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This article describes my feelings exactly. I trust almost none of the tools I use on a daily basis very far. Every piece of software I use is liable fall prey at some point or another (and sometimes constantly) to some combination of the following:

* Continuous mandatory updates which make various things worse or introduce new "features" I don't want

* Continuous mandatory updates which break things without warning that I was reliant on

* Integrated advertising or dark-pattern behavior I have to frequently circumvent

* Unreasonable levels of lack of security or security theatre

* Getting retired or crippled because the company which makes it goes out of business or gets acquired with no transition plan

The fundamental issue, it seems to me, is that nobody cares about users except in abstract anymore. They care about funding, brands, growth, the Hustle, not making something that is in any way good or usable long-term. And anything that is good can be summarily ruined in the pursuit of the above goals, with no warning.

It's exhausting.
Yes that’s what they keep telling me.
A thousand times this. Poema em Linha Reta was one of those things that opened my eyes about human nature when I met the author as a teenager.
>I seriously doubt that no one raised the concerns that are raised today during the development of Copilot.

I would be shocked if they did. The common wisdom in the ML community is that training data is fair use. GPT has been operating for 2-3 years now with no legal issues, and this is just a different fine tune of GPT3.
Sorry if this was not clear, but I did not say you have to use credit cards.
https://archive.is/A0MJ7
Perhaps something lighter than a comment could be considered. For example, tags. A downvoter could select one or many from a pre-selected list of reasons for disagreement or distaste. A few possible such options could be "erroneous", "discourteous", "irrelevant", "unsubstantiated", "insubstantial", "disorganized", etc.
Talk to someone you trust who did the same thing. Managing anything related to construction can ruin marriages, and lives, the whole ordeal could last for years.
I don't think it is, at least it always seemed to me that if you take up no credit, Schufa won't be a problem. While when I moved to the US, I had to open credit lines to build "history".

Then again, I don't know what fully goes on with Schufa, so maybe it just wasn't a problem for me. But then what would be the problem without "history"? Had I built a house or bought an apartment, I am very sure they'd primarily look at your income. And the one time I had took a "Bildungskredit" because I was financing my university time myself, my non-existing Schufa records did not come up either.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it much rather seemed like a "bad payer" register to me (as a cousin comment just called it for Denmark).
Me neither. I actually like to have some random human-to-human interaction from time to time. If I don't, I will start to feel lonely. Like actually sad.
And it's a nice ever-perpetuating story from two decades ago.

Today we have several mostly-online banks (the largest is DKB with 4.6 million customers) who issue credit cards with which you can get money at the ATM without a fee. If you're using the "usual" EC card, you're paying lots of fees.

Consequently, many people in Germany today carry a credit card nowadays, and they use it for paying the groceries, as well.

You can pay with credit cards in every supermarket, in every gas station, in almost every restaurant.
Same in Estonia. You use a credit card anywhere locally _only_ when you don't have actual money.

Somebody using their credit card once per month for local purchases? It's a sign that they are rather bad at managing their income and that's a negative sign for banks if you want to get a loan later on..
> short squeeze on naked shorts

Trading is getting really graphic these days
https://github.com/hruvulum/hruvulum.github.io/blob/master/i...

(Is there a more graceful way to publish a single file?)
For me, comedies are so much a matter of personal taste that I’m generally not interested in seeing them in the theater unless it’s with a group of friends or I feel like I have reasonable expectations that I will like the movie a lot. They’re not really like superhero or action movies where I can be pretty good at guessing whether I’ll like the film.
This is false. Heat is an incredibly common type of waste energy, and far more common than waste "cold" (if such a thing exists at all), so most (if not all) heating devices are more efficient than cooling devices.

Furthermore, heat is related to entropy, which in a closed system can only increase. We have many devices that can generate heat where there was none previously (e.g. resistive heating elements) but none that can destroy heat, only shuffle it around somewhere else.
The reason heat pumps have traditionally been untenable is that they are prone to icing over when below freezing. If the coils are covered in ice, then air can't be blown past them to get new heat to pull in.

Further, in many cases, the heat pump wouldn't keep your house warm during the coldest period of the year, which meant you still needed a heater. Not a huge deal since you probably have an AC for the summer anyway.

The issue as I understand it, was that the thermostats were not smart enough to know when to quit and so a heat pump would run until it literally could not keep up with demand, when it should have instead switched over to gas heat some time earlier than that when efficiency dropped.

Modern heat pumps deal with all these factors to the point that I expect them to become standard fare as current ACs get upgraded over the next decade or two. I know that if we ever need to upgrade our AC it will be replaced with a heat pump.
I spent a while in London and the cinema theater experience there was worth going out:

- couches

- beer

- good food

Sure it was expensive, but it was a far far cry from my experience in the US.
Seems like a pretty rational decision.

- Dual income with no kids is no longer a luxury where you get a free extra income stream, it's pretty much a requirement for middle class lifestyle. All that extra money is hoovered up by...

- High childcare costs. You're both working, now you have to put a dollar value on the child care that was handled by one member of the household, and we're discovering that it's very expensive work

- Then you get to the extremely costly housing, and between the housing and the childcare that extra income stream for dual incomes is pretty much gone

- Finally you get to all the other costs of living that have vastly outpaced inflation: health care, education.

So we've made having children, which is already rough (most people report a steep decline in quality of life and huge increase in stress levels after having children), an outright horrible financial decision. No wonder people are reacting rationally.

We're probably headed for a Japan situation where population growth flattens, the voting public is outright hostile to immigration, and we end up in decades of economic stagnation. We had a good run.
Here's another page that describes it a bit and also has the entirety of the film.

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-private-life-o...
Yeah, you have to do a lot of the work in the end. My point was mostly, ai doesn't actually work that well for this. I don't think it's quite ready yet to give the level of creativity yet constrained freedom most well written text adventure games can give. That along with things like NovelAi and Koboldai are probably the best at it right now.
It really doesn’t make sense for MacOS (or iOS) to directly support Vulkan. A particular OS release would implement a limited range Vulkan versions (probably just one) which would always be out-of-date.

Apple would not be able evolve the OS, silicon and Vulkan API in unison (like they do with Metal) because they don’t control the API.

In the end it would be a poor experience for end users.

It would be nice if they supported open source efforts though.

(MS doesn’t maintain the Vulkan API in windows, do they? Similar issues would apply.)
exactly, and more to the point, in these places colleagues are often of a higher caliber, and salaries are much higher to boot.
No it’s just income on your w2 same as rsus and salary. You’re thinking of long term cap gains which is entirely different matter
Which is why I stated "mostly."

Carlin, Pryor, Foxx, Bruce and others were rarities.
So many companies I deal with have extremely poor management teams and practices. Things like stack-ranking, vague job descriptions/responsibilities, managers who aren't technical, the list is endemic to IT.

You want demoralizing? How about being an excellent employee, but being told that you can only get a COLA raise because your manager has been told only 2 out of a team of 15 can "exceed standards?" And these standards are as vague as HR can possibly make them.

So unless you're sociopathic, you try to "improve" which generally means kissing up to your boss. Doing a better job revolves around keeping your boss happy, regardless of whether that means your real work is being done at an "exceeds" level. Find out what metrics he considers important, and focus almost exclusively on them.

If you're sociopathic, you do this, while sabotaging your coworkers. It's pretty easy to do; keep important information away from them, point out any flaws/mistakes they make, etc.

Any large organization will end up like this if they follow traditional HR guidelines for performance evals. It's part of a competitive environment.

The only place I've seen it work better/differently was when the entire team was evaluated. That helped prevent the Machiavellian sabotage, but did allow lower performers to benefit from the work of the higher performers. But that would happen anyway; you can't fire everyone. And the motivation of the coworkers shifts from competitive to cooperative. Helping others learn new things, overcome issues, etc. When management gets behind this, it's amazing, but most managers and executives are discouraged from trying new things.
It's going to get really interesting when the world has 1-2 working aged person for 2-3 retirees...

Not sure the old people will be able to riot on the streets or anything but it will be an interesting problem for humanity to solve!

Maybe the world will end up with all the Mormons doing everything until they eventually take over since they have such large families.
one issue is that you might not want to start prototyping something (for cost reasons) until you have a defensible moat.
"Eh-eh-aaaah! ... Eh-eh-aaaah!"
It was weird for me when I traveled to Germany and had to pay for almost everything in cash because the country doesn’t like electronic payments. What’s your point?
I want to say there was a darknet diaries episode on something related to this - a long term IR engagement, about to kick out the attack, suddenly attackers disappear. Few days later, M&A announcement. Hacking as due diligence.
That's fascinating! We'll look into this.
The point is others tend to rely more on intuitive structures that are everyday. Crystallised intuition about a specific domain doesn't count because of course everyone who is a specialist is going to have their own local knowledge. Calling it domain intuition might make more sense.
May 2021 was the 437th consecutive month with global surface temperature above the 20th century average [1]. It tied May 2018 as the 6th warmest may in the 142 year record.

[1] https://www.climate.gov/news-features/featured-images/may-20...
> If a war happens and a bunch of people on either side are using the red cross symbol to indicate medics

They do, medical branches of the military are allowed to use the symbols.
California Geological Survey Issues New Tsunami Hazard Maps for SF Bay Area
That's odd. Why would you charge more for a post-series C startup or enterprise versus a pre-series C?
> Hungary is in a condition where the government in power is eroding its democratic institutions. Many US states, similarly, have enacted or are in the middle of enacting measures aimed at making it harder for a certain class of citizen to vote.

If Hungary, Poland or any country would come up with the idea of NOT having documentation for voting, EU would come down on them harder than the current LGBT saga.
It really depends from what angle you look at it. Most of the world would see in their respective countries what Republicans want/do as common sense. I really don't think this is an issue that you could win people over, that is why it's silence from the international community and it's local politics regarding your states and voting rights.
could you perhaps expand on vertically sliced modules, what does that mean? do you have any diagram or code we can reference to get a clear idea of the concept behind the words. thanks!
> I knew the patent wouldn't hold up in court, but I wouldn't have the money to fight it.

You're not really going to be sued unless you have money to pay a judgment or settlement. If you have money, then you can pay to fight to invalidate the patent, or to pay a settlement.
'Palace on rails': first private luxury train concept
Crypto=Equality
> they know that climate change is real and must be avoided.

Uh, we knew that in 2005 already, quite a lot of educational projects following the Kyoto protocols !
For those that don't mind paying a bit more there's of course non-DIY solutions that do the same. We went all out and bought a Quooker with our new kitchen: boiling water, cold and filtered water, and carbonated water. Of course it helps that here in the Netherlands, the tap water is basically mineral water.

It's a luxury, but we really love it.
If that was his answer, then yeah, he really needed to sharpen his interviewing skills!
The pause button is just one part of the "complete control" package the in-home experience is.

Missed a sentence? Rewind it. Watch some international movie? Turn on the subtitles. Enjoy some explosion scenes? Turn up the bass? Wanna relax with a drink and chat? Lower the volume. Watch a food scene and suddenly feel hungry? Put a pack of popcorn in the microwave.

I'd only go to theater for social events, not for the movie itself anymore. I'm way too spoiled by the freedom at home.
Studios should create "backlot" theaters where you can come to the set, do Q&A/photos with actors/crew, and see the movie (or, similar to kickstarter, see the dailies/weeklies in progress) with regular screenings and events.

Charge a premium for it, minimal cost to operate, and fans would love it. Would revitalize the role of the actor while generating a unique revenue stream. If multiple studios did it, you could have a meta business around doing "backlot screening" tours.
> It's about the ubiquity in fiction. If every police box in fiction was a time machine, it stands to reason someone may be confused when encountering a real police box for the first time.

This is the silliest thing I've ever heard, and not every fictional red cross symbol is a threat anyway. This whole thing seems at least as ridiculous as the moral panic about violent video games in the early 2000s, except that I kind of expect ridiculous moral panics from conservative parents not so much from the official communications arm of one of the largest NGOs in the world. Absent any actual evidence I think we're just going to have to agree to disagree.
Well I did move away a while ago. Those credit cards, are they actually credit cards, as in they grant you credit that you pay off later? Because I remember a friend visiting me, and his "credit card" was actually a debit card, just using the Visa/Mastercard/whatever system. He did not know the difference until I explained it to him ("why did you think it's called a 'credit card'"...)
The difference is that Roman soldiers could build roads and fortified camps as part of their day job using skills similar to civilian Roman construction. Today, however, building a modern motorway, or a high rise building, would be way different to battlefield engineering.
Ya fairly common to catch PLA plants in priv sector/universities, agreed.
Hi Carlo,

A while back I came across Feather, which seems to be a startup trying to do the same thing:

https://www.livefeather.com/

They were part of the YC S17 batch. Even the styles of the websites are quite similar. What differentiates your services from Feather apart from geographic location?
GitHub licensee (the detection gizmo) uses ChooseALicense as the source. They recommend filing a PR there, but BSL doesn’t fit the requirements at https://github.com/github/choosealicense.com/blob/gh-pages/C...

https://github.com/licensee/licensee/blob/master/docs/CONTRI...
If you impose that the unhappy path must trap, the compiler has to guarantee that.

Conversely, if the compiler can reason that the condition is impossible, it can remove code regardless of what behavior is imposed for the condition that it knows can't happen.
CentOS has been amazing for me for the last decade on the server side of things. I've rolled out 5, 6 and 7 on a large scale and it has been nothing short of miraculously stable. I hope RockyLinux continues this trend.
Biden Tells Putin U.S. Will Take 'Any Necessary Action' Against Ransomware
Yep. That's because people use Google to get directions to the nearest theater.
I have to image the loss of uberpool/lyft line has had a major impact on both the overall supply of available cars and also the perception of a larger increase in how much a ride costs.
Wealthy countries will allow for increased immigration to continue access to a working class. We'll be able to pass the problem for a few generations yet.
Exactly this. It's why most companies QA departments specifically test pulling the power completely at critical times over and over to reduce the chance of it not booting.

Cell phones (at least androids), make lots of partitions to isolate user data and software upgrades, falling back to known good ones if the new software update doesn't run.
Dammit I always fall for these. An intriguing title that links to some tedious biography that addresses the title concept briefly if at all.
Not sure if we can call them modern anymore, listening to Exit Planet Dust gets more nostalgic every passing year...
Uber was trying to charge me something like $50 (before tip, of course) for a ride from the airport to a nearby hotel. It was about 2:15 AM and it said my arrival time would be around 4:30 AM. I found a cab waiting outside and made it there in about 10 minutes for $25.

This was in Vegas last weekend, for reference.
I'd guess that they burn it off. It's fairly easy, though you can't get 100% of the alcohol out this way at home. You can make a vinegar out of liquor this way by burning the alcohol off of a handle of liquor, pouring a fifth back in, and adding a vinegar mother with some live vinegar to kick it off before waiting 4-6 weeks.
If I could do a 4-day workweek, and not have to wear a mask, I'd happily work in an office again.
I care, but in the long run, I care more about our descendants not having tools locked out of their hands. Facilitated information asymmetry is the root of far too many evils.

Where is your ego when you're dead and gone? Where could we be if the majority of human advancement we're not tightly clutched as trade secrets?

As someone who has done paid software engineering (yes, you can feel free to call me a hack or sell out if you wish), I've come to find that the salary I've pulled over the years has not gone to me... But keeping a roof over those I love, helping other people's projects grow, giving people a shot, etc.

My time on the other hand, gets dumped into implementing the same handful of processes doing the same damn thing, but different this time, because you can't just bloody make "Here ya go, here's your Enterprise-in-a-box".

I'd like people more people able to solve novel problems than necessarily need to retread the same path over and over. Some degree of that will always have to be done to keep the skills fresh in the population, but we could do way better at marshaling that split, and I'm convinced part of what necessitates it is creating artificial barriers through things like enforced implementation monopolization. Yes. It ensures a minimum level of novelty and variance across populations, but it also does terribly at not consuming the finite amount of human capacity for truly novel thought to innovate.

It may make societies that function based on greed and economic/fiscal measures work, but I'm not convinced other incentive structures won't keep the rolling stone of innovation from accruing moss.
Anecdotally: in running a B2B SaaS for >10 years, there are two rough generalizations I learned about Europeans (in Europe):

1) They are not in the office in August.

2) They are much less likely to have access to a credit card, even if they run a small business. (European customers were much more likely to pay via PayPal.)
Insider threat programs, ultimately. But it would be hard to catch if it's actually operationalized in this way.
Joe Biden Wants You to Be Able to Fix Your Own Damn iPhones
> The pacific northwest doesn't look like Texas though. Our birds, mammals, forests, I don't think any of it could withstand that heat regularly.

Exactly. I'm already seeing deciduous trees dropping leaves here in Western Oregon a good 3 months early due to that heatwave. A lot of conifers not looking great either. Those temps put tremendous stress on our ecosystem. They don't have large amounts of fuel in the form of trees in places like TX, if a large portion of our trees start dying it's going to make fire season even more horrific than it has been in recent years.
They have used different colors before in pre-release builds, so it would make sense if that was also the case here. It will probably turn blue again after 11 is released.
Suppose you were looking for good quality foreign contractors. How would you go about finding them?
> I'm sorry, but if your only example is the US then you're likely to be wrong about a lot of things.

That is uncalled for.
>European customers were much more likely to pay via PayPal.

I have two credit cards and I often pay with PayPal because I just don't want to enter my card details out of sheer laziness.
The thing that so many folks seem to forget about programming, is that the most problematic part of the whole thing is the Requirements Phase. That's where the most serious problems occur, and they are often in the form of ticking time bombs that explode while the project is well underway. A good implementation team knows how to stop assuming, and get more information from the requirements authors.

No matter how "smart" the implementation process is, we have the principle of "GIGO" (Garbage In; Garbage Out). Automated implementation has the potential to be a garbage multiplier.

There will always be a need for highly specific, accurate and detailed specifications. If a machine does the work, and makes assumptions, then that means the input needs to be of even higher quality than we see nowadays (See "GIGO," above).

I see the evolution of "Requirement Specification Languages," which, I suspect, will look an awful lot like code.
I once endured A Quiet Place (wonderful movie) while some teenaged kids behind us spent the movie loudly making out. Of all the movies to do that in!
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> Made with <3 on Planet Earth

Does anyone else gag with when companies do this (made with love)? It feels too emotional, but maybe it's really true for them?

Edit: Replace the heart character with <3 as HN doesn't seem to render it