing the same thing in 2013 though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales_grounding_incident
Seconding the request for a source. The papers I've found say that SARS-1 survivors have antibodies that react to SARS-CoV-2 but don't neutralize the virus, and thus may not provide immunity.

So far the mRNA vaccines have shown strong effectiveness against the variants, but the others like AZ and the Chinese/Russian vaccines much less so. It's also worth noting that natural immunity is a somewhat random process (more random than the antibodies produced with vaccines) and not everyone develops the same level of protection.
Haha, yeah... well... brace for the impact of a passing but possibly prolonged fad. It happened once before when the iPhone 2G and 3G came out, plus some of the early Samsung Android tablets. I'd say it's likely to go bigger this time simply because high quality, powerful, touch-enabled devices are so much more ubiquitous now. It does remind me of the car touch control fad a bit.
to think that some people called the new godzilla movies dumb…
What's interesting about the article is they didn't just stop with a denial from the Chinese government.

The Global Times actually tracked down the director of the Wuhan National Biosafety Lab, and asked him point-blank about the claim the WSJ reported (from an unnamed U.S. intelligence official). His response?

"Those claims are groundless," Yuan said. "The lab has not been aware of this situation, and I don't even know where such information came from."
If it were only SSN or credit card data, this would be understandable. But I assume you’re aware GDPR is far broader than this.

And as well, GDPR, again, doesn’t guarantee the safety of your data. It just adds fines to some circumstances where your data is misused. But an honest breach doesn’t lead to fines as far as I can tell, so you just have to live with that possibility either way.

As best as I can tell, there is no legally binding texts anywhere that limits the fines. The maximums start at €20 million and go higher if you’re huge. In the mindset of “hope is not a strategy,” this maximum fine being the only legally binding limit is enough to make you go home. Maybe small companies can hope for preferential treatment, but as an individual even small fees could do serious harm.
"There are 2 kinds of products: Ones that get more complex over time and ones that no one uses."
You should read up on the tolerance paradox. The people behind this FL bill are the type to abuse such tolerance, all while telling bakeries it's chill if they refuse services for gay wedding or similar.
I remember in the 90's there used to be a replacement bar for mountain bikes that was sort of like a long oval with one portion in the middle that, once installed, pointed forward. So it provided multiple new hand positions. I haven't seen that in years.
I see a mix across that generation as well. It seems some of those that struggle kept the mentality that helped their parents flourish: an expectation that you find a stable job and work it for 40 years. They weren’t exactly in the mindset to constantly hustle and constantly learn new skills. When globalization started to pull the rug out from under them in the 1980s many had difficulty remaining relevant in the economy.
You could choose to not read it as a prank, then it might be more interesting. I don't doubt there is an amount of purposeful obfuscation in the naming at least, and there clearly is a desire to be different. But looking beyond the surface, there is a coherent system there that I think deserves being judged as such, if you're going to judge it at all.
In many countries they do.