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Your original comment was about side loading apps on iPhone ON a thread about iPhone apps. I don't see what consoles have to do with this. You are being ignorant of the fact that the vast majority of iPhone users CANNOT and WILL NOT side load apps using a developer account.
They are nuts - this guy must have sniffed some diesel.
What next - 10 Euro's to start the car.
This is a good technique, and it's preferable to investing a bunch of effort into building a comprehensive suite of unit tests. But this technique is applicable to more than just core libraries; you can apply this to your entire stack, and to your services: Test that you don't break your reverse dependencies, by running those reverse dependencies, like in http://catern.com/usertests.html
It seems easy enough (so far) to ignore/disable all of the new features, and the new features seem to provide a nice legal raison d'être for the software.

It's possible that it'll be harder in the future, but so far Plex still compares favorably to all alternatives I know about.
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> That sounds like remote employees are less productive than on-site employees

The linked study (in my comment) says otherwise. WFH employees were better performers on average. This means that WFH employees — when normalized for performance — had much worse promotion rates that their office peers.
We just had to replace our tile roof for a 20 year old house. I've seen estimates of 20-50 years and I'm sure you can find some that last centuries, just don't buy a tile roof expecting it to do that. There are still Ford model T's on the road today, but we don't tell people that cars last a century.
There are definitely automation tools (augers, aerators, …) but they tend to be pretty fixed and inflexible, and sometimes there's an issue with them, and you need one of each system you want / need for each bin.
How do you even have reinforcement learning with non-real numbers? The point is to maximize a score. It seems to me, any benefit you'd get from using an alternative number system could be replicated by using an algorithm to convert multiple real number scores into a single value.
I didn't know that was a Kodi feature. It's actually enough for me to consider migrating away from my Plex setup, or at least running them in parallel.
it's true for other things where we have historical records and the production method hasn't changed significantly (productivity).
for example, a hand tailored italian shoes + suit is 1 oz of gold, going back to roman times. The style and material have changed, but the tailor labor : gold ratio hasn't changed much.
I would be kind of interested to know how many times the farmers need to go into the grain bin to rescue the robot.
It's a shame, too, as the most "dense" recent language we had was perl and that got universally made fun of as "line noise" - which I feel influences people more than they think.
Nuclear funds a lot of propaganda. More than the carbon lobby, I think.
I'm pretty sure people eat pretzels all over the western world. What makes that a Pennsylvania snack?
But 10 units per acre is what was being proposed with just 1 parking space per dwelling. That acre is not going to get increased commercial (not enough customers in walking distance, no parking for people driving in), or transit (not dense enough)

Go for 35 per acre sure, you don't need 70 parking spaces then, because (assuming it isn't literally 35 units in the middle of suburbia) you get commercial and transit (people still got to get to work - maybe in WFH stays around that will change)
I wouldn't want anything resembling a golf cart, but in principle yes! Tesla has an OK idea of minimal dashboard, but then a less OK idea of tons of features on the screen. I don't know if automaticity or app based control or minimized function is the answer, but less is more to my eyes.
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If you live on the command line I would like to highly recommend "beets" to manage your music: https://beets.io

It allows you to match your albums with specific MusicBrainz entries to get precise metadata.

It can be used in combination with playback tools like Jellyfin or Plex if you simply point them at your Beets library folder.

I've been using it for a few years and I would never go back.
But it isn't buying forgiveness because noone of those paying was involved in the atrocities in question. It might be called an unsolicited bribe given in hopes of reducing any multi-generational grudges that might be held. Turns out it seems to have the opposite effect, by putting a spotlight on an ugly bit of history. Lesson learned: don't bother. If the receiving side considers it a negotiation it's on them that they attach a price tag to the lives of their ancestral community.
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No, debts are massively _hurt_ by deflation.

Since debts/credits are made in nominal terms debtors are benefited by inflation, and creditors are benefited by deflation.

Example: in 2021 I borrow $100, with an agreement to pay back $105 in 2022. If inflation over that year is +10% (or any amount of inflation > 5%), then I benefit because the real value of what I pay back is only worth $105 * (1-0.1) = $94.5 in constant 2021 dollars.

If on the other hand, there is deflation (or any amount of inflation < 5%), I lose because the real value of what I pay back is higher than what I received. E.g. if there is 10% deflation, then the amount I have to pay back is now worth $105 * (1+0.1) = $115.50 in constant 2021 dollars.
As in one the Top Gear episodes, where the user manual for S class Mercedes is thicker than a book on English History...
Piggybacking off this... Has anyone built a really good tax exemption system. I know Amazon has a pretty decent system for their B2B that allows you to upload a tax exemption certificate for your state (US). Then they have some sort of auto validation process. I assume it calls out to each state's secretary of state system to determine the validity. I would be interested to know if anyone has seen a SASS service like this that other B2B providers can leverage for fully automatic tax exemption validation.
Friendly reminder that people who deal with "unsafe by office worker standards" stuff day in and day out do not shovel money at you without critical thought just because you can portray your product as improving safety. These guys aren't wringing their hands and clutching their pearls over the thought of a dangerous job. They're finding a way to be careful and mitigate the risks of the worst outcomes and then getting the job done. To them it's no different than trying not to land on your ass trying to pin an implement to the tractor in the mud. Going into a silo or grain hopper is not a dangerous task to them. It's just a task and like any other task you should approach it in a smart manner if you want the best results. Selling something as a safety improvement isn't that easy because the physics involved in bulk materials or heavy equipment are always going to hurt people who don't work smart given enough exposure and likewise the ROI of removing any one type of exposure is low.

Now, if the machine can all but eliminate the need for the manual job they might sell a few. Because farmers love when shit just magically works because the day only has so many hours in it and one less someone has to stop what you're doing to deal with.

On a more technical note, bulk dry goods can generally be persuaded to follow gravity if you give them a kick start with vibration. This approach has a bunch of pluses (the equipment is very reliable and typically you can resolve blockage by varying the frequency) but I don't know why it isn't used for grain (though it is used on the trucks and rail cars that transport grain). You typically see it in bulk material handling settings where you can't afford to stop the line and/or it's too dangerous to make someone clear a blockage manually so I assume it's a cost thing and farming margins aren't big enough. It seems like these guys went and invented a robot that solves a problem that has an existing solution. But the article doesn't mention why the existing solution doesn't get used for grain and why the new robot will. I get that it's a high level press release but I still wanna know.
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XUAN-Bike (self-standing autonavigating bicycle)
Handbrake is probably the most popular software for that on Windows. You might need an additional library to work around copy protection. Google it.
I agree, Stripe is good, and probably is worth it - you will be paying someone do handle card processing after all.

But if they wanted to, they could hike prices tomorrow - same with any other alternatives.
Yes, to the extent they require it (and you want to stay compliant.) There are companies that can handle the remittance for you; Stripe lists several on their page. Reporting requirements would probably be quarterly or monthly.

In practice, almost all US states that have sales tax have a in-state sales threshold amount, usually $100k+ and/or 200 transactions, and at the level of business as per your example, you wouldn't hit it. (Kansas has no threshold, but this is probably illegal per the terrible court decision that allowed this sales-based nexus mess.)

https://www.streamlinedsalestax.org/for-businesses/remote-se...

EU, I dunno. Beyond my ken.
It's a good ideology, and I would suggest following it where possible, but I do see certain bad assumptions being made. These are the sort of thing I always try to do, but recently I've wound up on a team with only myself to do all architecture, programming, documentation and story writing. We have 2 QAs a team manager and someone who's in charge of coordinating market activity and sort of doing product management, but despite having multiple projects on my plate, I am the only developer. I can document things just fine, but there is no replacement for me to train. I've honestly been trying to make myself replaceable, but sometimes management just doesn't understand how many people they should have hired and when people leave it can easily result in that becoming impossible. Under those circumstances people either burn out and lose those habits, or they simply find a new job and leave just to get away from the bad situation. I'm getting pretty close to burnout in my own situation and I'm eyeballing an escape plan before somebody else can end up putting even more work on me.
Some problems with this line of thinking: for much of US history (as demonstrated by the graphic), the value of the US dollar did not steadily decrease, but oscillated around the value of gold, and during many periods increased. So most of that inflation occurred in the last half century, dramatically increasing the inflation rate.

Granted, Manhattan had no buildings or relative importance in the economy when it was purchased either, so a better example might be some comparable tracts of farmland using their 1970 value (during Bretton Woods) and current value, and calculating from there.

EDIT: Doing so with this data [0] does indeed yield an inflation rate much higher than reported CPI, at 5.7% average over the last 50 years. You can see a similar higher rate by looking at the Big Mac Index [1]. Conclusion: Real inflation is higher than CPI.

[0] https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/charts/55910/farmrealestate...
[1] https://capstoneinvest.com/inflation-cpi-and-the-big-mac-tak....
https://github.com/peng-zhihui/XUAN-Bike

http://www.pengzhihui.xyz/ seems like cool hardware/software hacker. He has made homemade ultra-mini modular Linux card computer https://github.com/peng-zhihui/Project-Quantum (similar to Rasperry Pi)
From the docs (https://stripe.com/docs/tax/checkout) it looks like Apple/Google Pay is disabled when Tax is enabled. I wonder if there is a technical limitation there or if that is something that will be supported soon?
Early adopter? Nah, I'm enjoying my laggard lifestyle
I don’t want to test out v1, be in the beta, or provide feedback. And I refuse to wait in line for sneakers, video games, or phones. I'm a laggard and proud of it.
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I just trawled eBay for "itx c2750". 2550 can also be considered for lower power, or 3750 for higher price and more capacity. Cxx58 parts can be considered instead of Cxx50 parts.

Of course all these CPUs are very old, 7-9 years since introduction. But it's ok by me, they are reasonably cold, have 4 or 8 cores, and I'm looking for a cold, silent, and reliable system, not a screaming fast system. At worst, a 10GbE card can be installed into the lone PCIe slot, but I don't expect my rig to saturate even the 1GbE built-in interface. (My board has four of these anyway.)

As of motherboard producers, SuperMicro makes the right kind: passive cooling, most / all ports wired, internal USB and / or m.2. Gigabyte made more consumer-oriented variants, but also serviceable.
I'm not sure if I misunderstand the limits[1], but I want my customers to be able to pull the image as many times as they need. While this may help with the concern about quality of images, it still leaves the rate limiting unresolved.

[1] https://www.docker.com/increase-rate-limits
> Cities attract the smartest people and then tank their birth rate.

That's pretty simplified – but even if it wasn't, we're not going to run out of “clever genes” because it's not as simple as that. (But even if it were, the selection isn't strong enough for that to happen.)

> It’s going to be a problem much sooner than that.

If our artificial selection pressures remain the same. Which they won't. Two hundred years ago, our society's “artificial selection” was completely different; in two hundred years, it'll be completely different again.
Yeah I'm a long time admirer.

Sadly they are encountering resistance though. Some departments would rather spend £X bn contracts with HP, Fujitsu etc. so they can retain more control.

Also they used to publish amazing service status dashboards, showing how many transactions were published, error / success rates, etc. for every digital service.

Apparently these were all killed off recently with no replacement, and no good reason given.
I do, yes
The problem is that the "easy" stuff was assisted if not automated a while ago, the stuff that's always the same and pretty much just requires mechanical muscle.

What's left over tends to be either controlling the stuff, dealing with failures, or work which has enough variance that it's really hard to automate reliably and perfectly.
Having a codebase that is so convoluted that only you can work on is really not a skill you should risk your career on. It might work for those people you have seen in a short period, but long term they fall behind as they not only not develop generally valuable skills (because they are constantly working on that project), they also lack the skills to write clean collaborative code, which makes them less employable. So they would be in a very bad situation when that code base loses its value. (due to company going bankrupt or the project being shelved) My argument is not against hoarding critical knowledge. I am saying that by doing so you will be the single person responsible for that area, and therefore won’t have a chance to grow and diversify your knowledge base. I can only imagine a scenario when you are working in a hostile environment with really dumb management where that attitude could be rewarding and protect you. But in that scenario I would be looking for a new job and try to quit anyways. You don’t want to base your career goals on a specific position/employer.
When the org pays for Google Analytics, Google does not share the tracking data with the rest of its business, so users' privacy is not harmed. GDS and many other UK government orgs do pay, for this reason.
The wiki image is pretty telling
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain_entrapment

Does not look fun at all
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDQGfA-0yhk
I've been leaning towards a similar mode of thinking, and like to make the point when people get too obsessed about how the universe is a simulation or a neural network.

What I have been missing is a nice list with previous examples of this line of thinking. The only good one that comes to mind is how seafaring and the ubiquity of maps was one such moment in history. I'd be curious if you have other examples.
Learning to not take rejection personally, works for every avenue of life. Say you want to meet somebody nice, you try to strike up a conversation and he tells you to sod off.
. No reason to take it personally
I'm not arguing that people can't reduce their carbon footprint, I'm arguing against a lazy suggestion that people don't actually care because they continue to buy any oil-based products, which is essentially unavoidable in modern society.
I drive a 2002 Focus MK-I, and I can use all controls rather blindly, just by feeling them.

I hope to buy a similarly ergonomic vehicle when this one becomes unmaintainable.
Create a new typeclass G that contains the cardinality of countries.

Copy all of the elements into the new value and append X.

Oh wait, G5 is incompatible with G6.

Can't we just use an imperative, dynamic language and have a type G?
and food waste doesn’t mean the groceries you bought and forgot about in the fridge. if everyone perfectly ate all the food they bought form the store it would make a small dent in overall food waste. businesses are the primary source of wasted food.

we have subsidized desert living. it’s cheaper to live in the desert and run your ac all day and keep your pool full than to live somewhere with less environmental challenges
> But if it is "on the way out", what's the need for blocking the pipeline?

It's economics. Shipping by pipeline is cheaper per gallon than shipping by rail/truck/ships. Even accounting for the huge capital costs to build the pipeline in the first place, once a pipeline is secured the marginal costs of shipping additional gallons is so much lower there would be more prices at which it would be profitable to extract tar sands oil versus if the tar sands extractors have to also account for the increased marginal costs of rail/truck/ships.

Tar sands extraction has already seen mass stoppages when the Saudis flooded the supply chain with oil and dropped the oil costs below what was profitable. (Tar sands extraction is worse for the environment than classic oil drilling and thankfully at least some [though never enough] of those externalities are at play in its costs versus oil drilling.)

Right now the price is up again and tar sands work probably is going back into place and it probably will still be shipped by rail/truck/ship. So the short term problem is the same.

But stopping a pipeline today keeps the pipeline from being a fully depreciated asset for oil sands five/ten/fifteen years from now when the supply/demand curve potentially invert and oil is super cheap again (because demand is way down). The higher marginal costs on shipping especially matter then, because potentially it stops tar sands extraction from again being profitable in far more frightening high supply/low demand periods. In that case it should mean less supply gets put onto the market, especially from high cost extraction techniques such as tar sands.
nah, our instinct to herding bugs and new features is too strong.
Well what are your requirements?

What are the outcomes you think are going to happen which you are trying to avoid?

The "error rate" of, say, a dust mote on my TV screen would seem to be orders of magnitude higher than a few flipped bits per GB*year. I have quite a bit of doubt about how many bit errors would ever hit A) during a time in which I am actually retrieving data (or much much less likely saving) and B) actually hits the surface the data is resident in memory and C) has an impact that raises to a perceptual level.
Amazon's MTurk still exists!
"In fact, we've mostly neutered evolutionary pressures on ourselves."

No, we haven't. We've merely changed them, quite significantly. But there's still selection processes ongoing.

Since people tend to hear "Racism!" when this sort of thing gets said, the pressures I'm discussion includes things like being able to survive the civilization's schooling system (teen suicides don't have offspring) and the different ways of attracting and being a good mate than one would pursue in an agrarian or hunter-gather society, such as being a visibly wealthy nerd. There's a lot of things still affecting and shaping civilization through who has how many children with who and how they treat them, and I haven't got a personal list of "good" or "bad" such effects, because it's not really about "good" or "bad", they just are, no matter what labels you put on them.

Another example is the hypothesis that a significant part of why "autism" is on the rise is "assortative mating", or, to put it another way, that there are evolutionary pressures in modern society creating couples who end up essentially breeding for traits that, when overexpressed, may be called "autism". I'm not making a claim that is necessarily true, but it's an example of an evolutionary theory applying in the here & now.
And we all need to pray for HP not to get into the automotive industry,or we are all screwed.
It's in ROM, can't be erased.
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I've got my entire library on a Jellyfin server at home, its port forwarded and available on a subdomain.

I've got enough upload capacity to stream 1080p to my workstation at the office. Its really great software, the only annoyance was figuring out that I needed to setup a hairpin NAT so I could cast video to my TV's around the house.

My other slight gripe is that the bookshelf plugin for handling ebooks is a bit picky with nested directories when scanning for new media.