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> you clearly have not read the Federalist Papers

If by that you mean, cover-to-cover since the Con Law course during the first semester of law school, then yeah, you're right.

> In general the government that governs the least, governs the best

That'd be true if men were angels. (And yeah, I do mean men, pretty much; we'd likely all be a lot better off if women ran things.)

The whole reason the Framers wrote the Constitution was that the Articles of Confederation were based on the "governs least" principle, and that didn't work out too well.
The metal inside the socket that completes the circuit with the male pins can age and get bent, losing contact unless the plug is at just the right angle or the pins are bent in the right direction. It's unreliable and unsafe. If its your house and you're intimately familiar with the state of the sockets, it's slightly less unreliable and unsafe.

The EM coming off AC mains makes a non contact detector hard to fool and it's such a simple device that even cheap knockoffs are reliable.
>Files is a system app like Windows Explorer. It’s not meant to “compete” with anything.

That defence helped Internet Explorer a lot. Nope. At the very least searching for 'dropbox' should return 'dropbox' and not be overriden by Apple.

>but for some reason its position in the App Store is a controversial topic? How many people even delete Files and search for it again?

This makes Apple's defence for manually placing Files at #1 even more nonsensical.

>iCloud Drive is a cloud storage competitor that Files works well with, but Files also supports Dropbox and Google Drive and many other storage competitors...

If all users installed DropBox, iCloud Drive would get $0. If they used Files, some percentage of users would pay for Apple's solution. That the financial benefit doesn't get 100 percent of users does not make it not a financial benefit.
> any person to be able to set the elevator as "full"

Sadly, in an apartment building there are several people who are selfish. These types would use the feature to monopolize the elevator for moving.

> door closes - stay open?

Prob to reduce the time to travel to a floor. If the doors were open it would add another 15secs in addition to the travel time to reach the called floor.
> How else would you explain brexit?

The economy. I'm sure there's an undercurrent of xenophobia and "little England"-ism which explains it, but it's not the full picture. Probably the biggest factor is that neoliberalism has been fucking working class people over since Thatcher. It's (sadly) empirically demonstrated that economic hardship pushes people to right-wing populism (see the 1930s, and the 2010s).

Marx was right, history is moved by the material conditions of people (not fully, but in large part).
> she only saw her son twice in 30 years.

She is a piece of shit and religion needs to be criticized more often.
I do this quite frequently with bicycles caught between lanes. Yes, it annoys the people behind me. But it still improves the situation considerably.

Traffic isn't just 'other cars'.
A lot of people need their tribal cults ego-boosters because they can't stand on their own two feet and need the safety of a herd.

Flat Earthers, Trumpism, Bernie-ism, Tim Ferrissism, antivaxx, neoliberalism, neoconservatism, QAnon, radical political terrorism (under various religious banners), raw veganism, juice cleanse, miracle mineral solution, no maskers, forever maskers, and so on.
With something like service_binary, how do you wire up services? For example, If main.cc depended on Redis, how would you get the host and port of the Redis dependency from main.cc?
I thought it was an essential trait of programmers to never be satisfied with something.
Hadn't had much interest in pens but a @leashless post from the end of 2018 stuck with me for a while, talking about various disruptively low priced items out there[1] & including the Moonman M2 (mentioned in this write-up) & I eventually bought one. One line summary:

> A very popular choice for a nicer Chinese fountain pen. This $20 eyedropper is nicely built and really shows of your ink. Watch out for fakes.

I found it surprisingly fun & enjoyable to use. I started going back to paper journals (field notes) because of it. I'll probably pick up another pen or two because of this article.

I just wish some of the other good buys were still options. The Epson L1800 ecotank printer probably wasn't all that fabulous a printer, but sure is appealing to think of a printer made for cheap ink costs. I haven't been able to convince myself to buy a decent Canon.

But I recommend Leashless's thread. I think it describes a modern condition we have, of having really bad information available to us when it counts. Sociality & pop-culture dominate, good comprehensive widely-ranged information is in short supply. Leashless says:

> Now, here's the point. This is market structure. There's almost always* a low cost, high quality alternative. Decathlon tents are far better than they have any right to be, for example. But the cheap-good option is always lost in a swamp of cheap-bad. The cheap bad could die.*

[1] https://twitter.com/leashless/status/1078097550886998016
Don't make me nostalgic for the good old days.
Sorry, but that sounds like clickbait to me:

"You can download macOS Monterey (macOS 12), even if you are not a developed [sic]. just follow these steps:

1) you have to join the apple developers program."
It can be useful for innovation in the aggregate.
It isn't. Politics being the new religion and growing amounts of atheism and agnosticism has commonly been the scapegoat. But it is easy to disprove. The South is extremely religious and just as radical (if not more) than the areas of the country that aren't as religious. If it was the lack of religion we'd see the political fervor be less homogeneously distributed (and similarly if religion caused this division).

Neither is this news to people nor is it a good claim. But it is a believable claim so that's why we're talking about it.
From the article:

"However, 25% of the profits are given back to the queen and the royal family as part of the Sovereign Grant, which is used to fund the royal family itself on an annual basis. For example, this year's figure of £85.9 million is 25% of The Crown Estate's profits in 2018/19. So that means the queen's own personal fortunes are directly connected to the performance of The Crown Estate."
The Web is a great competitor for the most part.
"Few people understand that most religions e.g. Judaism and Christianity have an apologetic discipline – a deliberate arm open to debate."

Just want to point out that Jewish apologetics is not the same as Christian apologetics. Christian apologists are working in furtherance of the Christian goal of converting everyone to Christianity. Jewish apologists are working only to prevent other Jews from being swayed by the arguments made by other religions (primarily those from Christian missionaries, who often target Jews specifically).

That aside, what makes you think apologetics represents an openness to debate? I cannot speak for Christians, but Jewish apologetics only exists because other groups are trying to lead Jews to conversion to another faith, and apologetics holds little value within the framework of Judaism itself. What non-Jews think of Judaism is irrelevant because proselytizing is not a requirement (it is not forbidden, but it is also not encouraged and conversion is a deliberately difficult process). Judaism certainly has an openness to debate, but the debate is within Judaism itself -- what is the right way to practice the Jewish religion? What is the right way to interpret and understand Jewish holy books? Judaism is not open to debates about the need for Jews to practice Judaism; the covenant between Jews and God is an axiom.
There is such a wide gulf between what religious folk (well, American religious folk at least) think they represent, and how they actually act. E.g. my brother-in-law is a devout Christian and is extremely fond of saying 'What would Jesus do' and then proceeding to do the opposite.

What is tearing apart America right now? Politics? No. Evangelical politics. It does not bring stability.
Not to downplay her commitment, but given she joined immediately after her husband died, perhaps she wasn’t thinking it was going to be for a full third of her life when she started.
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There's not been nearly enough time for these genes to spread in modern society.

It's hard to imagine this gene was as beneficial as it might be today without cheap and effective night time lighting.
I am biased as a Hindu but I find that Hinduism stands apart here as a religion in that the emphasis is on one's own and the truths discovered therefrom rather than blindly accepting beliefs.
Yeah, but GP thought his question was a killer retort that would end the argument in his favor, while simultaneously demonstrating brilliance to the Hacker News crowd.

Did you really have to take away all that with a pithy explanation of reality? Why not just let him have his day in the sun?
Wait a minute, did you just "noun" irk? I'm irked.
Picking up on the "is there a god" and who believes in it?

I have always wondered how many of the high priests or whatever their titles might be in any religion over the millenia (this includes Aztecs and Vikings etc) really just saw religion as another way of holding power (vs. kings or what have you). I.e. "just pretending" to believe and in reality just using it to to wield power and influence over people.

Please don't mistake this for saying there aren't very pious people in that group. I do not doubt there are. I just wonder. Just like there are politicians that truly try and improve things and help their constituents and then there are also the ones that really just enjoy having the power and that really couldn't care less until election time rolls around.
> If you believe you are not religious, it just means that you don’t have the cognitive tools to recognize the secular ideology that you have adopted.

You had something interesting to say, why'd you have to go and close it out with flamebait?
No it's an awful question.

He was at Harvard, considered one of the best learning institutions in the world.

Studying psychology and computer science, during a revolution in humanity around computers.

Had a strong work ethic, drunk, late at night, in second year he got a site off the ground so popular it crashed servers.

The question is an awful lie, I believe it ranked people not women. It's just a cheap nonintellectual attack not a question.

Roger Waters is an artist, which is about emotions not logic or truth so I wouldn't fault him, but it's not a good question.
Probably getting stuck managing other engineers or teams of them.
I look at it in a different way, like a game. Science is not a belief about the properties of the universe.

Rather, science is an inquiry into what can be learned about the universe under certain limiting assumptions. Like a game, it has certain rules, at least on a tentative basis.

To make an analogy, chess seeks to find out what kinds of tactics can defeat the enemy's King under assumptions about how the Queen can move, but does not imply a belief or faith about Queens.

Science doesn't preclude parallel games or fields of inquiry being played under different rules, such as the theologies of religions, perhaps political ideologies, literature, music, and so forth. Some people play multiple games at once. My parents were educated in theology, but became good scientists. I'm a scientist but also a musician.

In my view, the thing that makes science stick out is not its relationship to religion, but its success. I think that in the 17th century, scholars mostly assumed that science would peter out -- it would run into a brick wall, or merge with theology. That it has done neither of those things could not have been predicted at the time, and inspires a certain amount of awe today, as well as an attraction to curious minds.
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There was probably a large fire. As I understand, there was a conspiracy that Nero started the fire to clear land in the crowded residential areas to build a "palace"/equivalent structure. There really isn't much evidence to support this.

Though Nero did attempt to find a scapegoat for the fire.
Because you're thinking of Dropbox as the company and product rather than just a word, if someone searches "games" they should be shown results for games instead of an app or apps literally named "games", so it's important to rank metadata highly even if above actual app names.
Here's a similar, more recent story about a banker turned nun. Good listen if you have some time.

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/deathsexmoney/episodes/...
Another failure: when there's a line, and you already know you'll need multiple cars, the elevator button will still only allow you to call one car at a time. Even if several cars are already on your level with the doors closed.
Religion is more easily codified because it does not change as quickly as the secular world. I do not think codification is realistic or desirable tbqh.
Meetings? Documentation? Support calls? These all can take tons of time.
Yeah but even before reading the article I figured this was an algorithmic mistake, and apparently it is:

"While Apple didn’t challenge the idea that Files was unfairly ranked over Dropbox, the company says the reality was a simple mistake: the Files app had a Dropbox integration, so Apple put “Dropbox” into the app’s metadata, and it was automatically ranked higher for “Dropbox” searches as a result."
I think the obvious counter example is the fact that there's a lot of political extremism in the bible belt. The extremism seems to be more homogeneously distributed where lack of religion isn't.
>That defense helped Internet Explorer a lot.

The past tense implies that battle was already won. Afaik, Windows still uses anti-competetive practices to support Edge (not uninstallable, and 'are you sure you want to change your default browser? Check out the New Edge first!'). The same defense still applies if they want it. I don't think it's right to speak about it like it's a thing of the past.
My first inclination is that the individualism has turned from (admittedly, rosy nostalgia follows here) a propensity towards creative expression and unique identity amongst the whole, into an assertion of control that serves my needs at the expense of others. In my experience, while HOAs can be well-intentioned, they provide easy opportunity for people to build small kingdoms, and for most, being a king is quite tempting.
Possibly. Could be negligence if they're not already testing for such cases.

Or could be they boosted their own app intentionally.
There is this anecdote in the text "Operations Research, An Introduction." by Hamdy Taha, which I consider to be a very good example of picking the right tools for the job. An OR group was hired to fix elevator wait times in an office building. After studying the problem they installed full-length mirrors at the entrance to the elevators. Complaints around elevator service disappeared as people were now engaged in watching themselves and others while waiting.
Humans certainly do not build on massive amounts of symbolic knowledge because we are absolutely terrible at symbolic knowledge. Reliably reasoning through a basic logical argument is a specialist skill. Even reviewing evidence before making decisions is uncommon, most humans operate on a look -> assess -> do model where the tricky bit is well approximated by a neural net. Which is why neural nets seem to be so good at real-world tasks.

It is completely plausible that when neural nets get scaled up to something approaching human-brain numbers of connections they will well approximate a human brain or be a few tweaks away. Obviously it won't be knowable until state of the art gets there, but there is no reason to think human intelligence is going to be complicated. It is one evolutionary step up from some pretty basic animals.
I haven't dug into it much, but isn't Tacitus also one of three sources about Caligula? Could it not be that a lot of the reputation of the Julio-Claudians was exaggerated well after nobody could or would defend them?
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But Dropbox is also a trademarked name. And 'games' is a more general term, such as for a whole category.
> So which of these is true?

PR puffery usually doesn't get introduced as evidence in court cases.
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Rising asset prices are literally Federal policy. I think the official goal recommended by the IMF is 3% annually.
> they kept her behind bars for the rest of her life

You are assuming she had no choice to leave.
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I never had to go to the Mac App Store to download Finder though.
I imagine most of the advantages happen because they've taken over and structured the modern world to make long sleeping difficult.
they do now but not initially
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Yeah, but the Sovereign Grant is used to fund the sovereign (and related family members) in her working role as head of state. This is for things like people employed in the Royal Household, people who maintain Buckingham Palace, etc.

Note this is separate from the income of the Duchy of Lancaster (for the monarch) and the Duchy of Cornwall (for the Prince of Wales), which is more like personal income.

Wikipedia has a good overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_Grant_Act_2011
I wonder in general what are the odds of finding a better job? Are they 50/50 or do they skew one way or the other?
A market place and a search engine with ads are a little different. Apple is the market and also the vendor of the competing product in this case. They used their control of the market to benefit themselves. This type of vertical integration that is used to squash and out compete smaller competitors definitely smells like what anti trust laws were originally put in place to fight. Big tech lawyers should be terrified. The general sentiment of the public is beginning to shift against them and I'm not sure them spending millions more on lobbying will be able to prevent the legislation that will come.

Also, just because Google does shifty things doesn't make it ok for Apple to do shifty things too.
Fixpoints are one of the most important concepts in denotational semantics and domain theory (see [0] for a good introduction). Denotational semantics lets you precisely specify the meaning of a program as a mathematical object, and also nicely integrates partiality and nontermination. It's quite motivating to learn order theory this way as well.

[0] https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell/Denotational_semantics
Here's all the possible code that are shown
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Think of the poor!

If that hasn’t convinced you, think of the children!

If I can identify even one person who might be marginally worse off by a particular policy, we definitely can’t do it. That’s what the founding fathers would want!

/s
Thanks for responding. I can dig it, a utility vehicle you thought would be bleh to drive. And thinking that if there's smoke, something might be cooking.
that's only a part of tiktok.

tiktok is really good for finding interesting things about almost any hobby or activity. home reno, biking, weightlifting are what pop on my feed and most of the content is pretty damn good.
They're not wrong, on all levels. I'm a hiring manager at C# shop, that's doing plenty of ML.

Is C# a popular language? Out of the 35 recent interviews I've done, I think I've seen 5 candidates do their code exercises in C#. I've had the: are you willing to learn C# conversation with all of them. None said no.

The problem isn't do you know it, or could you learn it. The problem, for a startup, is ramp up time. New engineers have to learn the IDE and the nuances of C#.

It's a powerful language and the IDEs are great, but there's no way around the ramp up time. Can a startup accommodate the ramp up time while scaling? We did, it's possible, but I can see why a VC was concerned.

Now Azure? Well, if you can't say anything nice....
I was happy that my solution for level 4 was also accepted for level 5 and 6. Only a small tweak was needed for level 7, as now moves were counted instead of time.

The next level required no passenger to wait longer that a certain amount of time, and I would have had to trash half my program, so I quit for now.
I believe the settings you're looking for are documented here [1] (go to url `about:config`)

[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Projects/AcceleratedScrolli...
It's a reference to comic sans looking like hand drawn lettering in comic books, like the Amazing Spiderman etc?
My partner is a dress maker, she was in tears, distraught because she cut a hole in a garment when trimming threads away from the hem, lower part of the garment. Losing 3 days work.

Her conclusion was, she’d had to remake the whole thing.

Anyway she had a break and we were sitting by the fire having a glass of wine, she said, “oh, that dress I screwed up, I just realised can afford to be a few centimetres shorter, I’ll just take it up so the hole isn’t an issue anymore”.

It’s true, stepping back is power.
I was reminded about a program called MagicPlan. See https://youtu.be/gEUk7YzfTcc for a video demo of using it to scan an apartment, using an iPhone 12 Pro with the LIDAR sensor.

But IMO, this still isn’t good enough. It’s a huge improvement over the corner mode, which is what you have to use if you aren’t using a device with a LIDAR sensor, but it’s still not enough.

I’m still looking.
Does Google do the same?

From my experience, Google products almost rank top in the search results without Google in the keywords.

Search "News", "Drive", "Calendar", et al.

In Google chrome, all bookmarks are under auto-completed keywords in the address bar.
The difference is that Walmart didn't build the street or the city and doesn't have a right to take a cut of sales on other people's property. A more apt comparison would be the third-party hotels that, if they want to use some of Disney's 25,000 acres in Florida[0], literally have to lease the land from Disney and Disney can impose terms like a cut of sales (or a forced Disney merchandise store within the hotel). iOS is like the consumer choosing to live exclusively within the confines of Disney's property (with the difference being that, once you 'leave' iOS, you can't bring stuff back into the city - honestly this is the digital equivalent of what Walt Disney wanted with E.P.C.O.T.[1]).

0: https://dpep.disney.io/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/fact_sheet...

1: https://youtu.be/tKYEXjMlKKQ
The emails themselves say it was a "manual boost" rather than the PR explanation you provided.
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Well, what’s a cult? A cult is a group you don’t like.
I’m curious to know if there’s anyone here who is actually using a wireless telco as your primary Internet provider?

The linked article seemed to indicate to me that it’s not quite ready for prime time, but I’d love to hear more real-world experiences from this community.