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> Ricky Gervais stating that the British Office couldn't be made today. I think he's being very disingenuous saying that because while out of context it could appear to have a lot of controversial jokes touching on taboo subjects, within the show it was always clear who the real target of the jokes was

But that’s exactly why it could not be made today. Today, you can’t say anything which can be taken out of context. Quote mining has become a national pastime.
He was rear-ended.
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you are all over this thread making bad faith arguments.

Just because a government is elected through the process of voting, does not mean that it is accountable to the people. Politics is a dirty business and that is as true in India as it is in the US. You would struggle to make the case that the duly elected president of the USA, one Mr Trump, was anything but a con-man whose primary aim was the enrichment of himself and those in his circle.

A voting system is just that - a voting system. Don't confuse it with a robust democracy.
This is exactly my point. .venv/ needs to live in the project deployment directory, and needs a wrapper script to use the python binary/symlink therein.

Isolate the project from the python runtime it uses, and you'll always have the right set of packages installed.

None of this is perfect, but an in-tree .venv/ and convenience scripts seems to be the least-worst option.
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They already did that, Windows Phone. It was amazing. It's just MS killed it off because they suck at delivering hardware.

I was stuck on Samsung Note 5, waiting for the latest Lumia phone to come to Singapore, after 8 months i caved and went iPhone, it eventually came out 13 months after it released in the US...

Apple can literally do a world-wide-day-1-release but MS releases in like 2 markets, and after 12 months its up to like 7 markets...
For those who want to read a whole book on the topic of the influence of a variety of parasites on behavior, you might read "This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society" by Kathleen McAuliffe. It also discusses whether or not there are "parasites" that shape behavior in ways that are beneficial to the host.
Also, my GR review of it: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1707114701
It's the insidious nature of expenses. Spending comes easy. When you look at expenses before your desired profit, you cover up all sorts of bad habits.

Yet when you flip the script and prize profits, it requires you to justify every one of them and look for ways to make your business work at the profit level you've chosen to target.

You'll have to justify every hire, every recurring expense, and either cut them or find replacements. The end result is a healthier business.

This won't happen overnight but it will work if you're diligent. It's also an excellent path toward innovation - creating new ways to achieve more with less.
I’ve been struggling recently, more than usual. Getting out of my own head can be a challenge. I came across this book again today and it clicked for me. I hope it might help someone else reframe their struggle.
> I'm not sure if quantum computing helps here in any way

Theoretically a quantum computer can brute-force AES-256 using 2^128 sequential steps using Grover's algorithm (i.e. a quadratic advantage over a classical computer). Parallelization diminishes the advantage, e.g. if you're limited to 2^64 sequential steps, you get a 2^64 speedup over classical, for a cost of 2^192 which is still ridiculously large.

Thus quantum computing is not a relevant threat for AES-256 or most other 256-bit symmetric crypto.
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Any side projects, Game, OSS, Hacks.
Moving to another city leads to a few necessary purchases. I help people find the right services and get a commission. That includes things like health insurance, a bank account and an apartment.

It's just good ol' affiliate marketing, except that I don't build the content around monetisation. I built the sort of honest website I wanted to find when I moved here.
I'd recommend trying GitLab out a bit. It has a lot of cool features for multirepo companies like deployment integrations.

Self hosting isn't too bad if you want to try out the more advanced stuff.
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It makes no difference. They can fine Twitter no matter where they are. If Twitter refuse to pay they can sanction any business using Twitter basically killing Twitter in India. Twitter would do almost anything to make sure this doesn't happen.
How is real science open? Aaron Swartz, for one, killed himself after receiving the punishment for "liberating" academic articles from the digital library he had access to. I also don't see corporations releasing the results of their precious r&d, although, I don't really have insight into this topic.

Licenses only matter because there's trademarks and copyright. In places where IP isn't protected as much, they also would not matter, in a way that they would not be necessary. But because stuff can be copyrighted, there also must be a way to share that, aside from liberating it from the copyright of course.

I think a close real-life analogue is a potluck. The custom requires that participants bring some food, and in turn can consume from what the others brought. And it's a nice old thing too, with etymology dating back to the 16th century.
> "land this particular rocket safely within 15 minutes"

This one becomes especially dangerous after the 15 minutes have passed and it begins to concentrate all its attention on the paranoid scenarios where its timekeeping is wrong and 15 minutes haven't actually passed.
It's also hard to say you've killed someone when there's zero existing evidence of that somebody's death as well. It's also hard to say that you've killed someone when you never did that, because y'know, message boards are not one person.
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Or it’s because the differences between the two are smaller than the differences between regional American dialects and standard American English? Not conjugating be is a pretty big difference.

And yes, if an Australian started using certain vocabulary words like cunt in a professional context, it would not be acceptable.
Bill Gates had this book on his reading list one year and I found it helpful to provide a different perspective (data based) on how things are improving in the world. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07RGR16DL/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...

Remember that most media is built on the idea of capturing attention and it is easier to capture attention with stories of fear and disaster than it is with positive stories. 3 local acts of violence will get headlines while 300 acts of kindness will go without promotion.
Curious what examples you see of Disney or other producers losing money pushing ideology.
But how is that solved? If the information of failure (a null returned adress) isn't provided by the language then the program can't observe allocation failure and react to it.
> China is playing the long game of soft power by providing this information and pushing their world view.

Change China to the USA to see the absurdity of this.
> That assumes a very specific kind of user. The kind that has the time and energy, not to mention the ability, to read and understand source code and modify it according to his needs.

Actually, no. End users also benefit when code is contributed back to the software they use.
Yes this probably works great for you. Now please explain my grandma how to set up Git and SSH on her phone.
Store was probably Argos?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argos_(retailer)

Still going - but an increasing % of their sales are online.
>The movie followed the book pretty closely except for the mecha-suits.

There's a surface similarity but the tone is completely different. To me, the film is pretty obviously a largely satirical retelling of the book's story.
For anyone triggered by the above comment saying Australian English really is just bad English...

I don't actually believe that, I just wrote it trigger you on purpose. Now go and think long and hard about why it's ok for you to be upset when someone says your variety of English is just bad English, but it's totally OK for you to say AAVE, or even just Standard American English spoken with an African American accent, is just bad English.
I believe that tactic is called "kiting" and used by speedrunners?
Nice. I'm all for opening up hardware. Now if only someone broke HP's draconian firmware restrictions (verifies firmware at boot an reflashes anything "compromised" with a backup stored who knows where) that would open it up for some real security measures (ME cleaner, coreboot, etc.) and modding in general.

Preventing hackers from hacking sucks balls when you're that hacker hacking your own hardware. For me this is a feature and what differenciates a general purpose computer from a locked down games console.
The next generation of rockets use methane, which can be made in a renewable fashion, making this point moot.
But Uighurs are being oppressed due to religion, it’s just the generic religious oppression that China applies to everyone. Heck, even if racism and dissidence wasn’t involved, there is still oppression that is or was rather common in the rest of China (eg re-education work camps weren’t invented in Xinjiang). There is plenty of room for both sides to play on technical truths, perhaps the same is happening in India (I have no idea).
You would be surprised at how little people bother to look up information nowadays, even if it's five seconds away with Google.
Don't go on hearsay, or even just a glance of Google, actually investigate what you're looking for.

Edit: Boy I sure do love powertripping bundles of sticks who flag anything they can't fucking use their lips to smack down. Invalid clowns.
There is a theory that colds and flu and many sexually transmitted diseases also affect behaviour enough to encourage more spread. In other words, it's possible that being infected with an STD makes you more sexually active.

It's a theory as it's incredibly hard to do studies about. The main study this was based on was done on people with the flu - they used students who had the flu jab (mild flu effects etc) - and saw that those students went out more and socialised. Subsequent studies think this might be because they felt more protected being jabbed, rather than the virus affecting their behaviour.
> The best aspects of GPL work didn't manifest

That's strongly from the point of view of people who are mainly developers.

But the main beneficiaries of the GPL are not developers but users: users of GPL software have the right to view and modify the code that runs on their computers. On the contrary, users of BSD-licensed software may have had this right stripped by middlemen between the author of the software and them.

The GPL may annoy some developers but it always makes the users happier, and I think that's beautiful.
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> If you have the opportunity to go to university, my personally small and insignificant advice - do it.

I’ve attempted to look into it a few times, but it seems pretty clear they don’t want me. From the prohibitive costs, to the riding, bureaucratic admission where my high school disciplinary record is more important than my resume and where I’m a “dependent” despite what my tax returns have said for the last several years, it’s clear that universities are mostly interested in gullible HS seniors who’s parents can co-sign for insane loans. In the US at least.
There isn't anything GitHub or/and Bitbucket specific to this. That's just the procedure to copy (clone/push) a repo from one Git server to another. What about issues, PRs, actions, wiki, ...? GitHub isn't only used to host the code alone.
We've stopped as a family watching any movie out of Hollywood. I don't think we're alone.
Then what should they do when the authoritarian is in the US? Where is the line?
My personal opinion... We've basically stopped watching Hollywood-fodder: it's largely formulaic, largely caters to the Politically Correct/Woke and seems intent on destroying the Good Stuff that came before. I'll give Mad Max, Alien and Jurassic Park as examples. Prequels? Sequels? How many sequels do you need? There's plenty of Good Stuff left though, and it needs a little research: look at what used to be called World Cinema and there are some real gems. You may need to get used to subtitles, but the works are inspiring and unlike the Hollywood Fast Food Burger movies will actually give you something to discuss afterwards.
For one thing payment to state governments not ruled by the BJP the party at the center) have been indefinitely delayed. States have been complaining about this, they have lost significant revenue, and are practically held under ransom.
It's quite trivial to enforce the use and absence of X warnings/error from a static analysis tool Y during merge review and CI.
C++ with ASAN enforced is quite close, not compile time granted but much more familiar. Btw there are lifetime checker for c++ in development.
Looking at the quoted text one could guess his goal is maximized amount of users, alternative maximized number of copy-paste-modify events, and that he thought that the GPL would produce those?

(We could dig into the terminology around "openess", a classic tar trap in the GPL and BSD flame wars, but I doubt such path would lead towards comments getting more thoughtful and substantive.)

Going thus back towards getting users and copy-paste-modify events, as a strategy GPL is rarely if ever a maximize for those goals. The discussions around licenses for stackoverflow code seems to have concluded that claiming copyright at all on small code snippets is counter productive and something most users don't seem to even acknowledge or know that it has a license. A patent grant is however a good protective measure, which would be more akin to the apache license rather than BSD.

For maximum users we have both Iphone and Android as examples of BSD vs GPL, and the conclusion seems to be that the license has very little effect. In contrast one could make a strong correlative argument that proprietary software on top and DRM is the best strategy out there if you want to maximize users.

I doubt however either is what Carmack is talking about. Instead it seems to be the rather common pattern we have seen in the past when old developers test out open source. They look at projects like linux and expect to get similar contributors by releasing their own projects under GPL, and then they end up not getting many and announcing that "the best aspects of GPL work didn't manifest". The question is if that would also have happened under BSD. He could try it today, and if we got the same result, what would that prove?
It is not only a matter of "that your code isn't exploited by corporations". It also a guarantee that any improvement to that code will be available to everyone.
It's interesting to me that there is not as much push back against Rust from the kernel. Linus (I guess everyone addresses him with his first name), has been very critical, even dismissive of systems programming languages other than C. But with Rust he has a more, I guess we could say passive approach. This might be a good indicator that Rust is doing something very respectable.

On the other hand I'm slightly suspicious of this movement. Rustaceans are very, very eager to promote the language. It would be interesting to know how much this movement comes from within the Linux kernel community or if it is driven more by the Rust community.

In any case the language seems to have potential of becoming a new mainstream systems programming language in a few years.
Recommended reading about the topic of climate change and wet bulb temperatures:

Kim Stanley Robinson's novel "The Ministry for the Future".

Here's the blurb from goodreads:

Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organization was simple: To advocate for the world's future generations and to protect all living creatures, present and future. It soon became known as the Ministry for the Future, and this is its story.

From legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a vision of climate change unlike any ever imagined.

Told entirely through fictional eye-witness accounts, The Ministry For The Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, the story of how climate change will affect us all over the decades to come.

Its setting is not a desolate, post-apocalyptic world, but a future that is almost upon us - and in which we might just overcome the extraordinary challenges we face.

It is a novel both immediate and impactful, desperate and hopeful in equal measure, and it is one of the most powerful and original books on climate change ever written.
I’ve done a bunch of stuff. My strengths are device control and UX widgets, but I’m working on an aggregate system that is social-media-ish (for a specific demographic). Not actually the stuff I shine at, but I like challenges. It’s coming along nicely.

It is allowing me to play with UX, and that’s something I enjoy.
It's a shame the fork doesn't use better commit messages than they do.

For example, "Fixes" is the entire commit message for https://github.com/temporary-audacity/audacity/commit/d9f30b...

Commit messages like these do not inspire a lot of confidence. It would be a lot better (and easier to compare the original and the fork) if the commit message was something like "[Remove-Tracking] Remove SentryHelper.h and sentry ADD_EXCEPTION_CONTEXT usage"
Same with Inkscape, FreeCAD, and Audacity. The pros I know (respectively: graphic designers, mechanical engineers, musicians and recording engineers) find them borderline unusable, not because of the underlying tech, but because the UX and feature sets are so weird and nonstandard and confusing.

The problem as I understand it is that, even if a bunch of aspiring UX developers decided to donate their time to these projects, there wouldn't be any extra developer time to implement the new UX. So you have a catch-22 where UX improvements don't get merged, because the people with the UX expertise don't really know how to code, meanwhile the bad UX persists, because the people with the coding expertise either don't know or don't care about UX (or in some cases they actually think the current UX is good).
All easily achievable with gcc.

Yes, we can.
This is only valid as long as the project remains GPL licensed. Musegroup has a new CLA and said that they made it sign to all past contributors, which allows them the right to relicense the product as they fit.

While the fact that their privacy policy/telemetry infringes on the GPL (since it restricts use for people under 13) might not be enough to warrant a license change (though I guess it should? It's infringing it after all), they have their hands permanently on the rug we're all standing on and they can pull it whenever they want.

Popular example of this happening is Aseprite, it was relicensed from GPL to EULA. The code is still open source, but the FOSS fork cannot just take the new changes and port them over.
> Maintainers only make their job harder.

That's unnecessarily harsh. Distro maintainer's primary responsibility is making the Distro as a whole work together and sometimes that means choices that are not optimal for individual programs/libraries on their own. But packaging itself does already reduce the burden on upstream a lot by preempting any build-related support requests from users as well as many compatibility-related ones.

Sometimes upstreams interest is also not aligned with the user's interest (e.g. the topic of this thread) and there the distro will tend to choose the user's interests - that's a good thing.

As for time bombs specifically, those don't make much sense when the software is installed via a repository that has an update mechanism. Not wanting bug reports for old versions is no excuse for planned obsolence.

If you think a distro is increasing your support burden it is quite acceptable to tell users from that distro to use the distro's bug tracker.
You can click the "Edit this page" button and submit an improvement.

Having said that, the fact remains that you don't have a standard syntax to add an id on a section title (without using HTML directly).

Jekyll might does the right thing but Jekyll is not Markdown. Does it work elsewhere? If not then your document is not really portable.
yep, it may be that these new variants are not attempting any kind of immune escape against vaccines. They might just replicate faster or may be more transmissive and we are seeing the inevitable outcome of a non-sterilizing vaccine: you still get an infection, it just usually isn't a bad one.
Have to disagree with your claims. It’s a gross oversimplification of how laws can be passed or enacted in India. Not all laws require both houses to pass them (the infamous Aadhaar Act was passed as a money bill, a case that’s still pending hearing in the Supreme Court — money bills passed by the Lok Sabha are out of the ambit of the Rajya Sabha to do anything impactful).

In this particular case, these are IT Rules that fall under an existing Act (the IT Act). It’s not a new law, which is a problem because these rules fall afoul of what’s allowed in the parent law.
Interesting to read someone else's insights and to find so many of them resonate.

One point that I don't think has been touched on is manipulating the plot for non-storytelling grounds, which usually happens as they are nearing the end of a season and/or they're leaving it open for a sequel (season or film).

This creates a real lack of resolution now. In the era of serious films, they could occasionally leave unresolved turns at the end of a film on purpose ("life isn't neat") but it was usually done with the eloquence of an accomplished director.

Now it's so mercenary that it is really starting to detract. Add to this that many series use guest directors who seem to wander off on a personal mission, and it's a recipe for the sort of mess we've seen in so many big budgets series.

Whilst I liked aspects of the final season, Game of Thrones didn't tie up even a fraction of the main plots let alone the sub plots. In the UK there were similar split opinions on Line of Duty. You can only take so much of your audiences time and squander it before people lose trust. A clear ending shouldn't be that hard to write.
> Or it’s because the differences between the two are smaller than the differences between regional American dialects and standard American English?

clearly not - Australian English is far more different to Standard American English compared to... Standard American English, just spoken with an African American accent.
Obviously she would use different software, my point is iOS essentially forces people like her to use this.
Would that mean there's an increased likelihood I'll be out and about while contagious if I get the vaccine?

It would be hilarious if the same finger-waggers who want everyone vaccinated or quarantined would eventually want to reserve the vaccine for a privileged few.
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When you are starting working on real rockets, the KGB must give you clearance.

So I bet every one of the notable figures had some KGB in their biography.
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External drives are also spec'd for lower performance and longevity.
To catch it or to get sick from it?

Either way it would be fine. It basically reduces it to the level of a common cold, ie we can stop worrying about this virus.
You need a bedside fan for a few days a year, that's about it.