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> TERF isn’t a slur.

I think the economist's usage was OK, as it appears in the supplied context to have been used as a slur (I'm not adequately connected on the topic to know what the "normal" usage would be).

> The whole article is suspect to be sympathetic to anti-trans politics as a result.

Clearly, given what I said above, I don't agree with this diagnosis. In particular I think a few articles like this are a good antidote to the "the universities are insane and have been taken over by crazy extremists" narrative.

Perhaps if this commend page doesn't descend into vitriol, more contextual discussion could lead me or you to modulate our opinion. As I said I don't follow this topic particularly closely, so my interpretation could be naïve.
I don't get it can't you just remap this using auto hotkey if you care that much
"Rolling on the floor" is an important part of the game. Depending on disc selection, the type and slope of terrain, and angle that the disc makes contact, the amount and direction (forehand vs backhand) of spin, etc it can "spike" into the ground, it can lightly touch and stop immediately, it can roll 20 feet to the left or to the right, it can "skip" and fly another 100 feet, it can roll for another 300 feet, etc. The best players can control this behavior and use it to shape their shots around trees, hills, hazards, rough grass, etc.

Discs with thick, round rims (generally "putters") already stop pretty short when they land. It's the distance drivers with sharp edges that can roll a long way, but those are very aerodynamically designed and bumps would probably mess that up.

Plus, there's regulations about the size and weight of discs, so it might not be allowed on PDGA tour anyway.
Again, the benefit is standard among tech workers here as well. We can still appreciate Europe without the pretense that it is better than America for every category of citizen. No need for the defensiveness.
That is pretty bad. It makes the (far-right Israeli-encouraged) fallacy of equating the desires of all Jews (who, like most people, simply want peace and prosperity) with the plainly destructive aims of a portion of the Israeli government and the Zionist diasporans who support their illegal, internationally-condemned activities.

No matter how much Likud ghouls et al. would like you to believe that they represent Jewish people worldwide, they don't, and of course we should condemn any attempt to pin on unrelated civilians, just by mere association of faith, the hundreds of killings and countless instances of human rights abuses and war crimes perpetrated by Israeli military and civil forces.
I don’t actually care about the term itself, I care that a supposed journalism piece is actually inserting it’s own politics so blatantly.
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The "unknown machine" sounds like dtmf tones + pulse tones. It's anyone's guess what the actual meaning of the numbers are, but the tone+pulse encoding suggests a super legacy, perhaps proprietary automated system that you'd call up to get the status of something - maybe factory machinery or a power plant, but really it's anyone's guess. Pulse dialing was still somewhat common until the mid 80s so this system is potentially upwards of 40 years old.
haha... yeah right.

But doesn't work for ft.com articles
I used statsmodels for a while ... it's definitely possible to predict arbitrary inputs, it just a pain to fiddle in the right inputs ...
That's not at all what I'm saying. Aside from web development, most professional tools are only used by professionals because they cost money. It wouldn't make sense to judge something by the free toy versions that happen to exist.
What public services does the government forbid you to access without a Covid vaccine? I am not aware of any.

If you are talking about private services, then there are many examples where papers are needed:

• buying alcohol (ID)

• entering a nightclub (ID)

• taking a plane (ID)

• opening a bank account (SSN/ITIN)

• renting a car (driver's license)

• buying a gun (proof of residence)
Not only does it suck, it sucks to the point where some developers don’t use it for their forms (they use something better) and cause accessibility issues.
Yup. The Least Publishable Unit strikes again.
The issue (from what we know now) isn’t PTFE directly but PFOA/PFAS that is used in the process (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfluorooctanoic_acid)
Companies can't quit Mo Brooks
Oxford University explores anti-parasitic drug ivermectin as Covid-19 treatment
> People take the train in the same situations when they drive a car

Not always. I live on the south coast of the UK. If I had to get to Scottish cities such as Glasgow (450 miles) or Edinburgh in a single day's journey I would fly or take the train, but never consider driving - it would be an absolutely horrendous car journey (edit: at least 8 hours assuming perfect traffic).
When I was there in 1998, MIT was turning physicists into investment bankers.
Aa someone who's been using a Surface Book, I gotta disagree. Battery is a bit shit but otherwise it is equal or superior to my MBP in every way. It is also the only pro-grade laptop I've ever used that doesn't get hot. You can actually use this thing on your lap
So those can work on iOS, Android, TV, Desktop, etc?
That's a bug in Firefox for Android that's being tracked https://bugzil.la/1535985
I've been in places where you can't move your PC to the other side of your desk.
Ask HN: Freelancers/Contractors: Do you work 8hrs/day?
There’s been many discussions lately about how most devs don’t have the stamina for more than ~4hrs of focused dev time a day, which I find to be mostly accurate.

The question then becomes for freelancers, when you’re in the middle of a longish contract, how do you actually maximize your billable time? Eg do you find client work that much more palatable that you actually do manage to work 8hrs a day on it? Are your rates high enough that you can do about 4hrs/day and still come out ahead? (Probably took a long time to get to that point?) Something else?
True, but the author admits to waking people in the middle of the night.
Presumably via an exploit they have found in the USB subsystem connected to the lightning port.
It is a slur, it's used as an insult against women who refuse to bow to the gender ideology insanity. You don't get to be the arbiter of that.

So-called "anti-trans" politics is actually more sensitive to the needs of real transsexuals while the transgender movement makes life harder for women, homosexuals, and transsexuals primarily for the benefit of non binary and transgender people

TERF is a slur used by transgender activists against anyone who understands the difference between sex, gender, transsexuality, and transgenderism, and refuses to deny certain biological realities, like the fact that only women produce ova.

The fact that you don't realize it's a slur shows how uneducated you are on this topic. You're going to need to do better next time.
Ask them for data, not HN. Power consumption is something that can easily be calculated and measured, however assumptions will have to be made that almost certainly will not be accurate for your employer.
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Believe me or not, I worked for FAANGs and received offers to relocate to the US, as most of my peers.

The large majority refused and preferred to stay in EU. Admittedly, my sample size is around 15, but still meaningful.
Freedom of expression/free speech doesn’t mean freedom not to be offended or that you have to agree with the views.

If we do not support even the most offensive speech then we risk a very slippery slope leading to censorship and 1984.
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Not really. I had to kind of steel man the anti hasura case since I overall agree with you.
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After short pause, defense contractors resume donations to Republican objectors
After January 6, all four companies announced they would indefinitely suspend all corporate PAC donations. In the months that followed, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, and Boeing resumed their political donations. In May, Northrop Grumman donated $16,500 to six members of Congress that voted to overturn the election. Boeing donated $17,500 to Republican objectors last month, including $5,000 each to Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA). In April, Lockheed Martin donated $10,000 to ten members of Congress who objected to the certification of the Electoral College.

The four companies have not donated to Brooks yet this year. But SPLC is asking for public assurances that they won't donate to Brooks in the future.
Sounds good, given how damn great the Portal series is. I only hope she doesn't somehow get hindered by the bureaucracy that is the giant corporation of Microsoft.

More fantastic games is always a good thing, even if I'm a bit iffy on "games that live on the cloud" ...
There's also the haunted PS1 demo discs.
[1] https://hauntedps1.itch.io/
The author also posted an interesting bit on setting up a VOIP/SIP honeypot: https://shufflingbytes.com/posts/sip-honeypot/

Turns out is a ton of automated activity looking to make money via poorly secured phone systems.
Easiest way to do this is probably what is mentioned at the end of the article:

> As part of a feature called HideUI, GrayKey also allows agencies to install the agent which surreptitiously records the user's passcode if authorities hand their phone back to them, NBC News reported.
Consider this thought experiment. Think of the people working at your place of employment in low-level positions who make less money than you. Do you think they are on average doing less productive work than you, or less likely to be "doers"? I am guessing you feel the answer is yes.

Now think of the people in high-level positions who make more than you. Do you think they are on average doing more productive work than you? I am guessing you feel the answer is not so obvious with this question.
I would suggest that it is a slur because it is used as a term of disparagement that often doesn't even accurately describe the target. The label gets thrown at women who are not RF, and sometimes women who, for whatever reason (for example, a religion they adhere to) would be reluctant to even call themselves F. At that point, I don't see how the word is any different than people e.g. referring to any Arabs as "camel jockeys".
If they liked having unions with lots of power over workers they would join unions. "Company propaganda" is just a cop out, companies in Europe does the same, the main difference is that unions in Europe has a lot of power over companies and very little power over workers while in USA it is the opposite.

An example of protections workers in USA lacks is "right to work", everyone has that in Europe but in USA it is said to be right wing anti union propaganda. The only one who is hurt by banning "right to work" is the worker, unions wants it though since it gives them more power over workers. Btw, saying that unions are on the workers side just because workers elect and pay them is like saying that politicians are on the peoples side since the people elect and pay the politicians taxes. It doesn't work that way, you need to protect people from politicians and also protect workers against unions.
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There's tons just across the border here in Indiana! I live in Whiting and they just put up a great disc golf course in Forsythe Park here. Come out sometime and play! (And send me an email so I can join :)).
If someone makes the same spelling mistake repeatedly, it's not a typo, and IMO it's better to point it out, because they're probably carrying it over into more professional contexts and it affects how they're perceived.

Obviously in a personal context you'd try and do something like that in private, not in a group, but that's not really an option here.

If I repeatedly misspell something, or repeatedly use a validly spelled word in place of a homonym, I want to know.
Why would you need to talk about parsing for a month with Lisp?

Lisp famously has one of the simplest syntaxes possible that is still structured, and one of the simplest data structures to understand. There's almost nothing to it.

And why would you introduce Lisp in a compiler/interpreter course, to people who are presumably already quite advanced in their knowledge?

Lisp is best as a teaching aid to introduce common high-level language concepts, in a way where it's clear how they all actually work in a familiar syntax- because it's Lisp nearly all the way down. (No black boxes.)

Most other languages suffer from a "trust me" problem, where students are taught what complicated things do but have to take it as gospel because they can't read the implementation, so they end up with high level concepts but no idea what's really going on to make those work, and a vague belief that "underneath" is more complicated and mysterious than it has to be. (Black boxes abound.) Indeed some students struggle to understand high-level concepts until they can see the mechanism.
Right, but "slur" by itself is used as shorthand for "offensive slur" - typically racially-offensive slurs or homophobic slurs, and so on - I'm not aware of normal public discourse referring to everyday insults as "slurs" - whatever the original definition slur had it now has a connotation of insulting the target by way of comparing the target to an intentionally hurtful stereotype. (I could enumerate examples but nothing good can come from that, methinks...)

Whereas "TERF" is an acronym - it isn't appealing to anyone's emotional opinions about what a "TERF" represents - that is if anyone is even clued-up enough to know what it actually means.

Maybe the people complaining are assuming that TERF is an offensive slur without doing their research first? I'll admit it does have that feel to it, the way it sharply rolls off the tongue...
Normally when you hunt for information that you can't absolutely find an already-made API of you scrape the web and deal with regular expressions but this is definitely the easier option, using SPARQL. I can see a lot of potential information harvesting use cases for it.
I don't exactly see how that's similar; no one is complaining that their school district is lousy because it's overregulated, they're complaining that it's mismanaged or corrupt and that without something like vouchers, only the wealthy can opt out, and poorer kids get trapped.

Ultimately I think pure free-market school choice in practice would fail not so much because of regulatory capture or a cash-grab, but because changing schools is disruptive and won't fix the problems of students with dysfunctional home lives.
Paying people minimum wage is "corporate welfare"? How so?
He's down to 12 lbs, we adopted him when he was 7 years old and weighed 17 lbs as his previous owners kept him in a single room. But thanks for judging me sans facts, internet stranger!
There’s a difference between saying it’s used as a way to disparage someone and as a slur here. I’ve generally associated the term slur with a significant history of using it against a demographic, such as fggot, nggr, ch*nk, etc. saying that TERF is on the same level as those terms struck me as politicking and not journalism, which made me suspect the rest of the piece as political nonsense from the right.
Ada was released in 1980. It finally got a free compiler when the Air Force paid for one in 1995 fifteen years later and it took until 2001 for this code to finally be merged with the rest of GCC.

It definitely had no free compiler for a long time.
Do we? What browsers support java applets nowadays?
There will always be edge cases, and they should be addressed on an individual basis. Changing the rules that affect 99% of the athletes to benefit the 1% edge cases doesn't make sense.
You call them whatever you want, and the other side has a freedom to call you a transphobe. simple as that.
The onslaught of neologisms and redefinitions come directly from the academic Critical Social Justice fields

These are federally subsidized academic fields

So if you want to see the Left stop redefining words, the public needs to stop funding their careers in academia
The issue with claiming that the pandemic caused these extra deaths is that we don't know if it did.this is because the reactions to covid (lockdown) could have just as easily impacted people dying.

It's not so simple so as to attribute all excess mortality to covid.
A keylogger, as it seems. So, if you give your phone unlocked to authorities, e.g. during a border check, they can log your passcode and you are now screwed.
My comments were a criticism of reform methodology, not a dismissal of the need for reform. There is plenty wrong with police in North America, but defunding it and hoping for the best will make it worse, if anything.
I got recommended this on my YouTube over the weekend and learnt about steno, something I don't know much about. https://youtu.be/nRp_1S7cj6A

Fascinating stuff!
If the problem with air travel is emissions then we ought to work on alternative fuels. That's the positive thing to do.

There is too much finger pointing, though. Globally, air travel accounts for only a small proportion of emissions, which means it gets a disproportionate amount of attention at the expense of more important things.
Regarding: "Maple confirmation message for Clevercrossing."

It sounds like they are saying "Global Crossing" which was a telecom company

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Crossing
The jQuery cliche was such a meme: https://imgur.com/Q3mkcnl.gif
Oh it did, but apparently he would jump on me and then quickly scamper away without me realizing it. Consciousness is weird.
Paris-Vienna will be operated by ÖBB Nightjet starting December this year.
Yes this, it's Global Crossing which is a telecoms infrastructure company operating big sea cables and the like.
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China Spreads Its Propaganda Version of Life for Uyghurs
Isnt that exactly what HTML is?
That it took 16 years to develop a free compiler for a relatively niche language in the era when relatively few people were online yet in any meaningful sense is not terribly shocking.

The language, going with the date of the first spec, is now 41 years old. So 25 years of its existence, there has been a free compiler. Quite a bit longer than the time spent without one.
Yeah I’m not on the left any more and now an independent due to the left trying to use identity politics for political engagement. Still support what Bernie/Yang are doing though with trying to universalize healthcare and income though.
No one in the mainstream is "against trans people," what they're against is denying biological realities like sexual dimorphism in pursuit of a fashion trend.

I don't care if you're a man and you want to go by she/her, that's totally fine, but you're still not going to be placed in a cell with a female in prison if you've raped someone and happen to be trans identifying, sorry.
Brave blocks harmful third-party ads and trackers. This is a security and privacy matter, as these types of ads are actually small scripts/apps which run in the context of your local machine.

As malignant as third-party ads have become, they do generate revenue for content creators. As such, Brave didn't stop at "block, and let the creators figure it out." We did the work to propose a new approach to supporting content creators; one which doesn't cost the user their data/privacy in the process.

In Brave, user's have to opt-in to Ad Notifications. When they do, they set the limits (up to 10/hr) on how many ad notifications can be displayed. Matching happens locally, so the user's data never leaves their device. And 70% of each ad's revenue is allocated to the user's anonymous wallet, which can flow out to the sites they visit (and proportional to the amount of time they spend on those sites) each month.

This is indeed a replacement model; we cannot continue down the path we've been taking for 25 years. One which treats users like products, harvesting their data at every turn, and auctioning them off to a sea of third parties. There's a better way, and we're just seeing the start of it with the Brave model.
Realistically from what I've seen in Sweden, this isn't necessarily true. I'm sure it depends where you are going. I will be taking the night train this summer to go into Lapland from Copenhagen area and the round trip cost for my ticket was about $235 USD which includes a transfer in Stockholm. Similar plane tickets were priced roughly the same with long layover in Stockholm.

I suspect it will not be possible for the night train to ever beat a short haul point to point on a Ryanair bike seat halfway across Europe between two major cities. But for anything more remote the night train will probably be quite competitive. After all, the infrastructure already exists for the most part.
Sell your house, quit your job, travel the world
> I am taking anxiety medicines and planning to start therapy

Please don't plan on starting therapy, get it started now! Also, get a full physical from your doctor - there could be underlying medical issues causing these problems. Seriously, I've known people with these kinds of issues and a combination of medical therapy (they had a vitamin D deficiency and their brain chemicals weren't in the right balance) and therapy completely turned their life around. It wasn't easy though, especially at the outset. If the problem is you have brain chemicals out of whack I'd love to tell you that they'd be able to easily fix it but they can't. What they're going to do is try different things and see what works. It can be frustrating and you may think your doctors are idiots during this process - but realize that's today's state-of-the-art.

Remember, you're worth the effort to get to the bottom of this and get it turned around. Get the help you need and good luck!
I don't disbelieve you, but this doesn't rebut my claim at all. To be clear, I didn't claim that Europeans prefer to move to the US, only that the US compensation packages are better for software professionals.
That's because they had a cohesive narrative that fully encapsulated the political struggle of a republic aimed for the people vs a tyrannical dictatorship.

The new trilogy was devoid of anything except for woke virtual signaling and nostolgia.
The point of the "mad dog" approach is not to win, but to let others know you will take them down with you, with the idea being that they will do what you want out of fear.
For what is worth, I am actually sincere, not disingenuous/trolling (and I link my public identity to this). I have a hard time seeing how your agreement about the facts in (1) (whether repeated or not by others) does not contradict your claims about "what apparently happened" claimed in (2). The question was "why is dissing undeserved" and in (1) saying "because the journalist is right in their context" seems like a pretty reasonable answer to me.

Lastly, I am surprised at your umbrage at what I have said in (1). When asked "why", it seems like a pretty reasonable answer to say "look at all the other comments that confirm and justify this statement".

(3) Fair enough, it is hyperbolic. Democratic society. "Fabric" is a pretty common idiom for the underlying norms (e.g. journalism exposing issues with the other 3 branches, having a non-governmental source of mass information)
The author of the article appears to think "a sequence of graphemes" is the right abstraction.
Actually, yeah, I relate to that 100%, too. (Even doing it right this second.) I just spend a lot more of my time in the neglect phase than the "caught up to me" phase.