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This thread / video got me pretty worked up the other day; regardless of your views on who should own the land, can't we just agree that Palestinians are real, live humans deserving of respect and a home where they are not constantly mistreated?

At the same time, the Jewish people, whether you like it or not, are there in Israel right now. You can't get rid of them. They shouldn't have neighbors that talk about killing them due to ethnic hatred.

You have to do something so that both sets of people can live. Right now it feels like Israel is really in control and has the means to make life better for the Palestinians... and that that would be in their best interest as it should decrease the reliance of Palestinians on Hamas and other extremists...

In the meantime, stop terrorizing a trapped people:

"I felt like I am the terrorist...

For the first time in my life, the boundaries between good and bad that I learned as a kid - and obviously I learned that I am on the good side - was broken."

- Israeli soldier

Full Thread: https://twitter.com/ButWhatForBlog/status/139590382285003572...
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I use my iPad as a mousepad 95% of the time. It is the most opulent thing I can imagine but most of the time I am either at my computer, which for me is the optimal way to do any real computing, or I'm out and about and I'm not going to carry a full-size tablet, so I use my phone. However when I'm backpacking I will bring the iPad and use it for a map (Much nicer to have the screen real estate compared to the phone and I'm loathe to pull out the paper backup unless I have to). Similarly at night I can use it to watch videos I've downloaded. I very occasionally use it for reference material if I need to look a manual for some piece of equipment since it is nicer to have the bigger screen for that as well, but for normal books I prefer an e-reader (Kobo Libra H20 for me).
I consider myself liberal, but I agree with you, the California/SF branch of progressivism are extremely toxic.

Much of the platform is based on feelings and ideology instead of facts and problem solving, but it manages to even be worse than the right wing counterpart somehow because it comes served with a side dish of "holier and smarter than thou!"
Didn’t realize, I wish they wouldn’t. even more reason to not buy Apple (I’m typing this on an iPhone :) )

I agree with you that I wish they would allow it. I agree that I should be able to put windows 10 on my iPhone. Thanks for the back and forth, and we may not be able to get past our starting assumptions about the nature of trade/commerce, but I still wouldn’t want to legally force apple to do anything. People should definitely make a big stink about it, though. Thanks for the back and forth, but I’ll leave it there.
The scaling issue is that Apple only uses integer scaling factors. So any res that isn’t an exact multiple of the notional “1x” value gets rendered at a higher res and downsampled.

I think it’s more either “lazy” or “pragmatic” (depending on your view) programming to avoid various issues you can get with non integer scaling.
> People getting a cold on a regular basis dont generally lead to super-colds.

This is actually a good point applicable to the broader context, that I hadn't really thought about. Billions of people get cold/influenza infections every year. Why don't we see more mutations of strains that are highly virulent/tending to more severe outcomes?
I've peed in a bush in SF. I didn't want to, but that's what happens when you have humans with bladders and zero public restrooms.

I tried to not pee in the bush. I asked around, went to a few grab and go restaurants, a gas station, but none had a public bathroom. My only option was to wait in line and pay cover to get into a bar, wait in line at the high end restaurants in the area, drive across town to Denny's for a cheaper pee, or drive 45 minutes to a saner city. I peed all over that bush, with a grin, as a fuck you to the idiocy of whoever decided to force me, and everyone else, to do it.
Obviously not cool enough!
Same thing with racing bikes. All that gorgeous gear and Lycra and then you're supposed to announce yourself to the slow masses with that ridiculous sound!? No way!
If a city stops prosecuting crime, do you think people are:

A) more likely to report crimes, or

B) less likely?

How does this affect crime statistics?
https://lapisnews.tech
You are awesome! Lapis News is essentially a news app to spread positivity by only displaying positive news, cute daily videos, and jokes – would be awesome to see a redesign of the website.
The thing about high murder rates, at least in American cities, is that it's mostly gangs fighting each other over selling drugs. If you're not part of the drug trade, your odds of being murdered are not that much greater than anywhere else (stray bullets are a concern).

Property crime, on the other hand, affects a much broader swath of the population.
Consider that broadcasting the crimes someone was arrested for has a similar negative impact, and is seldom remedied by acquittal. Similarly, consider how this blasé attitude works when incorrect accusations are getting thrown around.

If you weaponize social networks against someone, you don't get to stand back, wash your hands of the matter and shrug with "freedom of association" as if it's some force of nature where you had nothing to do with what happens next. You lit the fuse or helped burn it.
Sounds like someone (with a random handle and a 20-minute-old account) who spent ten minutes in the Tenderloin and thinks they're an authority on the entire Bay Area and California in general.

I'm pretty sure there are awful terrible neighborhoods in Dallas and Houston and other places in Texas, too. Let's not be absurdly reductive.

Nor does this have anything at all to do with people moving out of SF, of course: that's being driven by economic forces and the fact that the workers in question now have the freedom to work remotely from anywhere in the world, including all the various places where real estate costs 50-80% less than in SF.
Why is "national sovereignty" always about doing oppressive things which consolidate the power of the ruling class?
You're thinking of Mark Rober's famous glitter bombs - https://youtube.com/watch?v=a_TSR_v07m0
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My new application - have at it!
Just curious, what are you doing to turn it around? I don't think it's fair to use the collective "we" in this case unless you're actively working to solve these problems. Otherwise it comes off as incredibly dismissive.
Exactly I watched it on BBC.
> Most smaller admins seem concerned about correctness and so they don't do this.

This, definitely. Take a look at gmail spam folder, it's always full of false positives.
OpenStack was definitely unnecessarily complex. And it led to many different distributions that were only manageable by hiring a lot of consulting manhours.
The intimate relationship is one component of monogamy

It's certainly not exclusive to monogamy.
Considering banning this person. It’s clear they’re not here to discuss the mechanics of things, but rather to throw cheap shots at comments and incite fights.
www.vestmap.com

My new web application - have at it!
Oh yes, the first two are right from those. Add some more nasty stuff, productize it, install it in cars.
This looks good to me. It would be nice if they could modernize and simplify their logo a bit.
I think the elephant in the room is the mental health crisis. You don't notice the person walking by you who lives in their car. You notice the person who is shoeless in traffic and screaming. We elected to close our mental health treatment facilities and turn these people out to the street to fend for themselves. Then when they deny offered treatment or shelter we claim they did it through their own volition and allow them to die on the sidewalk in confusion and poor health. This is the reality.
https://cinetrii.com (I don't know a thing about web design)
> Ah yes, we have no money so let's invest a ton of work into something that will do nothing to bring in new or lost users,

In theory Mozilla Firefox is a open-source project and it doesn't need users directly, as much as it needs contributors to help keep the project alive. Deciding if this counts as contributing or not, is an exercise I leave for others ;)

That said, I agree with the criticism that this video (which is supposed to highlight a/the new design) is failing spectacularly at showcasing that very design.

I think I saw one screenshot zap by which showed tabs looking somewhat differently? Otherwise it was just lots of people talking and close-ups of portions of Firefox which already looks the same way? Not very informative.

To highlight the design I would appreciate something slower (less zaps!) and less polished where they would just use the browser and let the design speak for itself.
I still hate the new tabs after having used the Developer Edition for a while. There's absolutely no separators between tabs, making it hard to see tab boundaries. Having the tabs on a separate background colour also helps to quickly see which part of the chrome is the tab bar and which is the address bar. Now they're the same colour.

FWIW, Chrome has separators between tabs as well as better contrast between the address bar section and the tab section (1.31:1 for Chrome, 1.08:1 for Firefox).
Because it makes it real obvious that something has changed. Kind of like car headlights. They’re a really prominent part of the entire design that make you want to explore more
You must not be American, definitely not Californian because the points you make are extremely taboo.

In the US there are probably a handful of feminist-critics who dare to say these things in the mainstream, e.g. Camille Paglia, Christina Hoff Sommers.

What is the intellectual climate like in France? Can someone write what you wrote above in a mainstream newspaper column?
Removing true information and removing false information are exactly the same, because all knowledge is relative and truth does not exist, only power?
> see it turn into a 3rd world country in a matter of years

This is just a wild thing to claim.
I liked one of the answers in another thread, “did you go to the arcade as a kid?”. I think as children we enjoy fantasy and are more able to suspend belief to take part in it. Games almost all have some fantasy wrapped around the mechanics. A part of the fun is maintaining that fantasy. For many people, the exploitation loop costs little enough that they don’t mind paying it to maintain the fantasy and enjoy the game. If it’s below some threshold of acceptable spending for them, they still take pleasure in playing.

You could take money out of the equation, for an example like amateur chess. To get good you have to practice. Practice takes time. Time is finite. Why does some crazy good amateur haches player bother to I c’est so much time to get that good? For some arbitrary score on chess.com, but why? Because they enjoy it, even if it’s another hamster wheel.
It's pretty close, and many of the criminals commute (for free) from Oakland. But my point still stands, crime (property crime at least) was going up over the last decade (https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/us/ca/san-francisco/prope... - click Property Crime tab).
And the interesting thing is, the laws are even still more draconian than in Western European countries, booking processes more traumatic, prison terms longer, prison conditions an order of magnitude worse, and supervised release much more onerous.

And yet Western Europe doesn't suffer anything even close to San Francisco's crime levels.
Well when police end up killing someone, it's usually anecdotal now isn't it?

If the anecdote is representative of some kind of trend, then it's worth examining because the 'visceral reality' of these crimes are better understood.

Having 7K in camera gear robbed in broad daylight by rando's in a Honda gives us a hint of understanding of what's happening.

Aside from the 'Justice System changes' and COVID, we may very well be entering a kind of new phase in social culture.

The thought of such a thing happening many decades ago, before massive increase in crime in the 1960's would have shocked people. They had different kinds of 'bad things' then.

This kind of brazen crime should be very, very rare in regular, civilized places.
So you want to build a generator (programming)
Murders don't just disappear, they are almost universally reported and investigated. Burglaries and car thefts need a police report to make an insurance claim.

For crimes like assault though, if the police convince the victim that reporting it is pointless, it doesn't show up in the stats. Anecdotally, this is what I have heard is happening.
https://theliquorproject.co.uk

It's a price comparison website for whiskies.

I'd appreciate any help, my design skills don't reach much further than "what's included in material-ui"
Another thing that’s not obvious about the public bathrooms is they aren’t safe. You go in, close the windowless door, do your business, and open it up to find someone standing there waiting to rob you.
Carry a gun.
How to write code using the abstract factory design pattern? – C# Programming
Firefox doesn't need another UI refresh. It needs performance enhancements and bug fixes. I've been using Firefox as my primary browser for years, and I'm tired of feeling like I'm using second class software.
You are right it is a possibility, I actually think "incarceration rate" may actually be this alternative benchmark you suggested.

Now the question is do voters realize that benchmark can be artificially lowered by terrible policies that don't help anyone other than make some people "feel good"? We can literally make all crimes legal and we'd end up with an incarceration rate and prison population of zero.
Maybe it looked better, but I think it felt better because it was much faster.

This is a marketing push disguised as an aesthetic change. Mozilla, please stop trying to make Pocket happen, it's not going to happen.
I'm fine with Firefox developer edition, but I find it's hard to see which tab is selected in this new design especially when using dark theme.
How to write code using the factory method? – C# Programming
That is the way to do it. In Ardour it is part of the audio setup.
It's amazing what happens when the cops are in open revolt against a DA that is finally holding them accountable.
https://last10k.com/features
https://last10k.com/register

This is a freemium SaaS for making it easier to research publicly traded companies. Any thoughts on how to increase the paid member conversion rate is appreciated.
Neither plugins nor extensions are mentioned.
At least the patient has a view, however dim.
‘I Owe Him My Life’: Chinese Runner Describes Mountain Rescue
In my social circle, which includes co-workers and families, this is explicitly stated, and it's rationalized with "they deserve more than they have, so if it takes crime to get them more, that's just in my book".

I think it's more likely than you expect, at least on the very vocal group that is aggressively pushing the overton window on our views on the social contract.
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My only explanation for this is that you can buy a lot less with a dollar than a euro.
Just out of curiosity, inside what range of money was the offer? Around 20K, 30K, maybe more?
Cicadian Rhythms: Why Does the 17-Year Cicada Emerge Like Clockwork?
Flash could be described that way
A therapist can answer this question impartially. It is almost impossible to answer this correctly for oneself because we are all stuck in our own heads after all. Most people have to hit some sort of major crisis before they finally see a therapist. You could choose not to be part of that statistic.
https://LetsLunch.com
Would love to see how you can help me send the message to companies that opening up can use letslunch to setup lunch n learn with vip's
> Many Americans actually died in these events

Did they? How many? And of those how many were killed by the police or far-right sympathisers like Kyle Rittenhouse?
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This certainly isn’t the first shared memory GPU that Dolphin runs on, although it might be the fastest and it’s definitely the fastest TBDR one.

A problem that I don’t think applies to consoles is that GPUs don’t use the same texture format CPUs do - they swizzle them in proprietary ways and it needs conversion even if there are no memory transfers.
Does anyone have a counter to the SF pile-on? This is heartbreaking to hear as someone who wants to work in tech in the Bay Area (and is resigned to live in the city as a single)
This is what they killed the rust and mdn teams for? Oooff...
Deep Intellect: Inside the mind of the octopus
My trick is to walk into a random shop, drop some change in the tip jar, and then ask to use the restroom. I’ve never been turned down. Sure, I don’t want to pay to pee, but they have to clean it at their own expense, so I don’t mind chipping in.
So they came up with an excuse for why all my extensions are going to stop workinh again... Great.
The S.F bathroom problem is that heroin addicts go into bathrooms, they lock the door, they pass out, and die or have a psychotic break and break everything they can or smear shit all over the walls and then the store is liable for the wrongful death or they have to clean it up.
I added the (programming) as I thought people might be confused into thinking the article would be about electrical generators and find themselves disappointed when clicking through.
SWIFT is headquartered in Belgium.
I know, I know, oh oh oh!
some snippets from the article

> After 21 runners died when high winds and freezing rain struck an ultramarathon race, one competitor said he survived only because a shepherd carried his unconscious body to shelter.

> Local government officials who organized the ultramarathon at the Yellow River Stone Forest Park said that the tragedy had been caused by a sudden and unpredictable change in the weather that occurred a few hours into the race when runners were climbing 6,500 feet above sea level to the 12-mile mark.
That what is rewarded will be repeated! let that be a life lesson. They should have audited the tails. Always audit, when rats are involved.
All of those may be true, but the bad effects of uncontrolled capitalism most likely also have something to do with the situation.

If you expect people to live by the rules, they should have a honest opportunity to do so. But if all they can get is a job that doesn't even pay for a small room, what are your possibilities to live a honest live?

If you remove punishment, but the only option people have is to break the law to survive, the only outcome to be expected is increased number of crimes.
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Andrew is making unilateral commits to the Freenode policy & website. He's claiming Freenode is going to go seek some new decentralized underpinnings[1] possibly apart from IRC to operate under. He's shut down/blocked the community from doing IRCv3 development, which might not fit with his personal vision.

Andrew has unilaterally decided to make all channel policies draft[2]. Andrew has unilaterally changed the rule for channel take-overs, & performed a takeover (ironically for a HN bot!!! how meta-recursively high-drama!). Andrew has unilaterally decided that racial, ethnic, religious, & gender-related invectives are now ok[3] on freenode. Andrew has unilaterally changed the entire staff line up[4].

Just because he says he's doing it for good, doing it to protect us, does not justify his having seized control & having made himself dictator of this network.

Whatever disagreement he had with Tomaw, he has overly personalized this as a conflict between Tom and himself. He's ignored the wider charge that he has taken over control. Is it evil? Well it would take us many years of evaluation to establish whether it was a good or bad take over, but we'd all prefer if he not take it over like this.

"Andrew [may or may not be evil] and trying to control us!" is definitely, for sure, 100% accurate.

[1] https://github.com/freenode/web-7.0/pull/507/files#diff-3c00...

[2] https://github.com/freenode/web-7.0/pull/514/files

[3] https://github.com/freenode/web-7.0/pull/513/files#diff-0e38...

[4] https://github.com/freenode/web-7.0/pull/510/files
It isn’t half, maybe 25%? I crunched the numbers awhile ago and it was something like 2X California’s population share, which is about 12%.
> No one was competing for fastest single thread because no one needs it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law
Also "remove clicks" and "remove clutter" are directly contradictory... I want to be able to configure my browser to minimize clicks FOR ME, and I'm ok with having a lot of "clutter" i.e. functionality.
There are only 6000 psych beds in all of California right now, but the state has spent 13 billion over the last 3 years on 'homeless'. Far more will be spent this year but the problems are getting worse.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/audit-california-track-h...
Interesting... Is this a google thing? Or is that just a single signin making me think so? Who pays for it? Will it be canceled? The problem with voting is that it is a pretty weak guarantee for scientific rigor, perhaps somehow qualified voters fixes this somewhat - peer review has its own issues of course, but seeing the reasoning behind a “vote” helps improve the research in my experience
Oh man, I just realised what would work really well:

A captcha with a random level from https://www.elizium.nu/scripts/lemmings/
Yeah, this is basically the problem. Similarly, IMO, using GNOME 3 adapted for phones via Phosh feels far more natural than using GNOME 3 on desktop. It really should be an indictment of the insistence that it's possible to make one single design that works well on all form factors, or even just two form factors as disparate as a tablet and a desktop PC. If it's possible, the "state of the art" isn't really selling it.

Windows 10 honestly comes closer than expected, but then misses in such a way that it can feel both awkward to use on a desktop (the settings app is pretty uncomfortable, along with photos and to some extent even calculator) and on a tablet (tablet mode is hard to navigate; I double click an image in File Explorer, it launches Photos. I hit back, it goes back, but the picture remains open. I go back to the photo and try to close it, and now I am all the way back to the start menu. Mission failed successfully. WM_POINTER is also buggy with split panes, so I hope you didn't want to draw while doing something else...)

I guess everything has to be mobile-first now, but it's increasingly close to "desktop-barely."
From FDE, I disliked the new tabs at first, and I still do. They have no redeeming qualities.

They’re not denser, they’re not more readable, and they’re definitely not more usable as they’re floating in the tab bar unmoored from the rest of the browser. They don’t make any sense and they’re visually unappealing.
The biggest problem is that the Cops 1) hate the DA because he's charging them with crimes, and 2) have a terrible clearance rate, which predates the current DA. They're hoping to drum up the narrative that this is his fault and replace him in a recall election.

To some extent, it's working. Every time you talk to the cops right now, they will tell you that the crime is the DA's fault.
Why would this be a trap? They're free to run, they will just look like a glittering sticky chicken and smell like shit.
I love the new tabs, I found the old ones clumsy and ugly. Design is unfortunately something that is constantly a moving target. If Mozilla stops updating they will surely die - for most users the technical details don't matter, what matters is that their friends go, wow what is the browser you're using? And thus, redesign is just a way of staying alive...
Next time you should ask them "do you think the all victims of those crimes deserved their fate as well?"
The new tabs also look nothing like tabs. It’s now a button bar.

It looks great, but it’s not really an inprovement and is clearly designed on a large monitor.
Second this, it's a great piece of work.