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Big issue with big banks is endpoints: they need to be 100% accessible all the time. I get cranky when I have to call the branch (or walk in!!!) to handle something that the app/website couldn't.

Meanwhile, HomeDepot blocks me when I visit their site from Europe.
> Linux Ubuntu (experimental) 76 MB

> HTML5: LDtk is built around modern web standards.

Why its size is so huge? Is it Electron-based?

Size of Tiled[0] app binaries for each of MacOS/Win/Linux platform is 3 time smaller than LDtk's binaries.

What is "modern" in differnce between LDtk and Tiled?

[0] https://github.com/mapeditor/tiled/releases
"...bacteria in the lobster starts to multiply quickly after they die and the meat will become unsafe"

I have heard this too (e.g. https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/why-are-lobsters-cooked-...). I assume using a 'stun machine' will deliver a electric jolt to the lobster and it would be boiled immediately after.
> From an environmental standpoint, the benefit would be on vehicles where parts get more difficult to find or the owner deems the vehicle to be lacking sufficient safety features (and possibly both, a couple hundred dollar repair prompting the owner to retire the car).

What does any of that have to do with the environmental standpoint?
Actually, since it's discouraging him from working 20% over a 5 year block instead of 80%, this is an incentive to work /more/ :p
>productivity went up

Whose? Mine? Yours? Everyone's? Not all jobs are equal, not all people.

It takes me one day (about eight hours, plus or minus one - I'm no machine after all) to build a widget. Some weeks I'll take a few days off. The weeks I work two days, I only produce two widgets. The weeks I work three days, I only produce three widgets. I'm not more productive those two-day weeks.

Point is, it's important to think of jobs in terms of what was done rather than how many hours were spent doing it. In this way, why 35? Why not 30? Why not 25? If you can do your job in just 5, then do that. Do your job however long you need to do it. I need a day to make a widget, and I like to make five widgets per week, so I work five.

Again, this is why the conversation only ever surrounds people who sell their time rather than something more real; people who don't own what they do, but whose time is owned by their employer.

The cabinetmaker laughs when this conversation pops up.
3 days of weekend is 50% more than 2, for just 20% less work. The trade off is more extreme as the amount of work (or of weekend) approaches zero.

Ideally, we’d have flexibility around the denominator, allowing something like 4 on/2 off as a step towards 4 on/3 off. The maybe 4 on/4 off instead of all the way to 3 on/4 off. Changing the 7 day week is probably infeasible though… but I see equally crazy schedules from friends with shift work.
> I don't think the intended use case is dog replacement.

Maybe not in this iteration, but why not? There are already robotic seals[0] for companionship, so a robotic dog doesn't seem too far off.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paro_(robot)
> In a similar fashion, using present-day frameworks for thinking about business and value do not account for the disruptive force of technology.

Well that seems like a major flaw. You can have an elegant model accounting for future cash flows at an infinite horizon but if a paradigm shift is coming in 2-10 years it's meaningless. As a retail investor I'm not sure it makes sense to think in this way anyway. Seems like the rational plan is X% of your portfolio in index funds, 1-X% in risky speculative assets in the hope of getting rich. The 1-X% is what's driving these finance people nuts, but if the retail investors are cool with it going to 0 it seems totally rational to make those bets.
> In other words is it simply a case of $10 000 per child per year, so here's a voucher for 10k, go wherever you like?

When vouchers were proposed in California in 1993, it was to be half the amount spent by the state on each child for public education. In 2000, it was to be $4000/year, when the state spent about $7000/year per student.

Of course, there's the big existing population in private schools that would also have been eligible for vouchers-- about 7%-- so these amounts probably still would drive down per-pupil spending in public schools. You'd need to roughly double private school enrollment to "break even" in per-pupil spending.

I favor something like 20-33%-- that might reasonably be expected to both make it significantly easier for parents to send their children to private schools and increase resources per student in public schools.
Similar thing happened in Canada. A uranium miner set up a shell company in Switzerland and sold its future production to them at a market low. If the price went up, all of the profits shifted. If it went down, the subsidiary would go bankrupt and void the contract.

The shell can shift its profits tax-free back to the Canadian parent.
The article is delusional. What's the percentage of US banks supporting proper 2FA?
I think managers and business decision makers underestimate how much benefit we bring with our unique set of skills.

A great developer can fix the codebase with a single line of code. A mediocre developer adds hundreds of lines of code to achieve the same thing.

It's definitely hard to measure, and requires some level of understanding before it's even possible to properly valuate.
Two of my brothers-in-law were hospitalized after receiving the vaccine.
I don't really see how this can work in any kind of project/sprint based working environment. I work in a position where our clients contract us to complete a parcel of work over a period of several months with a hard deadline at the end (maybe a 1-2 week extension, but the end release date is well known early on).

It is expected that in the last 1-2 months we're not just working 40hrs/5 days but probably 60,70, even 80hrs a week and likely 6 day weeks (the last project was 7 day weeks and I worked 71 days in a row without a day off). I'm not proud of this in the slightest and indeed will be refusing to do this again.

But - my situation isn't unique or even uncommon in many tech jobs that involve delivering projects to a (small) pool of paying clients. Our profit margins are also slim - there is no way my company is going to hire another person who can share jobs with me and have say 2-3 of us on the same 2-3 different projects in parallel to cover the lack of cover 20% of the time. We need to be really zoomed in on the problems to solve and tasks to do - not being there 20% of the time couldn't possibly work.

The dream of a 4 day week is for many, many workers just that - a dream.
Yes, obviously

I mean, if this is explainable phenomenon (let's say, atmospheric) it would be in the interest of the aviation community to know it.

Upper Atmospheric lightning is known at this point. No need for mystery or keeping things under wraps.
lftp is amazing. Less of a client and more of a toolbox, but it can do just about anything.
There's a nice graph that shows Canada having a relatively low death rate but this is somehow an indictment of Canadian policies.
> This all runs as a pre-commit hook as well.

Keep in mind that this might become problematic for folks that are running Postgres inside Docker on macOS or Windows, as IO performance is quite poor.

I put together a up / down migration validation system a while ago (start up two databases, apply all-1 up migrations on A and all up migrations + final down migration on B) for a pretty sizable schema.

Folks that were using Docker had to wait upwards of two minutes, while natively installed Postgres would finish in under 10sec.
Which hundreds of people, admittedly not know-it-all like you, benefit from, without forking out a single penny.
Interesting question, because ICT has a tendency to do a progress reset every half decade. Look at things like cpan: Tons of interesting librarys in what is for today the wrong language. Java's maven ecosystem, once a center of open source, is quickly becoming an enterprise-only dead zone. There are plenty of smaller examples, like the tons of dos/qbasic code, the VB6 component ecosystem. javascript is one of the current hotspots, but even there entire sub ecosystems are slowly falling away.

Each time we win by having better tools, but we lose by dropping all the optimization already done. And things like lisp or ada show there were better tools than the industry average available in the past, except their ecosystems didn't grow enough and/or died.
My #2 match seems to not exist. https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=danaliv
Why does it matter? At all? Is anyone really pushed for 76MB?
Then there needs to be an actually working avenue to correct these issues. the rsponse, the system isn't perfect so, sorry, tough luck, is a worse argument in my opinion. In this case Schroeder's valid appeal was denied, which was my point.
This is very cool. I am curious if the maintainers could sync up with the folks that wrote Ampache [1] so people could use the two of them together, for those that stream their catalog locally using aes67.

[1] - https://github.com/ampache/ampache
If anything, they'd maybe be told that they're non-binary? and most non-binary people do not medically transition in any way..

but I know a number of very femme cis gay men, I've never told them they were any kind of trans, and they're quite happy. I think this is a conspiracy theory.
Many "government approved" and "pentagon verified" videos have been consistently debunked and proven to be common visual phenomena and physical illusions. While steering clear of any hardcore conspiracies, I don't doubt that the government wheels this same package out time and time again when needed as a distraction or to provide a weak reason for additional defense funding seeing as it is always so effective in capturing attention.
59 peer-reviewed studies listed here, of 97 total:

https://c19ivermectin.com/

Eg, one of the most recent peer-reviewed meta-studies, whose authors include advisors to the WHO, just published in the Journal of American Therapeutics:

https://journals.lww.com/americantherapeutics/Abstract/9000/...
My wife and I were recently escorted from a Ritz (a sub-brand of Marriot);

We were paying in points (a lot of points), they checked us in but still couldn't figure out their back-office payment processing or something because they confronted us at 9:00pm and asked us to swipe a card because "they couldn't verify the certificate"

After much back and forth between us and the front office and a customer support rep on the phone (who repeatedly suggested that the "certificate" was there and valid), we decided we didn't really want to deal with the hassle of staying where we were being treated like criminals.

I went up to get our stuff from our room and my card had been deactivated; I had be escorted to the room by a member of the Ritz security staff to get our luggage.

So, you're not really assured a good experience no matter where you stay.
I don't know that I buy that 78 degrees poses a health risk, even for an infant, given that there are people in the world who (if you can believe it) don't even have air-conditioning. Always read the fine print, I guess.
Not industrial espionange. This robot is heavily based off of the MIT mini cheetah, which most of the design for is opensource (e.g. [0], [1]).

Ben Katz has an amazing blog[2] which if you dig through you can read about a lot of the design decisions and testing for the mini cheetah.

Funny enough, after designing the mini cheetah for his master's thesis Ben went to work for Boston Dynamics (I think he started there two or three years ago).

0: https://github.com/mit-biomimetics/Cheetah-Software

1: https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/118671

2: https://build-its-inprogress.blogspot.com/
> I've worked 4 days a week (for 20% less pay) for years now. It's without a question the biggest positive change in standard of living and life quality I could buy with this money

I agree with the benefits of a 4 day workweek but personally going 80% will have disproportionately higher marginal costs. This is one of the occasions where a collective solution (4-day workweeks for all) outperforms individual initiatives.

First, if some of the total compensation is through stocks, usually they reduce both the vesting amount and vesting frequency by 20%, which could translate to some 25% cut in total comp. New stock grants are also prorated, just as your bonus will be prorated by that amount.

You vacation days are also reduced by 20%, a typical figure would amount to being deprived of another week of paid time off. In other words, you could have used one day of that paid time off every week to simulate your 80% work, but now you take a pay cut for it.

The cost of work side of things are not linear either. For example certain fixed costs like weekly meetings do not reduce by 20%, which means your available heads down work time reduces more than 20%. Unless you do overtime to compensate for that (which beats the purpose of part time), that means you also get an additional productivity hit.

Without any WFH arrangement, cost of being housed in a commute distance of work is also constant. If you don't move to a 20% cheaper place while going part time, your rent to paycheck ratio increases, which matters especially for HCOL areas because it hits your disposable income rate disproportionately.

The cost function of going to 80% personally is horribly non-linear. Pushing for a 4-day workweek for all avoids that.
> A robot that does exactly what you program it to do doesn’t hit the same notes.

Out of all animals, the one that most closely fits the bill of "does exactly what you tell it to do" is dogs, and I would argue that's exactly why it's so popular.
I am very interested in hearing the opposite side against GME. Can you provide some points on why the main premise(that there is still a large short position which is underwater) could be false?

The DTCC new rules + ongoing restrictions at brokerages suggests to me something is going on. For instance tdameritrade makes me call in to sell covered calls on my GME position while they allow me to sell covered calls through the web interface for my other positions.
Think before you join any large company. Nothing here is unique to AWS.

We outside have the illusion that everything is perfect on the inside of these profitable and successful companies, but in most cases it’s generally a lot of broken code and a boiler room. Staff is usually burned out after a few years - why do you think turnover in the tech industry is so high??

The amount of bugs and issues in Facebook advertising is atrocious.

Google is just getting some of their admin stuff right.

The lesson to take away is that even if you have a small side business - perfection never usually makes money.

It’s more important to get an imperfect product to market that’s held together on the back end by spit and strings.

Or as my dad said, (he was an artist) - “I could continue working on this painting for months more, but I have you kids mouths to feed”.
This isn't the first time I've read about Amazon's 30% mandatory turnover rate, how it effects new hires mentally when they can't help but think they might be fired at any moment, and how it effects the ones who actually did get fired. This sounds like the definition of a systemic problem.
It means the power to get a bigger piece of the pie. For example we made a quick calculation some time ago with a group of friends based on some numbers revealed by Accenture about how much they were charging a customer and we got to the conclusion that we, the devs creating the whole thing, were getting only 1% of what they were charging the customer. (Third world country with salaries below 1000 dollars)
The fact that the phenomenon has endured across centuries (and across cultures) either suggests that both demons and aliens are products of the human mind, or that demons and aliens are the same phenomenon, and they usually don't want to be seen.
Waiting 9 seconds at the starting line will be the real problem at an actual drag strip.
I guess the founder wasn't key to the organization and wouldn't pay.
Oh noes! Anyways.
Freenode, the organization, wasn't in a tight spot. The head of Freenode staff at the time, Christel, sold assets to Andrew Lee without disclosing the terms to the rest of the Freenode staffers. Andrew Lee is one of the people who benefited from the MtGox collapse and basically could intimidate people with lawyers until he got his way.

The whole of the Freenode staff, minus Christel, basically saw no option but to walk away knowing the kind of person Andrew Lee is. And now everyone else knows for we can see what he did to Freenode itself when it was entirely in his hands.

Libera is where they walked away towards and it's doing just fine.

For her troubles, Christel is now a CCO at PIA, one of Andrew Lee's former companies.

Freenode wasn't in trouble until Andrew decided it was his.
Covid-19 is becoming more mild – HART
Ah, so almost like crowdfunding sites.
> Animals will catch what they eat, and catch no more than necessary.

Bears love salmon brains. In boom years, bears will pull salmon after salmon out of the water, bite the head, and discard the rest. They're basically nature's dynamite fishers. Stray dogs will eat anything they can -- and they can and do kill themselves by overeating.
Nobody knows how much money a company will make in its lifetime. And even for companies with rather stable revenues, dividends and number of shares are not fixed, so it seems rather useless making calculations using those ratios.
I think the idea is that a 4-day workweek would come along with a broader cultural shift.

Imagine a world where Saturday was a workday, it shouldn't be hard as this was the case for many only a few generations ago.

We could say that it is expected that you will not only work 48hrs/6 days a week, but probably 70, 80, 90 hours likely 7 days a week!

Fortunately, a cultural shift occurred along the way, and the work week is now commonly accepted to be 5 days. Expectations of clients, managers, and employees are based around this standard.

So why can't the standard change again? Why couldn't a broad cultural shift occur in which expectations are better managed towards the productivity of a 4-day work week?
If I was to build a village, it wouldn't look anything like that one. It'd look like a medieval town, but be all modern inside.

One thing that makes medieval towns so nice is all the buildings are different, and they're all somewhat cockeyed.
> data is worrisome

I'd love to learn more about this but run into the walls your described about everyone dismissing your worries. Where is this data?
There is plenty of affordable homes, especially with the rise of remote work.

Moreover, because some people choose not to own doesn't mean it shall be imposed by force to a whole population.
While it certainly won’t always win, there are many documented cases where Julia beats Fortran at Fortranning, e.g.

https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/simple-summation-8x-s...

https://discourse.julialang.org/t/i-just-decided-to-migrate-...
Has anyone been able to actually order one of these? The Captcha on the company's order form appears to be broken.
Nothing is scarce in space. There is limitless energy in the atom’s nucleus. We just dont have an effective power plant yet.
> WITCH

I would presume: Wipro, Infosys, TCS, Cognizant, HCL
> I think this comment demonstrates the perverse value system I’m commenting against. I don’t mean this as an insult to you, merely to point out how people have been programmed to think people shouldn’t be able to live in a city without being terrified of their lives so we don’t mildly annoy drivers.

It's not a perverse value system, it's acknowledging reality. Cars aren't going away anytime soon, because they provide real benefits. In a world with cars, pedestrians can't act like they did when cars didn't exist, laws or no.

No diver (with some homicidal exceptions) wants to hit a pedestrian, just like no pedestrian (with some suicidal exceptions) wants to get hit by a car. To minimize those kinds of events, both groups need to act in certain ways (with added motivation provided by penalties); it's objectively inferior to try to concentrate responsibly only on one group or the other.

> The scenario that would actually be likely to happen is the exact opposite. A distracted driver running over and killing a pedestrian that’s crossing on a green light or a zebra crossing. That happens very regularly.

Pedestrians shouldn't be crossing on a green light (in my city, there'd be a "don't walk" light in that case).

> Cars have no business driving faster than 15-20mph on a city streets.

Maybe in a dense city or a residential neighborhood (where I live streets with unposted limits are 25mph, which covers almost all residential streets), but it's a fact that other areas were built with arterial roads that need traffic to flow much faster.
> claimed to have seen these things with their own eyes

Human observations are the least reliable form of evidence. There are countless ways you can incorrectly interpret what you see.

For example, it's very hard to correctly estimate the distance or size of an object in the sky. Pilots are no better at this than anyone else. If you think something is closer than it actually is you'll also incorrectly interpret its speed and size.
Ctor Class UIApplication: UIResponder
It seems like that 2009 Land Rover might have been 12 years behind the times if it didn't have airbags. I was look at new cars in the UK around the turn of the century and airbags were widely used even then.

A lot of the more recent improvements seem to be trying to compensate for either gross driver failures or much reduced visibility with modern vehicle designs. It will be interesting to see whether they end up significantly improving safety overall or just cancelling out the negative effects of less careful driving and less visibility.
Wouldn’t a better system have more options with different approaches rather than a single lowest common denominator?

Just from a scientific perspective, more experiments that are able to learn from each other and adapt things they see working elsewhere into their approach should naturally lead to constantly improving schools.

A single lowest common denominator that nobody is allowed to escape from is doomed to failure by comparison.
Not to be petty, but water is about 8lbs per gallon. A ton is only 250 gallons. So filling in a ton of the ocean isn't going to be very much.
Having worked somewhere where that is a requirement, it doesn't introduce that much of a burden. Usually if someone internal gets the position their position is then open, so whilst it requires some shuffling it isn't overly burdensome.
Ignoring the other comments point that this is meant as a server rather than a direct kiosk, lets smash each of these points.

> 1. Has screen - (strong, tested, replaceable).

Broken/scratched/hard to read in sunlight/draining power.

> 2. All the Android apps.

All the android apps for that old version of android, presuming they work without a wifi connection.

> 3. Wifi hotspot functionality + FTP + server hotspot.

Very dependant on the phone make/model, and server/hotspot wouldn't be that performant.

> 4. MicroSD slot for massive and switchable data store.

Again, very dependant on the make/model.

> 5. Solar powerable, with removable and replaceable battery.

Solar power I will give you, but you'll be hard pressed to find a phone suitable as server/hotspot with a removable battery.

> 6. Touch friendly, kid friendly, low IQ requirement UI/UX.

That's very dependant on the app developers if we go with point 2, I know plenty of apps with terrible UI/UX.

> 7. Easy to code to extend functionality any way you like.

Not on phone, you can maybe automate stuff with the likes of Tasker (see counterpoint 6 about UI/UX though)
To really extend it you'd need a PC at which point... just use the PC? Or a pi.