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It's the kind of commute where you have said you don't want to be a renter for your entire life nor devote your entire paycheck to the mortgage.

That said, I actually like my commute that is 30 minutes of bike followed by 30 minutes on the train. I get exercise in the morning and evening and make steady progress on my backlog of books.

I would hate it if I was driving. That's just wasted time.
And it's often not just more expensive living near a big city, it's also a different lifestyle. The type of housing near in to the city where I work is different than the housing further away. For example you may have to live in a smaller apartment/condo in a more urban neighborhood vs. living in a SFH in a more green neighborhood. Some people like the former, others like the latter.
One of my biggest complaints about Firefox is how much work I have to do in my userChrome.css to make it look nice. My current one is almost 400 lines and it's mostly adding separators/element padding, changing border radiuses and disabling hover and focus styles.
Is he any more erratic and outlandish then anyone else? Or is it simply his life is under a microscope, and every mistake gets amplified by a media hungry for clicks and willing to exaggerate or embellish itself?
The difference being that the UK's rail infrastructure (especially around London) is orders (plural) of magnitude better than that in the Bay Area.

I lived and worked in London (South Kensington/Pimlico at college, Streatham, Walthamstow, Acton Town, Notting Hill - all over, really) for about 16 years. I've been in the Bay Area for ~17 years. There really isn't any comparison. Londoners have it made, even if it doesn't feel it when the train is packed/a few mins late/cancelled.

I see the light-rail here going by on occasion. It's empty. BART is inadequate (there are 270 stations on the tube, there are 50 on BART covering a larger area), and it runs with a 10-20 minute cadence, not the 2-5 minute cadence of the tube. As far as real trains go, Caltrain is pretty good if you're on the track (really, the train itself is nicer than most in the UK) but it's coverage is very limited.

Just like the NHS, you don't know what you have until it's gone.
The new design language looks beautiful imho. They characterize it as the following, and I think they nailed it:

>Cohesive, calmer visuals: Lighter iconography, a refined color palette, and more consistent styling throughout.

Also the cookie-handling update, moving Total Cookie Protection from strict mode to normal mode, is a good thing especially for non-techie users:

>We’ve enhanced the privacy of the Firefox Browser’s Private Browsing mode with Total Cookie Protection, which confines cookies to the site where they were created, preventing companies from using cookies to track your browsing across sites. This feature was originally launched in Firefox’s ETP Strict mode.
I’m personally not sure that is a factor for many users, a good web app is as good as a good native app on modern hardware
Oftentimes the landlord covers utilities and lumps that up in to the rent, and I have a place in New England where that is the convention. We pay $500-$600/month for heating oil in the winter. Then we have about $300 in electricity and another $300 for water/sewage.

These numbers might be off but you get the idea.

That's the difference.
Right but I didnt see anything in this acquisition that would trigger antitrust (WhatsApp only, I did see issues with Instagram). And independent messaging app that didnt have ads seems like a safe purchase from a legal standpoint. That is why I asked the OP why he was surprised it was allowed.
I can microwave fish and have no shade thrown at me
I commuted 45 minutes each way to a prior job for a couple of years. Yes, I ate my breakfast in the car on the way there.

No, I didn't sleep, read, or do anything distracting on my drive because when you're in deer country, dawn and dusk are times to be vigilant and ready to brake or swerve if horribly necessary.

Still had $4100 of damage one January.

Commutes can be anywhere from 0 - ? percent multitaskable.
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I interact the most with AFE (aide financière aux études) and FRQNet (grad school scholarships). These websites look like they weren't updated since about 1999 and are really, really counter-intuitive to use. Admittedly, they're also probably not the most used websites, and not high in their priority list.
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my 3 cents here would be: I wish I could have an option to install full desktop version of Firefox on my mobile. There is no performance or memory obstacles any more.
I don't trust the US to not abuse the data. Laws or no laws.
That would be a concern for auto-importing the addresses into the promoted newsletter (obviously you don't want to just expose an endpoint that says "POST an email here to bypass captcha and confirmation email!"), but for the first half of the problem (allowing the promoter to know who clicked the link), I'm pretty sure it just hasn't been prioritized. Mailchimp already supports web hooks for click events.

Once that side is taken care of, importing could be done between trusted parties, but yeah, might need to address that in the ToS/privacy policy first.
That's unfair to Stephenson. The computer in his story was based on real design sketches of what you could do if you had atomically-precise manufacturing with an integrated liquid cooling network. (He did make the cooling network jet steam out at the end to go with the story's steampunk vibe -- that part seemed unrealistic.)
I've been doing WFH for 5 years and feel like the rest of the world just caught on. In addition to what you mention:

- Control of food. No more bagels or carb dumping ground. No more limited food options. My own kitchen.

- Control of equipment. Need a 4k monitor? Need a trackball? No approvals needed.

- Control of ergonomics. Get exactly the chair you need. Get an electric height adjustable desk without going through facilities.

- Control temperature. Never be too hot or cold.

- So many great options for breaks. Walk down the street. Meditate in the garden. Play Beatsaber. Take a nap, naps are magic.

- Control your lighting. Good color temperature and comfortable brightness make the space more relaxing and can aid sleep and wakefulness.

- The ultimate corner office. Privacy and separate space that you can personalize to your heart's content.

- Location flexibility. Work from a beach rental. Do a city-stay near a WeWork. Find a mountain cabin with high speed internet. Move to a new state without having to change jobs.

- Finances. Live in a low tax state. Have an older car. Spend less on clothes, lunches, parking, gas, tolls. Live in cheaper square footage without worrying about what it does to your commute.

- Stress. More emotional speration between you and your work. Relationships are through Zoom and require less emotional investment. Work forms less a part of your identity and changing it involves fewer changes to your daily routine.

- Caffeine. With more tools to manage your wakefulness, less need to lean on the crutch of caffeine. For me, less caffeine means less alcohol as well.

Other people are free to have their opinions that they don't like WFH or can't wait to get back into the office. For me, I really struggle to understand how you cannot love it. With total control of my environment, I can easily correct for minor downsides such as needing to maintain work-life balance and good social connections. After years of optimization, I have a better quality of life than our CEO. I'd be insane to give it up.
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Belgium with its four governments is quite a weird edge case on many aspects of international standardisation. I don't don't much about the Belgian systems other than that there are several, but theoretical Belgium could make four systems work separately to authenticate abroad with the right federal setup.

Like is the case with my own government, I don't have very great expectations of Belgium's federal government and their IT projects. I'd wish countries could just share their implementations with other governments. Hell, I believe any code developed with public money should be open source for the benefit of everyone, but governments aren't a fan of that because companies charge more for developing software in the open.
I mean this in absolutely the nicest possible way. But all of the above can be solved by getting a social life outside the office
Now let's go FTL via phase velocity craft...

Sadly we can not play the same game with light as this does with the wind...
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I've found that too, I'm more efficient working in an office, but you know what, I don't care as much anymore. Being at home, in my community, with my family more often and for longer time throughout the day, taking breaks to do whatever around the house of go for a walk. That's what matters now. If I'm less productive, I think that's fine because my overall happiness increases. Companies should just factor that in from now on and many do.
We build 2 buildings for each person - 1 to live in and other to work in. And then we build roads between them and parking spaces near them. And then we pay these people to use all that infrastructure and waste their precious time doing it, instead of just using their computer and internet connection (which they already use anyway) for 1 more thing.

It's so inefficient it boggles my mind we're still doing it.
I use it for regex on the WSL shell. Another win for M$!
It's a job like any other, and much less demeaning than working in advertising, but college degree being useless on the job market is a big problem everywhere in the West.

At this point I'm not sure if it's an issue with the degrees, or mismatched expectations. That is, should a degree be a ticket to a middle-class life, or should we just stop telling young people that it is?
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The government enacted emergency powers and public health laws they already possessed when those contracts were signed. Where is the abuse?

I'd be personally ok with the government bailing out smaller landlords (just because), but the largest percentage of these defaults are going to affect private equity firms who have bought an outrageous amount of the housing stock. We need to stop socializing risk and privatizing profits, and this would be a good place to start.
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Likely because those jobs don't pay enough to cover life's expenses, which makes them not worth taking. It does cost money to get to a job, particularly in areas where public transportation doesn't exist or isn't adequate (cost of car, insurance, maintenance, fuel, property taxes on car, etc).
>My suspicion is that there are other factors at play here.

Do you have data to back up your suspicion?
That tabwrangler extension is great, thanks!
Yes, it's his site. It also says so in the first sentence and links to the talk.
I don't think minimal compiler complexity is a real requirement as much as safe and reliable software is.

CPU fabs aren't easy, yet we're fine with that.
I bought a bunch of videos for my son to watch on his YouTube account. We can no longer access them as they are age restricted.

I don't have a problem with Google providing parental controls, if I as the parent am in control. But Google have unilaterally decided that for us. Never buying any media from Google (or any other large tech company again). Reverting to second hand DVDs and putting them on Plex.
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That depends on your use case, many devices also present a login or even root shell on the serial console on boot. I'd prefer my WiFi to rs232 converter to have security out of the box just for that use case.
I agree with that but a independent messaging app seems perfectly safe for FB to purchase. Instagram a little different but I never saw the government being concerned or potentially not allow this one to go through. That is why I was curious about the OPs perspective because maybe they did see something (not counting hindsight and that FB is a terrible company, but only in the moment)
Having written lots of Perl and Python, Perl just _felt_ fast (I don't have benchmarks to back this up). Also agree on the included in OS point (when I started coding in Perl, it came pre-installed on Sun Solaris; I do remember seeing some old version of Python too but by then we already had written a bunch of Perl).
In Vista RTM and sp1 turning off indexer was a great solution. It was monster on the drive and memory (5-10 min startups on computers that should be up in 30-60 seconds and were after you turned things like that off). They fixed it in sp2. Superfetch was just as bad as well as the windows defender. Most of that was fixed in win7. I now let all 3 of those services run. The issues were fixed...

The problem is these 'solutions' never go away. They are never revisited. So people just keep applying them because 15 years ago they had an issue with them.
I saw a UFO once, and it looked and behaved exactly like everyone says it does. Silvery oval shape, hovering and moving left/right in a straight line before accelerating at an insane rate. Moved across the sky in a quarter of a second. It was about half a nail's width at arm's length distance.

I did hear a stereotypically UFO hovering sound a few minutes later even though there was nothing anywhere around me.

Either this is psychological and people have some kind of built-in hallucination effect for this specific phenomena in the sky. Which is interesting and should be studied. Or it's the real thing. And if it's real it's not going to affect our life by any amount unless we want it to. If the aliens wanted to land and share information or anything else with us they would have done it already, and we can't force them to do any such thing so who cares.

I am also extremely skeptical of Roswell type claims of crashed craft, unless the aliens have horrible QA engineers or we get millions of visitors per century I doubt they would crash one of their flying cars on our planet.
To quote Eric Raymond:

“Perl still has its uses. For tiny projects (100 lines or fewer) that involve a lot of text pattern matching, I am still more likely to tinker up a Perl-regexp-based solution […] Actually, these are much like the things Perl did in its original role as a sort of combination awk/sed/grep/sh, before it had functions and direct access to the operating system API.”

— https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3882

Personally, I write these kind of things in actual awk, sed, and shell script. If these are not sufficient, I skip Perl altogether and go directly to some modern higher-level language.
Yes, you can see his name on the title slide: https://static.pinboard.in/ob/ob.001.jpg
Yeah... um... remind me who, occupies half of Georgia? Who took over part of Ukraine? It wasn't NATO.

How soon do you think Russia is going to leave the Ukraine? Ever? Are they going to take more if they get the chance? Hard to prove, but it seems likely.

So really, who's playing the ratchet game?
I agree. I wasn't built at all for the internet/phone/email things that people call friendships now. Long-distance friendships aren't even even friendships to me, or rather they're in maintenance mode until we live near each other again.
>He said if the authorities had information someone was building a bomb or filming a martyrdom video in their living room they would be able to apply for a warrant from the Home Secretary and a senior judge.

>‘We would then be able to access that room, have a look at whether a bomb is indeed being built or not. And we need to have that ability online also,’ he said.

Kinda sounds like thats their plan. :-P
Might we say that their code has rusted?
Back when D originally debuted, I couldn't separate it in my mind from C# and Java, despite the fact that you could manage your own memory. It felt like it fit into the same space, yet didn't have a compelling ecosystem. (Competing standard libraries did not help their case!)

That's at least why I glossed over it.
I can't think of a reason that would apply here. For me at least if I were on a toolchain so crap I had to use C you'd have to pay me a lot of money not to work on something else.
Can you expound upon why you feel that way?
'Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.'

I see that the Firefox UI designers agree that it's like fashion design...
> "We’ve redesigned and modernized the core experience to be cleaner, more inviting, and easier to use."

This usually means we reskinned and somehow ended with it being slower.

Also the whole release notes are UI changes, particulary for mac ?

I wished the only non-chromium browser with active development was.. idk, different?
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This isn't very common because it's easy for tenants to lie and provide fake references or say they were living with a parent or relative, it's typically a waste of time for the landlord. Most landlords simply rely on official records like credit and background checks, proof of income etc.
Another large pool, at least in my circle, are very boring people who like having an external justification for their inaction. I would spend time with family, but there's a pandemic. I would take the kids to the park, but there's a pandemic. I would go to happy hour after work, but there's a pandemic. I would start exercising and losing weight, but the gym is closed, pandemic.

Frankly, I don't care if people aren't interested in spending time with their family or going to happy hour during regular times. But the people who did so previously out of obligation find it convenient to have an external justification.
What put me off the most was that there was no warning: I had to know what DRM meant or run unfree software without realizing it. But, as was pointed out, this is also true of most Linux distrubutions, which is bad. There should be a clear warning and the default should be nothing unfree.
The author started with the premise that V8 won't fit on a microcontroller, but didn't really justify why a new language was needed.

Why would someone choose Toit over Espruino or QuickJS, which seem to promise JS on a microcontroller?

http://www.espruino.com https://bellard.org/quickjs
In my experience, pro-strict-discipline ideas don't care about effectiveness or consequences. The ideology of discipline itself is the point and the virtue being pursued.
I quit my job at least partly because of this. I made sure I had a new job lined up first of course...