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Microsoft is horrible at naming things. The one time they had a product with an awesome -- Silverlight -- name they cancelled it.

(Of course they also recycle product names so Silverlight will probably come back but knowing MSFT it will be attached to something that sucks.)
From the parent comment's link:

> A Reuters examination of many of those documents, as well as deposition and trial testimony, shows that from at least 1971 to the early 2000s, the company’s raw talc and finished powders sometimes tested positive for small amounts of asbestos, and that company executives, mine managers, scientists, doctors and lawyers fretted over the problem and how to address it while failing to disclose it to regulators or the public.

I think you're being downvoted for not RTFA, not for asking a question.
Now that you mention pasting things into #django-dev, one thing that stuck with me was https://dpaste.com/

I think it was more closely branded as a "paste service for django community to use" than it is now, but I keep using it because it just works perfectly, without any captchas, ads, complicated UIs or other unnecessary fluff, the domain name is easy to remember and it's been up every time since around 2007 when I discovered it. Just paste, submit and share the link, and it always works as you expect.
Actually I bothered calculating the CO2 emissions per mile for a 2021 diesel car with 88mpg nominal efficiency with the same factor (1.25) as this website and it turns out to just 145 grams of CO2/mile. Compared to Tesla's nominal 130g/mile on grid mix, the diesel car is just 11% higher than the electric car. Pretty impressive eh?
It's also at least $30,000 cheaper (not accounting subsidies you see), has a longer lifespan and range, doesn't require overhauling the global electrical grid infrastructure with a cost of untold billions, doesn't have all the externalities of the car battery lifecycle and sourcing lithium, and I'm pretty sure it produces less CO2 per mile when you're driving in cold weather and the cabin needs heating. So even if your target is lowering CO2 emissions there are better ways to spend all this capital for doing so. Or at least that's my opinion.
So Nanite is just traditional LOD baking implemented in a wholistic and automatic way?

The major difference seems to be they've done the work end to end to handle all the occlusion corner cases as well as a sophisticated mesh and texture streaming implementation that targets modern SSDs.
It's basically a mini-ec2 in your server room. The software and hardware give you a platform to deploy VMs configured however you want.
Just your annual reminder that the Land Value Tax is the Least Evil Tax. Tax "rent"[0] at 85-100%, allow owner-residents to defer LVT taxes owed to time of sale with modest interest. Speculators would be naturally driven out in favor of people actually using the land.

[0] - Which is gatekeeping/charging for land (finite natural unimproved resources like space, spectrum, water, wildlife, oil, etc)
AI is a red herring here (as the article sort of alludes). What should be discussed is what level of privacy invasion should be allowable for law enforcement et al. It seems right now that if an interrogation is non-interactive, it's essentially in bounds. As we get to the point where we can "at scale" harvest information from people that essentially relates to their thoughts and mental state, there needs to be a real discussion of what law enforcement is allowed to do.

Any framing of this as "responsible use of AI" or "algorithmic accountability" or whatever is playing right into the hands of the people who want to use this stuff. We shouldn't care how accurate or explainable or unbiased it is, we should care about the limits we place on our governments with respect to monitoring us.
I hope Snowden receives pardon and comes back to his home country. Two presidents have already left office and I was hoping Trump did that. Snowden is a whistleblower and he needs protection since his report to Washington Post was done in good faith.
They aren't using benzene intentionally as an ingredient. So even if they aren't just reselling a generic product this is likely an impurity in one of the ingredients. It doesn't really matter if its a white label or if its custom manufactured for the big brand. In the end it could still vary next month if the source materials are not sufficiently controlled. Although it could be the same if the process results in consistent levels of impurities.
Fair enough, my wording was incorrect, and you are technically correct (the best kind of correct). :)

What I should have said is "All of the people currently running Libera have been successfully running Freenode for all these years."
Plenty of companies live outside the cloud on their own hardware.
I got relatively good at vim N times counting some years back (but forgotten it now as I don't use vim as much these days). It was a practice thing. I made a point to never repeat a command more than twice and after a while it became second nature. I even got really good at guessing how many lines away things were (but nowadays I just use relative line numbers).

I never became fully fluent, but I also didn't try too hard over the "don't repeat commands" thing. And I got lazy after about a year (but also used other editors a lot more, due to team members using them and such) and over time lost the ability. Some day perhaps I'll make a point to learn again, but for now I mostly use VSCode without vim mode...
It seems to me that it's been proven over and over again that market pressure has insufficient power to ensure consumer safety or product efficacy. That argument is often a tactic to blame the victim for corporate malfeasance or carelessness. For example, you should actually look up what happened to the woman who spilled McDonalds coffee on her lap instead of believing all of the '90s sitcom jokes about it.

A powerful government is needed to check the power of corporations and there need to be consequences for the corporation and its leaders which cause actual harm, so they don't just treat it as another cost to their business.
My SO has an AMD gaming laptop that came with a 135W power supply. Surprised the heck out of me as I typically see Lenovo/Apple laptops with 45W or 65W power supplies. Doesn't seem to be an Intel-only thing.
What do you mean exactly? The teapot was "scanned" from a physical model, not designed from scratch. I'm quoting "scanned" because it was a manual process, and it'd be fair to say there was a little bit of design involved. But the primary distinction you made here between design and scan isn't really accurate without more qualification or explanation. You can see pictures of the original physical teapot model and the scan data (drawings) on the WP page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_teapot
Fusion reactors and a bubble holding something just shy of one bar pressurized breathable air. Cheap enough when we talk about industrial scale asteroid mining. You just have to care a lot less about the people in these bubbles in space than we do now.
With so much drama on I-R-C, Freenode is now trash thanks to L-E-E
I have Live 11 on macOS 11.2.3 on an Intel 2.3GHz MBP and Live states output latency as 13ms for a 64 sample buffer at 44.1KHz sample rate. Apparently latency is reported by the audio interface driver itself, rather then measured, because live has a parameter to override that latency, including with negative values (using time travel?) It's something I should fiddle with, for sure. It would be nice to have playable virtual instruments!
My choice name is "Global Pollution Epidemic"

I think it really captures what the the problem is, rather then making it some concept that seems abstract and immovable to the average person. Lots of people deny climate change, almost no one denies that humans pollute a lot.
> That won't matter if SpaceX has a monopoly on the air they breath, the food they eat and the water they drink.

Does the colony itself have to be owned by the transport company?

Any of the colony?

Including the life support, the factories which make the life support, the mining equipment which digs up the resources these factories use, or anything else?

I’m not expecting great things from human nature, but I expect Terran governments to forcefully insist on non-Monopolistic behaviour very quickly, even in the absence of abuse of power, as they’ll be lobbied by both potential investors and military hawks with “isolationism bad” rhetoric.
The little ones broke too often.
I'll ignore the other parts I disagree with in this post, since it's cool to have different views but I just wanted to post that it may someday be possible to run vim9script plugins in neovim :)

I'm working on a project that might allow at least 90% or higher compat here: https://github.com/tjdevries/vim9jit

Of course, vim9script isn't complete yet, so the spec isn't all the way done, but it may someday be possible to run them in neovim.

Additionally, if someone actually just wanted to port all the C code to run or has some other way to make vim9script run, neovim is not opposed to making that happen.
Actually, standard Azure rack is on the order of $1.1 mm of hardware depending on SKU if I am not mistaken. So I would guess, it could be more like $2 mm. There is the aspect of management and other vendors Dell/EMC + VMware like you to pay way more than the hardware costs for e.g. VXRail/ vSphere licences. That is the real target.
I think it’s a combination of “search is hard” and “witty comments / titles make it even harder to search for”.

I’d argue most of these sites would be far better off with just using Algolia or Google as their main search engine and calling it a day.
I had this happen to me this morning on macOS: I saw there was an update available, accepted it, and ended up with ST4. I was planning on buying it in the immediate future anyways, but having it sprung on me actually saved me $10 (thanks to the release period discount).

Overall, I'm not too upset about this -- a lot of the commenters in the linked thread seem to think that software shouldn't change major versions without (more) explicit consent, but ST4's backwards compatibility appears to be perfect so far (I have all kinds of weird personal plugins that use less-documented parts of the ST API, and they're all still working). They could have certainly made the update message clearer, but I don't think the developers deserve the kind of indignation they're receiving.
> It actually is sort of nice, because "works" isn't binary.

Spoken like a true gaslit tech user.
Are there any examples of companies making a contractually binding pledge to never use any telemetry data for anything than improving the application/service... NEVER for creating marketing profiles or for surfacing ads?
I tried to get into that for awhile. I tend to look at the line number where I want to jump, and do <number>gg instead. It has the benefit of allowing me to look at a file and get an idea of what's on lines 400 through 425 (for example).
“Cheap Bots, Done Quick ”
Did he explain why?
.NET 6 Preview 4 Ships 'Ready for Real-World Testing'
I am also guessing a lot of Reddit users have moved here after the pandemic.

Partly seen on the downgraded quality of comments, especially dealing with pure sentiment rather than facts (ex: crypto promoters)

*Going on a tangent is a typical technique used to derail an argument in favor of the actor
Did we just have a poor DVD player or are scratched disks a problem for everyone using this service?
I'm sure glad I took that Johnson and Johnson vaccine
3. Let users pay for new features via something like patreon or a consulting firm (depending on if it's a B2C or B2B relationship.)
That's a good point, and I would like to see a universal basic income to see the actual effects.

But my conjecture would be we might see lower wages for desirable work, but higher wages for undesirable work.
was it an ad? I dont see it...
I always find it strange that people recommend a different letter for the register when recommending macros. Why not just use `qq` and `@q` (with the added advantage that clearing the register is `qqq`) ?
That's an interesting angle, it's funny because I thought it was the other way round - that it was changed to be more persuasive. I guess "climate change" also opens it up to the argument that even skeptics are in agreement that climate changes naturally, so they can brush aside evidence with "hey we don't disagree but it's a natural process and there's some doubt over whether humans are responsible" :-/
Duh! I got tricked by the things near the PDU as "oh, these must be the pure-compute nodes".

So maybe that's the better question: what are the 4U worth of stuff surrounding the power? More networking stuff? Management stuff? (There was some swivel to the back of the rack / with networking, but I can't find it now)

Edit: Ahh! The rotating view is on /product and so that ~4U is the fiber. (Hat tip to Jon Olson, too)
Is it possible to play a DVD without making a copy in the DVD player's RAM?

What if I extend an HDMI cable from my DVD player to your TV?

My library manages to lend ebooks; they even have wait lists for them.
Just curious, what EU brand/brands did you end up going with? I couldn't find anything specific to that on the EWG website.
This is a really great article! That fi ligature in the monospaced font makes my eyes twitch though.
I don't disagree with you. Yes, one is worse than the other.

The point that I'm making is that the distinction is dwarfed by the baseness of the paradigm itself: politically motivated interference with airliners in flight, to force a landing and arrest people in transit who are currently not within your jurisdiction. Anyway you want to look at it this happened in both cases, and we shouldn't be celebrating "ooh, but technically, we just withdrew permissions so it's not that bad is it?"
Yup!

We want to create interfaces to make this simpler for people to use.

One example is here: https://github.com/mjlbach/neovim-ui which is just in a separate repo to make it easier to work on rather than one huge PR.

This is an extension of the ideas that I started in https://github.com/nvim-lua/popup.nvim and a few other places.

The idea would to be to create interfaces that users, plugins and/or GUIs could override to provide a unified experience while still being customizable for users.

(and as a self plug, I think we have a lot of interesting ideas in telescope.nvim about UI that could be upstreamed over time)
You install it in your own terminal on your own computer, not on the institutions' computers.
Also, for research that doesn't handle personal identifiable information (think civil engineering or astronomy), I don't think it'd be an issue to have Fig read the parts of the filesystem to which admins gave you read access anyway.
Hopefully autocomplete would work over ssh.
This specifically mentions indigenous people, but unfortunately I don't think many people actually care about them (besides surface level). But how does this affect the average person's food supply? Don't we get a lot of fish/seafood from the arctic? Tuna and crab for example? Seems like it would affect fisheries in the north east of northern America and as well as northern Europe. That seems like a big deal for a lot of people. Does anyone have any more information on this? I imagine a lot of people depend on these regions for food.
Indeed!

Example: The other day I had a question about Exchange Server client compatibility. I wanted a discussion about pros and cons, i.e. not a good fit for Stack Exchange since there’s no obviously correct answer. So I googled for ⸤exchange server subreddit⸣. And of course, there was an Exchange Server subreddit. Asked the question there and got lots of high-quality answers, zero bullshit. That’s Reddit at it’s best.

PS. In order to save one’s sanity, I encourage all redditors to use https://old.reddit.com/ exclusively.
>does it ruin your appreciation for great music in lower quality formats?

As someone that has high-end gear, I can absolutely tell the difference in most cases between 320kbps MP3 and lossless when switching between the two versions of the same song. It's hard to put a finger on, but it just "feels" different to my ears/perception. However, after listening to exclusively one or the other for a few minutes or not A/B switching the same song, I have a much harder time detecting the difference.

Quality of the master and quality of the equipment matter much more, IMHO.
“Gentlemen, there’s only two ways I know of to make money: bundling and unbundling.”

https://hbr.org/2014/06/how-to-succeed-in-business-by-bundli...
If a real company that doesn't protect criminals for money were offering this, it'd be interesting, but when a known criminal-friendly company that wants to be a monopoly offers this, I can't help but seeing it as a protection racket.
The density they're getting here is significantly higher than AWS Outposts, which is interesting. The top-end (~$600k) AWS Outposts seem to max out at around 1k CPUs and 4.5 TB RAM in a rack (e.g. 12x m5.24xlarge = 12x 384 GB), while this rack can house 2k CPUs and 30 TB (!) RAM.
government contractor, yeah. It is insane how much effort there is put into getting butts in chairs for the right number of hours and how little effort goes to actually building something useful.
What I did to improve my reddit experience:

1. unsubscribe to all the big default subreddits, like askreddit, funny, etc (don't worry, you can still check them out if you want).

2. go to r/all and use the filter feature to block the most annoying content or popular stuff that you absolutely don't care about. I blocked politics subreddits, some memes, anime, communities for popular youtubers, some of the worse default ones. Just look at the current /r/all listing and block whatever you don't care about that appears in the first few pages, refresh and do it again a few times. I go back every once in a while to repeat the process.

3. subscribe to specific things you care about. smaller communities are better, some of the large ones are better moderated than others.

4. favorite a few (3-4) subreddits that are about things I want to check often.

My home feed is mostly tailored to my interests, even if there's some fluff. Smaller subreddits I don't check often and appear there. Then I check my favorite subreddits for specific things, and there's r/all for the popular stuff.

I find that general topics like tech, music, sports are usually bad, but more specific, not necessarily niche, are better (a sub about a specific framework, maybe, or about your hometown, favorite band, or favorite team). Moderation style helps a lot.
Could you elaborate as what about the melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet was concerning to Sir David King? Is it the mercury that is released or the rising sea levels it will cause or something else?
Nothing, unless someone disagrees; once someone argues that the cat isn't furry, stop using 'is' and it will be clearer what you really disagree about.

Consider a more realistic example, e.g. "Russia is a dictatorship" vs "No it isn't". What are these people arguing about? A fact (they disagree over which things Russia has done), an opinion (they agree on what Russia has done but disagree on whether those things were bad), semantics (they agree on what Russia did and how bad it was, but disagree on whether that meets the criteria of a dictatorship), or something else? Using e-prime isn't a panacea against this sort of confusion, but it is almost always helpful.
This would almost certainly be the end result in the US too, if a plaintiff would have standing to sue. Unfortunately, that's the Catch 22 that's really prevented any of the particularly egregious practices from having their legal justification scrutinized in a court of law. However, because these programs are secret, you have by definition no way of knowing that you've been harmed and therefore have standing.
Open Vim or Emacs on the remote server. A strength about those two is they work from the terminal.
Given the military history of Central Europe, it is actually very optimistic :)
> Your frequent trips to the laundry will produce much more carbon than you could ever save by not buying an appliance that serves for 10 years on average.

Not if you go to the laundry next to the grocery. Why would you spend more money on fuel when you could combine a trip?

> But blamind the consumer who is currently operating withing governing authorities guidelines is fair game.

The consumer is the one that influences the market and has the power to remove or advance politicians. If there is no market to fill the producer will no longer produce. Do you think manufacturing moved to China because the corporations liked China and the logistics or because people would actually buy cheeper products made in China?
I'd much rather have this and all the fallback than "well it could work but they put a little nub on the port so it doesn't fit."
Even I have this problem. I bbought an amp reader and throw out anything reporting below 0.4ma/h. So many devices come bundles with poor cables my house is riddled with cables that I just never want to use for charging.

I'm actually TERRIFIED of pluggin anything in to my kids Switch other than Nintendo's official cable, incase I brick i t.

Does anyone know if they've patched this? I have some Dell laptop charger USB-Cs which I use alot, and I've had to caution everything in the family to never plug the Switch into it despite it fitting and despite every room in the house having such a charger...
Thank you for being the first person to post an informative reply rather than down voting a question. HN is turning into reddit.

> I'm not sure how you could believe

Though this is unnecessarily insulting.

> the people who unknowingly inhaled asbestos and rubbed it all over their babies do not have standing.

If the concentration was so low as to be negligible (as the links I have posted state) then why the successful litigation? This is the question I am asking!

> The evidence is that there was enough asbestos in the talc to cause cancer,

This is the evidence I am asking for. The NHS and other respected UK bodies state differently. This seams to be a purely US issue and I am asking why.
I’m also astounded at how badly Google has squandered the opportunity in business productivity.

Even companies that were all-in on Google for email, calendar, and documents went with (for example) Slack for chat and Zoom for meetings. Google has had multiple products in both categories for years! And yet somehow could not put together a compelling package the way Microsoft did with O365 + Teams seemingly overnight.
I see the category list...where would "Beauty" or "Cars" be listed?
Before I finished reading your first sentence, I knew you are a Kakoune evangelist.

object-action may be a more natural order in some languages. I use a language which permits both. So I think you're overstating how much of a deal it is. That said, Kakoune has controversial design choices in a couple of areas:

* no explicit select mode means not only you're selecting text all the time as you move your cursor (which can be annoying). More importantly, it means there are very few keys left on the keyboard for user defined commands. This comes up all the time on the forums whenever someone asks for a new function or an unused leader key. "Fewer modes" is not a virtue in itself, because modes have other benefits like taking the weight off keyboard.
* Shell as a scripting language. Really. It's completely awful for maintainability.
* I continue to argue that multi-cursors are a poor man's search&replace. It doesn't show off-screen matches by default, so you don't know if you're matching anything off-screen or not.

There are Kakoune features I like very much, for example improved integration with commandline utilities. You can more easily use them to process the text inside editor.
That's a very scary thought. What you're saying is, these big companies already are, or about to become, effectively untouchable, because they're now important strategic assets for United States in its struggle to maintain global economic dominance.