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>I've read similar comments on vlc, audacity, etc. The amount of complaints and lack of appreciation of OSS projects is absolutely mind boggling to me, yet we keep getting new amazing software for free.

I find the worst is with OSS projects that are intended to replace professional software. Software that costs hundreds or thousands of dollars.

Gimp, shotcut(and other video editors), libreCAD, libreoffice, OSM, Ardour, inkscape, Krita, even linux itself.

I've seen some of the most vitriolic and nitpicky comments towards that and other similar software, over sometimes the stupidest things like ui differences to the commercial equivalents or something equally as shallow.

Myself, I'm just happy there's so much professional quality open source software. It may not have the bells and whistles of the fairly expensive commercial equivalents, but compared to only 15 years ago or so, the amount of software these days that will let you do professional quality work at home completely free is incredible to me and the quality of OSS offerings keep getting better, while in a lot of cases, the commercial versions seem to have focused almost entirely on converting as many of their products to services as possible.
I did use Palm devices extensively, and found Graffiti shockingly intuitive - it took me no time at all to be fully fluent in it. All the way up to Palm Treo, I loved them and couldn't figure out why people went Gaga over iPhone when it came out - I felt that I mostly had that same thing for years already (I recognize there are important differences in retrospective, not the least that iPhone was fashionable and cool to use;)

I would definitely work better with Graffiti-style input rather than full writing recognition; but:

a) I am a dorky minority - pretty much always a negative focus group for these things :P

b) even for me it's not ideal and modern lightweight laptops are a better solution -- I type at speed of speech these days; I don't think I could ever write / squiggle that fast.
And surprisingly few people are aware. They chose to ignore or simply does not at all.
> I accept that for me ~120€ ereader

There is no point chasing hardware customers who would only pay $120 for a device like this. You're never going to be able to make a sustainable business at that prices and those people are always going to be comparing your product to Amazon Kindle prices yet also demanding way beyond that.

Better to find an audience that is passionate about what you're building and passionate for a new alternative and willing to spend the money that can keep your business sustainable. I understand you'd be more interested if it was Jupiter notebooks tablet but eInk but that's an even more niche product than note taking and would therefore cost way more than the current price.
I’m thinking that spy organizations should still have accountability when they fuck up which ultimately could be complete reorganization.
> we have to assume they do

No we don't.

> collecting data from people's networks using their Google Maps wifi-sniffing vehicles

That was an error due to misconfiguration, failing to discard the data beyond that which identified the network for location mapping.
>in reality bucket shops

Not related to your main point, but I was reading about historical bucket shops on wikipedia yesterday. It's my understanding that they are inherently a scam. They are basically people betting on the movement of stocks without ever taking a position in the stock market. They were outlawed in the US in the 20s.

Are you using the same definition I am, and in practice are modern bucket shops basically always a vehicle for fraud? (I mean, why wouldn't you just buy the stock if you are legit. The barrier in 2021 is so low.)
I was trying to speak generically to cover all options. Friends of mine travel with an au pair AND grandparents.
We would need a reference to compare it against so the data can be meaningful.
Also, a patched before disclosure vulnerability is not the same as an actually exploited one. I would really be curious on what do you consider secure that has a similar complexity/attack surface and usage to phone OSs? Apple on the desktop comes close, and Windows does an okayish job, unfortunately Linux (userspace) is terrible security-wise.
There are different course names in common use for the various divisions of the calculus curriculum. There's no standard, so quibbling over course titles is kind of empty.
I think some places like Sweden might consider that rape. Recall the Assange [accusation of rape] where not wearing a condom when he had indicated he had resulted in it being seen as rape (even when the 'witness' withdrew the accusation)?
I'd add the general lack of a social safety net, at least compared to Europe. All those people can actually become homeless.
I think you should ask the user to search their network or input a serial number (or some other identifier) manually. That is how I have seen other products do it. The manual process will also be useful for conditions where you can't find the device on the network.
I think we should raise the issue repeatedly until we reach an informed consensus (apathy doesn't count as consensus IMO) as to how we handle information in the digital age. So much of our legal system is founded on principles that made sense not that long ago but are upended by the recent emergence of trivial mass data collection possible with current technology. We need to have a conversation about what is a sensible policy, and not just on tech forums.
I ran into Windows S when setting up a laptop for my mother. I was hot and pissed that they force you to handover an account/data to use your system. It's clear that the Windows world is out of ideas, and is now looking to move into datamining to maintain revenues. Revenues none of which will be spent on making sure Patch Tuesday doesn't brick and BSOD people's machines.
Did you have to do some OT (Operational Transformation) to sync changes between clients?
> We already see a wealth gap between the North and South and the West and East.

This has always existed; or at least has in modern history. It's hardly a new development, although the EU and Euro has brought this more to the forefront.

These kind of things ebb and flow anyway; if you look at the last few hundred years then concentrations of wealth have shifted all over the place. Some locations have gone from very wealthy to very poor and back to very wealthy again.
Or the other players work in different ways that are less visible. Cyber espionage and propaganda is enormous, and I think the average American is only slowly beginning to understand the depth of impact of bots, paid trolls, phishing, and direct cyberattacks that our adversaries launch against us. And it's not clear what the goals of these organizations are.
The Gulf of Tonkin Incident was directly used by LBJ to start the war. The act of Congress was called The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_Resolution

Yes, there’s a lot of events that led to this, but this is the act that started the war, and it was completely fabricated.
> I'm not sure which outlet is entirely trustworthy in the UK currently.

Ahahahahaha.

In the past I would have said The Guardian is okay, but right now they really hate trans people.
Three stealth fighter jets just scrambled over Hawaii, and no one will say why
>it's, rightly, considered rape to have sex with someone under false pretenses

Like saying you're on birth control when you're not?

Firstly, that's not the legal or common usage definition or rape anywhere that I know of. (I'm sure some jurisdiction somewhere includes it as a catchall though.)

Secondly, I don't understand how someone can say "rightly" with a straight face.

People lie or stretch the truth to comical levels about age, marital status, number of prior partners, employment/wealth, etc. in order to get laid all the time. A man or woman pretending to be someone they're not in order to reel in a partner they couldn't otherwise is a pretty universal trope across cultures. Unethical? Yes. But I don't think anyone considers that sexual assault let alone rape.

I'm pretty sure it was Dave Chappelle who said "you faked your orgasm but I faked my entire personality".
Actually it's a pretty open secret that the CIA, and SOCOM are heavily involved in the drug trade that they use to fund other black ops.
You missed 2014 - Business Partners bring in their BlackBerry Passports :->
Unlike differentiation, indefinite integration is undecidable even for elementary functions so there will always be some limit to what an algorithm can compute.
Hmm, good luck trying this with scrum: Planning meeting for sprint 23. "I think we're done." "How can we be done?" "All agreed-upon features have been implemented." "Aha, but this user story here, that I totally did not pull out of my backside tells a different story."
Data collection is not automatically abuse, but it can facilitate abuse, and some distributors of that data (i.e. data brokers) and often complacent in that abuse.

Abuse is all about what someone does with the data.

I probably would have been more clear if I had said "potential privacy abuses" above. Any time this data is given/sold to third parties without any legal framework for protecting it, it is ripe for potential abuse.
Florida here, first week of February 2020, weirdest damn flu for me. While it didnt get bad enough for me to go to the hospital, going to bed and waking up, my heart always felt "weird". Like it would beat hard enough to feel and sometimes have a weird rhythm. Which is super abnormal whenever I had a cold or flu in the past. Mild congestion,
which I normally should be leaking like a faucet and i was always cold. Like, crazy chills, no fevers and no amount of hot shower could solve the cold feeling. But hey, it was early Feb, no reason to have thought it was covid. Went away like one and half weeks later. No one else around me caught it.
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There is nothing about the system that rewards competence on the financial side of healthcare.

Billing is based on what they can force people to pay. Not on what services actually cost. One downside of that is they have no control on how much things cost.
Oh course it is. It's fight like hell not to drown.
The key is being page-based. If you can use the browser and URLs as a state machine for your application, Next is excellent. Its dynamic routing is a breeze to work with.

However, if you build an application where that browser-as-state-machine doesn't hold up, you're better off somewhere else.
Makes sense, given the prices I've seen for London and the prices someone quoted for Poland.

Makes the US pricing in this article even more bizarre - in "normal times" you could literally fly to Europe for an MRI and save money.
Every 2-3 days? Microsoft doesn't even publish patches that require reboots that often.

NEVER has a Microsoft patch ever reset my power settings to re-enable standby after X minutes. I have dozens of machines that I use between home and work. never once has that happened.

there's something else going on
That's because America is the land where misery is virtue. We could have all trappings of a true first-world country with ease if we wanted to. But where's the fun in that? Much better to pretend that everyone else is a leech or a slob and decide that the only way to get quality work out of them is to make them as miserable as possible. Do honest manual labor because book learning isn't your thing? Better have 3 jobs to be as virtuous as the guy who drank through 4 years of college.
Freenode wipes old database and starts over
Aye, RFE was not "forbidden" in the US because it was propaganda (though it was that), but because it was considered way soft on communist, if not outright socialist. Fulton Lewis (Tucker Carlson's predecessor, essentially) was a big critic of RFE, and a big fan of McCarthy (even after the latter's fall from grace).

Because it was not officially under governmental control (the ties to the CIA would only be revealed after Rampart's investigation released in 1967) it was spared from a McCarthyist witch-hunt, otherwise there's little doubt it would have taken several hatchet hits.
No, Cuba never intervened in the politics of other countries or engaged in assassination in other countries or sent mercenaries to other countries or exported their ideology to other countries. Only bad countries did that. That's right Cuba did not send 4,000 troops to Syria to fight against Israel in the Yom Kippur war. They also probably didn't send troops into Somalia nor support the MIR and FPMR to destabilize Chile.
I've been there a couple of times.

Relevant: https://xkcd.com/1316/
The main cost is the real estate, not the equipment. If you were comfortable in a 600sqft 1BR working from the office, you probably would need at least an additional 100sqft for the same comfort WFH.
20+ years ago I needed an invoicing program. So I wrote one Perl because I wanted to be cross-platform and I wanted to learn Perl. I ported it to Python last year. The program is dumb as a rock, but almost as stable.

I also wrote a super-simple backup script (python) that backs up my filesystem the way I want. It has a TCL/TK front end with data-driven actions (button, source and destination). It's 'manual', but my external drives are air-gapped. It writes a report with various statistics.

The way these things boost the quality of my life is that backups and invoicing are "mission-critical operations". In the event of a disaster, I could port these operations to any computer with a thumb drive. The only thing I need to install is an interpreter. My backup machine (if I even need one) can have a different OS.
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Good question.

Our migration was fairly direct. We did it in around a week with some cleanup in the following week. There were analogous conventions throughout just about the entire migration, so they're very similar.

One thing we liked was better TypeScript support. We're big on types and proper support, and most of our company is based on TypeScript and Rust. Gatsby can use TS, but you need to set it up and we came across the odd hiccup in the tooling. Next supports this off the shelf and so far, it shows. We haven't had any issues with compilation anywhere in the pipeline or other tooling.

The way Next handles dynamic pages is different, and in my opinion nicer. It also supports something they call incremental static generation which allows pages to be served statically, but incrementally updated as dependent data changes. For example, you know the team in the lead will be the same for thousands of requests, so you might as well serve that statically until the leading team changes. Next will manage that content update for you while serving the content statically for as long as possible. When we migrated, Gatsby didn't support this feature.

Next handles pages differently in general. It maps your directory structure under /src/pages, so that /src/pages/hello-world.tsx will be yourwebsite.com/hello-world. It allows for dynamic content using a convention in which file names can represent a variable, where src/pages/foo/[bar].tsx will make it so [bar] is a variable in the query intercepted by getServerSideProps when you visit yourwebsite.com/foo/whatever.

Otherwise I think the main snag we had with Gatsby was that the team was slower to address issues, introduced bugs more frequently, and we began to see that it was impeding our progress. Our software was working independently of Gatsby and wasn't the issue, and no matter how closely we worked with the maintainers, we couldn't move the needle on any blocking issues. With Next it has been a much different story. Issues are unblocked routinely and the maintainers seem much more engaged and productive.

There's more, but those are the main differences that come to mind.
The reason is very simple. Europe is overtaxed and over-regulated and the situation is not likely to change for the better any time soon.
There might be fewer Nazis. What a disaster that would be...
I have a Bachelor's degree in IT, hold a whole alphabet of certifications, and am happy to work part time at the company I work at making $20/hr. Why? Because I'm actually treated like a human being with tons of autonomy. I can crack jokes, control my own schedule, take breaks if I get frustrated, and do basically whatever I want as long as I'm honest with my work logs.

So many jobs here are dehumanizing. We are treated like cogs by a highly stressed management, and if you don't "pull your weight" and overwork yourself then you are cast from the group. Try to push back, and you get a talking to by silver-tongued executives who just don't understand why we don't Work Harder. In a previous job, I was scheduled shifts from 7am-9pm just a week after being in the hospital.
Plus out of network emergency visits, which isn't uncommon https://www.kff.org/health-costs/press-release/about-1-in-6-...
So basically go to the airport and look for vacationers and empty their home while they are away.
Something can be considered an act of war without leading to a "kinetic" response, much less a full-scale war.

This still happens, especially with Russia. Putin is killing people with chemical weapons in NATO member nations, invading and annexing parts of Ukraine, and performing cyber warfare. All of these things are acts of war...
i am very excited about this, kudos to the team on a great implementation.

for comparison the netlify equivalents are:

- https://www.netlify.com/products/deploy-previews/

- https://docs.netlify.com/cli/get-started/#share-a-live-devel...

this replicache implementation seems more framework specific, but the live collab is just so much exciting to see!
My first guess for the cost of a 10x surgery is something like "they didn't recover smoothly so what could've been outpatient is now a 4 day hospital stay that involved a lot more people and resources."

I can't say for sure, though - I've always gotten very detailed itemized breakdowns of all the cost, hospital stay vs surgeon vs anesthesia vs... but I've never compared them against someone else's bill for the same procedure.

Setting aside the why of the additional expense, the car mechanic model is very similar: you get an estimate, then you get the phone call telling you the additional things they found out, and the new estimate, asking for permission to do or not do the additional things. Though in the case of a surgery where you're knocked out, getting "incremental permission" like that wouldn't really work. You would just have to know the range up front.

But what if the range is so wide to be somewhat useless?
It's not an alternative, it's a substitute, an ersatz.
Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be maintained anymore.
> 20 minutes or way longer

One of my coworkers was working on a bug that only manifested itself after ~2 weeks of putting the system under continuous stress. Bad times.

Stress tests often seem to unearth strange bugs. Once when we used to sell boxes running a single-threaded real-time OS, the OS vendor gave us a separate machine that would sample the registers and memory of the box 10000 times a second (using jumper cables on the motherboard), in the hope that we would catch the exact state of the system as it crashed after days of stress testing. The sampler machine was a crazy overpowered beast of a machine with really high clock CPUs and oodles of RAM so it could dump as many samples as possible into a ring buffer in memory.
That seems like an odd thing for them to say, since they are judges. They "curate" the entries that come in, and then celebrity judges award prizes.

They're not really a discussion forum. They're mostly about just showing things. They have some panels, but mostly any discussions kicked off by films are arranged by the attendees for themselves.

There are truly unjuried festivals, but they're much less high profile because the quality will be very uneven. That's not what Tribeca is about at all. So I don't know why she would say that.
I think manipulation for sex can be rape too in the right context
if you're like most of the western world, especially if you have an indoor job and indoor hobbies (we spend an awful lot of time binging tv shows, playing video games, working on computers, etc..), you're not outside all that much unless it's to hop in the car and go to another indoor place.

and chances are you have a deficiency.

Most vitamins tell you to take 2,000 IU. Upper limits are typically stated to be 4,000 IU. But there's been no established harmful upper limit either.

This leads a lot of people into thinking more is better, this is doubly true if they have some kind of pre-existing condition that's linked to low VitaminD and they're desperate to heal themselves. They read quack stories on the internet about how 10,000 IU doses help cure MS and they do it too.

It's also made worse by so-called "smart" and "qualified" people like Dr Rhonda Patrick essentially turning herself into some pop-health guru and when she tells people what she supplements with (5,000-6,000 IU), many people feel she knows what she's talking about and copies her. But the reality is, she takes A LOT of supplements and she has zero idea how they all mix with each other, especially at the supplementation levels in which she's consuming them.

of vitamins that can be abused, VitaminD is mostly safe. But a lot of folks go a bit crazy with it and have hurt themselves.

VitD supplements are also, often, in soybean oil, which is horrible for you. VitD needs to be consumed with a fat, so If you're going to supplement, you spend the extra money for it suspended in coconut oil instead.
Is this the anti-work decade? The whimpering 20s as opposed to the roaring 20s of yester-century?
Sorry, I edited in that bit just now. But yeah, I agree with you. Hell, I work in tech and do okay, and yet the thought crosses my mind that things could go off the rails quickly. If I get sick, even my relatively good insurance means lots of out of pocket costs. Plus I can't work then, so I'll live on a fraction of my income since I have decent disability coverage. I'll be able to keep a roof over my head, but probably not a lot beyond that, which negatively affects my family - particularly my child, given skyrocketing education costs.

It's a weird place when you think about it. And yet most days I accept this as normal.
"Rape: unlawful sexual activity and usually sexual intercourse carried out forcibly or under threat of injury against a person's will or with a person who is beneath a certain age or incapable of valid consent because of mental illness, mental deficiency, intoxication, unconsciousness, or deception."

Source: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rape

The key point being "valid consent" and its contravention by deception. i.e. It's not valid if what you are consenting to is a lie, namely who you think you are having sex with.
Does being public necessarily lead to wrong incentivizes?
If the parallel construction worked then we wouldn't know it had occurred. There are multiple officials on record saying parallel construction is a widespread practice and "used every day".

> The two senior DEA officials, who spoke on behalf of the agency but only on condition of anonymity, said the process is kept secret to protect sources and investigative methods. "Parallel construction is a law enforcement technique we use every day," one official said. "It's decades old, a bedrock concept."

https://web.archive.org/web/20130809014315/https://www.reute...
Are you me, you sound like me. I feel the pain.
If that border wall were made out of tanks, as it would be in an invasion, it would be a different story!
Oh, I think you misunderstood me. Sorry.

I meant like, how can you be sure a compiler would interpret them correctly and give you the exact binary value you wanted.

And by different architectures, I meant more like, if you compiled it on Intel and AMD, could the results be different? Though I guess this part of the question makes no sense now that I think more on it.